Pirates' Max Level System

Morgans used the fastest method, which was to directly activate the shadow substitute to unleash a "shadow stranglehold" under the feet of Olivia and the others.

Shadowy black claws shot out from under the feet of Olivia and the other three, quickly locking onto their bodies. The sharp claws curled forward, aiming for their necks.

Morgans didn't believe it. With hostages in hand, Qin Luo dared to act recklessly. Among Olivia, Naphthalene and the two children, Morgans also took extra care of Olivia.

From the intelligence he had obtained, Morgans had already recognized the identities of the four people. The two children should be descendants of the Guardian clan. Was Na used to be a reporter for the local newspaper? Only Olivia was the one who had always been with Qin Luo, and she was very likely Qin Luo's friend.

I have to say that Morgans' analysis and choice were correct. Of course, if his shadow stand-in's attack speed and damage were higher, maybe his plan would really succeed.

But now, Qin Luo, who was prepared, released invisible gravity towards these shadowy black claws the moment he took action.

When these shadowy claws reached the waists of Olivia and the others, they were pulled away from their bodies by the huge gravitational force. The shadowy claws were violently torn apart like a coat, and a "wailing" sound like rags being torn apart was emitted in the air.

At this moment, Morgans' shadow stand-in wanted to crush the four people wrapped by it, but he couldn't do it. Not to mention the gravity, Qin Luo also casually set up an invisible repulsive shield on the surface of the four people's bodies.

In the end, Morgans's back-up plan did not gain anything except angering Qin Luo.

"Impossible." Morgans stared blankly at the shadow substitute that Bei Qinluo was holding. The shadow that turned into a tangible state could not escape the control of gravity at all.

Seeing Qin Luo's gradually indifferent expression, Morgans felt a breath in his heart, as if his heart was about to stop beating.

Morgans gritted his teeth and made a decision. Was he going to give it a try?

No, Morgans was determined to take someone with him even if he died, and he detonated his own shadow.

The shadow stand-in that had been restricted suddenly exploded, and the fragments of the shadow turned into sharp blades and splashed around. There were also many on Qin Luo's side, and Olivia and the other four who were in the center of the explosion received full care.

"You are looking for death." Qin Luo shouted angrily, but he couldn't care too much about Morgans now. Olivia and the other four were in danger.

Qin Luo teleported to the side of Olivia and the other three. He first thickened the repulsive shields on the four people and increased the repulsive force. At the same time, a circular force field appeared around them and wrapped them up.

This is a powerful gravitational field, and the direction of gravity is opposite to those of the people.

Under the extreme weakening of these forces, most of the shadow fragments did not hurt the four people, but some fragments still damaged the surface of their bodies.

At the critical moment, Qin Luo must have prioritized protecting the vital parts of the four people. The two children had scratches on their hands, feet, and abdomens. In addition to the body, one of the ears was also slightly scratched.

Olivia, who was being taken care of, was in a worse condition. In addition to some scratches on her body, she also had a scratch on her face. Although her face was not cut, the props used for disguise were damaged, and the silver hair tied in the hat on her head was scattered.

In danger, Olivia didn't care about controlling her voice, and her scream as a woman directly exposed her identity.

"Vio is a woman." Having just survived a great disaster, Xi Nai's mind was blank at this moment, with only these words echoing in his heart.

As a senior executive of the newspaper, Morgans must be much better than the reporter, Na, in terms of vision and intelligence.

From the word "O" that Morgans exclaimed, Qin Luo could be sure that he had recognized Olivia's identity.

Chapter 567 Knowing Too Much

Morgans simply abandoned the newspaper staff he brought with him. He knew clearly how big a hornet's nest he had stirred up, and simply running to his own ship would not help him escape this disaster.

In contrast, Morgans could only pin his hopes of survival on the Lost Sea. The best case scenario was that he would hide in the Lost Sea for a while, and after getting rid of Qin Luo, he would come out from the Lost Sea in the direction of South Hillraf.

"Mr. Birdman, where are you going in such a hurry?" A voice suddenly appeared in front of Morgans. Qin Luo had been waiting in front of the fog of the Lost Sea without knowing when.

Normally, if Morganus heard someone call him a birdman, he would teach him a lesson on the spot, but now Morganus hurriedly braked and stopped.

Have you ever heard of the saying "Sitting by the tree and waiting for the rabbit to come to you"? It refers to a farmer waiting by a tree and waiting for the rabbit to hit the tree and die.

Morgans didn't care who would be the farmer, but he definitely didn't want to be the rabbit.

In front of Morgans, Qin Luo had already set up a series of invisible shields with repulsive force. If he bumped into them without knowing it, the effect would be almost the same as that of the rabbit.

Without any extra words, Morgans turned around and continued to escape. He had pretended to surrender once before, and he didn't think Qin Luo would give him another chance.

But this is what true despair is like. When you struggle desperately, fate always grabs you by the collar and lifts you up.

Morgan's situation was similar to the one described above, or even worse. Qin Luo grabbed his neck and lifted him into the air. Rays of Amaterasu's flames hovered around Morgan, and it seemed that if he struggled even a little longer, he would be drawn into the black flames.

