Chapter 177 Happy Sixth Day (Two-in-one, 640,000 nutrient solution...

Happy Sixth Day:

At the same time, on the Red Hair Pirates' side, Ace was squatting on the side of the ship, raising his arm, talking to the Den Den Mushi on his wrist.

Now it is a connected channel, Ace, Sabo and Wendy are all online.

After hearing Sabo's words, Ace also spoke up: "So, Sabo, Luffy..."

Just as the beginning began, even Ace, who had a heavy filter for his younger brother, gradually became serious in expression - oh no, come to think of it, it seems that Luffy might not recognize him...

But this doesn't mean that Luffy doesn't care about his biological father or that he is too forgetful, but that he has some problems recognizing people... He used to shout to Wendy to follow someone who also had blonde hair and a flower on her hair.

"...Uh, he won't really admit his mistake, right?" Ace also began to question his brother.

Wendy was a little confused when she heard him say that: [Huh? What? Luffy doesn't remember? Does he recognize Mihawk or Shanks as his father?]

"Of course it should be Mihawk!" Ace first stated his position, then frowned and thought for a moment, "But if it were him personally, he would probably choose Shanks..."

After all, Luffy is a huge Shanks fan, even down to his aesthetic standards. He uses Shanks as his benchmark for good looks. Even during his time in the Red Hair Pirates, he'd learned that Shanks was quite popular with women...

So Mihawk is better, since he only has Wendy by his side. — Ace secretly gave his favorite couple a few points, ignoring the fact that Shanks knew a lot of people while Hawkeye was such a homebody that he might not even meet a stranger for six months.

Sabo also sighed: "And maybe if there's someone dressed like the leader, Luffy will recognize him."

Wendy had her own opinion on this, her tone still bewildered: [Eh? Can't you just accept it like that?]

Wendy thought there was nothing wrong with this method of identification - wasn't character identification based on key item characteristics? She wouldn't mistake Shammu for Shanks because his clothes and the three iconic scars were different!

Sabo: [……]

Ace: “…”

Sometimes, they really wondered if Luffy was Wendy's biological son, and she had simply forgotten... Oh, no, Wendy had said she wasn't responsible for giving birth. What if it was Dragon's? Though they knew the basics of physiology, the brothers were utterly convinced of Wendy's miraculous abilities, believing she could do it.

"Wendy, have you spoken to Luffy on the phone?"

"Not yet. He hasn't called since he went out to sea, but I saw him heading over there on the map." Wendy said, still confused. "Did he lose his Den Den Mushi?"

Although the parent-child channel allows communication, the three ASL brothers do not have the Don't Starve system after all. Wendy chose three Den Den Mushi from the group of Den Den Mushi that Long gave her and that Hawkeye raised, and then gave one to each of the three brothers to use as a little genius phone watch.

Even so, there is a possibility that it was lost. Luffy usually makes phone calls, but he hasn't made any calls since he went out to sea, so it is very likely that it was lost.

Therefore, Wendy also made a decision: "If Dragon goes, I won't go yet. Luffy might not recognize who his father is... I'll wait until Luffy reaches the Grand Line and then go with Mihawk. I'll bind a new Den Den Mushi to Luffy then."

...She was feeling guilty, and didn't want Luffy's biological father, the leader, to find out that she had adopted him. At this moment, Ace and Sabo on the other end of the line saw through their mother's little trick and were both considerate enough not to expose it.

"But what's the matter with you allying with the Whitebeard Pirates, Mom?" Sabo asked the main question he wanted to ask this time.

God knows how confused he was when he suddenly saw the news in the newspaper. At first, he even had some conspiracy theories, wondering if it was a conspiracy by the World Government to make Wendy and Whitebeard fall out...

But in that case, it would be better to just cut down Whitebeard's flag and replace it with the Eternal Continent's flag. So he began to wonder if Wendy saw others putting up flags and then put up her own flag as well... Although it sounds a bit outrageous, Wendy is totally capable of doing it!

Ace added, "Ah, that's the question I wanted to ask too. Shanks and the others also wanted me to ask you, Wendy."

