Suddenly, a smoky figure flashed out of the alley, waving a fan-like tobacco pole to unload the flying javelin in several different directions.
Then he placed the cigarette rod in his hand diagonally in front of him, slightly backwards, and suddenly swung forward with a powerful force, colliding with Hina's kick.
The huge force of the impact caused both of them to take two steps back.
"Alex..." Seeing someone blocking him behind him, Buggy also stopped and looked back.
Alex smiled solemnly, "Leave this extraordinary woman to me. You go first, and I will meet you at Garo."
Buggy was moved in his heart and asked, "Are you okay?"
"I am more familiar with the environment here than you are. As long as you leave, I will have a way to escape."
"Thank you very much, Shuma, let's go first." Buggy did not hesitate, carrying Lilina on his shoulders, and swept away with Shuma into the distance.
"Are you trying to protect them?" Hina looked at Alex with sharp eyes, "The guy who protects the pirates must be an accomplice, Hina wants to arrest you now!"
"Then give it a try..." A sneer appeared on the corner of Alex's mouth, "I haven't done anything with the navy for a long time."
As he said that, the two of them faced each other and started a fierce fight, making endless sounds of weapons hitting.
Thanks to Alex's help, Buggy and Shuma successfully got rid of Hina's entanglement, and they ran towards the towering bell tower.
Shuma followed Buggy and said, "Buggy, did you see it just now?"
"What did you see?"
"That Mermaid Warrior has a red eye on his left wrist. Is that a birthmark?"
"What!" Buggy stopped and looked at Shuma in shock, "Why didn't you tell me earlier?!"
"Hey... is something wrong?"
Shuma went to chase the jackal at that time, so he didn't know what happened to the One-Eye Family. During the process of going to this port, Buggy himself was thinking about something and forgot to tell Shuma in detail.
"Well..." Buggy frowned and looked back at the distance. He had already traveled such a long way and it was unrealistic to go back. He thought for a moment and asked, "Does Penguin Boy have red eyes on his wrist?"
"No." Shuma shook his head, "Only Mermaid Warrior has that birthmark."
"Well..." Buggy responded, and then summarized One-Eye Family's story to Shuma.
"Kaya Food was taken away by those hateful bastards!" Shuma showed an angry expression on his face, grinding his teeth, "It's a shame they look so like heroes, it's so hateful!"
Buggy said silently in his heart: No, it's not like it at all...
Amidst Shuma's scoldings along the way, the two finally arrived at the foot of the clock tower. Mikuru, Cabaji and Mohji had been waiting there for a long time, looking at Buggy and Shuma who had been coming for a long time.
"Uncle Red Ball, what are you carrying on your shoulders?" Mikuru was the first to come up, looked at Lilina on Buggy's shoulders suspiciously, and said in surprise, "Why is it a human being?"
As she spoke, her chatterbox relapsed, and she said with a slight blush on her face, "Uncle Hongqiu, how could you kidnap this woman? You can't mess around, just... Even if we are pirates, we must have principles, and Lemon is gone now, how can you still be in the mood to do such a thing!"
Shuma couldn't understand what Mikuru said, and scratched his head in confusion. He never asked what Buggy did. He didn't care about Buggy Lilina carried by did not feel strange, as if what Buggy was carrying on his shoulders was not a woman with outstanding temperament and appearance, but a strong reindeer.
Mohji and Cabaji were also a little confused, "Captain Buggy..."
Buggy put Lilina on the ground. The latter seemed to be very timid. He was carried all the way by Buggy, but he secretly shed tears without struggling or resisting.
Buggy rubbed his sore shoulders, glanced at everyone, and explained, "One-Eye Family is the boss behind Pet Company. The popular idol Uranus can serve him every year It has brought them huge benefits. Such a priceless cash cow is definitely far more important to them than others. Since they have captured Kaya to blackmail us, of course we can also use this woman to blackmail each other. Don't think of other things with your pig brains."
Everyone nodded suddenly, their eyes falling on Lilina who was confused.
