The Otherworld War Madman Projection of Ten Thousand Worlds

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The next day.

The holy land of Marijoa, the castle of Saint Satan, one of the Five Elders.

It was the same place where Li Zhong negotiated with the Five Elders yesterday.

"Captain Li Zhong, after much discussion within the World Government, we have decided to entrust you with an important mission related to world peace!"

How could the Five Elders simply give a verbal reprimand after being offended by Li Zhong's 'rude' words?

Now, the revenge of the Five Elders has come!

"Oh? What mission?" Li Zhong didn't care at all about what the Five Elders were going to do.

"Li Zhong, do you think there are any pirates in this sea that are worth your attention?" The Five Elders did not say what they wanted Li Zhong to do, but asked another question first.

Chapter 330 Li Zhong: I choose Shichibukai?

"A noteworthy pirate?" Li Zhong didn't know why the Five Elders asked this, but since they asked, Li Zhong chose to tell the truth.

"All the pirates who ate the devil fruit, and the pirate emperors of the new world."

Li Zhong's biggest goal in this world is to become a god, and the shortest shortcut to becoming a god at the moment is the devil fruit. In Li Zhong's eyes, those pirates who have eaten the devil fruit are precious research subjects, so they are naturally worthy of attention.

The Pirate Emperor is also easy to deal with. Li Zhong has only been in this world for a few months. In terms of strength, he is roughly equivalent to an elite lieutenant general or above the admiral level. Unless someone like Zefa has a very serious flaw such as asthma, he can basically only use the future vision to maneuver a bit, and the possibility of winning is really slim.

Therefore, he naturally had to pay special attention to pirates like the Pirate Emperor, who he was not yet his opponent.

"Besides the Pirate Emperor? Is there nothing else?" Satan, the God of Scientific Defense among the Five Elder Stars, seemed to be hinting at something.

"Okay, stop beating around the bush and just tell me what you want me to do." Li Zhong, who likes to be straightforward, said with a pout.

“……” Seeing that Li Zhong had no intention of getting along, the Five Elders looked at each other.

Then he chose to confess what he wanted to hand over to Li Zhong.

"Actually, it's not a big deal."

"You know the Shichibukai system, right? We established this system for the stability of the world, with the goal of dividing the pirates. But for some reason, the Shichibukai have not been assembled, and are basically in name only."

"What the World Government wants you to do this time is to find a way to pick some similar pirates to fill the vacancies of the Seven Warlords of the Sea. This is an arduous task that has great significance for the stability of the world. After much deliberation, we think that you are the most suitable person to complete this task!" The Five Elders spoke one after another, and what they said was better than what they sang, but the smell of conspiracy was so strong that it was a bit choking.

"The Seven Warlords of the Sea..." Li Zhong looked at the five highest authorities of the World Government opposite him and frowned slightly.

As mentioned before, the system of the Seven Warlords of the Sea, when it was first established, was jointly opposed by the vast majority of factions in the navy. Led by Admiral Zephyr, they even collected blood signatures from hundreds of thousands of people to submit an objection to the World Government.

But this is meaningless. The system of the Seven Warlords of the Sea, which allows some pirates who have sided with the government to "legally plunder", was still forcibly passed by the World Government.

Every policy has its countermeasure. After the World Government forcefully passed the system of Seven Warlords of the Sea, the Navy began to spare no expense and was unprecedentedly aggressive in its efforts to carry out an extremely intensive crackdown on those tough pirates at sea!

Okay, if you can pass the policy, then I will simply make sure you can’t even find a decent candidate!

So to this day, there are only two of the Seven Warlords of the Sea.

Gekko Moriah, who once fought Kaido and survived.

And Crocodile, who once challenged Whitebeard and survived.

There was originally another one, but his strength was obviously not enough to match his title, and he was sent away not long ago.

However, the World Government does not really care whether the Seven Warlords of the Sea can be assembled. For them, as long as this system is established, their goal has been achieved.

After the emergence of the Seven Warlords of the Sea system, some pirates had hope. As long as they did not go against the World Government, they might be pardoned even if they committed murder and arson!

Although the number of incidents of looting civilians in the Four Seas and the Grand Line has not decreased, the number of incidents of looting World Government-related entities has decreased significantly!

In addition, some other political goals of the world government have also been achieved.

Is it important whether we can gather all the people? It’s not important!

Then why do the Five Elders still want Li Zhong to carry out this task?

the reason is simple.

This is revenge!

Some of Li Zhong's previous behaviors made the Five Elders extremely unhappy. Since the Five Elders were unable to make their hostility towards Li Zhong clear, they took revenge on Li Zhong.

