Chapter 662 "Lin Minggui" (5400 words)
[Paradise, Calm Belt——]
〖Nine Snake Islands〗
On the roof of the palace, "BIB" sat cross-legged, suspended off the ground, with a layer of dark flame-like energy floating around him.
In practice.
Petals rose from the roof, and half of Robin emerged. He looked at the unchanged scenery of Nine Snake Castle for a while, then turned his head to look at "BIB" who was practicing.
After a while, the dark energy of the stand around "BIB" disappeared, and it slowly opened its eyes - oh, its narrow eyes lit up, and it said: "What's wrong?"
The half-flower clone stared at it and said to himself, "I just feel that... you are really not like yourself this time... Just as Hancock said, the fishman Fisher Tiger was able to reach the Red Earth Continent alone and make a scene in Marijoa to liberate the slaves, but why are you, Lin Qi..."
"Do you think those slaves are important to the Celestial Dragons?" the dark armor asked.
The flower clone remained silent.
"BIB" stood up and said, "You were withdrawn and depressed a few days ago, which was strange. I thought you would want to do something, Sister Robin..."
"..." The flower clone smiled bitterly and shook his head, "Hancock wasn't awake yet, what could I do? Sanda and Mary were injured. Besides waiting for Hancock to wake up, I can't think of anyone else who can make you give in..."
"BIB" remained silent.
"..." The flower clone looked up at the sky. He and Lin Qi had seen this many times before. "Lin Qi, you have always helped me to untie my knot..."
She muttered to herself, dejectedly, "But why... this time, you knew that by doing this, you would only make me experience O'Hara's experience all over again..."
On the other side, Robin, who was controlling the flower clone in the palace, bit his lip and said with a sad tone, "Aren't all your efforts in vain? I have never wished so much as today that I had never met you..."
"They ambushed for the real body. Not because of you." The Stand said, "It may be hurtful to say this, but O'Hara's last remaining child is actually not that important to the World Government."
"I mean Katakuri," the Flower Clone shook his head, "If you hadn't gone to the World of Nations to help me, you and Big Mom would have fought to exhaustion, and you wouldn't have fallen into the trap set by the navy in the end. Even escaping together..."
"BIB" said calmly: "The other party has unknown means, no one can predict such a thing."
Robin had no intention of arguing with it, and murmured: "If I could control my self-blame, I wouldn't have blamed myself in the beginning... But I think, Lynch, when you made the decision, you had already thought about how your choice would make Hancock and I--"
"Yes, the main body must have considered it in the end." "BIB" said, "But your survival is more important."
"..." The flower clone raised his red eyes.
"BIB" changed the subject, "Where's Hancock? There are some things that I don't want to repeat myself—"
…
"——The main body is still alive now."
"BIB" attracted the attention of Robin, who found Hancock with it, and Hancock, who was sitting on the Serpent Princess throne with an expressionless face, and they all looked at it closely.
Sanda and Mary used their Observation Haki to watch Lynch's stand-in armor fold its arms and pace in the palace hall, and heard it speak in the same tone as always:
"First of all, it is certain that the World Government's target this time is the main body."
"Using unknown means, they learned in advance that we would pass by the Crown Island and ambushed there. They arranged at all costs, and only arranged General Sengoku and the future three generals Monkey, Chicken and Dog... It can be seen that their lightning action this time, directly taking the core, is determined to get the main body. Of course, they did succeed. If we seize the initiative, go all out, and have such a big advantage and then fail..."
"BIB" shook his head, and Hancock and Robin looked at him straight, and he continued to talk, but asked: "But why do they go to such great lengths to calculate the main body?"
"It is certain that the World Government is not trying to kill him! First, it is impossible to execute him publicly, unless they want to abolish the Shichibukai system right now. Second, if they wanted to execute him secretly, it should have been done long ago. It has been almost a week since they caught the original body, why haven't they killed him yet? - I just said it, the original body is still alive!"
The dark visor was raised, and his narrow eyes flashed with a faint light. "We tried every possible means to capture the real body. It is impossible to kill him openly, and there is no way to kill him secretly, so what is the purpose of capturing him?"
Robin, Hancock, Sanda, and Mary were all silent as they watched "BIB" tap on its own chest, the inverted triangle-shaped part of the mecha where the devil fruit chip was stored.