Morgans didn't know when Qin Luo appeared beside him.

"Qin Luo, sir, I am willing to be your slave. I can be your slave, just spare my life..."

Morgans begged with all kinds of words, but Qin Luo ignored him. Morgans' death was already doomed.

"You know too much. Die in peace."

Morgans didn't stop for a moment while Qin Luo sentenced him to death.

"Please, give me another chance. I didn't see anything."

Morgans could only say the last words to himself. When Qin Luo finished speaking, his free left hand had already scratched his chest and pinched his heart in his hand.

The devouring power was activated, and Morganus's feathers withered at a speed visible to the naked eye. Finally, even the flesh on his body began to dry up and decay. A dried corpse appeared in Qin Luo's hands.

Where Morganus' heart was originally, the heart was gone, replaced by two things, a red bead and a phantom devil fruit.

Life belongs to life, and fruit belongs to fruit. Qin Luo has been able to use his devouring ability to extract both fruit and life force separately in actual combat. In the past, Qin Luo could only extract one, which in a sense made Qin Luo's efficiency in obtaining spoils faster.

Qin Luo did not directly convert Morgans's mythical beast devil fruit into points. Since he started to form his own power, Qin Luo had to consider the development of the strength of his subordinates.

Morgans' Shadow Raven Fruit is a good fantasy beast. The most important thing is that the points required to realize it in reality are not very high. Qin Luo is considering whether to stay and help his subordinates improve their strength.

Finally, Qin Luo put away the devil fruit and the red beads, and with a flick of his hand, Morganus's mummy fell into the sea and disappeared.

"Where's the man? Did he run away?"

As soon as Qin Luo came back, the second elder caught him and asked him. Seeing Qin Luo guarding the empty place, the second elder thought that Morgans had run away.

"Of course I killed him. Would I bring his body back?"

Qin Luo has been practicing his devouring ability recently. The corpses don’t look very good, so Qin Luo has no intention of bringing them back to scare people, especially the girls.

"That's good."

The second elder heaved a long sigh of relief. After learning that Morganus, who possessed ghostly powers, was dead, he was finally able to let down his guard.

The white armor gradually dissipated, revealing the second elder's body.

It turned out that the white light had a bandage-like effect, delaying the flow of blood from the wound on the second elder's body. After the white light disappeared, blood spurted out of the second elder's body, causing the old man to faint on the spot.

Chapter 568 The Real Black Hand

Qin Luo had not expected that because of his teasing of Morgans, the Second Elder would be injured so badly, with claw marks of varying depths all over his body.

To put it bluntly, Qin Luo thought that no matter how incompetent the Second Elder was, he could at least fight on equal terms with Morgans. He didn't expect it to be such a one-sided situation.

Although he was also a candidate general, the second elder of the Guardian Family was actually quite weak. In the end, Qin Luo used the vitality in the red orb to heal most of the second elder's wounds.

By the time the Second Elder woke up, half an hour had passed. The battle was over, ultimately ending with the Guardian Family's tragic victory.

The battle began to turn completely against the Guardian Family after the Second Elder fainted. With the help of the sleeping pills and the absence of Morgans, the newspaper leader, the Guardian Family, with the help of Shanks and his men, gradually gained the upper hand.

Casualties are inevitable, and the team of eighty-one people will undergo a major replacement, because in the recent battle, half of them will never be able to fight again, whether they are dead or seriously injured.

The entire Guardian family fleet was in a state of grief, with many people looking at the two children beside the na with subtle hatred. Some people felt that if they hadn't had to come to pick up these two children, the family wouldn't have had to sacrifice so much.

People are always selfish. They will definitely prefer their acquaintances to strangers, even if they are from the same family.

These people blamed the mistakes and causes on the two children. Although the two children could not understand the reasons, it did not prevent them from feeling that the eyes around them were much more unfriendly.

Weakness leads to death, and being weak is the original sin. Qin Luo saw everything, but he did not say anything about it. This was the Guardian Family's business, and Qin Luo could not and did not want to intervene.

Let the second elder worry about these things. Although this old man’s fighting ability is average, he is a nice person.

After the Second Elder woke up, Shanks brought up the second person in charge of the newspaper. After fighting Shanks for hundreds of rounds, Shanks knocked the man unconscious with a single blow and captured him.

In order to survive, the second person in charge of the newspaper was very cooperative, especially after he learned that Morgans had been killed by Qin Luo, he told him almost everything he knew.

The most concerning question is, "Where did you get the route of the Lost Sea, and how did you guess the direction of the Guardian Family fleet?"

In the imagination of Qin Luo, Olivia and Xi Na, the newspaper should have caught the reporter who was very familiar with the Guardian Family besides Xi Na, and obtained the information from him.

But this is not the case.

"No one."

"You didn't lie?" After receiving such an answer, Qin Luo and others looked at him with disbelief.

"No, I'm not lying. Believe me, there really is no such person." The man said in horror, and his expression didn't seem like he was acting.

