Chapter 495

Pretending to be a centaur.

"Alright! Luffy, come over and eat this roasted lizard; although my cooking skills aren't as good as Sanji's, they're not bad either." Robin said.

"Thanks, Robin!" Luffy walked over, picked up the plate filled with various skewers, and sat down.

Zoro picked up his fork and stabbed a piece of meat, stuffing it into his mouth.

"Hmm~ so hot! This lizard meat is really delicious! Let's take some back for Nami and the others to taste."

A few minutes later, Luffy had already finished gnawing on a lizard leg.

Seeing Luffy's appearance, Robin couldn't help but laugh, her mood greatly improved.

After eating and drinking his fill, Luffy continued to walk toward the center of the town.

The further they walked toward the center of the town, the temperature actually began to drop, and there wasn't that extremely hot feeling like at the edge of the town.

Some time passed.

Luffy and the four of them saw a scene that was very shocking.

The other half of this Punk Hazard was actually a world of ice and snow; the contrast between these two extreme climates was truly jaw-dropping!

"Phew! I've never seen a scene like this before; it's really cold!" Luffy said, rubbing his arms.

"Indeed! This place is too weird!" Zoro exclaimed.

"Hehe! This town is really very interesting; I wonder what kind of fun things will be on the other side?"

Luffy had stars in his eyes, seemingly very much looking forward to the scene on the other side.

"No way, are you guys going over there? If we don't wear cotton clothes, we'll freeze to death in that temperature!" Seeing that they weren't afraid of death, Usopp immediately tried to dissuade them.

"Going back to get them would be too troublesome; we should be fine with Qi protecting our bodies!" Robin smiled.

"That's true."

"Then let's set off!"

Luffy and the three of them walked together toward the other half of Punk Hazard.

As for Usopp, he stayed where he was, starting to hesitate whether to go back to the Sunny war-chariot or follow Luffy and keep walking.

At this moment, he suddenly sensed a powerful fluctuation of Qi behind him.

"Oh no!" Usopp turned around abruptly, only to see a pair of snow-white wings appearing before his eyes.

Then, the wings opened, and a woman gave him a terrifying smile.

Usopp was instantly in a crisis.

"Big trouble!"

Usopp immediately ran toward Luffy, hoping that Luffy could save him.

"Hmm? What's wrong, Usopp?" Luffy asked in confusion.

"Bird!!! Man!!! Birdman! There's a birdman behind us! Luffy! Hurry and help me!" Usopp shouted and then arrived behind Luffy.

"Birdman?!"

Luffy and Robin heard what Usopp said and immediately turned their heads back.

But they didn't find anything.

"Usopp, you must be confused from the heat! Why don't you come to the other side with us to cool off!" Zoro said with a grin.

"No, it was real just now; there was a birdman with a pair of snow-white wings!" Usopp said excitedly.

Unfortunately, Zoro didn't see the birdman's shadow either.

"Alright, Usopp, let's leave this place first; if we stay any longer, we'll all be hot to death!"

Luffy pulled Usopp and began to walk toward the other side of Punk Hazard.

The other side of Punk Hazard was surrounded by ice mountains; the fusion of ice and fire made the entire Punk Hazard incredibly mysterious and unfathomable.

In a workshop within the ice mountains, many humans were busy at work.

Bottles of liquid emitting thick smoke were placed in the corner of the workshop.

"Finally finished!" A human figure composed of smoke began to laugh.

"Master, we have already arrested all the intruders!" A man in black ran over and said to this person.

"Oh? What is their background?"

"According to our investigation, these guys are all martial artists!" The man in black said respectfully.

"Oh? That's really great; the number of subjects available for my experiments has been getting fewer and fewer lately."

After saying this, the person turned around, intending to go and see those captured martial artists.

【It appeared! It appeared! It seems this strange guy is the villain of this chapter!】

【A bit curious about what his ability is; judging from his current performance, he actually has the same ability as Smoker.】

【How could it be the same? Smoker isn't dead yet; according to the previous setting, people with the same ability do not exist in this world.】

Soon, that human-shaped object composed of smoke arrived inside the prison cell where Nami and the others were being held.

The human-shaped smoke asked the man in black: "Are there only two people? And a cyborg? A pet? What kind of combination are these martial artists!"

The human-shaped smoke thought for a long time but couldn't figure out how these martial artists ended up together.

"Reporting to Master! There is also a skeleton; it looks like it was their accomplice before, and it should have been killed by them too, after all, martial artists killing each other is very common!"

The man in black explained it this way.

"Hmph! Since that's the case, just keep them locked up well; they absolutely must not be allowed to run away!" The human-shaped smoke gave an instruction and then began to work again.

On the Sunny war-chariot.

Brook, who had been in a coma, slowly woke up.

"Eh? What happened just now? I remember I seemed to have fallen asleep?"

Brook touched his head and said.

"So cold! It was clearly hot as hell just a moment ago." After complaining, Brook began to ponder.

"Right!" Brook suddenly stood up.

Brook standing up like that actually scared the men in black on the Sunny war-chariot quite a bit.

"Ahhh! The skeleton stood up!"

"Is this a corpse coming back to life?"

"No! What does this skeleton want to do!"

……

The few people on the Sunny war-chariot were all made nervous by Brook's commotion and pulled out their weapons, pointing them at Brook.

"I say, you guys wait a minute, is there some kind of misunderstanding here!!"

Brook scratched his head awkwardly and explained.

"Hmph! Who would believe your words!"

"Only a ghost would believe it!"

"Don't talk nonsense! Attack directly!"

"Right! Attack! Attack!!"

"Hey! Don't mess around!"

Brook sensed the men in black around him were eager to move.

"Shoot arrows! Even a skeleton can be killed, right!"

Several people didn't hesitate to take out their bows and crossbows, aiming at Brook.

"Oh my, really, how did it end up like I'm the bad guy! I really am a skeleton!"

Brook said helplessly.

【Hahaha! This group of guys actually mistook Brook for a dead person!】

【It's hilarious, I didn't expect Brook's skeleton identity to actually help him avoid being locked up; it seems this is the key to rescuing Nami and the others!】

【Go for it! Brook, let us see your strength two years later!】

"Hey! Wait a minute! Are you really treating me as an enemy?"

Brook hurriedly tried to stop them, but it was already too late; the arrows had already been shot at Brook.

"Hmph! We don't care what you are; if you dare to come and disrupt the master's research, you have to die!"

"Kill him!"

"Attack! Attack! Attack!!"