Chapter 226 Twin Gorges and Baroque Workshop
The Golden Merry gradually approached the Upside-Down Mountain in the East China Sea. The sound of surging waves reached its ears, and the speed of the ship became faster and faster, rushing towards the high mountain waterway in front of it.

After a while, the ship entered the rising waterway, and the speed suddenly increased rapidly. The strong wind blew towards them, making it almost impossible to open their eyes.

"What a fast speed... Even if you're speeding on the highway, you probably can't go this fast!"

It is a terrifying thing that a ship can travel at such a speed. The buoyancy of the water surface will cause the entire hull to rise, floating on the water almost like a skipping stone, which makes it more difficult to control the direction.

Usopp was shouting that he was going to die, die, die, but the rudder in his hands was held steadily. This guy is also a god of war in desperate situations. The more critical the situation, the more powerful his performance is.

Of course, everyone in the Straw Hat Pirates has some characteristics of being able to go against the wind and ride the waves with it, but in Usopp, this characteristic is more obvious.

With Usopp at the helm and Nami in command, the Golden Merry safely reached the top of Upside Down Mountain.

But just after reaching the top and looking down, Usopp's face suddenly changed:
“Oh no, oh no, oh no, I’m going to die, I’m going to die, I’m going to die!! There’s a ship coming from the other side!!”

Before Uchiha Feiyu arrived on the deck, he saw a huge pirate ship colliding with the Golden Merry from the side and frowned slightly:

"Is this a pirate from the West Sea?? What bad luck..."

The Upside-Down Mountain and Sea Current connects the four seas, and ships from the four seas will converge here synchronously. Therefore, when riding against the waterfall, you may collide with pirate ships coming from other seas.

Of course, Upside Down Mountain is huge, and the Countercurrent Waterfall is very long, so the possibility of them colliding with each other just by bad luck is actually not that high - but it is obvious that the Golden Merry was not very lucky this time.

This is because Upside-Down Mountain is the gateway to the Grand Line, and there are many ships traveling back and forth. Otherwise, it may be that for a year or two, no ship would collide with each other.

But that's how luck works. Of the ten ships heading from the Upside-Down Mountain to the Grand Line, seven or eight out of ten will be directly smashed into the stone walls of the Upside-Down Mountain. Among the remaining two or three percent, about 1/100 of the ships will collide with ships in other seas. Obviously, Uchiha Feiyu and others have this 1/100 unlucky chance.

At this moment, the pirate group on the opposite side was also screaming, but unfortunately, under the impact of the sea water, the ship had no power to resist and rushed directly towards the Golden Merry.

Uchiha Feiyu was not in a hurry and spoke calmly:
"Long Nose, just steer the ship. Leave the rest to me!"

As soon as he finished speaking, the Sandai Kitetsu on Uchiha Feiyu's waist was instantly unsheathed, drawing a bloody arc, and rushing towards the opposite ship against the wind and waves.

A crack suddenly appeared on the sea, and the pirate ship that was originally rushing over was immediately split in half by the sword light, and with a loud bang, it was completely shattered by the impact of the ocean current.

The pirates in the pirate ship turned into fireworks in the sky in an instant and scattered all over the ground. Some of them directly crashed into the Upside-down Mountain and turned into a cloud of blood mist, while others fell into the reverse waterfall and disappeared without a trace after only showing their heads.

"Damn you...die!"

Following an angry shout, a bald Mediterranean pirate flew out from the pirate ship. His hands turned into wings in mid-air and he flew directly over.

"This guy... is the captain of the West Sea Vulture Pirates, with a bounty of 2900 million berries... His name is..."

Usopp was still shouting when a knife flashed. The captain of the Vulture Pirates screamed and fell from the sky. Uchiha Feiyu flashed by and appeared behind the captain. Then he held the captain's neck with one hand and stepped on the air to return to the deck of the ship:

"Watch out, Long Nose! Don't hit the mountain wall!"

“Ah!? Ohhh…”

Usopp, who was stunned, finally came to his senses and quickly agreed with a few words. Occasionally he looked up at Uchiha Feiyu with a look of fear on his face.

