One Piece: A Guide for Ordinary Players

At this moment, Jabba had no scruples left. He had completely forgotten about his son being right beside him. He had abandoned all unrealistic fantasies and knew that even if he knelt down and begged for forgiveness, he would not gain their forgiveness.

In an instant, Jabba seemed to return to his days as a pirate, his Haki rising steadily.

The soldier who had been replaced only glanced at him coldly, his eyes devoid of any emotion, before spreading his demonic wings and taking to the air.

In the Underworld, Loki, having just finished recounting the battle at God Valley and how he personally killed his father, asked Luffy with a half-smile:

"Are you still thinking of inviting me to join?"

Luffy nodded firmly: "Let's defeat those bastards together!"

Sanji smiled slightly, lit a cigarette without saying a word, and took a deep drag.

Franky, who had rushed back from the beach, silently checked his weapons, preparing for a major battle.

The sound coming from the mortal realm above could be heard clearly even in the underworld. Seeing the Straw Hat crew's resolute attitude, Loki was somewhat at a loss and could only cough to ease the awkwardness.

"Step back a bit, I'm standing up!"

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Just as Robert stuffed a handful of food into his mouth, his Observation Haki suddenly went into overdrive, and he had to hastily move to the side before he could even swallow the food. However, a strand of his hair was still burned to ashes.

Golden beams shot towards the sky, and Robert summoned thunder to counterattack while rapidly dodging the laser beams.

Blackbeard and Akainu devoured the food they had just acquired, trying their best to regain their strength. Akainu didn't even stop Blackbeard from eating with them; the two of them were just stuffing their individual rations into their mouths like crazy.

Robert's speed advantage vanished, as his opponent became Kizaru, who had just arrived with food supplies.

"Old Kizaru, what's wrong with you? Can't you see that big black beard of mine? Why do you have to keep chasing me?"

Kizaru laughed heartily: "Sakazuki will take care of him, but with your speed, if I don't keep you occupied, you'll probably be nowhere to be found once Blackbeard turns his head."

Robert swung Gungnir to deflect Kizaru's Heavenly Cloud Sword strike: "Since you want Akainu to kill Blackbeard, why are you sharing food with Blackbeard? Do you think I'm stupid?"

Kizaru maintained his composed expression: "Aren't you stupid? As one of the Four Emperors of the New World, you come here alone to seek revenge without bringing any subordinates."

"You think you have everything under control, but do you know what we did during the days we were stuck on Ghost Island?"

Of course, Robert wouldn't be foolish enough to tell Kizaru that he had high-tech earpieces and a massive signal network deployed by Vegapunk using the moon as a signal transmitter, which could monitor all of Raibe's actions at any time.

Seeing that he remained silent, Kizaru assumed he had run out of words, and while using the Yata no Magatama to restrict Robert's movements, he casually said:

"We can tolerate the Navy turning a blind eye to other things you do, but cutting off Mary Geoise's food supply is really going too far."

"So, we have no choice but to go to Dressrosa ourselves, capture Raleigh, and make him spit out all the food!"

Chapter 42 Closing the Line

Spandam recounted his experiences over the past six months with tears streaming down his face, half of which was out of grievance and half out of fear.

Just now, Kalifa brought him back to the sea from the sky island. They didn't even wait for the cargo ship flying the Dressrosa flag to repair the coating before they flew away in front of everyone on board.

Bubble cable cars were installed on both sides of the Red Line. The moment Spandam stepped onto the cable car, he thought he had finally returned to Mary Geoise, the safest place in the world. But before he had gone very far, he watched helplessly as a cable car carrying food was engulfed in flames by an explosion.

The scariest thing is that the CP agents around him seem to take it all for granted.

Spandam wasn't a great agent, but he was a seasoned veteran of the bureaucracy, and he knew all too well what this silence meant.

The first possibility is that the CP tacitly approved of this incident. However, regardless of the circumstances, it is impossible for the CP department to tacitly allow someone to come to Mary Geoise to blow up the bubble cable car.

The CP department is like the Eastern and Western Depots of the Ming Dynasty. From its inception, it has had only one ultimate goal: to serve the Celestial Dragons, the world's nobles.