"For me."
The dark stand said calmly, "My original body is very strong, but not the best in the world. The only ability that they might care about, that is considered special and unique... after thinking about it, it's only me."
"That is the ability to freely use the power of the devil fruit in the eyes of outsiders."
"Perhaps there is some kind of destiny in the world... In the critical moment, the main body separated me from him and left with you in order to save you from danger, but coincidentally, this actually allowed him to survive successfully after being captured to some extent."
BIB's eyes swept across Robin and Hancock's faces one by one, "So, now the farther I am from my main body, the safer it will be."
"And the further you are from him, the more at ease I can be."
Sanda said sadly: "But, is there nothing we can do? Even if he can save his life... he will definitely suffer a lot of cruel torture in the hands of the Celestial Dragons in Mary Geoise..."
"The original body now possesses the Conqueror Haki, which cannot be eliminated by seastone. Ordinary people cannot even get close to him..." said the Stand, "It is nothing more than some physical pain. After so many years of training with the Iron Block, the original body's body is very tough. Besides, the physical pain... can it be compared with the pain that penetrated my soul again and again when I returned to the original body? I guess the original body doesn't care about any torture. ——I don't care. 」
"I have a point."
Hancock listened for a long time and suddenly spoke.
Hancock stood up expressionlessly under the gaze of Robin and the others, "I'm going to kill someone."
"Sister?" Sanda and Mary didn't react for a moment.
"Hancock," Robin looked at Hancock and vaguely guessed what she was thinking, "Are you thinking..."
"Kill people. Kill the navy!"
Hancock walked straight towards the palace gate, turned around and said coldly, "Don't they want to cover it up? Then let the whole world know that the navy took the initiative to attack two Shichibukai!"
"I will kill them one naval base at a time until they hand over Lynch."
The empress walked out of the palace and Robin followed her directly.
Sanda and Mary looked at each other.
Normally, pirates would not actively attack the navy or its branch bases...
Because to put it bluntly, there is no direct conflict of interest between the navy and the pirates.
The pirates have direct conflicts of interest with other ships on the sea, those islands, and those countries.
The Navy is the Navy of the World Government.
Member States are member states of the World Government.
But the navy is not the navy of the member states... When pirates harass the member states, the member states can handle it themselves, and if they cannot, they call on the World Government and request naval support.
In a sense, the more pirates harass member states, the more they need the presence of the navy, and the more anxious they will be to pay taxes to the World Government in order to seek military support.
But if the pirates directly attack the navy base...
That would be a direct confrontation with the Navy, an act that directly touches the bottom line of the Navy and the World Government, and would usually be met with direct retaliation from the Navy.
The navy can ignore the pirates harassing those countries, but it cannot turn a blind eye to its own bases being attacked by pirates.
However, since it was their sister's decision, Sanda and Mary chose to support her silently and follow her unwaveringly.
Sanda spread his wings, carried his sister and younger sister, and Princess Robin and flew into the sky, leaving Nine Snake Island and hovering in the sky.
"There are no nautical charts for the Grand Route. The exact location of each naval base can only be determined by the routes recorded by the pointers and the permanent pointers." Robin said beside Hancock, "It will be very troublesome to find it."
"Then go to the less troublesome side."
Hancock withdrew his gaze expressionlessly and looked towards the other side of the doldrums. "To the South China Sea!"
"Yes, sister." Sanda flapped its snake wings and flew towards the South China Sea.
Robin and Mary, who were standing on her back, suddenly looked up in the air. A black battle armor with Little Green flew over and landed on Sanda's back. It shook its head and said, "If you insist on doing this, let me do it. I have better mobility and concealment."
Hancock stared at the distant sea with an expressionless face. Robin stared at the double and suddenly asked, "When was the last time you merged with your original body and then separated?"
"…" 'BIB' said, "It was in the Land of Flowers, after successfully training the Lily Wave Fist and Conqueror Haki, that they were combined once."
Robin pursed her lips and smiled bitterly: "After that, first there was the battle with Katakuri, then we flew across the endless ocean to the Wano Country, then we fought with the Big Mom Pirates for several days and nights, and then we met those four marines..."
"…" "BIB" was silent.
