Chapter 376: Changes in the World (Happy New Year, Please Give Me a Monthly Ticket)

At the Navy Headquarters, Marshal Sengoku was drinking afternoon tea, leisurely eating donuts from Garp's cabinet, and enjoying a relaxing time.

The frequent incidents three years ago made him feel that he could no longer be a marshal, but he didn't expect that things would get better as soon as they were said.

After Kaido was captured by Holo and defeated the army assembled by Kaido's remnants, the sea suddenly became several times calmer. Even the Revolutionary Army stopped fighting and there were few signs of activity.

At the World Conference two years ago, the kings of Dressrosa and Alabasta, who had suffered from the Seven Warlords of the Sea, publicly proposed to abolish the Seven Warlords of the Sea system. They did not succeed, but they also forced the World Government not to establish new Seven Warlords of the Sea. The remaining five people were in name only, and a corner of the balance basically collapsed.

A new balance was formed on the sea.

The Three Emperors! The Navy! Bipolar!

Among them, the "bipolar" refers to Holo and the Blasphemer Dunan, the strongest man in the world who have no power, but who cannot be ignored by anyone alone. This title has not been officially recognized, but many places on the sea are tacitly called this.

There has been no news from the Blasphemer for three years.

Holo often communicates with him. The loose Holo Merchants Group and the Navy have a healthy exchange and abide by the law. The Navy basically does not need to worry about that route.

Having been a marshal for 20 years, Sengoku no longer has the ambition to end the Great Pirate Era. If he can continue to do this until retirement... it would be nice?

After taking a sip of tea, the office door was knocked open. Sengoku's eyelids fluttered and he almost spit out the tea: "Ahem... Dark Horse?!"

I always feel that there is nothing good about seeing Dark Horse in the past two years? Sure enough, Dark Horse handed him a document and said, "Marshal, this is the latest intelligence obtained by the Crime Investigation Bureau. It is being confirmed in both directions with the World Government Intelligence Department."

Sengoku read it briefly, his eyes slightly condensed.

"Big Mom Pirates actually had such a thing happen? Confirm the credibility of the information as soon as possible!"

"Yes!" Dark Horse nodded and retreated.

"Is another old man from the old era going to leave the stage?" Sengoku sighed and gave the confidential document he had just received to his sheep to eat.

At this time, the Den Den Mushi suddenly rang again.

"Moshi Moshi, Holo? Um... Go to the New World? Red Hair's place..." Zhan Guo helplessly: "You are going to the Pirate Emperor, why did you tell me, the Navy Admiral?"

Opposite the Den Den Mushi, Ji Xing smiled and said: "There are more people going this time, Hawkeye and several of my assistants are also here, and we plan to travel for a long time. Isn't it better to inform the Admiral in advance to avoid any unnecessary misunderstandings?

In addition, the destination of this journey is exactly the Navy Headquarters in my plan. Senior Zhan Guo, we have been communicating through Den Den Mushi all the time, but we have never met. I will go to the Navy Headquarters to find you for a meal. Is it convenient?"

"Come to the Navy Headquarters?" Zhan Guo repeated with some surprise, and said: "That's... not inconvenient, yourself?"

"Not necessarily, we'll see then? Let's not talk about Marshal Zhan Guo for now, we encountered a pirate ship, and it seems that we are a merchant ship."

The Den Den Mushi hung up, Zhan Guo looked at the tea with ripples and was silent for a while.

‘Doflamingo said that man has hidden ambitions that no one has discovered. If anyone can replace the Celestial Dragons and become the next God of 800 years, it will only be him. What do you think, Sengoku? ’

‘Holo? Haha, no way? Crane, you can’t believe what Doflamingo says. ’

This is a conversation three years ago.

“Why did you suddenly come to the Navy Headquarters?” Sengoku felt a little uneasy, and he went to the New World to find Red Hair before coming?

“Well, I informed him in advance, so there shouldn’t be any special surprises.”

Sengoku decided to pay a little more attention, for no other reason, every time Holo went on a long trip, he would make some big or small noises.

…

A few days later.

A grand banquet was held on the ship of Red Hair Shanks, with empty wine jars everywhere and drunkards being dragged away one after another.

Redhead dragged a new wine jar to Jixing and Hawkeye, and said with a smile: "This is the wine from my hometown West Sea. Although it is not as delicious as the fine wine collected by the Holo Merchants Group at a high price, it is also unique. Let's try it together."

After another round of drinking, Redhead asked: "I always go to you, but this is the first time you take the initiative to come to me. What's the matter?"

Jixing smiled: "Didn't you get some words from that kid Abe?"

"Hahaha..." Redhead laughed: "That kid is too careless, he obviously didn't want to ask. But... Speaking of which, it really surprised me that Holo, you are actually interested in the great secret treasure that pirates are fighting for. You can't be interested in becoming the Pirate King... You don't believe that there is really any treasure there, right? Raftel."

"Some wealth is not measured by money, such as knowledge and history." Robin came over and half bent over to add wine for the three people.

