The bottom of the canyon was dark and the air was oppressively hot.
The tumbling hot spring water gave off a pungent stench, and Ron had to tear off his sleeves and tie them around his nose to feel better.
There was a corpse like a torn sack lying on a raised rock not far away. After falling from this height, there was not much difference between the water surface and the concrete floor. Half of the head of Rebeck's female student was flattened, leaving an eyeball. Silk suspenders, go with the flow.
"It seems nothing unusual..."
With the light brought by the current, Ron glanced around the river and came to the same conclusion as before.
"Huh? No!"
Suddenly, Ron noticed something. After thinking about it for a while, his body turned into a streak of lightning and he rushed to the starting point of the river.
"As expected!"
In front of him was a steep cliff, from which the Hot Spring River began to flow from west to east.
But here’s the problem!
"This river has no entrance?!"
Perennial water erosion makes the stone walls under the river surface smooth and clean. With a little light, you can see the bottom of the river at a glance.
However, under the stone wall where the water inlet should have been, there was no water flowing in. The entire stone wall was clearly visible, and it was clearly sealed!
"This is not a river, this is a pool!"
Ron concluded in shock.
Through observation, he found that it was indeed the case!
The water flow is divided into two layers, the upper layer flows from west to east, and the lower layer flows from east to west, repeating the cycle.
If he hadn't gone down to the bottom of the canyon and discovered that half of the female student's skull had floated upstream, Ron wouldn't have noticed it at all.
This is an endless cycle of water, trapped in the bottom of the canyon with no exit or entrance, and it starts over and over again.
If this scene occurs in a technological society, a simple water circulation device can explain it clearly.
But the location where it appeared was underground in the world of One Piece, where it never saw the light of day, and it existed for more than 300 years. This 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 was unreasonable in the eyes of ordinary people.
"Um… "
Smacking his lips carefully, Ron suppressed the discomfort with a constipated look on his face and swallowed the river water in his mouth.
"Modan, bitter and astringent!!"
"Huh? What is this power?"
Suddenly, Ron felt a heat in his abdomen, as if his internal organs were burning. The astonishing heat quickly spread from his belly to his whole body, leaving him numb and numb, as if there were millions of small bugs crawling along the blood vessels in his body, making him extremely irritable.
At the same time, just like his previous fruit power awakening, an inexplicable violent mood began to grow.
"Get out of here!"
boom!
Ordinary people would definitely have no power to resist this change, but for Ron, who has mastered the return of life, it is simply ridiculous that this force from the outside wants to control him.
He decisively controlled his body and began to eliminate foreign matter. Black veins appeared on the surface of the skin, but they did not spread wantonly, but were concentrated by him and condensed towards his mouth.
"Ho... bah!"
When all the black substance was squeezed into his mouth, Ron opened his mouth and spat out, and a pool of black mucus fell on his palm.
Ron smiled slightly as he looked at the sticky stuff in his palm that was constantly squirming and trying to get back into his body.
"No wonder Rebek mutated so quickly. It hasn't spread outside for hundreds of years. It must be nearly saturated with this thing in the water."
By testing the poison himself, he discovered that there was indeed something wrong with the water in the river... and the pool.
It contains a unique parasite that is invisible to the naked eye.
When people swallow them by drinking water, they will continue to absorb the host's energy and accelerate reproduction, thereby achieving the purpose of controlling the host.
But... Talking about toxicity without talking about dosage is just a hooligan!
There is also a density issue here.
The reason why those workers did not mutate directly was probably because there were not many parasites in the water at that time, and there were too many people drinking the water.
This leaves the number of parasites left in each of their bodies to be negligible, and it will take a long time for them to multiply slowly to finally complete the mutation.
But now they have been sealed underground for more than 300 years, and the parasites have multiplied themselves, resulting in an astonishing density of bugs in every drop of water, which made Rebeck get sick in 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 thing inside is water, it is more like a group of water-like parasites.
"This world is really full of strange things!"
Ron sighed.
Even though the world he came into contact with was high-end, it was just the tip of the iceberg compared to the entire ocean.
The mysteries of the sea are endless, none of them are incredible, only those that have not yet been discovered.
The only regret is...
Zizzi!
Bang!
Ron waved his hand and fired a thunderbolt, and the blue arc flashed endlessly, directly creating a cloud of gray dust in the "water".
The high temperature of the current roasted the body tissues of the water-saturated transparent parasites into ashes, and a large number of corpses were piled together, and the first wisp of dust finally appeared in the clean and transparent waters.
"What use do you have for this kind of Lord of the Styx?"
Feudal superstition is unbelievable!
Ron clicked his tongue in displeasure.
He was still looking forward to the fight with the Lord of Styx, but you told him that he was just a group of bugs
After being tricked, Ron raised the Thunder Dragon Fangtian Halberd in his hand, and then thrust it down suddenly.
Fight!
When a halberd fell, it shattered the earth and cracked the mountain!
The painting rod was surrounded by lightning and landed at the bottom of the water flow, followed immediately by a terrifying vibration.
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 stream of magma spurted up and collided with the Styx, causing hot water vapor to rise in the air.
A large number of parasites were directly burned to ashes by the magma, and the orderly flowing river water instantly became a mess, playing the swan song of life.
When the magma replaced the Styx, Ron snorted before turning around and leaving the place.
…
Naval Headquarters, Marineford.
Brubru… Brubru…
"Hey, what's the matter, Lieutenant General Gumil?"
In the office, Warring States picked up the receiver and spoke quickly.
The war in the new world is getting more and more intense, and he is under great pressure.
Wulaoxing still believes that Big Mom will retreat sooner or later, but the Warring States Period has concluded through decades of fighting experience that this time Big Mom is really willing to fight to the death with the Navy!
Fight, we must fight.
What a God-given opportunity to completely destroy the Big Mom Pirates, one of the Four Emperors.
But since the war has started, human losses are secondary, and financial losses are the most serious problem.
When the cannon goes off, there's ten thousand taels of gold!
The navy's firepower advantage was completely achieved by using Bailey.
The shells consumed in battle every day were worth thousands of gold. Every night when I saw the consumption report, Warring States felt that my heart was bleeding.
If the fight continues like this, the base of this department will really be wiped out.
Although Gumil was sitting in the G2 branch and did not participate in the battle, he still understood that the Warring States Period was in dire straits. He immediately organized his language and said quickly: "Marshal, Ron has dug up a treasure!"
"It's none of my business if he digs up treasure!"
Warring States wished that the lid of the teacup would be thrown at him, and he cursed impatiently: "Can I still steal his money?"
If he did that, the soldiers would rebel the next day.
There are no rules in the Navy that require you to turn over your personal gains. Most soldiers join the army not for justice, but for a job to support their families.
After being scolded back, Lieutenant General Gumil was not angry, with a lewd smile on his fat face and said: "You can't steal it, you can borrow it!"
"Marshal, that's thousands of tons of gold! I'm sure it's okay to borrow a little Ron."
"puff!!!"
"Ahem...how much?!"
Seng Guo spat out a mouthful of tea and was stunned.