Pirates on Rocks' Ship 996

"Alright!" Whitebeard nodded and said, "Then take your men and go there! The Navy shouldn't clash with them for now!"

"Understood!" Reina nodded and said, "I'm taking Ace, Vista, Laco, and Jingudo with me! The rest of you will stay on Crescent Moon Island for now! Marco, you'll be in charge here after I leave. Make sure your brother drinks less!"

"Don't worry, leave this to me! You all need to be extra careful!" Marco nodded and replied.

Reina nodded, then looked at Luffy and asked, "Hey kid, what about you guys? What are you planning to do? Want to come to the North Blue with me?"

Upon hearing this, Luffy shook his head and said, "No! I haven't found the final island yet; I want to travel around the world!"

"Oh? How many road sign texts have you obtained so far?" Reina raised an eyebrow and asked.

"Four quick!" Luffy replied triumphantly, holding up his finger.

"Huh?" Reina was stunned, somewhat incredulous. Apart from the Big Mom Pirates, Kaido, and the Mink Tribe, the last piece was in the hands of their Whitebeard Pirates. How did Luffy get it?

"Hehehehe..." Luffy laughed triumphantly before saying, "These past few days we've found the final..."

"Luffy!" Before Luffy could finish speaking, Nami covered his mouth, preventing him from continuing.

Reina glanced at Robin, then at Nami, sighed, and said, "Tell me, who took you to make the inscription? You didn't even tell me! Looks like you're quite capable!"

"Hehe... Uncle Reina, I went to find Whitebeard! Whitebeard agreed, so I made the copy. We didn't steal it!" Luffy struggled free from Nami's hand and said with a big laugh.

Nami was a little embarrassed. This idea was something they came up with together. While Reina was paying attention to the strange phenomena in the sky these past few days, they bypassed Reina and went to Whitebeard. With the help of Marco and Ace, Whitebeard agreed to their request.

Whitebeard didn't care about such things, so it didn't matter if Luffy and the others made copies of it.

When Reina took the Road Poneglyph, Whitebeard didn't care. If Reina hadn't taken the Fishman Island piece, he probably wouldn't have wanted it.

Actually, it wasn't that Reina didn't want to give it to Luffy; he just wanted to give them some tests. Otherwise, if they went too early, it wouldn't do them any good.

Luffy has now obtained all four Road Poneglyphs, meaning they know the coordinates of the final island and can reach it from there.

"Alright, you brat! Since you have your own things to do, do what you want! If you encounter any difficulties, come to us for help, don't hesitate to ask! Robin is on your ship, you can't let anything happen to her, or I won't let you off the hook!" Reina said with a light laugh.

"Hehehe... Don't worry! Robin will be fine!" Luffy said with great confidence.

Chapter 664 Unexpected

Luffy obtained the final Road Poneglyph from the Whitebeard Pirates, so he has no intention of paying attention to those spaceships now.

Although he was also interested in those spaceships, the final island was his current goal.

If those flying ships are still there when he returns from the final island, he wouldn't mind taking his companions to see them. After all, that would be a very interesting thing, wouldn't it?

Luffy was accompanied by Reina and a few others, but they did not travel by ship. Instead, they were carried by a hard shell and headed directly to the North Blue through the Calm Belt.

"Raina, what are you planning to do this time? I heard the navy has reinforced its forces in the North Sea!" Laco asked, reclining on a deck chair and sipping red wine.

The hard-shelled vessel was fast and very stable, even more comfortable than a typical pirate ship, so their voyage was not tiring.

“Let’s go check it out first. We don’t know what the situation is like there! Let’s see if we can negotiate with them. If we can communicate, we’ll avoid conflict for now. One navy is enough for them to handle!” Reina shook his head and said.

“That’s right. They’re new here, and it would be very impolite for the navy to just rush up and attack them!” The burly man, King Gudo, said with a loud laugh, his upper body bare.

“But…we don’t know anything about those people either. Maybe the Navy has already talked to them!” Ace shook his head and said, “What if we can’t reach an agreement even if we go over there?”

"What else is there to say? Let's just start fighting!" Laco said with a chuckle. "Besides, the navy has increased its forces there a lot, they might not even let us get close!"

“We’ll find out when we get there!” Vista said, walking out of the room with a bottle of red wine. “Perhaps other forces besides us will also be there to gather intelligence! After all, the world’s attention is now focused on the North Sea!”

They all nodded in agreement.

Strange phenomena suddenly appeared in the sky, followed by countless spaceships. Regardless of which faction it was, they were bound to go and find out what was going on.

Although the navy made contact with the other side immediately, war broke out between the two sides right away, so the navy was unable to transmit any intelligence.

