Chapter 37: The Bounty
The ice giant that has just formed on the surface of the sea is just the most basic use of Rock Fruit's ability after awakening.
As for why it's an ice giant, and not something else, it's just that on the surface of the sea, the ice buoyancy is the largest, although you can control the illusion to fly over, but there is no need to waste your physical strength.
Locke beckoned to the miniature version of Deathwing in the distance, and then saw that the one that was originally terrifying, but because it had become smaller, it looked very cute, and flew in front of Locke with Annie.
"Big brother, what's the matter?" Anne, who flew over as a deathwing, asked Locke curiously.
"Alright Annie, it's been so long, it's time to read a book." Locke said to Anne.
"Oh! All right! "Ah, you reluctantly got off Xiao Hei's back, and then slowly flew to your room.
As for Blackie, it's Anne's name for Deathwing.
After leaving Crypt Island, when Locke arranged things for the ship's personnel, Anne said to help Locke, and asked Locke to arrange something for her, but Locke had no choice but to ask her what would happen.
Then Anne told him that she could predict the weather in advance, and then Locke gave Anne the books about navigators that had been brought to the ship, so that she could read them carefully, and she would be the navigator on the ship in the future.
At the beginning, Anne was still very serious, reading books during the day and playing in Locke's dreams at night, but after all, it was a child's nature, and it was impossible to focus on one thing all the time, so now although Anne still reads books for a while every day, she is not as conscious as before.
Speaking of which, if Anne counted all the time she had been asleep, she was the oldest of all the crew members on board. Even the rest of the people on the ship combined were not as old as her, but in terms of heart, Anne was the youngest, only about ten years old.
So every time Locke sees Anne, he thinks that if he hadn't crossed over, he should have been a child in that world, so Locke's attitude towards Anne is exactly the same as an old father's own child.
That's why, on the entire ship, Anne and Locke are the best.
Looking at Anne who slowly flew back to his room, Locke shook his head with a smile, and also went back to the room, and continued to practice the nameless exercise given by Yun Zhinan, to say that this nameless exercise, it is really very powerful, when practicing it, not only the true qi in his body is slowly growing, but even his physical strength is also growing, although the growth is relatively slow, but it is also much faster than the growth brought by Locke through training.
When Locke and Zoro trained together in Frost Moon Village, they found that they had the same training intensity as him, but their physical strength and strength increased much slower than Zoro.
When Locke left Frostmoon Village, Zoro's physical strength was no worse than his own, but he was not defeated by Sauron because he was stronger than Sauron, who had not yet fully grown up.
And Locke also found out that the awakening is not the end of the fruit's ability as written in the anime, and Locke guesses that there should be a realm above the awakening, but Locke also knows what it is.
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Naval Headquarters, Marin Vando.
Admiral Sengoku was taking care of his official business as usual, when suddenly there was a knock on the door outside.
"Report!"
"Come in." Sengoku didn't raise his head and said.
"Tell me, what's the matter?" Sengoku said while feeding the documents to the sheep next to him as he looked at the herald who came in.
"Report marshal, I just received a report from the 16th branch of the East China Sea that a group of pirates has recently appeared in the East China Sea, slaughtering the inhabitants of an island, and the navy has lost four warships in the process of capture, and the navy on one of them has also been killed. The branch applied for a wanted warrant. ”
"Show me the pictures they get."
The herald put a photo directly on the table in front of Sengoku.
"What is this? I want pictures of the people on the boat, why are you giving me pictures of their boats? Sengoku looked at the photo in front of him and shouted angrily directly.
"Report! According to the report of the branch, the warship was sunk directly because it did not get close to the ship, and nothing was photographed. The herald looked at Sengoku's angry appearance and hurriedly said.
"Waste, it's all waste, I can't even take a long photo, and I'm embarrassed to apply for a reward?"
"That's... I immediately went to tell them that the bounty application was not approved. Seeing Sengoku like this, the herald grabbed the photo and wanted to go out.
"Slow down, issue a wanted warrant for them, and offer a reward for everyone on this ship, whether they live or die, and let them see the fate of challenging the navy."
"And how much is the bounty?"
"If you say about the East China Sea, let's set it at 50 million first, and there is also a herald for Smoker, telling him to go to Rogue Town before going to the sixteenth branch to have a look, and tell me what the situation is with that pirate group."
"Okay! Marshal! The herald saluted and exited the room.
"Humph! These pirates are really getting more and more arrogant. After the herald withdrew, Sengoku muttered.
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Three days had passed since Locke had eliminated the three warships, and the Mirage was only two days away from the Sixteenth Division of the Navy.
During this period, Locke and the others avoided the merchant ship or the pirate ship directly, not wanting others to know their destination, nor wanting the navy to be on guard.
Although Locke is not afraid of the navy, what if they are prepared in advance and their ship is damaged, after all, there is no unnecessary loss, and it is good to have it.
"Captain, captain......" Xiong rushed to Locke's room.
"What's the matter?"
Locke slowly retracted, then opened his eyes and looked at Xiong Da and asked.
"Captain, we've been rewarded." Xiong handed Locke a bounty order.
"Bounty?" Locke wondered.
None of them have ever shown their faces in front of the public, so the demon will be rewarded.
Even if the navy on Biss Island has seen himself and others, they have already been dealt with by them, and it is impossible for anyone to take pictures of themselves and others without anything.
Could it be that the naval reinforcements I met later on, but I sank them from a long distance, and I shouldn't be able to see the personnel on my ship, so why did I directly issue a wanted warrant.
After picking up the wanted warrant, Locke realized that this was the bounty order for their pirates, but there was only a photo of their ship on this bounty order, but on this photo, you can still see a few people on the ship, but it may be too far away, and all the people on the ship can't see their faces clearly.
It's ridiculous that there are as many as 50 million Baileys in the bounty below, aren't they afraid that someone will pretend to be like this to collect the bounty?