"Ms. Luos?" Redhead looked up: "The head of the Holo Merchants Group, may I ask who you are..."

"Nico Robin, have you heard of it?" Jixing introduced.

"Ah, O'Hara's..." The red-haired man was surprised, and soon realized: "Is that so..."

Robin nodded in greeting.

Shanks' face became solemn, and after thinking for a while, he said: "It's useless, the great secret treasure is useless to you. Although I don't know the specific situation, I can guess from the few words of the captain and others that the great secret treasure is reserved for a certain person."

"Is this the guy you bet your arm on?"

"Can you guess this?" The red-haired man shook his head with emotion, "Maybe, hahaha..."

The three of them drank together again, and Hawkeye said directly: "You don't want us to go to Lovedru."

The red-haired man was silent for a while again, nodded slightly and said: "Ah. The last section of the route is difficult to conquer, but I think if it were you, Holo, you would definitely have a way to overcome it, let alone Hawkeye. But big If the secret treasure is obtained in this way, the blow will be devastating to some children who yearn for adventure. "

"If the child you want to wait for gets the big secret treasure, and then I tell him that I can get it long ago, I'm just waiting for him." Ji Xing asked: "Do you think this won't hit him? "

The redhead was startled.

"Come, drink and drink."

After drinking together again, the three men switched topics tacitly, and Ji Xing mentioned Uta.

The red-haired woman showed an expression of reminiscence, mixed with a hint of pride: "That was my daughter... Of course her singing will be popular across the sea."

17 years ago, after the red-haired pirate group won a battle with another pirate group, they discovered the kidnapped two-year-old Uta in a treasure chest on the enemy ship.

Shanks adopted her as his adopted daughter and discovered that she had a superb singing talent, so he made her a musician in the pirate group. Later, he sent her to the music island of Elegia to study music. However, the tragedy happened in happens there.

The overly outstanding singing talent accidentally awakened the demon sleeping on the island of music, and wiped out the island in one day. In order to prevent Uta from suffering all this, the red-haired pirates took the initiative to take the responsibility of plundering the island and abandoned it. Got Uta.

Until today.

Speaking of Ji Xing's time travel, there was only a trailer for the movie version of Red-Haired Diva. Only then did he roughly understand the background of the story and noticed a special term in it: "Devil?"

"Hmm...a weird life, it should be artificial life. It's probably a growable life created by Devil Fruit users after awakening. It's so powerful..." the red-haired girl recalled: "We all worked together to stop it. But it still failed.”

"Then when we come back from Lavdru, we can kill them together on the way." Ji Xing said: "By the way, I can help you and your daughter untie their knots."

Shanks thought for a while and refused: "No, Uta already has a new life that belongs to her. I don't want her to..."

"Don't be wishful thinking, don't 'do it for your own good'." Ji Xing said: "Only when you see it with your own eyes can you know whether the disaster caused by her childhood is more unacceptable to a mature and sensible girl, or whether she was abandoned by her favorite adoptive father. Betrayal is even more unacceptable. Don’t wait until she makes a mistake and regret it later.”

The red-haired man was startled again and smiled: "Hahahaha, Holo, you are obviously the youngest, but you always teach us how to do things like our elders... but you still have your reasons.

Okay, I listen to you. When you come back from Lavdru, we will go find Uta together! "

After going around in a circle, he no longer had any objections to Ji Xing's desire to go to Lafdrew, and said, "Next, do you need me to help you find the text of the road signs and history?"

"No need." Ji Xing said with a smile: "Of the four road signs, one is in my hand, one is in Wanguo, one is in Zuowu, and one was originally in Wano Country, but now it may be in Whitebeard's hand."

"Do you have a piece in your hand?" The red-haired man said with a surprised smile: "You are really prepared...then why are you here to see me?"

"Borrow a boat."

Ji Xing's aircraft can fly in most areas of the New World, but it does not include the last flight path. He has tried all kinds of weird weather, even if he has the knowledge to predict the future, he will be tired of dealing with it.

More importantly, it is easy to lose your way.

And according to his speculation, the final island is probably not on the sea level, otherwise it will always be discovered by accident, but it is probably difficult to enter it without sailing at sea.

To complete the voyage, a ship that is strong enough and has multiple powers is indispensable.

The red-haired pirates have quite a few ships. They don't need a huge ship like the Redfors, but just provide a medium-sized one. The red-haired pirates are all capable of doing anything.

After the business was done, all that was left was to drink.

It wasn't until he woke up after a hangover and looked at the beautiful sunrise on the sea that the red-haired man said with emotion to Ji Xing beside him: "Some things... are really scary to think about, Holo. I have seen your aircraft, and I have seen Go through the warm-up practice of shaking your fists and feet.

You have the time and probably the power to get it done. Miss Nico Robin's appearance is disguised, you are going to the target of Rafdru... the blasphemer Dunan Isbadry, the bipolar sea, are you the only one? "

Ji Xing smiled and said: "Next we will split up. Hawkeye will take the others to Zou to get the text. I will go to Ten Thousand Kingdoms, and then we will meet up at Whitebeard's territory."

