Not so long ago.

Twenty thousand meters directly below Galen, Fish-Man Island.

Fish-Man Island is known as the "Underwater Paradise", and it is a necessary place to pass from the first half of the Great Passage to the second half of the "New World".

Navies, travelers, and merchants were able to travel overland from the Holy Land of Mary Joy, but the ships they traveled on were unable to cross the Red Earth in this way.

Therefore, if it is necessary to bring the giant ship they are on to the New World, then these people with legal status will have to coat the ship like the pirates and dive the route of Fish-Man Island under the sea.

On this day, a naval warship visited Fish-Man Island.

This is a valuable Hailoushi warship, which is only equipped for officers above the rank of rear admiral.

The naval officers on this warship were Rear Admiral Smoker and Major Dusty.

As the annual business king within the naval system, they have long received promotion orders.

After the separation of Cocoa Nishimura and Galen, Smoker and Dusty took the Hailoushi warship that came to pick them up, and directly crossed the windless belt from the East China Sea into the Great Passage, preparing to go to the G5 base in the New World through Fish-Man Island to take up their duties.

Smoker, Dusty and Galen parted from the East China Sea, and nearly a month later, arrived at the same location from two completely different directions.

The scenery of Fish-Man Island is rare in the world:

Huge spherical bubble wrap envelops the island, illuminating in the sunlight from the rhizomes of the sun tree "Eve".

The sea beasts of the deep sea bask in this rare sunlight in groups and swim freely around the bustling Fish-Man Island.

Seeing such a strange scene, Dusty, who came to Fish-Man Island for the first time, couldn't help but exclaim:

"Is this Fish-Man Island?"

"What a dreamy place!"

"Fantastic?"

Smoker shook his head slightly with some disdain:

When he was a junior officer in the headquarters, he also visited Fish-Man Island a few times with his commander because of his mission.

Smoker naturally knew in his heart that under the glossy exterior of this "underwater paradise", there was actually infinite darkness, blood and violence.

This is the hatred between races, the contradiction between humans and fish-people that has accumulated for hundreds of years, and it is almost unsolvable.

For this reason, Smoker did not want to stay on the island at all.

However, the route to Fish-Man Island, which has a difference of tens of thousands of meters, needs to pass through strong undersea currents, and the bubble wrap on the ships is likely to be damaged.

When human ships arrive at Fish-Man Island, they will stop here for a short time, and only dare to continue on the road after the coating craftsman has checked the strength of the bubble wrap and confirmed that it is correct.

So, Smoker's warship also had to make a short stop on Fish-Man Island.

And whether Smoker represents the navy of the world government, or is he a general-level officer who is qualified to equip the Hailoushi warship, he will naturally receive special care from the officials of Fish-Man Island:

Dedicated dock berths, dedicated coating craftsmen, and officials from Ryugu Castle accompanied the whole process.

However, Smoker only stood near the pier for a moment and sensed the atmosphere on the island that had become more tense than it had been when he had visited in previous years:

Many passers-by had undisguised hatred in their eyes.

This hatred is not just against the navy, but against all the humans who stay on the docks.

Smoker frowned, but didn't say much.

And after feeling this faint hostility in the air, Dusty asked the accompanying Dragon Palace City officials straightforwardly:

"This..."

"Mr. Squid?"

Failing to remember the official's awkward name, Dusty had to address the Ryugu City official with an obvious racial trait with a little apology:

"Why do I feel that those fishmen are hostile to us?"

"What did we do wrong to offend the rules of Fish-Man Island?"

"No, no, no..."

The squid official immediately waved his tentacles with some excitement, and said with a smile:

"Those guys who don't have a good face for the Navy are all gangsters from Fishman Street."

"This is just their personal behavior, and it definitely does not represent the official opinion of our Dragon Palace City."

Ryugu Castle made a special trip to arrange manpower to receive the navy, originally to show the world government the friendliness of Fish-Man Island to humans;

Naturally, the squid officials had to explain it to Smoker and Dusty so as not to cause a bigger dispute.

"Gangsters from Fish-Man Street?"

Dusty frowned slightly, and asked with some curiosity:

"Is there such an illegal organization on Fish-Man Island?"

"Yes."

Squid officials are not shy about it.

But when it comes to his own internal contradictions, his emotions can't help but be a little anxious:

"They're all under Hoddy Jones, the current boss of Fishman Street."

"Originally, when the boss of Jinping was here, these little gangsters could still stay in peace."

"Now that the boss of Jinping is gone, the security on the island has deteriorated..."

The squid official's words came to an abrupt end, and a few traces of embarrassment could not help but appear on the white fish's face.

He was so engrossed that he forgot that he was chatting with the Navy now.

And Jinping, who originally ruled Fishman Street, is now a thorn in the side and a thorn in the flesh of the navy:

Because Whitebeard was able to leave safely from Advance City with Titch at the beginning, it all relied on two heroes:

The number one hero is naturally Galen, who caused the collapse of the naval encirclement by indiscriminately discharging poison gas.

And this second hero...

is the "Sea Hero" who seems to be loyal and honest on the surface, but behind the scenes, he helps the pirates defraud the Hailou Stone warship of the headquarters.

