c1: Crossing! Ice Dragon Slayer!
Snow-white seagulls lined up and flew across the blue sky in groups. The waves swept up by the sea breeze repeatedly beat the beach tirelessly.
"Unknown seas, unknown islands."
The panting Loya sighed so, and then sat on the beach weakly.
In the time just now, Loya ran around the island and was half tired before coming to this conclusion. Now he can be sure of one thing, if all of this is not the kind of prank that belongs to the legend, then he really has crossed.
The instant noodle bucket half-buried by the sand under his feet is proof.
Loya was originally a small clerk. He had just graduated and worked very hard every day. During the rare May Day holiday, Loya bought bread, instant noodles, and soda, ready to spend the night playing games with his teammates. He had just walked to the computer with instant noodles when he lost consciousness before reaching for the power button.
When he came back to his senses, he found himself standing on a golden sandy beach with the bucket of ham-flavored instant noodles still in his hand. What was blowing on the front was not the hot and dry air of his rental flat thick with the smell of sweat, foot odor, smoke, and cheap noodles but a fresh, salty sea breeze similar to the climate near the Calm Belt.
At that moment, Loya was stunned. This sudden change made his brain freeze for a while, until the instant noodles in his hand fell down and the hot boiling water scalded his feet before he came back to his senses.
The fear and anxiety caused by this unknown situation made him run along the island like crazy, trying to find a trace of people and ask about the situation. But to his disappointment, this small island was really an uninhabited one—it wasn't even as large as the old housing district he rented in. The limit of vision was the endless blue sea. This was a real island, like one you'd expect somewhere in the East Blue or South Blue.
...
Sitting on the scalding sand, Loya moved his butt, a little unbearable for the heat of the sand after being exposed to the sun, so he stood up on his knees and stumbled to the shade of a coconut tree on the edge of the beach.
"Am I really transcending?"
Loya looked at the white flip-flops with broken rubber on his feet, and said to himself a little absentmindedly: "No reason and no pattern to cross?"
He didn't know where this place was, but according to the tradition of time travel stories, it was definitely not his original world. Those familiar people and things had left him, and the memories and regrets of the past no longer had anything to do with him.
Suddenly, he became excited: "Playing with me, right! Today my sister invited me to open up wasteland for 25 hours! The salary will be paid the day after tomorrow! I can't wait a few extra days for me! I haven't had dinner yet..."
Speaking of this, Loya closed his mouth all of a sudden, and he touched his stomach... Indeed, dinner hasn't been eaten yet!
Thinking of this, Loya looked up at the coconut hanging on the tree, swallowed, and there was a flash of determination in his eyes.
"Resolutely not going to starve to death!"
It is not known whether there are any beasts like a sea king cub or a strange island creature in the depths of the island, so Loya gave up the plan to explore further inland. He took off his T-shirt, straightened it, and glanced at the coconut tree. Well, fine... not long enough.
Looking around, Loya sneakily took off his trousers, wearing only boxers. This was a tree-climbing method he had learned from watching survival variety shows. He used his belt to go around the tree, then moved up little by little using strength.
"Hey!"
The only flip-flops left under his feet were thrown away by him, and Loya jumped vigorously, pulling the end of his pants in one hand, and stomping on the trunk to fix himself in mid-air.
"Then what's the next step? Move the strap upwards with your hands in the air? Wouldn't it fall off then?" Loya pulled his pants, stunned again.
After thinking about it, Loya clamped the tree trunk with his thighs, took a deep breath, and tried to move his pants up.
Tear!
He had just moved up less than ten centimeters when, with the sound of cloth splitting, the jeans he had been wearing for years were torn directly from the trouser legs.
The sudden situation made Loya stumble, and he was about to fall backwards. But fortunately, his eyes were sharp and his hands fast he threw his trousers away as he loosened his hands, then exerted force on his waist and abdomen, leaning forward quickly and gripping the tree trunk with both hands, avoiding the danger of falling.
He took a deep breath for a while, and finally, Loya decided to give up trying this unreliable method, slipped down the tree trunk embarrassingly, and fell back to the ground.