Although he did not answer, the two words 'all nations' already explained everything.

"White Lion...yes, I have forgotten that Holo Ji Xing is also you." The red-haired man whispered: "How many identities do you have?"

"You have many identities, Shanks."

Shanks was silent, shook his head and smiled.

"By the way, if you want to go to Ten Thousand Countries, I may need to let you know about a piece of news I got recently." He said, "It seems that Ten Thousand Countries has changed hands. Katakuri and his brothers committed patricide, and Charlotte Lingling is suspected of being already dead."

Ji Xing was slightly surprised and said with a smile: "No, Katakuri can't remove that hand. At best, he locked her up."

…

In a huge cage.

Both hands and feet were bound by heavy seastone chains, and Big Mom's huge body exuded an astonishing low pressure.

"Katakuri, you still dare to come to see me? Where is Perospero? Where is Erwin? Where is Smoothie? Don't they dare to come together?!"

In front of the cell, Katakuri half lowered his head and was silent for a few seconds before saying: "Mom, don't skip meals... What do you want to eat?"

"Eat?!" Big Mom roared: "I want to eat you guys! Why? Are you worried that my bulimia will break out and completely destroy this place?!"

"This cell has been specially reinforced, and the main body is made of seastone. Even if it is you, it is impossible to break it while wearing the seastone chain." Katakuri said: "I just... don't want you to hurt yourself."

"Huh? Mom, mom--" Big Mom struggled with the handcuffs on her wrists with a mocking face.

Katakuri explained calmly: "I don't want you to hurt my brothers and sisters."

He is a man of few words, but facing this situation, he couldn't help but open up.

"Everyone has always been afraid of you. You are not only our mother, but also the master who controls the lives of all our brothers and sisters. If things go wrong, you will be beaten or scolded, or even take away your life. Everyone is more afraid than respectful to you, including me."

"Your lives were originally given by me!" Big mom said: "Have you all been led astray by the damn Lola?! What freedom are you pursuing?!"

"You gave it to me. But we are different from Homies. We are human beings with joy, anger, sorrow and happiness." Katakuri said: "I have always hoped that you can understand us, but unfortunately our efforts failed and we suffered more pain.

There is really no other way to find it. We can only resort to this last resort and temporarily imprison you here."

"Humph! You...don't you want to kill me? Katakuri, don't you dare?!"

"I can't do that."

"Then you will regret it." Big mom's expression was like a devil. When I get out of here, I will kill all of you bastards who betrayed me!

"...Mom, all the brothers and sisters agreed to the plan to imprison you. Before we started, you didn't even hear a little bit of the news... So you don't have any regrets at all?"

"What? Do you want to hear my confession?! You want me to admit my mistakes to you?!"

Katakuri was silent for a while.

"Yes, even if it was Ji Xing's death, you were only sad and regretful for a few days."

"Katakuri!!" Big mom's roar shook the soul: "It's him! It's because of him! I saw it five years ago. You actually attacked me for him?! I should have killed you, I should have killed you at that time!"

"That time I was protecting you and Wanguo, mom." Katakuri sighed lightly, and turned and walked out in the follow-up roar of Big Mom.

The faces of Perospero and others at the door were a little pale. Even if they successfully imprisoned mom, no one except Katakuri dared to go in and face her directly.

"What should we do, Katakuri, Mom... is she still refusing to eat?"

Katakuri shook his head: "When her bulimia attacks, give her food and she will eat."

Looking at the expressions of the few people, he added: "I'll do it. The key now is to temporarily conceal Mom's situation. The movements of the past few days may have aroused a lot of suspicion. There may be various opinions outside. Is the guy who pretends to be Mom ready?"

"It's ready." Daifuku shook his head: "But I always feel that he is unreliable. Although the appearance is similar and the tone has been corrected, Mom's courage is not something that guy can pretend."

"We don't need him to face anyone's investigation head-on, just let the guys who come to investigate take a few photos by chance." Katakuri said: "Is there... anyone who dares to meet Mom in person to distinguish the truth?"

"That's true..."

Several people nodded slightly and walked out of here, and suddenly saw a young brother running towards this side breathlessly, with a panic on his face.

Katakuri was stunned, and his pupils shrank suddenly.

"No, it's bad! Brother Katakuri, someone discovered that Holo suddenly appeared on our Cake Island!"

"... Holo?" Several people were stunned and said in unison: "The strongest in the world who defeated Mom and Kaido three years ago?!"

Wish you all a happy New Year's Day!

The monthly tickets will be cleared at the end of the month, and the minimum monthly tickets for January are also required.

In this December, a total of 158,000 words were updated, which should be the least in the month since the serialization, but four new leaders were added. I am really ashamed. I can only say that it is a special situation. Please forgive me.

I am not yet in the dark. I will give you two more days to rest and I will do my best to make up for it.

Say goodbye to 2022. I hope that everyone can succeed in their careers and studies in 2023, defeat the virus, and be in a better state!