The old man was so angry that he was not able to see the truth.

"How is this possible?" Looking at the faint white virtual light ball floating in front of him, Xia Chen was stunned, puzzled and confused.

It's not that he had never imagined that the ship spirit had already been born on the Merry. He had also experimented with the wreckage of the Merry and even the figurehead before it was decomposed, but he didn't get any wood or paint and nothing else.

So he had such an unbelievable feeling.

Now the ship spirit is alive in his hands, which makes him very puzzled and fortunate at the same time... Speaking of which, the figurehead in his room was made of the part he had collected at the beginning.

He immediately used his consciousness to contact the light ball.

The corresponding information entered his mind, "It can be like this? You are worthy of being the plug-in master!"

Xia Chen's eyes lit up, and he summoned Merry without saying a word.

A ship spirit wearing a black raincoat, whose face could not be seen clearly, holding a hammer in one hand and a chisel in the other, and not even as high as his calf, appeared on the ground in front of him.

"Deputy Captain!"

"You can talk... No, you know me?" Xia Chen was even more surprised. He quickly glanced at the plug-in panel, and sure enough, a new category, pets, was added to the previous entries.

The word "Merry" followed closely behind.

"Aren't you the deputy captain? Everyone calls you the deputy captain." Merry raised his head slightly, and Xia Chen looked at it. It was dark inside and could not be seen clearly. He could only vaguely see two curved horns.

So this is really a sheep's head, just like the ship spirit of the Thousand Miles Sunshine shown in the original work and the Red-Haired Diva movie.

I have to say that they are worthy of being the protagonists. Other pirate groups may not encounter a ship spirit after fighting on the sea for a lifetime, but the Straw Hat Pirates have two.

They are really favored by the world. I don’t know if there will be new ship spirits on the current Golden Dragon in the future.

But the Merry in front of him doesn’t look smart.

"Why did you appear? I used to..." Xia Chen was stuck. Although this guy has become the pet set on his panel, he can’t say anything about his magical collection technique.

"Everyone needs me, don’t they?"

"Need?" Pictures flashed through Xia Chen’s mind. Yes, whenever the Straw Hat Pirates need the Merry, it always appears in a very coincidental way.

In this life, the Straw Hat Pirates have their own members. It can’t be said that they are crushing and smooth along the way, but in fact, the Merry really doesn’t have many opportunities to show itself.

Now that this memorial statue of Merry has been placed in his room, Xia Chen will occasionally improve his plans and talk to himself here.

It seems that the Merry heard it.

I was actually touched in my heart.

Xia Chen asked Merry some more information, stumbling, and it was no different from what he had learned before.

Of course, the most important thing is that this guy can eat devil fruits.

Xia Chen thought about it and took out the light fruit from his backpack.

"Come, eat!"

Merry took it without saying a word, and then stuffed it into his hood. The "crunch, crunch" sound of chewing could be vaguely heard.

"Is it unpalatable?"

"It has no taste, and it feels warm."

Xia Chen nodded. After all, the ship spirit is just something that exists in the illusion. If you have to explain it, it is a special mental power. Can it use multiple devil fruits?

Xia Chen was a little tempted, but gave up after thinking about it.

Don't accidentally kill Merry, and there is no more suitable one now.

But is there only one Merry?

But it's not just me who would talk to the statue of Merry in the house, others should do the same. Although it's not long, everyone still has a lot of feelings for the Merry, especially Luffy and Usopp.

The two of them are the oldest, and they have to hold it to sleep every night.

Go back and try it secretly. If it works, it's unimaginable. Maybe I can create artificial intelligence in this One Piece world.

Hey, it doesn't seem necessary to be so troublesome. Go back and pick the Soul Soul Fruit of Big Mom Charlotte Linlin. Isn't this a real artificial intelligence?

In comparison, the ship spirit doesn't seem so great.

"How much can you play now? The last user of the Light Float Fruit can change his weight from 1 kg to 10,000 kg.
I am not sure if this is the upper limit of the fruit's ability, but you can try to open it further. "

"For example, strengthen each cell to 100,000 kilograms... You don't seem to have cells for this." Xia Chen paused, and then let Merry merge into the Golden Dragon.

He glanced at the external panel, and the words "in fusion" appeared behind Merry.

But Xia Chen himself was able to communicate with Merry through his consciousness, letting it try to activate its ability, reducing the weight of the ship, and Xia Chen's physical strength was consumed.

The ship spirit has physical strength... It's amazing, but Xia Chen's supply is safer.

Nami, who was sitting under the orange tree on the third deck to enjoy the cool, changed her expression slightly, pushed off the orange sunglasses on her face, and looked around, "The wind direction has not changed, the humidity is normal, why is the speed of the ship faster, and... Xia Chen!"

"Nami!" The water condensed out of thin air and transformed into the appearance of Xia Chen. He took the orange juice from Nami's hand and drank half of it in one breath, "Xia Chen, that's what I prepared for Nami-chan! "

Sanji kicked angrily, but Xia Chen just turned his body to avoid it.

He condensed a chain of water and threw him to the lower deck, and hit Luffy who was playing with Chopper.

Luffy's body was able to maintain the passiveness of rubber, and Sanji was bounced to the side again. Sanji adjusted his balance and glanced at the direction where he was about to land.

He did not use the moon step that he had just mastered.

He even added some strength when he landed.

He stepped heavily on Zoro's stomach.

"I...hiss, you pervert, do you want to die? "Zoro is gathering his strength.

Although Xia Chen didn't say it explicitly, he didn't feel the storm coming, so it was rare that he didn't exercise today.

He picked up the good sword Xuezou placed next to him and fought with Sanji, but they both controlled the intensity of the battle, which was considered a warm-up in advance. In fact, Sanji could also feel the upcoming battle.

"Ah, Zoro and Sanji, they really get along well~"

"You'll get used to it, they are always like this. "Xia Chen smiled and replied to Robin, asking Nami what was wrong. Nami told him what she had just discovered.

Xia Chen just smiled without much explanation, and then summoned a thin layer of water at a very slow speed to wrap the entire hull.

At this time, they were traveling in the desert, and the sun was shining brightly.

The navy, which had already explored the route of Xia Chen and his party, had already ambushed people and arranged monitoring personnel along the way.

But it is obvious that people who can be domineering are also quite rare at this stage. They can't arrange such people to track Xia Chen and his party, which is very physically demanding.

After all, they can only travel in the desert, so they only arranged people with telescopes and other equipment to observe.

"Colonel, look!"

"Hmm? "A man in civilian clothes of Alabasta took the telescope from his subordinate and looked at the river in the distance, but found that there was nothing unusual. It was still the Golden Dragon going downstream.

With Kaku, they already knew all the information about the ship.

Franky also controlled his impulse very well. He did not use the real core technology on the blueprint passed to him by his master. He just modified the power system according to Xia Chen's requirements.

"Colonel, the ship was in a trance just now, as if..." The marine was slapped by the colonel holding the telescope before he finished speaking, "This is in Alabasta. Mirages often appear in the desert of Alabasta. You'll get used to it."

The colonel finished speaking and was ready to call for people to move forward.

After they completed the handover with the next team, they could go to the ambush site. He subconsciously looked up at the sky and saw more and more clouds gathering from nowhere.