bantayden Chapter 367
Chapter 367
"Alabasta occupies an extremely important position among the many member states of the World Government."
"You have captured the palace of this country. Apart from other things, the World Government will not let you go easily just for the gold that this country pays every year."
"What's more, there is the navy."
Nicole Robin first glanced at Cobra who was leading the way, then turned to look at Crocodile beside her:
"You also saw the live broadcast of that ceremony."
"Kaido, who is known as the strongest creature on land, sea and air, is like a child who has not grown up in front of that man."
"Mr. Crocodile, are you really not afraid of death?"
As if she was reminding Crocodile, she told him the situation that he would encounter next.
"If I tell you."
"What if the World Government will not take action against me for a long time in the future?"
"Nicole Robin."
Hearing this, Crocodile said to Nicole Robin with interest.
"Even if you get your hands on ancient weapons?"
Nico Robin's eyes flickered.
Of course, she knew that the members of CP0 had come to her not long ago and reached some deals with Crocodile.
However.
She has studied historical texts for many years and has a certain understanding of the nature of the World Government.
In the current situation, the World Government's tolerance for the Seven Warlords of the Sea is indeed very high, but it definitely does not include ancient weapons.
"Wait until I get the ancient weapons."
"Whether it is the World Government or Rosen.
"I have the qualifications to talk to them on an equal footing."
When Crocodile mentioned the name Rosen, his voice suddenly became heavier than before.
"If."
"I mean if."
"What if there is no information about ancient weapons as you wish?"
As soon as Nico Robin said this, Crocodile's footsteps suddenly stopped.
"No if! "
Crocodile was silent for a few seconds, then he said something in a calm tone as if nothing had happened, and then he stopped talking, but followed Cobra without saying a word.
His heart was not as calm as it seemed on the surface.
As the first generation of the Seven Warlords of the Sea, he certainly knew the situation at hand.
The World Government urgently needs the power of the Seven Warlords of the Sea to balance the Navy Headquarters, or to balance Rosen, but no matter how urgent the need is, it will not tolerate the Seven Warlords of the Sea to get involved in ancient weapons.
In other words.
Capturing the Alabasta Palace and seeking the ancient weapon Pluto, whether this matter succeeds or fails, Crocodile will be equivalent to standing on the opposite side of the World Government and the Navy Headquarters at the same time.
The Five Elders want to kill him.
Rosen wants to put a collar on him.
No matter how vast the Grand Line is, there is no place for him alone.
"Rather than wearing a collar and becoming a hawk dog of the Navy."
"I would rather."
"Take this gamble. "
When Crocodile thought of this, a hint of madness flashed in the depths of his eyes.
Either get the ancient weapon Pluto, be on an equal footing with Rosen, and be able to have an equal dialogue with the Five Elders.
Or stand on the opposite side of the navy and the government at the same time, and be hunted to death.
This is also the only way he can think of to turn the tables.
Instead of sitting and waiting to die, being sandwiched between the navy and the government, and finally being put on a collar, it is better to go crazy.
If you win the bet, you will change from a chess piece to a chess player.
As for losing the bet, how bad can the situation be?
Anyway, from the moment he lost to Edward Newgate, he was already a loser. What's wrong with losing again?
This is the spirit of the King of the Desert.
In this sea, there are definitely more people who can bet everything for their ambitions and dreams than Marshall D. Teach.
"Crocodile."
"He is really crazy! "
"No, it should be said that Rosen has brought too much pressure to all the Seven Warlords of the Sea."
Nico Robin looked at Crocodile's back and murmured in her heart.
She knew that no one could stop an ambitious man who had fallen into madness and gambled all his chips.
But, can she really tell such a person the information of Hades?
Nico Robin couldn't help thinking so in her heart.
As Crocodile said nothing, Nico Robin fell into deep thought, and Cobra, who was leading the way, stopped talking, the atmosphere between the three began to become weird.
It was quiet and depressing.
It was like the last calm before the storm.
Click
As time passed by, under the guidance of Cobra, the three came to an underground funeral temple.
"We are here.""This is what you are looking for."
"But I don't know what is written on it."
Cobra paused and stopped in front of a huge stone tablet.
"Nico Robin."
Crocodile did not go into whether Cobra really didn't know or pretended not to know, but glanced at Nico Robin beside him.
The latter did not speak, but walked to the stone tablet and began to carefully interpret the text recorded on it.
"Have you finished reading it?"