"I didn't." Wendy was also confused. "I did form an alliance with Newgate, but it was a secret alliance. How did everyone know about it?"

She also didn't see the option for her to choose a world announcement, so it definitely wasn't her problem!

Sabo was still speculating: [I see... Could it be that Whitebeard leaked the information?]

It’s not that Sabo has a filter for his own people, but the Whitebeard Pirates’ main ship has more than a thousand people, while Wendy’s ship is so big that the total number of people is barely over two digits... It’s easy to tell which side is more likely to leak information.

"Then I'll ask Newgate later." Wendy made a decision immediately.

"Ah, Wendy, if you go to the Whitebeard Pirates, there's someone you need to be careful of," Ace said immediately. "The man who injured Shanks and left three scars on his left eye is on Whitebeard's ship... Ah, he doesn't need to sleep just like you, Wendy."

[Huh? He's the one who hurt Shanks... Is he some kind of main character? Who is he?]

"His name is Teach."

***

Wendy wrote down the name and hung up the phone.

At this time, several people who were having a meeting in the room came out and were passing newspapers around.

Wendy handed Luffy's bounty to everyone, showing it to them one by one: "Our Luffy has also gone to sea! But now there is only 30 million..."

"Have they just set out to sea? It's already pretty good to have this bounty amount." Kizaru commented.

He was being fair in his assessment—after all, this was a young pirate who had just set sail… Although his bounty wasn't higher than that of Ace the Fire Fist, Ace had been known as the Son of the Five Emperors since his departure. Luffy's name, on the other hand, was still relatively unknown.

Hawkeye had just finished reading the information in the newspaper. After reading it, he handed the newspaper to Kizaru who was standing beside him. He looked at the bounty order in Wendy's hand and asked, "Where is Luffy?"

"He's in Rogue Town now." Wendy shoved the bounty order into Robin's hand and leaned over to hold Hawkeye's hand. "But his Den Den Mushi might have been lost, so we can't contact him. Let's go give him a Den Den Mushi later!"

Normally, Hawkeye and Wendy couldn't leave the New Abigail at the same time...especially after the Knights of God had come to steal their home last time. But now that Kizaru and Aokiji were there, if they were just going to send a Den Den Mushi to Luffy, they wouldn't be stuck and unable to return for a while.

Therefore, Hawkeye nodded in agreement after thinking for a moment.

Wendy was immediately delighted when he nodded. She stretched out her hand to snatch the newspaper from Aokiji's hand, then ran to the wooden sign and said, "I'll go ask Newgate who leaked the news of our alliance!"

Hawkeye: "Be careful on the road."

Robin: "You don't have to bring back gifts."

Kizaru: "Remember to confirm whether the alliance is still there."

Big Bear: "If it doesn't feel right, just come back."

Aokiji: "..." No matter how outrageous her actions are, you never stop her, right?

Watching Wendy run over, Aokiji asked, "Do you also think that Whitebeard leaked the information?"

"That's not the case." Kizaru pondered for a moment, "Wendy said that Whitebeard had only told her about the secret alliance... Whitebeard would only tell the captains on his ship, right?"

It's not that I think Whitebeard won't trust his son, but Whitebeard should also know that there must be a big leak among his sons...

"In other words, someone secretly instigated the mermaids to follow Wendy, but King Neptune knew that Wendy had a good relationship with Whitebeard, and because Wendy was brought there by Marco, he overthought the flag change and later put the Whitebeard Pirates' flag back. As a result, Morgans got the news and reported it recklessly, and ended up getting what he deserved?" Robin summarized.

"That's right." The bear who had delivered the message nodded, his expression becoming somewhat serious. "It seems that if it wasn't the mermaids' spontaneous actions, then someone was targeting Wendy..."

"In that case, let's wait for Wendy to come back." Hawkeye made the final decision.

It’s okay if the enemy doesn’t move, but if the enemy moves... then you must fight back.

***

On the other side, everyone in the Whitebeard Pirates was also shocked when they read the newspaper.

"What? Are we allied with Wendy and the others?"

