Chapter 282 Should I call you Giorno or Dio?
In the admiral's office, Sengoku was looking through some documents that had just been delivered.
[That day, Bastiu, Smoker, Hina and others returned to Marinford with hundreds of wounded marines. Especially when they were moving a stone statue off the warship, the "wise general" Zhan Guo was a little dizzy. ]
[Who would have thought that the flying squirrel would be defeated so easily! As soon as the battle started, our side lost its main combat force. It was so fast that it was almost impossible to stop.]
[Honestly, under such circumstances, Bastiu was able to bring Smoker, Hina, and a group of marines back to the headquarters intact, which made Sengoku look at him with new eyes...]
[Lieutenant General Garp laughed a few times, then asked for leave and returned to his hometown in the East China Sea.]
[“It’s just that those guys didn’t kill us.”]
[Smoker spoke frankly in his report, ignoring the calm face of the Space Marshal at the time, and then Smoker was choked by the cigar in his mouth and coughed repeatedly. ]
[On the other hand, Captain Hinata, who was reporting along with him, remained calm in the face of the swirling smoke...]
Not only can he steal other people's devil fruits, he can also exchange devil fruits between other people! Giovanna Giorno is simply the nemesis of people with special abilities...
Zhan Guo flipped through the information. There were files from the Navy's internal database, references from Dr. Vegapunk of the Navy's scientific research unit, and a summary of intelligence submitted by various Navy intelligence agencies... Zhan Guo frowned, and he flipped through the information very quickly, reading ten lines at a glance.
After a long time, he put down several thick stacks of documents, raised his head and rubbed his eyebrows.
Although the military operation led by the two vice admirals of the headquarters was approved by Admiral Sora, it was he who proposed it.
“…”
Roughly speaking, there are three major forces in this ocean: pirates, the World Government, and non-member countries.
World government, no need to say more.
A non-member country, it was occupied by the once-powerful Rocks Pirates decades ago; after being defeated and disbanded by Garp and Roger, Rocks' original crew members: Edward Newgate, Charlotte Linlin, Kaido, Wang Zhi, Silver Axe, Golden Lion Shiki... fought openly and secretly with each other, and now only Newgate, Charlotte, and Kaido are left, dividing up the rest of Rocks' territory and each occupying one side.
As for the pirates... they are like a plague of locusts hovering over the sea. They are a chaotic group in themselves. They may come from either of the other two major forces, or they may be against either of the two forces.
The title of Shichibukai is the seven targets that clearly define the chaotic power of pirates. Shichibukai represents the pinnacle that pirates can reach under normal circumstances. For any pirate who wants to gain both fame and fortune, the quickest way is to replace one of the Shichibukai. Shichibukai itself also needs to have enough strength and prestige, otherwise how can it be qualified to intensify the internal friction among pirates? What the World Government needs to do is to endorse the title of Shichibukai and ensure that this title will not depreciate.
Therefore, the Seven Warlords of the Sea cannot be defeated.
At least they can't be publicly defeated by pirates who appear out of nowhere and are not recognized by the World Government.
The Nine Snakes Pirates, if they want to wipe them out, the estimated price to pay will not be small, which makes Sengoku think that it would be better to let them replace one of the current Seven Warlords of the Sea... He just wanted to test the Nine Snakes Pirates, as well as the quality of Kujo Jolyne and Giovanna Giorno, but ended up like this, it's really embarrassing, Sengoku knows that he is to blame.
Picking up the information at hand, Zhan Guo put on his coat and went out. When he found Marshal Kong, the latter was silently observing the stone sculpture of Vice Admiral Flying Squirrel.
Zhan Guo pinched his forehead and sighed, "It was my mistake! Their strength far exceeded my expectations..."
"Um."
Marshal Kong looked like a sturdy man with dark skin and a strange hairstyle. When Zhan Guo approached, he just responded in a deep voice.
"The relevant investigation results are out." Zhan Guo handed the sorted information to Marshal Kong.
"A survey on the petrifying devil fruit?" Marshal Kong then withdrew his gaze from the stone sculpture of Vice Admiral Flying Squirrel, took the information and slowly opened it, saying without raising his head, "Tell me about it."
The Devil Fruit Encyclopedia is in the Navy’s database.
There are not many Devil Fruits that have the ability to petrify. The key is to screen based on the known information and compare the information from various channels, eliminate the Devil Fruits that already have hosts one by one, and try to identify which Devil Fruit petrified the Flying Squirrel Vice Admiral. Only in this way can we judge the current condition of the Flying Squirrel that has become a stone sculpture.
Whether dead or alive.
