Chapter 376: Changes in Nations (Happy New Year, please vote for me)
At the Navy Headquarters, Marshal Sengoku was drinking afternoon tea, leisurely eating donuts from Garp's cabinet, and enjoying his comfortable time.
Three years ago, the various incidents that occurred frequently made him feel that the marshal could no longer do his job. Unexpectedly, things would get better as soon as things got better.
After Kaido was captured by Holo and defeated the army assembled by Kaido's remnant regiment, the sea suddenly became calmer several times. Even the revolutionary army ceased its troops and there were few traces of activity.
At the World Conference two years ago, the kings of Dressrosa and Alabasta, who had suffered from the Shichibukai, publicly proposed to abolish the Shichibukai system, but failed, but it also forced the World Government not to establish a new Shichibukai. , the remaining five people exist in name only, and the balance corner has basically collapsed.
A new balance is formed at sea.
Three Emperors! navy! Bipolar!
The "bipolar" refers to the world's strongest man Holo and the blasphemer Dunan who have no power, but can't be ignored by anyone alone. This title has not been officially recognized, but in many places on the sea, it is called this by tacit agreement.
There has been no news from the blasphemer for three years.
Jolo often communicates with him. The loose Jolo business group and the navy have good exchanges and abide by the law. The navy basically does not need to worry about that section of the route.
Sengoku, who has been a marshal for 20 years, no longer has the original ambition to end the era of great pirates. It would not be bad if he could continue doing this until retirement...?
Taking a sip of tea, the office door was pushed open with a heavy knock. Warring States rolled his eyelids and almost spit out the tea: "Ahem...dark horse?!"
Always feel like seeing a dark horse in the past two years is nothing good? Sure enough, Dark Horse handed him a document and said: "Marshal, this is the latest intelligence obtained by the Criminal Investigation Bureau. It is being confirmed by the World Government Intelligence Department in both directions."
Warring States is a simple reading with slightly focused eyes.
“Did something like this happen to the Bigmom Pirates? Confirm the credibility of the information as soon as possible!”
“Yes!” The black horse nodded and retreated.
“Is another old man from the old era going to retire from the stage?” Warring States sighed, and gave the newly obtained confidential documents to his sheep.
At this moment, the phone suddenly rang again.
"Moses, Moses, Holo? Well... to the New World? Where is Red Hair..." Sengoku was helpless: "When you go to the Pirate Emperor, why do you have to tell me, the marshal?"
Opposite the phone bug, Ji Xing smiled and said: "There are more people going this time, including Hawkeye and a few of my assistant disciples, and they plan to stay for a long time. This is not to inform the marshal in advance to avoid unnecessary incidents. Misunderstanding?
In addition, the destination of this journey in my plan is the Navy Headquarters. Senior Sengoku, we have been communicating through phone bugs but have never met in person. Is it convenient for me to meet you for a meal at the Navy Headquarters? "
"Come to the Navy Headquarters?" Warring States repeated somewhat unexpectedly, "That's... nothing inconvenient, are you?"
“Not necessarily, we’ll see when the time comes? Let’s not talk about the Warring States Marshal first. We encountered a pirate ship, and it seemed that we were regarded as a merchant ship.”
The phone was hung up, and Warring States looked at the slightly rippled tea and was silent for a while.
‘Doflamingo said that man has hidden ambitions that no one is aware of. If anyone can replace the Celestial Dragons and become the **** for the next eight hundred years, it will only be him. What do you think, Sengoku? ’
‘Holo? Haha, no way? Crane, you can't believe Doflamingo's words. ’
This is a conversation three years ago.
"Why did you suddenly come to the Navy Headquarters?" Sengoku felt a little uneasy, and he first went to the New World to find the red-haired man before coming back?
“Well, if we inform you in advance, there should be no special surprises.”
Warring States decided to pay a little attention, if for no other reason. Every time Holo went out, he would make some big or small noises.
…
A few days later.
A grand banquet was held on Red-haired Shanks's big ship. Empty wine jars were everywhere, and drunkards were dragged away one after another.
The red-haired man dragged a new wine vat to Ji Xing and Eagle Eye and said with a smile: "This is the wine from my hometown, Xihai. Although it is not as delicious as the wine that the Holo Merchant Group spent a lot of money to collect, it still has a different flavor. Let's try it together." .”
After another drink, the red-haired man asked: "I've always been the one looking for you, but this is the first time you've come to me. Is there anything wrong?"
Ji Xing smiled and said, "Didn't you get some words out of that kid Abei's mouth?"
"Hahahaha..." The red-haired man smiled: "That kid was too lax, and he clearly didn't want to ask. But... I'm really surprised that you, Holo, are actually interested in the big secret treasure that the pirates are fighting for. , you can’t be interested in becoming the Pirate King... you don’t believe there is any real treasure there, right? Rafdru.”
