At about the same time as the 'green pheasant' heard the wind and moved, another play was being staged at the peak of Whisky, far away on the Great Voyage, near the Upside-Down Mountain. Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

At the harbour side of Whiskey Peak, a cargo ship with the Grinton Merchant Group logo is loading.

Compared to when Lefa first met him more than ten years ago, the current Grington business group has expanded more than ten times in size, and has become one of the most well-known business groups in the first half of the Great Route!

The owner of the caravan, Glynton Angela, also became a well-known figure in the seas.

Many people wonder how an ordinary woman like Angela, who has no force, can continue to grow this merchant group, which is really a very strange thing in the Great Voyage.

People who don't know the inside story speculate that she is just the owner of the merchant group on the surface, and the real owner of the merchant group is someone else, such as the head of the guard of the merchant group, 'Scar' Morton.

Unlike Angela, the owner of the Merchant Order, this 'Scar' Morton is not an ordinary person, in addition to being the chief of the guard of the Grinton Merchant Regiment, he is also a five-star bounty hunter!

Being able to become a five-star bounty hunter proves that he has the strength to kill bounties between 50 million Bailey and 100 million Baileys, and if measured by the hierarchy of the navy, his strength is at least equivalent to that of a rear admiral!

A rear admiral, in the New World, may not be a big deal.

Even the Chambord Sea in the near New World is not very remarkable, but this sea area is the beginning of a great shipping route, where even pirates with a bounty of tens of millions of Baileys can already claim the king.

And 'Scar' Morton, a five-star bounty hunter, is also very intimidating here!

In the eyes of many people, the Glinton Business Group can develop and grow so quickly because of the existence of 'Scar' Morton, and Angela is just the concubine of 'Scar' Morton.

But some people who know something inside will never think so.

Because in the development of the Greenton Merchant Group over the years, there is actually another force behind it, and many troubles against the Greenton Merchant Group have been swept away by that force.

The name of that force is called 'Baroque Studio'!

If there was anything that could run amok in the first half of this great voyage, the 'Baroque Studio' was definitely one of them!

After all, the person behind it is none other than the 'Sand Crocodile' Klockdal, one of the previous 'Seven Martial Seas' of His Majesty, a powerful sea thief!

With the strength of 'Sand Crocodile' Klockdahl, even in the New World, he is enough to be called a big man, let alone in the first half of this great voyage.

Because of this, the status of the 'Baroque studio' is self-evident.

With the secret care of the 'Baroque Studio', the development of the Greenton Merchant Group is simply not too smooth, and in this sea area, there are really few forces that are qualified to offend the 'Baroque Studio'.

Therefore, people like these who know the inside story will not think that Angela, the owner of the trade group, is the concubine of 'Scar' Morton, but will speculate whether she will be the concubine of a certain cadre in the 'Baroque Studio'. Other than that, they could not think of the need for the 'Baroque Workshop' to shelter the Greenton merchants.

Of course, these are all secret speculations and do not affect Angela herself.

At this moment, Angela is arranging to load the goods and prepare for the next voyage.

At this time, one of his subordinates hurriedly ran to Angela, "Boss, someone from the navy has come again, saying that he wants to talk to you about the 'large merchant group going to sea tax'......"

Angela, who was arranging things, frowned slightly, "What is the 'tax for large merchant groups going to sea', I have never heard of this kind of thing, we have paid the tax we should pay every year, when did such a tax come out again?"

The 'Scar' morton next to him had his eyes closed, but when he heard this, he suddenly opened his eyes and said, "I've heard of this tax, but it's not a tax collected by the World Government, but something made by the secret services under the World Government in order to make extra money, similar to protection money." ”

When Angela heard this, a look of disgust appeared on her face, and she said to her subordinates, "Just say that I am sick and it is inconvenient to meet guests for the time being, and this matter will be discussed later." ”

"Yes!" the subordinate nodded hurriedly and ran back.

It's just that he just didn't take two steps before he crashed into a person, was bounced back and sat on the ground.

"Huh?" "Scar" Morton looked over there with some wariness.

