Pirates: Your Emperor is Back!

"Exploring the 'unknown' is always fascinating, right?"

——Many years ago, really many years ago, when Luo Wen went to sea for the first time, he said such words to his companions.

Today, Rowan has traveled to many, many places, and many "unknowns" have become "knowns" for Rowan.

This is a very powerful thing, very few people can do it;

It is also a pity that very few people feel this.

Now, another unknown thing appeared in front of Luo Wen, how could this not make people feel happy?

...

To be honest, Crocodile knows this feeling, but he doesn't like it very much.

After all, "unknown" means "out of one's control."

For an ambitious man like Crocodile, the excitement when going out to sea for the first time is far less satisfying than when he has everything under control.

——or “sense of security.”

After all, there are too many unknowns in this sea, and it is already very difficult to incorporate the things around us into the known.

Crocodile obviously couldn't understand Rowan's current emotions.

Why does an old monster that wreaked havoc on the sea eight hundred years ago still have the excited look in its eyes when it first went out to sea?

It's really annoying!

Crocodile frowned, but he was not unhappy with Ryan Rowan, but...

No, I don't seem to have any reason to be upset.

...

Crocodile was tangled aside.

Luo Wen took the first step, led Nicole Robin, and followed the two guards who opened the way, and walked into the sea tower stone passage together.

Even with the iron cloud as an isolation measure, the extremely high concentration of Hailou stone structure still made Robin feel exhausted in an instant.

With one hand propped against the wall, she managed to force herself to stand up.

"It's really... a scary place..."

Robin murmured.

Indeed, for devil fruit capable users, this passage is completely a road to death!

Luo Wen nodded, "To be honest, when I saw this place for the first time, my eyes widened in shock..."

Remarks like this made Nicole Robin relax a bit, and added a sentence habitually.

"With such a deep passage, maybe there will be a hidden arrow shooting over in a while."

...

The crowd moved on.

To everyone's surprise, the interior of this passage is not as murderous as imagined, and there is not even the minimum mechanism.

As for the "stab in the back" that Robin said, of course it doesn't exist.

The only thing that hinders everyone's progress is the Hailou Stone itself that constitutes the passage, and the darkness that can't be seen.

"There should have been torches here."

The white beret member walking in front pointed to a wall that had not been covered with iron clouds, and speculated.

There, there was a hollow in which a torch could be inserted.

But now everyone obviously doesn't have the time to do this, and there is a kind of shellfish in Sky Island called "illumination shell", which is far more practical than ordinary torches, and can even judge whether the surrounding air is dangerous by the brightness of the light. .

This is a critical function in confined spaces that have not been ventilated for a long time.

"The ventilation here is very good, and there is no such thing as poisonous gas."

Another guard said slowly: "It should not be the cemetery of the Shandora royal family."

Some scholars and scientists from the Universal Alliance have previously speculated that this passage is very likely to lead to the royal cemetery of Shandora.

After all, it is difficult for ordinary people to enter, and it seems to lead directly to the ground. Such an inference is very reasonable.

But now the message on the external gold pillar, combined with the current observation, this inference is naturally overturned.

Suddenly, Robin noticed a corner.

She used the special potion given to her by the white beret to clear a small area, and then carefully observed it.

Like the mark on the gold pillar, there is also something similar to scratches.

Crocodile looked at it and asked, "Is it also an ancient text?"

"No, it's also...not exactly."

Robin thought for a while, and finally explained: "There are several mistakes in the ancient text here, but combining the semantics and context, it is not difficult to see the original meaning."

"—we're doomed."

This is the intended meaning of the ancient text, but there appear to be several characters in it that are clearly wrong.

Robin speculated:

"This may indicate that the person who wrote this ancient text is another scholar, and this scholar's attainments in ancient texts are not as high as the previous one."

Robin didn't doubt his own judgment, it was out of absolute confidence in O'Hara's research results.

"Go on."

Rowan looked around, becoming more and more interested in the things at the end of the passage.

...

Finally, after walking for about ten minutes, everyone came to the end of the passage.

There is a gate there.

——The whole body is made of sea building stones!

Hailoushi buildings of such a scale, if converted into Berry, are already at the level of an incomparably rich country!

It is no exaggeration to say that if Vinsmoke Gage finds this place and divides these sea tower stones in half, sells one half in batches, and makes the other half into sea tower stone weapons, then the revival of the Kingdom of Germa is just around the corner!

"It seems that devil fruit ability users are not welcome here..."

Luo Wen touched his chin, and found that there was a very regular text mark on the side of the gate.

He turned his gaze to Robin and asked, "What does that mean?"

Robin looked at it and replied, "This is a... research institute?"

"A research institute for studying ancient characters?"

Rowan had indeed thought about this possibility, but he was still a little disappointed in his heart.

After all, the scholars of O'Hara have already done research on ancient characters, and there will be no breakthroughs if they continue to investigate.

But Robin shook his head, "Perhaps, this research institute is using ancient texts to study other things."

This guess really aroused Luo Wen's interest.

Under Rowan's gesture, the white berets and the guards of the Sandia nation put their hands on the stone gate of the sea tower.

They are not devil fruit users, so they will not be affected by Hailoushi.

But just as they were about to push open the gate, Crocodile suddenly stopped them.

"etc."

He frowned, as if thinking of something, he walked quickly to the front and looked at Luo Wen.

"Did you find a problem?"

Luo Wen was taken aback, "Huh?"

Crocodile continued: "There are no dangerous traps in this passage, and there are even no misleading forks along the way."

"The only difficulty for us to move forward is actually Hailou Stone itself."

"So, is there such a possibility—"

Crocodile paused.

"The person who built this passage was specifically for those with devil fruit abilities."

"Or, the things in this research institute must never be seen by devil fruit capable users?"