This aroused the curiosity of other forces. Just because the navy couldn't reach an agreement with them doesn't mean they can't, especially those underground forces, who are already on the opposite side of the navy.

Even the revolutionary army seems to have sent people over to try and make contact with the other side.

However, when Reina and his group arrived in Beihai, they still felt that the other party had underestimated the situation.

A beam of light stretched from the sea to the sky, appearing brightly over the North Sea. Even Reina and his companions, who had just entered the North Sea, could see it clearly.

Moreover, within that beam of light, there was a continuous stream of spaceships, as if those spaceships in the sky were descending from the heavens through that beam of light.

Besides the pillar of light, the North Sea naval branch was filled with wounded naval soldiers receiving treatment.

"This...it seems the war is more intense than expected!" Laco said with some surprise as he looked at the miserable state of the naval branch from afar.

“Indeed, along the way, besides the Navy, I’ve also spotted quite a few pirate ships and even ships from underground forces, but without exception, they’re all in terrible condition, indicating they’ve been through fierce battles.” Vista frowned and said, “I just don’t know if they fought the Navy or those extraterrestrials!”

"This is getting more and more interesting!" Reina smiled and said, "Come on, let's go check it out!"

But when they actually arrived at the battlefield, the situation was completely different from what they had imagined.

Battles take place here every day. Whether it's the navy, pirates, or any other force, they are all fighting against those extraterrestrial visitors, and the battles are exceptionally fierce.

"What... what exactly happened?" Rakuyo, who was usually all smiles, asked with a gloomy expression after hearing the surrounding pirates' stories on a pirate's supply island.

“It seems things are more serious than we thought! Everyone, split up and gather intelligence! I’ll go check out the Navy; maybe these people have just been deceived by them!” Reina ordered, his face equally grim.

Without saying a word, Ace and the others nodded and immediately split up to gather information.

A day later, they met again at the island's tavern, none of them looking too good.

"It seems we've gathered pretty much the same information!" Lakyo said, rubbing his head.

“It should be! I heard that as soon as the extraterrestrial visitors arrived, the Navy went to negotiate, but the two sides did not reach an agreement, and the other side immediately launched an attack, catching the Navy off guard! They have now occupied more than a dozen small islands in the North Sea!” Vista first recounted the information he had gathered.

"Pretty much! I heard the same thing here. And those guys didn't distinguish right from wrong when they attacked, they just killed anyone they saw, which is why we're in this situation now. Both pirates and the navy are already at war with those extraterrestrials!" Ace nodded and said.

"Moreover, their numbers are still growing. The spaceships in that pillar of light have never stopped. However, according to the information I've gathered, it seems that the more islands they occupy, the larger the area of ​​the pillar of light becomes. From the first day until now, the pillar of light has more than doubled in size!" Jin Guduo nodded and said.

Reina nodded and said, "The intelligence from the Navy is about the same! As for their negotiations with the other side... they haven't even started yet. The other side launched an attack as soon as they saw them, which is why the Navy was caught off guard! Also... the one in charge of North Sea affairs in the Navy right now is Admiral Fujitora!"

"What exactly is going on? Those extraterrestrials kill with their swords. Is it because the Navy offended them, or... is this just their nature?" Vista frowned and said, "If this continues, we'll never have another chance to negotiate with them!"

He knew very well that although the two sides were fighting fiercely, the battle was still limited to the North Sea. As time went by and the news spread, more and more people would fight against the extraterrestrials, and then the two sides would become blood enemies, the kind that could not be resolved.

By then, even if someone wanted to negotiate, it would be too late.

That's why he suspects that the Navy or the World Government failed to reach an agreement with the other party, and thus used some means to make things turn out the way they are now.

Chapter 665 Contact

Reina and his team did not relay the intelligence they had gathered back because they did not know whether the intelligence from the Navy was accurate. Therefore, Reina decided to first contact those extraterrestrial visitors to see if there was any room for negotiation.

“I don’t think it will work!” Ace shook his head and said, “When I was gathering information, I contacted those people. Although they weren’t very strong, they didn’t seem to want to communicate with me. No matter what I said, they just kept attacking. In the end, I had no choice but to kill them! I originally planned to capture them, but they were so unyielding that I couldn’t do anything about it!”

"Oh?" Reina looked at Ace and asked, "Do they not understand our language? Or did they make any strange noises or anything?"

Ace shook his head and said, "No, the other party didn't say a word from beginning to end."

"So what is their combat system like?" Reina asked again.

"Well, how should I put it?" Ace thought for a moment and then said, "The person I met didn't have any special abilities, but he seemed to have no sense of pain. No matter what kind of injury he suffered, he didn't feel anything! Later, the pirates who were with me told me that they don't feel anything when they are injured, but when the damage accumulates to a certain level, they will die!"

