Sanji slowly turned around, the dark energy on his left hand gradually dissipating, and the cigarette in his mouth glowed with a crimson point of light: "Hey, Pink Hair. You're interrupting our search for ingredients."
Before he finished speaking, his right leg suddenly ignited with a pitch-black flame, sweeping horizontally at a speed difficult for the naked eye to catch: "Diable Jambe: Dark Flame!"
"Bang!"
Foxy flew backward like a rag doll, breaking three large trees in a row before stopping.
Porche and the crew were so scared they huddled together: "Our Captain was taken out in one hit?!"
From the smoke and dust, Sanji slowly walked over, his body shrouded in strange dark energy.
He looked down at Foxy embedded in the tree trunk: "Now you know why we didn't want to play games with you, right?"
Foxy spat out foam and laboriously raised a trembling finger: "You're not afraid of my Devil Fruit ability, you... why do you have this kind of power..."
"This?"
Sanji casually flexed his wrist, "I got it after eating someone last time..." He then suddenly revealed a demonic smile, "Want to try it out?"
"N-no thanks!"
Foxy shuddered and broke free from the tree trunk, prostrating himself on the ground: "Big Brother, you said you were looking for ingredients, right? Our whole crew will help you find them! Porche! Go quickly and get our treasured 'Rainbow Unicorn Meat' out!"
Sanji nodded in satisfaction: "It would have been better if you were this sensible earlier."
He turned to Luffy and Usopp, who were staring blankly, and shouted: "Hey! These guys are going to help us find ingredients, just tell them whatever you want to eat!"
Luffy's eyes immediately lit up: "Meat! I want super—a lot of meat!"
Usopp was stunned for a moment: "T-this is okay too?"
Thus, the originally tense situation suddenly turned into a lively "Ingredient Collection Convention," with the Foxy Pirates members running around in the forest with miserable faces:
"Quick! Pick that glowing mushroom!"
"Go catch the biggest lobster in the sea!"
"The fruit on that tree looks good, hurry and pick it!"
Porche wiped away tears while directing: "We clearly came to snatch crew members... how did it turn out like this..."
In the face of absolute strength, any trick became a joke, and the ambition of the Foxy Pirates thus turned into helping the Straw Hats find ingredients.
...
In the center of the island,
Nami held the treasure map generated by the system, fine beads of sweat seeping from her forehead.
She repeatedly compared the markings on the map with the location in front of her, and suddenly her eyes lit up: "This is it! Big Brother Ron, the treasure is right beneath here!"
Ron also nodded: "Then let's just start digging, to avoid any complications."
"Alright!"
Subsequently, the map in Nami's hand gradually transformed into specks of golden light, finally coalescing into a magnificently styled golden shovel, shimmering with a golden luster in the sunlight.
"I wonder what we'll dig up this time....." Ron stroked his chin, a hint of anticipation flashing in his eyes.
Nami took a deep breath, gripped the golden shovel with both hands, and forcefully inserted it into the crack in the stone slab.
The moment the tip of the shovel touched the ground, the entire island suddenly began to tremble violently!
"Woo-wah!"
Nami shrieked, almost falling.
Ron steadily held her shoulder, his gaze fixed on the ground, only to see countless golden cracks spreading like a spiderweb from the shovel's center.
"Rumble—"
Amidst a deafening roar, the ground suddenly collapsed into a giant pit ten meters in diameter,
Blinding golden light shot up into the sky like a volcanic eruption, dyeing the entire sky gold.
Birds in the distant forest took flight in a flurry, and even the Foxy crew, who were preparing ingredients, were startled by the commotion and fell into a heap.
"W-what happened?!" Usopp shouted, hugging a tree trunk.
The golden light lasted for a full ten seconds before gradually dissipating.
Nami tremblingly opened her eyes, only to see several yellowed, ancient paper pages floating in the center of the pit, with clear tearing marks on their edges.
"This is...?"
She cautiously reached out, and the pages, as if alive, gently fell into her palm.
Ron leaned in to examine them and found that each page was densely covered with text and accompanied by precise nautical charts, with "Pages 1-4" marked at the top.
"Only the first four pages..." Nami flipped through them disappointedly, "The rest of the content is missing."
Nami carefully examined the yellowed blueprints in her hand, her brows slightly furrowed: "These blueprints look like design plans for some kind of large machinery, but they're too incomplete..."
She handed the blueprints to Ron, "Look at this structure, does it look like some kind of power system?"
Ron took the blueprints, his gaze falling on the first page, where the parchment showed the outline of a uniquely shaped giant battleship, with dozens of cannon muzzles arranged on both sides of the hull, and a massive energy core device in the center.
The edges of the blueprints were marked with obscure ancient texts and complex calculation formulas.
"This design?..." Ron's pupils constricted slightly, and then an outrageous idea appeared in his mind: Could these blueprints be fragments of the Ancient Weapon Pluton's designs?
He immediately pulled out his Den Den Mushi from his pocket and quickly dialed Robin's number.
"Buruburu... Buruburu..."
The Den Den Mushi quickly connected, simulating Robin's elegant face: "Captain Ron? Is something wrong?"
"Robin, I need you to come to the center of the island immediately." Ron's voice was uncharacteristically urgent, "We might have discovered something incredible."
Nami leaned into the microphone and added: "It's several ancient battleship blueprints! They have writing on them that we can't understand!"
Robin on the other end of the Den Den Mushi clearly paused, her voice suddenly becoming serious: "Please describe the characteristics of the blueprints."
"The first page is a giant battleship, with an unprecedented hull structure and a device similar to an energy core in the center." Ron quickly said, "I suspect it's the ancient weapon Pluton. You know information about Pluton, so you can come and confirm it."
The Robin simulated by the Den Den Mushi's face suddenly became extremely solemn: "Do not move those blueprints. I'll be right there."
The call suddenly cut off, showing the urgency of her actions.
In less than twenty minutes, Robin's figure appeared at the edge of the forest.
She was uncharacteristically jogging, with fine beads of sweat on her forehead.
Chopper followed behind her, panting and holding several ancient books.
"Where are the blueprints?"
Robin's usual composure was gone, and her voice held suppressed excitement.
Nami handed over the yellowed pages, and Robin's hands trembled slightly as she took the blueprints.
When she saw the content, her purple pupils suddenly constricted.
"This writing, it's ancient text?" Her voice was so soft it was almost inaudible, "Something's not right; it's different from the Pluton described in the Poneglyphs."
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