One Piece: From the Rocks Era to King of the World

Chapter 238 Exploding Rock

"good to eat."

Li Yuan answered without thinking.

"So, my husband, is the mermaid girl pretty?"

Xia Qi continued to ask.

After a year, the Fishman Island has migrated to the Wuji Sea three times, and there are already 150,000 fishmen living on Siren Island, and the number will increase in the future.

"She's not pretty. Not as pretty as my wife."

Even though it was a subconscious answer, Li Yuan's answer was still perfect.

"Then why didn't my husband look at me when he answered, but stared at those mermaid girls?"

Xia Qi turned Li Yuan's face back, stared into his eyes, and asked with a smile, with a hint of coldness in her tone.

"Cough cough!"

When Xia Qi asked this, Li Yuan felt a little guilty. He thought he had done it perfectly, but he didn't expect his eyes to betray him.

Xia Qi pulled Li Yuan and buried his face in her weapon.

If it weren't for Li Yuan's excellent breath-holding skills, he would have been suffocated to death by Xia Qi's weapon.

"My dear husband, just listen carefully to my report."

"Over the past year, the five pirate groups, John, Silver Axe, Wang Zhi, Brandon, and Walder, have been going to the Four Seas to plunder from time to time. At the same time, they have also been going to the Four Seas to recruit some talented people."

"After all, the New World has been occupied by major pirate groups. They have no hope of expansion and can only rely on the four seas. This is nothing. They are also smart. They never have a pattern when plundering, leaving the navy no chance to block them. So now the World Government and the navy are very troubled by this."

Xia Qi said slowly.

"They are quite smart. They know to go plunder together. Even if they are blocked, they can still take care of each other. They know that many pirates in the New World are willing to join the Hiku Pirates and the Wuji Pirates, so they go to the four seas to recruit crew members."

Li Yuan turned his face away from the majestic weapon and said.

"Just listen to me, and don't move!"

"The Hiku Pirates have formed an intelligence network and are gathering information about the major pirate groups, the navy, the world government, and other major forces in the New World. They are particularly interested in the Roger Pirates."

"For some unknown reason, the Roger Pirates suddenly returned to the first half of the Grand Line from the New World via Fishman Island some time ago, and are now wandering around Upside Down Mountain."

"The whereabouts of the Wald Pirates that you asked me to pay attention to before, they are divided into two parts, one part follows Wald to plunder, and the other part is searching for something in the first half of the New World under the command of Bin Jack. The scope of their search is getting smaller and smaller, and it seems that they have determined the location."

"Also, I have checked the MADS experimental research organization established by the loan shark king Du Feld that you called my attention to before. It was established last year, but now there are many forces watching it, including the CP of the World Government and some other forces from all over the world."

When Xia Qi saw that Li Yuan dared to dodge her weapon, she immediately pressed Li Yuan's face back and then slowly began to tell the story.

"Is Roger sick? It seems that the time for the real great pirate to come is not far away!"

After hearing Xia Qi's words, Li Yuan thought to himself that this was the time when Roger invited the ship's doctor Kurokas to board the ship.

Although the power of pirates has increased greatly in the world today because of Li Yuan, and the World Government has been frequently suppressed and its reputation has been declining, there has been no pirate craze in the world.

The world is not turbulent enough. Even though John and others plunder it from time to time, the world is still in a stable stage.

The real era of pirates can only be truly opened with a guy like Roger!
"Xia Qi, keep a close eye on the MADS research organization. If those scientists show any signs of leaving or being kidnapped, tell me immediately. It would be best if you could place a few mirrors nearby so that I can get there at any time."

"Also, determine the search area in Wald, send out Luowang to search secretly, and then tell me so that we can also intervene."

Li Yuan said.

There are many scientists in MADS, especially Vegapunk, the user of the Brain-Brain Fruit. Li Yuan doesn't know whether Vegapunk has developed such epoch-making technology as the Life Blueprint.

