"May I have your name?"

"My name is Keli, and they are my friends. We met that big fat man while we were playing on the beach, and then his men dragged us onto the boat." The ten-year-old girl in front of Shizo stood alone, her hands tightly clasped behind her back, trying to look brave.

"Hmm, you're from... never mind, look at the map, how long have you been held captive?"

"One day and one night."

Si Zang nodded, turned around and pulled Ironclad 99 over, directly projecting the scanned nautical chart and marking the islands within a day and night's journey for an ordinary ship.

“This one!” The boy behind Klee recognized him immediately.

"Long Huan Island is really easy to spot."

They all glanced at it; it was an island group consisting of ten small islands arranged in a ring.

"Let's set off then, and try to arrive within three hours!" Si Zang patted the Ironclad 99 hard and asked very seriously, "Nanotechnology, huh? Make a turbine propulsion system, please!"

"Yes, sir."

In the brief moment of answering, a nanobot weighing nearly a ton emerged from Ironclad 99, landed on the ground, and then reassembled into a humanoid fan head. It then walked to the stern of the ship and jumped into the sea.

"Hiss!" Klee and the other two were startled and squeezed in the direction completely opposite to the fan head.

"Don't be afraid, don't be afraid, it's a treasure that can take you home." Si Zang heard the noise, took out three bottles of juice from his pocket, threw them into the air, and twisted the caps open out of thin air, handing them to them one by one.

Whoosh!

Suddenly, the sound of waves crashing broke the silence, and the boat shook a few times, giving the three children, who hadn't even gotten their juices in their hands, an unprecedented feeling of being pushed back.

"ah!!!!"

Klee pressed herself against the wall, her taut nerves finally snapping as she screamed. All the fear and anxiety she had endured along the way, the panic she felt upon seeing Shizo and the others, and the constant struggle to control her fear and comfort the two people beside her as the older sister... all of her negative emotions erupted in an instant.

Before she could hear what Si Zang had to say, the juice bottle bumped right into her mouth, sending a mouthful of delicious juice into her mouth.

"Ah...ah?"

Delicious!

ah?

Klee swallowed, then couldn't help but cry out again. Suddenly, she forgot what had just happened. She only felt the hurricane blowing in front of her suddenly disappear, leaving only the bottle she was holding unconsciously.

"How pitiful..."

Shizang rubbed Klee's head, looking into her panicked eyes, and certain emotions welled up within him.

As he walked step by step to the bow of the ship, Shizang took a deep breath.

"What's wrong?" Lin Feng, who was leaning on the railing, saw Si Zang's appearance, turned his gaze away from the waves, and turned around.

Si Zang raised his head and said, "I suddenly feel that this world is not so good. Don't be fooled by the fact that it's a shonen manga. If you take a closer look, you'll find it cold and indifferent to the point of being disgusting."

"Fourth Brother, I just realized that." Tang Hong lay back in a chair and hummed comfortably, "Just think about it, in a world where it's legal to abduct women, even in the capital, or where it's legal to plunder slaves all over the world, who knows when they'll be captured?"

"Moreover, you can't be good-looking. Even if you are talented, you have to be like a dog. Even if you become successful, have power and status, you still have to be careful not to be caught and forced to be a dog. Even if you are not caught, you still have to hide and be a 'dog' at all times."

"Who is the protagonist? Who's behind them? Playing from the protagonist's perspective is certainly fun, but what about the others..."

"Especially fatalistic..."

As they were talking, Si Zang interrupted Tang Hong's grumbling: "No, what I mean is that it feels very incongruous to have a passionate story in a dark and violent world."

“This is fatalism, isn’t it?” Lin Feng leaned against the railing, pointed to the juice in Ke Li’s hand, and raised his hand to ask Shi Zang for a bottle.

Only the incongruous can provoke thought; otherwise, is humanity truly prepared to one day usher in such a world?

Si Zang tossed the juice over, watching it fall into Lin Feng's hand, and heard Lin Feng's next words: "But don't underestimate him, being a good dog isn't easy."

