Click, click.

One of the Nine Snakes warriors poked the white orb with a spear, and feedback from the barrel of the gun told her that the white thing seemed to be some kind of metal.

Just as they wondered what it was, the orb suddenly softened and flowed down like wax.

As the white object melted, several miserable-looking, even scattered people appeared in the spherical semicircle.

"Well done Gardino, I've survived."

Inside the ball is Bucky's group, and when everyone is running for their lives, Bucky and Mr. 3 take a different approach and make a huge candle ball to wrap themselves inside.

The density of the wax allowed them to float on the surface of the sea, and the hardness of steel allowed them to avoid most foreign attacks, and for a time it became Noah's Ark in the apocalypse.

It's just that because of its spherical shape, this white ball is not stable, it keeps floating around, and it will be affected by the impact, and finally send them to the island like a gacha.

"Let's go next!"

Before Bucky could give the order, the sharp tip of the spear was already pointed at his nose.

"Snake Princess, it's another group of men, what should these people do?"

"Wait a minute. Is anyone familiar with them! ”

In view of the fact that the Straw Hats had appeared earlier, Hancock did not do it immediately, but asked Mandelfish.

After receiving a no-answer that she was ready to act.

"Wait, Boya Hancock, it's me, Bucky, who used to be the same as you in the Seven Martial Seas! We know each other! ”

"The concubine is not familiar with you, sweet and sweet!"

As the pink light swept by, there was a group of stone statues on the beach, and Hancock turned around and left the place.

There is no feeling without contrast, and these living statues are a reminder to the people who strayed into the island that the owner is not a friendly person.

The timid trio had instinctively hugged each other, and the scene of this big change of life was really a little scary.

The two Heracrosses are communicating their daily routines, and Luffy is faced with a choice, he is hungry right now, but their chef is unconscious.

It's not difficult to wake up Sanji, it's just that it's dangerous to wake him up, and judging from Sanji's situation, letting him wake up here will most likely only hurt him.

Due to serious stealing of food, Sanji has replaced it with a locked refrigerator, and except for him, outsiders can't open the giant refrigerator where food is stored, and Luffy can only try to find foreign aid at this time.

"Oh, I'm hungry, Uta, do you have anything to eat? I missed two meals in order to hunt for treasure. ”

Since the subconscious mind believes that the treasure is meat that cannot be eaten, Luffy deliberately empty his stomach.

With the amount of five meals he eats a day, his strong digestive ability has long caused his stomach to be empty.

"Yes, yes, but you shouldn't be interested."

Uta called out to Ah Xian on the side, and took out a food box from the small bag on its back, which contained a vegetarian salad to the extreme.

"It's."

"Fat loss meal, I've been controlling my body shape recently, I'm afraid you couldn't eat enough of this thing more than ten years ago."

Induced by hunger, Luffy would always act irrationally, and after a short thought, he looked at the owner of the island.

"Tranan, you said that the master of this place is the Pirate Empress, right?"

"Theoretically, what do you want to do?"

"Order something to eat with her, that Hancock! Can you give me some meat, I'm really hungry! ”

"Unreasonable people! It is already very forgiving to let you live on the island temporarily, there is no extra food for you, even the name of the concubine will be called wrong, and if it were in normal times, you would have been turned to stone like the group of intruders! ”

Luffy's words didn't follow up, as he was once again pressed back by his own partner.

"Enough Luffy, don't offend another original Seven Martial Seas for this inexplicable reason!"

"Yes, there are still a bunch of pirates from the beasts here, don't get noticed because of such a trivial matter as your stomach!"

"What, my stomach is very serious, okay, we can give money, or dismantle the refrigerator first."

"No way!"

Hearing the word money, Nami, the highest force on the ship, was awakened and suppressed Luffy's arrogance with very terrifying force.

Looking at Nami's smoky fist, Uta took a step back, and if she remembered correctly, Tezzolo had the same reaction when she practiced her high-level armed color.

"Luffy, you're really funny on board. How about I let you eat something in your dreams? ”

During the voyage, both food and water are important materials, and they need to be managed by someone when they are on a pirate ship, this is not a hundred beasts and fruits, and it does not belong to Uta's territory, and she knows how much Luffy eats.