"Then tell me quickly."
"Where is Pluto?"
Crocodile stood aside and waited for ten minutes until Nico Robin withdrew her gaze from the stone tablet and turned to face him, and then he asked.
At this moment.
Even Crocodile himself did not notice that his voice was mixed with a long-lost uneasiness and excitement.
"All the records above are about the history of this country."
"As for the Hades you mentioned."
"There is not a single word about ancient weapons in the whole article."
Nico Robin faced Crocodile's sharp eyes that seemed to be able to see through people's hearts.
"No?"
After hearing this, Crocodile didn't know whether to believe it or not. In short, he seemed unusually calm.
Even the slight uneasiness and excitement revealed in his voice just now disappeared.
"Yes."
Nico Robin also had a calm expression on her face, but her nerves were quietly tense and she was secretly on guard.
She knew very well what she was doing and what consequences would come from doing so.
After a crazy ambitious person put all his chips on the gambling table, he crushed his last glimmer of hope with his own hands.
You can imagine Crocodile's reaction.
"Is that so!"
"I see."
"Nico Robin."
Crocodile lowered his eyes slightly and was silent for a few seconds. Just when the atmosphere became extremely depressing and gloomy, he suddenly raised his head and grinned at Nico Robin:
"It doesn't matter."
"I choose to forgive everything about you."
"Even if you hid the matter of Hades."
As soon as the voice fell.
Crocodile's right arm had been transformed into sand.
"Because, I never believed in you!"
He raised his hand and swung it, and the sand instantly turned into a sharp sand blade, slashing straight at Nico Robin.
"What a coincidence."
"I never believed in you either."
"MR.0."
Facing Crocodile's sudden attack, Nico Robin was not surprised, nor was she panicked. She had already prepared for defense and ways to deal with it.
Crack
Seeing the desert sword slashing across the sky, she jumped up with her nerves tense and dodged the slash of the sand blade in time, and a crack of more than 50 meters long had been cut where she was just now.
Crocodile saw this and said nothing, but glanced at Nico Robin with a gloomy expression, then raised his hand to condense the sandstorm and was about to attack again.
But at this moment, a hand suddenly grew out of the ground behind him, and it was holding a bottle full of water and sprinkled it directly on him.
"What?"
Crocodile at this time was not the Crocodile ten years later.
He was ten years younger.
His combat power was ten years less degraded.
Even without the observation Haki to perceive, his reaction was very fast, and he was not like the future who had been in the paradise for decades and gradually became arrogant.
Feeling the movement behind him, Crocodile did not rely on his elemental transformation to fight everything just because he was a user of the natural Sand-Sand Fruit. Instead, he chose to transform into an element in advance, turning his whole body into wind and sand, and dodged before the water behind him fell on his back.
Whoosh
Then.
Before the water fell on the ground, and before the bottle fell on the ground, he had already swept behind Nicole Robin like a breeze.
"Goodbye."
"Nico Robin."
Crocodile stood behind Nicole Robin, his right hand turned into a sharp sand blade, and slashed at Nicole Robin.
"Is that the end?"
"What a pity!"
"If the stone tablet records not the story of Pluto, but the historical text, how great it would be."
"In this way, at least when I go to see my mother and everyone else, I can tell them the truth about the 100-year gap."
Before the Desert Sword actually cut Nico Robin's body, she already felt a sharp edge enveloping her body, and her hair stood up in shock.
At the moment of life and death, all kinds of emotions surged in her heart.
There was reluctance, regret, powerlessness, and fatigue.At the same time, many thoughts emerged in her mind.
Why did the stone tablet in the underground burial hall record ancient weapons instead of historical texts?
Why couldn't she find the historical texts after drifting in the sea for so many years?
Why after so many betrayals and pursuits, she still couldn't find the companions that Sauro said would cherish her?
But in the end, they all disappeared, leaving only regrets and confusion, and then quietly accepted the embrace of death.
When Nico Robin decided to come to the underground burial hall with Crocodile, she had already made the decision not to tell Crocodile even if she knew the information of the ancient weapon Pluto, and she was also prepared to be buried in the underground burial hall.
In other words.
Whether the underground burial hall records the historical texts or the ancient weapons, her fate is nothing more than two.
Kill Crocodile, or be killed by Crocodile.
Unfortunately.
Not only could she not kill Crocodile, but even the stone tablet was not recorded in the historical text, so she could only die with regret and confusion.
"Ah la la la la!"
