Chapter 423: Cat-eared Girl
Zhang Da also asked, "Do you need help?"
"No need. I'll just go and tell the mayor. The mayor will take the prediction from the Amber Travel Group seriously." Acebag quickly left Franky's House, rented a bullfish Blue and rushed to the city center.
Weiwei asked curiously, "What are the water gods?"
Zanbai replied: "The gods of water are also called Aqualagna. They are natural disasters that occur once a year here, usually accompanied by strong winds, rainstorms and tsunamis. When the time comes, some low-lying places on the island will be flooded."
Wendy said, "Isn't that dangerous? Do we really not need help?"
Franky opened three bottles of Coke and handed them to the little girls, saying, "Don't worry. People here are used to evacuating once a year, and usually wait for strong winds before moving. With such a long advance notice this time, nothing will happen."
"Don't you need to seek shelter?" Altria asked a question and asked for a bottle of Coke.
Franky said: "Franky House had already considered this when choosing the site, so there is no problem."
Weiwei understood today that drought-stricken countries have their own problems with drought, and that water cities will also be troubled by floods. She asked, "Is there no way to completely solve this problem?"
"At least not now, because the disaster itself is not the biggest problem. The most troublesome thing is that the water level is rising at this time of year... It's not accurate to say that. In fact, the island has been sinking."
Franky drank half a bottle of Coke, let out a sigh of relief, and continued, "If you dive down, you can see that the current backstreet is actually built on the roof of the ancient town hundreds of years ago. Even so, the backstreet is still being flooded. In a few decades, the island may disappear completely."
"How could this happen?" Weiwei said in disbelief, "If this island disappears, what will happen to the people living here?"
"Either find a way to save this island, or leave here before then." Franky said, "The sea train built by Mr. Tom will provide everyone with a way to evacuate at any time."
Tom nodded in agreement, looking very proud, even though the Tom Franky was talking about was not him.
Compared to taking a boat, taking the sea train is obviously faster and safer. When it is absolutely necessary, you can even pass through the water gods and force your way off the island. However, just as the people in Tom's studio love this city, most people will not choose to leave until the very end.
“The food is ready!”
“It’s done!”
The Cube sisters shouted in unison, pushed out the food cart and began to set the table. Everyone temporarily put aside the heavy topics, sat down one by one, and began to eat with laughter.
The Franky family's party was extremely noisy. It started with Franky's perverted dance, singing and dancing at the same time. The Cube sisters and a group of younger brothers voluntarily danced with him, and even the lighting was coordinated by someone.
It's obviously a shipbreaking yard and the lair of part-time bounty hunters, but after the commotion started, it was like a riot of demons. If you said it was pirates, there would definitely be people who would believe it.
After an eye-catching performance, Franky took out a ukulele from somewhere and insisted on performing a "Song of Friendship and Gratitude", which made Zangao and the crowd cheer loudly.
There was a small accident during the performance. As Franky was playing the ukulele, one of the strings suddenly broke, making a "bang~~~" sound.
"Ah~~~~~" Tom gasped and covered his whiskers with his hands. The whole cat bounced up from the chair, flew backwards, and knocked a big cat-shaped hole in the wall.
Everyone looked at each other, wondering what was going on in Tom's little head.
Franky asked, "What happened to the cat with the same name as Mr. Tom?"
Zhang Da also looked at the broken string in Franky's hand and knew that Tom might have suffered from PTSD caused by Jerry's uncle: "He must have been scared by the sound of the broken string. You guys continue, I'll go find him. That wall..."
Franky pointed at himself and said, "Don't worry about the wall!"
"That's right." With a top-notch boatman here, there was no need to worry about this at all, so Zhang Da also squeezed out of the hole made by Tom. The elasticity when squeezing out of the hole made the Franky family doubt their own eyes.
Franky gestured twice at the entrance of the cave and asked, "Mr. Tatsuya, what is the principle? A devil fruit user?"
…
Zhang Da also followed the big hole made by Tom and chased for two miles.
When Tom was found, he was leaning against a wall, covering his beard with one hand and pressing his pounding . It was not until he saw Zhang Daye's face clearly that Tom relaxed a little.
