Chapter 127: Sudden Attack
“Uh…”
“What is this…”
After an unknown amount of time, on the White Sea, the strangely dressed Shandia guerrilla captain woke up on the head of a giant octopus.
At his side were the other still unconscious Shandia warriors.
“Right, that thing—”
The captain suddenly opened his eyes wide, wanting to search for the terrifying figure from earlier, but when he looked into the distance, the scene before him made him completely speechless.
A massive circular gap had appeared in the White Sea ahead, with the entire sea cloud completely pierced through, allowing one to even see the Blue Sea below directly through it.
Around the sea cloud gap, there were still many golden lightning bolts flickering continuously, turning that area directly into a forbidden zone.
“Suu~”
“Huu~”
“Huuu~~~”
He let out a long breath, and the Shandia people’s captain forced himself to calm down, then began to survey the surroundings.
At a glance, on the other relatively intact areas of the White Sea, there were now densely packed sky fish floating with their eyes rolled back.
Some of them had electric arcs flashing over their bodies, probably because they didn’t escape far enough and were knocked out by the thunder.
Others had no external injuries and had simply passed out directly, just like the giant octopus under his feet and his own team members.
“Must, must hurry back to the village!”
After counting the numbers and finding no one missing, the guerrilla captain hoisted all the unconscious team members by himself and headed toward the upper layer.
……
“Stare~”
“Stare stare~”
“Stare stare stare~”
“Enough, what exactly are you trying to do?!”
Watching her cheap sister silently pacing back and forth around herself and Wings, then continuously staring at their faces, Obei couldn’t hold back any longer.
“What? Obei, you said you want to see my wings?”
“I didn’t…”
“Eh! How did you know sister has wings?!”
“I…”
“Well~ If you want to see, then look. Who let you be my cutest little sister~”
With that, Aoxi put her hands on her hips and flapped the pair of not-too-big, not-too-small red wings on her back.
“Aoxi, stop playing around. Right now, we…”
Wings, seeing Aoxi’s smug appearance from the side, couldn’t help but interject.
“Ah? You’re asking if having wings is convenient?”
“Haha~ Suddenly growing such a pair of things, I’m actually still pretty unaccustomed to it~”
Without waiting for a response, Aoxi continued:
“But I can put them away.”
“Snap!”
After Aoxi spoke, she snapped her fingers, and the pair of wings on her back instantly turned into red particles and disappeared.
“Eh~ Being able to retract and extend them is so convenient… Wings, don’t you think so?”
Hardened, the fist hardened!
But he couldn’t beat the other party.
The young Lunarian boy once again felt the importance of power.
“By the way, at first I was worried if I’d have to sleep lying prone from now on… Didn’t expect it to be solved so simply.
“Eh~ Doesn’t that piss you off?”
With that, this little Red Hair with his tail already sticking up to the sky even spread his hands, putting on a punchable expression of “what can you do.”
“……”
Wings fell silent, planning to use the same trick again, employing the silence tactic against this loudspeaker who had gotten new batteries.
At this time, Aoxi’s group of six’s ship was floating on the sea surface… or rather cloud surface, of the White White Sea above the “White Sea,” with no other actions for the moment.
They were still tending to Wright and the other two who had passed out.
Because Aoxi got too excited while passing through the Accumulating Emperor Cloud and didn’t control her aura after transforming well, Wright and the other two, who were too close, were directly knocked out by the impact and still hadn’t woken up.
Of course, this couldn’t be blamed on Aoxi.
Although it was just growing a pair of wings, still far from the perfected form, this was still a huge progress for her!
At least she could fly now!
So she had to immediately enter smug mode and show off hard for three days and nights!
Right, certain other red-themed “can’t fly”?
This time when going back, even if that Wings guy struggled, it would be useless. Aoxi could directly domineer and land on his back.
Watching Aoxi chuckling “hehehe” to herself in the corner about who knows what, the silent Wings felt thoroughly uncomfortable all over.
……
“By the way, where is this place? I think I charged too hard and overshot a bit.”
Finally, with her smugness slightly subsided, Aoxi started talking about serious matters.
“Don’t know.”
“We seemed to pass through a place similar to here before. Could it be that the clouds here actually have several layers?”
Obei still clearly remembered Aoxi smashing straight through the White Sea at that time.
That place seemed exactly the same as here, a genuine sea of clouds.
“That’s trouble~ Not sure if there’s a third or even fourth layer of clouds,”
“What if the Golden Land is hidden in some crevice between cloud layers? How long would it take to find it?”
Aoxi scratched her head, having an impulse to flap her wings and blow away all the clouds here.
“No need to worry about that. The recording pointer is still in our hands; following it will surely lead to the island.”
The Sky Island pointed to by the recording pointer was actually the legendary Golden Land, as clearly recorded in that logbook.
So the group didn’t need to worry at all about not finding the destination.
Now they just needed to wait for Wright and the other two to wake up and then set off directly.
“But these clouds are really magical, actually able to support a ship. They’re somewhat similar to Kaido’s flame cloud.”
Obei leaned on the railing and looked down, noticing that vague shapes of creatures could even be seen moving between the sea of clouds.
According to that navigational log, these creatures were probably the so-called sky fish.
“By the way, why is there no wind here at all? At this rate, our ship won’t be usable… How about you go down and pull it again?”
“No way, I don’t want to be like a donkey.”
“Weren’t you pulling quite energetically before? Couldn’t even stop.”
“Is that the same? Back then it was flying upward, that’s soaring straight up. Now flying sideways, that’s like a dog pulling a sled.”
“So humiliating~ Let Wings do it.”
Wings: “
The taciturn Lunarian big boy was once again subjected to verbal bombardment from the Egyptian God Cards clan’s bratty child.
“Hey, Wings, do you want to try…”
“Wait, someone is coming.”
Sensing outsiders approaching, Wings breathed a sigh of relief in his heart. He really didn’t want to engage with Aoxi’s words; now that someone was coming, it could perfectly divert her attention.
After the reminder, Aoxi and Obei quickly spotted the goal too.
At this point, that group was still out of sight blocked by the cloud layers, but through the three’s Observation Haki perception, the other side had about ten people and was moving at high speed.
“Hoo~”
Aoxi flew directly into the air, then lightly flapped her wings, instantly clearing away all the cloud layers ahead and revealing the traces of that group hundreds of meters away.
This group’s attire was exactly the same as the previous Shandia guerrillas, and they were precisely the Shandia warriors who had noticed the commotion and come to investigate.
“What?!”
“How could such a strong wind suddenly appear?”
“Be careful, don’t fall into the sea cloud.”
“Quick, look, there are people over there!”
With the cloud layers gone, this group of Shandia people quickly spotted Aoxi’s ship as well.
“That ship’s style, Blue Sea people! More Blue Sea people have come up!”
The leading warrior shouted loudly, then charged toward the ship.
“Hm? These are… Indians?”
The moment Aoxi saw these masked, feathered Shandia people, she immediately thought of Indians on Earth.
No helping it, the sense of déjà vu was too strong.
“Yo~ Hello there wah wah wah wah wah~~!”
Before Aoxi could finish her giggling greeting, an impact cannon from the other side rushed straight to her face.
Aoxi: No more giggling.
