One Piece: Hashirama Template, Joins the Straw Hat Pirates Chapter 065

Everyone was shocked to hear that.

Nami immediately came to Robin’s side and said somewhat angrily, “Is that the Marine Admiral who made you drift around all this time? If he’s here, we’ll have Liu Qing beat him up later to vent your anger.”

“Right~ After so long of training, we also want to test an Admiral’s strength, don’t we, Luffy?” Zoro’s eyes burned with fighting spirit.

“Ah~ yeah, but whether he’s here or not, let’s go ashore first to see the specific situation, and then decide.” Luffy stood at the bow, raising his arms and shouting, his voice echoing across the sea, “Prepare to drop anchor! Time for an island adventure!”

As his words fell, the crew members quickly acted, dropping the anchor to secure the ship. Then, Luffy took the lead, leaping like an arrow from a bowstring, landing steadily on the ice island.

“Woah!” Luffy, who had just jumped onto the island, was immediately attracted by the sight before him. He felt the smooth, mirror-like ice surface beneath his feet and couldn’t help but shout excitedly, “Ahaha~ The ice here is so smooth, it’s like a natural skating rink! Let’s go ice skating!”

Sanji, who was nearby, said with some regret, “Too bad we don’t have ice skates.”

“Don’t worry, just find me!” At this moment, Liu Qing stepped out with a grin. He clapped his hands and used Wood Release. Suddenly, a large amount of wood emerged around him. Under his control, these pieces of wood rapidly transformed, turning into exquisite pairs of ice skates in the blink of an eye.

“Here, everyone try them. Just slip them over your shoes.” Liu Qing distributed the finished ice skates to everyone.

As for himself, he made a special snowboard. This snowboard could be used by one person or by two people at the same time.

“Ooh-hoo~ I want to play~”

“Me too~ Me too~”

Seeing Liu Qing’s masterpiece, everyone cheered excitedly, eagerly putting on their ice skates, impatient to show off their skills.

Luffy waved his arms even more excitedly, pointing to the center of the ice island and shouting loudly, “Comrades~ Let’s go, snowboarding adventure!”

At his command, everyone sped across the ice like wild horses unleashed.

“Wahahaha~~ This is too much fun!” Luffy shouted excitedly like a child, completely immersed in the joy of snowboarding.

Chopper, who was nearby, echoed excitedly, “Yeah, yeah, it’s really fun!”

“Alright, Robin, let’s go too!” Liu Qing smiled and took Robin’s hand. The two of them stood together on the two-person snowboard, speeding away like flying birds, closely chasing Luffy and Chopper ahead.

However, after Luffy and the others had skated for a while, an unexpected scene appeared before them.

A slender dog, hundreds of meters long, was shivering from the severe cold, slowly moving with difficulty in a certain direction. This dog was completely oblivious to the arrival of Luffy and the others, simply burying its head and walking forward.

Not only that, Luffy and the others also noticed some other strange sights. Not far away, there was a slender bear, ten meters tall, standing like a tree.

And on a nearby tree, there hung half-meter long slender fruits, as if everything here wouldn’t grow larger, only longer.

“Hey, Luffy, why did you all stop skating?” Liu Qing and Robin quickly caught up to Luffy, seeing them standing still as if under a spell, curiously gazing at these strange sights around them, feeling a bit surprised.

Luffy scratched his head, muttering with a puzzled look, “This island is too weird! Everything is ridiculously long. Just now I saw a small dog, and its body was actually hundreds of meters long!”

Nami was equally stunned by the sight before her. She widened her eyes, looking around, muttering, “Yeah, this island is really strange, everything has become so long.”

Usopp nervously swallowed, his voice slightly trembling as he said, “Could it be… this is the legendary Elongation Island?”

Zoro’s brows were tightly furrowed, and he analyzed with a serious expression, “From the current situation, all creatures on this island seem to be much longer than their normal state.”

Chopper, on the other hand, seemed a bit anxious. He scurried on his short legs to Robin’s side, like a frightened child, and whispered, “Is it really safe here? Will we also be stretched out?”

“Haha~ No, Chopper, maybe this island has some special ability. Let’s look around first, maybe we can find signs of people living here.” Liu Qing smiled, comforting Chopper, then turned to prepare to continue snowboarding with Robin.

However, just as they were about to set off, Usopp suddenly shouted excitedly, “Hey~ Look quickly, is that a house over there?” He pointed to a building in the distance as he spoke.

Upon hearing Usopp’s shout, Luffy immediately picked a few frozen apples from a tree, casually broke the ice, then unceremoniously took one and stuffed it into his mouth, crunching away. As he chewed the apple, he looked in the direction Usopp was pointing, mumbling, “Hmm… I do think that looks like a house. Why don’t we go check it out!”