"No...what exactly did we form an alliance for?"

"Compared to this, doesn't anyone care about the situation on Fishman Island?"

"Dad, what's going on?"

Whitebeard, who hadn't had time to tell his sons about his and Wendy's private agreement, said: "..."

Could it be that Wendy Carter, the big liar, just told everyone she met, and Neptune misunderstood and asked her to plant the flag?!

Whitebeard didn't think Wendy's flag-planting was a spontaneous act. If she was so fond of flag-planting, she could have planted her own flag in all of Wano Country, not just in Fishman Island. And she truly didn't have that kind of ambition, otherwise she wouldn't have offered the red historical text to trade for Marco. Her reasoning was still to want a blue bird.

Of course, when he asked her what she wanted the bird for and she answered that it would lay eggs, Whitebeard remained silent for a long time.

"Stop arguing. Planting the flag wasn't Wendy Carter's own doing..." Whitebeard had just said this when Wendy teleported over. She ran over with a newspaper in her hand, shouting as she ran, "Newgate Newgate! Our secret alliance has been exposed! Are we still an alliance then?"

Whitebeard: “…” Alas, it’s also his fault.

Why are you still thinking about keeping it a secret when you know it's a big funnel?

But it would be good if Wendy came over and asked directly.

After learning that it wasn't Wendy who planted the flag, the other members of the White Pirates breathed a sigh of relief. They got along well with Wendy, but if Wendy challenged her father's authority, they would have no choice but to fight back...

As for the alliance... everyone looked at Whitebeard.

Whitebeard also made a judgment: "Then someone must have done this on purpose... You guys step aside, I will discuss this with Wendy."

Whitebeard didn't even ask who did it - what nonsense, there aren't so many people with cunning minds among pirates, and even if there were, they wouldn't be lurking and watching Fishman Island all the time, and specifically targeting Wendy, one of the Five Emperors who doesn't fight for territory or steal treasures.

It is obvious who did it.

"Hmm..." Wendy frowned and thought for a moment, "Is this considered the main plot?"

As she spoke, she opened the system interface and checked the taskbar which she hadn't opened for a long time.

[Story in Progress: The Price of Ambition]: You have completed the celestial mission, chosen the Moon faction, gained the power of the Moon, and thus gained allies. However, the power of Shadow now sits on the Void Throne. Are you sure you want to fight against it?

...Ah, when did the main storyline begin?

Wendy was a little confused. She scratched her head and looked at Whitebeard. She put on a serious expression for the first time and asked, "Newgate, are you my ally?"

Is this a formal alliance?

Whitebeard was stunned for a moment, and after a moment of silence, he asked, "Do you want to start now? Are you ready?"

Whitebeard knew what Wendy wanted to do, after all, he had asked her before. So in his mind, Wendy was someone who had come out of Marijoa, but was living on the outside, and was ready to fight her way back at any time.

However, the World Government was somewhat wary of her because of her identity and wanted to stop her.

"I can actually fight anytime," Wendy replied obediently. "It's just a matter of how long the fight lasts."

She meant what she said literally - after the main quest is launched, she can do it at any time, but if she is well prepared, she can complete it quickly. If she is not well prepared, she will have to rely on her resurrection method!

At worst, I can be resurrected more times.

"Are you sure you can win?" Whitebeard was a little surprised. Looking at Wendy's well-behaved and weak face, she did not look like a member of the fighting faction.

"I'm awesome." Wendy puffed out her chest proudly - even though she was cheating, she still thinks it's awesome!

Whitebeard stared at her intently, then burst into laughter after a long moment. "Alright! Since you're so confident, why not trust me once? Let's openly form an alliance!"

He had previously considered forming a secret alliance from a strategic perspective. If the alliance were known in advance, the enemy would have a corresponding strategy... But now that it had come to this, it would be better to make it public.

As for his team... the main ship is another matter, and as for the pirate groups under his command, whether they stay or go depends on their own wishes.

As for the people on the main ship... everyone followed Whitebeard. After all, they were on this ship because they followed Whitebeard, and forming an alliance with Wendy was not something that was difficult to accept.