They are not military personnel and do not need to consider maintaining world peace like the navy.

Even if one day there were an excellent opportunity—simply making the Celestial Dragon eat one less bowl of rice to wipe out all the pirates in the world—the agents of the CP department would absolutely not agree.

Because eliminating pirates is not their responsibility, but letting the Celestial Dragons go hungry is their problem.

Therefore, Spandam absolutely did not believe that a terrorist attack so close to Mary Geoise could be part of some special plan tacitly approved by the CP, unless the Celestial Dragons ordered the cable car to be blown up.

Once he reached the top of the Red Line, he became even more certain of the nature of the matter.

What came into view was flames everywhere, with fires raging all over Mary Geoise. Countless navy personnel, guards, and CP agents were rushing around, dealing with attacks that seemed to come from nowhere while fighting the fires.

So the only possibility left when the bubble cable car was blown up is that the CP department was powerless to do anything about it!

Spandam trembled with fear. They were loyal dogs under the World Government, the intelligence organization that wielded the greatest power in the world.

I kill those the Navy dares not kill, I manage those the Navy dares not manage. In short, I manage what the Navy can manage, and I manage what the Navy cannot manage. I act first and ask for permission later, with the Celestial Dragons' special permission. This is CP!

But now, someone has actually gone to Mary Geoise to commit murder and arson, and the CP department's attitude is helpless silence!

Spandam felt like his worldview was going wrong. For a moment, he had the illusion that he hadn't been exiled to the sky island for half a year, but had been sent to another world to spend hundreds of years!

Spandam finally broke down when he was taken to Pangaea and met the Five Elders, who represented the highest power of the World Government. Those were the Five Elders, terrifying beings who had ruled the World Government, a behemoth, for hundreds of years!

They've changed the person now!

The spot where the God of Scientific Defense was located was occupied by a man with his hair styled into a crescent shape with hairspray. Spandam recognized the man; he was the leader of the secret combat unit established by the Celestial Dragons themselves.

The CP department was originally subject to the command and cooperation of the Knights of God, so Spandam had previously had contact with Garin.

He couldn't accept that Garin Saint had replaced Saturn, but he couldn't accept the sudden collapse of a political structure that had been in operation for hundreds of years!

After waiting for him to cry for more than half a minute, Nassuro Seiji impatiently interrupted, "I didn't bring you back here to listen to you cry. If you can't bring any useful information, then you can die again."

Spandam stopped crying instantly. Although his body was still sobbing unconsciously, he dared not make another sound.

"Robert's base is on the Sky Island; they have already occupied all the islands in the sky!"

Spandam struggled to organize his thoughts, but Garin waved his hand impatiently: "Tell us something we don't know!"

Spandam's mind raced; he had already noticed the furrowed brows of these bigwigs:

"They built a huge ship! I saw it with my own eyes!"

"That ship is alive!"

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Duffield was in a rage, and Joseph, the CP0 member responsible for liaising with him, stood quietly opposite him, waiting for him to unleash his anger.

"Are you guys out of your minds?! You dare send spies to the ships in Dressrosa?! Do you think they're all idiots?!"

"Sending spies is one thing! But you could have sent some smart ones! One or two of them just jumped off the ship openly and honestly!"

"Now Dressrosa has decided to terminate its cooperation with me! Are you satisfied?"

Joseph did not get angry when Du Field pointed at him and cursed him; he simply let the underworld boss vent his anger with composure.

Joseph knew all too well what Du Field was saying; he even knew who the man who had jumped off the ship so brazenly was.

These include Rob Lucci, who has just arrived in Dressrosa and is interrogating Raibu's god of wealth with the Navy; Kaku, whose whereabouts are currently unknown; and Kalifa, who has just rescued Spandam from the Sky Island and is now taking him back to Mary Geoise for a report.

All three of them were members of CP0, and Joseph knew, of course, what kind of work style his unruly colleagues had.

As for Dressrosa's attitude, or rather, the attitude of the Raibu behind them, it was exactly what Joseph had expected.

These grain ships that secretly traded with Du Field were originally the private business of some parasites. If nothing happened during the transaction, everyone would be happy.