Instead of giving him supplies on the ship, he found another way, as long as he entered the world of songs, then she could satisfy Luffy as much as she wanted.

Although it is not replenished physically, it can stop starving mentally.

"Can you eat enough in your dreams?"

Smack.

Before Uta could answer Luffy, there was another figure on the island, but this time it didn't cause any new fights.

"Sister Olga? You're finally here, you're not hurt, are you tired? ”

Hancock's attitude changed 180 degrees in an instant, and he came to Olga and asked questions, lest something happen to her.

"Peace of mind, peace of mind, nothing happens, Governor Kaido is having fun with them now, I guess I have to get two or three days, I can have a good rest during this time, is the hot spring on the island still there?"

"This. Nope. ”

"That's a shame."

Kaido moved the entire island, and without the heating of the underground magma, the hot springs naturally disappeared, and now the rivers on the island rely on some underground caverns to circulate, and if it drags on for too long, it is only a matter of time before they dry up.

"Well, Miss Olga, how is Shanks?"

"Shanks? Rest assured, he parried and the Governor of Kaido arrived, and he could tell the difference between right and wrong. Probably. ”

In the end, Olga also lost confidence in her heart, after all, Kaido is not a type to rely on in this regard.

The breath of battle on the island is telling Olga that the three monsters are all right now.

"What are you all doing standing here? Let's find a place to rest, or have a banquet, they won't be able to end it for a while. ”

"I see what you mean, Sister Olga."

Half an hour later, something happened that made Luffy, a heartless person, red-eyed, just a few dozen meters away from him, a large amount of food was gathered together, as if it was going to hold a banquet.

"Banquet, I want to participate too! I want to participate too! ”

Luffy rolls around on the ground in a splashing position, trying to get his partner to agree with him, but unfortunately the Straw Hats have long been immune to this kind of thing.

"Is that the circus you hired?"

"No, it's just that their captain is an acquaintance of Miss Utta, so they stayed here."

"Is that so, wait, that's Heracrose? There are really two people on this boat. ”

"Sister Olga, that group is the gang that Batman reported two years ago, and the chaos on Cake Island before also has something to do with them."

Mandelfesch introduced the situation of the Straw Hats on the side, after all, Olga himself did not pay much attention to this kind of newcomer.

"Well, hey! Don't shout, come together, it's just a meal! ”

"Thank you! You're such a nice guy! ”

After getting the other party's invitation, Luffy's patience limit was immediately broken, and he began to frantically replenish food, and even began to show his performance art as a meal on the way.

For Luffy, as long as you give him meat to eat, he will default to you being a good person.

But others don't think so.

"Is she really a good person?"

"Good guys? That's three. No, one of the four plagues, Kaido's original team, Phantom Olga.

According to what I've gathered, she's the least wreaking havoc, but she's probably the worst."

Luo sat on the side and didn't have much appetite, just looked at Luffy with a little worry, and Uta was just as worried as him, but Uta was worried about Shanks's situation.

Until nightfall, the battle did not stop, but tonight's Nine Snakes was destined to be lively, and as the starlight sprinkled on the beach, another figure approached from the distant sea.

The Nine Snake warriors in charge of the vigil did not catch any trace of this man at all, and let him go straight to the rest area of the island.

"Girls don't always stay up late."

"Shanks?!"

The last person to enter the Nine Snakes was Shanks, who, after a fierce battle during the day, made Barrett and Kaido gradually lose interest, and finally found the right opportunity to get out of the battle after nightfall.

After getting out, he followed the direction of Olga's retreat before, and finally found the Nine Snakes.

"You're not hurt, are you?"

Uta observes Shanks' situation, which is very similar to Hancock's concern for Olga, but with a different emotion.

"It's okay, it's not been a day, the warm-up has just ended, if you continue to fight, those two crazy people may have to figure out something."

Soothing his arm, Shanks measured Uta's height.

"Sure enough, you've grown taller and you've grown. Wait, I have a call. ”

Shanks was about to say something, but suddenly there was a slight vibration in his inner pocket.

"I'll be back soon, you wait for me here."

Shanks disappeared into the night again, the dark clouds obscuring the moonlight, dimming the remaining starlight around her, the waves crashing on the beach, and the chirping of insects could be heard in the jungle.

