MTL - I Formed The El Cat Investigation Team In Pirates

Chapter 74 Journey to the East

　　After exchanging the members of the Suwak Pirates for bounties, Xie Wen still maintained his own pace, taking his time and lighting up the remaining islands one by one according to the original route.

During this period, they solved several more pirate groups, and the "Western Blue Tour Guide" was also updated with two articles. The last one in Xie Wen's hands has not been published yet. According to Morgans' feedback, his "Traveler" name even He has already reached "Tianting", and some Tianlong people who like to travel around have begun to prepare for a trip to the West Sea because of the travel notes he wrote...

  But this is not good news for most people in the West Sea.

In addition, based on the information provided by Morgans, Xie Wen obtained a famous sword that he could not use. Unfortunately, he never encountered the Devil Fruit again.

The pirate with the ability of the devil fruit encountered an animal-type hyena fruit with mediocre strength and bounty, but it was blown up by a bomb from Kelimiao.

And Xie Wen did not forget his original idea, he killed the pirate directly, and then tried to peel off some "materials" from him with a hunter's knife...

 As a result, 22 million Baileys were dug out... which was exactly the same as the pirate's bounty.

Xie Wen didn't think this was a coincidence. Apparently, the pirate's bounty was recognized as part of the material by his hunter's knife. So although he failed to dig up the Devil Fruit this time, Xie Wen felt that his idea was possible. Achieved.

As for whether the 22 million was real money... Anyway, Xie Wenhua went out.

However, the probability of Devil Fruit appearing in the Four Seas is indeed too small. Apart from Capone Becky and this pirate, there are only two fruit capable users in the Navy. This is what Morgans told Xie Wen. He does not have one. Saw it with my own eyes.

Everywhere like the Grand Line, you can encounter a fruit-powered person just walking around the street. There are not many fruit-powered people in the pirate group or organization, and you are embarrassed to say hello to people.

 After passing the last "Western Blue Tour Guide" to Morgans, Xie Wen opened the hunter's manual...

“Sigh…I still couldn’t push the exploration level to 95% in the end…”

Xie Wen looked at the progress bar at the bottom of the map and sighed helplessly.

Now the virtual exploration degree on the progress bar has been filled up, but it has stopped at 94.8%, which is an obsessive-compulsive disorder progress...

Although the previous virtual exploration rate was only 91.7%, during the voyage, we would occasionally encounter some islands that were not recorded on the navy map, so it is not surprising that the overall progress has improved. Xie Wenzai just obtained the navy's map of the West Sea. At that time, the virtual exploration degree was only about 80%.

It’s just a pity that the increase in exploration did not give him summoning coupon fragments or the like as Xie Wen expected...

 Perhaps it really needs to be 100%.

In fact, as most of the areas on the map are lit up, Xie Wen can roughly calculate the locations of the remaining islands based on the shadows on the map. If he really wants to continue, he should be able to push the progress forward and find all the islands. The island is not impossible.

But Xie Wen doesn’t think that’s necessary, because you don’t know if the Valley of the Gods is still there, and if you accidentally bump into it, you might be targeted by the World Government.

not to mention…

The route Xie Wen planned at the beginning was to make a large circle around the West Sea and eventually go to the East China Sea through the Upside Down Mountain. Therefore, their current location is very close to the countercurrent river of the West Sea, and they can even see the red earth continent in the distance with the naked eye. At this time, it would be too troublesome to change the course and go to find those islands with uncertain locations...

Besides the task of making the map 100%, Xie Wen and the others had no other reason to stay in the West Sea. On the contrary, there were several "opportunities" waiting for him to explore in the East China Sea.

 “Set sail! Target—Upside Down Mountain!”

Xie Wen stood at the bow of the boat and said with high spirits.

“Oh oh oh—! I’m finally going to a new sea area, meow!” Keli Meow stood on Xie Wen’s shoulder and shouted together.

And Sanji Miao also rarely cooperated actively. He not only quickly opened the sails of Explorer 1, but also took the initiative to run to the helm... In the past, this little **** had to be coaxed by Xie Wen before he would take the helm.

