Chapter 14: Crossing the Windless Zone

  A month later, East Sea, windless zone.

  "It's no good, it's no good! Captain, look! Two huge sea monsters have appeared in front of the warship!" On the warship's observation deck, a sailor held binoculars and stared at the two enormous creatures less than a nautical mile away.

  "What's the big deal, even the sea stones on the bottom of warships can malfunction sometimes... Pokato is yours now......" On the deck, Kapu was lounging in a chair, holding a bag of donuts and continuously feeding them into his mouth while muttering some numbers. All the soldiers on this warship were already immune to this scene.

  An old man with one foot in the ground, nothing to do for several days and nights without sleep, eating donuts to refresh records, is also idle enough!

  "I'm telling you, Hobbit kid, you've been eating and drinking on my warship for a month. It's rare to encounter such a thing, shouldn't you show off your skills? You're always wiping that gun, but I haven't seen you use it..." Karp lifted his eye mask and looked in the direction two zhang away, where a pink-haired man with a scar on his face was standing, bare-chested, using clothes to wipe down a massive gun.

  Hobodi shook his head, looking at the Sea King in the distance with a hint of puzzlement: "This can't be helped. As for pirates, I've already made my move this month, but as for the Sea Kings... if they don't attack me, I'll just avoid them and won't attack them either. Calling Pokato to the bow is also pointless. When the warship approaches, the Sea King will leave on its own."

  "Hmm..." Karp sat up with a hint of interest, suddenly bursting into laughter: "So that's it! You have mermaid bloodline? It's said that only the mermaid species can communicate with sea creatures! How rare, a mermaid and human, how did they give birth to a child?"

  "I'm a dry duck." Hobodi directly interrupted Kap's vicious speculation.

  At this time, the warship was less than a hundred meters away from the two-headed sea king, opening its bloody mouth to come over and wanting to crush it in one bite.

  Pocato at the bow of the boat, a fine sweat seeping from his forehead, drew out the sword at his waist, ready to strike.

  Suddenly, the two sea kings seemed to notice something and stopped their attacking mouths. Their huge eyes scanned the many soldiers on the warship's deck, finally fixing on Hobbit, letting out a loud cry before turning around and plunging into the sea.

  "Looks like it still is, Commodore." Pokato returned from the bow of the ship, eyeing Hopodi suspiciously. They had been sailing through the doldrums on their way back from the Great Passage, and had encountered several sea kings along the way, all in similar circumstances to this one.

  Those sea kings seemed to know someone on this warship and had intended to attack them several times but ultimately let it go.

  And this time, the sea stone at the bottom of the warship was invalid, which is a very strange thing in itself.

  If it's ineffective, it would be better to say that someone on this warship, those sea kings can strongly feel its dynamics.

  The person in question, this ship has been sailing the Grand Line for a month, even the soldiers can feel that it's an extremely strange fellow, naturally being watched by the Sea Kings is Hopody!

  "Hopody, you're really useful! With you around, we don't even need the Sea Tower Stones on our warships anymore... hahaahaha!" Karp continued to display his tribe's absurd nature.

  Hobodi gazed out at the turbulent waves on the sea, and he too felt a sense of puzzlement. In this month, this warship had encountered several dangers along the Great Navigation Route, aside from a few brief encounters with pirates who didn't even recognize the naval hero "Iron Fist" Karp, all that remained were Sea Kings.

  Especially in those few attacks by the Sea Kings, I felt a sense of danger, even on the leisurely Captain Karp's warship, sometimes revealing a solemn expression.

  However, every time they reached the end, those mighty sea kings would choose to retreat after seeing him, and Hoboldi couldn't figure out the specific reason either.

  "Could it be true what Captain Karp said, that I really have mermaid blood in me?" Hobodi muttered to himself. But if he had a talent called "Voice of All Things", he would definitely hear the conversation transmitted by the two giant sea kings who were staring at each other: "The human protected by the mermaid king has been escorted here, and we have completed our mission."

  But apparently, that strange talent did not manifest in Hobody.

  During the journey, Hobbit kept this question in mind and thought about its origin. After getting nothing, Pokato came to interrupt his thinking.

  "Captain Hobday, Colonel Karp says the Seventy-sixth Brigade you're to take over is arriving immediately!"

  A voice brought Hobodi's thoughts back, and he felt the cold wind flowing in the air: "So fast? Have we already left the windless zone?"

  "Ah, we've now entered the waters near the Porsalta Islands. Look straight ahead, that's Rog Town!" At this time, Rog Town was still far away, shrouded in thick fog on the sea.

  "What's that red land to the left? How can the sea flow up into the mountains?" Hobodi turned around, looking at the massive mountain shadow beside him, feeling incredulous. This pirate world still had so many strange geographical phenomena.

  "There is the Strait of Twins. Except for our military having warships with sea-lane stones installed on the bottom, other ships in the East Sea must head there if they enter the Great Navigation Channel."

  "That Narog town, isn't it a gateway of defense?" Hobodi looked ahead, somewhat strangely.

  Kapuhara burst out laughing: "That's right, Smoker is a difficult kid to get along with. In the future, if you're going to be a pirate who wants to reach the Grand Line, most of them will be caught at the last stop, the supply island of Roguetown. He can be said to be the nightmare of the East Blue pirates."

  "As for the 76th branch you're about to be assigned to, it's located in the Jecu Islands. Just cross the Sambas Sea in front of you and you'll arrive soon."

  "Jaco Island?"

  "Hmm, I recall that there's a village called Sirobu in those islands. One of the Four Emperors, Red-Haired Shanks' crew, has a sniper named Jesus Burgess who hails from that very village." As he mentioned Red-Hair, Hopper saw Karp's face occasionally gritting his teeth with deep-seated resentment.

  Hobbiti didn't care about those gossips. Now that Kapu was going to talk to him so much, he had even more reason to probe for more information.

  Hoboldi said actively: "I remember that General Kapur was also from the East Sea! Besides Sambath's sea area, what other areas are there in the East Sea?"

  "Hmm? You young fellow have just arrived and yet you ask so many questions, what are you plotting?" Kapu asked suspiciously.

  Hobodi made no secret of his ambition, "Hehe" smiled: "To better understand the situation in the East China Sea, to capture more pirates, and then be able to return to the Great Navigation Route. Is this not a plot? Peace is good, but I don't plan to stay in the East China Sea for a lifetime."