Chapter 215 City Storm
Rain Dinners Casino, President's Office.
Crocodile stood beneath the floor-to-ceiling window, coldly staring at Sig.
Behind him, the wind howled incessantly, carrying sand and dust that constantly beat against the floor-to-ceiling window, making a dense sound.
The sandstorm was getting closer and closer.
Thump-thump-thump-thump-thump...
Sig's heartbeat was also becoming more and more rapid.
Crocodile rarely showed patience, but Sig had no choice.
"Back in the East Blue, I shouldn't have told that lie..."
While Sig was regretting in his heart, Crocodile's face gradually darkened.
The pressure from that dense heartbeat was something he couldn't ignore.
"Facing this sandstorm, you still have the will to fight?"
Crocodile snorted coldly, and his whole body began to rapidly turn into sand. In a short while, his whole body had turned into a gust of sand, directly breaking through the floor-to-ceiling window behind him.
A portion of the sand separated and directly grabbed Robin, who was standing nearby, and took her out of the window.
"He's not going to continue fighting me, but instead he's running away?"
Sig, who had been on guard all along, was also stunned for a moment. He quickly walked to the broken floor-to-ceiling window, only to see that the gust of sand that Crocodile had transformed into was rapidly moving away in the direction of the sandstorm.
In a short while, it had directly merged into the sky-covering sand tornado in the distance.
Sig's heart sank, and he immediately activated Usopp's Observation Haki, looking far into the distance.
He seemed to feel that the giant sand tornado in the distance seemed to have changed direction slightly, and was gradually moving in the direction of the casino...
"Crocodile's presence seems to be in that sand tornado?"
Sig suddenly remembered that he had experienced a similar situation in Loguetown.
"Is he afraid that I will stop him, so he quickly hid in the sand tornado?"
He stood by the floor-to-ceiling window, looking at the rapidly approaching giant sand tornado, his heart beating like a drum.
It was fine when the window was closed just now.
Now that the floor-to-ceiling window was broken by Crocodile, the howling wind brought sand and dust rushing in, and the sharp whistling sound almost filled his eardrums, Sig could hardly open his eyes.
So... what to do now?
Thump-thump-thump-thump-thump-thump-thump-thump!
His heart was beating rapidly like a pump, and the blood in his body was flowing like a river.
This state of high heart rate seemed to also have an effect similar to adrenaline.
At this moment, as the Emperor Engine sound became louder and denser, Sig became more clear-headed, and countless thoughts flashed through his mind.
The first person he thought of was Fujitora.
But... let's not talk about whether Fujitora has a way to stop this storm, it's probably too late.
The giant sand tornado was speeding up, and houses were quickly swallowed by it, constantly collapsing, and then turning into more sand and dust flying all over the sky.
At this rate, it wouldn't be long before the storm reached this building and completely engulfed Sig!
A few minutes, Sig has to find the mechanism in the building and then untie Fujitora, who is trapped in the Seastone prison chair? This is obviously not feasible.
Fujitora can't be relied on... Then who else can he rely on?
A natural disaster that has already formed is simply unstoppable by human power!
This time, there were no strong people around him to borrow strength from, and there were no new cards...
"An unstoppable natural disaster, a storm that destroys an entire city..."
Sig muttered, and a sense of sadness gradually welled up in his heart.
In the howling wind, he could vaguely hear the cries of the people mixed in.
But suddenly, Sig had a sense of déjà vu.
"This seems somewhat similar to the scene in the myth where the water floods Chentang Pass."
With a thought, the system panel appeared in front of him.
Li Jing's card's current compatibility is 31%!, The progress has been very slow, and even the Usopp card has already taken the lead with 45%!...
For so long, Sig has not found a good way to play Li Jing. He mostly relied on practicing to grind that compatibility.
"If it were Li Jing himself, the commander of Chentang Pass, he would definitely try to stop the storm and save the city, right?"
As this thought crossed his mind, Sig's breathing became slightly rapid.
He activated Usopp's Observation Haki again, trying his best to perceive Crocodile's presence.
"Crocodile, he didn't hide in the sand tornado... It seems that he used elemental transformation to merge into the interior of the sand tornado?"
"Is this how he manipulates the sand tornado?"
A dangerous thought suddenly appeared in Sig's mind.
Just imagining it in his mind, the sound of the Emperor Engine became denser again.
"The current Crocodile is inside the sandstorm, and seems to be one with the sandstorm."
"This sandstorm doesn't have hands, right?"
Sig had actually tested Li Jing's card's ability many times.
The sea, tornadoes, and cannonballs are not living things and have no hands. In theory, Li Jing can cut them.
But in fact, when Sig tried to cut the sea, a passerby would always inexplicably come and catch the blade with bare hands...
If it were an ordinary sandstorm, if Sig slashed out with a sword, he might also randomly summon a passerby.
But in the current sandstorm, there is a Crocodile!
"There is no retreat, and there is no time..."
Sig gritted his teeth.
He didn't think any more, raised his head, and stepped out towards the outside of the windowsill.
Tom Card, Air Walk!
Sig raised his head, directly facing the howling wind, and walked step by step in the air towards the approaching storm!
At this time, Iruma's dodging ability has about 1 minute left.
In order to prevent Li Jing's card from summoning a passerby, Sig must get as close as possible to the sand tornado where Crocodile is located within 1 minute.
Sizzle!
In the sharp whistling sound, pieces of gravel and rubble were swept by the wind, blowing towards Sig from all directions.
There were too many sand, dust, and rubble in the air, almost blocking all directions of dodging.
If it were a normal person, even Iruma himself, who has 100% dodging ability, would probably be hit...
But at the moment when the rubble and gravel were about to touch Sig, Sig's body suddenly twisted, and his upper body was directly twisted into a spiral shape, barely dodging the gravel that was attacking from both sides of his body.
The next second, the twisted upper body suddenly fell backwards, almost parallel to the ground, dodging a piece of rubble that was smashing towards him.
At the same time, Sig's two legs were still constantly running in the air. His head was raised high, and his eyes were still staring at the sky as always...
Tom's transformation ability, coupled with Iruma's dodging ability, gave Sig an extremely strange but useful non-human dodging ability.
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