After the Advance City incident, the whole navy that did not lose a single soldier, but inexplicably suffered a defeat, was holding their breath.

Whitebeard slipped back to the base of the New World with his son, and the navy had no way to get back.

And the nest is in Jinping, where Fish-Man Island is, and naturally becomes the primary target of the navy.

As soon as he returned from Advance City, he couldn't stay on Fish-Man Island for two days, and he was busy escaping from Fish-Man Island with his Sun Pirates.

In the end, Jinping was chased by the Navy's pursuit force for more than half a month in Shinsegae before he barely managed to get out of danger with the help of the Whitebeard Pirates.

"Ahem..."

The squid official coughed lightly twice to hide his embarrassment, and then forcibly changed the topic in front of Dusty:

"Major Dusty."

"The bubble wrap overhaul will take some time to complete, do you need me to take you to the nearby shopping street?"

"No thanks."

Dusty politely rejected the squid official's proposal, but still did not give up his mind to understand the internal problems of Fish-Man Island:

"If you have time, why don't you talk to me about those Fish-Man Street gangs again?"

"This..."

The squid officer was a little embarrassed, but after a brief hesitation, he told Dusty about the situation that was not a secret at all:

"Fish-Man Street used to be a place for orphans on the island, but it has become a lawless place on the island due to poor management."

"The combat power of those fish-man gangsters is very strong, and we in Dragon Palace City can't eradicate the problem, so we can only barely suppress it."

"And the current boss of Fishman Street is different from Jinping, he is a villain who is extremely hateful to humans and advocates violence."

"Is that the Hoddy Jones?"

Dusty was a little unhappy with the name that had caused chaos on Fish-Man Island.

"Yes."

The squid officer nodded and continued:

"Hody Jones grew up in Fishman Street as a child and lived in a human-hating environment."

"The Hoddy Jones gang call themselves the 'New Fish-Man Pirates', and the members of them all regard the extremist dragon as their idol, so..."

Before he could finish his words, Dusty exclaimed in some surprise:

"Dragons?"

"Is it the dragon from the East China Sea?"

As soon as these words came out, the air seemed to freeze.

The squid official was slightly stunned, and several fish-man gangsters passing by also stopped, and invariably cast inquiring glances at Dusty.

The evil dragon, a miscellaneous fish with a bounty of 20 million yuan, was only an inconspicuous small cadre in the Sun Pirates back then.

However, the evil dragon is a big name in the current Fish-Man Island.

Because although his own strength is average, he has left a series of groundbreaking theories of "Fishman Supremacy" under Fish-Man Island.

This theory completely ignores the fact that the fish-people are at the bottom of the chain of racial contempt, and puts forward the following theme with poison:

Fish talents are superior races, and humans are just inferior garbage.

After more than 10 years of development, this set of fallacies and heresies has become the core ideology and guiding theory of the "first theistic religion of the fish-man world" under the perfection of Hoddy Jones and other younger generations.

And the evil dragon who created this theory was naturally praised by a group of fish-man gangsters.

The dragon may not know until he dies...

He hid in the East China Sea as a landowner, but he was blown into a big hero in his hometown who did not lose to Fishertiger.

"That..."

The squid officer hesitated for a long time before cautiously asking Dusty:

"Major Dusty, do you know that dragon?"

"Yes!"

Dusty didn't know the status of the dragon on Fish-Man Island, but said defenselessly:

"Rear Admiral Smoker and I turned out to be the Navy stationed in the East China Sea."

"The first pirate group we wiped out in the East China Sea was the Evil Dragon Pirates."

"W-What?"

A cold sweat suddenly broke out on the squid official's forehead:

"Major Dusty, don't say that on Fish-Man Island."

Unfortunately, it was too late.

There were already a few passing fish-man thugs around who stood up menacingly, and pointed at Dusty and shouted:

"Human, what did you just say!"

"Our big dragon brother died at your hands?"

"How?"

Smoker immediately stood up with a cold face and protected Dusty behind him:

"It is the duty of the Navy to eradicate the scum on the sea."

"How many of you, do you have any opinions?"

Smoker's momentum is very strong, and the thick smoke coming out of his body is also very intimidating.

However, he misread these fish-men:

These fish-men are not ordinary gangsters at all, but cultists of the "Fish-Man World's First God Cult".

When they heard that the murderer of their own spiritual leader was on the island, their hatred ignited in an instant.

"Stop it!"

Seeing that the situation was not good, the squid official could only stubbornly put his head in front and shouted:

"This is the Admiral of the Navy!"

"If you dare to take another step forward, you will be making enemies of our Dragon Palace City!"

As he spoke, a group of guards from Dragon Palace City also stood in front of Smoker and the others with weapons in their hands, confronting the fish-man gangsters who spontaneously surrounded them.

But at this moment...

In the distance, there was a sudden commotion, and several heralds from Ryugu City ran here in a panic and shouted at the squid officials:

"Quick! Get back to help! ”

"There's a navy attacking Ryugu Castle!"

"Huh?"

Everyone was slightly stunned.

Smoker and Dusty looked at each other even more.

The atmosphere suddenly became delicate.