As a rumor, it is very popular among the inside information of pirates.
Many pirates claimed to have seen gods and were cursed, with bad luck coming to them.
Cheng Lang didn't have much idea, after all, he knew what was on the island.
A man trapped in a treasure chest.
Wait? What happens if we free this person trapped in the treasure chest? Does that change the plot?
With trepidation and curiosity, the group arrived at the legendary treasure island.
Cheng Lang looked at the environment on the island and had to say that compared with the plants outside, the plants on this island were very...distorted.
It's a bit like the twisted patterns of a devil fruit.
Usopp was walking cautiously in front, but was startled by a corn cob-like plant on the roadside that opened its mouth.
"This plant can actually stick out its tongue!? Is it an animal?!" Cheng Lang approached curiously.
I reached out and touched it, and of course I got bitten.
But it's more like being held in the mouth than biting.
Cheng Lang has a bold idea about this!
Dig up the rhizome to see what's inside.
The result happened before he could even make a move.
The roots of the plant actually began to twist.
Then Cheng Lang saw the plant twisting and moving like a snake.
Don't even mention Cheng Lang in this scene.
No one else has seen this scene.
"Is this a combination of a snake and a carnivorous plant?!" Cheng Lang stared blankly at the twisted plant, his eyes full of curiosity.
It doesn't look like anything special in the animation, but when it happens in reality, Cheng Lang is still very curious about how this was done, and whether it was a plant or an animal.
Could it be animals or plants?
Cheng Lang's curiosity was aroused.
However, it was at this moment.
The voice of 'God' sounded.
"Get out! Get out!"
But he had only said two words.
Cheng Lang grabbed the other person from the bushes.
A group of people saw this scene and were stunned at the same time.
"There's a person in the box?!" Luffy looked at him in surprise.
The others were also staring at the scene in amazement.
Luffy came over curiously and looked left and right, then laughed and said, "Are you the child of the treasure chest and the human?!"
"Yeah, I've been in this since I was a kid... What the hell! How can a human have a baby with a treasure chest?! There's no way I can get out of the box! It's been twenty years!"
But the words just fell.
Cheng Lang put his hand on the treasure chest, and the next moment, the treasure chest disappeared.
Chapter 37: Animals, Mythical Beasts, Chimera
The sudden sense of liberation made the treasure chest man stunned.
He lowered his head in disbelief.
It's just that his body has adapted to the squeezed environment over the years. Now...
"this!"
At this moment, a number of experience balls, no less than those released by Alrita, burst out from the opponent's body.
In an instant, Cheng Lang reached level 17.
"As expected..."
Cheng Lang watched this scene and finally understood that the way for him to gain a lot of experience might be to change the fate of the characters in the original plot.
But there are both good and bad sides to this.
Luffy and his crew can reach the final island without any setbacks. If they change the plot, they can indeed gain a lot of experience, but they also have to bear certain risks of future changes.
He was thinking about his own things.
The treasure chest man was both surprised and frightened.
After living under the protection of the treasure chest for more than 20 years, I am somewhat uncomfortable with being liberated all of a sudden.
After a while.
The group arrived at the place where the treasure chest man usually lived.
"Thank you so much. My name is Kamon. I've been inside the treasure chest for twenty years. To be honest, I almost suspected my body had merged with the chest, but now it seems..."
And then Camon began to tell his story.
Twenty years ago, he came to this legendary island with the captain to look for treasure. After learning that the captain found the treasure chest but discovered that it was empty, he refused to believe it and decided to look for it in the last place he had not searched, which was a bare, protruding stone mountain.
Then he saw several treasure chests, but the next moment the stone he was holding broke and he fell down. As luck would have it, he was stuck in a treasure chest and fainted. When he woke up, his teammates had already left.
After Kamon finished his story.
Luffy and his crew were curious whether the treasure still existed, but after hearing the story, they urged the man to climb the bare rock mountain once again.
Kamon smiled and nodded.
"I never thought that when you heard about the treasure, the first thing you did was not to take it for yourselves, but to let me fulfill my dream. You are really kind people."
The group arrived at the foot of the stone mountain.
Although Kamon's body was trapped in the treasure chest for twenty years, the bodies of people in the One Piece world are amazing. If it were in the real world, at least his bones would be fixed and he would not be able to walk upright.
But Kamon was able to stand up and walk normally at this moment.
Twenty years later, when Kamon climbed the same route he had come before.
He felt that all this was so dreamlike.
Every time I crawl, I feel like my body has returned to my youth, and I have also returned to the past.
When he reached the top of the mountain, he stared blankly at the treasure above.
Five treasure chests were placed in a row on the top of the mountain.
He stepped forward tremblingly.
Touching the treasure chest.
Twenty years later, the treasure he had been longing for was right before his eyes. However, when it finally arrived, he was not as happy as he had imagined.
Click...
Luffy and his companions under the rock didn't hear any movement for a long time.
This made them a little curious.
Just when Luffy and others were considering whether to go up.
Kamon appeared, holding the treasure chest with an expressionless face.
"How is it?" Luffy was the first to speak.
But in response to him, Kamon turned the treasure chest over and found nothing inside.
Alrita shook her head helplessly. "This is normal. Many treasure maps circulating among pirates are like this. In fact, the treasure here was discovered long ago, and greedy pirates will resell the treasure map for a good price. In order to stop the loss, the deceived pirates will make up all kinds of reasons to add value to the treasure map, until some foolish pirate reveals the truth."
Kamon sat on the stone hill, looking at the blue sea.
Although it was expected that the treasure was empty, the captain might have found the treasure chest above, but he just didn't announce it to him, a small member. However, he was not as sad as he imagined.
After twenty years of hard work, the treasure was ultimately gone.
A strange sense of relief spread from the bottom of my heart.
But when Luffy and his crew saw this, they thought he was going to commit suicide.
"Uncle! Don't be so depressed! The treasure is gone! But there are still many other treasures in the world!" Usopp comforted.
Luffy agreed: "Yes, uncle, there are still many fun things to do on this sea!"
And Kamon smiled and waved his hand: "Thank you, you are really good people."
After coming down from the stone mountain, the group no longer talked about the treasure.
But there was one person who was different.
Cheng Lang stared blankly at the stone mountain.
"What's wrong?" Sauron looked curiously at Cheng Lang who was still looking around at the stone mountain.
"Actually, I suspect... there's treasure hidden here."
"?" Zoro was puzzled but waved his hand: "It would be good to leave it to Kamon."
"I'm not talking about the top, I'm talking about the inside of the stone. Don't you think that this protruding stone mountain is man-made?" Cheng Lang said.
After hearing this, Zoro also looked around.
Then observe your surroundings.
Indeed, the island is full of greenery, but this rocky mountain is bare, without even moss, which is obviously abnormal.
Besides, treasures are not placed in the open air on the top of a mountain. Often, treasures are either buried underground or in some hidden corner.
After thinking about it carefully, Zoro also felt that something was wrong.