I am the Bandit King of the East Sea.

He himself went into the small cabin of the small boat.

He sighed softly.

"It seems something unexpected has happened; Gilman didn't even have time to say a word on the Den Den Mushi."

Sieg suddenly sensed a conspiracy.

If it were when he had just set sail back then... he would have turned around and run away immediately, as far away from danger as possible.

Perhaps because he had experienced so many battles, both large and small, and seen countless powerful figures, Sieg no longer felt much fear even though the battlefield was right in front of him.

"When did I begin to fall into depravity and lose sight of my original aspirations?"

Inside the small cabin of the small boat, Sieg asked himself a profound question.

"No! I can't keep going down this path." Sieg's eyes were filled with determination.

"I want to find my former self again, no matter what it takes!"

With a flash of his hand, he produced a hypnotic iron ring.

Sig held the hypnosis ring in front of his eyes and began to shake it from side to side, while whispering to himself:

"Gecko Moria is more troublesome than I imagined. He's been hiding his true strength, but now he's finally revealed it, making him extremely dangerous. I'm no match for him; I'll die if I face him..."

"He has endured ten years of hardship, secretly plotting a colossal conspiracy. If I run away, I will fall into an even bigger conspiracy...BINGO!"

Bang bang....bang bang......

..................

Wanwu Island, the White Mansion.

The battle here had just ended. Moria reawakened some of the zombies, gathered the defeated enemies together, and swiftly brought down his large scissors, slicing off shadows one by one.

"Everything is ready."

Moria grinned maliciously as he looked at Arlong and the others, who were unconscious and had lost their shadows, and whom he had captured in his hands.

"Ten years of preparation, all for this moment, we are now fully prepared."

Moria looked at the zombie Rocks beside him, full of confidence.

"However, it seems there's some noise, quite loud..."

"Lord Moria, there seems to be some noise, it's quite unsettling."

The zombies who participated looked uneasy and glanced around.

Since just now, there has been a faint, indistinct sound echoing around us.

The sound seemed very far away, as if it were on the horizon, like a low, muffled thunder.

The zombies slowly raised their heads.

A dull, distant sound approached.

Even Moria instinctively held his breath at this moment. He realized something and looked up along with the other zombies.

Inside the alternate dimension, Dor's pupils contracted slightly. Although he couldn't hear the sounds of the outside world, he gleaned something from the zombies' lip movements...

High in the sky, a blurry shadow rapidly grew larger, accompanied by a whistling sound from above.

A small boat plummeted from the sky like an arrow, but hovered steadily three meters above the ground as it approached the surface, whipping up a howling wind and raising clouds of dust.

A figure stood at the bow of the small boat.

Sieg was still wearing sunglasses, which covered most of his face, but the sound of the Emperor's engine continued to blare.

"You bastard—you must be Sieg, right?"

Moria's gaze locked onto the sunglasses on Sieg's face, and a look of fury gradually appeared on his face.

It's common knowledge that wearing glasses makes you look like a different person.

Although Moria didn't recognize him, he did recognize Sieg's Emperor Engine and the old ship's doctor Crocus behind him!

"Sigurd—" The moment Sigurd appeared, Moria was beyond furious, veins bulging on his face.

But Sieg seemed even more excited than him.

Boom!Boom!Boom!

“You’ve mistaken me for someone else. My name is Wang Rixiong…” Sig looked around at the devastated battlefield.

"Gecko Moria, you must have some grand conspiracy that you've been plotting for years, right?"

His eyelids were lowered, and his voice was deep.

"Heh... Of course I do, otherwise how would I get my revenge on you?" Moria chuckled coldly, turning slightly to point at the zombie Rocks beside him.

"Open your eyes wide and look carefully, who is this?"

In the moonlight, the zombie Lox was pale and expressionless as he stared indifferently at Sig.

"Scared now? This is Rocks, the former king of the seas, your former captain!"

"As far as I know, decades ago, you were defeated in a one-on-one duel with him and were personally expelled from the Rocks Pirates by him. You even disappeared for many years in disgrace, not daring to show your face until Rocks died in the God Valley battle, and only then did you dare to show your face!"

