One Piece: At the start, defeat Momonosuke and take Yamato to sea.

Chapter 268 Brook Joins

After Brooke boarded the Thriller Bark, he experienced a violent earthquake on the island, which horrified him.

"What kind of monster is this, that it possesses such terrifying combat power?"

Brook couldn't even beat a zombie Ryuma, let alone Gecko Moria, a Shichibukai.

As Brook cautiously approached the battlefield, he suddenly noticed that the airship in the sky seemed to be flying towards him.

This terrified him so much that he quickly pretended to be a skeletal zombie, falling straight to the ground with empty eyes staring at the spaceship in the sky.

'Don't pay attention to me!'

Brooke kept wondering to himself, still not knowing where these powerful figures came from.

If it were a pirate crew even more terrifying and vicious than Gecko Moria, they would tear it to pieces in no time.

'No way, no way, they really made it through!!'

Brooke watched as the airship came to a stop above him, cold sweat beading on his white bones.

"Brook, stop pretending, we know you."

Luo Ji sat on the mast, watching the lecherous skeleton feigning death with amusement.

"Yo ho ho ho, we've been found out."

Brooke stood up quickly, removed her top hat, and respectfully gave Luo Ji a noble salute.

"Are you really Senior Brook?"

Perhaps it was because the Red Earl's strength had reached a new level and he had experienced too many things and witnessed too much of human nature.

Now, looking at these bones, the feelings of admiration he once had seem to have been dispelled.

The Brook he admired was certainly not this weak, skeletal figure.

Although the gestures and tone of voice were somewhat familiar.

"You are...?"

"Barorick Redfield, the Red Clay Island of the Western Sea!"

"It's you? Redfield! I didn't expect you to have aged so much, I almost didn't recognize you."

"..."

Brook's words broke the Red Earl's defenses. He may be old, but isn't it even more absurd that Brook has become a skeleton without flesh and blood?

"Brook, want to get on my boat? I'll take you out of the Devil's Triangle and help you get your shadow back."

Upon hearing that Brooke had stabbed the Red Earl, Luo Ji chuckled and immediately extended an invitation to this resurrected being from the underworld.

Brook's strength is not important to the Luo Ji Pirates.

What he and Dr. Vegapunk valued was the seemingly real underworld.

"Really?! That's great! I do!"

When Brooke heard that Luo Ji wanted to help him retrieve his shadow and take him away from the Devil's Triangle, he accepted Luo Ji's invitation without hesitation.

He had been lost in the Devil's Triangle for decades and was really going crazy.

I initially thought I had found a chance to escape when I encountered the terrifying three-masted ship.

As a result, Gecko Moria simply stole his shadow and gave it to a swordsman zombie.

This made it even more impossible for him to leave the Devil's Triangle.

Because once a shadow is lost, the body will immediately vanish upon exposure to sunlight.

Moreover, since Redfield is an acquaintance on this airship, this pirate crew shouldn't be too bad.

Luo Ji was not surprised when he heard Brooke agree to board the ship.

Looking at Brooke's white skeleton, Luo Ji wondered how to draw his blood.

Do you mean to extract bone marrow directly?

As Brooke boarded the Ark of Truth, he was astonished to see the extravagantly golden spaceship, which was covered in gold and featured a colossal golden statue.

What kind of rich pirate crew is this?

Moreover, apart from Luo Ji and Redfield, the others also appeared exceptionally powerful.

The blind man wielding a sword, the burly little giant, and the long-eared man holding a golden staff—all of them were constantly crackling with lightning...

"Brook, do you need to eat something?" Luo Ji urged Brook to eat. "Are you still bleeding?"

Luo Ji seemed to remember Brooke being brutally beaten, with large lumps of flesh appearing on his forehead and nosebleeds...

It's estimated that getting blood from Brooke shouldn't be a big problem.

If absolutely necessary, bone marrow should be extracted and given to Vegapunk for research.

"I've been starving for too many years!"

"I only look like a skeleton; otherwise, I'm pretty much the same as an ordinary person."

Brooke started eating and drinking on the table, and all kinds of food disappeared completely after entering his mouth, without entering his empty chest and abdomen.

"These Paramecia-type abilities are truly bizarre and varied."

Red Earl was using Observation Haki to observe Brook's eating, and the food seemed to have gone to another dimension, completely disappearing without a trace.

This is so strange.

Did Brooke's food go to the underworld?

"This is so wonderful, it's the taste of food!"

"It would be even better if we could find the shadow."

Brook devoured a large amount of food like a starving ghost, and then let out a satisfied burp.

"When you have time, get us some of your own blood. We want to see if the Yomi Yomi no Mi's power allows us to travel to the underworld."

"Okay, but it seems the Yomi Yomi no Mi's power can only be used once."

Brooke readily agreed to Luo Ji's request. As long as they could find the Shadow and leave this hellish place, these trivial matters were nothing to them.

"boom!"

As Ark Proverbs reached the skies above the main battlefield, the sounds of intense battle could be heard.

Instead of ending the battle immediately, Yamato engaged in a fierce battle with Moria, the giant who had devoured five hundred shadows.

Moria the Giant has considerable destructive power, but he just can't hit Yamato, and he can't beat Yamato in a head-on fight.

It's like a cat playing with a mouse right now.

"So strong! Even someone as powerful as Gecko Moria couldn't beat that white-haired woman!"

Brooke stared wide-eyed, his empty black eye sockets wide. He had sensed that the Luo Ji World Group was strong, but he hadn't expected it to be this strong.

"Huh, my shadow is on that samurai zombie."

Brooke saw the zombie general and the women of the Luo Ji World Group fighting on the other side.

At this moment, Rebecca was engaged in a fierce battle with the pink half-dragon and the zombie dragon horse, while Bonnie was also fighting a man in silver armor wielding a large axe.

Baby5 is engaged in a fierce battle with a zombie who is holding a gun in his left hand and a knife in his right.

"Silver Axe? Captain John?"

The Red Earl seemed to see two familiar figures from his time.

I never imagined that these guys would be turned into zombies even after they died.

That's so tragic.

The thought that he too would grow old and die only fueled the Red Earl's desire for the Mythical Zoan-type Vampire Fruit power and Im's immortality abilities.

He couldn't die; he didn't want to become such an ugly corpse and skeleton.

"Captain Luo Ji, I've brought these two guys back!"

Wearing an electric blue combat suit, Hanafza saw Ark Proverb approaching and immediately flew back with Perona and Absalom, looking like a sycophantic lackey.

"Humph!"

Enel scoffed dismissively, somewhat disapproving of Hanafza's sycophancy.

He had just casually unleashed a divine punishment, blasting the two invisible figures out.

"Captain Luo Ji, I think Gekko Moria really hates Yamato's position as first mate, and he's very difficult to persuade to surrender."

Perhaps we can utilize Dr. Vegapunk's modification techniques.

Hanafza rubbed his hands together and offered his little 'advice'.

In short, Gecko Moria, the bottom-ranked Shichibukai, needs to be placed in the Luo Ji World crew to highlight him and Crocodile.

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