"Bastard…"
Crocodile was almost so pissed he was coughing up blood.
The Seven Warlords of the Sea member forced himself upright, swinging his golden poison hook to resist, but his opponent, Uchiha Madara, just kicked him straight back to the ground!
"Be a little more obedient, will you!"
Uchiha Madara stepped on Crocodile's body, lowered his head to look down at that face with the horizontal scar, and the corner of his mouth curled into a smile: "Your power is more than this, but you've already forgotten how to fight, huh…"
Uchiha Madara was a battle maniac.
This man who had gone through countless battles saw Crocodile's problem at a single glance. Maybe Crocodile had bullied weak pirates for too long, almost never having the chance to clash with truly strong pirates, so when he fought he subconsciously still assumed his opponents were weaklings.
"…"
Crocodile's gaze grew gloomy. His body of yellow sand was dehydrating at high speed as he tried to make himself able to use the power of the Sand-Sand Fruit again!
However…
The Konoha Pirates did things with a strict procedure.
Uchiha Madara didn't seem to care much about Crocodile's attempt to resist again, and actually lifted his foot and let him go: "This guy's strength isn't much. I'll leave him to you."
"…"
Among the Konoha Pirates, two figures quickly dropped down beside Crocodile, and the two of them directly pinned his body to the ground!
The two figures took out a Scroll. That Scroll seemed capable of storing items; they pulled out a syringe and several glass vials from it.
The sight made Crocodile's heart turn cold!
"What are you trying to do!"
Crocodile glared furiously as he watched them jab the syringe into his body, actually trying to extract bottle after bottle of fresh blood from him!
These bastards…
They were actually drawing his blood!
Mr. 1 Daz Bonez had already been through all of this long ago. Watching this scene, he couldn't help trembling, because he knew those two people drawing blood were both scientific experiment freaks…
"Hmph, you're collecting even this boring kind of power?"
Uchiha Madara let out a cold snort, looking disdainfully at Senju Tobirama and Orochimaru, the two scientists extracting Crocodile's blood. He didn't think much of their attempt to study Natural Type abilities through experimentation.
"Don't be too harsh on Crocodile…"
Red Sand Sasori seemed to notice Orochimaru and Senju Tobirama were drawing too much blood, and spoke softly: "After all, Crocodile being able to open this Golden Underground Palace and discover the secrets hidden here counts as a contribution to our future plan to overthrow the Heavenly Celestial Dragons…"
After saying that, Red Sand Sasori walked step by step toward the golden stone monument, apparently wanting to see the secrets hidden in this world. Uchiha Madara and Senju Hashirama also stood beside him.
It had to be said.
This stele was quite interesting.
At least the part on the stele about the cyclical evolution and degeneration among Sky People, people of the land, and Fishmen was quite intriguing.
But…
Right there on the stele they saw a familiar name.
"The Goddess of Rabbit descended…"
Uchiha Madara and Senju Hashirama frowned at the same time.
In that instant, both of them seemed to recall some unpleasant memories. They both knew that starting from this line, everything that followed would definitely be nonsense.
Even so…
This stele really had a lot of reading value…
Uchiha Madara even felt that the history recorded on it kind of sounded real.
As soon as that thought popped into his mind, the corner of Madara's eye twitched, and he immediately chased it out of his head!
No…
Don't think about it…
And definitely don't keep thinking about it…
No matter how authentic this history looks… it's guaranteed to be fake…
The only thing that could be real on this stele was the names; everything else was bound to be made up nonsense by that guy Akihara Kagura. That guy Akihara Kagura had always been good at forging history…
Just look…
The people of this world were all fooled.
Red Sand Sasori and Uchiha Madara looked at Nico Robin, who was lying in front of the golden stone monument with her psyche on the verge of collapse. They had been hiding off to the side all along. Apparently this woman was some kind of Archaeologist who studied ancient times?
Akihara Kagura…
Really left no bad deed undone…
He actually used fake history to fool a real archaeologist.
"If you don't know whether what's written up there is true or false…"
Red Sand Sasori squatted down, looking at the shaken and lost Nico Robin: "Why don't you just go to the endpoint recorded up there… Laugh Tale, and see for yourself?"
When Red Sand Sasori mentioned the name "Laugh Tale," he seemed to deliberately stress it, making Nico Robin's face suddenly change as she heard it!
"I remember now!"
A glint flashed in Nico Robin's pupils. It was as if something had occurred to her, and she hurried to expose all of this!
Right!
There was a flaw here!
The Final Island didn't have a name at the beginning!
The Final Island of the Grand Line had never been reached by anyone. Pirate King Gol D. Roger reached that island and named it Laugh Tale. That island's name had never appeared in historical documents; it had only gradually come to be known to the world in the past twenty years!
However…
Nico Robin still couldn't help hesitating…
Because that island's name might very well have been erased by the World Government over the course of eight hundred years, and it might have been Gol D. Roger who brought that island's name back into the world…