306: Time and Space Mirror

“Oh? There’s such a thing!”

“Absolutely true!”

Someone nearby scoffed, “King, that’s a hallucinatory cave. Everyone sees something different. There might be some kind of hallucinogen inside, meant to trick young girls. Don’t take it seriously.”

Luffy didn’t argue and stood to the side, silent.

Han Huohuo thought for a moment: “Take me to see it. If it’s real, I’ll reward you handsomely.”

Luffy led the way to his island. His island wasn’t large and was called Blackwater Island, located south of the Qian Ma Islands.

Han Huohuo felt fortunate that his Distant Voyage hadn’t devoured his island as well.

There was a small mountain on the island, and in a valley on that mountain, Luffy led Han Huohuo to the entrance of a cave.

Better safe than sorry, Han Huohuo first sent a few mechanical soldiers to scout inside, but they found nothing.

Clearly, there was no danger inside.

Han Huohuo had Thor wait at the entrance, and he went in personally to see.

As soon as he stepped into the cave, the Time-Space Eye on his forehead began to spin rapidly, indicating powerful space-time energy within. Han Huohuo was very shocked.

He couldn’t understand how such a small cave could possess such powerful space-time energy.

Thor couldn't sense this space-time energy, so Han Huohuo had to go in himself to understand what was happening.

The cave was drier than expected.

Han Huohuo walked in.

Then his entire being entered a peculiar state; his thoughts seemed to vanish, leaving only pure perception.

No sorrow, no joy.

Han Huohuo did not see the Sea Eye. In this strange state, Han Huohuo found himself in the starry sky and saw a terrifying black hole.

This was infinitely more terrifying than the Sea Eye.

But at this moment, Han Huohuo felt no fear, no emotion.

He was like a Ghost in the starry sky, drifting towards the black hole.

Even light cannot escape a black hole’s absorption, but Han Huohuo, this pure Ghost, was completely unaffected.

Time stopped.

Only the process remained.

Han Huohuo flew to the surface of the black hole. Scientifically speaking, this was just an infinitely small base point, but Han Huohuo saw an extremely complex space-time structure, layered upon layer, endless, like a vast net.

The complexity of this net far exceeded the limits of human comprehension.

He felt a little surprised; was the interior of a black hole really this complex?

Layers upon layers of space-time intertwined. Han Huohuo believed that anyone entering these space-times would get lost and never be able to escape.

Then, within these nets, Han Huohuo suddenly saw a spaceship stopped at a space-time node. Han Huohuo recognized that spaceship; it was Dr. Mu's spaceship from when he entered the black hole back then.

Through the transparent glass of the cockpit, Han Huohuo saw a skeleton inside, a skeleton in rags, and he didn't know how long it had been dead.

Just as he was about to take another look at the skeleton, it suddenly opened its eyes, its gaze like a torch, staring intently at Han Huohuo.

“Who?”

A terrifying voice came from the skeleton's mouth.

With a huge roar, Han Huohuo was repelled by a powerful space-time force, and the cave began to collapse. Han Huohuo sharply opened his eyes and saw that the space-time in the cave was starting to collapse, scaring him into quickly fleeing.

Then he saw the collapsing space-time turn into a strange object. As Han Huohuo fled, he didn't forget to grab it.

Thor was startled when he saw the cave suddenly collapse. He was about to go in to rescue him when he saw Han Huohuo had already escaped from inside, and only then did he breathe a sigh of relief.

“Is this a trap you set?”

Thor was furious and grabbed Luffy by the neck, about to twist it off.

Han Huohuo waved his hand to stop Thor: “It’s not a trap, it’s my problem.”

Hearing Han Huohuo say this, Thor snorted coldly and released Luffy. Luffy’s face had turned purple, and he was trembling with fear. This dog-headed monster was too strong; it was truly terrifying.

Han Huohuo had no time to bother with him, looking at a strange telescope-like object in his hand.

【Space-Time Peering Mirror】: This is a space-time artifact capable of peering into the secrets of space-time, but it seems to be in some kind of state at the moment and is temporarily unusable.

It looked exactly like a monocular. Han Huohuo peered into it for a long time, but it was blurry, and he couldn't see anything clearly.

Could this treasure have been damaged just now?

There was nothing he could do but put it away for now.

He walked over and patted Luffy's shoulder: “Don’t panic, let’s go to your place and talk.”

Luffy nodded repeatedly, not daring to refuse.

Turning back, Han Huohuo discovered that the space-time energy inside the cave had suddenly disappeared, and his forehead had returned to normal.

How strange. It seems the peculiar space-time energy here was caused by this space-time peering mirror. Now that he had taken the space-time peering mirror, the energy here had also vanished.

So this wasn't an illusion, but rather...

Arriving at Luffy's residence, it was a very simple Main Camp, not looking very high-level.

Host and guest took their seats.

Han Huohuo asked directly: “You said you once saw the Sea Eye in the cave. What exactly did you see? Can you tell me in detail?”

Luffy nodded, carefully recalling what he had seen: “King, when I entered the cave, I immediately felt dazed. Then I saw a huge vortex, and I drifted into it uncontrollably. It was very, very deep, and I don’t know how far or how long I drifted. Finally, I reached the bottom of the sea and saw a huge Water Spout (water spout) that was spewing extremely violent seawater. The seawater was ten thousand times more turbulent than the vortex outside. I even suspected that if that water were to spray out directly, it could submerge our entire planet, and it would definitely cause a worldwide flood.

But around that spout, there were many strange iron chains, and those chains were locking a corpse. That corpse blocked the outlet, and the surging water sprayed onto that corpse, which greatly calmed it down, turning into the Sea Eye vortex we see now.”

Han Huohuo blinked. What kind of corpse was that, so strong it could block water flow ten thousand times more powerful than the outer Sea Eye vortex?

Was someone using their body to block the Sea Eye?

“Are you sure that was a corpse?”

“I… I’m actually not too sure. It could also have been a living person, but I think, no one could survive in that place.”

Han Huohuo had a headache.

This guy could see the Sea Eye, but why did he see a black hole and Dr. Mu's spaceship?

Completely illogical!

Assuming everything he saw was real, then where were the time-space shards?

Han Huohuo asked again, “Then, near that corpse, did you see a strange shard?”

Luffy was greatly surprised: “How did you know there was a strange shard floating there? That shard was just a few meters above the corpse, particularly conspicuous. Despite such a large water flow, that shard remained completely still.”