However, Xie Wen also knew the reason why the little yellow cat was so cooperative...it was simply because he thought that after changing the map, they might be able to get new summoning ticket fragments soon, so as to put together a new map. With a complete summoning ticket, he welcomed the El Cat sister he had longed for.

 Sure enough, Sese is the primary productive force.

Xie Wen smiled and shook his head, letting Kelimiao get off him, and he climbed up the mast, serving as a temporary lookout hand to guide Sanji at the helm in the direction.

In the comics, Luffy and his party encountered a storm when they entered the Upside Down Mountain, but Xie Wen and the others had the lucky cat Kelimu with them, and the journey was calm and they arrived at the foot of the Upside Down Mountain smoothly. "Wow! What a tall mountain cat!" Kelimiao stood on the bow of the boat, looking at the shadow in front of her that was obscured by thick clouds, and sighed excitedly.

However, as Explorer 1 approached Upside Down Mountain, the sea currents below gradually became turbulent. Xie Wen quickly furled the sails, and then ran to replace Sanji Miao at the helm.

Although with Sanji's strength, he can still control the rudder under such turbulent sea currents, El Cat's size is a flaw, and he will be carried away by the rudder if he is not careful.

Sanji Miao obviously knew this. He changed identities with Xie Wen in a tacit understanding, and ran to the bow of the ship to guide Xie Wen in the direction.

 “Go right, right, meow!”

 “It’s too much! Turn it back some, meow!”

 “That’s it! Keep this direction meow!”

At Sanji Miao's call, Explorer 1 quickly followed the turbulent waves and rushed into the reverse river of the Upside Down Mountain. At the entrance of the reverse river, there was a row of square arches made of stone. On the arches It is engraved with an unknown sea beast or Neptune-like pattern, and I don't know if it has any special meaning.

After entering the countercurrent river, the flow speed of the seawater increased a lot again. Explorer 1 followed this current and quickly climbed to the top of the mountain.

 “Meow hahahaha!” Kelimiao laughed cheerfully, “Brother Xie Wen, our ship is really climbing up! It’s so amazing, meow!”

Sanji Meow was also excited, "No wonder it's called Upside Down Mountain, this world is really interesting, Meow!"

Even Xie Wen had a rare moment of letting loose. He came to the bow of the ship, opened his arms, felt the sea breeze blowing against his face, and let out strange screams:

 “Ouch—!”

Keli Meow and Sanji Meow climbed onto his shoulders and barked in the same way:

 “Meow—!”×2

Soon, Explorer 1 arrived at the top of Upside Down Mountain amidst the barking of one person and two cats...

 Then he rushed towards the Grand Route.

 “Oh shit! I almost forgot!”

Xie Wen quickly stopped his screams and ran quickly to throw the anchor into the sea.

If left alone, it will directly follow the sea current all the way down the mountain, and will not stop until it reaches Twin Capes.

Although you can see Rab and Crocas at Twin Capes, the island whale Xie Wen has already seen it in the West Sea, and there is nothing good to get from Crocas, so there is no point in going there now, anyway, wait When they really want to enter the Grand Line, they will naturally have the opportunity to meet.

After using the anchor to stop Explorer 1, Xie Wen and the others spent a lot of effort to move it to the counter-current river leading to the East China Sea.

Although they could row directly against the current down the mountain, considering the possibility of encountering a boat going up the mountain halfway, Xie Wen decided to wait for the flow direction to change before going down the river...

Definitely not because he is too lazy to row!

A reader suggested a cat experience coupon. I thought about it and thought it was not appropriate.

Although the appearance of more cats may attract more readers, in my setting, although the cats have the template of anime characters, they themselves are still just El cats.

In other words, when a Naruto is summoned, the other party has neither chakra nor a Bubble Dragon sealed in his body.

Even if the character template talent of Maomao is as high as that of Kelimiao, and he can learn domineering right away, he will not have much advantage in combat effectiveness at once, so the final situation is to recruit a few cats to play together. sky.

And as there are more and more cats on the ship in the future, this kind of temporary cat will become even more useless.

  But thank you for your suggestions.

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　　　Thanks to Er Wang who gave me the reward.

 (End of this chapter)