"Heh, hehehe..." Si Zang's dejected mood was immediately dispelled, and he took out two more bottles of juice and tossed them to Tang Hong and Yu.

"But the scenery here is really nice. If only I could..." A sigh rose, and the refreshing sea breeze had just passed by Si Zang's ears when a dark shadow appeared in the sky.

A giant dragon head pierced through the clouds, blocking out the sunlight, and hung high in the sky.

"Osiris the Sky Dragon"

"Wow...goodness, it's about half the size of Gui Ke, isn't it?" Si Zang raised his hand, his pupils staring straight into the eyes of the deep red sky dragon, and couldn't help but notice a figure standing on it: "It's kind of handsome."

A man dressed in ancient Egyptian attire, wearing a long white robe, with bronze skin, half of his chest exposed, and golden millennia-old blocks hanging from his chest.

As his gaze moved, his sharp eyes beneath his black hair seemed like the tip of a knife, capable of tearing open people's hearts.

A few seconds later, a person fell from the sky, and Lin Feng and the others became alert.

"Hi."

The newcomer, wearing black high heels and a black open-toe dress, with butterfly-like black auras fluttering behind her, stepped onto the railing at the bow of the ship and uttered a very pleasant voice: "My name is Ling Yue."

Upon seeing the newcomer, Si Zang's mouth dropped open, and he uttered the words that popped into his head: "The fairy from 'Bala Bala Little Fairy'?"

Lin Feng's eyes widened upon hearing this, while Tang Hong's fist itched to punch Si Zang on the head.

"Yes." Ling Yue nodded with a smile, not at all surprised by the three's reaction: "This mission is quite difficult. I was wondering if we could cooperate?"

cooperate?

Lin Feng immediately cleared his mind of distractions: "What is your mission?"

"Stop Akainu from killing Ace, kill the Vice Admiral, and kill the Shichibukai," Ling Yue said without hesitation, "and change the Navy."

As she spoke, Ling Yue waved her magic wand, casting a black glow that revealed Dragon's face to the group: "We want to win over Dragon and force the navy to join them, thus completely changing the situation at sea."

Looking at the faces in the radiance, Lin Feng's gaze immediately became calmer: "Have you made contact with the other team?"

“No, we haven’t found any trace of them, but…” Ling Yue waved her magic wand a few more times: “I’ve predicted the direction they’ll appear; it seems to be at the top of the Red Earth.”

Celestial Dragons?

It's completely different from what they expected; it's actually quite interesting...

Lin Feng immediately formed a rough framework in his mind: they were the Navy, Ling Yue's team was probably the Revolutionary Army, and if the last team was the World Government, then the core of this game was the future direction of the Navy.

Should they continue to eke out a living in the cracks, obediently become the World Government's dog, or tear away all the hypocrisy with Dragon and change the world?

"Is that all?" Lin Feng's pupils shrank for a moment, then returned to normal.

"Of course not." Ling Yue gave a subtle, playful look, and then offered no further explanation.

"We will consider it."

"Okay, goodbye."

Ling Yue smiled, showing no interest in the vague answer, nor did she have any questions for Lin Feng and the others.

When she flew up into the clouds and returned to the back of the Sky Dragon, the huge dragon tail stirred up a large cloud, faintly revealing the Sky Island floating higher in the sky.

The clouds swirled, the dragon's body moved, and only when the dragon disappeared into the distance did Lin Feng withdraw his gaze: "It seems they have experienced Earth-level missions more than once."

"Oh?" Tang Hong asked.

“If they’re not extremely confident in their own strength, then they’re familiar with the way Earth-level missions are issued, and they know that our three teams’ kill missions won’t involve direct hostility.” Lin’s face was solemn: “Intercepting Luffy, intercepting Akainu, so… it doesn’t matter whether Ace lives or dies.”

"As for the mission to kill the Vice Admirals and the Seven Warlords of the Sea... if they were from the Revolutionary Army's perspective, they certainly wouldn't have killed Kuma and Hancock."

"Furthermore... they're here to test us, to see if we're a team that forced our way in, and to see if they're our target..."