Moria laughed triumphantly, "Today is your death day!"

“This—you have indeed hatched a massive conspiracy.” Sig’s gaze fell on Lox.

"My time to die has come," he said calmly.

The Emperor's engine exploded instantly, like a thunderous roar.

Chapter 1045 Li Wei, Have You Eaten?

Rocks!

When Moria uttered the name, it was like a thunderclap.

Aside from a few people like Luo who had never heard of the rumors about Rocks, everyone else's expression changed.

“Rocks....." Sig’s pupils dilated as he looked at the zombies Rocks and Moria before him.

Rocks' body was well preserved, and apart from his excessively pale skin, he was almost indistinguishable from an ordinary person.

In a daze, it was as if the legendary sea saga of the New World, the one that challenged the World Government, was once again standing vividly before him.

Sieg suddenly felt a little dazed.

The man before him, Locke, remained expressionless, his skin pale, staring at him silently like a piece of wood.

Sigurd knew the secrets of the Shadow-Shadow Fruit's power: the zombie's consciousness depended on the shadow implanted inside the zombie.

For example, the zombie Ryoma, the shadow version of Brook, possesses all the moves that Brook has mastered, but his actual strength is greater than Brook's but less than the real Ryoma.

Sieg knew in his heart that the real Rocks was long dead.

The Lox before them was merely another person in the same guise; his consciousness belonged to the shadow of a powerful being who had no memories.

But this is just as moving.

He turned his head to look at Moria, the sound of the Emperor's engine growing louder and louder.

"Moria...is this your plan?"

Sieg's deep voice echoed in the night.

His eyelids were lowered, making it impossible to see the changes in his expression.

terrible!

To deal with him, Moria actually endured hardship for ten years, and even managed to steal Rocks's corpse from who-knows-where!

I wonder how many more schemes and plots he has in store for him.

Just thinking about this makes my heart pound faster and faster in my chest.

"You've been hiding your true strength all these years. You're far more terrifying than you appear. There must be many more unrevealed schemes and plots you've been plotting, right?"

At the same time, the pressure, like a tidal wave, rose higher and higher with each heartbeat.

“Uh…” Moria was taken aback.

He had already played all his cards, but when Sieg asked him that, he reluctantly nodded.

“That’s right, but as long as you don’t make any sudden moves, I naturally won’t take action. We can stop fighting for now and have a proper chat.”

Moria raised his hands high, and in his large hands, he held the three unconscious people, including Clod, in his palms.

Although Moria had said some harsh words to Sig, his goal had always been to save people.

He said, "Exchange the hostages. The three people I have in my hands, in exchange for my former partners, namely Perona and the other two!"

At this moment, the zombie Rocks stood in front of Moria, protecting him.

Moria was fully aware of his Shadow-Shadow Fruit abilities.

The existence of Zombie Locus was merely a bargaining chip, making him feel entitled to sit at the negotiating table with Sieg and have an equal dialogue.

If a fight really breaks out, it's hard to say who will win.

Negotiations? What scheme does Moria have up his sleeve now?

The Emperor Engine did not slow down at all. Suddenly, a thought struck Sieg. He looked around and his eyes turned slightly cold.

"Have you seen enough?" A cold, deep voice echoed in the night.

Inside the alternate dimension, Dol felt a slight jolt in his mind. He seemed to see Sieg glance at him out of the corner of his eye.

The surroundings were quiet, and no one moved.

"Really? Surely no one thinks I can't spot the mouse hiding in the corner?"

Sieg reached out and placed his hand on his waist, and the longsword slowly came out of its sheath, reflecting a cold glint in the moonlight.

Dorl's expression changed drastically.

But some people are even more impatient than him.

"Mr. Wang Rixiong, we didn't mean anything by it. We're just worried that the Ministry of Earthquake Reconnaissance might be under attack because of the previous series of explosions, so we came to see if we needed any assistance..."

"Since there's nothing else, let's go."