Chapter 227 "Martial Arts Contest to Win a Marriage"

Basically, there is at least one naval branch base on each island where a member country of the World Government is located.

The reason why it is at least is that the territory of a member country of the World Government may not be limited to one island. Some powerful kingdoms may have territories covering an archipelago and sea area. The navy can either set up several branch bases and send more protective forces, or simply build a powerful branch base on the island where the royal city is located, send generals to guard it, and radiate protection to other archipelagos.

Old Buck is a marine at the naval branch base on this island. A logistics marine.

He had relatively few training tasks. While other comrades were still practicing shooting in the base, he had already dealt with the base's domestic garbage, left the royal city, went to East Town to buy flour, went to West Village to buy fish and shrimp, went to South City to buy vegetables, and went to Beigang to buy... Huh?

Old Buck was bargaining skillfully with the stall owner in front of a street stall in Beigang. They were having a lot of fun, but he caught a glimpse of a beautiful figure out of the corner of his eye.

This little girl is so pretty... Oh, no, Old Buck rubbed his eyes, screaming in pain from the sour fishy water on his fingers, and his tears couldn't stop flowing.

"Old Buck, what's wrong with you?" the stall owner said helplessly, "Alright, alright, just 4,000 Baileys, okay? Why are you crying?"

"I didn't..." Old Buck paused, his eyes still red, and looked at the busy intersection again in confusion, but the beautiful figure was gone. "I seemed to see someone just now..."

The stall owner said, “There are people everywhere here.”

"She's a rare beauty!" Old Buck emphasized, "She doesn't seem to be from this town..."

"Where is it?" The stall owner stuck his head out to look around.

"It's gone long ago!" Old Buck gloated.

The stall owner said unhappily, "4300 Baileys! No bargaining."

"You just said 4,000 Baileys!" Old Buck cursed, still looking in that direction, muttering to himself, "I feel like... I've seen that guy several times..."

"Old Buck, you don't mean to say that this beautiful lady is following you, do you?" The stall owner laughed. He knew the daily shopping route of this logistics marine very well. When he arrived in their town, it was already the second to last stop.

Old Buck blushed and said embarrassedly, "Maybe I saw it wrong!"

After some more negotiation, he successfully bargained the price down to 3,900 Baileys. Old Buck moved the bags of fresh fruit onto the shopping cart. Before leaving, he looked over there in confusion, shook his head and left.

On the back of his car, an ear disintegrated into petals and fell apart.

“…”

The flower clone entered the town's bookstore alone, and paused slightly while selecting a book.

"'The Lost Kingdom of Bepon'... Little girl, I didn't expect you to be interested in such a book?" said the bookstore owner with a smile.

Hua's clone smiled faintly without explaining.

When the clone speaks, it also takes away some of the main body's concentration. If too much concentration is put on her side, the other clones may have flaws. If there is no need, of course, it is best to save as much as possible.

When selecting books, Hua Fen Shen simply flipped through them without examining them carefully.

Anyway, Robin has a very diverse taste in books, and she doesn't really care about the quality of the books, as long as they are readable.

Robin is a historian not because she is most interested in history. She has no friends since she was a child, and the only group of people who are friendly to her are the historians on O'Hara Island. If those scholars studied music or biology, then in order to get closer to them, Robin probably tried to become a musician or a biologist when she was a child.

Seeing a few stacks of newspapers on the shelf next to the counter, Hua Fen Shen picked up one at random.

Although there are hardworking newspaper sellers like news birds on the sea, not all newspapers are delivered by news birds.

The Newsbird is the exclusive newspaper deliveryman for the World Economic News. They do not deliver newspapers from other newspaper companies, such as the South China Sea Weekly and South China Sea Entertainment newspapers in the hands of Huafen. These are delivered door to door to every island by the boats of various newspaper companies, and then distributed to various bookstores. Of course, the more powerful small newspapers may also have the financial resources to use video phone bugs to transmit images over long distances with branches in various places, and then print them at the same time...

"The number of tourists on Magniphi Island has reached a new high... It seems that the news that Princess Olsen of the Kingdom of Muts announced that she would recruit a husband through a fighting competition has attracted the attention of everyone in the South Sea... I wonder who will be able to pick the most beautiful gem in the Kingdom of Muts in a month? ... Reporter/Elizabeth"

"According to insiders, the final champion is not necessarily favored by Princess Olsen... Insiders said that Princess Olsen may be more interested in Devil Fruit ability users... In the next month, the South China Sea may no longer be calm! ... Reporter/Mari"

"The Navy stationed here said that they will deploy more personnel to Magnifi Island to resolutely crack down on any pirates and other criminals who take advantage of the situation... Reporter/Kate"

Princess... Hua's clone casually glanced at some entertainment news, paid the bill, and put the books he bought into his bag.

"What's wrong?" Lynch noticed that Robin was distracted from time to time, and couldn't help but laugh: "It's really difficult to control five clones at the same time!"

There is no mistake in the poem, post, content, and read the book on 6, 9, and bar!

At this time, the real Robin was strolling in the port town where the pirate ship was docked with Lynch, Hancock and the others.

"Someone noticed me. My clone."

Robin shook his head, took out a pair of sunglasses he had just bought and put them on, and whispered to Lynch, "That man seems to be a logistics staff member of the naval base on this island. When I was shopping in several towns on the island, my clones in those towns were noticed by him one after another..."

"Oh, my God, look at you, you unlucky little bastard!" Lin Qi said happily, "I was just passing through all the towns on the island and happened to run into your clone... How small is the probability of this happening?"

Robin looked at him helplessly. Lin Qi said, "It's nothing!" He pointed at Robin's face.

In more than three years, Robin has grown a lot and his appearance has naturally changed.

Not only the real face of Nico Robin, but also the disguised face of Jolyne Kujo, she also adjusted it little by little during this period of time by comparing it with her real face... It was like her other face was slowly growing up with time. Even if the flower clone was noticed, it would not be linked to Robin's real identity, and even her Jolyne identity might not be exposed... After all, the current appearance of "Jylyne Kujo" is like a 14-year-old girl full of youth, not the immature 10-year-old girl on the wanted order three or four years ago.

"Besides, there should be quite a lot of Devil Fruit users appearing in the South China Sea during this period."

Lin Qi took out a copy of "South China Sea Entertainment" newspaper from somewhere.

Robin's flower clone had already read the newspaper and knew what was written on it. He blinked and said, "But I'm a girl..."

"Can't girls participate in a martial arts competition to win the princess?"

Lin Qi laughed and looked at the name of the island in the newspaper thoughtfully. Magniphi Island... If he remembered correctly, it was the island where the user of the Magneto-Magnetic Fruit ability was located that old man Haredas had mentioned before? 　The third update might be late, but the second update will definitely be there.

The subscriptions have dropped a lot in the past few days, and my hair is falling out as well... The more anxious I am, the less I can write satisfying things. Tons, tonnes, tonnes, tonnes

(End of this chapter)