Chapter 357: The Quartet Gathers
Although Zefa originally led the pirate guerrillas, although the name sounds like "team", it has dozens of Hailoushi warships, thousands of well-trained soldiers, and a well-developed officer corps that he has personally cultivated.
In terms of military strength, the NEO Navy established by Zefa can really be called an "army".
And both Thatch and Smoker brought only one battleship this time, and the difference in military strength was huge.
Thatch, who ranked last among the Whitebeard captains, is even less likely to be the opponent of the former general Zefa.
So when Zefa led the team to surround and suddenly attacked, Thatch and Smoker were a little overwhelmed with fear.
The whole battle was completely one-sided.
In front of Zefa, who became ruthless, Thatch and Smoker's subordinates suffered countless losses, and Thatch was beaten by Zefa, who was personally killed.
In the midst of the rain of bullets, Smoker finally seized a little bit of space and desperately made a call for help.
Naturally, this call for help was addressed to Galen.
After all, the Navy Headquarters is far away in the sky, and Smoker subconsciously doesn't want the Navy Headquarters to know Zefa's whereabouts out of some selfishness.
The person who answered the phone was a girl named Brynn, who claimed to be Galen's administrative secretary.
After hearing Smoker's request for help, Brynn promised to help him inform Galen immediately.
And then...
There was silence on the other end of the phone bug.
The enemy's attack has caught up, and Smoker can only resist it while angrily criticizing Galen's rotten life of finding a beautiful secretary to do it for him when he connects the phone.
And then...
Smoker was under a hail of bullets when he heard the sound of an argument coming from the phone bug.
The content is meaningless, roughly because several women in Galen's family have a conflict again, and Galen forgets to answer the phone.
"Bastard thing!"
Smoker was completely furious.
He desperately blocked the enemy's attack, and finally seized the opportunity to pick up the microphone of the phone bug again and roared:
"What about the Galens?"
"Hurry up and answer the phone for Lao Tzu!!"
Galen finally picked up the phone and asked several more questions.
Then, Galen said to himself about "report my name" big brother remarks.
Smoker could only say with mixed feelings:
"It's complicated, anyway..."
"I'm being chased and beaten by Mr. Zefa right now."
"Zefa?"
"Isn't Zefa your teacher? Why did he hit you? β
Galen on the other end of the phone was puzzled.
Smoker was about to explain aloud and explain his position by the way, but there was a sharp fist wind in front of him.
The whistling wind disturbed the phone bug completely shut down, and Smoker's eyes widened in horror:
"It's Mr. Zefa!"
Smoker was all too familiar with the punch, and he had not been beaten since he was a recruit in the training camp, and he had not managed to dodge it once.
After all these years, Smoker still can't dodge the punch.
Zefa's powerful fist slammed into Smoker's chest without reservation, causing him to fly upside down in an instant, and then use his body to plow a deep furrow in the dirt.
Smoker spat out a mouthful of blood, and was unable to fight back.
"Smoker!"
"After all these years, is this only the only way you have progressed?"
Zefa wears a pair of heavy sunglasses, but the anger and murderous aura in his eyes can easily penetrate the barrier of the lenses and release them unreservedly on Smoker.
"Zefa-sensei..."
Seeing the temperament that was very different from the past, murderous, and crazy, Smoker's mood was very complicated.
"Don't call me Mr. Zefa!"
Zefa clenched his fists hatefully, and said through gritted teeth:
"I don't have a student like you who is in cahoots with pirates!"
β......β
Smoker choked on it and could only force himself to explain:
"I'm not in cahoots with pirates."
"No?"
Zefa pointed to Thatch, who was beaten and bruised and lying unconscious on the ground, and asked angrily:
"Then the 'Brother Smog' he shouted before was calling me?!"
β......β
Smoker's words choked again.
"Smoker, if you've done anything wrong..."
Zefa's voice carried a hint of coldness: "Then you will kill this pirate with your own hands and prove your innocence!" β
"No, Mr. Zefa!"
Smoker held back for a long time, and a firmness gradually grew in his heart:
"Thatch wasn't the kind of pirates who burned, killed and looted, they were all good guys."
"There is absolutely nothing against justice in my dealings with them."
"If you don't believe me, you can ask the villagers..."
"Do they want Thatch dead?"
"Nonsense!"
When Zefa heard this, his emotions became more and more excited:
"How can pirates be good or bad?"
"As long as it's a pirate, you have to kill it all!"
"Only by killing them all can the world be completely peaceful!"
The more Zefa spoke, the more excited he became, and he gradually became a little crazy.
But Smoker was not frightened by Zefa, his expression became serious and determined:
"Zefa-sensei!"
"The Navy must put the interests of the people first and have its own judgment on justice ... Didn't you teach all these things? β
"Why are you so radical now?!"
When Zefa was young, he was titled "Don't Kill" General, and he never killed the enemy, and he was a little too gentle.
However, after suffering for half a lifetime, Zefa became an extremist bent on eradicating all pirates.