I saw that in that direction, a man with a leather jacket on his face was standing there, and said in a very harsh voice, "This is the master of the Greenton Merchant Group, Miss Angela, right? ”

"'CP-9'—" Morton's face changed abruptly.

As a five-star bounty hunter, Morton is unfamiliar with 'Cipher.Pol', which is one of the few secret agencies under the command of the World Government that can wrestle with the 'Bounty Hunters' Guild'.

And 'CP-9' is one of the branches of this organ that specializes in combat, second only to 'CP-0'!

The man in front of me is actually the supreme commander of 'CP-9', and I'm afraid the situation is a little bad.

If there were any forces in the first half of the Great Voyage that would not have any scruples about the 'Baroque Studios', 'Cipher.Pol' is definitely one of them!

And the man named Spendam in front of him, as the supreme commander of 'CP-9', his status is even higher than that of ordinary vice admirals.

Thinking of this, Morton came to Angela's side and whispered, "This person has a big background, if you have anything to promise in advance, you will find a way to solve it later......"

Angela nodded lightly when she heard this, she knew that Morton would not talk nonsense.

So she spoke, "Hello Lord Spendham, it's a pleasure to meet you. ”

"I didn't expect Miss Angela to be so beautiful and moving, but I was abrupt. Spendham's smile looked very disgusting, but his identity was there, how could ordinary people dare to touch him, "Regarding the 'large merchant group sea tax' that I sent my subordinates to inform you before, I don't know what Miss Angela thinks about, when will it be paid?"

"Lord Spendham, we merchants are making hard money in ourselves, if according to the tax payment law you mentioned, we will not even be able to make a hundred percent of the profits from each trip, and I still have so many people to support, I wonder if Lord Spandam can be accommodating?" Angela asked with a smile on her face, suppressing the disgust in her heart.

"This is a tax rate set by the world government, even if it is me, it is not so easy to change. Spandam shook his head at first, but then smiled again, "However, I can still help you run a request from a charming girl like Miss Angela, but I'm afraid it will take me a lot of time and a lot of favors......"

"Mistress Spendham, but it's hard work? Angela is not the innocent girl she was at the beginning, she knows that it is impossible to drop pies from the sky, so she asked.

"No, no, no, Miss Angela misunderstood, I don't need any hard money...... All I need is Miss Angela to have dinner with me......" Spandam smiled.

When Angela heard this, her face suddenly turned ugly.

How could she not hear what Spandam was saying, according to Spandam, he wanted to reduce the tax on the sea of this 'large merchant group' to consume a lot of favors, and how could a dinner be worth so many favors?

"Sorry, I'm not in the habit of eating with strangers. Angela said apologetically.

"Oh, I'm sorry, but I can't lose a penny of this tax. Spendham's face immediately turned cold, "If you don't pay it, I will have to arrest you and send you to the 'Deep Sea Prison' Impel, with Miss Angela's situation, if you are really sent to prison, I am afraid it will be very sad......"

"You!" Angela was furious.

But she remembered what Morton had told her before, and forcibly suppressed her anger, and said humiliatingly, "Okay, I'll get all the taxes to ......be delivered to you, Master Spandham, when I go back."

"That's great, of course. Spendham nodded, "Oh, by the way, I forgot to mention before, in addition to the 'large merchant group sea tax', there is also a 'large business group environmental protection tax', you can go back and let people send it over, the tax rate is the same as the sea tax." ”

"How unreasonable!!"

This time, without waiting for Angela to speak, the 'Scar' Morton next to him couldn't help it, and he said angrily, "This lord, don't deceive people too much, although the 'CP-9' is powerful, we can't leave no one to live at all, right? According to the tax rate you said, we will not only not earn a penny every time we go to sea, but also have to lose a lot of money!"

"It's none of my business, if you don't think it's reasonable and don't make money, you can stop doing this business, and then you won't have to pay a penny in taxes, won't you?" said Spandam.

"Bastard!" Morton was furious.

He was a temper tantrum himself, and if it weren't for Spendham's identity, he would have been unable to help but teach the other party a lesson.

But Spandam's practice of kicking his nose in the face like this, leaving no way for people to live, is a person who can't bear it.

