Super Card System

"Sun Thief! There is something to come back!"

Ian patted the side of the ship and yelled at the Pique Pirates who had left, trying to turn on the taunting mode and make these guys turn back.

The consequence of doing this is... the Pique Pirates' ship runs faster...

The sailors on the boat looked at each other and couldn't understand what Ian meant. As a caravan, those pirates ran away when they ran away, and they still wanted the other party to run away. How could there be any reason to call the other party back instead?

Bill pulled Raian from behind, shook his head and said, "Forget it, you won't come back, don't look at the fat man Pixar, and think he is really stupid and can be a captain on a pirate ship. Yes, none of them are stupid. Since he made up his mind to escape, it is impossible for him to turn back after a few scoldings from you. Your duty is only to protect the ships and cargo, and there is no need to get too involved with pirates."

After being persuaded by Bill, Ian could only give up angrily.

Seeing that his persuasion was effective, Bill finally showed a smile and said, "Don't worry, everything is lacking on the Great Route, but the most lacking may be pirates. If you want to catch pirates, there will be opportunities in the future."

Because they crossed the Upside Down Mountain while Rabu dived into the sea, the remaining eleven merchant ships arrived safely, but because the mast of the flagship they were riding on was damaged, all the ships of the caravan docked at the We stopped at the shore of the lighthouse in Twin Points, ready to wait for the flagship to repair the mast before we went on the road together.

It wouldn't take long to fix the mast, but it would take at least an afternoon here, so Ian followed Bill to shore.

"Old man! Old man, are you there? I'm here again!" There was a house beside the lighthouse on the shore. As soon as Bill got ashore, he shouted towards the house, which made Ian stunned for a moment: Bill he would not It's called the old man, isn't it Colex?

Ian can't remember the name of this person a little, it seems that it is called this. Ian only remembers that he is the lighthouse keeper of Twin Points, but shouldn't this keeper live in Rabu's belly? ?

With Bill's shout, the door of the house opened, and an old man in a short-sleeved shirt with a flower-like head on his head came out. He had glasses on the bridge of his nose. It wasn't Colex. After arriving at Bill, he was stunned for a moment, and then he said hello, "Bill, are you here with the fleet again?"

"Yeah! This is the last time!" Bill laughed, delighted to see his old friend.

Ian stepped forward and asked Bill in a low voice, "You know this old man?"

"Of course!" Bill nodded and said, "The more you go back and forth, the more you know it."

When Ian was talking to Bill, he didn't notice that Colex stared at his hat for a while, then suddenly asked Bill, "Who is this young man?"

"Oh! He is the most famous pirate hunter in our East China Sea right now!" Bill quickly introduced: "The pirates with the highest bounty in the East China Sea have all been caught by him. We are lucky this time too, please come to him. A caravan escort."

Colex nodded and didn't say anything. He moved a few chairs out and let Ian and the others sit down.

At this moment, a voice sounded carefully from behind, saying, "I... can I sit here too and take a break?"

Ian looked back and found that it was Roland Gayle. At this time, how could he still be so invincible when he first got on the ship? When he was attacked by the Peak Pirates before, this guy had been hiding in the cabin and shivering, not daring to show his face. Now that he was finally safe, he dared to go ashore to breathe.

If I want to come to this encounter into the great route, I am afraid that this little aristocrat who has not seen much of the outside world will be very exciting.

Ian ignored him, but Bill gave him a chair, poured him a glass of water, and let him sit on the side to rest.

Colex and Bill had a chat,

The two of them were talking about the scene when they met before. Older people like this kind of memory. Ian listened, and suddenly asked Bill in confusion: "Bill, I heard that the great route can enter. Can't come out, is this true?"

He actually had doubts for a long time. This time he came with a merchant ship. According to Bill, after they sold the goods, they had to buy them and then return to the East China Sea. According to the way of upside-down mountains, Ian kept thinking Asking how they were going to get back, this question had been kept in his mind for a long time, and now he finally asked it while Colex was there.

"Can you get in or not? Who did you hear?" Bill asked with a look of surprise.

"Isn't it?" Ian said: "I heard that the climate and ocean currents are very chaotic on the great route. The only thing I can believe is the record pointer, but the record pointer will only point to the next island. If you want to go back, you can't Maybe follow the pointer all the way and make a circle around the great route?"

In fact, Ian's so-called hearing is only from his memory when he read comics before, and this is what Colex said in front of him, so Ian asked here, in fact, he wanted to hear how Colex said. answer.

"You're wrong!" Bill grinned and said, "We are a caravan, and we can't go deep into the Great Route. Our caravan's destination is only the island closest to the Twin Points. There are seven such islands in total. It is the starting point of the seven routes on the Great Route."

"Even if you don't go far, how will you come back?" Ian still frowned and said, "The Twin Points are not an island, so the record pointer can't possibly point here, right?"