Sander who was flying, Mary on his back, and even Hancock who was listening silently, couldn't help but feel a little uneasy.
They all knew about the relationship between Lynch and his phantom, and had witnessed with their own eyes the "miserable situation" every time he took his phantom back... This time, after his phantom left his body and experienced so many battles, how terrible would the backlash be when it was taken back and reunited?
Robin said, "You should try not to be too active..."
Sanda shouted, "Yes! Let me fly - if we need concealed mobility, wait until we get close to the naval base, then you can take over?"
This is the only way. "BIB" had no objection and sat down on the back of the flying snake's emerald scales, holding the green Den Den Mushi in his hand, and looked into the distance with them.
South China Sea...
"Paper and pen." The stand-in patted Xiaolu.
The latter obediently spit out a pen and a small notebook from the castle in his body.
『BIB』 held the pen in one hand and used the other hand to hold the little green paperweight on the corner of the notebook, and the map of the South China Sea that he had seen when he went to the South China Sea with the Nine Snakes Pirates appeared in front of his eyes.
Rustle...
『BIB』 wrote so quickly that almost a shadow was left as he manually "printed out" the South China Sea maps in his memory.
～～～～～～～～～～～ 〖South China Sea, a small island in a certain sea area——〗
[Navy S-952 Base]
There is no mistake in the poem, post, content, and read the book on 6, 9, and bar!
Today is also a calm day with perfect weather, suitable for retirement.
"Report to the Colonel, there is news that the Ice Thorn Pirates are lurking near the Rainbow Country..."
"Rainbow Country? Isn't that the jurisdiction of S-23? It's none of our business! Why are you bothering me with such a thing?"
"But it seems that the S-23 branch is dealing with other pirate groups..."
"That has nothing to do with us." The colonel of the branch taught his juniors earnestly, "If we go and get the credit, the brothers of the S-23 branch will be ashamed; if we go and don't get the credit, isn't that embarrassing? Are you stupid?"
The younger Marines stammered, now "justice", now "navy", muttering something incomprehensible.
Soon another marine came to report, and the colonel asked, "Did the royal family ask for help?"
"Uh, no."
"Then go to hell!" the colonel said unhappily, "Since they didn't ask for help, it proves that they are confident that they can handle it themselves. Why should we be so anxious?"
"Uh..." The recruit was speechless.
At this time, another recruit hurriedly pushed open the door. The colonel was annoyed, "What's going on today? Are they all too full, or too little training? Give me -"
"Colonel!" the recruit gasped in panic, "There's...there's...there's a beautiful girl!"
"What the hell?!" the colonel was stunned.
"No!" The new recruit slapped himself and shouted in panic, "It's the Seven Warlords of the Sea - the Pirate Empress! And another Seven Warlord, Jolyne Kujo, no, Nico Robin! They suddenly appeared in the base without anyone knowing when!!"
"Two of the Shichibukai have come to visit?!"
The colonel was shocked and hurried out to greet them. He walked to the base training ground with a few marines and saw four tall and beautiful women standing in the middle of the training ground. His marines were all excited and nervous. They left a large area of space to watch these four rare beauties from afar, especially the two most eye-catching ones, the Seven Warlords of the Sea Empress! Seven Warlords of the Sea Robin!
“So beautiful…”
"The real person is ten thousand times more beautiful than the one in the newspaper..."
The salivating sounds of the marines were like the chirping of insects to Hancock's ears. She said expressionlessly to the captain of the branch and the marines who came out: "I will count to three. If you don't want to die, take off your navy uniforms."
"……?"
The Marines were all stunned, and many of the lecherous ones didn't even react and continued drooling as if they didn't hear anything.
In this regard, Robin could only shake his head...
"The Pirate Queen and Nico Robin," the colonel was also in a state of amorous feelings, and said with a quick breath and a smile, "Two Shichibukai are here, so stop joking. What's the matter——"
"One," Hancock began to count expressionlessly, without pausing for a second, "two, three. It seems you have made your choice. So..."
There was no momentum to use any big moves at all. When Hancock opened her eyes again, her pupils were dark golden vertical snake-shaped, and she glanced coldly at the marines.
Crack...
