Sea Circle Calendar 1484, Canyon of the Gods

A group of people wearing white short-sleeves with "target" patterns printed on their backs were running desperately through the forest. Fear and helplessness were etched on their faces, as if they were being pursued by terrifying monsters.

"Run! They are catching up!"

"Don't get in the way! I want to live!"

"Boom!"

"Ah!!!"

Gunshots rang out from behind them, people kept falling to the ground, and the running crowd became more chaotic.

In this chaos, four figures stood close together. No matter how crowded the surrounding crowd was, the four of them always stayed together.

There were three men and one woman among these four people. Although one of them was extremely burly, judging from his immature face, he was still a child just like the other three.

His physical strength was obviously much stronger than the other three children, but he always followed behind them, using his body to act as a barrier.

A bow and arrow had been deeply inserted into the "target" pattern on his back. However, even though he was injured, he gritted his teeth and remained silent.

The only little girl among the four turned around and burst into tears when she saw this scene. She cried anxiously,

"Kuma! Get in front of us! Your size makes you too easy to hurt from behind!"

Kuma forced a smile, shook his head, and said,

"Ginny, don't worry about me, I'm fine, as long as you are not hurt."

That's what he said, but judging from his weak tone and pale complexion, his condition was obviously not very good.

After all, he was still a child, albeit a child over two meters tall.

When the remaining two boys heard Ginny's voice, they all turned to look at Kuma.

Among them, the boy with the afro darkened when he saw the bow and arrow on Kuma's back. He looked at the other boy beside him and said in a deep voice,

"Carl, we have to find a safe place to hide quickly. Kuma is seriously injured! Damn it, those scum!"

The boy named Carl was not wearing a white short-sleeved shirt with a target pattern, but a white long-sleeved coat of good quality.

He had messy black hair and a delicate face. His dark eyes were calm and determined, and his childish face revealed a hint of maturity that was inconsistent with his age.

At this moment, Carl's face was as calm as water, and he slowly said,

"Nowhere is safe now. We can't stop. Just hold on. The sun is going down and those people will go back soon."

"But..."

"Run! Otherwise, we will die!"

Kuma also spoke out at this time,

"Ivankov, Carl is right, we must not stop here. If I can't hold on anymore, please leave me and run away!"

At only nine years old, he was actually prepared to die at this moment. Ginny cried even harder after hearing this.

"Uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu Kuma, I will never abandon you!"

Although Carl spoke tough, his steps slowed down unconsciously.

This behavior was obviously extremely dangerous, but fortunately, it was getting late, and the people chasing behind them were also slowing down.

Less than an hour later, the gunfire behind Carl and the others gradually subsided until it stopped.

To be on the safe side, Carl and the others continued running for a while and finally stopped in front of a small pool.

Plop! Plop!

As soon as Ivankov and the others stopped, they collapsed to the ground like deflated rubber balls. Kuma, with an injury on his back, fell directly to the ground in a large shape.

Carl first looked around cautiously. After confirming that it was safe, he came to sit by the pool and stared at himself reflected in the water in a daze.

It had been a week of escape, in this world of One Piece...

Carl traveled through time.

He was originally an orphan on Earth, and he graduated from college with difficulty by relying on work-study programs.

Orphans are also a group of people who are prone to time travel.

On the night of graduation, he drank with his friends in the dormitory all night long until he was extremely drunk. He only remembered that in the end, he was holding onto the wall and wanted to go to the bathroom, but his feet gave way, and he fell down the corridor. He lost consciousness.

When he woke up, he had become a child and was on an isolated island.

Regarding the memory of his predecessor, he could not remember anything except that he was named Carl like himself and was eight years old, as if he had lost his memory.

As for why he knew he had traveled to the world of One Piece, it was because he met the fleeing Kuma while exploring the isolated island.

Not to mention Ginny, Kuma, and Ivankov, two distinctive characters in One Piece, were all too familiar to Carl, who had read the comics.

After learning the names of the two people, and looking at Ivankov's afro, his "pervert" energy, and Kuma, a two-meter-tall nine-year-old child, how could Carl not know them?

The three of them were all well-known good people in the pirate world. Seeing that Carl, a child younger than them, was miserable alone, they directly roped him into their gang without saying anything. From that day on, the group became a group of four.

Based on the current age of Kuma and the others, as well as their situation, Carl also knew where he was now and what was happening.

 God Valley, the slave hunting ground of the Celestial Dragons!

Carl, who had just confirmed the news, suddenly felt goosebumps.

He knew very well what would happen in Valley of Gods. Soon, the top warriors in the pirate world would gather here to start a fierce fight.

Rocks Pirates, Marines, and Celestial Dragons' ace power, the Knights of God, just thinking about it made his head tingle.

Any Celestial Dragon armed with a gun, could kill him at any time.

What kind of hellish start is this? Where's the promised novice task? When you come up, you face a full-level BOSS, and they are all top-tier!

Although Carl knew that Kuma would eat the Paw-Paw Fruit later and use his powers to escape with everyone, that was when he was reading the comics from a manga perspective. Now, he had truly become the prey in this hunting ground!

What if he was shot dead by one of the Celestial Dragons in the middle?

What if they failed to find the Paw-Paw Fruit in the end because of his joining? He knew that in the original comic, Kuma and Ivankov discovered the fruit by accident!

In the first few days, Carl still had some luck, thinking that since time travel was real, there should be some sort of cheat, right? Like a system?

Carl always imagined hearing a "ding!" in his mind, followed by an electronic sound.

"XX conditions have been met, XX is activated."

However, until now, Carl was almost numb to the gunshots and screams every day, and that celestial sound had still not appeared.

Recalling his escape experience during this period, Carl finally couldn't hold himself any longer. He punched the water and made a sound through his teeth.

"Celestial Dragons, if I get out alive, none of you will be able to live well!!!"