Just as Nico Robin's eyes fell and she closed them waiting for death, a long-lost voice suddenly sounded in her ears.
At the same time.
Hiss
A sudden burst of freezing air instantly broke out and spread to the entire underground burial hall.
Whether it was the indestructible stone tablet recording the location of ancient weapons, or the sand blade that was about to kill Nico Robin from behind, or even Crocodile himself.
All were frozen into ice at the moment the freezing air exploded.
"This."
Looking at the underground burial hall in front of her turned into ice and snow, Nico Robin's beautiful eyes widened, and her pretty face was full of surprise and disbelief.
It's not that she had never imagined that someone would come to save her.
After all.
She has never forgotten the words left by Sauro before he was frozen. Even though she has experienced countless betrayals over the years, she still fantasizes that one day she will meet like-minded partners.
The only thing she didn't expect was that at the critical moment of life and death, the divine soldier who descended from the sky was not her imaginary companion, but one of the culprits who had carried out the Demon Killing Order and destroyed O'Hara, and also the savior who let her escape.
"Aokiji!"
"I know it's you."
"Come out!"
After experiencing the great terror between life and death, and seeing her long-lost enemy and benefactor, Nicole Robin looked around and her emotions began to get out of control.
Even if she faced death, she could face it relatively calmly.
But when she faced the possibility that the person who saved her might be Kuzan, she collapsed directly.
However.
No matter how much Nicole Robin shouted until her voice was a little hoarse, she did not see the long-lost figure appear.
If it weren't for the ice that froze Crocodile in front of her, which was exactly the same as the ice that froze Sauro back then, she would even suspect that all this was her own imagination.
What she saw now was just an illusion before death.
"Aokiji!"
Nico Robin turned around and looked around, but still couldn't find any trace of Kuzan.
The only response she waited for was.
Crack
Crocodile, who was originally frozen into an ice sculpture, suddenly had the ice covering his body cracked, extending countless cracks, like a spider web, all over the ice.
Then.
The ice sculpture did not break, but disappeared out of thin air as if it had been drained of water.
"Hoo! Hoo! Hoo!"
After escaping, Crocodile gasped for air.
Obviously.
The feeling of being frozen by the freezing air was very uncomfortable even for him as a natural ability user.
After all, the ice fruit restrains the sand-sand fruit, although it is not as obvious as water, but it also has a restraining effect.
If he hadn't developed the Sand-Sand Fruit to a strength close to that of a natural disaster, and mastered the power of drying, he could absorb the moisture from the organic and inorganic matter he came into contact with, absorb the moisture from rocks or soil and turn them back into sand, and even absorb the underground water flow under the desert. Once frozen, it would really be completely frozen.
"Kuzan."
"I didn't expect you to appear here?"
"When did you start to target me?"
Crocodile panted and scanned the surroundings, secretly on guard.
But what puzzled him was that after looking around the entire underground funeral hall, he couldn't find Kuzan's figure.
Seeing this.
Crocodile's eyes flashed red.
Observation Haki, then spread out.
"How is it possible?"
"There is no breath?"
"Then what's the matter with these ice cubes."
Crocodile was stunned.
Although his Observation Haki was not very good, he could still sense a range of a hundred meters, but after using Observation Haki to sense just now,, but found that there were only two auras around him.
One was Nico Robin.
One was Cobra.
There was no third aura at all.
Observation Haki will not lie, but the eyes should not either.
When he was frozen just now, the coldness that penetrated into his bones, and the ice that covered every corner of every underground funeral hall, all told Crocodile.
Only two people in the world can have such power.
The user of the Ice Frozen Fruit.
Kuzan.
And.
Use the Weapon Fruit to rub the strongest Zanpakuto of the Ice and Snow System.
The owner of Hyorinmaru.
Rosen.
"Ah la la la la."
"I'm ready, Rosen."
"Although I don't know how to face her, but the ugly daughter-in-law must meet the father-in-law, and she must face it, and she must face it after all!"
Just when Crocodile questioned his eyes and Observation Haki, a voice that he and Nico Robin were very familiar with sounded again.
Both of them were sure that this was Kuzan's voice.
However.
"Rosen?"
Crocodile's face suddenly changed color when he heard Kuzan's voice seem to be talking to someone he couldn't see, and he also mentioned Rosen's name.
"Break it, mirror flower and water moon."
At this time.
A voice sounded leisurely in the ears of Crocodile and Nico Robin.