If he is dead or if he is still alive, the two different situations will determine the navy's different attitudes towards the Nine Snakes Pirates.
If the petrified flying squirrel is still alive, is there any potential danger if he continues to be petrified like this? Will it be more disadvantageous for Vice Admiral Flying Squirrel if he delays? If the flying squirrel can really be restored to its original state, what are the conditions? Flipping through the information in his hand, Marshal Kong saw one piece of information about devil fruits related to petrification ability after another, as well as the corresponding evaluations, what the petrification ability is, whether the corresponding fruit has appeared yet, who the ability user is, and so on.
Sengoku calmly summarized the information and finally said, "We can basically lock on two devil fruits now. One is the parahuman-type Sweet-Sweet Fruit, and the other is the mythical beast-type Medusa Fruit. In view of Captain Hinata's report, one of the Nine Snake Pirates is a winged snake-shaped animal-type ability user, who is very likely the flying snake in the legend of the three Gorgon sisters. Therefore, it is more likely that Vice Admiral Flying Squirrel's ability comes from the Medusa Fruit. But the possibility of the Sweet-Sweet Fruit cannot be ruled out. In theory, this fruit also has a chance to petrify Vice Admiral Flying Squirrel instantly... However, there is intelligence that a person with the ability of the suspected Sweet-Sweet Fruit has appeared in Marijoa. I have sent people to confirm it, but there is no news yet."
"Celestial Dragons..." Marshal Kong could of course hear the hidden meaning. He certainly knew that many Celestial Dragons had a hobby of feeding Devil Fruits to their slaves for entertainment, but dealing with Celestial Dragons was not an easy task. Zhan Guo looked at the stone sculpture and said slowly: "In any case, Vice Admiral Flying Squirrel is probably still possible to be resurrected as the Nine Snake Pirates said."
"..." Marshal Kong was silent for a moment, and suddenly said, "Just now, the branch sent a message that Kuzan went to the South China Sea."
"Kuzan?" Sengoku was a little surprised, but he quickly understood, "He's going to find Giorno?"
"Maybe!" Marshal Kong did not comment.
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[South China Sea, on the boundless sea——]
There is no mistake in the poem, post, content, and read the book on 6, 9, and bar!
On the deck of the Nine Snakes Pirate Ship, the soldiers suddenly rubbed their arms and wondered, "Why did it suddenly become cold?"
"Look, is there a person over there?"
"No way? Is that riding a bicycle?"
"People out in the open sea actually ride bicycles on the sea? How strange..."
The girls looked at the cyclists slowly approaching them, talking among themselves while each of them grasped their weapons.
"What happened?" Sanda Sonia came out of the cabin and was surprised to see the man riding a bicycle on the sea. The sea surface was completely frozen under the man's wheels, forming a thin ice road. "A devil fruit user? He can actually move on the sea like this..."
Kuzan rode his bike side by side with the huge Nine Snakes ship, as casually as if he was on a picnic. As he rode, he looked up and called out, "Hello, beauties. I'm here to find someone..."
"The user of the Ice Fruit ability..." A figure walked up to Sandasonia's side and looked solemnly at the man riding leisurely on the sea below the ship, leaving a trail of ice. He grabbed the railing of the ship with both hands and whispered to himself, "He is the vice admiral of the Navy Headquarters, Kuzan."
"A vice admiral from the Navy Headquarters?" Sanda was not too surprised. After all, they had just defeated two vice admirals from the Navy Headquarters on Magniphi Island not long ago. She suddenly moved closer to Princess Xu Lun beside her, looked at her face strangely, and asked in confusion: "Princess, your face... the skin seems to have deteriorated a little!"
"..." Before Robin could answer, Lynch's voice came from above everyone's head, "Looking for someone? You're not looking for me, Mr. Lieutenant Admiral." He stood on the "roof" of the top of the ship without knowing when, and looked down at a naval vice admiral who was riding on the sea beside the ship with his hands in his pockets.
The two big snakes at the bow slowly slowed down, the speed at which the ice surface extended gradually stopped, the wheels stopped turning, Kuzan put down one foot, and the sea surface condensed into a large block of ice for him to stand on.
"I'm sorry, I'm not looking for you..." Kuzan looked up, wisps of cold air escaping from the corners of his mouth, looking cold.
"Really?" Lynch looked at him from a distance.
Kuzan said: "Giovanna Giorno, or should I call you... Brando Dio?"
"hehe!"
Lynch did not comment, then took a step forward and fell straight towards Aokiji below.
I'm not satisfied with this chapter, but I can't bear to delete it... After the fight between T︿T and Aokiji, the South China Sea is over, and then we enter the Grand Line again.
(End of this chapter)