"Okay, okay, no one here wants to pull out your beard, it's okay." Zhang Daye touched Tom's head and comforted him for a long time before he calmed down and followed Zhang Daye back.
After walking a few steps, the sky suddenly darkened, the air became a little stuffy, and the sky was covered with dark clouds without me noticing.
A cool breeze blew, and Zhang Daye and Tom, who were looking up at the sky, squinted their eyes, and then two drops of rain fell on their faces.
Tom cleverly took out the umbrella, and Zhang Da also cleverly put Tom on his shoulders.
The rain was getting heavier and the wind was getting stronger. In order to hold the umbrella steady, Tom had to hold it tilted in front of him.
Normally this resistance shouldn't be a big deal for Zhang Da, but today he was finding it particularly difficult to walk.
With a whoosh, the umbrella in Tom's hand was blown over. Fortunately, Zhang Da grabbed Tom's feet and prevented him from being blown away by the wind. However, the umbrella was blown away by the wind.
The clothes of the two were soaked by the heavy rain in an instant, so they simply returned to Franky's House in the rain.
"Huh? It's repaired so quickly?" Zhang Da, who originally wanted to return the same way, also found that the cat-shaped hole in the wall had been repaired, and there was almost no trace of repair. The craftsmanship was almost catching up with Tom.
Franky waved at them, "Yo, you look like you got soaked."
"A-choo~" Tom sneezed.
Zhang Da also said: "Yes, can I use the bathroom?"
"The bathroom is over here."
"Over here."
One of the Cube sisters pointed in the direction and the other simply helped open the door.
Zhang Da also took Tom into the bathroom, and soon after he stuck his head out and said to Ye Yan: "This is performance art, a walker in the rain."
Ye Yan looked at him with empty eyes: "Are you looking down on my intelligence? You want to trick me into going out in the rain with just one sentence?"
Two minutes later, everyone in Franky's House complained loudly together: "Aren't you still going out!?"
Ye Yan looked up at the sky at a 45-degree angle, letting the rain slide down his cheeks: "It's different. Just now he was trying to trick me out, but now I came out on my own with inspiration."
Franky took a sip of Coke: "What a weird guy."
Zanbai and the other brothers waved their hands together: "Brother, you have no right to criticize others."
…
Ye Yan was still outside going crazy. Zhang Daye and Tom were curled up on the sofa wrapped in bath towels, each holding a cup of hot tea. Zhang Daye asked, "How long will this rain last?"
Franky said: "It will take two days at most, one day at least. When the rain stops, this year's Water Gods will also end."
"That's really inconvenient." Zhang Da also originally wanted to help them, such as everyone working together to split or blow up the tsunami.
But what Franky said was not very realistic. The waves were coming from all directions for more than a day, and it was meaningless to cut through them one or two times.
And they have no way to deal with the most troublesome problem of the island sinking. Do they have to go find Uncle Yixiao and ask him to put a few meteorites under the island?
The banquet was over very quickly. The Franky family felt that this banquet ended especially quickly. It seemed that there was only a little food left right after the show. Did someone steal some food while others were dancing?
I can't figure it out, so I forget to think about it. Anyway, I had a lot of fun today and nothing else matters. I didn't expect that the big guys in the Amber Travel Group don't have such high airs!
"Uncle Long, what's wrong?" Rui Mengmeng saw that Jackie Chan looked uneasy.
Jackie Chan frowned and said, "It feels like we've forgotten something important."
Ye Yan wiped his hair with a towel: "What important things do we have? Isn't it that we can't go out to play these two days?"
"That's right." Jackie Chan said, " Let's think about where to stay tonight. Do you want to stay overnight?"
Perona didn't like Franky's House very much, and said, "No, I'll go back to my own room on the Amber."
"Okay." Zhang Da also said, "Then let's not disturb them. Let's go back to the Amber."
Everyone was silent for a while.
"Amber!!" *10
The Amber was still in the bay north of the Hulk Island, and judging from the altitude, the situation did not seem to be very good.
Nine people, two cats and one duck rushed out of Franky's House and ran hurriedly towards the wreckage island.
A minute later, everyone turned back and stared blankly at the familiar ship in the bay in the rain.
Shark Chili asked, "Did the Frankies help drive it here?"
