Reincarnated into the world of One Piece, in a land of giants with open eyes?!

Chapter 128: "Social Death"

Chapter 129: "Social Death"

Finally, another kind of light shone into the tower through a hole in the corridor wall.

A huge golden sphere hung on the wall with a hole in it, and Oro slowly emerged amidst the surging gold.

He glanced around and saw that the huge corridors, spanning several floors, had been blown apart, and a huge hole had been blasted into the tower.

The cracked edges of the walls are slowly undulating, as if trying to heal themselves.

I didn't see any sign of Rocks, whether it was real or fake.

Oro hung on the wall and waited for a while.

Seeing that the walls were writhing more and more violently, but there was still no movement inside the tower, he manipulated the gold to climb to the outside of the tower.

Out of caution, he did not take off immediately.

Once outside, Oro finally saw the city of the abyss.

This was a vast space filled with a faint gray-blue light, with the boundless sea blocked overhead by an unknown force.

The source of the light was unknown; the light source was invisible and very faint, but it was enough to illuminate some of the city's outlines.

The city has countless twisted towers, and the one he's hanging on is the largest and most magnificent in the entire city.

As Oro looked down upon the city in the abyss, he was indeed somewhat awestruck.

This is a vast city that cannot be described in words.

The city's buildings are densely packed like a honeycomb, but their forms completely defy common sense.

There are upside-down spires, their tips pointing downwards, hanging from above the abyss.

There are massive, spiraling structures that look like the intestines of some kind of creature turned inside out and covered with cement.

There are mountains made up of countless small rooms, and the windows of the rooms are irregular cracks, like wounds.

There are also countless strange structures, buildings that resemble solidified vortexes, blooming black flowers, or nests built from the magnified skeleton of some giant beast.

All the buildings are made of the same black material, with a thick layer of deep-sea sediment, coral, and algae fossils covering their surfaces.

Most of the city was submerged in dark, deep water, even though the ocean was right above them.

The entire city truly lacked any light source; the faint, grayish-blue glow emanated evenly from every building.

Although the light is uniform, when viewed from a high speed, some areas are sometimes brighter and some areas are sometimes completely dark.

The light pulsed slowly, like breathing.

As far as the eye could see, the buildings stretched to the edge of the gray-blue glimmer of light, and further on, everything sank into complete darkness.

In that deep darkness, all that could be seen were denser building spires, layer upon layer, until they disappeared into the shadows of the deep water.

But in the very center of the city that Oro could see, there was an even larger entity.

It was a blurry black shadow, so huge that it exceeded the scope of architecture.

It looks like a mountain, but the mountain's outline is constantly shifting and changing.

The shadowy surface exhibits regular changes in light and shadow, and each cycle of light and shadow causes the faint light of the entire city to pulsate in sync.

A low, guttural sound came from there—

No, it's not sound, it's some kind of vibration that's transmitted through the air and the building structure, turning into a vibration similar to a heartbeat.

Suddenly, Oro frowned. There was movement in the tower behind him; something was rapidly approaching the broken corridor.

Do you want to jump right out of this hole?

Oro narrowed his eyes, and the gold enveloping him began to surge rapidly.

"Damn it! I'm not playing anymore!"

"You blond bastard! I'll haunt you even after I die!"

A disheveled, burly man stumbled out of the tower in a very undignified and uneasy manner.

This thing can't fly; once it pounces out, it's immediately in freefall.

Oro's brow remained furrowed. He stared at the free-falling figure for a moment, then finally sighed and plunged down, carrying the gold with him.

Beneath the highest tower of R'lyeh.

Lockes was deathly pale, his clothes soaked with sweat—not hot, but cold.

His legs were trembling slightly, and he had to use all his strength to stand up—not out of fear, but because he was truly exhausted.

Oro has already confirmed it once using the kinship test; this should be the real person.

Auro stood beside Lox, gazing at the City of the Abyss. From this angle, the city seemed different again: "R'lyeh—"

Oro looked back at the archway at the base of the tower, which served as the entrance.

The archway is much smaller than the entrance at the top of the tower, about five meters high and three meters wide.

The archway is made of the same material as the surrounding walls, but a huge line of text is carved on the door frame.

The writing was ancient, and Lox said he didn't recognize it, but the shapes of the characters stirred up some kind of memory deep in his blood.

After staring at them for a while, the meaning of the characters immediately came to mind, and he then told Oro—

"Those who enter this place must abandon all hope."

What you see is reality; reality is madness.

After resting for a while, Lockes looked up and saw that Oro was still looking at that sentence. He couldn't help but say, "It's just a cliché warning. What, are you scared?"

"Hmph, if you're scared, you can go back first."

Rocks straightened up and looked down at the boundless, mad city below, and also saw the huge, pulsating black shadow in the far distance.

"So what should we do now?" Lox asked Oro.

"Hmm? Oh, you're asking me?"

Oro looked left and right, and finally pointed to himself with an innocent expression.

"I!"

The blond-haired guy's words almost made Lockes, who had just escaped death, cough up blood. He clutched his chest and grimaced, "You told me to open the door."

"You must descend this tower as well."

"Now, we're coming down."

"Don't tell me you don't know what to do next!"

Seeing Lox's intense reaction, Auro nodded in satisfaction: "Hmm~ It seems it really is him."

"Stop testing me!"

Lockes raised his hand forcefully and said fiercely, "I haven't even tested you yet!"

Do you even know what I just went through?!

"I saw you with your small head over your big head! We were all fighting the World Government to the very end, and you bastard actually went and got together with Im!"

"The most outrageous thing is that you, you bastard, actually got killed by that guy in the end!"

"Do you know how explosive it was to see that scene with your own eyes?!"

"Oh." Auro nodded in complete understanding.

Looking at Oro, who had an "I see" expression on his face and then uttered an "Oh," Locke knew he was really going to become famous!

"I know you're in a hurry, but don't rush."

Oro's gaze swept over the words on the tower's archway again: "I think I know what's going on with this tower."

"Hmm, maybe this city is too."

Locus patted his chest, took a deep breath, and glared fiercely at Auro: "Then you fucking say it!"

"It's an illusion."

Auro poked the hard black ground beneath his feet with the gold. The gold felt completely real, which only strengthened his belief: "To be precise, it's an illusion created by my thoughts and memories."

"Especially your experiences, I'm sure that only I in the whole world know what you've been through."

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