Chapter 343: Garp and Shinobu Kocho Team Up

"Dodging my eyes?"

"No, it's a ghost with invisibility abilities. Since it is a dead body itself, does it have no breathing?"

Shinobu Kocho endured the pain, retreating backward in the direction where the fingernails had pierced.

The blood hole pierced by the fingernails continued to bleed.

Pfft.

With a series of rapid stabs,

the Nichirin Sword, like the tail stinger of a poisonous bee, continuously injected Poison into the body of the Crazy Baby.

"The defense is the same as the Red Ghost, but it is extremely agile, just like an Assassin lurking in the darkness, making it impossible to guard against!"

Shinobu Kocho quickly tore off her outer garment, ripped it into cloth strips, and wrapped them around the wound.

She pricked up her ears, listening carefully to the footsteps of the Crazy Baby.

Even if it is invisible, it has not hidden into another dimension; the smell of blood and the sound of footsteps cannot be ignored and are the keys to exposing its true form.

She took out a bottle of the lowest-grade Recovery Potion and drank it. After she finished, the wound at her collarbone slowly healed, barely stopping the blood from continuing to flow.

She is not a player, so she cannot use items with level requirements; this lowest-grade potion has a very poor recovery effect.

But it is enough for her to continue acting.

The resurrection condition for the 【Family Defense Battle】 is a full ten minutes, and it requires deducting the Clan Head's Reward Points.

Unless necessary, Shinobu Kocho does not have a suicide tactic.

Continuing forward,

on both sides were rough, tall walls, and rows of pure white floodlights lit up the night in Zhezhiming Gu, as if it were daytime.

A prototype cave caught Shinobu Kocho's attention, with two red warning lights,

indicating that this is a key area.

【You have entered the 【Feiye Chulichang】!】

Shinobu Kocho was full of vigilance, thinking to herself: "Oyakata-sama once said that once an area marked with game text appears, it means that the area has something quite special."

She stepped forward, trying her best to minimize the noise she made.

Thump, thump, thump. A very slight knocking sound on the wall,

Shinobu Kocho followed the source of the sound to a rusted circular steel cover plate and heard a faint cry for help coming from inside.

"Save me, I am an elite unit dispatched by the Black List headquarters to stop the spread of the biochemical weapons of the Global Risk, and I am trapped in the waste liquid pool!"

"Are you reinforcements? Hurry and save me!"

Shinobu Kocho frowned, not agreeing immediately; she always felt something was strange.

Until the other party finished speaking,

a line of game text popped up before her eyes: 【Do you want to rescue the trapped Black List member?】

Reward: Unknown.

Just as Shinobu Kocho was hesitating, a hearty laugh suddenly came from behind, saying: "What a lucky little girl, to actually be able to trigger a quest?"

Garp, wearing the Justice cloak, walked up to Shinobu Kocho in a carefree manner. Facing Shinobu Kocho's slightly guarded gaze, he explained: "Little one with a light body, you must practice some kind of technique that can enhance physical fitness? Even you didn't make a sound; if the person trapped inside were a human, how could they have discovered you?"

"Presumably, it is already a monster infected by the Shengmingbingdu."

Garp leaned close to the steel cover plate and reached out to touch the dial in the middle that looked like a valve switch, but there was no prompt at all.

"Sure enough, the quest can only be accepted once."

Garp rubbed the stubble on his chin, looked at Shinobu Kocho, and said: "Little girl, team up with this old man. We can share experience and Reward Points. How about I take you to hunt Biochemical Ghosts together?"

In this situation, if it were some cold-blooded players, they would directly kill Shinobu Kocho, who had already triggered the quest, to refresh the quest.

But that goes against Garp's justice; even if Shinobu Kocho would not die, he would not engage in the act of snatching other people's resources.

"Old gentleman, can I trust you?"

Shinobu Kocho maintained a gentle smile on her face, not quite believing that an otherworldly player could be this friendly.

Garp turned to the side, pointed his finger back at the word "Justice" on his Navy cloak, and laughed loudly: "That goes without saying. The Navy will always protect civilians. Even civilians from another world will be protected by the Navy. This old man came here for exactly that!"

He is still a Vice Admiral now; even though he has the strongest combat power in the Navy, equal to Smoker, he is unwilling to be promoted to Admiral, just to facilitate acting freely.

Shinobu Kocho nodded and said: "Okay, then let's team up, old gentleman!"

Previously, she had witnessed the brief battle between Garp and Whitebeard with her own eyes. Although Garp was eventually knocked away, the strength he displayed was completely enough to sweep across the Demon Slayer Continent.