Hearing Ian's question, Colex finally spoke, he pointed with his thumb to the lighthouse standing tall on the mountain behind him, took the conversation and said, "Young man, if you can really get in but not get out, then What do you think the lighthouse on this end of Twin Points is for?"

"Isn't it guiding the ships that came down from the Upside Down Mountain?" Ian said.

"Wrong, guiding the ships that descended from the Upside-Down Mountain is one purpose, and there is another purpose, to guide the boats returning from the starting island to the Twin Points!" Colex said: "Indeed, the Twin Points are not islands, so record the pointer Wouldn't be affected to point to Twin Points, but do you think people would be completely unnavigable without a recorded pointer?"

"As long as the light of the lighthouse has not been extinguished, the ships returning to Twin Points will not lose their way at sea!" Colex said: "This is handed down from hundreds of years ago, the wisdom of mankind! In that people Before the invention of the recording pointer, navigators were guided by lighthouses."

Ian understood a little, nodded, but then asked: "Even if you can return to the Twin Points from the starting point island, how do you get out? It's impossible to take the windless belt, right?"

"Indeed, caravans like us can't walk through the windless belt!" Bill said, "The windless belt is very dangerous, and even warships with sea towers can't guarantee that they can pass through smoothly every time. No wind belt, let alone us ordinary merchant ships, but... we have our way!"

Speaking of this, Bill winked at Ian and asked, "Ian, what do you think affects the ocean tides?"

Ian thought for a while and said, "Climate, temperature, and geographical factors..."

Bill shook his head and said, "What you said was one of the factors, but you forgot the most important one!"

After speaking, he pointed to the sky.

Ian raised his head, looked at the sky suspiciously, and said, "Heaven? You're not talking about rain... the sun... ah! I know, it's the moon!"

"Yes!" Bill nodded with a smile: "It's the moon, the tides of the sea are actually caused by the gravitational force of the moon. If there is no moon, you won't be able to see the surging waves of the sea, you will only see It's dead water."

Colex also said: "The water flow of the Upside Down Mountain is not always like this, it actually reverses. Whenever the moon is full and the moon's gravitational force reaches the maximum, the direction of the water flow in the Upside Down Mountain will be reversed. Turning around, rushing straight up from the Twin Points, and then splitting into four streams at the top of the mountain, each flowing into the four oceans."

Ian's eyes widened when he heard it, and there is such a saying! ?

This is something he doesn't know at all... This real One Piece world is more wonderful than what he knows...

Looking at Ian's face, both Bill and Colex seem to have gained a sense of satisfaction. People who don't know about the great route, or know only a little about it, usually have such a surprised expression after hearing about this. As an old man In other words, what they like to see the most is this expression.

"The timing of Upside Down Mountain is not very certain, but it is usually between the fifteenth and the seventeenth of each month!" Bill explained to him: "At that time, Upside Down Mountain will change from the entrance of the Great Route to the For the exit, those caravans like us who want to return will choose to come to the Twin Points during this time period, wait for the reverse current to occur, and then return to the blue ocean."

"This is something that most caravans who have traveled through the Great Route know about it!" Colex said: "Some pirates who have become renunciations don't know this, or some people who have gone too deep into the Great Route can't return to Twin Points. , then if they want to get out of the great route and return to the four seas, they will take the risk to break into the windless belt. It is good to say that the strong ones may really be able to break through. If they are weak, they will be buried in the mouths of large sea kings, so It is completely wrong to say that the Great Route can enter but cannot exit."

It was rare for Ian to have someone help him answer these doubts, so he listened with interest, and asked another question by the way, saying: "On the great route, can you only take those seven fixed routes?"

"Not necessarily!" Colex said: "The so-called fixed route statement is inaccurate, because it is only the direction based on the recording pointer. In fact, as long as you have a permanent pointer, you can completely travel from an island on a route. , jump to another route, because the permanent pointer is not disturbed by the magnetic field of the other islands, it will always point to a certain island."

"Of course, the production of permanent pointers is not easy!" Bill continued: "It is said that very special production techniques and principles are required, and ordinary recording pointers can do it, but he cannot make permanent pointers! So generally speaking, Permanent pointers are very precious, and those who have permanent pointers will carry them carefully and will not easily show them to others.”

However, before the words fell, a weak voice sounded behind the crowd: "The permanent pointer you are talking about doesn't refer to this, right?"

Ian and the others were stunned for a while, and turned their heads, only to find that it was Roland Gale who had just come ashore. At this moment, he was holding a delicately crafted, hourglass-like thing, a round The round glass sphere is fixed by a shelf supported by four small pillars. Inside the glass sphere is a suspended magnetic pointer.

Although it looks very old, it is definitely a permanent pointer, because on the wooden sign facing Ian and the others, a few letters can be seen vaguely, and Ian carefully identified them for a while. , and then read it out: "Ah... Allah... Alabasta!?"

What the hell! ? This turned out to be a permanent pointer to Alabasta! ?