After a dull and hasty meeting, Smoker had wanted to catch up with Karp and ask for more details about the previous day's naval battle, but when he saw Tina standing alone in the hallway, he changed his mind and walked over.

Tina sensed someone approaching and immediately turned her head alarmingly.

She didn't carry a pair of colored sunglasses with her as usual, and Smoker looked into her eyes, noticing the fear in her eyes, followed by surprise, and couldn't help but frown.

"What's wrong?"

Tina hesitated, did not speak, but took out a pack of cigarettes, shook them, pulled out two, and handed one of them to Smoker.

Smoker took it, and he noticed that Tina's hands were trembling violently, as if she were in the freezing heat of winter.

He wasn't used to smoking cigarettes, but at this time, he also lit a lighter with Tina, and smoked in the hallway.

After a while, Tina touched her smooth forehead with her gloved left hand and said, "Tina has been having nightmares lately. ”

"Nightmares?" Smoker looked at her in surprise, an unexpected answer.

"As soon as she closes her eyes and wants to sleep, Tina can dream of David Jones." She is indeed much haggard, has dark circles under her eyes, and seems to have been suffering from insomnia lately, "Tina has seen a psychiatrist, but it is useless." ”

Smoker lowered his head and thought for a while, his familiar friend Tina is not the kind of person who will have a psychological shadow because of a fiasco in a battle, so the reason for this result can only be something else.

"It's his weird abilities." Smoker spat out a smoke ring, looked far into the bustling street outside, and inferred, "He's planted 'fear' in your heart." ”

He doesn't need any evidence, as long as he makes a reasonable deduction, he will conclude this conclusion.

Sometimes even if it is unreasonable, but it is like that, he will accept it.

Tina's red lips bit the cigarette, her eyes lowered, and it took a long time to reach out and remove the cigarette from her lips and crush it against the wall, and the smoke dissipated.

"Smoker."

"What's wrong?"

"You say, could that person really be the legendary 'Hades of the Deep' David Jones? Otherwise, his abilities simply cannot be explained. ”

Legend? Smoker shook his head, that kind of thing hundreds of years ago, who knows?

"The world is big." He didn't answer directly, "Maybe some people can have some strange abilities even if they don't eat Devil Fruits. ”

"Smoker, what are you going to do?" Tina stroked her long pink hair, "Tina knows you're not going to give up. ”

Smoker took the cigarette down in one gulp, then took it off and crushed it against the wall: "This time, although Lieutenant General Karp has taken all the blame, I still can't tolerate the weakness I have shown. ”

"You're going to the Great Voyage?"

"Of course." Smoker clasped his hands to his chest and looked into the distance, "Even if I chase to the ends of the earth, I will catch David Jones and his gang and send them to the 'Advance City', and I will be ashamed!" ”

"The Navy Headquarters won't let you leave Rogue Town easily, let alone carry the punishment on your back."

"Then all I can say is let them mind my business! Do their job, what has happened to the 'Great Route'? ”

Tina shook her head and sighed, "In that case, Tina is also with you to hunt down David Jones and his gang." ”

Smoker looked at her quizzically.

She pursed her lips: "The previous psychotherapy was not completely ineffective, at least the doctor told Tina that she had to face the source of her fear. The more you know about it, the less you fear it. ”

"Okay." Smoker didn't ask any more questions, and nodded in response, "Then we'll work together to hunt David Jones and his gang." ”

"Hmm. However, I still have to say a word to Lieutenant General Karp. ”

"Say it."

After a brief exchange, the two smokers decided to abandon the steady path of promotion and take a path that seemed completely rebellious to the world government and navy.

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At the same time, on the way to the Great Voyage.

The black-hulled Horror Ghost had already put away the storm and sea fog, but it still had to meet the rather harsh weather, which was the characteristic of the great voyage.

One moment it was a blizzard, the next it was a scorching sun, the next it was full of whirlpools, and the next it was so calm and windless that it was like being in a windless zone.

Unpredictable and elusive.

Coupled with the fact that ordinary compasses are basically useless on this route, and it is impossible to determine the direction at all, the Terror Ghost has already deviated from the original route and sailed into the unknown sea at some point.

Fortunately, there was plenty of food on the ship, and everyone starved to death for a while, and Hachi, who was in charge of cooking the meals, also behaved quite relaxed.