Morton's figure flashed, and he rushed in the direction of Spendham!

However, at this moment, another figure jumped out from behind Spandam and collided head-on with Morton!

The next moment, I saw Morton being catapulted back!

He flipped a few times before he could stand firm, one hand covering his chest, and a trace of blood spilling from the corner of his mouth.

"How bold you are to make a move on 'CP-9', baba!" a man with short green hair appeared in front of Spandam in a battle stance. He was the one who sent Morton back just now.

Obviously, Morton suffered a loss in the fight just now.

Seeing that Morton was not one of the opponents of the other party, Angela immediately understood that something was wrong, and hurriedly said, "Don't be angry, adults, we have agreed to this matter, and we will deliver both taxes, please don't be surprised." ”

"Now you know it's too late!" Spandam sneered, "Miss Angela, it's a felony for you to instruct your subordinates to attack my world government officials, and now it's not a matter of taxes, I'm afraid you'll have to accompany me back to [Justice Island]!"

"No! you can't do that!" Morton snapped.

"Hmph, do you have a place to speak, owl, let him have a long memory!" Spandam snorted coldly as he glanced at Morton.

"Yes, Baba!!"

As soon as the round man stepped on his feet, the whole person attacked Morton!

Morton hurriedly made a fend move, but was still knocked out by the man named Owl.

"Come, take this Angela down to me, take it away!" commanded Spandam.

Immediately after Spendham's order, a squad of navies trotted over and handcuffed Angela.

Angela didn't resist, because she knew that she was just an ordinary person, and if she resisted, it would only be self-inflicted, but she looked at Spandam angrily and said, "You will regret it!"

"Regret?" Spandam scoffed, not bothering to pay attention.

He has seen too many people with hard mouths like this kind of dead ducks.

When Angela was taken away, it didn't take long for the owl to bring back the unconscious Morton, hand it over to the Navy to handcuff together, and then take it away.

"Seize everything from the Greenton Merchant and confiscate it!" Spandam continued to command his men.

"My lord, I heard that behind this Greenton merchant group is the 'Baroque Workshop', will we do this......" One of the navies said to Spendham with some uncertainty.

It's just that before he could finish speaking, he was interrupted by Spendham, "Could it be anything? Is it just an illegal organization, can it still dare to go against the world government? ridiculous!"

"Yes, sir, that's what you said. The navy quickly shut up.

In the distance, after seeing what was happening here, a man's expression changed slightly, and he hurriedly left.

......

[St. Ting Island], in the underground garrison of the 'Legion of Swords'.

'Sand Crocodile' Klockdahl was drinking and playing chess with Koshiro, and at the same time chatting about some things happening on the sea, and the two were talking and laughing.

Suddenly, a man ran in from outside the door, looking panicked, and interrupted them.

"My lord, my lord, it's not good!!"

"What's such a fuss, talk well!" said Klockdahl dissatisfied.

"Yes!" the subordinate calmed down before he said, "There is urgent information from the Whiskey Peaks that Miss Angela seems to have been captured by the Navy......"

"What?!"

Klockdahl's expression changed abruptly, and he stood up abruptly.

Due to the big movement, he accidentally overturned the chessboard in front of him, and the two glasses of red wine on the chessboard were also spilled on the ground.

Koshiro, who was sitting across from him, saw his reaction and realized that things might not be simple, and asked, "What happened, who is this Angela?"

"Angela is a friend of Lord Lefa, and she has always asked me to take care of her. Klockdahl replied in the briefest of terms, "It's too late to say more, please talk to Koshiro-sama, and I'll go to Whiskey Mountain." ”

After talking to Koshiro, Klockdahl said to the subordinate again, "You immediately give me an order to the people on the other side of Whiskey Mountain, no matter what, do everything in your power to ensure that Miss Angela is not taken out of the range of Whiskey Mountain, go quickly!!"

"Yes!" the man hurriedly ran out.

After Koshiro heard Klockdahl's words, his brows furrowed, and he said, "Then you should go for a walk, and I will contact Lord Refa to see what he has to say." ”

"Good. ”

Klockdahl said, already turning into a bunch of yellow salon rolls, floating away!