Chapter 391
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The scene on the projection screen returned to silence. Arlen pulled up Dr. Culeja, who was kneeling on the ground. The coldness on his face faded away and was replaced by a warm smile. "I did as you asked. You have to remember what you promised me," he said faintly.
As he spoke, Dalaran walked out from the dark. Choba in his hand had his hair standing on end. He looked around in horror at the neatly arranged conversion cabins and the dried flesh in the sand wall behind him. It was a horrifying and eerie scene. In the middle of the scene, Dr. Culeja was standing behind a marine with a pale face.
"That marine!"
Choba felt as if he had been struck by lightning. A fragment of an image suddenly appeared in his mind. Magnetic Drum Island was devoid of life, and a monster walked out of the strange ice lake that swallowed everything. A monster that seemed to be wearing human skin was this Marine.
Choba didn't know that this marine was the "Yarlin" that the straw hats mentioned on the ship. Their information didn't connect completely.
"A dark coffin, a sandstone wall filled with human flesh, and that monster …" Choba's throat was dry, and his expression was one of uncontrollable fear. After being thrown on the ground by Dalaran, he carefully walked around Arlen and walked to Dr. Culeja's side. He had a lot of fear and questions in his heart, but he swallowed them back down his throat as if he had lost the ability to speak.
"Choba, let me bandage your horn!" Dr. Culeja seemed to have completely accepted her fate. She used a syringe to extract some biochemical fluid and injected it into the broken horn. Then, she stroked Choba's head and sighed. "It's good that you're here. You should have finished reading the books I left behind. I'll have to teach you the rest of the knowledge in this laboratory. Although the scene is bloody and cruel, it's better than lying on the table and being dissected for research!"
"It's a pity. An animal that can speak is a very valuable material for research." Adams was deeply disappointed that he couldn't dissect Choba.
Choba felt a chill down his spine. His body suddenly quivered, and he suddenly came back to his senses. He anxiously asked Dr. Culeja, "Luffy and the others …"
"They're the straw hats. They've been sent to the surface. I saw them leave with my own eyes. Don't worry, Choba." Dr. Culeja's eyes flashed with an apologetic look. "They're all good friends. I'm sorry to have to separate you from them."
Dr. Culeja hugged Choba. Her bloodshot eyes glanced at the sixth apostle, Dalaran, who had disappeared into the sand maze. She opened her mouth and looked at Yarlin's back. The word "Justice" on the neatly ironed navy captain's collar was unusually eye-catching. She retracted her gaze and wisely shut her mouth.
Humans were selfish after all. Yarlin had already agreed to her request and let the straw hats go. It was considered an explanation to Dr. Culeja. As for whether he would go back on his words and kill the straw hats, Dr. Culeja didn't need to expose him. After all, the people who were "under house arrest" in the laboratory would not have the chance to know the truth under the sun.
The afterglow of dusk shone on the desert. The shadows of the Straw Hat Gang were cast on the ground. None of them made a sound, as if they had a lot on their minds. The air was filled with heavy breathing, and the atmosphere was extremely oppressive.
"Can we still save Choba?" Usopp bit his lips. Obviously, he didn't have much confidence. The strange monster maze and the terrifying apostle gave him a kind of suffocating despair and fear. On the other hand, Zoro couldn't even lift his sword. Sanji dragged one leg on the ground. Luffy pressed his straw hat against his forehead. His shoulders and arms were still bleeding from time to time.
The only ones who still had the ability to fight were himself and Nami, the two "losers". A braggart and a thief navigator. Usopp didn't see any possible hope. Not to mention hope, if they accidentally bumped into a few desert bandits, they would be wiped out without any effort.
"Yes, after we heal our wounds, we'll come back to save Choba!" Luffy stopped and took off his straw hat. He turned around and revealed a pair of terrifying bloodshot eyes. He said word by word, "I won't give up any of my friends, even if it means risking my life!"
"But we don't have a doctor!" Usopp sighed in his heart. He looked down at the backpack left by Choba. It was still filled with various potions made by Choba. He unzipped the backpack irritably and took out the potion to stop the bleeding. He sprayed it on Luffy's shoulder. His face suddenly changed and he shouted, "Luffy, you have a blood drop-shaped tattoo on your neck?"
Usopp could not be blamed for being so nervous. The atmosphere of fear created by Dalaran had not gone far. Now that he saw blood, Usopp instinctively felt terrified. Moreover, the shape of the blood droplet was very similar to a vertical blood pupil. Usopp immediately used his sleeve to wipe Luffy's neck. A cold chill crept up his spine from the soles of his feet. It was as if a wet poisonous snake was coiling around his back, making him feel as if he had fallen into an ice cave.
The blood droplet shaped eye couldn't be wiped off. It was as if it had directly merged with Luffy's flesh. The more he wiped, the brighter and more delicate it became. Usopp's eyes widened. His eyeballs shrunk into pinholes. He felt that the blood droplet seemed to have come alive and was staring at him maliciously.
It was as if the sixth apostle, Dalaran, was still staring at them!
"Zoro, you have a blood droplet on your neck too!"
"Sanji has one too!"
"Nami has one too!"
Everyone was found to have a blood droplet imprinted on their spine. It was a chilling feeling. Usopp touched the back of his neck. Luffy glanced over and said stiffly, "Usopp, you have one too!"
Their hearts twitched violently, and the straw hats' necks stiffened. They all felt as if their hearts had been ruthlessly stabbed by poisonous needles, emitting a sinister chill from the inside out. No one thought that this was a coincidence, and everyone immediately had the worst idea.
"That monster didn't really plan to let us go?" Zoro opened his mouth and said something cruel that Usopp didn't want to admit, "Sending us out of that maze was just an act for Choba. Although we don't know the inside story, he was just playing with us!"
"You're saying that the monster is still following us?" Usopp felt goosebumps on his tongue as he stuttered.
"Hehehe …" The chilling laughter that gave people goosebumps echoed around them. It also seemed to echo directly in their heads …
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