Lilina was a little frightened by everyone's gaze and cowered back timidly.
Buggy asked Mohji to take over a white mask and light-colored cloak, which he had used at Loguetown. In order to prevent accidents from happening, he specially asked Mohji to put them on, which he could use at this time.
"Put on this mask and cloak." Buggy threw these two things to Lilina, his tone not too cold. With this woman's character, she didn't need to do too much intimidation.
Sure enough, Lilina did not resist, whimpering and motioning to untie the gauze tied around her mouth and hands.
"Mikuru." Buggy signaled, and Mikuru walked over and untied the gauze from Lilina's body, and put the mask and cloak on her.
If someone saw the idol Uranus being kidnapped by a group of pirates, I'm afraid they would become the focus of everyone's attention. Fortunately, everyone in the entire port was attracted by Mermaid Warrior, Penguin Boy and the sudden craze Hina. There was no one under the clock tower, which made Buggy's operation go so smoothly.
"Next, we are going to Garo, heading north for about 90 kilometers. If we walk, we will probably arrive at noon tomorrow."
Buggy said, "When we get to Garo, I will tell you some things to do."
Everyone nodded and said yes.
Santansidi's entertainment industry is indeed top-notch, but there are two extremes. The transportation industry is at a higher level than the best entertainment industry. This country does not even have decent means of transportation. This is the reason why Buggy has no choice but to choose to walk.
Without too much delay, after ensuring a day's supply of food and fresh water, Buggy everyone trekked north.
Unconsciously, the starry night fell, and everyone chose an open space with fewer insects and snakes, gathered dry firewood, lit a bonfire, and sat together.
After Buggy ate some food, he sat quietly under the tree beside him. He has been practicing and thinking about the development of fruit abilities since Twin Cape set out.
The fragmentation in his body has reached the state of sand, but using it will consume a lot of physical strength, and this state can last for tens of seconds.
As the body consumes more physical energy, the body that could originally be split into grains of sand can only be split into "strips" and "blocks".
However, from the time when Arlong was defeated until now, Buggy found that the longest time for his body to turn into sand has been continuously extended. It has now reached more than one minute. The almost doubled time increase also surprised him secretly.
He also kept thinking about why this happened during the voyage and tried to come up with a reasonable explanation.
The battle with Arlong is more like an irreconcilable life and death battle. Only such a battle can exercise a kind of "combat instinct consciousness" in the body. This consciousness will increase the physical strength bit by bit in daily life.
In the previous life, Buggy could often hear reports about this kind of thing. The mother who was out of breath even carrying a rice bag on weekdays was able to lift a multi-ton truck in times of crisis and save her children who were dying underneath.
This is the basis of Buggy's understanding of the fighting instinct. Once the belief is firm, powerful strength will explode in times of crisis. However, the physical strength of human beings in this world is very exaggerated. The explosive strength may not disappear, but will stay in the body forever, constantly nourishing and nourishing the body like a long stream of water.
Furthermore, the extremely harsh and unstable external environment on Grand Line will actually have an impact on the human body, constantly enhancing the body's adaptability. It is difficult to detect such changes on ordinary days, but the body itself has memory. Once it is overcold or overheated or cut, it will instinctively protect it. When it encounters this situation next time, it will immediately remind and warn.
The actions made by the body itself will be transformed into the subconscious mind. For example, when encountering a hot flame, the body will avoid it. The external environment is actually constantly and passively polishing the raw jade of the body.
In the original book, Zoro said after leaving Sky Island that every time we pass an island, our strength is constantly increasing.
Buggy doesn't think this is a casual comment. This is because they have experienced life and death in the thin air at an altitude of 10,000 meters. Their lung capacity and physical strength have grown, and their combat instincts have also continued to improve their strength during the future voyage.
These are just Buggy's guesses. The improvement of strength is related to the accumulated practice and the potential of the person. For example, the three main players of Straw Hat's team all have full potential and solid foundation. This is why they grow so fast.