"Hey."

"It's me."

"I know it's you, no one but you will make this call, what do you want to say."

The other end of the phone bug is none other than a member of the official Five Elder Stars, the Valkyrie of Scientific Defense, Jaigorucia Satan.

"Shanks, we need to know why you are here, and what is the relationship between you and Douglas Barrett, who was also a member of Roger's crew."

"It doesn't matter anything, I'm just here to listen to the concert."

“.”

There was silence on the other side of the phone bug, and Shanks' answer left Satan silent for a long time, and finally only let out a long sigh.

"Shanks, it's all this time, do you still want to answer us with such perfunctory words?"

"I've been telling the truth from beginning to end, and if you don't believe me, what can I do?"

Human beings prefer to believe what they believe in their hearts, and when they get an answer that is contrary to their own ideas, many people's first thought is not that they are wrong, but that the other person is lying.

They don't test their own results, but they prove the other side wrong, and this trait is even more pronounced in some of the proudest people in power.

And Shanks, it seems that there is no problem, but there are problems everywhere.

He is an emperor of the sea, and it is nothing if he wants to watch a concert, even if it is more reasonable to sail to the vicinity and bring a few subordinates over.

Shanks arrived here alone and unnoticed, not even noticing the Navy's surveillance ship.

And the place where he appeared happened to be the place where Barrett planned the operation, and what was even more coincidental was that Kaido came here on a detour and set off a scuffle here.

Shanks said that it was all just a coincidence, that he was just a fan of this singer, so he came here, and Satan was really a little hard to believe.

It's hard to believe that Quinn used the grace of nature in front of Akainu to awaken the consciousness of the animal-based fruit and say that all this has nothing to do with him.

People who don't know the inside story will only think it's a joke.

"Isn't it strange that Kaido flew to you for a few days just to drink, and now you just want to listen to a concert after a few days of sneaking?"

"Maybe a little bit, but that's the truth.

Why, do you want me to tell you that we are going to plot a grand conspiracy to turn the world upside down? ”

"Sure enough, is that what you're for?"

Shanks, exhausted by the two battle frenzy, didn't want to speak at all, and immediately wanted to hang up, but Stan hadn't finished speaking.

"Revolutionary army, pirates, they seem to be fanatical and they are just the last madness, don't underestimate the foundation of the world government, the current situation is not that they are strong, but we haven't really shot yet."

"How dare you say it?"

"It's a fact, I'm just stating, it seems that the order is collapsing, but in fact it's just a reboot process, Shanks, you'd better not forget your identity so that you can avoid being erased."

"Identity? I'm a pirate, Satan, do pirates have to report to you? ”

Shanks hung up the phone directly, in Shanks's opinion, these five old guys have been sitting in the office for too long, and it is time to change their thinking for the sake of the people they value.

Communicating with a group of people who don't trust him won't get results, and he understands this, since those five meeting kings like to make up their brains in the office, let them think about it slowly.

"I'm afraid it's really going to change now."

Looking at the starlight overhead, Shanks also smelled the unusual charm and made a different decision.

And in Mary Joy, there are people who think the same thing as him.

"Sure enough, his thoughts are no longer in the realm of our speculation."

"Then he can only do this, this is his own choice, and he can't blame us."

When there is a crack in trust, the already weak bond naturally falls apart.

Hanging up the communication from there, Shanks didn't have any psychological burden, he was originally a pirate, and he has been operating on the sea as a pirate for so many years.

It's just that the relationship background is a little more complicated, and I can talk to some special people.

When he returned, Uta was waiting for him by the fire, and not far away, Luffy with a bulging stomach could be seen sleeping without any scruples, and he was the only one who could sleep soundly like this in the "enemy camp".

The other partners were by the side of the Sunshine, and for a while Shanks had the feeling that he had returned to more than ten years ago, when Luffy was sleeping in the open space of Windmill Village after eating his fill.

Uta was by his side, listening to him tell the story of the stars in the sky, and in a blink of an eye, these people had all grown up.

"Uta, do you remember the original agreement?"

"Remember, when I became the world's No. 1 singer, you took me back, this goal. I've already reached it, right? I don't think any of my peers are more popular than I am today.