Apart from that troublesome parasitic string, there are two other things about Li Zhong that make the World Government somewhat uneasy.

One is the relationship between Li Zhong and the Navy. Since Li Zhong appeared, although Li Zhong did not feel anything, the intelligence agencies under the Five Elders showed that the radical hawks in the Navy and those who were dissatisfied with the World Government all had a tendency to gather around him!

Now Li Zhong has never been to the Navy Headquarters. If Li Zhong makes a call at the Navy Headquarters, perhaps there will be a flood of people willing to join his army!

The other is Li Zhong’s prestige. He has eliminated so many pirates, which has brought him extremely terrifying prestige among the people.

Integrating the resources of the entire North Sea and allocating them in an orderly manner sounds simple, but it is extremely difficult to operate in practice. Even if Li Zhong takes down those powerful people, and those powerful people who are afraid of death are willing to cooperate with Li Zhong, how can the people of those developed islands be willing to use their own resources to subsidize those backward islands, or even other backward countries!

But under Li Zhong's prestige, the people of Beihai are actually willing to cooperate with this matter!

It's just outrageous! You guys are so hesitant when my world government does something, you cry poor every year when you pay the sky gold, and you are willing to pay for work for Li Zhong, right?

0! Troublemaker!

Both of these points can be solved to a certain extent by letting Li Zhong select the Seven Warlords of the Sea.

The Seven Warlords of the Sea is a system that the hawkish faction of the navy strongly resists. If Li Zhong were to select the Seven Warlords of the Sea again, he would definitely lose the favor of some of the hawkish faction of the navy.

The Seven Warlords of the Sea are legal pirates who have been specially approved by the World Government to legally plunder forces that are not members of the World Government. No matter who Li Zhong chooses, as long as he chooses, it will definitely cause some damage to his prestige among the people and break the sacred cloak of his image as a 'savior' in the hearts of the people!

This is the calculation of the Five Elders and the World Government.

This was to disgust Li Zhong, and at the same time, it was also an opportunity to solve the two hidden dangers in Li Zhong that gave them a headache.

Kill two birds with one stone!

Under the premise that they are temporarily unable to use violence against Li Zhong, this is the best solution.

Did Li Zhong see the sinister intentions of the Five Elders?

Although Li Zhong has always been weak in politics, he was still able to see through the Five Elders' obvious moves.

And after seeing this, Li Zhong’s choice is…

After a moment's silence, Li Zhong said, "I can do your task, but I have some additional conditions."

Li Zhong cares about prestige and the navy's favorability, but he doesn't care that much. He doesn't want to dominate the world. In general, it is enough to keep it in a "sufficient" state.

In that case, why not just give it up and exchange it for some other benefits.

Chapter 331: Prelude to the Death Knell of the Celestial Dragons

After a revealing conversation with Saint Satan, one of the Five Elder Stars, in the North Sea.

The relationship between Li Zhong and the World Government is no longer a hierarchical and subordinate relationship.

It's a dangerous partnership.

Since they are partners and not real superiors and subordinates, Li Zhong is naturally qualified to propose some additional conditions instead of having to execute orders unconditionally.

Since he really wanted to take on this task that would cause "significant losses to his own interests", Li Zhong would naturally ask for a high price.

Although Li Zhong didn't care much about his loss of prestige, at least in the eyes of others, these were "important things".

It would be a shame if we don't sell it at a good price and rip them off.

Faced with the several conditions proposed by Li Zhong, it was the turn of the Five Elders to remain silent.

They exchanged a few glances with each other. The tacit understanding gained from years of working together enabled the five highest authorities in the world government to understand each other's meaning without using words.

After a period of silent communication, the Five Elders gave Li Zhong a reply.

"The blood factor research is easy to talk about, and the devil fruit issue can also be considered, but the selection of the Seven Warlords of the Sea is a question..."

Even if the Five Elders want to stop the blood factor research, Li Zhong will probably just turn a deaf ear to it and continue with the research. Under the premise that it is impossible to stop it by violent means, it is better to give him this special research permission as a favor.

As for the Devil Fruit, the World Government is big and powerful, so it doesn't need billions of Beli.

The World Government Technology Catalogue can also be provided, but it is just a catalogue and does not involve any specific technology.

Although the biggest secret of the atomic bomb is that it really exists.

An accurate direction is very important for scientific research, but as long as some high-risk technologies are not leaked, there shouldn't be any problem... right?