For the timid Usopp, the power of Uchiha Feiyu's sword to split a large pirate ship was enough to intimidate this guy.

(Luffy, Zoro, Sanji, when will you come to save me!!)

After capturing the vulture birdman, Uchiha Feiyu directly stuffed him into a wooden barrel filled with sea water. This is also the common practice of some pirate groups without seastone for captured Devil Fruit users.

This is the first Devil Fruit user captured by Uchiha Feiyu, so naturally he has to study the power of the Devil Fruit carefully.

Even if he himself does not need the flawed power of the Devil Fruit, it is still very useful for training his subordinates.

After almost colliding with ships from other seas, the rest of the journey was smooth sailing. The ship rushed down along the current of the Upside-Down Mountain and entered the Grand Line without encountering the whale Labu to block its way.

In fact, the appearance of Whale Lab is an event with a lower probability than the collision of ships from the four seas. You must know that the pirates coming from the four seas are not all weak ones, there are also some strong ones among them.

If Lab often appeared at the foot of Upside-Down Mountain, he would have been hacked to death by some powerful pirates from all over the world!
For example, Red Hair once lingered in the East China Sea for a while. When he was passing through the Upside-down Mountain on his way back, if he suddenly encountered this giant whale blocking his way, he would probably chop it into two pieces on the spot!
Except for this strong man who takes the Grand Route again

The other seas are not the weakest seas like the East China Sea. There is no shortage of powerful pirates who have comprehended Haki or possess powerful devil fruit abilities. Although Lab is big in size, his combat power is actually mediocre. If he really appeared frequently to block the waterway, accidents would have happened long ago.

Uchiha Feiyu didn't care much about not encountering the big whale. It could only be said that the big whale was lucky, not his luck, because he was the kind of strong man who could cause an accident to the big whale.

"Finally... we have arrived at the Grand Line!!"

“Wuhu!! This place is great, okay?!! It’s amazing!”

Looking at Nami and Usopp who were full of joy, Uchiha Feiyu waved his hand:
"Don't be so happy for now. The climate of the Grand Line is not easy to adapt to, and we still need to get the record pointer."

The recording pointer is an essential item for traveling between islands after entering the Grand Line. The recording pointer can record the magnetism between the islands of the Grand Line and point directly to the direction of the island.

This thing is a must-have item for sailing on the Grand Line. In fact, when in Rogue Town, Nami also bought some because of Uchiha Feiyu's suggestion, but those were all blank record pointers.

Uchiha Feiyu estimated that there should be memory pointers filled with magnetism in Rogue Town, but they would not be sold openly. Although Smoker implemented the policy of arresting the big pirates and letting the small ones go, he was very strict in the contraband such as memory pointers. In fact, it was because Uchiha Feiyu and others left too early. Otherwise, it would not be difficult to get a memory pointer filled with magnetism from Rogue Town or the navy.

As for now, Uchiha Feiyu turned his gaze towards the lighthouse under the Upside-down Mountain.

"Let's go to the lighthouse and have a look. The keeper there might have a magnetic recording pointer."

Although Uchiha Fei also knew that the tower keeper was the Pirate King's ship doctor and was not easy to deal with, he was just buying a recording pointer, not going to kill anyone directly, so of course he had no scruples.

"Waiting at the beginning of the Grand Line to sell record pointers... this is a good business!"

Nami blinked her eyes. When it came to business, this little thief who cared so much about Berry was always very sensitive.

Uchiha Feiyu was not sure whether Krocus, who was lurking in the Twin Gorge, was doing the recording pointer business, but considering that he easily gave the recording pointer to the Straw Hat Pirates at the beginning, it seemed very likely that he was doing this kind of business.

Otherwise, if he only has one recording pointer and he gives this pointer to the Straw Hat Pirates, what will he use instead?
Soon the Golden Merry arrived at the Twin Gorges. Uchiha Feiyu jumped directly off the boat, but did not see the ship's doctor who was dressed in trendy clothes.

"He's not here? Maybe he's on the Rab submarine... or maybe he's gone hunting in the sea?"

After searching around, Uchiha Feiyu had to confirm one thing, that is, the lighthouse keeper of Twin Gorge was not here now.