"Some wealth cannot be measured by money, such as knowledge and history." Robin came over and half-bent to refill the wine for the three of them.
“Miss Loos?” The red-haired person raised her head: “The person in charge of the Holo Merchant Group, are you...”
“Nico Robin, have you heard of her?” Ji Xing introduced.
"Ah, O'Hara's..." The red-haired man looked surprised, and soon said: "Is this so..."
Robin nodded in greeting.
Shanks's face darkened, and he thought for a while before adding: "It's useless, that big secret treasure is useless to you. Although I didn't know the specific situation, I can guess from the few words of the captain and others. Come on, that great secret treasure is specially reserved for a certain person."
“This is the boy you bet your arm on?”
"Can you guess this?" The red-haired man shook his head with emotion, "Maybe, hahaha..."
The three of them drank together again, and Hawkeye said directly: "You don't want us to go to Lafdru."
The red-haired man was silent for a while again, nodded slightly and said: "Ah. The last section of the route is difficult to conquer, but I think if it were you, Holo, you would definitely have a way to overcome it, let alone Hawkeye. But big If the secret treasure is obtained like this, the blow will be devastating to some children who yearn for adventure."
"If the child you want to wait for gets the big secret treasure, and then I tell him that I can get it long ago, I'm just waiting for him." Ji Xing asked: "Do you think this won't hit him? "
The red-haired man was startled.
“Come, drink and drink.”
After drinking together again, the three men changed the topic tacitly, and Ji Xing mentioned Uta.
The red-haired woman showed a reminiscence expression, mixed with a hint of pride: "That was my daughter... Of course her singing will be popular in the sea."
Seventeen years ago, after the red-haired pirate group won a battle with another pirate group, they discovered the kidnapped two-year-old Uta in a treasure chest on the enemy ship.
Shanks adopted her as his adopted daughter and discovered that she had an extraordinary singing talent, so he made her a musician in the pirate group. Later, he sent her to the music island Elegia to study music. However, the tragedy also happened there happens there.
The overly outstanding singing talent accidentally awakened the demon sleeping on the island of music, and wiped out the island in one day. In order to prevent Uta from suffering all this, the red-haired pirates took the initiative to take the responsibility of plundering the island and abandoned it. Got Uta.
Until today.
When Ji Xing talked about time travel, there was only a trailer for the movie version of Red-Haired Diva. Only then did he roughly understand the background of the story and noticed a special term in it: "Devil?"
"Hmm...a weird life, it should be artificial life. It's probably a growable life created by Devil Fruit users after awakening. It's so powerful..." the red-haired recalled: "We all worked together to stop it, but we still can't. Failed."
"Then when we come back from Lavdru, we can kill them together on the way." Ji Xing said: "By the way, I can help you and your daughter untie their knots."
Shanks thought for a while and refused: "No, Uta already has a new life that belongs to her, and I don't want her to..."
Okay, I listen to you. When you come back from Lavdru, we will go find Uta together! "
After going around in a circle, he no longer had any resistance to Ji Xing’s desire to go to Lavdru, and said: “Next, do you need me to help you find the text of the road signs and history?”
"No need." Ji Xing smiled and said: "Of the four road signs, one is in my hand, one is in Wan Guo, one is in Zou, and one was originally in Wano Country, but now it may be in Whitebeard's hand."
"You have a piece in your hand?" The red-haired man smiled in surprise: "You are really prepared... So why are you here to see me?"
“Borrow a boat.”
Ji Xing’s aircraft can fly in most areas of the New World, but this does not include the last route. He has tried all kinds of weird weather, even if he has the knowledge to predict the future, he will be tired of dealing with it.
More importantly, it is easy to get lost.
According to his speculation, the final island is probably not on the sea level, otherwise it will always be discovered by accident, but it is probably difficult to enter it without sailing at sea.
To complete the voyage, a ship that is strong enough and has multiple power sources is indispensable.
The Red Haired Pirates have quite a few ships. They don’t need a huge ship like the Redfors, but just provide a medium-sized one. The red hair is all they need.
After the business was done, all that was left was to drink.
It wasn't until he woke up after a hangover and looked at the beautiful sunrise on the sea that the red-haired man said with emotion to Ji Xing beside him: "Some things... are really scary to think about, Holo. I have seen your aircraft, and I have seen You warm up your practice by shaking your fists and feet.
You have the time and probably the power to do it. Miss Nico Robin's appearance is disguised, you are going to the target of Rafdru... the blasphemer Dunan Isbadry, the bipolar sea, are you the only one? "
Ji Xing smiled and said: "Next we will split up. Hawkeye will take the others to Zou to get the text. I will go to Ten Thousand Kingdoms, and then we will meet up at Whitebeard's territory."
Although he did not answer, the two words "all nations" already explained everything.
"White Lion...yes, I have forgotten that Holo Ji Xing is also you." The red-haired man whispered: "How many identities do you have?"