Although the pants were torn, it was still better than being naked. When wearing the pants again, the inner thighs that were reddened by the bark were extremely painful Loya sucked in the cool air and pulled the pants up.
At this moment, he looked down and saw a few pebbles next to the roots of the tree, rolled his eyes, and picked up two. During the process of climbing the tree just now, he found that although the coconuts looked very green and lush, the connection to the tree was not very stable. As the trunk swayed like the Thousand Sunny during a calm belt current shift they collided with each other, making a muffled dong dong sound.
"Although I don't know if it will work or not, it's up to you! Come on, Stone Monster!"
Raise your hand, twist your hips, lower your body, and throw it hard.
Bang!
The moment Shizi shot, there was a muffled sound, and then Loya heard the sound of something bursting. Just as he was about to look up, a water-stained turquoise hard shell fell from the sky, and he subconsciously reached out to catch it.
Looking at the thing in his hands, Loya, like that exaggerated face from a Buster Call civilian report, slowly opened his mouth with an exaggerated expression: "This is... a coconut?"
Then he looked up quickly, and sure enough, the coconut he was aiming at just now the smaller coconut next to it had disappeared, and a long line appeared on the turquoise shell of the remaining coconuts. Long, uneven scratches marked it, like the result of a sea stone bullet graze.
"When did my strength become so strong? Or... is the gravity here lower than the Earth's? Like the skydome islands over White-White Sea?" Loya blinked, a little unresponsive.
He looked down at the half coconut shell in his hand, and in the center of the white coconut flesh, a thin layer of water had gathered there. He licked his dry lips, and decided to ignore the weirdness just now, raised his coconut shell and lifted his head to drink it.
After drinking it all in one breath, Loya breathed a long sigh of relief. The coconut milk was sweet and refreshing, which eased the heat in his body and made him feel better. But coconut milk alone can't fill his stomach. Loya looked at his clean and white fingers and tried to use his nails to peel the layer of coconut meat.
What surprised him was that the coconut meat, which was obviously difficult to get off normally, was like the filling in a Mariejois parfait right now.
"Am I too strong... or is this coconut some sort of exotic Loguetown variety?"
Holding this piece of pure white coconut meat in his hand, he didn't have time to think about it. His internal organs, which had just been calmed by the coconut milk, began rebelling again the stomach acid he hadn't felt during his adrenaline rush now made his belly ache with urgency. He opened his mouth wide and bit off more than half of the coconut meat in one bite.
"Hmm... a bit hard."
After scraping the coconut flesh a few times, Loya looked at the coconuts above his head with bright eyes.
...
Although it was already quite late, the thirsty Loya still ate more than a dozen coconuts, and then patted his stomach with satisfaction, leaning against the coconut tree and taking a nap.
After solving the problem of the Five Zang Temples, Loya finally had time to think about the changes in his body.
Thinking back on the panic and running around the island before, Loya only now realized how incredible it all was. No matter how small this island was, it was still about seven or eight kilometers wide. He had run for several kilometers non-stop. Was this still the same otaku clerk with a sub-healthy body? Not even winded, and certainly not half-dead?
It's not normal when you think about it.
"Could this be the golden finger that's said to be standard in the time-traveling genre?" Loya pondered with hiccups.
There are very few young people in the modern age who haven't read online novels and Loya was no exception. When he was in junior high, he had fantasized more than once that if he ever crossed into another world, what kind of cheat would he get? Sharingan? Zanpakutō? Devil Fruit? Even the psychic powers from the Baroque Works files had obsessed him for a while.
But he definitely didn't expect it to be this powerful.
At this moment, a transparent blue panel suddenly appeared in the air in front of Loya. He blinked, thinking he was hallucinating from hunger, rubbed his eyes, and looked again. The panel was still there!
"This is... my golden finger?"
Loya regained his energy all at once, and the drowsiness caused by a lack of blood to the brain disappeared instantly.
But when he saw the big characters at the top of the panel clearly, Loya's expression stiffened and he muttered aloud.
"Ice. Destroy. Dragon. Demon. Guide. Scholar!"
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