Chapter 1023: Baterilla Island: A strange space
Before Lin Mo could even react, he had entered a strange world.
Everything around him was pitch-black. Even using Observation Haki to investigate proved useless; it seemed to have stopped working here.
Not far in front of him stood eight small pedestals glowing with faint white light. On each rested a square box marked with a question mark.
Lin Mo frowned slightly. What is this...?
Just as he was about to step forward and examine the boxes,
a blurry silhouette appeared nearby, gradually coming into focus.
"Uh, where is this?" Ace was confused at first, too, until he spotted Lin Mo. "Captain? Don't tell me... you did this?"
Lin Mo carefully studied Ace. The man before him seemed genuine.
Then he answered, "No."
Ace scratched his head and walked toward Lin Mo, saying, "That's weird. I was talking to my mother, then everything suddenly went black, and I ended up here. When I saw you, I thought you were playing a prank. Hahaha."
Lin Mo: "..."
Someone was clearly behind this, most likely using a Devil Fruit power.
That raised the question: who was deliberately picking a fight with him?
The Navy?
Unlikely... If any Navy personnel were here, he should have discovered them long ago. Even if he hadn't, Enel should have noticed.
If it wasn't the Navy, who else could it be?
Still, he had experienced something similar once before. On a place called Green Island, a girl with the Fairy Tale Fruit's power had pulled him into a fairy-tale world.
If this worked the same way, destroying this world should let him escape.
With that in mind, Lin Mo was already considering which skill to use to destroy this inexplicable space. Then he glanced over and saw that Ace had