Crow Forest is located in the southeast of Dawn Village. Most of the trees on Sky Island are stronger and taller than those on the Blue Sea. Therefore, this forest looks very empty and vast, with an unfathomable darkness inside, and there seems to be a gloomy ripple.
Before Buggy came to Crow Forest, he went back to Big Top to take a look. Sure enough, Richie who was on the ship disappeared. Not only that, even the mechanical body of Spar was gone.
Looking at the situation, he already knew in his heart that this sudden "divine hiding" seemed to be coming towards his group of people with purpose.
"This is the entrance to Crow Forest." Bander looked at the dark forest in front of him and let out a long breath. His palms were inevitably sweaty, but his face still looked serious and the tension in his eyes was covered up by him.
Lilina looked up at the towering trees and asked, "Is this the only way we can go?"
Bander explained, "There is another route leading to God Nirok's Sky Island territory, but it will pass through the place where the three gods fight. Not only that, the inspection of that route is very strict. I have now He has been wanted by God Nirok. If you pass there, you will definitely be caught by the monsters under the God of Nitro. Although this Crow Forest is not an ordinary road, it will be much safer and more reliable than the route where the three gods fought!"
"You're here, just keep going forward." Buggy nodded after listening to Bander's explanation, and walked towards Crow Forest. Lilina and Bander also followed.
As soon as they stepped into Crow Forest, Buggy felt a cold air coming from behind. The huge trees in the forest blocked the sky and made it dark, as if there was an invisible barrier that separated the inside and outside of the forest, creating a world of darkness and light.
Lilina, who had a somewhat indifferent face at first, also began to take small steps nervously, holding on to Buggy's clothes tightly. "It feels a little leaky here..."
Buggy patted Lilina's hand on his shoulder to express reassurance, then took a few steps forward and looked around in the dark environment.
The structure of the trees inside Crow Forest is different from the towering trees in the outermost circle. The trees here are about three or four meters high. The top of the tree is a tough triangle, and the leaves on both sides of the tree crown are like outstretched wings. In the rendering and contrast of the darkness, they look like a crow raising its head and howling.
If only one tree had this strange shape, it would only make people admire the uncanny craftsmanship of nature. But now, instead of just one tree, all the trees have this strange shape, which looks very weird and eerie.
"No wonder it's called Crow Forest, there's a reason..." Buggy murmured in a low voice and said to the people behind him, "Let's go."
Bander staggered as he walked beside Buggy, with cold sweat on his forehead, and his expression began to look a little unnatural.
"Hey, Bander!" Buggy noticed Bander's expression and looked sideways at him, "You... haven't you been here before?"
"Who, who said that!" Bander argued with reason, "How can there be a place that my short sword warrior has never been to!"
"I find it unbelievable..." Buggy took out a lamp made of light shells brought from Bander's home from the package, lit it and walked forward.
After walking for another ten minutes, the light at the entrance was no longer visible, leaving only a hazy layer of darkness. The surrounding crows and trees seemed to be staring at a pair of invisible eyes, making people feel like they were being stared at all the time.
"Ah!!" Lilina suddenly screamed, and Buggy quickly turned around, "What's wrong?"
Lilina pressed his palm hard on his chest and said nervously, "I... just now... I seemed to see a pair of red eyes, right on the top of that tree!!"
Buggy turned the light over, frowned and asked, "Where is it?"
Lilina stretched out a hand and pointed to one of the trees in the woods, "That's the tree!"
Buggy followed her direction and looked up. The crow tree was pitch black, and the red eyes were not found, nor could any clues be seen.
He turned around and tried to comfort Lilina: "It must be that the too light and dark environment here has made your eyes tired and created an illusion."
Lilina nodded slightly and did not refute.
After Buggy finished speaking, he thought about it again and asked Bander, who was holding a light lamp and looking around with sly eyes. "Since you have been here before, is there anything you should know?"
When Bander saw Buggy's eyes falling on him, he immediately straightened up. "I... I..."