Before he finished speaking, Luffy, impatient, sped off like an arrow from a bowstring towards that direction. Usopp, Zoro, and the others, seeing this, quickly followed, dashing like a gust of wind.

Liu Qing and Robin followed leisurely behind the group, hand in hand, slowly snowboarding, as if this wasn’t an adventure, but a romantic date.

In a short while, everyone arrived near the house. They stopped and looked around, carefully observing the building. However, strangely enough, there were no signs of anyone having lived there.

“That’s strange, looking at this house, it must have been uninhabited for a long time, right? Did the people living here move away?” Usopp scratched his head, puzzled.

Just then, Luffy’s gaze was fixed on the two bamboo poles in front of the house.

He couldn’t help but step forward, shouting loudly, “Everyone come and see! There are two bamboo poles here, they’re so tall, we can’t even see the end of them!”

Hearing Luffy’s shout, everyone gathered around curiously. They looked up to see the two bamboo poles like two giant pillars reaching to the sky, their tops already disappearing from sight, as if they were about to break through the planet’s confines and pierce the clouds.

“How can these bamboo poles grow so long?” Usopp’s eyes widened, he muttered, his face showing an expression of disbelief.

“Why don’t we cut them down and see how long they really are?” Luffy suggested excitedly, his face filled with eagerness, as if he couldn’t wait to cut down the two bamboo poles.

“Hey, Luffy, don’t mess around!” Nami quickly shouted, “These bamboo poles might belong to someone, we can’t just cut them down!”

However, before Nami finished speaking, Luffy rushed into the small house like a whirlwind.

In a blink of an eye, he rushed out again, holding a sharp kitchen knife tightly in his hand, muttering, “I’m going to cut the bamboo, I’m going to cut the bamboo!”

Immediately after, Luffy began to furiously chop at the two bamboo poles. Only the sound of “whoosh whoosh whoosh~~” was heard incessantly, and bamboo sections flew everywhere. Luffy’s movements were as fast as lightning, and in a blink of an eye, the two bamboo poles had been rapidly chopped down.

As the bamboo descended at a visible speed, it wasn’t long before the ground was covered with bamboo sections.

At the same time, a terrified scream came from the very top of the bamboo.

“Ah~~ Help, help me~ Is there anyone who can save me~”

“Oh no~ There’s someone up there, quickly think of a way to save him.”

“Watch me, Gum-Gum… Grab.” Almost at the instant the cry for help fell, Luffy’s arm stretched out towards the sky like lightning.

“Ah~~”

After feeling he had grabbed someone, Luffy’s arm quickly retracted. As the cries from the sky grew louder, an old man, tattered and bearded, with eyes rolled back, was brought down by him.

Usopp’s eyes instantly widened, and his mouth hung open, disbelievingly looking at the old man Luffy had brought down, shouting, “Ah~ Is this a bamboo spirit?”

“Wake up, old man~” Nami grabbed the old man and began to shake him.

The old man was shaken dizzy, and after a long while, he slowly opened his eyes, looking around in a daze.

“Uh~ Am I still alive?” the old man murmured with lingering fear.

“Hey~ Old man, who are you, and why were you climbing such a tall bamboo pole?” Zoro asked, puzzled.

The old man said with a dry throat, “My name is Dongjit, and I live on Long Ring Long Land. As for these two bamboo poles, they are actually my stilts.”

Everyone looked at the old man in astonishment, their faces full of disbelief.

Usopp said, disbelievingly, “Old man, you can’t brag like that. How did you get up on such tall stilts?”

Dongjit gave a wry smile, “When I was young, I had a dream of becoming the world’s tallest stilt walker, so I began my training on the island. As it turned out, I unexpectedly developed acrophobia.”

“And then, standing up there, I didn’t dare to come down. Just like that, the bamboo took root and sprouted, growing taller and taller, becoming what it is now.”

“What the heck~ You have acrophobia and you’re playing on stilts?” Sanji couldn’t help but complain.

Dongjit said helplessly, “Who would have thought, I’ve been up there for ten years~”

Chopper’s eyes and jaw dropped to the floor when he heard his words: “ 10 years? How did you survive?”

Dongjit pointed to the trees on the island and said, “Luckily, the trees on Long Ring Long Land are very tall, so I could pick fruits from them to survive, otherwise I would have starved to death long ago.”

“Um~ Excuse me, but how did you go to the bathroom during these 10 years? Did you just go directly? What did you use to wipe your butt?” Liu Qing asked with a curious expression.