After Buggy left Twin Cape, he has been trying to stimulate Haki in his body. According to Gaban, Haki is a potential in everyone's body. As long as you practice more, you can master it.
However, he has never been able to "refine" this energy in his body. He had an intermittent illusion several times, but when he opened his eyes, he couldn't feel it at all. It was like a Coke bottle that was being shaken wildly. You could clearly see that the bubbles in the bottle were constantly expanding, but the tightened bottle mouth hindered the eruption of this power.
He himself had experienced countless battles on Grand Line with Roger. However, with more than ten years of comfortable life on East Blue, his fighting instinct has been weakening. After more than a year of practice on Gravity Island, he slowly picked it up. Now he feels that he still lacks an opportunity to unscrew the bottleneck.
As for the development of the fruit's ability, in fact, splitting until it turns into sand is the current limit. If it splits any further, it will feel like pain coming from the soul, making it impossible for him to resist, directly leading to a blank mind and dizziness.
In the body, it is currently difficult to split again. Buggy is also trying to use the fruit ability Awakening. The power of the fruit is actually a power that can be seen in the heart. Take Logia as an example. As long as you control it with your heart, you can elementalize any part of the body in just a moment of conveying your thoughts.
The same is true for Chop-Chop Fruit's ability. As long as you think about it, your body can be dispersed into countless pieces immediately. However, there is a big difference between the inside and the outside. How to let the power in the body break through the constraints, exert it on the outside world, and assimilate it is no longer something that can be done with just one thought. Instead, you need to slowly feel this power and push it outward little by little, so that an outward breakthrough is formed in the body.
Buggy With his eyes closed at this time, his body becomes divided, one becomes ten, ten becomes one hundred, white becomes one thousand, one thousand changes...
The whole body turned into countless fragments, and the whole person disappeared. There was a very slight sound in the air, the sound of leaves rubbing, the wind rustling the grass.
Suddenly, the grass blades on the ground began to move suddenly, and three or two leaves on the trees also fell with the wind...
Boom!!
Suddenly there was a strong buzzing, and the towering tree, which was hugged by five people, swayed back and forth without warning. The leaves on the tree rinsed and fell, and all the sand particles in Buggy's body quickly converged towards the center point under the tree to reorganize the body.
He slowly opened his eyes, took off a green leaf from his head, and unconsciously placed it in front of his eyes to look at it, his eyes gradually glowing with light.
"Captain Buggy!"
Mohji and others heard the movement behind the tree, came over quickly, and looked around cautiously.
Cabaji: "Captain Buggy, is there an assassin?"
Mikuru was confused. "Strange, it feels like thunder..."
Shuma: "Buggy, what on earth is going on?"
Buggy looked at his numb hands, took two deep breaths, and then said, "It's okay... it's just that I'm studying new moves."
Originally, the tens of seconds it took for him to "turn into sand all over his body" left him no time to develop it in depth. However, as the sanding time increased, he finally had the extra energy to try a move he had been thinking about for a long time.
Shuma jumped in excitedly. "I want to see it, I want to see it!!"
"I won't show it to you..." Buggy stroked his chest, calmed his breathing, and waved his hand, "Go and do whatever you have to do."
This move should be very powerful, but it also consumes a lot of physical strength. After using it once, Buggy felt exhausted, which reminded him of the move in a game he played in his previous life, Wine God Incantation.
Mikuru and others saw that there was nothing going on around them, so they each sat back by the bonfire.
"What happened just now?"
Lilina asked timidly. Originally, she could have escaped secretly while Buggy was attracting everyone, but her temperament seemed to be very well-behaved and innocent. Not only did she not run away, but she became curious about the sudden thunder on the ground over there.
It is difficult for this kind of person to make others feel wary and distant from her, which is probably one of the reasons why she became the idol Uranus.
"Don't ask so many questions." Cabaji said coldly.
"Scarf, don't be so mean to girls!" Mikuru was very dissatisfied with Cabaji's words.
Buggy finally walked over from behind the tree and looked at Lilina, "Tell me, who is the boss of Pet Company?"