Hearing Smoker's words now, Zefa couldn't help but stop his hand.
There was silence.
Smoker was about to say a few more words to persuade Zefa, but Zefa said coldly:
"That's enough, Smoker!"
"I'm not the naΓ―ve guy I used to be!"
After saying that, Zefa looked at Smoker, who had a determined face, and then turned his gaze to Thatch, who was lying on the ground.
In the end, he didn't directly kill the pirates, nor did he clean up the portal.
After all, the words of the disciple Smoker had a little effect.
"Ugh..."
"Lock them all up!"
Zefa sighed, turned to his subordinates again, and said:
"Clean up the battlefield, let's go to the last end point."
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Meanwhile, Cake Island.
Galen only heard the word "Zefa" from Smoker's mouth, and the phone bug was abruptly hung up, leaving only a busy sound.
This is obviously not a good sign.
"Zefa?"
"Why did Zefa go after Smoker?"
Galen was puzzled and couldn't help but become a little anxious.
The information he got was only one name, and Galen couldn't help.
Then he thought of asking the Navy for help.
Galen had heard that Zefa had just defected from the navy, and the admiral Kuzan would surely know something about him.
So Galen immediately dialed Kuzan's personal phone and asked straight to the point:
"Kuzan, do you know Zefa's whereabouts?"
"I just got a distress call from Smoker who said he was being attacked by Zefa."
"But I don't know where they are, and I can't help."
"What?"
Kuzan's tone immediately became solemn: "Mr. Zefa, he attacked the navy again?" β
"Again?"
Galen captures a noteworthy word:
"He's attacked other navies?"
"That's right..."
Kuzan sighed helplessly from the phone bug:
"Mr. Zefa, he attacked the secret base of the Navy and took away the precious controlled weapon 'Dynamite Rock'."
"And..."
Kuzan paused slightly, and finally told Galen the truth:
"He has destroyed the end point of two new worlds."
End Point is one of the bizarre legends that circulate on the sea.
There are three end points connected to the underground magma in the New World, and if they are all destroyed, they will trigger a terrifying eruption of a large volcano.
The power of its eruption is said to be enough to destroy the entire New World.
And those who are at the top of the sea know in their hearts that this legend is actually true.
Zefa wants to wipe out all the pirates in the new world by detonating the end point.
However, the plan is riddled with loopholes:
No one knows how much of a geological disaster from the eruption of the volcano can do to those monster-level pirates, but the ordinary people who are unable to protect themselves will be 100% unlucky.
Zefa was able to come up with this crazy plan for mass extinction, probably because he had been stimulated a little delirious by the betrayal of the navy.
"Galen."
After Kuzan explained Zefa's purpose to Galen, his tone became more serious:
"Mr. Zefa's location is not difficult to guess."
"At this point, he's going to attack the last end."
"So... I'd like to ask you a favor. β
"Help?"
Galen was a little puzzled: "You want me to help stop Zefa?" β
"Nope."
"I want you to help me save Mr. Zefa."
Kuzan sighed deeply:
"Mr. Zefa's crazy behavior has completely angered the top of the world government."
"They crossed me, the marshal, and directly ordered Sakasky to lead the team on an interception mission."
"Moreover, the top government officials also gave Sakasky an order to kill Mr. Zefa."
"Akainu..."
Galen also felt that this foolish loyalist who talked about absolute justice every day was a little troublesome.
However, he readily agreed:
"No problem, just leave it to me!"
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Because of Zefa's crazy plans, both Galen and Akainu have their sights set on the island where the last end point is located.
And to the surprise of both Galen and Akainu, there is a fourth force that is also implicated.
The Whitebeard Pirates, aboard the flagship Moby Dick.
Whitebeard and his sons are holding a family gathering.
However, this time there is a son missing.
Moreover, his disappearance is very remarkable.
"Why hasn't Thatch come back yet?"
"He's not here, and the meat at the banquet isn't as good as it used to be."
The captains were a little suspicious, and the whitebeard sitting on the main seat also had a faint premonition in his heart.
"Daddy, something is wrong!"
A cadre hurriedly broke into the banquet site.
Whitebeard frowned.
Sure enough, the cadre opened his mouth and told the bad news.
"The fourth team cruising in the open sea was attacked by the former admiral Zefa!"
"According to the brothers who escaped, Big Brother Thatch was caught on the ship by Zefa, and his life and death are still unknown!"
"What!"
"The Thatch brothers are in trouble?"
The brothers were so shocked that they got up.
In particular, Titch, the captain of the relationship and Thatch's best zero team, was even more anxious because of the news of his good brother's death.
"Zefa..."
Whitebeard chewed on the name of his old rival, and a terrifying momentum gradually rose on his body.
"First Titch, then Thatch..."
"Attacking my son one after another, is it true that my white beard is too old to move?"
Whitebeard stood up suddenly, and raised the big naginata knife in his hand high:
"All of them!"
"Get Thatch back!"