A crow fluttered and landed among the lush branches, and the oily black of its feathers melted away like a bubble of water, filling the air like black smoke.

"Ahh

It let out a strange cry and then became possessed by a higher will, tilting its head slightly, blinking its scarlet eyes from time to time, staring at the hillside in the distance.

"Whew!"

The initial excitement after Porki ate the "Target Fruit" has passed, and she has begun to practice and develop the "Fruit Ability" diligently.

Bartolomeo, who can create a "barrier", actively and cheerfully acts as her subject of practice.

One is willing to fight, the other is willing to suffer.

Porki threw the rod again and again, in every direction, but each time the rod stabbed Bartolomeo, who became the "target".

Bartolomeo has a "barrier" defense and barrier, and he is not afraid at all, but is still in high spirits.

Porki was able to easily familiarize himself with and master the "Target Fruit Ability".

David Jones silently watched this scene through the eyes of a crow in the Mansion of Terror.

Occasionally, he would send crows in the direction he was interested in, and through their eyes, he would know what was changing.

But they can't fly too far away from David Jones, or their presence will disappear like smoke.

Tuk Tuk Tuk –

A calm and rhythmic knock sounded at the door, and David Jones cut off contact with one of the crows and stood in front of the windowsill without looking back.

"Come in." David Jones knew who was coming, he could sense it.

Yarrita walked in, tucked her favorite white hat under her armpit, gently flicked her wavy black hair, and then carefully greeted the captain.

Then she got down to business: "Captain, Mr. Jinping said that he will soon be on the island of the Horror Ghost, accompanied by six new ships built on Fish-Man Island. ”

In this way, the horror ghost, the "supernova" pirate ships, the seized ships, and the newly built ships, all of them add up, there are twenty-five.

That's all David Jones currently has in his pirate fleet.

This is only warships, and if you count cargo ships and passenger ships, there are many more.

The "Whitebeard Pirates" had 44 warships in their heyday, and the "Big Mom Pirates" now also have 35 warships, and the "Big Mom" has an advantage in numbers.

It's not that the two "Four Emperors" can't build more ships, it's just that the cost of maintaining them is quite high.

However, it didn't matter how many ships Charlotte Lingling had, and David Jones never intended to conduct a naval battle comparing the number of ships.

"Hmm." David Jones nodded and asked, "Is there any movement over there with Charlotte Lingling?" ”

"Captain, I was about to report to you." Based on the information gathered from the intelligence traffickers, Arrita said, "She's moving, and she's big. ”

"What do you mean?"

"The ships of the 'Kingdom of Totland' set out in unison, looting supplies from the nearby islands, and everywhere they went, they were basically turned into a sea of fire and ruins."

Yarrita paused and continued.

"In previous years, the 'Big Mom Pirates' would only have such a big move before the 'tea party', but this time it was sudden, so it caught many islands off guard."

"The fleet of the 'Big Mom Pirates' is also gathering and should be coming towards us."

The "tea party" mentioned by Yarrita is a gathering carried out by Charlotte Lingling in order to satisfy her appetite and quirks, forcibly summoning her family and subordinates, etc., just like a little girl's "playing house".

The core is that no one can disobey Charlotte Lingling, and everyone must fulfill her wishes, no matter how outrageous.

Some people from outside the family were invited to attend, some of whom were honored for it, others who felt deeply jealous.

Because they have seen the unreasonableness, madness and anger of "Big Mom".

She's a terrible monster!

This is the well-known "Auntie's Tea Party".

"Keep looking for information." David Jones then said, "Let Crocodal be ready, and when Jinping arrives, we will leave tomorrow morning and go to the front." ”

"Yes." Arrita bowed and slowly exited the room.

At noon, Jinping arrived at Horror Ghost Island with six ships and met David Jones as soon as possible.

The ship was accompanied by a group of fishmen, mermaid pirates, the "North Sea Monster" Kuraken, the "Manatee" Moo, and a group of sea beasts.

Aladdin and part of the Sun Pirates stay on Fish-Man Island to maintain order.

David Jones told the blue-skinned fishman to go to rest first, and then asked Crocodall if he was ready.

The Klockdahl response was ready.

The next morning, when there was still a thick fog on the sea, David Jones's fleet set off from the island of horrors and ghosts en masse.

But their destination is neither Black Pearl Island, Thor Island, nor Flying Dutchman Island, nor Punk Hazard Island, but a deserted island outside the existing territory.

This desert island is outside the edge of David Jones' sphere of influence, not far from Thor Island and Punk Hazard Island, and is on the route through which the "Big Mom Pirates" will attack.

David Jones named it "Isle of Silence", which means the place where Charlotte Lingling is silent.

It took the pirate fleet nearly a day to make it from the Horror Ghost Island to the Isle of Silence.

Chloe and Rowe had already gathered on the island of silence and had built their base camp in advance, a gray castle nestled among the mountains.

David Jones put Klockdahl in charge of the deployment of logistics and supplies, and let Jinping's fishmen, merfolk, and sea beasts dive into the sea and stand guard around Silent Island.

Arrita is still asking about the movements of the "Big Mom Pirates" from the intelligence dealers in the underworld, sometimes through merchants and travelers.

Actually, it's not that difficult.

Because the pirate fleet of "Big Mom" is too high-profile.

Before attacking Maryford, the headquarters of the Navy, "Whitebeard" would also disguise himself and secretly coat it so that the Navy would not find out.

It was not until the last moment that the fleet of the "Whitebeard Pirates" dived to the bottom of the sea and penetrated directly into the defense line of the naval headquarters through the submarine route.

And one of the cores of the "Big Mom Pirates", Charlotte Lingling's eldest son Perospero had to go out with great fanfare and pour out in order to gather everything needed to start the war in just one week.

The scale even surpassed the manpower used to make all kinds of desserts and pastries before the "tea party", and attracted the attention of quite a few people.

In addition, Charlotte Lingling has a huge appetite and has "food sickness", once she can't eat something delicious, or what she wants to eat, she will go crazy.

And once Charlotte Lingling fell into madness, she would attack without relieving her relatives, and it would not be surprising that she would sink all thirty-five of her ships.

With such a hasty and chaotic build-up fleet, and the desire of the whole world to scrape away all the resources that can be scraped away nearby, it is difficult not to keep track of their movements.

The more people they kill along the way, and the more islands they destroy, the more difficult it will be to hide the movements of their fleet.

The crowd that arrived on Silent Island one step ahead of David Jones was not idle.

Chloe and Law hurried to train the fleet, not asking for orders and forbiddenness, as long as they could understand basic orders.

The cadres under them became the commanders of one or more ships.

At this moment, neither the Davy Jones Pirates nor the Big Mom Pirates have publicly declared war, but they know that they have torn their faces.

The storm is coming, and the people of the "New World" are the first to perceive this possible battle of the "Four Emperors", then the entire "Great Route", and then to the "Four Seas" on the periphery.

All sides are always watching the movements of both sides.

None of them expected that the "top-up war" would take place at the end of last year, which greatly damaged the vitality of both warring parties, and the "white-bearded remnants" were in a corner, and the naval headquarters shrank their fronts.

At the beginning of this year, a "battle between the old and new four emperors" will begin, no matter who wins or loses, at least one "four emperors" will definitely fall.

Everyone began to have a premonition that the past few years would be the most chaotic and complex and far-reaching years since the opening of the "Sea Pirate Era".

(End of chapter)