The marines were petrified one by one. The expressions on many of them were still stuck in the state of "Ah, she looked at me, does she like me? What should I do? I'm so nervous", permanently solidified into stone sculptures.
Bang! Marigrud smashed a stone sculpture of a marine with one punch and said dissatisfiedly: "The way you look at my sister is too low-class."
"What are you going to do——"
The branch colonel looked at his base which had turned into stone sculptures in the blink of an eye. He was so frightened that his thoughts almost stopped. Suddenly, a chill ran down his spine and went straight to his brain.
run!!
He wanted to run, his heart was roaring, but his legs could not move at all... There was only a pair of cold dark golden pupils in his mind, and he suddenly realized that... I had been...
"One or two should have been left behind."
Hancock looked at the stone sculptures on the ground and suddenly felt regretful. "There's no more blood!"
"Use mine." Robin took out a small knife and cut a wound on his palm. The bright red blood flowed down and slowly smeared on the stone sculpture of the base colonel with a terrified look on his face...
…
[Marinford, Navy Headquarters——]
Zhan Guo was thinking about the follow-up of the previous incident, looking a little worried, when suddenly the Den Den Mushi on the table started to ring, boo-boo-boo-boo...
"It's me, Zhan Guo." He answered the call and said calmly, "What's the matter?"
"General Sengoku!" Den Den Mushi's face showed a vivid expression of fear that was almost shattering, and he shouted, "Hurry up and take a look at the photo fax I sent you now! - Something terrible has happened!!!"
Hiss, hiss, hiss...the other fax-den-mushi next to Zhan Guo was indeed spitting out a photo.
"What's wrong?" Zhan Guo frowned, and while comforting his subordinates, he reached out to take the faxed photo, "Don't be anxious, talk slowly..."
But when he took the photo and looked at it, his eyes suddenly became bloodshot and his eyes were red with anger.
Den Den Mushi cried out in a sad voice: "General Sengoku - the Pirate Empress, and Nico Robin, two of the Seven Warlords of the Sea, they have gone crazy for no apparent reason!!"
One photo after another came out of the Den Den Mushi's mouth. Sengoku pulled them out one after another to look at them. The more he looked, the angrier he became, and he took a deep breath.
Every photo is bloody...
In the S-23 base in the South China Sea, the bodies of marines were lying all over the ground. The walls, houses, and training grounds of the entire base were all painted with the same words in blood...
The chief of the branch base became a stone sculpture, with half-coagulated dark blood smeared on the stone sculpture, and the same line of large characters was also written on it...
"Hand over Lynch!"
Zhan Guo gritted his teeth and growled, "Boa Hancock...Nicole Robin...!!!"
～～～～～～～～～～～ 〖South China Sea, S-77 Base——〗
Lieutenant Colonel Sis was shirtless, holding his head and trembling. He looked around and saw either the bodies of the marines he was familiar with or their stone sculptures that were either intact but covered with blood or broken... The entire branch base seemed like a real hell on earth! His lips trembled as he looked at the stone sculpture of Colonel Oget. The line of bloody words on his body, "Hand over Lynch!", was so glaring, creepy, and murderous...
Lynch? The Lynch from the JOJO Pirates?
Could it be that... did the headquarters do something to their Lynch? Sith ran out of the hellish branch base in despair and embarrassment. Why did the headquarters become hostile to the two Shichibukai? ! ...
[S-9 Branch——]
"I'll count to three. If you don't want to die, take off your navy uniform."
Hancock snapped her fingers and spoke indifferently while standing on the roof.
On her left and right, Sanda and Mary spit out their tongues and looked at the people below with a playful look. They were pirates to begin with. Although their sister became a Shichibukai, she was still a pirate and didn't have a good impression of the navy. Not to mention what happened this time.
Robin stood on the opposite roof, arms crossed, checking every corner of the base.
Looking at the four extremely beautiful female pirates in front of him, Major General Ite of the branch base remained calm and composed, maintaining his demeanor as the strongest marine in the South China Sea. He approached them gracefully and said calmly, "Pirate Queen Boa Hancock and Nico Robin, who is also one of the Seven Warlords of the Sea... right? I wonder if there is any misunderstanding..."
"One," Hancock said without any pause, and began to count expressionlessly, "Two..."
(End of this chapter)