Pirates: From Vice Captain to Lord of the Dead

"Bring me the Den Den Mushi. I want to call Aokiji."

"Yes!"

Tashigi looked at each other with a strange expression. Colonel Tina and Admiral Aokiji had worked so hard.

PM2.5 is starting to find someone to blame again...

On a street in the city, a group of people gathered at the door of a restaurant, whispering and talking, their eyes all fixed on the man lying in front of the bar.

The man was shirtless and not very tall, but his strong muscles were clearly visible. He had a string of vermilion Buddhist beads around his neck and a pirate flag pattern tattooed on his back.

"Hey, what happened to that guy? He fell down while eating."

"What are you still standing there for? Help!"

"Hey idiot, are you dying?"

A big man hurriedly pulled the person who wanted to go forward and said in a panic:

"It's obvious that he ate the strawberry spider and died from the poison. It's contagious."

"what!"

The crowd just stood there, neither going forward nor leaving, just watching the fun.

At this moment, the man lying on the bar suddenly sat up, looking as if something bad had happened:

"Oh no! I fell asleep while eating!"

Everyone: "Oh~~, he fell asleep. Bullshit! How can he fall asleep while eating!!!"

Everyone stared with wide eyes and screamed.

"What a weird thing."

"Hey~, let's go."

Soon the crowd of passers-by dispersed.

"Well, sorry, boss. I think I have caused you trouble." The man at the bar swallowed the food in his mouth and said to the boss with an embarrassed look on his face.

The boss, wearing a white chef hat and long coat, quickly rolled up his sleeves and stopped.

"Oh, it's okay, sir. I'm glad you're okay."

"Hahaha, by the way, boss, I'm looking for someone."

The man had medium-length black hair and freckles on his cheeks. He lowered his head and took out a bounty order, spread it out, and showed it to the owner behind the bar, while showing a gentle smile and saying:

"Have you seen this man? His name is Monkey D. Luffy

".It's my brother."

Chapter 41 Ace's Template

The scene turned to Reiner and his companions. After Chopper discovered something abnormal with the truck, they quietly followed them.

Arriving at an alley, Reiner confirmed that there was no one around, then summoned four undead falcons and sent them circling in the sky.

After many twists and turns, Reiner and others actually reached the edge of the city.

"What's going on? Isn't this the underground force of this city?"

Watching the other party walk out of the city and into the desert, Reiner stroked his chin and thought for a moment before speaking again:

"We have to go back and meet up later. How about letting the undead sneak up on us and capture the other party to question him?"

"Wait a minute, Reiner, look over there." Nami shouted in a soft but urgent voice, pointing towards the distance.

They saw another group of people, even larger, walking out of the town and heading towards the truck they had been following.

"Chopper, do you smell anything unusual?" Reiner shook his two short legs hanging in front of him.

"No, just ordinary food." Chopper said in a low voice after sniffing the air.

"That's probably the rebels, or the people who are working for them."

If it is an underground force such as a local gang, it definitely does not need to bring an entire convoy of food.

After staying here for a while, Reiner discovered that large and small convoys of cars came out of the city one after another and headed in the same direction.

According to Chopper's sense of smell, most of them were arms and food, and even a very small amount of medical supplies. This was very familiar to Chopper.

"It seems like someone has discovered us. Is it the rebels or someone from Baroque Studios?"

A falcon swooped down and landed on Reiner's arm, its beak pointing toward an alley on the right.

"Nami, please remember the location. Let's go buy a map and meet up later."

"Ah good."

Reiner and his men who were squatting stood up and turned around and left before the other party arrived.

Yuyan is a secret underground meeting room in the casino. In the center of the empty room stands an oval long table. The blue slate tabletop is carved with simple yet delicate textures. Twelve chairs with similar workmanship surround the long table.

At this time, there were six people sitting on both sides, and all eyes were focused on the person leading the group at one end of the long table.

"Crocodile, it turns out to be you."

