Pirate Bloody Hand Mary

"Tick tock, tick tock, tick tock..."

The sound of water dripping kept echoing in Mary's ears, causing her closed eyes to frown slightly.

"clatter!"

Suddenly, a drop of cold water fell on her face.

Mary opened her eyes suddenly, and a decisive momentum was released involuntarily!

"Calm down, Sister Mary."

Just as she was trying to ignite her own flame, Mary was surprised to find that she had lost all power.

Then, Xi's voice came to his ears.

"This is your mental world."

Xi's eyes were filled with worry.

Mary was startled, calmed down, and smiled bitterly.

"It seems I'm really seriously injured..."

Will involuntarily enter the world of mental images. The last time was because he was beaten unconscious by Garp.

Just now, she had been desperately releasing the demonic flames to resist the onslaught of the sandstorm. She didn't know how long she resisted, and gradually became numb.

I don't know when the attacks on me finally stopped. And a string that had been tight was broken by this sudden relaxation.

When she came back to her senses, Mary had already appeared in the mental world.

"It's really... embarrassing."

Mary sighed with emotion as she gradually recalled everything.

The gap in physical strength was still too big. Facing the prepared Crocodile, she couldn't even hurt him at all.

Mary had never had an idea of ​​how terrifying the natural element of the home battle was before, but she finally experienced it this time.

The terrible feeling that the whole world was dominated by it left an indelible and terrifying impression on Mary.

Shaking her head vigorously, she shook out the scene of yellow sand reaching the sky. She looked at her mental world and unexpectedly discovered that the edge of the sky had begun to turn white.

"This is……"

Mary pointed to a glimmer of light on the skyline with some confusion.

"Maybe it's because Sister Mary, your mentality has changed for the better recently."

Xi raised her little head thoughtfully.

"The environment in Sister Mary's mental world is gradually getting better. Many ruins have disappeared, and I don't know where those messy decorations have gone."

"is that so……"

When Mary heard this, she nodded with some relief.

It seems that my experience during this period is not fruitless.

But then it’s time to…

"Hu... Xi, how is your progress in this mental world?"

Mary shook her head and stopped thinking about these things for the time being. Instead, he turned to Xi and asked.

The mental world is the advanced skill she is most likely to master at present. Now that she is facing a powerful enemy, the status of this skill is of great importance.

"It's basically completely integrated."

Xi nodded and smiled at Mary.

Mary looked happy and was about to speak when she was interrupted by Xi.

"But Xi is not the master of the mental world yet."

Mary, who had just become happy, looked stiff and asked subconsciously: "Why?"

Xi pointed to an unknown place and explained to Mary:

"Sister Mary, do you remember? Your past consciousness split, and the little girl's consciousness did not merge. In this case, I cannot become the master."

She turned to Mary seriously and explained.

"This world is inherently incomplete, and I can't control it even if I fuse it - it belongs to three souls."

"It's like this again..."

Mary covered her forehead with a headache and asked tangledly:

"Xi, what can you do?"

Sure enough, Xi still shook his head.

"Xi has always been in this world and has no understanding of Sister Mary's world. Sister Mary still has to solve this problem herself!"

However, at this point, Xi's conversation changed.

"However, Xi has not been without any thoughts for such a long time! Xi is still very smart!"

"oh?"

Mary's eyes lit up and she looked at Xi expectantly.

Xi coughed twice and explained:

"Xi feels that these two consciousnesses, and their way of existence, are ultimately Sister Mary's subconscious."

Xi, who is very proficient in the world of mental images, carefully analyzed Mary:

"If Sister Mary can act according to her subconscious mind, will she be able to fuse the split subconscious minds again?"

After Xi finished speaking, he looked at Mary seriously.

At this time, Mary's expression was quite shocked.

"Extreme intention..."

Mary said to herself.

"I see...is this what you mean?"

Mary narrowed her eyes, hugged Xi and said with a smile:

"Xi, that's a big help!"

Father, like son. Mary, who had been struggling with her own psychological problems, thought for the first time that her own psychological problems were probably the biggest reason for the emergence of Jiyi.

A blessing in disguise? Can't tell. A more appropriate analogy would be... overcoming inner demons?

Then the strength increases greatly, and the accumulation is accumulated?

Mary raised her eyebrows, her thoughts already drifting away.

However, it was Xi who brought Mary back from her racing thoughts.

She pushed Mary away with her little hands and said:

"Sister Mary, you can't stay here any longer."

"Um?"

Mary looked at Xiang Xi intently and saw her looking at Mary with a worried expression.

"The state of the mental image world can reflect the real world. Sister Mary, the mental image world has become a bit illusory."

Xi said worriedly.

Hearing this, Mary's expression changed, and she suddenly remembered that her body in the real world was still in a very dangerous situation.