If he really wanted to have ulterior motives, he wouldn't need to do this at all.

Team formed successfully.

Shinobu Kocho held her breath and turned the dial on the steel cover plate.

After several turns, Bang! A huge, heavy force came from behind the steel cover plate, directly leaving a raised dent on the flat steel cover plate.

Shinobu Kocho hurriedly retreated,

followed by two more muffled thuds,

the steel cover plate, which was two meters tall, was directly deformed by the giant force from the inside and flew out.

Gray-green waste liquid mixed with a foul stench flowed out rapidly. Shinobu Kocho's toe tip was stained with a little, and it was immediately corroded, emitting green thick smoke with a pungent odor.

Looking up,

the waste liquid pool space inside the steel cover plate was larger and emptier than she had imagined.

It was like a huge mountain that had been hollowed out, with the interior made into a container tank for storing waste liquid.

A huge green figure nearly ten meters tall stood in the center of the waste liquid, the waste liquid submerging up to the calves of the giant figure. Its limbs, thick to the extreme, were covered with muscle masses that had swollen into deformities. Its fists were full of crater-like depressions, emitting the unique halo of the Shengmingbingdu. On its back was a pair of huge cannons molded from what looked like flesh and blood messily stirred together, capable of firing high-power virus giant cannons from within.

【Titan Lv. 19 (Lord)】: 7000/7000 HP.

Note: A Black List member who was abandoned by his partners after being infected by the virus. Because he feared death and did not commit suicide by swallowing a bullet, he mutated into a special biochemical body 【Crazy Titan】 inside the waste liquid pool!

A trace of panic flashed in Shinobu Kocho's eyes. She did not expect that this monster locked up inside would actually be a Lord Monster capable of rivaling the Magic Winged Dragon.

In the Family Defense Battle, the Demon Slayer Corps was already lacking in combat power; could it be that because of his own wrong choice, the Demon Slayer Corps' Family Defense Battle would end in failure?

"Don't worry, little girl!"

Seeing the monster, Garp felt not the slightest fear, but instead laughed loudly and said, "You bastard Whitebeard, I don't believe that after killing a Lord Monster, I could still lose the bet!"

Even with his combat power restricted, Garp's Iron Fist still landed heavily on the Mad Titan,

making the biochemical armor on the monster's body clang loudly.

The core of Garp's game ability is 【Brawler】, and within the core are ten full imprints, each representing a max-level minor skill.

Every time he throws a punch,

he is no longer restricted by skills, but rather swings freely, able to directly imbue his attacks with skill effects.

Bang.

The Mad Titan finally let out a weak roar and was thrown heavily into the waste liquid pool; its massive body was submerged, with only the flesh-and-blood cannon barrel on its back still floating on the waste liquid.

Among the drops was a pure black Pollution Crystal, which could be used as hard currency in the Game Town to exchange for the set he had been coveting.

A large amount of Reward Points and experience were split equally between Garp and Shinobu Kocho.

Before Garp could speak, Shinobu Kocho had already said, "I didn't help at all, so please don't be polite, old gentleman; just take that Pollution Crystal."

In fact,

according to the contribution in triggering the mission, Shinobu Kocho had the right to compete for the loot, but she saw that the old Navy gentleman seemed to really want that Pollution Crystal yet was too embarrassed to ask, so she took the initiative to offer it.

If it weren't for the old Navy gentleman, she would have had no chance of defeating the Mad Titan, let alone receiving so many Reward Points and experience.

"Since that's the case, this old man won't be polite!"

Garp's old face flushed slightly; he truly needed the Pollution Crystal, as it took fifty of them to exchange for one piece of equipment, and the complete 【Magic Ocean】 set required two hundred and fifty.

Every single Pollution Crystal was extremely precious.

"Little girl, could you tell this old man about what has been happening in this world?"

Shinobu Kocho had intended to disconnect the party mode with Garp,

after all, the other party's strength was very high, and she was purely just splitting his experience and Reward Points.

However, she was stopped by Garp; he did not mind, and simply asked Shinobu Kocho out of curiosity about news regarding the Demon Slayer Continent.

As Luffy's grandfather, he did not have the intuition of the Child of Prophecy that was like Listen to the Breath of All Things,

but his seemingly thick-skinned mentality also possessed extremely keen observation skills, and his Observation Haki could sense the state of the Demon Slayer Corps members shrouded across the Demon Slayer World.

(End of chapter)