After being speechless for a long time, he suddenly lost his temper again and said, "I don't know."
Just when he was looking at Bander, Buggy suddenly saw a flash of red light in the dark forest. He quickly threw the light lamp on the ground, stepped on the ground with his right foot ten times in a row, and disappeared in place.
When he reappeared, he was already about ten meters away from the crow tree emitting red light. Buggy stepped forward again and rushed to the front of the red light after using the second shave.
At this moment, Buggy finally saw clearly what the red light was. It was a pair of blood-red eyes. The owner of these eyes opened his mouth and bit Buggy immediately.
Buggy stumbled, avoiding the monster's bite, then walked around to its side, grabbed it with both hands, and directly grabbed the opponent's body from behind. Then the loach-like body slipped out of Buggy's hand with a "squeak" sound, and the monster flapped its wings and was about to escape.
Touching the viscous liquid in his hand, a sharp flash flashed in Buggy's eyes, and he instantly jumped high into the sky above the monster, volleyed into the opponent's body with a volley, and kicked it heavily to the ground.
Boom!
The monster was kicked to the ground, and dark smoke and dust suddenly rolled up, and there was no more sound.
Buggy fell to the ground, bent down to pick up the monster on the ground, and held it firmly in the palm of his hand. Then he looked at it carefully, and found that the monster was not big, about one meter long, and its body structure was like that of a snake, but what was different from a snake was that it had a pair of wings.
In just the blink of an eye, the monster's body slowly stiffened, and layers of disgusting powder fell out of it as if its skin was peeling off.
Bander and Lilina walked over holding the light shell lamp. Under the light, the monster's appearance became clearer. The originally light cyan snake was now covered with dense white powder, and its two blue-gray intertwined wings hung down feebly.
"What is this?" Buggy dropped the long snake with wings on the ground and asked Bander.
Bander squatted down, brought the light shell lamp he was holding slightly closer, and swallowed with a serious face. "This should be... Stone Statue Flying Snake, a creature created by God Nirok based on snakes, has the same flying ability as birds. Legend has it that this Stone Statue Flying Snake can not only see into people's hearts, but also And it will breed and guide the evil and desires in human hearts. Therefore, for God Nirok, who originally had a sincere heart, this creature has been sealed in an unknown place as a failure... I did not expect that it would actually appear here. God Nirok, who started to use this creature to do evil, has indeed become depraved and crazy..."
"Stone Statue Flying Snake..." Buggy rubbed the powder on his hands, "Is this stone chip?"
"This is the scale powder produced by Stone Statue Flying Snake after death. This scale powder will attract other Stone Statue Flying Snake..."
Before Bander finished speaking, a pair of red eyes suddenly opened in the surrounding darkness, staring at Buggy and others from all directions. Then countless Stone Statue Flying Snake flapped their wings and swarmed in. The sharp and sharp screams from their mouths made people feel numb.
"Tempest Kick. Moon White Jade!"
Buggy knew something was wrong, so he made a prompt decision, separated his right foot and spun it several times, and suddenly swung out a white disk-shaped slashing air stream in the darkness.
The dense red light in the darkness suddenly disappeared. Stone Statue Flying Snake's body fell straight to the ground after being hit, and the scales and powder on his body washed off.
However, Stone Statue Flying Snake is surrounded from all directions. No matter how fast Buggy attacks, it cannot attack from multiple directions at the same time.
Fortunately, Buggy was not alone. The silk threads in Lilina's hands shot out, forming a thin elastic net in the air, which immediately wrapped up a group of Stone Statue Flying Snakes that were flying towards them. With their momentum, they collided with and intercepted the Stone Statue Flying Snakes that were rushing towards them.
Bander finally pulled out his short sword, and a "z" light was drawn in the air, and more than ten Stone Statue Flying Snake wings fell to the ground with trembling wings.
Buggy glanced at Bander from the corner of his eye, who finally took action, then grabbed Stone Statue Flying Snake who was about to bite his neck, and threw it heavily to the ground.
