After recovering, Luffy's face was twisted in anger, his eyes wide, teeth clenched, and veins bulging on his forehead, as if he wanted to vent all the fury in his heart.
"Luffy looks just like... Garp," Orochimaru muttered to himself, Luffy's angry face an exact replica of Garp's.
Luffy carried his bug net and continued on his way. Along the path, he kept muttering, "Those stinky ghosts, next time I see them, I won't go easy! I'm not raising them! I don't want those things."
Luffy's tone revealed a firm resolve, seemingly having lost patience with the ghosts.
Franky walked beside him, rubbing his hands together, his eyes flashing with anger. He cracked his knuckles, muttering to himself, "It must have a weakness. I'm going to destroy them all!"
"Hahahaha, I saw something interesting," Sanji sat on the Three-Headed Hellhound, looking at Zoro and letting out a mocking chuckle. The Three-Headed Hellhound also wore a similarly mocking expression, as if echoing Sanji's words.
Upon hearing Sanji's laughter, Zoro immediately became furious, roaring at Sanji, "Urusai!!!"
Sanji, however, was not intimidated by Zoro's anger. He extended his hand towards Zoro, lowering his head and saying in a teasing voice, "Oh... sumimasen, saying things like 'I'm sorry... I shouldn't have been born into this world' Hahahaha... my stomach hurts from laughing."
Before he finished speaking, Sanji was rolling around on the Three-Headed Hellhound, laughing, completely disregarding Zoro's feelings.
Robin walked along, contemplating the creatures they had just seen, and analyzed to Sanji, "These numbered stitched-together creatures seem to belong to the same category. They must be the ones modified by that third-rate doctor Orochimaru mentioned.
However, corpse modification doesn't truly have a soul; they are just walking corpses.
Therefore, the one capable of bestowing souls must be someone else.
And those ghosts, they seem to be completely different life forms."
Sanji fell into thought after hearing this, and after a moment, he said, "I remember now, that ghost appeared on our ship once, always appearing and disappearing mysteriously, feeling like it was monitoring us.
Coupled with the stitched-together monster, possibly an Invisible Man, that escaped after being injured by Orochimaru on the ship earlier.
For now, we can tentatively categorize them as four individuals.
The question is, who is manipulating all of this behind the scenes, and is it related to the skeleton man's missing shadow?"
Sanji took a puff from his cigarette. When he mentioned the Invisible Man, his tone was clearly tinged with anger, but more so with envy.
The group finally emerged from the fog and arrived at a graveyard. Luffy looked ahead, seemingly having forgotten the ghost, and shouted excitedly,
"Ah... what a spacious graveyard, so atmospheric... Hey! Let's eat our bento here!"
Sanji roared in exasperation, "Baka! Eating on this kind of ground makes even delicious food taste bad! Can't you learn something from Orochimaru?"
"No! I want to eat here! I've never thought food tasted bad! And who wants to learn from that cunning snake!" Luffy looked at Sanji stubbornly.
"That's just you! And we're in a hurry! And why is your whole family so stubborn?!"
Sanji continued to roar at Luffy. Suddenly, the tombstone behind Luffy vibrated slightly, and a mummy-like zombie wrapped in bandages suddenly crawled out of the ground.
It appeared like a sudden monster, catching everyone off guard. The entire scene instantly became eerily silent, as if time had stopped flowing.
"Huh?" Luffy looked at the uninvited guest without the slightest panic, instead showing a calm and composed demeanor.
He slowly walked in front of the zombie, dropping his bug net without hesitation.
Then he reached out and gently pressed on the zombie's shoulder, little by little pushing the zombie back in. Luffy's movements seemed very natural, as if it was just a trivial matter.
"Yosh..."
After being pressed into the ground, the zombie did not give up. Soon, it sprang out again, angrily shouting at Luffy, "Do you think I'll go back?! Idiot!"
Its voice was filled with anger and indignation, as if accusing Luffy of his actions.
Luffy, however, remained calm. There was no expression on his face as he stared at the zombie's face, thinking about something, seemingly completely unfazed by the zombie's reaction.
"Huh?... A heavily injured old man..."
Sanji... Zoro... Franky instantly had shark faces.
"It's clearly a zombie!!"
"To underestimate a zombie!!" With the zombie's angry roar, countless zombies emerged from their graves one by one, advancing towards the group.
"What is it... time for a fight?" Luffy excitedly cracked his knuckles. "In terms of danger, I'll show you guys."
Robin struck a pose for the Flower-Flower Fruit, Sanji casually smoked, Zoro drew his sword, and Franky stretched his joints.
Orochimaru always felt like he heard a BGM, hmm... just very noisy.
As if no one else has a special BGM!!! He directly threw a snake clone outside.
"Fire Release! Fireball Jutsu!"
"Wind Release. Wind Cutter Jutsu."
A flash of fire passed, thick smoke rose, and a raging inferno consumed the entire graveyard.
The fire grew larger and larger, gradually spreading to the surrounding trees and grass. The entire graveyard was engulfed in a sea of flames, and black shadows flew across the sky.
As the Wind Release swept through, the sea of fire disappeared, leaving only a barren scorched earth. The entire graveyard was gone.
Orochimaru looked at the black soil outside with satisfaction and nodded. Indeed... "inferior" corpses should turn to ash and be buried in the ground. Why come out?
Luffy and the others silently looked at the desolation before them, their rising excitement suddenly extinguished.
Luffy ground his teeth, making a grating sound. His fun! It was gone!! All gone!! The fight was gone! The graveyard was gone! The zombies were gone!!! The place to eat bento was also gone! Orochimaru must have done it on purpose!
Luffy turned to look at the backpack behind Robin, walking towards her in a fit of rage.
Zoro, quick-witted, quickly grabbed Luffy by the throat and dragged him aside. "Mama... Orochimaru was just helping... don't be angry, don't be angry, you're the Captain..."
"Right, right, right... weren't you going to eat just now? Look, Orochimaru even prepared the spot for you," Sanji spread a huge picnic blanket on the flat ground, covered with bentos.
Luffy chewed his meat angrily, muttering as he ate, "That cunning snake, he definitely destroyed my graveyard on purpose! Narrow-minded and stingy, narcissistic and stinky snake!
Sanji!!! Tomorrow I want snake meat soup!! Salt and pepper snake meat! Cold snake skin salad!"
Luffy opened his mouth wide for a bite, but found the meat in his hand was gone, biting into empty air. He was stunned for a few seconds.
Robin sensed something and immediately retreated 500 meters.
"Orochimaru!!!!!!!!!" Sanji and Zoro frantically suppressed Luffy, who was about to launch himself into the air. Both had splitting headaches. They desperately needed Nami right now.
So, how did these two guys even get raised?!
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