On the Ghost.

Lafitte was standing at the sentry post at the top of the mast, holding on to the outside of the wooden guardrail with one hand, his whole body facing outward, and a telescope in the other, looking into the distance.

He had long since spotted a dark shadow on the sea in the distance, and he could vaguely tell that it was a ship, but he was not sure what it was.

And as the two ships continued to get closer, the black shadow gradually became clear.

"That flag is ......"

When he saw the flag on the ship, Lafitte's expression suddenly changed slightly, and he had always looked like a strange gentleman, but he rarely showed an extremely serious expression.

Sou!

After judging again, he leaped from the mast, landed on the deck below, and said to Robin, "Call the captain up, the ship is ...... Red-haired pirates. ”

"Red-haired pirates?!"

Robin also looked moved, he thought it would be a merchant ship or an ordinary pirate ship, but he didn't expect it to be a red-haired pirate group that was extremely terrifying on the great voyage!

Soon.

Robin found Rhodes in the training room, and Rhodes was also slightly stunned when he heard that he had encountered the red-haired pirates, and then came to the deck with a serious expression.

After taking the telescope from Lafitte's hand, he took a closer look at the ship approaching in the distance, and said thoughtfully, "It's indeed the red-haired pirates......

Calculating the time, it is already August of the eleventh year of the era of the sea pirates, and according to the normal plot, it is around this time that Shanks arrived in the windmill village of the East China Sea and stayed there for about a year.

"Captain, do you need to avoid it?"

Lafitte suggested on the sidelines.

Although he was very optimistic about Rhodes and boarded Rhodes' ship, he was not an idiot, and at this point in time, it was undoubtedly an act of death to confront an existence like the Red-Haired Pirates, who had already shocked the whole world.

After Rhodes put down the binoculars, he glanced twice more in the direction of the red-haired pirate ship, and said calmly: "Don't panic, see if the route won't collide head-on, at most you will pass by." ”

"It's also dangerous......"

Lafitte was slightly worried.

Rhodes stood on the bow of the ship with his hands in his hands, and he didn't intend to make a big circle to avoid it, if he encountered the Beast Pirates or the BIGMOM Pirates, he might avoid it for the time being, but he didn't need to do so with the Red-Haired Pirates.

Speaking of which, the Four Emperors are also his hunting target, but that is the ultimate goal...... It's really too early to meet the red-haired pirates at this point in time.

Rhodes muttered in his heart as he looked at the red-haired pirate ship approaching in the distance.

“……”

Looking at the red-haired pirate ship getting closer and closer, Robin couldn't help but show a hint of nervousness, there are very few people who can make her nervous, but the childishness of an admiral makes her deeply afraid to this day, and the red-haired pirates are an existence that even admirals dare not easily provoke.

As the distance between the ships gradually decreased, the course of the two ships became very clear, indeed not directly opposite, but two parallel lines that did not intersect, and they would pass by at a distance of about thirty or forty meters.

Robin and Lafitte were both nervous, but Rhodes remained calm, as if it were just an ordinary merchant ship.

100 meters......

Ninety meters ......

As the ship approached, the people and buildings on both sides gradually became clearer, and Rhodes could clearly see the figure standing on the bow of the red-haired pirates.

One of them, wearing a black cloak and a yellow straw hat, is none other than the Four Emperors of the New World, red-haired Shanks!

Forty meters......

Thirty meters......

The distance between the two ships stopped narrowing when it reached thirty meters, and at this distance, Rhodes and Shanks, who were standing in the bow of the boat, were far away from each other, and they could almost see the expressions on each other's faces.

This distance did not freeze, but increased again over time, becoming forty meters, fifty meters, until the two ships completely passed each other, and nothing happened.

"Whew!"

When the hull of the red-haired pirate ship was completely parallel to the Ghost, Lafitte and Robin both breathed a sigh of relief, glanced at each other, and found that each other's foreheads were overflowing with fine sweat stains.

Only Rhodes remained calm and showed no expression on his face.

"It's okay."

"Go ahead and target the town of Beros."

Rhodes turned, spoke softly, and walked into the cabin as he vanished.

……

The other side.

On the ship of the red-haired pirates, there are still a large number of crew members drinking and eating meat here, and most people don't even know about rubbing shoulders with the Ghost.

Even those who knew didn't care, and they still talked and laughed and drank wine.

Only the red-haired Shanks, who stood at the bow of the ship, facing Rhodes from a distance until the hull of the ship had completely passed by, came back to his senses with a slight look of strangeness in his eyes.

"That guy just ......"

"What's wrong?"

Beckman turned to Shanks and asked, "Are you going to stop them?" ”

"No, you don't."

Shanks shook his head, his eyes flickering slightly, "It's just...... The look in that person's eyes just now gave me a very unusual feeling, and I had a hunch that we would meet again. ”

"Really?"

Beckman took a drag on his cigarette and smiled.

No one can say anything about premonitions, but he didn't expect to meet someone in the West Sea who gave Shanks a premonition.

"That guy just now should be the ghost hand of the West Sea, I took a look at it in the newspaper before, and I saw that they should be going to the great voyage, and if you want to see us again, it's not that easy."

This was just a coincidence, and for the pirates, if they wanted to meet them, the first half of the great voyage alone had already caused countless people to sink into the sand.

Shanks's hunch may just be a hunch.

……

After a brush with the red-haired pirates, calm regained on the Ghost.

Lafaite continued to control the course, Robin still read her books, and occasionally instructed the handyman to do some cleaning on the ship, or assisted Lafitte in collecting and hoisting the sails, while Rhodes returned to the training room and continued to exercise his physique and practice armed domineering.

"Arranged!"

Standing in front of a hard steel wall, Rhodes stretched out his fist and silently chanted in his heart, while controlling his own armed color domineering energy to converge into his fist.

Compared with more than half a month ago, it has strengthened a lot of armed color domineering, constantly converging and condensing, gradually changing from encirclement to attachment, becoming more and more intense, but it has never been able to form a black hardening.

"It's still not enough."

Rhodes shook his head and slammed his fist into the iron wall.

Rumble!

Even if it can't reach the level of hardening of the armed color, it can only be surrounded by the armed color, and there is also a lot of enhancement in terms of attack, and his punch did not use the power of distortion, but it still roared, and the thick iron wall made a punch mark.

"Very good, if I continue to improve at this rate, in another half a month, I should be able to gradually touch the level of armed color hardening."