But now he has no plan to snatch all the scientists from MADS, at least not before Vegapunk completes the life design diagram.

Because he couldn't guarantee that he could make Vegapunk work for him, the worst plan was that after he robbed Vegapunk, Vegapunk refused to submit to him. Then at least he had a way to get the life design drawings from Vegapunk.

If we were to rob the scientists in the MADS laboratory now, the worst result might be that we wouldn't even be able to get the complete blueprint of life.

As for what Wald wanted to find, Li Yuan had some guesses, but he was not sure now. He needed to confirm it in person.

"No problem, don't worry about what I do, husband!"

Xia Qi hugged Li Yuan's head and smiled.

Navy Headquarters:

"Damn Wald, this guy is obviously looking for the Explosive Rock. How did he know that our navy controls the Explosive Rock?"

After receiving the information from the intelligence department, Ganggu Kong said with gritted teeth.

Explosive rock is a powerful explosive material hidden in the deep sea discovered by the naval scientific research department. Its power is dozens of times stronger than gunpowder, and can even be comparable to ancient weapons to a certain extent.

However, the explosive rock is quite unstable and will explode once it comes into contact with the air, so the Naval Scientific Research Department also spent a lot of money.

The technology for mining explosive rocks from the deep sea had just been developed, and only a few years had passed since mining when Wald found a clue.

The most crucial thing is that the Navy has finally established a mining base in Colbert with huge investment. Once it is discovered by Wald, all the previous investments of their Navy will be wasted!

"Notify the Sengoku stationed in the New World and have him send people to eliminate the people sent by Wald to find out the location of the explosive rock. We must not let them find the location of Colbert Island."

"Also, notify the navy on Colbert Island and immediately arrange for personnel to move the exploding rock away."

Cyborg said after thinking for a while.

At this point, it is no longer possible to conceal the truth, and the only option is to move the explosive rocks away, even if the losses are huge.

Once Wald gets the explosive rock, combined with the amplifying power of his Momo Fruit, that guy would be equivalent to mastering a weapon comparable to ancient weapons. Add in the fact that he is a pirate, and Steel Bone Sora's scalp tingles at the thought of it.

Colbert Island:
"Hahahahahaha, I finally found this place!"

Wald looked at the navy stationed on the island and laughed.

Neither Kong nor Sengoku had expected that Wald had stayed in the distance to look for the pirates who were still searching, just to confuse the navy's sight and make the navy think that Wald had not really found Colbert Island.

Who would have thought that when Sengoku sent people to deal with those pirates, Wald had already arrived on Colbert.

"Hurry, hurry, take everything away!" Lieutenant General Melvin Wells, who was stationed at the naval base on Colbert Island, commanded his men to take away all the instruments, equipment, explosive rocks, data and other things.

"Whoa, whoa, whoa!!!"

However, what he didn't realize was that in the place where the explosive rocks were stored, invisible bullets were silently reaping the lives of these navy men.

"what!!!"

"Help me!!"

"Enemy attack!!"

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When the sailors saw their comrades fall, they immediately became alert and even shouted to their comrades outside to attract their attention.

But their screams, shouts, and sounds of gunfire were all muffled by an invisible force, and not a single sound was emitted.

These sailors didn't even see how their comrades died. They didn't know who the enemy was or where the enemy was. They had no idea at all. In less than ten seconds, they all turned into corpses lying on the ground.

After harvesting the lives of all the navy here, Nepal came out of stealth. Together with him appeared Li Yuan and some people selected by Li Yuan himself and who were completely loyal to Li Yuan.

These people were called Dark Guards by Li Yuan. It took five years for the Dark Guards to develop and their number reached 5,000. Now he had 500 Dark Guards.

“Great job, Nepal!”

Seeing this, Li Yuan couldn't help but praise.

Nepal's concealment fruit is really useful. Not only can it conceal one's own body, but it can also help others conceal their bodies. He brought so many people here without anyone noticing.