His palm was already covered with Armament Haki, and he could almost knock down a Stone Statue Flying Snake with one punch. However, the number of Stone Statue Flying Snake was too huge, and there was no way to defend his entire body.
In just the blink of an eye, Buggy, Lilina and Bander were approached and surrounded by Stone Statue Flying Snake as dense as a swarm of locusts.
"Annoying stuff!"
Buggy kept dodging, but these Stone Statue Flying Snake were like gangrene on the bones, constantly entangled, and there were many bite wounds on his body.
After all, his Devil Fruit ability is fundamentally different from that of elementalization. If it were elementalization, he wouldn't have to worry about these Stone Statue Flying Snakes causing harm to him. But even after Chop-Chop, he is still in the flesh. If he is really bitten off by such a flying snake and swallows a piece, he will be in big trouble!
"Low frequency... gun array!!"
Facing one wave after another of Stone Statue Flying Snake, Buggy finally couldn't bear it anymore. The arms in his clothes suddenly vibrated into pieces. The fingers of both hands stretched out and suddenly stabbed in several directions.
Once Stone Statue Flying Snake is stabbed by Buggy, it will fall down. Not only that, the row behind the fallen Stone Statue Flying Snake will be affected by Shigan., although it is only a low-frequency vibration, but with the compensation of the shooting speed, the penetrating power of this move can already cause damage to subsequent Stone Statue Flying Snake, and each damage will be superimposed to form a terrifying power.
With the crazy offensive of Buggy, Stone Statue Flying Snake fell on the ground in large swaths like mosquitoes scented by mosquito repellent. In just a few breaths, they became sparse.
Because he was able to clear the area quickly, the unintelligent Stone Statue Flying Snakes surrounding Lilina and Bander flew towards Buggy. Buggy did not stop, and continued to clean up the annoying Stone Statue Flying Snakes around them one by one with vibrating arms.
Finally, after killing the last Stone Statue Flying Snake, Buggy raised his neck and let out a long sigh of relief, and sat down in the pile of Stone Statue Flying Snake's corpses. He felt that his physical strength was almost reaching its limit.
If it were just on the Blue Sea, it wouldn't be so embarrassing, but the air on Sky Island is really too thin. Once the power is lost, a dizziness will appear in the mind involuntarily. Compared with the injuries on the body, this dizziness makes Buggy more uncomfortable.
Lilina also collapsed on the ground, his originally neat and clean hair became a mess, and his clothes became tattered. Bander is Skypieans, and is more adaptable. In Sky Island's environment, compared with Buggy, the two of them still had plenty of physical strength. He retracted the dagger in his hand and propped his hands on his knees, like an athlete who had just run a hundred meters, gasping softly.
Looking at the hundreds of Stone Statue Flying Snake on the ground, Bander said intermittently, "We... should... leave quickly. There are so many dead stone statues here... flying snakes, and their scale powder... I'm afraid... will attract more flying snakes..."
Buggy endured the dizziness in his mind, stood up, and said helplessly, "Indeed, if there is another wave of Stone Statue Flying Snake, you will really be dead..."
He reached out and pulled Lilina up, "Now is not the time to rest."
"I know." Lilina stood up slowly, took out a thin piece of clothing from the package and put it on himself, then lifted up the light bulb on the ground.
Seeing Lilina wrapped in clothes, Bander reluctantly looked away from her.
Buggy patted all the scales on his body, and while walking forward, he asked Bander, "Are you... sure this road is safer?"
Bander replied, "If it were another route leading to the place where the three gods fought, it would be ten times more dangerous than here."
The few people continued to move forward cautiously. Fortunately, no Stone Statue Flying Snake was seen nearby.
After walking for an unknown amount of time in the darkness with only the light of the lamp, Buggy stopped with a solemn expression. He looked up at the surrounding environment and the pile of Stone Statue Flying Snake corpses in front of him, stretched out his tongue and licked his dry lips, and looked at Bander and Lilina, "We are back again..."