"I didn't expect that the boss we've never met is actually one of the Seven Warlords of the Sea."

"Wait a minute, 0-chan, doesn't that mean I've become a pirate's subordinate!?"

It was the first time for everyone to meet the boss behind the Baroque Studio and they were all shocked at his identity.

"Originally, we had other plans for you, but now the situation has changed."

A deep voice came out, and Crocodile threw several bounty warrants and pictures onto the long table.

"This group of people are members of the Straw Hat Pirates. Judging from their speed, they should have reached Alabasta by now."

Crocodile placed the golden hook on the armrest of the chair, leaned back against the chair, and said:

"Now, except for Mr. 2 who will act according to the original plan, the mission of others has changed to eliminate them and Princess Weiwei."

Crocodile put down his cigar, slowly blew out a smoke ring, and sneered.

"After the rebels get the supplies, I will force them to launch a general attack in the next two days. If these few people affect my plan..."

"We understand, boss." Everyone on both sides of the long table nodded and whispered.

"Hehehe~, then I wish you success." After saying this, Crocodile turned into flying sand and left.

"Then I'll leave too." A crisp laugh rang out, and a sexy woman wearing a white leather jacket and a cowboy hat stood up and left the meeting room with a smile.

The few people who stayed behind heaved a sigh of relief.

"The crocodile of the Seven Warlords of the Sea, it still seems incredible when I think about it now."

"The Utopia Project? It sounds interesting."

"I never expected that I would become a pirate!"

On board the ship Merry, on a secluded coast near the port.

Zoro, Sanji, and Vivi have returned to the boat and bought some food to prepare for crossing the desert.

"Hey everyone, I'm back!"

Luffy's voice sounded in the distance, and the two grass dragged their strides happily, "Look who I met!"

Hearing this, the people on the boat shifted their gazes to the back. A man wearing an orange hat, bare-chested and black shorts was strolling leisurely behind Luffy.

"Hehe, Reiner and the others haven't come back yet?"

Luffy jumped onto the Merry, looked around, and said with disappointment:

"What a shame, I can't introduce Ace to them."

“How pity is that?”

A clear voice sounded, and Reiner and his men came walking over from the other side. Chopper sat on his shoulders, swinging his short legs, waving and shouting,

"Luffy, we're back!"

After returning to the Merry with a few others, Reiner began to look at Ma Zi.

"Hahaha, that's great, Ace, look."

Luffy pointed at Reiner excitedly, "That's Reiner, the one who went out to sea with me from Windmill Village."

"Really? I didn't expect that after three years at sea, I would still run into someone from my hometown."

Looking at Reiner in a blue shirt, Ace, who was squatting on the guardrail, couldn't help but smile. He jumped off the deck, bowed to everyone, and said softly:

"Hello everyone, my name is Portgas D. Ace, I'm Luffy's brother. It's our first meeting, please give me your guidance."

Except for Reiner, everyone else was obviously shocked.

"Luffy you have a brother!?"

"Hehehe, we are not biological children."

Luffy grinned, showing the joy of meeting an old friend in a foreign land, "We are brothers who grew up together. Ace went to sea three years earlier than me."

"So that's how it is." Everyone understood what was said. No wonder the two brothers looked nothing alike, one was polite and the other was stupid.

Luffy then introduced all of them to Ace one by one, as if he was showing off to him, and it was obvious that Luffy was in a good mood at the moment.

"It seems like you have found a very reliable group of companions."

Ace looked at Luffy lovingly, then turned to look at the others, "My idiot brother has no manners, so I'm sure he has caused you a lot of trouble."

At this point, Ace bowed again, "But please continue to look after him in the future."

"No need to be so polite. This idiot is our captain after all." Zoro chuckled with his arms crossed.

"Luffy's brother is so polite."

"I can't believe it's this idiot's brother."

Ace's performance made everyone sigh with emotion.

"Then Luffy, you take this." As he spoke, Ace took out a piece of paper and ejected it between two fingers.

"what is this?"