Chapter 191 Dyna Stones
Tesoro told Brett the location of that island, and Brett immediately set out.
This time Tesoro didn't accompany him—the more covert this kind of thing, the better. If possible, Brett only wanted to quietly mine Dyna Stones, preferably without the government knowing from start to finish.
Brett proceeded at full speed, transforming into a fiery red dragon-man and soaring through the sky.
He continuously condensed flame clouds, then used the materialized clouds as stepping stones to propel himself forward. The lightning wrapped around his body was already so brilliant it was hard to look at directly. The explosive power brought by ultra-high intensity electrical propulsion made him shoot forward like thunder.
It didn't take long before he had already arrived above the target island.
Since he was navigating by sight, it took some time to find the island's location. Fortunately, there was only this one island on the nearby sea surface, so it didn't take too long.
Supported by flame clouds, Brett floated in the sky, looking down at the island below.
Unremarkable.
That was the only word to describe it.
The entire island was barren, without any plant life, like a desolate island commonly seen on the seas.
The only special thing was the Marine base built into the mountain—it looked like they had hollowed out the mountain and built the base's main structure inside the mountain.
Brett temporarily didn't want to deal with this base. He first needed to search whether there really were Dyna Stone deposits in the surrounding waters.
Dyna Stones exploded upon contact with air.
No matter how you looked at it, this stuff couldn't be produced on land, right?
Otherwise, just digging out one piece would trigger a chain reaction that would not only destroy the island serving as the source, but even deeper underground would be blown to smithereens.
But such things had never happened.
It could only be in the sea.
Brett descended into the ocean at a considerable distance from that island.
The bubbles covering his body surface could help him block out seawater, allowing him to move freely in the ocean.
Brett had even upgraded the bubbles covering his body now.
No longer like in the past, directly covering his entire body with a large bubble pressed tightly against his body surface.
The method he used now was to make the bubbles into densely packed small bubbles, arranged closely on his body surface, like scales in dragon-man form.
This way, even in intense deep-sea combat, if some bubbles on his body were broken, it wouldn't matter—it wouldn't affect bubbles in other areas, and he could calmly repair the broken bubbles.
After entering the sea, Brett didn't immediately begin searching. He released his Observation Haki and indeed heard quite a few Den Den Mushi voices in the water.
Brett was pleased rather than alarmed. An ordinary Marine base would absolutely never have such strict vigilance. This only proved one thing—he probably hadn't found the wrong place.
Then what he needed to do next was quite simple.
Easily avoiding the Den Den Mushi deployed in the nearby waters, Brett found a Sea King living in the nearby waters.
"My name is Brett, fish-man Brett!"
Floating in front of this Sea King that was treating him as if he didn't exist, Brett shouted loudly.
The Sea King that had originally been lazily pretending not to see Brett suddenly turned its eyes, focusing its gaze on Brett. "You are fish-man Brett? That fish-man Brett?"
"I understand. Is there anything you need my help with?"
Brett's mouth curved upward.
Don't forget, he was the Prime Minister of the Deep Sea!
Those Sea Kings from years ago had promised him that the Sea Kings would respond to his requests.
His status among the Sea Kings was second only to Shirahoshi as their king.
"Have the humans on this island been conducting any mining operations in the nearby waters?"
Brett asked.
Searching slowly by himself would be very foolish, as this deep sea area was so vast that even Brett would find it very difficult to conduct a search.
So he might as well directly find a local to ask for directions.
"Mining?"
The Sea King thought for a moment, then answered, "There seemed to be some not long ago."
The excavation site really was in this vicinity?
Moreover, not long ago?
Brett raised an eyebrow. Mining Dyna Stones was a recent thing?
Had the Marines dug everything out?
He needed to go look quickly.
"Could you take me to see?"
Brett asked.
"Of course."
The Sea King nodded gently.
Brett smiled lightly. "But before we go, there's one more thing I need your help with."
At the Marine base on the nearby island.
In the monitoring room that never stopped operating, Marine soldiers who had been somewhat drowsy due to the boring work suddenly perked up.
Because they discovered that several screens monitoring the sea had suddenly gone black.
"What's happening? Are there intruders?"
The Marines immediately cried out in alarm.
However, soon other Marines discovered clues on other monitoring screens. "It's a Sea King, rampaging through the sea, devouring everything. The Den Den Mushi were all destroyed by that Sea King."
"A Sea King? Then there's nothing we can do."
The Marines could only consider themselves unlucky. "Report to superiors and have them prepare to redeploy the monitoring network."
Because the deployed Den Den Mushi were damaged, Brett was able to easily reach the place the Sea King mentioned where excavation had previously taken place.
This was a large pit on the ocean floor. The bottom of the pit had already accumulated a thick layer of seabed mud and sand. Brett could hear very clearly that originally this pit had been much deeper than what his eyes could see now.
At a glance, you could tell it had been abandoned for many years.
You call this "not long ago"?
Brett's mouth twitched.
Right, Sea Kings' sense of time couldn't be measured by human standards.
Decades or hundreds of years might just be "not long ago" to them.
Then the possibility of Dyna Stone remnants in this mine pit was already very slim.
The government wouldn't be kind enough to deliberately leave behind such powerful weapons for future generations to take.
Unless they were hidden really deep, where the government hadn't detected them.
But if even the government couldn't detect them, it would be even harder for him to search alone.
His Observation Haki could indeed distinguish various different sounds, but without having heard the sound of Dyna Stones, he couldn't identify them at all.
Brett turned his head and looked through the thick seawater toward that distant island.
In that case, there was no other way.
Since it was already very difficult to mine Dyna Stones, he could only go steal the Dyna Stones from there.
This stuff was really too terrifying—it absolutely couldn't be left under government control.
Brett accelerated in the deep sea.