Chapter 683: Encounter with a sea cat
The good mood of Wu Liang and his party lasted until they passed through the submarine volcano and met Mr.2 von Clay, a righteous ladyboy, and it came to an abrupt end, not because the conflict broke out between the two sides in advance, the reason for ruining Wu's good mood was very simple, just when von Clay wanted a bowl of hot soup to warm up, Sanji, who went back to the kitchen to cook, found that the few ingredients left on the ship had been stolen and eaten!
That's right, even if Wu Liang has storage space, he can't stand up to Luffy, the big stomach king who is a hundred, and if he can't replenish the food warehouse with fish, he will have an empty day sooner or later, not to mention that it is more precious fresh water that originally occupied most of the space, and the result of the superposition of the two unfavorable factors is that it is normal to ---- out of food!
The galley was swept away, which meant that apart from the little emergency canned food and compressed dry food that was still stored in Wu Liang's storage space, the only things that could be eaten on the ship at present were the seasonings in the galley and the oranges planted on the deck.
The former can't eat alone, and the latter can't go hungry after eating, so if you don't want to go hungry for most of the next day, you can only think of your own tricks.
After sending von Clay off with a large glass of wine from Cactus Island, most of the crew of the Straw Hat Pirates obediently ran to the sides of the ship with fishing rods and began fishing, preparing the ingredients for lunch and dinner, which had been postponed indefinitely.
The situation on the girl's side is not bad, even if the kitchen is out of food, there is no worry that they will not be able to find any food in a short time, Sakura Menqi and a few of them got together and rummaged through their respective spaces, and soon found some small snacks such as candy and candied fruit, and invited Nami, Vivi, and Coco to go over and have a tea party, and the gay man was miserable, and before the sun set, they were hungry one by one.
Of course, Wu Liang will definitely not be included among the hungry people, and taking the time to stuff a few scallion oil-flavored compressed biscuits into his mouth is already considered to be full, and he even has time to secretly send a few canned luncheon meat to Sakura and them.
The reason for refusing to share food is very simple, the reason why Wu Liang behaved like this is just to make this group of fools who lack long-term vision have a long memory, especially Luffy, the single-celled fool whose body always acts before his mind and always makes judgments based on intuition, he also has to let him know that he can't kill the entire crew because of his temporary appetite!
I don't know if it's because the submarine volcano is too active, squatting on the side of the boat for several hours of fishing for hours without any decent catch, there are only about 30 palm-sized South Sea crucian carp (tilapia) and a few small trash fish such as saury and hairtail that are unfortunately scraped up by the hook. Such a pitiful catch is only enough to cook a big pot of fish soup and fill everyone up!
There is no way, it is difficult for a good woman to cook without rice, even if Yamaji is a chef, he can't use such a small number of ingredients to make a dish that is enough for everyone to eat, even if he puts as many seasonings stored on the ship as possible into the soup, he can only fill each female crew member with a large bowl of fish fillet porridge, and the rest of the male crew members have a bowl of half soup and half meat, and the remaining half pot of clear soup and little water all go into Luffy's stomach.
Even if there are many dissatisfactions, Luffy can't complain, after all, it is an indisputable fact that he has stolen too much food, and the only thing he can do is to drink two more glasses of delicious wine to try to anesthetize his stomach, and then return to the cabin to lie still, and stop his activities to reduce consumption. (Hmmm!) Although the odds are a bit low! )
The others who didn't have enough to eat had to do the same thing for a while, and before going to bed, Sanji and Zoro lowered their trawls behind the stern of the boat, hoping that fish would come to the door at night.
With the sound of stomach ringing, the long night was extremely difficult to get through.
Early the next morning, everyone on the ship was basically woken up by the sound of waves fluctuating, and before everyone could get out of the cabin to check, the Golden Merry, which was originally in a state of retracting the sails and drifting with the current, began to be dragged back by something.
"Hahaha! It must have caught a big fish, so Zoro and Luffy hurried out to help! Not wanting to face his hungry companion and saying that he had nothing to eat, Sanji reacted first, and before he even had time to put on his small suit, he ran out and ran towards the gang with a trawl net hanging on the stern.
"Great, there's fish to eat now!" Luffy, who didn't sleep at all because he was hungry, followed, and Zoro followed after pinning the knife to his waist.
As the three of them began to reel in the net, the faster the Merry was dragged upside down, and the prey caught in the trawl began to struggle desperately, and constantly changed the direction of escape, causing the Merry to fall backwards in an S shape on the sea surface for a while, and then turn into a B shape again, shaking everyone else on the boat who didn't get up!
When Wu Liang and his followers and captives arrived at the stern of the ship, it happened to be when Luffy and the three of them tried their best to get the strange man to close the net for food, accompanied by a large amount of splashes, Luffy and the three of them dragged out a strange creature with a cat's head and cat claws, and the lower body was wrapped in scales, judging from the size of the body, it should also be a branch of the sea king, but this guy's appearance is relatively cute.
The gluttonous cat that was fished out of the water by Luffy with a trawl net has an unhappy expression at the moment, and it still has half a fish tail in its mouth, as if it is a cat who is eating and has been disturbed by the shovel officer, and the cute little paws are about to scratch down, but they are blocked by the fishing net, and they are trying hard to get rid of the entanglement of the fishing net!
"What a big lump of meat! Sanji, I'm going to eat cat steak later! Luffy, who had been hungry all night, was the hungriest at the moment, and his eyes lit up when he saw such a big catch.
"No problem, just drag it onto the boat and eat as much as you want, Zoro keep the distance and don't let this stupid cat scratch the back deck, and you will cut it if you get closer!" Sanji, who dragged the trawl net to the boat hard, was the one who ate the least last night, and was no less enthusiastic about the prey in front of him than Luffy.
"Understood! Wouldn't it be more convenient to cut it directly into a cutlet! "One of Zoro's hands has drawn out the sharpest demon knife---- three generations of Onitoru are ready to slice the sea cat.
"Stop! You three big fools, this is a sacred creature unique to the waters of Alabastan---- sea cat, and seeing it will bring good luck to the voyager, and it is absolutely not to be eaten! Finally, Vivi and Ikalem, who had reached the stern, saw what the cat-like creatures in the nets looked like, and they both picked up the long-handled brushes that brushed the deck to stop the three fools who had been carried away by the worms, and pulled the nets from the cat's tightly wrapped up and returned to the sea.
"How so...... Oh my flesh! ”
"Don't bark, sea cats are usually only found off the coast of Alabastan, and seeing it means that we are almost at our destination, and it doesn't matter if we want to eat as much food as we want when we get to the port!"