If they were to merge, they would still oppose it. But if we form an alliance, look at Wendy's enemies - the World Government, the Celestial Dragons... Everyone thinks that the enemies are the same anyway!

As for what their plans are behind the scenes... they trust Whitebeard unconditionally and believe in his leadership.

To celebrate this alliance, Wendy even gave Baituan some of her most precious things - her giant seeds that could be planted by ordinary people.

When Whitebeard learned that this was what Wendy had Vegapunk developing, he looked at Wendy with some helplessness - who would take away the world's number one scientist and make him work on planting instead of weapons... But perhaps because of this, the people were willing to follow Wendy Carter spontaneously.

Compared to Whitebeard, the pirate who was promoted by the World Government and given the title of "the strongest man in the world", his reputation among the people is not that good. He is the kind of person that parents use to scare their children and is promoted as the embodiment of top evil.

However, most of the pirates in this world are engaged in burning, killing and looting. Coupled with the propaganda of the world government, the public directly equates the title of pirate with evil.

Wendy has a good reputation simply because she started her career by defeating the Celestial Dragons, she is Garp's daughter, she never oppresses the people, and the Revolutionary Army helps behind the scenes, using her name to guide the people to stand up and liberate themselves.

"I don't know whether this alliance is a good thing or a bad thing for you..." Whitebeard also thought of this. Before he finished talking about the disadvantages of the alliance, he saw Wendy running away.

Whitebeard was silent for a moment, then sighed—he suddenly felt that his alliance had been a bit hasty...

Wendy didn't run away out of rudeness, but because she thought the conversation was over. She stayed here for a while longer this time and happened to run into the Whitebeard Pirates who were opening a treasure chest that had sunk to the bottom of the sea.

When Wendy got closer, a group of people were still greeting her.

"If there are any surprise seeds, can you give them to me?" Wendy lay on the side of the boat, looking curiously with wide eyes.

The one who got the treasure chest this time was Thatch, the captain of the Whitebait Pirates' Fourth Division. Because of Wendy's amazing cooking skills, he was one of the closest to Wendy in the Whitebait Pirates. Upon hearing this, he smiled and said, "Okay, no problem."

They knew Wendy loved collecting seeds, and although they had no idea what this surprising seed was, they didn't have any space to farm on their ship, so they decided to give it to Wendy! After all, they were all allies now!

Wendy was happy now, and then she watched Thatch open the treasure chest and took out a purple devil fruit.

"Oh, that's good, Thatch, it's a devil fruit!"

"Now you can also become a devil fruit user."

"I wonder what kind of fruit it is?"

The White Group members gathered around and watched curiously. Because the White Group's rule was that whoever got the treasure would own it, everyone assumed that the fruit belonged to Thatch.

When Wendy heard this, she took out a book and said, "I have an illustrated guide. You'll find out if you check it out."

Wendy took out a Devil Fruit encyclopedia. It was a trophy she had found in the Dressrosa palace, and it had originally belonged to Doflamingo.

A group of people gathered around her curiously, watching her rummage through the books.

"Ah, I found it." Wendy looked at the page she had found, and her expression suddenly became serious. "It's actually the Dark-Dark Fruit..."

Thatch was still curious and asked, "That sounds pretty impressive... What exactly does it say?"

"Whoever eats this fruit will become my enemy," Wendy said seriously, "because it contains the power of shadow. If you eat it, you will be in the shadow camp."

Wendy had her own logic—she was going to attack the Shadow camp. This was the Dark-Dark Fruit, representing darkness, and the description said it was the darkest power… What was this! This was the standard Shadow power!

Thatch was stunned by her attitude. After staring at the devil fruit in his hand for a while, he chose to believe the Five Emperors and put the devil fruit on the ground: "If that's the case, I won't eat this fruit..."

He had just put it down and Wendy was about to go over to pick up the devil fruit when suddenly a figure came forward, snatched the fruit from the ground and ran away.

The people around were still immersed in what Wendy said and hadn't reacted yet. They were all stunned when they saw this sudden change. When they came to their senses again, they all stepped forward to stop it.