Thinking of this, she couldn't sit still.

"Um...Xi, I might have something urgent to do, so I'll leave first!"

For a while, Mary couldn't think of how to explain the specific situation to Xi, so she could only deal with it with a little guilt.

Fortunately, Xi was so sensible and heart-warming that she didn't say a word. Instead, she waved her hand and drove Mary back.

Mary couldn't care less and immediately sent her consciousness back.

"Tick tock..."

In her chaotic consciousness, Mary felt the sound of water again.

There was a strong smell of blood in the nose, and there was a sweet taste in the throat.

Mary, who was gradually waking up, just felt it for a moment and realized what a miserable situation she was in now.

Due to the constant burning demonic flames, the surrounding sand was completely baked and crystallized, forming a spherical shell, which to a certain extent barely protected itself from being directly impacted by the sand python.

But the continuous high pressure will forcefully break the spherical shell sooner or later, so Mary secretes a large amount of blood in the spherical shell and turns it into a column, which supports the spherical shell and will not be broken by the sand python.

Crocodile was very aggressive this time, and with great expenditure, he gave all the sand that he smashed down the property of absorbing moisture. So much so that Mary had to frantically produce blood to fight against it.

After Crocodile's bombardment finally stopped, Mary lost consciousness. And all the blood that had lost control settled down, forming a pool of scarlet blood in the spherical shell.

But that's not the scariest thing.

The most terrifying thing is - after activating the backlash of the demon sword's forbidden technique, the long-term blood explosion, and the demonic flame burning for several hours, his life force was exhausted.

Yes, it was exhausted - her life force could only keep her alive for about a few months.

If used in high-intensity combat, it may be exhausted in an instant!

If Crocodile chose to bombard for a few more minutes, Mary would probably really die here.

All I can say is that life should not be cut off, and there is still a slight possibility of a comeback.

Feeling the shocking emptiness in her body, Mary finally realized how close she was to death.

Since receiving the Life Fruit, this is the first time that I have been forced to the point where my life force is exhausted!

Her vitality was so poor that she could no longer activate the super-speed regeneration passive. The sweet taste in her throat and severe pain all over her body were the reasons why her internal injuries had not healed.

Crocodile, how to deal with it...

Mary gritted her teeth.

Now is not the time to think about this.

The first thing to think about now is how to escape. After the indiscriminate bombardment just now, even Mary knew that she was probably buried deep underground now.

The key is that I don't know how deep I am buried now.

If she is unable to enter other dimensions for a long time, Mary, who has very little vitality, will most likely suffocate to death!

Calm down, calm down, you must be calm in critical moments...

Mary took a deep breath to calm herself down. Putting on the Heart of Blood Slaughter, all the negative emotions in her heart were immediately blocked.

This allowed her to think carefully about how to escape.

Blood survey... Just use this blood to survey and slowly seep out, so that you can roughly know where you are.

Mary controlled the blood in the blood pool, turning it into blood threads, carefully breaking the already extremely fragile spherical shell, and extending it upward.

Keep extending, swimming through the gaps in the gravel, trying to avoid being absorbed by the sand as much as possible. Now Mary no longer has the capital to make crazy blood.

However, something desperate happened.

When Mary detected the blood as far as she could, hundreds of meters above her head, it was still out of sight and covered by yellow sand.

The solid feeling of sand told her: This place is still far from the ground!

But……

"Can't get out..."

Mary gritted her teeth reluctantly.

He was seriously injured, and he did not have enough vitality to recover from his injuries. Even if his body was equipped with ghost energy, there was no way he could penetrate such a thick layer of sand.

As for other methods, they will more or less consume a lot of vitality, which is even more unrealistic.

Is it possible... that he really wants to die under this ground?

Mary clenched her fists so hard that her knuckles turned white.

I had thought that I might not be able to defeat Crocodile, but dying deep underground, being suffocated to death, this way of death... was too uncomfortable!

The house leaked and it rained all night. It happened that at this time, Mary was cut off from the blood.

Mary's return to life has a time limit for controlling the blood leaving the body. I don’t know how long I have been unconscious for, but it has already reached the time limit for blood operation!

Without the huge sensory network, Mary's heart gradually fell to the bottom.

She desperately searched for the PT exchange office. What made her sad was that nothing she could find could help her escape from danger.

No matter how powerful the skills are, they still require proficiency and physical fitness. She can't change to high-level skills now.

There are some very powerful skill scrolls in the items, but these things can break the sand layer, but I am afraid that as soon as the sand layer is broken, I will be buried by the subsequent quicksand.

Mary swallowed.

no way no money.

No, the more times like this come, the more you need to calm down.

