Although flying in the air and walking a straight distance is indeed much faster than sailing by boat, it took Ian and the others a full three days to gradually approach the waters of Wano Country.
The ocean in the new world has a changeable climate, and all kinds of unimaginable weather scenes may appear, so even Ian and the others had to stop and take shelter when encountering bad weather.
Originally, they could also fly directly into the higher sky. If they pass through the clouds, they don't have to worry about the harsh weather below, but they are afraid that they will be in trouble when they lose their strength while flying.
There is a special thing about the life paper, that is, the closer it is to the owner of the life paper, the higher the beating frequency when the life paper is placed in the palm of the hand to indicate.
Ian and the others use this method to judge the distance.
When a long black shadow appeared on the horizon in the distance in the morning light, Marco told Ian that it was the land where Wano Country was located.
Marco has actually been to Wano country several times, but he came by boat at that time, which is not the same as flying directly from the sky now. The scenery and road signs along the way are basically two different things, so if there is no guidance from the life paper , Marco can't be the guide either.
However, after seeing the black shadow on the land, Marco told Ian with absolute certainty that it was Wano Country! Because the Wano country is one of the few countries with a large land area that is relatively rare in the New World.
This of course refers to the relative "huge area", because in the new world, sometimes a small island with a radius of several kilometers and a population of several thousand people can form a country, and there are quite a few such countries, and compared , Wano Country's area of thousands of square kilometers naturally appears to be unique.
The size of the island determines the population base. This is common sense. The larger the population, the stronger the national power. In addition, Wano country is rich in "samurai", so this country is also recognized as one of the powerful countries in the world.
In the new world, there are many powerful countries like Wano country. Needless to say, Elbaf, one of the famous giant kingdoms, Zeke of the Dragon Hunter Pirates once talked about their long-armed The hometown of the Long-Leg Clan (also known as the Foot-Long Clan) is the Kingdom of Tainakena on Jianshan Island in the New World, and it is also one of the famous powerful countries. Known as the home of the fur tribe Zou, their warriors also seem to be well known in the New World.
It can be said that the countries established by these special races in the new world can be called powerful countries, because they often have special skills and combat capabilities.
However, Ian noticed a phenomenon. Compared with the bustling ships on the sea during the journey just entering the new world, the number of ships seen by Ian and the others on the sea has been greatly increasing all the way. diminishingly.
When they entered the waters outside Wano Country, Ian and the others didn't even see a single ship.
Marco answered this question for him, because the range of Wano Country is already deeper in the New World.
Because the climate and currents are getting more and more dangerous, the deeper you go into the New World, the fewer ships that can reach here. The country, the less communication with the outside world!
In other words, it is closed! These islands and countries located in the depths of the New World can be regarded as backwaters, and there are even some more distant islands, even those that were still slash-and-burn in the barbaric era!
Without communication, there will naturally be no civilization and civilization, and there will be no great progress in cognition. Marco told Ian that in Wano Country, even the devil fruit ability users who have long been known to the world are still They call it the "precious fruit in the world", and they believe that after eating this fruit, people can become people who can use black magic.
"Although it is closed, no matter what race it is, there will always be people who want to see the outside world!" Marco said to Ian while flying: "Especially with the advent of the era of great pirates, even a remote new world In the depths, people have come to the outside world one after another, and at the same time, there are people from outside who have reached the islands and countries where they are."
"It's just a pity that people of these rare races are precious goods in the eyes of slave traders! Fortunately, they can join the pirate group and become pirates to travel the world, but unfortunately, they will be caught by slave traders Go, and then trafficked to all over the world, generally speaking, the situation of these people is not very good."
"The outside world is always cruel!" Ian nodded.
"Yeah!" Marco said: "However, facing such a cruel world, some people will feel worried, and this is the case in Wano Country. Although their country is located in the depths of the New World, it is not That kind of place that can't be reached at all, since the era of the Great Pirate, although they have continuously seen new things, their own citizens are also constantly being hurt. Although the people of Wano Country are normal humans, there are some strange things in their country. species, so there will always be pirates attacking these rare species and constantly harassing their country. Therefore, many people in Wano Country have become more conservative in their attitudes towards outsiders. This is why they The reason for shutting down the country.”
"Oh..." Ian nodded, thoughtfully, this feels a bit like a subconscious evasion behavior...
"But there should be some people who won't escape, right?" Ian asked.
"That's true!" Marko nodded and said: "Facing the harm brought by the outside world, there will always be people who will face up to the difficulties and face up to these harms, and their attitude towards the outside world will appear more positive. The Guangyue family is an example."
Ian and Marco were chatting while flying, Bonnie was lying on Marco's back, looking a little bored, she was not very interested in such things, so she shook Marco and said, "You said Jane from Wano Country There are a lot of beasts, so why haven't I seen them? Isn't this already within the scope of Wano Country?"
"If you want to see rare beasts, that's very simple!" Marco smiled, turned his head to look at the sky in all directions, then stopped and turned towards the southeast direction and said, "Look, isn't that right?"
Ian and Bonnie raised their eyes and saw a black dot flying in the southeast sky. It seemed to be flying very fast, and it didn't take long before they could see it clearly.
It was a... huge black bird! It should look like a big crow, but the strange thing is that its body is humanoid!
This giant crow has human feet instead of bird claws! Its whole body was covered with black feathers, but its human feet were bare.
"What kind of bird is that!?" Seeing the crow fly by, Ian asked in surprise.
"I don't know, it's called a rare beast, but people in Wano country call it Yatengu!" Marco replied: "They call these rare beasts 'monsters'!"
monster? It is indeed very similar, but Ian suddenly remembered that the rare beasts collected in IGMOM's Myriad Kingdoms even have legendary creatures such as griffins and unicorns, so the so-called "monsters" in Wano Country don't seem to be so too hard to accept...
"There are crows and tengus, so are there also guhuo birds?" Ian asked Marco.
He was just asking casually, but Marco was stunned for a moment, and asked back: "Hey, how do you know?"
Yi An almost spat out a mouthful of old blood, and said in surprise, "Really!?"
"Really!" Marco said with certainty: "It is a kind of fierce bird with nine heads that only lives on the high mountains of Wano Country. It's a bird!" Marco explained: "They think it's also a kind of monster."
After finishing speaking, Marco pointed to the surrounding sky and said: "You may not know that even newsbirds are reluctant to come to this sea area of Wano country, because there are such raptors, and they will prey on newsbirds! And it’s not just why, I really like it! So here in Wano Country, there are no news papers at all, the news is extremely closed, and the news about the outside world in Wano Country is basically brought by pirates outside.”