Chapter 420: Chapter 302: Red Hair Dumbfounded (Part 2)

"No wonder it’s the New World, the weather changes just like that."

Su Xin remained leisurely half-lying, gazing up at the gloomy sky, his expression unchanged.

He didn’t activate his Immortal Sense, nor did he use Telekinesis to explore. After all, the ship wasn’t afraid of damage, nor was he afraid of any weather; it was just a chance to experience the local features of this world.

However.

The intuitive perception of a strong person still allowed him to detect several ships approaching in the distance.

...

On the big ship Red Force.

Red Hair looked at the overcast sky and shouted boldly, "A storm is coming, everyone get ready for the storm. Let’s have a grand lunch under the baptism of the storm!"

Yasopp, standing nearby, quipped:

"Stupid captain, judging by the weather, the storm later will surely be huge; let alone a lunch, it’ll be good news if the Red Force isn’t damaged."

First mate Beckman calmly ordered:

"Take down the sails and prepare for the storm!"

At this time, the navigator Snake, peering through a single telescope, suddenly said:

"Captain, there’s a big ship over there."

"Oh?"

Red Hair curiously asked, "Who is it?"

"I don’t know, the other side isn’t flying a Pirate Flag, and it’s not any known ship; this ship... looks very strange."

"How is it strange?"

"The shape of this ship is odd... no sails, no mast, no lookout post, just a bare hull... and it seems to lack even any cannon installations."

"Hmm? Such a ship?"

Even as carefree as Red Hair was, he could tell something was off about this ship.

In the Pirate World, ships are all sail-powered, using sails to harness the wind as propulsion. Without sails, how does it move on the sea? How does it steer?

Snake continued:

"Even stranger, that ship maintains a very steady speed and direction, heading straight in our direction."

Beckman also picked up the telescope.

After looking for a while, he asked:

"That ship is indeed a bit odd. Captain, should we avoid it?"

Red Hair grinned and said, "A strange ship? Pirates are all about exploration. With such a peculiar ship, I want to check it out... No need to avoid it, let’s go over and have a look."

At Red Hair’s command.

The Red Force immediately headed towards Su Xin’s unnamed large ship, with the distance between them closing under the ever-darkening clouds.

At a certain moment.

A bolt of lightning streaked down from the sky, illuminating the world with a dazzling flash.

After two or three seconds.

"Boom!!"

A rumbling thunder rolled in.

Then came a torrential downpour.

Red Hair and his crew stood on the deck, gazing into the distance, while the others, with slightly lesser strength, had retreated inside the ship to avoid the storm.

As the distance between the two ships closed, Red Hair and the others began to clearly see the scene on the other ship.

They saw a figure lying leisurely in the storm, rising and falling with the ship’s motion, showered with countless large raindrops, buffeted by the fierce and chaotic winds, yet remaining unmoving.

"This guy really is something else."

Red Hair laughed.

Beckman’s expression grew extremely serious:

"He really is something else. He’s been in the rain for so long, yet his clothes don’t seem to be wet at all."

"Really?"

The others hadn’t noticed this. Hearing this, they looked again carefully and found that Su Xin’s clothes indeed remained dry, which left them all shocked and their expressions changed dramatically.

After another ten or so minutes.

The two ships were less than a hundred meters apart.

Red Hair shouted loudly, "Sir, a storm is coming, soon there will be a huge tsunami here. Would you like to avoid it together?"

His voice penetrated the storm and rain, overpowering the rumbling thunder, reaching Su Xin’s ears.

Su Xin sat up from the lounge chair and smiled:

"So it’s the famous Red-haired Pirates. My name is Su Xin. As for avoiding the tsunami, there’s no need. I want to see it."

Although his tone was calm, and his voice didn’t seem loud, it reached the ears of the crew on the deck of the Red Force with perfect clarity.

This feat left them even more astonished, unable to comprehend how Su Xin had achieved it.

Even Red Hair was inwardly shocked.

As a former apprentice of the Pirate King Roger and now one of the New World Four Emperors, he had seen many strong people in his life, but he had never seen methods like Su Xin’s.

"Su Xin, is it? Pardon me for not introducing myself. My name is Shanks. I just wanted to remind Mr. Su Xin that, judging by this weather, the storm will intensify, and the tsunami’s power will be terrifying. It’s a natural disaster beyond human resistance. Even the legendary pirates couldn’t resist it."

"Thank you for the reminder, I understand."

Su Xin nodded with a smile.

He knew the legendary pirates Shanks referred to were likely the Flying Sky Pirates, led by Golden Lion Shiki, the legendary Fruit Ability user of the Floating Fruit from the past era.

"Oh? Right, Shiki."

"He’s also a good choice."

Thinking of this, Su Xin’s thoughts diverged to this intriguing potential subordinate.

Besides Shiki, there were other powerful crew members from Pirate King Roger’s ship, but they lacked the abilities or fame that Su Xin valued, so he couldn’t be bothered to seek them out.

As for Shiki, his Floating Fruit ability was extremely powerful, very practical, and significantly beneficial to a faction. He was also one of the three legendary pirates of the previous era, once considered on par with Roger and Whitebeard.

Having someone like him as a subordinate, with his complete combat power restored, would bring considerable shock to this world. In this regard, he was far more valuable than Barrett, Wang Zhi, or Jabba.

As Su Xin was lost in thought.

Suddenly, several massive lightning bolts struck the sea near the two ships.

Perhaps these lightning bolts were the catalyst, the sea, which was already in tumultuous motion, began churning like boiling water.

A gigantic wave, tens of meters high, formed and headed towards the two ships.

"Captain, here comes the big wave!"

Beckman shouted with a serious expression.

Red Hair couldn’t spare any more time to talk to Su Xin, hurriedly working with his crew to stabilize the ship.

As Red Hair said, in the face of such fearsome natural disasters bearing divine wrath, whether legendary great pirates or Four Emperors, they seemed as weak as ants.

Even the once-world-dominating Flying Sky Pirates fell to a tsunami that reversed their fate, nearly annihilating the entire crew.

Red Hair didn’t think of himself as stronger than Shiki back then, so he had to take such a disaster seriously.

"Splash!!"

"Boom! Boom!!"

The sea roared, and thunder cracked.

The world was shrouded in darkness.

Su Xin’s ship pitched violently along with the waves.

Seeing the colossal tsunami about to overturn the ship, Su Xin had to intervene.

He raised his hand and gently pressed down.

A vast amount of Telekinesis spread out in all directions, then forcefully pressed downwards.

The turbulent sea was instantly flattened by this unmatched power. The towering waves and turbulent surface became calm in an instant.

Although the water below still surged intensely, the surface seemed sealed; not a single splash could rise.

This scene stunned the Red-haired Pirates.

"What... what’s going on?"

"The tsunami, why did it suddenly stop?"

"What’s happening?"

"Our ship has stopped too, completely motionless, like it’s trapped."

Red Hair stared blankly around.

Suddenly, as if struck by a thought, he quickly turned his gaze to Su Xin.

Intuition told him that this change...

Might be related to the other party.

After all, with Su Xin’s previous strange behaviors, and his ship navigating freely without sails, there must be some special means at play.