Chapter 551
Silence, deathly silence all around.
Everyone’s eyes were fixed on the palm of Kuma, the mass of air that exuded a white light but possessed terrifying power.
The tense atmosphere is like an invisible mountain, pressing down on everyone’s hearts. The seemingly quiet surroundings exude an invisible breath that makes people seem to stop breathing.
Now everyone is like fish on a chopping board, waiting for Kuma’s verdict on everyone, life and death are all in Kuma’s thought.
“If you can survive the next explosion, I’ll let you go.” clutching the air mass that gathered terrifying energy in his hand.
Hearing this, excited smiles appeared on the tense faces of everyone. Although they knew that the air mass in Kuma’s air had terrifying power, they were still very sure of surviving from below.
But it didn’t take long for everyone to be happy, when Kuma said something that surprised everyone, “But you have to give me the head of the Straw Hat Boy, as long as you have his head, the government won’t find fault.”
Hearing this, Usopp and the others, who were still happy before, suddenly changed their expressions and slowly sank.
Kuma wants them to make a choice, one is Luffy’s life, the other is his own life, whether to abandon Luffy and let everyone be saved, or die together.
“What? What is this Seven Warlords doing?” Nami, who was hiding in the dark, looked surprised, and Kuma’s choice made people feel very strange.
Suddenly, a bright light flashed in Nami’s mind, combined with the information obtained from the conversation between Lin Tian and Kuma, and what happened now.
Nami suddenly understood the general idea, looked at Lin Tian and asked: “Lin Tian, you said earlier that Kuma of Seven Warlords is a cadre of the Revolutionary Army hidden in the marine, so Kuma is still a member of the Revolutionary Army. And Luffy is the son of the revolutionary army leader Dragon, so Kuma received the order of the Dragon and specially set up a test for us.”
Seeing that Nami guessed the cause of the incident so quickly, Lin Tian showed a hint of surprise on his face, and nodded to admit Nami’s speculation, “Yes, this is indeed a test by that guy Dragon.”
Hearing Lin Tian’s confession, Nami understood all the puzzles in her heart, why Lin Tian was with Kuma from the beginning, and why Lin Tian was still hiding when Kuma appeared.
It turned out that he knew everything early on, and knew that this was a test of Kuma against Luffy’s partners, that is, them.
Thinking of this, Nami suddenly asked: “If we choose to accept it, what will happen?”
Nami asked such a question, but Lin Tian was taken aback for a moment. He took a deep look at Nami’s eyes waiting for his answer, and Lin Tian said: “If you choose to accept, it means you choose to leave. A person who gives up their partners; neither Kuma nor I will let them stay on the boat, maybe you won’t die, but you have to go.” Having said that, Lin Tian paused for a moment, and then a confident smile appeared on the corner of his mouth, “But I have confidence in you- all of you. And I believe that you will make the most suitable choice in your heart.”
Hearing Lin Tian’s confident words, Nami couldn’t help showing a smile at the corner of her mouth. Nami believes that everyone will make a real choice in their hearts too.
“Do you want us to give up our partner?” Usopp lowered his head and whispered, but he could clearly feel the disdain and sarcasm in Usopp’s tone. Does he think that death and alive is enough reason for us to give up our partners?
Without the slightest hesitation, everyone said what they had in mind, and there was only one answer in the end.
“NEVER!”
Kuma said, “What a pity.”
Clasping the compressed air ball tightly with both hands, slowly stretched out his hand and opened his palms. The seemingly ordinary air ball, but everyone could clearly feel the terrifying energy contained in it, and the air ball slowly flew in front of everyone.
“Ursus Shock.”
Losing the elastic compression of Kuma’s hands, the palm-sized air mass began to return to its original shape, but the energy dissipated in the process formed a terrifying shock wave in an instant.
The invisible impact swept out like a hurricane, the ground began to tremble, and the already collapsed castle began to shatter. A piece of huge rubble or a large tree surrounded by several people in the forest had no resistance to the impact.
Several tons of rubble were lifted up, not to mention everyone, just felt an irresistible force bombarding the body, flying up as if entering heaven.
Afterwards, without even feeling the pain, he was seriously injured and passed out, mixed with the blown stones, lucky enough to be able to lie on the stones, and unlucky to be directly crushed by tons of stones.
The terrible shock wave spread across the entire island in a blink of an eye, and directly reached the sea. The originally calm sea immediately set off waves more than ten meters high.
The surrounding walls floating on the sea were also broken into pieces by the impact, drifting away with the current, and the entire island seemed to have entered the doomsday at this moment.
“Damn, what the hell is Kuma doing, didn’t he understand what I told him?”
Nami and Lin Tian were also in the center of the explosion, and the shock wave could not avoid hitting Lin Tian. The casually arranged space was covered by the impact, and it only lasted for a few seconds before it shattered.