“You have many identities, Shanks.”
Shanks was silent, shook his head and smiled.
"By the way, if you want to go to Ten Thousand Countries, it may be necessary to let you know about a piece of news I got recently." He said, "It seems that Ten Thousand Countries has changed hands. Katakuri and his brothers committed patricide, and Charlotte Lingling is suspected of already dead."
Ji Xing was slightly surprised and said with a smile: "No, Katakuri can't remove that hand. At best, she should be locked up."
…
In a huge cage.
Hands and feet were bound by heavy sea-floor stone chains, and Bigmom's huge body exuded an astonishing low pressure.
“Katakuri, do you still dare to come to see me? Where’s Perospero? Where’s Owen? Where’s Smoothie? Don’t they dare to come together?!”
In front of the cell, Katakuri lowered his head and remained silent for a few seconds before saying, "Mom, don't skip eating... What do you want to eat?"
“Eat?!” Auntie roared: “I want to eat some of you! What? Are you worried that my thinking disorder will break out and completely destroy this place?!”
"This cell has been specially reinforced. The main body is made of seastone. Even you can't break it while wearing the seastone chain." Katakuri said: "I just... don't want you to get hurt. It’s up to you.”
“Huh? Mom, mom—” the aunt broke the handcuffs on her wrists with a mocking look on her face.
Katakuri calmly explained: "I don't want you to hurt my younger brothers and sisters."
He is a man of few words, but when faced with this situation, he couldn't help but talk.
"Everyone has always been afraid of you. You are our mother and the master who controls the lives of all our brothers and sisters. If anything goes wrong, it can range from beating and scolding to taking away your life. Everyone is afraid of you when facing you. Bi Jingduo, including me.”
"Your life was originally given by me!" Bigmom said: "Have you all been led away by **** Laura?! What kind of freedom are you pursuing?!"
"It was given by you. But we are different from Homiz. We are human beings with emotions, anger, sorrow and joy." Katakuri said: "I have always hoped that you can understand us, but unfortunately our efforts have failed. and suffered more pain.
There is really no other way to find it, so we can only make this decision and temporarily imprison you here. "
"Hmph! Don't you... kill me? Katakuri, don't you dare?!"
“I can’t do that.”
"Then you will regret it." Bigmom's expression is like a devil. When I get out of here, I will kill all you **** who betrayed me!
"...Mom, all the brothers and sisters agreed to the plan to imprison you. Before we took action, you didn't hear even a little bit of news...Do you have no regrets at all?"
"What? Do you want to hear my confession?! Do you want me to admit my mistake to you?!"
Katakuri was silent for a while.
“Yes, even if Ji Xing died, you would only be sad and regretful for a few days.”
"Katakuri!" Bigmom's roar shook his soul: "It's really him! It's really because of him! I saw it five years ago, and you actually attacked me for him?! I should kill you, just I should kill you then!"
“That time, I was trying to protect you and all nations, mother.” Katakuri sighed softly, and turned around and walked out amid the aunt’s follow-up roar.
Perospero and the others at the door looked a little pale. Even if they succeeded in locking up their mother, no one except Katakuri dared to go in and face her directly.
“What should I do, Katakuri, mom...she still refuses to eat?”
Katakuri shook his head: "When the schizophrenia attacks, give her food and she will eat it."
Looking at the expressions of several people, he added: "I'll do it. The key now is to conceal mother's situation for the time being. The news in the past few days may have aroused a lot of suspicion, and there may have been various opinions outside. That guy who pretends to be my mother, is he ready?"
"I'm ready." Dafu shook his head: "But I always feel unreliable. Although the appearance is similar and the tone has been corrected, my mother's courage is not what that kind of guy can pretend."
"We don't need him to face anyone's investigation head-on. We just need the guys who come to investigate to take a few photos by chance." Katakuri said: "Could it be that... who else dares to name and interview my mother? , can you distinguish the authenticity?”
“That’s right…”
A few people nodded slightly and walked out of here. Suddenly they saw a young brother running over here out of breath, with a look of fear on his face.
Katakuri was startled, and his pupils suddenly shrank.
"No, it's not good! Brother Katakuri, someone discovered, someone discovered that Holo suddenly appeared on our cake island!"
“…Holo?” Several people were stunned and exclaimed in unison: “The strongest person in the world who defeated Mom and Kaido three years ago?!”
Happy New Year to everyone!
The monthly passes at the end of the month are cleared, and the guaranteed monthly passes for the first month are also required.
In this December, a total of 158,000 words were updated, which should be the least in a month since the serialization. However, four new alliance leaders were added. I am really ashamed. I can only say that it is a special situation. Please forgive me.
The person is not overcast yet. If he is given another two days to recuperate, he will try his best to make up for it.
Farewell to 2022, I hope that in 2023 everyone will be successful in their careers and studies, defeat the virus, and be in better shape!
(End of this chapter)