The bloody hand Mary of the pirate

"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 when Mary was about to ignite her own flame, Mary was surprised to find that she had lost all her power.

Then, Xi's voice came to my 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 she gradually became numb.

I don't know when, the attack 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 him left an indelible and terrifying impression on Mary.

Shaking her head vigorously, she shook away 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 in deep thought.

"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 has not been fruitless.

But then it’s time to…

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

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

The world of mental images 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, but 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 around seriously and explained to Mary.

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

"This is it again..."

Mary covered her forehead with a headache and asked tangledly:

"Xi, what can you do?"

As expected, 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 imagery, carefully analyzed it for 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!"

The authorities are obsessed, but the bystanders are clear. Mary, who has been struggling with her own psychological problems, thought for the first time that her own psychological problems may be the biggest reason for the emergence of extreme intention.

Is it a blessing in disguise? I can't say. A more appropriate analogy would be... overcoming inner demons?

Then the strength will be greatly increased, and the accumulation will be 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 suddenly 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 slight 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 gradually woke 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 smash the spherical shell sooner or later, so Mary secreted a large amount of blood in the spherical shell and turned it into a column, which supported the spherical shell and would not be broken by the sand python.

Crocodile was very cruel this time, and with great expenditure, he just gave all the sand that he smashed down the property of absorbing water. So that Mary had to frantically generate blood to fight against it.

After Crocodile's indiscriminate bombardment finally stopped, Mary lost consciousness. 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 that - after activating the backlash of the demon sword's forbidden technique, exploding blood for a long time, and burning the demonic flames for several hours, his life force was exhausted.

Yes, it was exhausted - her vitality 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 had chosen to bombard her for a few more minutes, Mary would most likely have died here.

All I can say is that life should not be cut off, 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 trigger the over-speed regeneration passive. Her throat was sweet and her body was in severe pain because of the unrecovered internal injuries.

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 bombing just now, even Mary knew that she was probably buried deep underground now.

The key is that I don't even know how deep it is buried.

If she cannot enter other dimensions for a long time, Mary, who lacks 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 upwards.

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

However, something desperate happened.

After 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 and are even more unrealistic.

Is it possible...that he is really going 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 cruel!

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

Mary's life return has a time limit for controlling the blood leaving the body. I don't know how long she passed out, but the time limit for blood operation has already been reached!

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 quite 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.

I am too far away from the ground. A conservative estimate is that the distance is probably thousands of meters. 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 he drained the underground water veins, which caused the earth to subside. However, the sand that Crocodile can control has a distance limit after all. What if...

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 thing you can do.

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

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

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

Mary leaned forward and slid down the passage. Unknowingly, she gradually dropped 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 meant that there are almost no normal rocks here. But now, what appears in front of Mary is 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.

"Boom!"

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

The painful Mary 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. Moreover, the rock wall is quite special. This is enough for Mary to do some reconnaissance.

——

Maybe it doesn't take so much effort.

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

Suddenly, countless small blue light spots appeared in the entire space, and a faint shimmer appeared. Everything appeared clearly in Mary's eyes.

As soon as she turned around, a huge hollow thousands of meters long and wide appeared in front of her. In it was a lake of unknown depth, 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 was several kilometers long, and it was endless as far as the eye could see, and it was covered with some dazzling steel structures.

.The huge tonnage far exceeding that of normal ships makes this battleship like a ferocious beast, dormant silently 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 countless huge-caliber naval guns are loaded on it.

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 on the entire battleship were intricate, and the various mechanical structures were combined in a dazzling way, which dazzled Mary. The steel hull was filled with dreamy machines full of childlike fantasy.

, 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, but there was clearly no trace of 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 came to mind.

Hades.