And after wandering aimlessly for a while, the Terror Ghost finally saw the coastline in the distance.

The crew breathed a sigh of relief, it was not good to stay on the ship all the time, especially Captain David Jones, who was not far away.

Now that they can finally step on solid ground, it is actually a great consolation for their tense spirits.

Soon, the rough coastline winds into the outline of an island, which gradually emerges into view.

It was a peculiar island, and the most conspicuous thing on the island was the giant cactus ball like a mountain peak, with pins and needles.

From afar, you can see a town of considerable size and houses dotted with it.

David Jones stood at the bow of the ship and watched for a while, and immediately made a decision.

"Yarrita, your mission is to find out the information about this island."

"Yes." Arrita pressed the brim of her hat, revealing the charm at the corner of her mouth.

"Bucky, you go buy some of the materials and tools you need, and the most important thing is to buy a 'record pointer'."

"No problem, Captain!" Bucky touched his red nose and wished to get off the boat immediately.

"Chloe, Hachi, you go to buy food, you have to store it as easily as possible."

"Yes."

"Yes, Captain!"

After Hachi agreed, he walked up to Chloe quite happily, put his arms around the shoulder of the man in the suit who had seriously injured him, and said with a simple smile: "Chloe, we are partners together again." ”

He thinks that his relationship with Chloe is very good, after all, he has gone out to buy together more than once.

However, Chloe obviously didn't think so, he lowered his head, held his glasses, felt the touch of Hachi's suction cup sticking to his clothes, and finally resisted the urge to chop Hachi.

The crew all came down, packed their belongings, and prepared to disembark.

The Horror Ghost sailed into a small harbor and hid behind a giant cactus, and the crew stepped on the gangplank and stepped into the town, where they split up.

However, in the woods, on the hills, there were quite a few eyes on them at the moment.

When they came to act separately, these eyes also parted, and they followed separately.

And a lot of scattered information has also gathered in the center of this cactus ball island.

In a room in the town of Whiskey Hill, four people sit around a round table with carved wooden doors open on the balcony and warm sunlight outside.

"Another rookie pirate group has landed." The young man wearing the crown was quite impatient and greedy, "We haven't opened for a long time, and we can't sustain the livelihood of so many people. ”

"There's no hurry." The middle-aged man with a thick, curly, wig-like hairstyle shook his head, "Mr. 9, let's wait until we find out what this group of pirates is all about." Miss Monday, how's the check? ”

"Miss Monday", who was tall but wore a black and white nun's dress, rummaged through the bounty order for a while, and finally found a few: "Found it." ”

She tossed the bounty on the round table for everyone to see.

Mr.9, who was wearing a crown, picked up one casually, only to see that there was an image of the group of pirates on it, and their names and bounties were written below, and the one in his hand was that of "Iron Rod" Yarrita, and the bounty was 15 million Bailey.

He picked up another one and looked at it, it was "Joker" Bucky's, and the bounty was 25 million Bailey.

"For rookie pirates who have just entered the Great Voyage, this bounty is quite high." Wang Guannan raised his eyebrows, and the number "9" tattoo under his eyes moved, while commenting, "But it should still be easy to deal with, after all, it's from the East China Sea." ”

They have been on the Great Voyage for a long time, and they know that the bounty is not fully expressed as combat power, but is closely related to what the bounty has done.

"The people below said that there were more than these few people." Codenamed "Miss Monday", the nun clasped her hands on her chest, and sat in such a casual position that even the wide nun's robe could not hide her muscular lines.

Wang Guannan waved his hand: "It's just that a newcomer has been added." Mr.8, I think we should do it immediately, in case they notice something is wrong and run away early, then we can only really hunt the island whale of the twin heads. ”

The curly-haired man codenamed "Mr. 8" took the last bounty order and frowned: "David Jones, the bounty is 50 million Bailey, this bounty is very high, and I always feel as if I have seen this name somewhere......"

"Ahh At this time, "Miss Wednesday", who had not spoken, shook a single ponytail made of long blue hair, and her eyes widened, "Newspaper! ”

In the astonished gaze of everyone, the ponytail girl turned out all the old newspapers, and she quickly found the one she wanted.

"'The wicked man with the fastest soaring bounty in the East China Sea is actually the legendary King of the Deep Sea?!' ”