At the moment, what makes the Five Elders frown the most is the question raised by Li Zhong regarding the Seven Warlords of the Sea.

Li Zhong said, since you let me choose the Seven Warlords of the Sea, then I say who the Seven Warlords are, and he is the Seven Warlords of the Sea!

The world government should stop interfering with various reasons and excuses.

Li Zhong doesn't want to waste too much energy on this matter.

He wanted to quickly select the Seven Warlords of the Sea and then do other things.

As for the research on Devil Fruits, to be honest, he has just started, and he has achieved some results in the field of Animal-type Devil Fruits. As for the Superhuman-type and Natural-type Devil Fruits, he is still completely in the dark!

Moreover, the practice of seeing and hearing color also requires more dedication. At least it must be strong enough to open the "future vision" and "Xuanpin destruction emptiness" to the minimum extent at the same time.

Only in this way will Li Zhong be qualified to fight those sea emperors head-on and have the possibility of defeating the admiral-level strongmen head-on.

Of course, the Five Elders could not allow Li Zhong to do whatever he wanted in this matter.

"The person you choose must at least be a decent pirate. If you just grab five minions at random, that won't work!" said the Five Elder Stars.

"What constitutes a decent pirate?" Li Zhong asked.

The Five Elders thought about it and gave the answer: "It's either strength or prestige. At least one of them must reach the level of the other Seven Warlords currently in office."

One of the two Shichibukai currently in office is Gekko Moriah, whose fruit ability is close to awakening and he also has dual-color domineering... at least that's what the World Government thinks.

In fact, after all his companions were killed by the Sea Emperor Kaido, Gekko Moriah's domineering aura began to fade rapidly as his will weakened. It is estimated that within a few years, even using domineering aura will become a difficult task for him.

The same is true of Crocodile.

Douglas Barrett, a crew member of Pirate King Roger, has similar combat power to his vice-captain, Pluto Rayleigh, and Crocodile has fought against him before.

After becoming one of the Seven Warlords of the Sea, he also challenged Whitebeard.

In the eyes of the World Government, this is also a qualified pirate.

But the reality is that after the crushing defeat at the hands of Whitebeard, Crocodile's spirit was completely crushed. He gave up practicing his own strength and began to place his hopes on the legendary ancient weapon [Pluto].

In other words, in the eyes of the World Government, to serve as one of the Seven Warlords of the Sea, you must at least have the strength to last a few rounds under the hands of the Emperor of the Sea and not be killed in a single encounter.

Or have enough prestige to have a huge impact.

After hearing what the Five Elders said, Li Zhong thought for a moment and nodded: "Okay, let's do this first."

"Then let's talk about the previous conditions in detail." Seeing Li Zhong nodded, the Five Elders felt relieved.

Little did they know that by undermining Li Zhong's prestige, the threat he posed to the World Government would be greatly reduced.

But in fact, Li Zhong had no intention of using his prestige among the civilians and the navy to fight against the World Government. When the need arose, he would make the World Government realize... How strong could a person's individual combat power be after the new era! !

What follows is a long and boring dispute over interests.

The Five Elders have extremely rich experience in this regard.

Li Zhong, on the other hand, stuck to his bottom line and refused to give in. He had a trump card...at least the Five Elders believed that he had one, so the Five Elders' attitude could not be completely tough.

The two sides negotiated back and forth from dawn to dusk, and from dawn to dusk the next day.

In addition to the exchange conditions for the Seven Warlords of the Sea, there are many other interest conditions for technology exchange between Li Zhong and the World Government that need to be discussed in detail.

Time just flows by, longer when there are books and shorter when there are no books, and in a blink of an eye, nearly half a month has passed.

Li Zhong's long negotiations with the World Government are finally coming to an end.

According to the original plan, Li Zhong was supposed to go to the Navy Headquarters after leaving the Holy Land of Marijoa, participate in the medal awarding ceremony to be promoted to a higher rank, and then recruit soldiers at the Navy Headquarters and take some people to the New World.

But because of the matter of the Seven Warlords of the Sea, this plan has undergone some changes. The World Government is still making arrangements. They said that Li Zhong should wait in the holy land of Marijoa for a few more days.

And just during these few days, a little "interesting thing" happened in the holy land of Marijoa.

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The structure of the Red Earth Continent is special, like a ring on the planet.

If people want to reach the Red Earth Continent, they can only enter through a few limited ferry crossings.

Because in most areas, those red soil continents bordering the ocean are all cliffs thousands of meters high. Unless you are a strong person who can do the Moon Step, or have other methods, it is impossible to climb up!