Chapter 499

After listening, Nami felt even more weird.

"Hey! Have you guys seen a little kid named Momonosuke?"

The head in Sanji's arms asked in a panic; ever since entering this children's room, this head had been continuously looking for that child named Momonosuke.

"Ah ah ah ah! The head is talking!"

After seeing this scene, the surrounding children retreated a few steps and let out screams.

"Don't be noisy, don't be noisy."

Sanji comforted the children and then placed the head on the ground.

Nami complained even more to that head: "You guy talk too fiercely! What if you scare the children away!"

"I want to find Momonosuke, have you kids seen a kid named Momonosuke?"

The head asked urgently.

However, not a single child answered.

"What a pain." Nami muttered.

"They are here! Hurry and chase them! Must capture all these escaped experimental subjects!"

Outside the children's room, a group of men in black rushed in.

And they were holding all kinds of weapons, clearly coming with ill intent.

"Oh no! Surrounded."

"Run quickly!"

Nami and the four of them quickly retreated, but that group of men in black wouldn't let them leave easily.

"Quickly stop them!"

The men in black raised the crossbows in their hands and were about to shoot at the backs of Nami and the four of them, but were stopped by someone on the side.

"Are you crazy? Did you forget the master's order? You're firing crossbow bolts in the children's room; what if you hurt these children?!"

The leading man in black reprimanded that person.

That person was stunned for a moment, and after thinking about it carefully, it really was like that, so he had no choice but to helplessly give up the idea of attacking.

【What's going on? It seems these men in black are quite kind? Afraid of accidentally hurting the children, they didn't even plan to fire crossbow bolts.】

【Yeah, things are getting more and more eerie, but the child that head is looking for is named Momonosuke; it seems they really are from Wano! Only people from Wano would have that name!】

【This group of people are kind my ass; it's obvious these children are experimental subjects captured by them, and they must be being used for some experiment again.】

【Tsk tsk, so disgusting...】

At this moment, Luffy and the four of them had already arrived at the boundary between ice and fire.

A river lay between this ice and fire, making them unable to advance or retreat.

"Hey, hey, hey! Luffy, you aren't really planning to cross this river just like that, are you?"

Usopp said worriedly.

If it were just ordinary river water, maybe Usopp would have jumped over it directly.

But this river was the intersection of ice and fire; looking at the temperature of this river water, it must be half scorching hot and half ice cold!

Even with Qi protecting the body, it might not be able to withstand it.

"Of course! Otherwise, how are we going to get across? If we take a detour, Nami and the others will be even more dangerous."

Luffy said as a matter of course.

"Are you an idiot? This river is clearly a death trap!"

Usopp cursed angrily.

"I know, but you also know we have no choice now, right?"

Luffy shrugged his shoulders and said.

"Alright! Alright! There's really no helping you, but since you're my captain! Next, watch the performance of Lord Usopp!"

Having said that, Usopp took out his slingshot and fired a seed called the Fan Grass and Banana Grass!

The seeds grew rapidly, and that banana grass actually grew into the shape of a banana boat!

"Wow! Usopp! You're really great!"

Luffy praised him, then leaped directly and sat on the bow of the boat.

"Eh, eh, eh! Luffy, wait a minute!"

At this moment, Usopp pulled off four Fan Grasses to use as oars and handed them to Zoro, Luffy, and Robin respectively.

"Set off!"

Luffy sat on the bow of the boat, waving his fists and laughing loudly.

Then a wind blew past, and the boat Luffy was riding sailed smoothly toward the distance.

"This works too?" Robin said in surprise.

Usopp answered Robin proudly: "That's right! In order to be able to overcome all difficulties in these two years, I went through hellish training! What does this little thing count for!"

"Hell, huh?" Robin whispered.

On the shore, that centaur who had just been thrown into the river by Luffy climbed up again.

He held a stone and threw it at the banana boat Luffy was on, but this time he couldn't even touch the stern of the boat.

Luffy stood on the bow of the boat and raised his middle finger at the centaur, despising his strength.

The centaur was extremely furious and used all his strength to smash the water surface.

Immediately, countless splashes and water bubbles were stirred up.

"Idiot! It's impossible for you to touch this boat!"

Luffy happily paddled the boat and continued forward.

"Damn, this is the only way!"

That centaur took out a horn and blew it.

"Woo woo woo..."

The melodious sound echoed on both sides of the river.

"Boss! The intruders are already about to run to the other side, please hurry up and take action."

The centaur shouted in one direction.

On the riverbank where Luffy and the others were about to land, many centaurs suddenly appeared, and behind them was an extremely tall shadow.

Zoro smiled slightly: "Is this their boss?"

"Wow! They have so many strange people there, I really want to make friends with them!" Luffy still said with his thick-headed personality.

The guy who wasn't called boss looked at the three swords on Zoro's body and asked them: "Are you the ones who looked at my subordinates, the samurai?"

"Not us! We received their plea for help and rushed over!"

Usopp really didn't want to cause extra trouble, so he explained.

The other party clearly didn't believe Usopp's words and cursed at Usopp.

"You lying guy! It's obvious you guys are the ones who cut down my companions; look, the guy next to you is wearing a sword!"

【No way! Is Usopp's ability to lie so strong now?】

【No one believes the truth, I'm afraid it's become the basic cultivation of a liar?】

【Why do I feel Usopp is a bit pitiful?】

【I think so too...】

"Hey, hey, hey! You guys really misunderstood, we didn't kill your companions. As for the guy next to me holding a sword, he's just a simple-minded, physically developed, and intellectually challenged idiot."

Usopp sighed and explained.

"Hmph! You think I'll believe that?!"

The other party didn't listen at all and still thought Zoro was the murderer who killed their companions.

Zoro looked at Usopp in a daze: "Why are you talking about me? Don't slander my innocence, okay."

"I'm telling the truth! But we really did come here because of their plea for help!"

Usopp was speechless, but still explained patiently.

Being a good person in this world is really too difficult.

"Since you are so obsessed, then go down and accompany our companions!"

The other party didn't say anything else and directly picked up a huge stone and aimed it at the boat carrying Luffy and the four of them.