Biting her lip violently, she suppressed the fear that even Bloodslaughter Heart couldn't suppress, and forced herself to enter a thinking state.

It was impossible to break through upward. In this case... Even if Mary risked all her remaining life force, there would be no chance of a breakthrough.

He was too far away from the ground. A conservative estimate would be that he was probably a thousand meters away. This is a desperate number.

But... then I thought about it, if I can't go up, what about going down?

Mary's eyes lit up, and she suddenly remembered that she had heard Crocodile say in her heart before that there was an underground water vein nearby.

Although Crocodile said that the underground water veins were drained, which caused the earth to subside. But after all, the sand that Crocodile can control has a distance limit. just in case……

What if there is still space underground and it has not been destroyed?

But... the greater possibility is not.

This is a very obvious thing. Who can guarantee that there are other underground water veins underground? This is purely Mary's wishful thinking.

But... there is no choice.

Going up is the road to death, so the only way is to break through and make a big gamble.

If this doesn't work, then she will have to change a skill scroll and try again!

The big gamble now is that there is still a place underground where she can barely breathe.

Thinking of this, Mary slowly raised her hands and looked at the slightly dirty gloves in trance.

Finally, her eyes became determined.

This is no choice...the only choice.

If you want to survive, this is the best you can do.

Mary's heart skipped a beat, her hands ignited the devil's flames, and she reached down.

Wherever the demonic flames passed, the sand and rocks melted, forming a passage.

This is the most cost-effective way for Mary to dig soil. She dared to do this because, as a demon flame, it does not require oxygen to burn, otherwise she would not dare to burn like this under such circumstances.

Mary leaned forward and slid down the passage. Unknowingly, the distance gradually dropped by a hundred meters.

Everything went smoothly, but the price was that Mary's body became increasingly weak, and her vitality was severely overdrawn.

However, suddenly, Mary's hand touched a hard rock wall.

Her spirit was shaken!

The underground of Alabasta is either sand or thick sandstone. Thousands of years of accumulation have made there almost no normal rocks here. But now, what appeared in front of Mary was a stone with a gray-black luster!

The bet...is the bet right?

"Is it...a breakthrough?"

This abnormal phenomenon made Mary excited, the flames in her hands intensified, and she thrust down hard!

"boom!"

Her hand burned through the rock wall in an instant, and the surrounding hard and brittle rocks that were burned also shattered.

As soon as Mary's body was empty, she lost her footing and fell downwards.

"winter!"

A full ten seconds later, a clear sound of landing was heard, and Mary fell headfirst into a shallow pool of water.

Mary, who was in pain, stood up immediately after landing. The indescribable joy in her heart made her completely ignore the big swelling on her head and the loss of a lot of life force.

The bet was right...

Mary could feel her hands trembling with excitement. The great joy of surviving a disaster, winning a big gamble, and saving a life was enough to make anyone's blood pressure soar rapidly in a short period of time.

Forcing herself to calm down her excitement, Mary immediately began to look at the situation nearby.

I don’t know why there is such a big cave underground. The height difference actually made me fall for so long before hitting the bottom. And the rock wall is quite special. This was enough for Mary to do some reconnaissance.

——

Maybe it won’t take so much effort.

There was a gust of cool wind behind her, and Mary looked back subconsciously.

Suddenly, countless small blue light spots appeared in the entire space, and a faint glimmer appeared. Let everything appear clear to Mary's eyes.

As soon as she turned around, a huge hole thousands of meters long and wide appeared in front of her. There was a lake of unknown depth in it, and a huge thing was parked quietly on the water.

It was a creation that probably looked like a battleship, but it was very different from the traditional battleships in the world of One Piece. The huge hull is several kilometers long, as far as the eye can see, and is covered with some dazzling steel structures. The huge tonnage far exceeding that of normal ships makes this warship like a ferocious beast, silently dormant in the shadows.

Countless chimneys protrude from various parts of the battleship, making it hideous and terrifying. The huge steel frame like a mountain is slightly raised, and it is loaded with countless huge caliber naval guns.

Mary swore that she had never seen such a large-caliber naval gun on any modern warship in her previous life.

The stern of this battleship is covered with some exaggerated and fantasy structures full of punk style, and incredible propulsion machinery can be vaguely seen under the water.

The densely packed brass pipes throughout the battleship were intricate, and the various mechanical structures were combined in a dazzling way, which dazzled Mary. The steel-clad ship's hull is filled with fantasy machines filled with childlike fantasies. They are as obscure as the battle base forged by God, yet full of fatal attraction.

This battleship seemed to have a primitive vitality, and a sense of wildness came to the face, but there was clearly no rust on the hull.

Mary stared blankly at the steel monster in front of her that was incompatible with the painting style of the One Piece world, and a name naturally emerged in her mind.

Hades.