"It looks like we have to wait for a while... I don't know when the old man will come back. Without the record pointer, it will be very troublesome in the Grand Line."

"Fei Yu, there's a ship coming over here!"

At this moment, Nami, who was standing on the bow, shouted loudly. Uchiha Feiyu was slightly stunned, turned his head, and swept his observation Haki, and sure enough, he saw a small boat in the distance.

"A ship from the Grand Line... That's strange. What are ships from the Grand Line doing here?"

One can only enter Upside Down Mountain but not exit. It is not completely impossible to leave the Grand Line, but it is absolutely impossible to walk through Upside Down Mountain. Therefore, generally speaking, only pirates from other four seas who have come down from Upside Down Mountain have come to Upside Down Mountain, but no ships from the Grand Line have ever been seen.

"Could it be a supply ship delivering supplies to this lighthouse keeper?"

Uchiha Feiyu's eyes rolled and he had a guess. If Krocas wanted to live in the Twin Gorge, he certainly couldn't rely on fishing for food. He also needed to communicate with the outside world. There should be ships coming here to deliver supplies to him at fixed times.

But soon, Uchiha Feiyu realized that he had made a wrong guess, because he had already seen the two energetic young men and women on the bow of the ship.

A man holding two baseball bats in his hands, wearing a crown on his head and wearing a strange green suit, walked around on the deck, doing somersaults from time to time.

Another girl with blue hair, dressed like a spirited little girl, with clothes having strange patterns on them, was looking here through a telescope.

"So they are from Barlot Studio, and they are Princess Vivi and her partner. I remember they came here to hunt the whale Laboo and obtain Laboo's meat as food for the bounty hunters on Whiskey Island..."

To be honest, Uchiha Feiyu didn't know how to describe this behavior. Although the island whale has a relatively gentle personality, it is also the lowest in combat power among sea beasts of the same size.

But that also refers to a sea beast of the same size! With Princess Vivi's two moves, plus a useless Barlotte Studio agent, facing Rab, would they really not be killed by a sneeze?
Anyway, Uchiha Feiyu had no idea why these two people were so bold as to come here and cause trouble for Lab.

The small sailboat was moving very fast and soon arrived at the dock of Twin Gorge. Princess Vivi's partner, Mr. 9, was the first to get off the boat. He walked up to Uchiha Feiyu with two metal baseball bats in his hands.

He first glanced at Uchiha Feiyu, then rummaged through his bag for a while, and finally frowned:

"Huh? You're not a pirate!"

"So you're looking for a bounty order. I'm sorry, but I'm not a pirate. My specific occupation is probably an adventurer and a bounty hunter."

Uchiha Feiyu said it lightly, but unexpectedly, Mr. 9's face became even uglier after hearing this:

"Bounty hunter? Isn't that the same business as mine? Really, he actually went from the Four Seas to the Grand Line. Is the bounty hunting business so competitive now?"

"Hey, kid, which sea area did you come from?"

"Um...we are from the East China Sea!"

The one who spoke was not Uchiha Feiyu, but Usopp who had just run down from the ship. Upon hearing this, Mr. 9 raised his head and snorted:
"The East China Sea, is it the weakest sea? I heard that there is a pirate hunter named Zoro there who once refused our Baroque Studio's recruitment. Could it be you?"

"Zoro? Has his name spread to the Grand Line? What kind of force is Baroque Studio?"

Usopp murmured, only now realizing that his former companion was so awesome! Why didn't he realize it... Well, actually, he had known for a long time that Zoro was awesome. After all, not just any swordsman could be praised by Hawkeye, the world's greatest swordsman.

"Hmm!? Are you really the pirate hunter Zoro? Isn't your hair green? Could it be that you are afraid of the power of our Baroque Studio, so you dyed it black!"

Mr.9 obviously misunderstood Usopp's words. He somersaulted a few times and posed with two baseball bats, which made Uchiha Feiyu's mouth twitch.

"What's going on? What happened? Mr. 9?"

"Is a fight going to start? Feiyu, are the people on the other side pirates?"

Seeing that there seemed to be a conflict, Princess Vivi and Nami also ran over and looked at each other with a wary expression.

(End of this chapter)