Even after setting up a three-layer space cover, Lin Tian breathed a sigh of relief, turned around and looked at the doomsday scene on the island, and couldn’t help cursing.
Lin Tian knew from the very beginning that this guy Kuma would not do what he said. For this reason, Lin Tian specially reminded him, but how can this guy keep his hands now.
On the side, Nami didn’t speak, that’s because she was stunned by the doomsday scene in front of her, and it was the first time Nami saw such a terrible attack.
The shock wave raged for more than a minute before it stopped, and the whole island was really turned into ruins now, and many objects that were blown away did not fall until the sea area hundreds of meters away from the island.
With the sea breeze blowing, the smog in the castle slowly dissipated, finally revealing the scene inside. Except for Kuma, none of the hundreds of people on the entire island was standing.
All fell unconscious on the ground, some were crushed by stones, and some were lucky enough not to face the fate of being crushed by stones. It can be said that if Kuma really wanted to kill everyone, he could easily do it now.
But Kuma didn’t have this idea. He scanned the surroundings with his eyes, and didn’t stop until he saw the figure of Luffy.
Lin Tian, who was hiding in secret, saw that Kuma grabbed Luffy, instead of being nervous, he was relieved. Kuma had already reached the answer to the test.
“Lion’s Strike”
However, at this moment, a figure flew out, a flash of light flashed, Kuma who grabbed Luffy’s right arm, was attacked by Zoro.
Seeing Zoro suddenly appearing, Lin Tian was taken aback for a moment, and then cursed: “Fuck, Zoro, why are you idiot here?”
Hearing Lin Tian’s scolding, Nami, who had seen Zoro appearing and smiling, looked up at Lin Tian in confusion, and asked, “Lin Tian, shouldn’t Zoro stop Kuma?”
Slightly calming down the anger in his heart, Lin Tian explained with a wry smile: “Originally, the matter could be over, but Zoro suddenly broke out, which means that the test won’t be over yet, and Kuma may throw other problems.”
This is also where Lin Tian is helpless. As the pirate tyrant Kuma who can scare all pirates, he doesn’t pay attention to mercy when doing things, but Lin Tian seems to have forgotten that he was crueler than Kuma.
Hearing this, Nami’s face changed, and she looked at Zoro in the field with worried eyes.
Even though he turned over to avoid the frontal attack of Kuma’s laser light, Zoro was still sent flying by the shock wave, and he clenched his hands into fists to forcefully sit up.
But he couldn’t stand up, he was panting heavily, and his body was trembling non-stop. Zoro knew that his body had begun to lose control.
After regaining some strength, Zoro looked up at Kuma and asked, “Do you have to take the head of the walking dead man…?”
“This is the biggest concession.” Kuma replied indifferently with his eyes flashing.
Just now, Kuma heard Lin Tian’s secret voice, he should pay attention to himself to not go too far, but Kuma ignored Lin Tian’s reminder.
After thinking for a few seconds, Zoro made a decision, put his hands on the ground and begged: “I understand, but take my head instead. I hope you will spare their lives. Although I don’t have much reputation yet, if it is said that this will be the head of the world’s number one swordsman, that should be enough.”
Hearing Zoro’s words full of determination, even Kuma couldn’t help but change color, and asked, “Since you have such ambition, are you still going to die for him?”
Zoro looked directly at Kuma and replied, “Is there any other way to save our comrades now? If I can’t even protect the captain, what kind of ambition is there? Luffy is the man who will become the Pirate King!”
“Hey, moss-head, why are you going to die! How are you going to achieve your ambitions after you die, idiot!”
At this moment, Sanji’s whole body was shaking, and he walked staggeringly. To survive the impact just now, Sanji himself had reached his limit, but even so, he stood up without hesitation.
Walking in front of Kuma, Sanji said: “Hey, big guy, it’s better to take mine than to take the life of moss-head. Although I don’t have much fame yet, the most troublesome existence among the Straw Hats in the future must be I, the Black Leg Sanji.”
Just a few words, Sanji seemed to have exhausted all his strength, and if he hadn’t gritted his teeth to hold on with his trembling body, he would have fall down at any time.
“Don’t kill him, take my life away, hey, tell them, ask them to find another chef, and Luffy, tell him, I can’t help him become One Piece anymore.”
Gak!
A palm was firmly pressed on Sanji’s shoulder, and in his shocked eyes, Zoro had picked up the hilt of Shisui and hit him on the stomach.
Sanji, who was already at his limit, how could he withstand this heavy blow, turned around and grabbed Zoro’s arm at the last moment to be able to stand but slipped down anyway, and cursed tiredly.
“…Asshole.”
“Take my life, I beg you, and don’t put my body here and let them see my death. If you can, take my body back to the East Blue.”
Looking at Sanji for the last time, Zoro removed the three swords in his hands and threw them all on the ground. He opened his hands, facing the imminent death, Zoro looked calm.
Whether it is Sanji or Zoro, the moment they stand up, they already have death in mind.
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