"Teach! What are you doing!?"

"Hey! Tikki! Wendy didn't try to steal this fruit, so put it down and calm down!"

"Yes, Tikki, I know you might be worried about Wendy, but this is Thatch's fruit, she should handle it!"

The man they called Teach smiled at everyone, with a bit of fanaticism in his eyes: "No, my goal is this fruit!"

After he finished speaking, he took out his weapon and swung it at everyone. Those who were not on guard against their companions were caught off guard and were injured. Some people also reacted immediately and stood in front of Wendy.

Wendy reacted to the sudden change, donning her cloak and calling out to Abigail. However, the other party showed no intention of fighting and simply jumped into the sea and fled—it seemed he had been prepared and even had a spare boat stationed.

Marco, who noticed the movement here, immediately transformed into a phoenix and chased after them. Others also followed and tried to intercept them.

The others who hadn't left turned to look at Wendy, their expressions filled with disbelief. What had happened? Suddenly, Teach had snatched the fruit, injured a teammate, and deserted? And after Wendy had said that eating the fruit would make them her enemies?

Wendy came back to her senses and stood there, the sea breeze blowing her golden bangs a little messy.

She finally remembered where the familiarity of Teach's name came from—wasn't he the one Ace mentioned who hurt Shanks? Sure enough, he was a main character!

Wendy's expression was solemn, and she looked completely different from her previous relaxed and innocent appearance, as if her temperament had changed.

She slowly said, "The price of ambition is about to begin."

***

At the same time, on the other side, Monkey D. Luffy, who was worried about Wendy's enemies, already had his own companions and arrived at the last stop in the East China Sea - Rogue Town.

It is also the birthplace and execution place of Pirate King Roger.

Luffy now has four companions: swordsman Zoro, chef Sanji, navigator Nami, and sniper Usopp.

And now... after Luffy's legendary escape from the execution platform, he boarded a ship in the heavy rain and escaped to the Grand Line.

However, after they got on the boat, a group of people gasped in shock and talked about the people who had just stopped them.

"Those guys... especially the one with the pigeon mustache on his shoulder, so strong..." Nami panted, wiped the rain off her face, looked at Luffy who was still smiling foolishly over there, and said angrily, "Stop laughing there! Do you know how dangerous it was today? If it weren't for the guy behind us coming out to help us, we would be dead!"

"But who's that guy behind us?" Sanji pondered. "First, a group of uncles in white clothes we haven't seen before chased us and killed us. Then, an uncle with a face covered by his mask came out to help us..."

"Compared to that... Luffy, could you please not take out your mother's heart casually next time? Please respect your aunt!" After catching his breath, Usopp couldn't help but complain.

When arguing with others before, Luffy suddenly took out a beating heart and said, "My mother's heart has always been with me, does your mother have one?" Not only did he scare his enemies, but he also scared his own people.

When they later learned that this move was taught by Luffy's mother, they were all numb. But since their aunt only had her heart left, they couldn't say anything, so they all endured it... But today was too dangerous to play with her heart!

"They asked me if my mother would be sad if I died." Luffy frowned and said righteously, "Then just let them see it directly!"

The other four people: "That's not what I meant at all!"

Everyone finally regained some spirits and began to wonder: "Are they your mother's enemies? Your mother is already dead, why are they still chasing you..."

"Ah? My mother is not dead." Luffy looked puzzled. "She is alive and well. I saw her name in the newspaper before."

The group of people fell silent.

After a while, everyone cried out in shock: "What—?!"

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The author has something to say: Everyone can see that we are about to enter the final dungeon! [Kiss]

But this dungeon is probably going to be quite long... There's still some content to go before it's finished. Damn, I hope the main story can be finished this month! By then, all the unfinished extra chapters will become extra chapters!

The illustrators for the 700,000 nutrient solution have started to line up, and it’s almost my turn. In the end, I chose to farm [vegetable dog]

It's already 750,000 now, and I think I can get to 800,000. Then it's definitely the Throne of the Void map! Let me think about what outfit to wear for Wendy...