However, gaps have now appeared on cargo ships traveling between the various secret food storage bases of the Thunder Department, including ships bound for their Sky Island headquarters. If the Thunder Department shows indifference to this matter, then the people in the CP department will really have to suspect that there is something fishy going on.

"Don't worry, Mr. Du Field, we no longer need to make secret deals."

Du Field gritted his teeth and said, "What do you mean? Do you think I need to trade with them? You don't actually think I want to buy these worthless clouds that aren't even good enough to wipe my ass with to decorate Fishman Island!"

"It's your master who needs food! Dressrosa controls all the food in the world! They say if the Celestial Dragons starve, then the Celestial Dragons must die!"

Joseph's tone remained calm: "The person you were secretly dealing with was Young Luo from the Luo's Catering Group, wasn't it?"

"The Thunder Department is indeed very powerful, able to control the world's food supply, but they cannot control people's hearts."

"The God of Wealth is now in our hands, and Mr. Luo, who secretly made the deal with you, will soon be groomed by us to become the new God of Wealth."

"This is the energy of our CP!"

Chapter 43 Walking the Fish

Rob Lucci sat sullenly in the interrogation room. The cargo ship he was on had come straight to Dressrosa, but was stopped by the navy that surrounded the area before it even docked.

Rob Lucci had intended to disembark quickly like Kaku and return to Fishman Island to try his luck again, but he was informed as soon as he contacted CP's command center that Kalifa had successfully landed on the Sky Island and had already picked up Spandam, and would soon be able to bring him back to Qinghai.

As the head of CP0, it's truly shameful that he made zero contributions in both the execution of Vegapunk in Egerhard and the rescue of Spandam on Skypiea.

Coincidentally, CP8's Alpha had previously reported on the capture of Raleigh, so Rob Lucci simply boarded a plane in Dressrosa to see what kind of person this most trusted man of Robert was, and even planned to vent his frustrations on him.

However, when he asked to join the interrogation, he found that former Fleet Admiral Sengoku and Chief of Staff Vice Admiral Tsuru were presiding over the interrogation, and CP8 Alpha, which claimed to have played a major role in the capture, was nowhere to be seen.

The naval leaders were relatively polite to him, the CP0 chief, but it was completely impossible for him to take any vigilante action against the Indians.

Ah San's attitude was also very clear. He was very open and honest about news about himself or other trivial matters, but he remained completely silent when it came to Lei Bu and Robert.

Lieutenant General Tsuru seemed in no hurry at all, leisurely chatting with him, only occasionally asking a few sensitive questions:

"Mr. Raleigh, you've built such a large food empire in just two years. Could it be that you've been planning to cut off Mary Geoise's food supply all along?"

Ah San chuckled and said, "How could that be? Nobody can see ahead. We common folk are not like you gentlemen, who have such foresight. We just take things one step at a time."

Zhan Guo sighed and said, "Don't underestimate yourselves. Even if you didn't think that far ahead at the beginning, it's already quite impressive that you were able to think of monopolizing food, a necessity that is related to people's livelihood."

"If it weren't for Mr. Luo, I'm afraid you would have really managed to starve the Celestial Dragons to death."

Ah San chuckled and said, "Did he secretly supply food to Mary Geoise?"

"To be honest, trying to stop the flow of food to Mary Geoise is really taking up a huge amount of our financial reserves, and how to store and dispose of the purchased food is also a problem."

"I had no other choice but to gamble on the Little Ronaldo Hotel chain, risking the depletion of our food supply. I never expected this..."

"But it doesn't matter, we have allies too. Of course, Ronaldinho can deliver the grain to you through some means, but he doesn't have the ability to send the grain directly to Mary Geoise."

"And our revolutionary allies, they should have completely cut off the bubble cable car by now, right?"

The interrogation room door was pushed open, and Xiao Luo walked in with a gloomy face.

He had been listening to the Indian man's ramblings through the glass in the next room, and now, hearing his nonchalant attitude when he mentioned himself, he finally couldn't take it anymore and stormed in:

"What are you so smug about! Even now, you still want to protect your comrades?"

"Since I can even betray you, do you really think I would show mercy to others!"

Ah San frowned and stared intently at Xiao Luo.

Ronaldinho, seemingly desperate, asked, "Why don't you tell everyone where Karina went?"