Not only can the body shape, voice, and breathing be hidden, even the slight airflow generated when walking can be hidden. It is simply a perfect god-level assassination skill!
"Hey, thank you for the compliment, Captain."

Nepal couldn't help but laugh when he heard Li Yuan's words.

Then he looked around. There was something made of tempered glass and loaded with red liquid. The navy just wanted to move these things away, and they were also their target this time.

"Okay, Nepal, you go out and watch, and the rest of you quickly move these explosive rocks away for me."

"Everyone, be careful. We must not let the explosive rock leak out. Otherwise, if an explosion occurs, all of us present here will die!"

Li Yuan said seriously, although he had already told them once before coming, he still needed to emphasize it again.

"Yes, Captain!"

After saying that, the secret guards began to take out scrolls one by one and opened them, then carefully took out the explosive rock and put it into the scroll space.

These space scrolls were made by the user of the Curl-Curl Fruit ability cultivated by Xia Qi before. They contain stable space inside and can be used as storage equipment.

Although it is not permanent, it can ensure storage for three months. If the things inside are not taken out after three months, the space inside the storage scroll will collapse and everything inside will be destroyed.

It can be said that since these space scrolls were created, the Wuji Pirates have saved a lot of manpower and material resources in transportation. They are very useful things.

"Buzz!!!"

However, just as they took out the explosive rock, a sharp alarm sounded throughout the naval base. Beams of red light shone into the sky, and the entire island could see that an accident had occurred.

"These navy officers are so vigilant that they were able to detect this!"

"Don't worry about it, just keep pretending. Nepal, you come back here and watch them. I'll go outside!"

Hearing the alarm, Li Yuan's face darkened. It must be because of their illegal operation that triggered the alarm. These navy men were really vigilant!

"Oh no! Storage Room No. 1 is alerting us. There has been an enemy invasion!"

Upon seeing this, Lieutenant General Melvin Wells immediately led his men to Storage Room No. 1. He did not expect that not long after he received the news from headquarters, someone would invade immediately. This damn news from headquarters was too late!
"Li Yuan, the world's greatest swordsman, how could it be him!"

However, as soon as Lieutenant General Melvin Wells arrived nearby, he saw a man blocking their way.

When he saw clearly who was blocking his way, his soul suddenly began to break out in a cold sweat. He was too familiar with this man, so familiar that he couldn't be more familiar!

"I have occupied this place, so you marines should not disturb me while I am moving things."

Li Yuan's eyes turned cold, and the domineering aura on his body suddenly submerged the thousands of sailors in front of him like a tsunami, and the blood-red lightning poured down like a thunderbolt.

"Bang Bang Bang!!!"

The heads of the navy officers above seemed to be struck by lightning. They all fainted and fell to the ground. Only the lead lieutenant general, Mervin Wells, did not fall.

"Oh? I didn't expect there's a lieutenant general here? What a pity!"

Seeing that no one had fallen, Li Yuan took a closer look at the medals on his clothes.

But he just took a look, then raised his hand and slashed out with the Seven Star Sword over a hundred meters.

"Pfft!!!"

Lieutenant General Mervin Wells wanted to block it, but the slash was as fast as lightning. His observation Haki detected it, but his body was unable to react.

The slash passed through his neck without any hindrance, and he lost consciousness in an instant, turning into a headless corpse lying on the ground.

"Hmm? Domineering Haki? That's Li Yuan!"

Wald, who had just led his men to the island, noticed the changes on the island and immediately sensed Li Yuan's domineering aura.

They are all great pirates of the New World. The domineering aura of each pirate is full of personal will. Even without meeting each other, these great pirates can judge who is the other party by the domineering aura.

"Why is Li Yuan here too? No, we can't let him eat alone!"

"I'll go first, you guys hurry up and follow me!"

After Wald greeted the pirates behind him, he immediately rushed over.

"Oh? Walder, I didn't expect you to find this place too!"

Li Yuan was not surprised when he saw Wald appear in front of him. After all, he had known it for a long time.

(End of this chapter)