Alvin looked around. The island was not very large, with sparse forest vegetation and a few small fields where sweet potatoes were planted.
It was a very poor village.
Alvin could also feel that his sudden arrival had startled the village like a frightened flock of cranes.
However, he did not think much about it. He simply found a flat area at the edge of the forest, set up his tent, and rested.
Tomorrow he still had to cross the Red Line.
Inside the village, after noticing that the nearly three meter tall man had no intention of looting their homes, the villagers finally breathed a small sigh of relief.
"Grandpa… isn't that man the one from today's newspaper?" a little boy suddenly said, a trace of admiration appearing in his innocent eyes.
"It… it really does seem to be!" The man beside him also recognized Alvin's identity.
"Stop talking nonsense! And do not provoke him. We will pretend we do not know anything and hope he does not do anything to our village. Do you all understand?" The little boy's grandfather, a white bearded old man, warned them sternly.
After speaking, he glared fiercely at his grandson.
The newspaper said that this man called Red Hawk possessed a strange cursed blade.
And it was said that this man could kill people for three days straight without blinking. It was truly terrifying.
"We understand, Village Chief!"
"Yes! Village Chief!"
…
All the villagers grew tense, clearly remembering the newspaper reports about Red Hawk Alvin.
The two sides spent the night peacefully.
When the sky slowly brightened with the first light of dawn, the villagers were already awake. None of them had slept well that night, and in the morning everyone had dark circles under their eyes.
After all, with such a god of death staying on their island, it was difficult for anyone to sleep peacefully.
When the sun rose and its scorching rays spread across the sea, Alvin also stepped out of his tent.
After a simple wash by the river and a quick breakfast full of energy, Alvin immediately prepared to leave the Village.
"Hey!"
"Big Brother, is adventuring on the sea really exciting?" Just as Alvin was about to twist the throttle, the Village Chief's grandson finally could not hold back and shouted.
He looked at Alvin with excitement and anticipation in his eyes.
The Village Chief immediately covered his grandson's mouth, while the expressions of the other villagers instantly filled with fear.
Hearing the voice, Alvin turned his head and looked at the little boy with indifferent eyes.
"The outside sea is a world that devours people. We pirates love eating soft and tender children like you."
After speaking, he twisted the throttle.
The jet powered motorboat instantly shot forward across the sea and quickly left Sweet Potato Village behind.
However, the little boy suffered a miserable fate. He was caught and beaten by his mother, father, and grandfather.
Even though he cried loudly, the desire to go out to sea in his eyes only became stronger, and he still thought Red Hawk Alvin was incredibly impressive.
After leaving Village, Alvin continued heading toward the Red Line on his motorboat.
According to the original plot he had read and the information he had gathered in this world, crossing Reverse Mountain should not be a problem.
As he got closer to the Red Line, Alvin's heart grew more and more excited, and he felt a thrilling sense of anticipation he had never experienced before.
Around the time he had expected, near noon, Alvin finally saw a massive wall of cumulonimbus clouds ahead.
At the same time, his motorboat began to be pulled by powerful ocean currents.
"Finally... I am about to reach the Red Line." Alvin was extremely excited. His knuckles turned pale as he gripped the control handle of the motorboat, while the propeller churned the seawater into silvery white whirlpools against the current.
Because of the ocean currents, every ship that reached this area would be pulled forward.
However, they were not pulled toward the canal immediately. Instead, they were dragged toward the Red Line itself.
If the entrance to the canal could not be found before crashing into the Red Line, the only possible outcome would be smashing directly into the massive wall.
After entering the area beneath the cumulonimbus clouds, heavy rain began pouring down.
Alvin took out his goggles and put them on, controlling the motorboat with all his strength.
Under the influence of the towering storm clouds, the violent rain, the sea wind, and the powerful ocean currents, a layer of mist spread across the sea surface.
The dim lighting made it even harder to find the entrance to the canal.
"Where is it…" Alvin muttered quietly.
He tried his best to stabilize the motorboat while carefully sensing the strength of the ocean current.
The closer he moved toward the Red Line, the stronger the current near the canal entrance would become.
When he was less than a thousand meters away from the Red Line, Alvin finally saw a narrow crack through his goggles.
"Finally found it!"
Without hesitation he twisted the throttle.
The motorboat instantly accelerated to full speed and rushed toward the crack while being carried by the ocean current.
As he got closer, he could clearly see the canal hidden beneath the crack.
The entrance to Reverse Mountain.
"Grand Line, here I come!"
The moment he confirmed the canal entrance, Alvin adjusted the direction of the motorboat and rushed directly toward it.
As he approached the Red Line, the waves grew larger and more violent.
The motorboat rode the waves like a flying fish leaping through the storm.
Amid the howling sea wind, the sound of heavy rain, and the roaring waves, Alvin skillfully controlled the motorboat and narrowly shot into the canal.
The water flow inside the canal was unbelievably fast, carrying Alvin's motorboat upward toward the peak of Reverse Mountain at incredible speed.
"So long?!" Alvin shouted in shock as he looked toward the distant summit of the canal.
The canal seemed endless.
The Red Line was ten thousand meters high, yet this canal was clearly far longer than ten thousand meters.
It was countless times longer.
"Damn it!
I was completely fooled by the original story. I thought the Grand Line was incredibly wide.
But this canal slopes upward. The total distance of this canal is definitely longer than half the width of the Grand Line!
How did the Straw Hat crew reach the top in less than a minute?
That was completely misleading!" Alvin gritted his teeth as he cursed internally.
To reach the summit of Reverse Mountain, he had to travel a distance longer than half the width of the Grand Line along the canal.
At this point he could only focus entirely on controlling the motorboat and continue moving forward.
Fortunately, the canal's water current flowed extremely fast. Otherwise he had no idea how long it would take to reach the summit.
After an unknown amount of time, Alvin finally felt his hands becoming numb before he finally saw the point where the five canals converged at the peak.
"Finally… the summit!"
Alvin was extremely excited.
"Ro ha ha ha ha! We finally made it! Grand Line, our Funeral Pirate Crew has arrived!"
Just as Alvin felt his excitement rising, he suddenly heard another group of pirates shouting loudly.
It was a pirate crew from another sea.
Just as Alvin's motorboat was about to shoot onto the summit of Reverse Mountain, a pirate ship from another canal also burst upward into the air.
The two vessels were on a direct collision course.
On the pirate ship, more than a dozen pirates finally noticed Alvin's motorboat.
The moment they saw it, their expressions turned pale with terror.
"Better you die than me. Sorry about that…"
At some point, a sniper rifle had already appeared in Alvin's hands.
In an instant, a bullet wrapped in Haki shot forward with a piercing whistle and drilled directly into the opposing pirate ship.
"Boom!!!"
A violent explosion erupted.
The pirate ship was instantly blown apart into countless fragments.
Reverse Mountain received its first baptism of explosive flames.
The screams of pirates echoed within the burning wreckage.
Alvin's motorboat shot straight through the flames and accurately dropped into the canal that descended toward the Grand Line.
[Ding~]
[Bounty points + 66 million!]
Hiss!
He had not even properly entered the Grand Line yet and already received such a reward.
A perfect start.
A very good omen.
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