novel bin 37. Bad luck or good luck?
37. Bad luck or good luck?
deep sea.
He continued to descend until he was 500 meters below the sea, when Norton finally saw a huge shadow that stretched as far as the eye could see emerging beneath him!
Roughly estimated, it's over a kilometer long! Larger than most sea monsters!
No... perhaps, the mist whale is also a member of the sea kings.
After diving another hundred meters, Norton finally stepped onto the broad, land-like back of the mist whale, with its huge blowhole right in front of him!
Norton instinctively wanted to open his mouth to give orders to the giant whale, but before he could speak, a large amount of seawater was forced into his throat by the pressure of the sea.
"Gurgle gurgle..."
Countless bubbles escaped from the nose and mouth.
Norton quickly covered his mouth.
How do I communicate with this giant whale?
This is a problem!
Norton stroked his chin and swam toward the mist whale.
A moment later, Norton arrived in front of the Mist Whale, whose enormous eyes were tens of meters in diameter and as big as a ship!
Norton waved his hands repeatedly, but failed to attract the attention of the mist whale. In the eyes of this enormous creature, Norton was simply too insignificant.
Left with no other choice, Norton could only place his hand on the head of the Mist Whale!
With the muscles in his arms bulging, the immense force brought the advancing mist whale to a complete stop!
A look of confusion began to appear in the enormous eyes of the mist whale, which were tens of meters long, as if it did not understand what had stopped it.
There should be nothing in front of us.
Finally, after staring ahead for a while, the giant whale spotted a glimmer of silver in front of it.
It seems... to be a human?
A heavy sound rang out, the low murmur of a mist whale, yet it reverberated throughout the entire sea!
Seeing that the Mist Whale had finally noticed him, Norton smiled and threw a punch!
On the sea, aboard the White Pearl, Nami and the others discovered that the once calm misty sea was suddenly shaking violently!
The fog churned, the waves roared, and everything seemed to be in chaos.
At the same time, the seawater suddenly turned black...
No, it wasn't that the seawater turned black, but that a huge shadow suddenly grew larger!
Nami's pupils contracted, a sense of unease flashing through her mind. Then, this unease erupted like a volcano, turning into intense astonishment!
A massive mountain rose from the sea, its waters bulging at an enormous angle. Ships within thousands of meters of the White Pearl, Black Cat, Bucky, and others capsized as this "sea mountain" rose!
With towering waves, the 'sea mountain' finally revealed its true form...
That was a giant whale that was over a kilometer long!
It resembles a blue whale, but is entirely black with gray and white markings.
The massive White Pearl, measuring hundreds of meters in length, appeared as small as a baby next to that giant whale.
But this giant whale was seemingly struck out of the sea by something!
"You're kidding, right?"
This is probably the shared sentiment of everyone who witnessed this scene.
No matter how you look at it, this is something that only happens in a dream!
"Gather all the fog around you, and then submit to me!"
At that moment, a man's voice suddenly rang out.
Nami, Funing, Zoro, Sanosuke... everyone's eyes involuntarily turned in one direction.
Below the flying whale, a silver-haired figure resembled a rocket shooting out from the seabed, heading straight for the whale in mid-air!
A giant whale, over a kilometer long, hovers in the air at a height exceeding a kilometer—higher than many mountain peaks. Yet, that silver-haired figure emerged from the seabed; theoretically, there was nowhere he could find leverage...
Yet it defied the laws of nature and soared into the sky!
The altitude was so high that no one could see the mist whale's eyes, which were human-like and filled with shock!
As a noble species among sea kings, the mist whale couldn't understand why, after living for hundreds of years and about to transform into an adult, it was punched out of the sea like a toy by this tiny human!
That shouldn't be the case.
Misty whales are not unfamiliar with humans; they are a species as tiny as krill.
Over the past few centuries, mist whales have been wiped out more than once. The mist they exhale is enough to disorient these small-boat-dwelling species at sea, and the giant waves they occasionally create when they leap out of the water can capsize any ship...
But this was the first time the mist whale had ever encountered such a powerful human!
"Did you hear me? Blink if you did! Otherwise, I'll punch you again!"
"Gather all the fog, and then become my subjects!"
The mist whale doesn't understand human language, but Norton's words made it clear. The mist whale blinked rapidly, its enormous eyeballs, tens of meters long, moved, and it exhaled misty vapor from its blowhole.
"Good that you understand. Now go back to the sea!"
Another enormous and irresistible force is coming!
The mist whale once again felt its massive body being tossed onto the surface of the sea by tiny humans.
"boom!"
This was no longer a simple tsunami; the moment a kilometer-long whale was thrown into the sea, towering waves exploded! More than a dozen nearby ships were capsized! Pirates fell into the sea one after another!
Meanwhile, the mist whale, back in the sea, opened the two blowholes on the top of its head.
The dense fog seemed to be summoned, drawn by a tremendous suction force, and gradually drawn into the fog whale's blowhole!
About ten minutes later, the sea surface returned to clear.
All the mist was re-inhaled into the lungs of the mist whale, leaving no trace.
The view of the sea, exposed to the air, clearly shows the location of the Baratie restaurant and the original Krieg Pirates' ship!
"What...what happened?"
Zeff stood on the deck and looked around. He saw that many pirate ships had been capsized and the giant wave from before had disappeared.
"Old man! Look! What a huge whale!"
Sanji pointed at the mist whale surfacing, not even noticing the cigarette he was holding fall from his mouth.
Norton landed back on the White Pearl, which, thanks to its large and stable hull, was one of the few ships in the vicinity that did not capsize in the waves.
"This is too much, Norton!" Nami stepped forward, took off her black wool coat, and draped it over Norton's shoulders.
"There really are mist whales!" Fu Ning exclaimed as she looked at the mist whales rising from the sea.
"You really subdued this thing?" Zoro asked incredulously.
The same applies to Kuro, Sanosuke, and others.
The sight of the mist whale being pushed out of the water really startled them.
So dreamy!
"Of course! This whale will be our partner from now on!" Norton straightened his black wool coat. "Nami, Funing! Give the order to prepare a banquet!"
"But everyone's boats are still..."
"Don't worry! Just let Big Black flip them over one by one! After all, it was Big Black who flipped them over!"
"Big Black?" Nami asked, puzzled.
"This is the Mist Whale! The name I just came up with, isn't it great?" Norton grinned.
"That's so perfunctory!" Nami complained.
Meanwhile, on the distant sea, a dog-headed warship was sailing.
"The fog has disappeared!"
"Great! Are there any islands nearby? Report back immediately!"
The warship's lookout gazed at the massive pirate fleet on the distant sea, and upon seeing the silver skull and crossbones flag with its scepter and royal chess pieces crisscrossing, swallowed hard.
"No islands... but we've spotted the Norton Pirates' fleet!"
The presence of the fog had originally concealed Norton's group's movements.
However, after subduing the Mist Whale "Big Black" and dispelling the mist, Norton's group's whereabouts were exposed.
Bad luck or good luck?
It's hard to explain!