Reina frowned, already having some guesses in his mind.

Unable to communicate, bloodthirsty, and unafraid of harm—these characteristics are somewhat similar to the zombies he had in mind.

"Could it be... that these extraterrestrial visitors are controlled by some kind of virus?" Reina thought to himself.

"In any case, it would be better if we made contact with them first! Moreover, judging from the situation these past few days, the situation in the North Sea is deteriorating further. If it weren't for the navy constantly sending troops to defend, the North Sea would probably have fallen!" Vista shook his head and said.

“Okay! Let’s go check it out tomorrow! The Navy isn’t stopping anyone from coming, and they’ll even help kill those extraterrestrials! But they haven’t announced this information to the world, probably because they’re afraid of people with ulterior motives coming to cause trouble! As local residents, even if we don’t help the Navy, we shouldn’t at least hold them back, so let’s avoid the Navy tomorrow!” Reina instructed after thinking for a moment.

"Yes, First Mate!" Ace and the others nodded, indicating that they understood.

The next day, Reina led four people directly to the area where the two sides were fighting in a hard-shell vehicle. However, they did not go directly to the battlefield. Instead, they found an uninhabited sea area, circled around it, and then approached the outer edge of the battlefield.

"First mate, that island is the battlefield between pirates and those extraterrestrials. Although the Navy hasn't officially announced anything yet, if you can get the items from those extraterrestrials, you can go to the branch Navy to exchange them for supplies!" Ace pointed to the island not far ahead and said softly.

"So, this is a battlefield that the Navy specifically opened up for the pirates?" Vista asked in surprise.

"Yes! As the situation in the North Sea worsens, the battlefield area is also expanding. The Navy alone cannot completely defend such a large area, so some small islands have been vacated and given to pirates. The Navy will be responsible for the logistics of any pirates or other forces participating in the war. If they kill the enemy, they can also go to the Navy branch to collect a reward! However, all of this is done in private and is not made public!" Ace nodded and replied.

He had been here before and fought with extraterrestrial visitors, but he did not reveal his identity or go to the Navy to receive an award.

"The one in charge of the North Sea campaign is Admiral Fujitora!" Reina thought for a moment and said, "I guess only he would make such an arrangement. No one else would allow pirates to get involved. Even if they suffer defeats on the battlefield, they wouldn't ask the pirates for help!"

"Last night at the tavern, I heard that the Navy is planning to reinforce their forces again. The main reason is that the number of extraterrestrial visitors here is increasing, and their strength is also growing! An admiral probably can no longer guarantee the success of the war here, otherwise Fujitora wouldn't have let the pirates get involved!" Lakyo said with a light laugh.

"Let's go! Let's see what these so-called extraterrestrial visitors are all about!" Vista was already quite impatient; he had never seen any extraterrestrial visitors before!

Soon, the hard shell moved toward the island where the battle was taking place.

Before they could even reach the shore, the sounds of fighting coming from the island surprised them greatly, as the pirates were clearly at a disadvantage.

The group looked at each other, then disappeared from their spot at the same time, and when they reappeared, they were already on the island.

"Bang!" Reina kicked a visitor from outer space who was fully encased in armor, sending him flying. The visitor was clearly stunned for a moment after getting up, and then he sensed that there was a change in the visitors from outer space on the island.

“These guys…can communicate!” Reina immediately came to the conclusion.

The other party was definitely not some zombie that acted on instinct, but an intelligent being, and they had been able to communicate with each other before, but he didn't know how they had communicated with him.

The moment Reina appeared, the extraterrestrial visitors immediately retreated slightly and rearranged themselves in a very organized manner.

"What's going on?" Laco asked in surprise as he approached Reina.

He had already realized that the other side seemed to be very wary of Reina, and judging from their formation, it seemed that they were targeting Reina.

“I don’t know, these guys give me a very strange feeling!” Reina said, frowning.

The other party's behavior was strange, as if they treated him like a BOSS, even though he had only kicked him once.

"Do they know you? Or do they have intelligence about us?" Vista came to Reina's side and asked in surprise.

Because of their appearance, the originally chaotic battlefield mysteriously came to a standstill.

"You are... from the Whitebeard Pirates?" Upon seeing Ace's tattoos, the other pirate crew members asked in surprise.

Reina nodded and said, "That's right. Can someone explain to me what's going on here?"

"Reina? It's Reina! Red-eyed Reina! The vice-captain of the Whitebeard Pirates!"

"That looks like Fire Fist Ace, the captain of the second division of Whitebeard's army!"

"Vista the Flower Sword! The Fifth Division Commander of Whitebeard's Army!"

"Who's that next to them? Could he also be the captain, appearing with them?"