Pirates of the Navy Thunder God

Chapter 475: The Legend of the River Styx in Alabasta (13)

"I don't like bullshit, Rebeck."

Sitting on the stone bench, Ron relit his cigar and exhaled white smoke: "Tell me everything you know."

"Don't think about it!"

Rebeck's voice sounded a little muffled, and his head was facing the ground, so his mouth was full of gravel.

"Bah...bah!"

He turned his head with difficulty, revealing his profile. His red eyes stared at Ron, his teeth as sharp as a beast's.

Combined with that wrinkled, shriveled old face, he looked like a mummy crawling out of hell, ferocious and terrifying.

"You ignorant mortal! You have no idea what's inside!"

"When my Lord comes, you heretics will repent your sins in the River Styx!"

"Oh……"

Rebeck swore and cursed passionately, but Ron responded carelessly. After listening to him, the latter turned around and asked.

"Is Rebeck a member of any religious sect?"

"I'm sorry, sir."

The excavation team leader thought for a moment and shook his head. "Although Mr. Rebeck has settled in Alabasta for more than ten years, he is devoted to studying and rarely shows up, so we locals know very little about him."

Seeing Ron's disappointed look, the captain immediately added.

"But I know some clues that may be related to why he became like this."

"Oh? Tell me."

Ron perked up, changed his foot and stepped on Rebeck's head, motioning for the captain to continue.

"Yes! That's it..."

The team leader began to tell the story.

There are always mysterious stories in the desert no-man's land.

Its intractability has created as many legends as the stars in the desert. Even the Nefertari family, which has ruled here for hundreds of years, does not dare to say that they know every sand dune.

The captain's story is about the legend of the Styx in the desert.

Legend has it that there is a River Styx under the desert, and the souls of the dead will sink into the sea of ​​sand, cross the River Styx, and go to the kingdom of the dead.

Hundreds of years ago, there was a small town that suffered from yellow sand erosion. A large number of livestock were buried in the sand, the wells dried up, and the people had a hard time making a living.

Looking at the withered and broken town, the mayor decided to migrate and lead everyone to find a new home.

This kind of thing is common in the desert kingdom of Alabasta.

It still happens sometimes even now.

Because the desert is not always the same.

It has ebbs and flows just like the sea.

The closer you get to uninhabited areas, the more unpredictable the environment becomes.

When yellow sand began to devour living space, migration became people's only hope to survive.

However, whether it was bad luck or something else, the mayor led the residents to walk for ten days, but did not see any oasis recorded on the map.

On that day, water was in short supply and the frail elderly and children were dying. Facing the residents' pleading eyes, the mayor felt very distressed.

At night, everyone gathered together to rest, when suddenly someone outside screamed.

"It's a river! There's water!"

"What a big river! We are saved!"

Crash...!
At the same time, the sound of the rushing water was earth-shaking, waking up the men, women, and children in the camp.

The mayor led his men to the sand dunes, and looking at the giant black python running, tumbling and stirring in front of him, he lost the ability to speak.

He didn't understand why a river suddenly appeared here. They were so many kilometers away from the coast that even the sea water couldn't flow here as it would be swallowed up by the desert halfway.

But this did not hinder the joy in everyone's heart. They all took their drinking utensils and ran to the river to fetch water.

That night, everyone had a rare good sleep.

The next day, the mayor got up and ran to the sand dunes. Looking at the river that still existed, he was ecstatic and announced that he would build a new home here.

No matter how rivers appear, in the desert, life depends on water. No living thing can survive without water.

Now that there is a freshwater river nearby, only a fool would change places.

The reconstruction work went smoothly. With water, there is life. The mayor breathed a sigh of relief as he watched the dying residents slowly recover and the livestock become full of energy.

but.

The good times didn’t last long. One day, someone woke up and found that the blood vessels under his skin had become very dark, black and interspersed between the skin like ink. He was shocked and rushed to find a doctor for treatment.

However, the doctor did not have much to do about it. After asking some questions and making sure that there was nothing wrong with his body, he reported the matter to the mayor.

Faced with this strange disease, everyone was at a loss.

Fortunately, the strange disease only changed the color of the blood and did not have any bad effects on the body, so everyone gradually relaxed.

Until one day...

At night, the mayor had just fallen asleep when he suddenly heard a roar that was not human from outside. The town was immediately thrown into chaos, with screams and strange "hissing" sounds everywhere.

When the mayor went out to take a look, he found a group of dark monsters chasing the residents.

They have an upright posture similar to that of humans, but their eyes are red, their bodies are covered with sticky black liquid, and their palms have turned into sharp blades.

After trying his best to kill a monster, the mayor was horrified to find that when the slime faded away, what was revealed was a normal human corpse!

And he knew that person.

It’s the blacksmith in town!

The sword that killed the "monster" was made by this blacksmith.

Monsters are humans transformed!

This earth-shattering news caught everyone off guard. Everyone was suspicious and wary of each other, fearing that their companions would turn into those horrible monsters in the next moment.

What happened next in the town is unknown.

Anyway, in the end only a few survivors escaped and brought the news out, adding this legend about the River Styx to the desert.

"I've heard that story, too!"

A young man in the excavation team raised his hand and said: "When I was a child, my mother often told me this story to put me to sleep. She told me that those people had died a long time ago. The reason they didn't find the oasis was because they were in the land of the dead, not the real world at all."

Ron: "..."

Your mother is such a talent!

Is this a horror story?

However, this is intentional and has a moral, warning people that although water is important in the desert, it cannot be drunk casually.

The townspeople in the story turned into monsters apparently because they drank water from the suddenly appearing river.

This is also a very important enlightenment education for children.

"Yes, the Styx!"

At this moment, Rebeck suddenly looked up with reverence: "Great Lord of the Styx, Controller of the Kingdom of the Dead! Please show your might and take these blasphemers away!"

"..."

There was silence all around, with only the sound of people breathing echoing in the quiet underground space.

A few seconds later…

Boom!
The violent vibration startled everyone. The workers looked back and saw Rebeck being stepped back into the ground by Ron, with the corners of their mouths twitching wildly.

Uh……

I almost forgot that the scariest guy here right now is "Canglong" Ron!!!

"Damn Lord of the Styx!"

"If it's so powerful, why would the World Government have anything to do with it?!"

"You have the temper to rule the world, idiot!"

Ron exhaled white smoke with disdain, stepped on Rebeck's head a few times, and completely blocked his mouth.

All gods who do not appear are paper tigers!

The "Lord of the Styx" mentioned by Rebeck at most possesses a special ability to turn people into monsters, perhaps some strange parasitic virus.

Moreover, Ron believed more in his own fists than in the "God" exaggerated by the legend.

If there really is a Lord of the Styx, Ron would like to fight him to see if his strength after awakening is really at the top of the world.

After hearing Ron's speech, the excavation team was speechless.

Ok.

It seems... that's really the truth.

There are so many living legends in this world, but they have nothing to do with you, the Lord of the Styx.

I'm going out to eat, and then I'll come back to write the second chapter. I just came back to work, and there's some work to deal with. I'll take my time, and I'll definitely pay off the 15 chapters I owe (the last two chapters are a 200-yuan reward and monthly tickets).

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(End of this chapter)