Pirates of the Navy Thunder God

Chapter 479 The true face of the Styx: Borrowing money!

It was dark at the bottom of the canyon, and the air was hot and muggy.

The boiling hot spring water emitted a pungent odor, and Ron had to tear off his sleeves and tie them around his nose, only then did he feel a little better.

Not far away, on a raised reef, there was a body that looked like a torn sack. After falling from this height, the water surface was not much different from the concrete ground. Half of Rebeck's female student's head was crushed, leaving one eyeball hanging by a thread and drifting with the current.

"It seems that there is nothing unusual..."

With the help of the light brought by the electric current, Ron scanned the river and came to the same conclusion as before.

"Huh? No!"

Suddenly, Ron discovered something. After thinking about it, his body turned into a streak of lightning and instantly rushed to the starting point of the river.

"Sure enough!"

In front of him was a steep cliff, from which the Hot Spring River flowed from west to east.

But that’s the problem!
“This river has no water inlet?!”

The constant erosion of water throughout the year has made the stone walls below the river surface smooth and shiny, and with a little light, you can see the river bottom at a glance.

However, under the stone wall where the water inlet should have been, no water flowed in. The entire stone wall was visible at a glance, and it was obvious that it was sealed!

"This isn't a river, it's a pool!"

Ron concluded in shock.

Through observation, he found that it was indeed the case!

The water flows into two layers, the upper layer flows from west to east, and the lower layer flows from east to west, over and over again.

If Ron had not gone down to the bottom of the canyon and found that half of the female student's skull was floating from upstream, he would not have noticed it at all.

This is an infinite cycle of water, trapped at the bottom of the canyon with no exit or entrance, repeating over and over again.

If this scene occurred in a technological society, a simple water circulation device could explain it.

But the place where it appeared was in the dark underground of the One Piece world, and it has existed for more than 300 years, which cannot be explained by science at all.

Where does the power of its flow come from?

Also, why does drinking river water cause people to mutate?

Thinking of this, Ron made a decision that seemed unreasonable to ordinary people.

"Um……"

Ron smacked his lips carefully, endured the discomfort with a constipated look, and swallowed the river water in his mouth.

"It's so bitter and astringent!!"

"Huh? What is this power?"

Suddenly, Ron felt a burning sensation in his abdomen, as if his internal organs were burning. The astonishing heat quickly spread from his belly to his entire body, making him feel numb and tingling, as if millions of small insects were crawling along his blood vessels, making him extremely irritated.

At the same time, just like when his fruit power awakened, an inexplicable violent emotion began to grow.

"Get out of here!"

boom!
Ordinary people would definitely be powerless to resist this change, but for Ron, who has mastered the return of life, it is simply laughable that this external force wants to control him.

He decisively controlled his body to expel the foreign matter. Black veins appeared on the surface of the skin, but they did not spread indiscriminately. Instead, they were concentrated by him and condensed towards the mouth.

"Oh...Pah!"

When all the black substance was squeezed into his mouth, Ron opened his mouth and spit out, and a pool of black mucus fell into his palm.

Ron smiled slightly as he looked at the sticky thing in his palm that kept squirming and trying to get back into his body.

"No wonder Rebeck mutated so quickly. It hasn't spread out for hundreds of years. I guess the water is almost saturated with this stuff."

By testing the poison on himself, he discovered that there was indeed something wrong with the river water...the water in the pool.

Inside it lives a unique parasite that is invisible to the naked eye.

When people swallow them into their stomachs by drinking water, they will continuously absorb the host's energy to accelerate reproduction, thereby achieving the purpose of controlling the host.

However... talking about toxicity without talking about dosage is just hooliganism!
There is also a density issue here.

The reason why the group of workers did not mutate directly was probably because there were not many parasites in the water at that time, but there were too many people drinking the water.

This means that the number of parasites left in each of their bodies is insignificant, and it takes a long time for them to slowly multiply before they can finally mutate.

Now they have been sealed underground for more than 300 years, and the parasites have reproduced themselves, resulting in an astonishing density of insects in every drop of water, which is why Rebeck got the upper hand at one bite.

Including the flow of water, it is also because billions of microscopic parasites are swimming in the same direction. Rather than saying that the things inside are water, it is better to say that they are a group of water-like parasites. "This world is really strange!"

Ron sighed.

Even though the world he came into contact with was powerful, it was just the tip of the iceberg compared to the entire ocean.

The mysteries of the sea are endless. There is nothing incredible, only things that have not yet been discovered.

The only regret is...

Zizi!

Bang!
Ron waved his hand and sent out a bolt of lightning. The blue electric arc flickered continuously and directly created a cloud of gray dust in the "water".

The high temperature of the electric current burned the body tissues of the transparent parasites that were full of water into ashes. A large number of corpses piled up together, and the first wisp of dust finally appeared in the clean and transparent waters.

"What use is there for you, the Lord of the Styx?"

Feudal superstition cannot be trusted!

Ron smacked his lips in dissatisfaction.

He was looking forward to a fight with the Lord of the Styx, but you told him it was just a bunch of bugs?
After being tricked, Ron raised the Thunder Dragon Halberd in his hand and then thrust it down suddenly.

Hit!
With one strike of the halberd, rocks shattered and mountains and the earth split apart!
The painting pole, wrapped in lightning, fell to the bottom of the water with a bang, and then a terrible vibration followed.

Buzz, buzz!

Scarlet light slowly seeped out from the cracks, like the afterglow of the setting sun, illuminating the dim underground world.

immediately……

Bang!
A large amount of magma gushed up and collided with the River Styx, and hot steam suddenly rose in the air.

A large number of parasites were directly burned into ashes by the magma, and the orderly flowing river water instantly became a mess, playing the swan song of life.

After the magma replaced the River Styx, Ron snorted coldly and turned away.

……

Naval Headquarters, Marineford.

Brubru...brubru...

"Hey, what's up, Lieutenant General Gumire?"

In the office, Zhan Guo picked up the receiver and spoke quickly.

The war in the New World was intensifying, and he was under a lot of pressure.

The Five Elders still believe that BIG·MOM will retreat sooner or later, but Sengoku has concluded through decades of experience in battle that this time BIG·MOM is really determined to fight to the death with the Navy!
We have to fight, of course we have to fight.

What a godsend opportunity this is to completely defeat the Big Mom Pirates, one of the Four Emperors.

But as the war has been going on for so long, loss of life is secondary; financial loss is the most serious problem.

When the cannon goes off, there is ten thousand taels of gold!

The navy's firepower advantage was entirely achieved by using Bailey's weapons.

The artillery shells consumed in battle every day were worth thousands of gold. Every night when Zhan Guo saw the consumption report, he felt his heart bleeding.

If we continue to fight like this, all the resources we have will be wiped out.

Although Gumier was in charge of the G2 branch and did not participate in the battle, he still understood that Zhan Guo was in dire straits. He immediately organized his words and said quickly: "Marshal, Ron has dug up the treasure!"

"It's none of my business if he finds treasure!"

Zhan Guo wanted to throw the lid of the teacup at him and cursed impatiently: "Can I still steal his money?"

If he really did that, there would be soldiers rebelling the next day.

The Navy has no regulations requiring the surrender of private gains, and most soldiers join the army not to uphold justice but to have a job to support their families.

Lieutenant General Gumier was not angry even though he was retorted. He showed a lewd smile on his fat face and said, "You can't rob it, but you can borrow it!"

"Marshal, that's thousands of tons of gold! Ron will definitely have no objection to borrowing some."

"puff!!!"

"Ahem...how much?!"

Zhan Guo spat out a mouthful of tea, stunned.

(End of this chapter)