"Then where did you get the intelligence information?" asked Olivia, who found a time to disguise herself as a man again.

Then the man poured out everything he knew.

According to that person's explanation, first of all, apart from Miss Nakata, there were no other reporters in the newspaper who had any investigation or understanding of the Guardian Family.

This had misled the newspaper for a long time, stemming from the letter, directions, and route map sent to the newspaper's ship. The newspaper even thought the person was Miss Nakana.

But in the end they found that was not the case.

After the Guardian Family's fight against the Undead Fleet, information about the Guardian Family continued to arrive. The information appeared in the form of envelopes in the newspaper's mailbox. Of course, this information was concealed by the newspaper and was unknown to outsiders.

All the reporters in the newspaper were followed and monitored by people sent by the higher-ups, but no one met the requirements to mail the envelope, not even Miss Naka.

This means that behind the series of events, there is a person or force that has been secretly controlling everything. Whether it is the newspaper, the Doomsday Sect, the Red Hair Pirates or the Guardian Family, they are all just pawns in this person's chess game.

Although Morgans knew that he was being used, because the information was proven to be correct, he could only swallow his anger and accept it.

Qin Luo was wondering if Morgans had mistaken Qin Luo for the mastermind, which was why he had an inexplicable murderous intent and anger towards him.

The fleet that was able to block the Guardian Family this time also obtained information about the mastermind behind the scenes.

Knowing that there was a hidden mastermind waiting for them, the Guardian Family became even more depressed, as if the enemy hiding in the dark could stab them with a fatal blow at any time.

What is more terrifying than a mysterious enemy is obviously that this enemy knows you very well. Even the second elder felt like a huge stone was pressing on his heart.

Qin Luo and Olivia wondered who this force or person hiding in the darkness was.

It wasn't the newspaper, the Doomsday Church, or the Guardian Family themselves. No other faction had this capability. So, there was only one entity in South Hilllove that possessed this power.

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That is the Management Chamber of Commerce that disappeared in the Lost Sea and never appeared again.

As Sherlock Holmes said, "When you have eliminated all possibilities, only one remains, no matter how improbable, that must be the truth."

Regardless of whether the Management Chamber of Commerce is the mastermind behind this, Qin Luo and the others still have a question. Since these people know the route of the Guardian Family Fleet and can block it, why don't they just block it themselves and leave the opportunity to the newspaper?

There are only two possible explanations. One is that the other party does not have the strength to destroy the Guardian Family's fleet. The other is that the other party has better options and greater benefits, so they need people from the newspaper to help them block the returning Guardian Family fleet.

A better choice? A bigger payoff?

"The Guardian Family's ancestral land!" Qin Luo and Olivia suddenly shouted in unison. The people around them were startled by Qin Luo and the other two, and they all looked over.

"Second Elder, hurry up and move forward at full speed. Your family's ancestral land is likely to be in danger."

Olivia said to the second elder and gave her own analysis afterwards.

"Not good." The second elder cried out inwardly upon hearing this, and ordered people to set sail for the family's ancestral land as soon as possible. Time has been delayed for too long, and they just hope that everything is still in time.

Chapter 569: The Departing Enemies and Their Arrivals

In order to speed up, there was no time to further organize the spoils. The Guardian Family assigned a part of their people to the newspaper ship and headed towards the ancestral land at full speed.

In the deep night, various debris were vaguely floating on the sea, indicating that a battle had once taken place here.

Qin Luo and the Guardian Family did not realize that in an empty wooden barrel among the wreckage, a purple video telephone bug had been camouflaged, recording and transmitting all the images to somewhere through the gaps in the barrel.

This video telephone bug may not be able to see the entire situation of the battle between Qin Luo and others and the newspaper society, but it can monitor who wins and who loses, and the direction of the winner's progress.

"Sir, the newspaper people have lost, and the Guardian family's fleet is heading this way."

On the other side of the screen, in a large, double-story room serving as a control room, a group of people were constantly monitoring the sixteen screens within. Most of the screens were black and white, but only one was still functioning, showing the Guardian Family fleet's departure.

"Even this has failed. I was hoping to have both the newspaper people and the Guardian family suffer heavy losses. These idiots can't even win an ambush."

On the second floor of the room, a gloomy middle-aged man spoke, with some wealthy old men beside him.

These were not unfamiliar faces. Except for the gloomy middle-aged man, the others were all senior management chambers of commerce who had appeared on the flagship of the South Hilllove luxury cruise ship. Moreover, they were all proactive ones, not one less.

"Sir Rod, should we go and stop the Guardian family's fleet?" A pot-bellied bald man smiled cruelly and made a gesture of wiping his neck.

"That's right, isn't it just replacing the planned newspaper with the dying Guardian family fleet?" Other senior executives nearby also joined in the discussion.

As expected, these people had no intention of giving the newspaper a bargain from the beginning. Those Den Den Mushi were both monitoring devices and locators.

If the newspaper company defeats the Guardian family by inflicting heavy losses on both sides, their ships will quietly catch up with the newspaper company's ships and eat them up.

This is what happens when black people rob each other.

"No, let's leave first."