But Shanks, you seem to have been busy with something. ”

"It's almost over, and when it's over, let's go on a good trip, and the whole pirate group will be your accompanist."

"Hmph, if you are on the stage at your level, you will be heard of the problem all of a sudden, but with me here, I will definitely be able to make up for it."

"So, you should stay over there recently, I don't like Kaido's character, but he won't abandon everything over there, and the current sea, you're the safest."

After hanging up Satan's phone, Shanks made this decision, and he and the five old stars were in a state of hiding from each other.

The Five Elders didn't know what he was thinking, and he didn't know what the Five Elders were hiding, the Flame of the Virgin, the Knights of the Gods, no one could guarantee that these were everything from the World Government.

And Shanks himself has territory to shelter, and although he doesn't want to admit it, he has to face the fact that he has no means to deal with that thing like the Virgin's Flame.

On the contrary, there are beasts.

"Their order is part of the rules."

"Shanks, what did you say?"

"Huh? I said it was going to be an interesting voyage. ”

"Excuse me, although you are a little out of place, but the kind of words just now are in our place, but it is called planting flags, and there may be a very metaphysical element in it."

Olga's voice came, and Shanks also sensed more than one breath, and it seemed that many people had already noticed him.

This is also normal, the volume of his small talk with Uta is not small, and men are a rare species here, and it is reasonable for a night patrol warrior to notice him.

"Planting a flag? Interesting description. ”

"Why did you get here? Governor Kaido will let you go. ”

"He didn't want me to leave, didn't he see that it took me a day to get out of the hands of those two madmen, and it took me a lot of work to accompany them to fight in the warm-up, you governor is really crazy to death."

When Shanks said this, some people couldn't help but look at the island in the distance, they didn't understand this level of fighting. Why is it called a warm-up?

"Indeed, the only one who can suppress him is Lord Arceus."

"Then what are you going to do when he's usually crazy?"

"Hide behind Quinn, or go find our eldest lady, it's safe."

“.”

It turns out that Shanks still doesn't understand the strange situation inside the beasts, nor does he understand a pot culture circulating within them.

After all, the pot can also be used as a shield.

It was late in the night, and Shanks didn't waste too much time, but asked Uta to go back to sleep first, leaving some of the rest until dawn the next day.

The next day, Luffy, who felt that he was not breathing, woke up.

"Who! Don't pinch someone's nose casually! Shanks?! ”

"Long time no see, Luffy, you've gotten stronger, and you've gone to the new world."

"Of course, yes! Hat, I brought the hat you asked me to keep on my behalf, although it was broken a few times on the way, but everyone helped me fix it! ”

"I see it, but it's still a little bit worse, give it back to me when you get stronger, and it's better to keep it in your hands for now."

After reminiscing and asking Luffy about his plans, Shanks decided to send Luffy and them out of here first, Nine Snakes was not a suitable place for them to stay.

"That's what I thought, if it weren't for you, we would have left last night."

This island is a fatal island for Sanji, and in order to prevent accidents, Luo even injected Sanji with an anesthetic yesterday, just because he was afraid that he would wake up and bleed to death.

Now that everything he wants to do is done, Luffy naturally has to continue to act.

"Okay, then I'll give you a ride."

Looking into the distance, Shanks swung a knife at the sea, and the sea nearly cracked under the blow.

"Follow this direction and you'll be back on your normal course, don't worry, no one will bother you on the way."

Later, after saying goodbye to the islanders, the Sunshine sets out on its own voyage again, and Shanks discovers a group of unlucky people on the island.

"It's . Is the petrification of sweet fruits? Can you give me a face, and remove the petrification of this group of people first, and I'll let them go. ”

Knocking on Bucky's face, although they were petrified, these people were not broken, so there was still a chance to save them.

Shanks' face is somewhat useful here, but before Hancock's operation, Shanks suddenly has a new problem.

"Wait, if you draw something on them now, will you keep it after the petrification is removed?"

"I don't know, the concubine hasn't tried that kind of boring thing."

"Then you can give it a try."

To be precise, the current emperors of the sea are not very normal, but their abnormal aspects are different, and a group of people on the island watched Shanks and the same as a child, leaving a lot of graffiti on Bucky before Hancock depetrified him.

(End of chapter)