When they left the Thriller Bark, there was one more person on Sig's small boat— Brook, whose size was negligible on Sig's boat.
At 2.6 meters tall, he would naturally stand out among "ordinary people," but not only could he not compare to those two giants, but... he was just bones and much lighter than the average person.
"Um... in that case, it'll be hard to row out, won't it? Don't you really need Moria to give us a ride?" Brook looked at the small boat and the primitive power source of the two big men, each with an oar, and was a little worried about whether they could get out.
Forget about the Rumbar Pirates' ship; it's already unable to set sail.
Brook didn't linger over any other old belongings. He already carried with him the most important "relic" of the entire Rumbar Pirates —the "Sound-Dial" that Record the crew's last performance.
"If you can figure out the direction, the Fog Sea isn't actually that big," Sig corrected from the side.
"Huh? You can tell which way is which? You can make sure we're getting away from the Fog Sea?" Brook asked in surprise.
"Of course we can tell the direction... but we're not moving away, we're approaching the center of the sea," Sig said matter-of-factly.
Sig's Tyrant Path has already Sequence 4. Although the weather in the One Piece world is extreme and changeable, and the magnetic field is chaotic, there is no longer any power that can affect Sig's sense of direction.
No special methods are needed; an instinctive sense of direction is sufficient.
Brook tilted his head, clearly not understanding what Sig was talking about.
"At the heart of the fog, there are three colossal sea monsters...it's they that are creating the fog. I'll go check on them, and then I'll leave," Sig explained.
Although Moria had said that the Rocks Pirates had wiped out the native inhabitants of the giant beast decades ago, Sig still couldn't give up and wanted to go see for himself, and perhaps also try to see if he could communicate with the giant beasts here—maybe their temperaments were better Zou's?
Brook didn't understand at first, but he quickly grasped the meaning.
Through the mist, three slowly moving "Big Mountain" could already be vaguely seen.
"Mr. Siegfried! The creature you're talking about... is it this kind? Are we really going to go closer?" Brook's skull teeth began to chatter after he confirmed the creature's outline.
"You're trembling way too much, aren't you? Hahaha..." Jack mocked Brook.
Sig glanced at Brook and noticed that his fear seemed inexplicably not from someone seeing such a behemoth for the first time, but rather from some other reason...
"Getting closer... they're all elephants too," Sig remarked, gazing into the distance.
Sig had initially speculated that it might be a creature based on other animals.
As they got closer, the three elephants maintained a triangular formation, and the sense of oppression intensified as they moved.
Jack then suggested, "Brother, we can't see their backs like this... Should I go and knock them down?"
Yes, if you lay them down, you can see their backs!
Jack is incredibly clever.
"Huh? Mr. Jack, what are you talking about?" Brook felt that this guy must have gone crazy.
"No matter what, taking down such a large creature is a bit too much..." Weevil also expressed his doubts.
Weevil's brain has recovered so well!
However, Weevil quickly offered his suggestion. "It's more practical to use your wisdom... to find a way to trip them up!"
Brook:...
"You can wait here, I'll go up and take a look," Sig said, his body naturally floating up into the air.
"Huh? Mr. Siegfried, is he also Devil Fruit ability? Could he be Fly-Fly Person?" Brook speculated.
He had initially thought that since Siegfried had Fish-Man characteristics, he wouldn't eat Devil Fruit!
However, upon hearing their speculation, Jack and Weevil immediately glared at them from the left and right.
"W-what's wrong?" Brook looked particularly petite next to the two big men, barely taller than their knees.
"Remember, in front of your elder brother..."
"Don't mention Fly-Fly Person!"
"It seems... that it is indeed different from Zou." Sig circled the three giant elephants, then became certain... that these three giant elephants did not seem to have self-awareness.
Actually...
Whether the Zou giant elephant was a "living being" in the usual sense was something even Sig couldn't be sure of—he was only certain that it possessed self-awareness.
In the narrow sense, a living organism needs to possess characteristics such as reproduction, metabolism, and growth, but the Zou giant elephant has none of these.
Leaving aside reproduction, the Zou giant mammoths never eat or defecate!
Otherwise, Zou's excrement would likely be discovered, and who knows, someone might even be eating burnt chicken on it...
"Tch." Sig thought of Shanks and made another unpleasant sound.
After mentally changing the subject, Sig continued to fly around the elephant's head, even getting close enough to observe its massive, hundred-meter-long eyes.
Like Zou's, its pupils are concentric rings, but... they are "lifeless".
Zou's eyes were actually lifeless, but they seemed to be in a daze. Even when Sig tried to communicate with it, it would not respond at all, but would just continue to walk in a daze, almost instinctively.
However, the three giant elephants' lack of spirit was even more thorough—even without using mystical abilities to observe, Sig could see that this look... was a symbol of a complete lack of self-awareness!
Afterwards, Sig flew onto the giant elephant's back to take a look, but only found sparse bushes.
The back of the Zou giant elephant in the New World is very suitable for survival, and it is definitely a habitable "island" - of course, provided that you can overcome altitude sickness.
While the fog generated by Zunesha can be disorienting, there is relatively little fog above its back. Moreover, the fog below helps stabilize the Seastone Factor in the air, making the weather in the areas where Zunesha passes through less unpredictable than in other Pathway of the Grand Line.
And there's plenty of sunlight on my back...
However, this is conditional, as it requires the cooperation of the Zunesha to fetch water, since a seawater Purification device is needed.
Otherwise, the Zunesha's back is much higher than most rain clouds, and there is insufficient freshwater.
The sparse shrubs on the backs of these three giant elephants now correspond to the characteristic of low rainfall—if the land of Zou were abandoned, the Zunesha would have a lush forest on their backs.
The reason there are sparse shrubs on the backs of these three giant elephants is because extremely high rain clouds occasionally appear in the Grand Line; otherwise, there should be no vegetation at all.
Sig also failed to notice that they had seawater Purification devices on their backs—if they were destroyed, there should have been some wreckage.
However, Sig only discovered some building remains that were almost unrecognizable...
It is clear that there were indeed indigenous people here, but the density was far less than in Zou; each of the three villages was probably only a small "village".
What proves this place is related to Wano Country is that, although the village ruins are not large, there are remnants of a torii gate similar to those in Wano Country...