Rui Mengmeng said: "No way, they all came back together, and I didn't see anyone go out during the party."
"Let's go up and take a look first." Zhang Da also had a guess, "See if there is any obvious damage. When the rain stops, ask Frankie to do a comprehensive inspection."
Everyone boarded the boat and checked it inside and out.
Zhang Da also patted the mast and said, "I'm sorry for accidentally ignoring you. I won't do that again next time."
The statue on the bow hung its tongue, looking so tired and scary. It didn't feel like a big deal when it was normally under the control of others, but it was really scary facing those endless waves by itself. It was not the stupid cat that liked surfing, and it was really scared to death by such a huge tsunami.
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The rain gradually became lighter, but it still showed no sign of stopping after a night of rain, so everyone had to move around in the cabin. Fortunately, the space inside the cabin was not small, and there was a special training room for everyone to complete their daily exercises.
After breakfast, Jackie Chan was curious about what Franky said about the underwater town that was hundreds of years old, so he wanted to dive down to take a look.
Shark Chili was worried that the bad weather would cause danger, so he simply drove the giant shark to take Uncle Long diving.
So Vivi also followed. As a little girl full of adventurous spirit, diving on a giant shark was quite attractive to her, especially since she had eaten the devil fruit and was destined to have no chance of swimming.
Jackie Chan originally disagreed, but with Shark Chili's assurance, he relented.
The rest of the people were sitting in the small bar on the boat, drinking hot soup, hot tea, and hot cocoa brought by Tom and Rui Mengmeng, reading books, playing chess, or cheating.
In such bad weather, it is a pleasant thing to be able to gather together in a warm room to have fun and relax.
"I learned it." Xia Lulu suddenly put down the teacup and floated in the air.
Everyone was wondering what she had learned, when they saw the wings behind Xia Lulu open and grow larger, then fold in front of her to wrap around her body.
Then a burst of white light flashed, and the small white cat turned into a white-haired beautiful girl who was almost as tall as Wendy. She still had white cat ears on her head, and a cat tail with a bow tied on it was swaying behind her.
"Xia Lulu! You succeeded!" Wendy happily held Xia Lulu's hand. She knew that Xia Lulu had been working hard to learn transformation magic. Seeing her succeed, she was happy for her from the bottom of her heart.
Zhang Da also keenly noticed that after Xia Lulu transformed, she seemed to be taller than Wendy.
"Hey, hey, hey? Is this possible?" Perona circled around Xia Lulu in surprise, and even wanted to pinch her ears curiously, "So cute!"
Ye Yan held his chin. Is this a fairy? The kind that can freely transform into a human form, but it doesn't seem to have a demonic aura. This is not important. What is important is whether this is performance art?
"So cute." Rui Mengmeng noticed Xia Lulu's ears and asked, "Xia Lulu, you have four ears now. Can you hear all of them?"
"Eh?" Xia Lulu herself didn't pay attention to this problem. She reached out and touched the cat ears on her head. "It's all right. My hearing has become much stronger now."
Everyone was looking at the cat-eared girl in surprise, but Tom was a little disappointed. Why did a good cat turn into a human? It was obviously cuter as a cat.
"This will increase my strength a lot, and I can really fight alongside Wendy in the future!" Xia Lulu clenched her fists happily and decided that in addition to improving her magic power, she would also learn kung fu from Uncle Long.
After watching for a while, Zhang Da also discovered the blind spot. Xia Lulu was wearing clothes similar to the neon school uniform, with a shirt, jacket, and tie on the upper body, and a short skirt and black stockings on the lower body.
Of course this is not important. What is important is that the clothes she wore before her transformation are the same as those she wears now, but they are much smaller!
Zhang Da also said excitedly: "Xia Lulu, teach me this trick!"
"Pfft!" Ye Yan laughed, "Do you want to transform into a beautiful girl with cat ears?"
"Go away!" Zhang Da also said, "I just want to learn how to make clothes bigger!"
The super transformation form can make him grow to three meters tall in an instant, but his clothes will not change with him, so once he transforms, his clothes will be torn, which is very inconvenient and embarrassing.
If I can learn Xia Lulu's magic, I won't have to worry about this problem anymore!
