Rayleigh, who was sitting on the side of the boat and looking into the distance, said with emotion after seeing the Chambord Islands appearing on the horizon: "I'm finally back..."

"...Yeah!" Luffy, who was not far away from him, clenched his fists and replied solemnly.

"Click" the three knives on his waist made a clashing sound. Zoro walked over and let out a big yawn: "I'm finally back to a populated place. I haven't drank for a long time. I must drink in pain today..."

"..." Rayleigh first glanced at Luffy and Zoro out of the corner of his eye, then turned his head and stared at them expressionlessly. They could only see a pair of circular lenses that reflected sunlight.

Zoro noticed that the atmosphere had changed and asked: "...What's wrong?"

"Because we have been in the windless zone before, we have not received any news from the outside world." Rayleigh scratched the strands of white hair with a distressed look on his face: "Amazon Lily has also moved to the new world, causing my eyes to darken now.

.”

"..." Several other members also gathered over at this time, with Sanji, Nami, Bartolomeo, Chopper, Franky, and Brooke surrounding him.

"But after sailing in the past few days, you have also discovered it, right?"

"It's very abnormal." Nami said first: "In this week, although I deliberately avoided ordinary routes, I didn't encounter a single ship..."

"Isn't this a good thing?"

"..." Nami rolled her eyes and said, "Not only did we not encounter cruise ships or merchant ships, we didn't even encounter a pirate ship!"

"...Yes, no wonder the journey was so leisurely." Luffy suddenly realized.

Sanji complained: "You didn't pay attention at all..."

Zoro rubbed his chin and said, "I was thinking before that something big must have happened..."

"Huh?" Sanji deliberately showed an expression that he wanted to be beaten, came up to Zoro, and mocked: "You green algae head can think of that?"

"Ah?" Zoro was so angry that he slashed at it with his knife.

Sanji raised his knees and swung his legs, stepping on the blade with the soles of his feet to resist Zoro's slash.

"You two, stop it!" Nami punched each other, physically separating the two of them.

"Pah!" Nami took out a stack of newspapers and slapped them while educating the two of them: "Listen to me!"

Seeing that the two of them had calmed down, Nami spread out the newspaper and introduced it at a glance: "I have read the newspapers in the past two days, and there is no news about pirates. Most of them are about economy, technology, and the future development direction of China.

, construction, news on foreign wars, etc.”

Nami looked at Rayleigh, who took over the conversation and said: "Nami and I have discussed this point. Maybe we are located in the Kingdom of China at this moment."

While picking his nose, Bartolomeo asked shamelessly: "...What do you mean?"

"It means..." Nami closed her eyes in pain: "We are on the territory of China."

"...In this way, will I be able to see him soon?" Luffy held the necklace on his chest. The necklace was very ordinary. It was just an ordinary rope, and a windshield made of unknown material served as the necklace's jewelry.

.

Nami roared: "Isn't your goal to find the One Piece?! Not to seek revenge on him!"

"But--!"

"No but!" Nami bit her thumb nail nervously, and the thought of "should I leave the team now" quickly grew in her heart.

Seeing that Nami had already greeted them in advance, Rayleigh said, "For the rest, let's go to the Chambord Islands to collect information first."

After saying that, Rayleigh held his head in distress: "Originally I just wanted to stay there and teach you for a year and a half, but as a result, I was delayed and ended up spending so much extra time."

"You have to explain it clearly to Xia Qi..."

Everyone had no objections and returned to their respective posts. The Chambord Islands on the horizon became larger and larger.

Soon, the Sonny arrived at the Shampoo Islands. With an old guide like Rayleigh, the Sonny nimbly avoided the underwater roots of the Alqiman mangroves and headed for 13GR.

"Strange..." Nami said to herself after noticing the looks of people around her.

Like the most loyal dog, Sanji waggled his tail and came close to Nami, asking: "Miss Nami, what's wrong?"

"The eyes of people here are so strange... completely different from two years ago..."

"You put it like that..." Sanji changed his previous frivolity and said with a serious expression: "Indeed, it used to be normal, but now it is..."

"novel?"

Noticing that ordinary people looked at them the way they looked at rare animals, the other members were also very puzzled.

Rayleigh frowned and said: "Retract the sails, Franky, and then use the auxiliary outer wheel to move forward!"

"good!"

The Sonny turned left and right, using the thick roots of the Yarkman mangroves to block its view, and finally disappeared from the sight of ordinary people.

"It should be fine to hide here." Rayleigh led the way. The uneasiness caused by the unknown changes made Rayleigh a little unsure.

Until he saw the familiar house with his own eyes, the green moss, symbolizing the cracks of time, made Rayleigh feel a lot more at ease.

"Welcome..." Xia Qi was startled when she saw the person coming, and then breathed a sigh of relief: "You haven't come back for so long, I thought something happened to you."

"Oops." Reilly said sheepishly, "It accidentally took too long."

Nami said apologetically: "Xia Qisang, I still want to bother you."

Unexpectedly, everyone saw Xia Qi asking solemnly: "Your ship won't always fly the pirate flag, right?"

"I asked them to put in the sails on the way." Reilly asked: "What happened? It feels like the Shampoo Islands have changed a lot."

"..." Xia Qi puffed out smoke and began to explain to them.

A few short sentences of summary shocked them from ear to ear.

The World Government has been destroyed, the Kingdom of China has occupied more than 90% of the world, and there is basically no pirate group left in the Grand Line.

"As expected of Lord Eric!" Bartolomeo was so moved that tears filled his eyes, and he said loudly: "I knew he could do it."

"Damn it!" Bartolomeo said with an annoyed look on his face: "I didn't even see Lord Eric's heroic act of killing Im..."

This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! "It's so noisy!" Nami's attack ignored the barrier and quieted down the excited Bartolomeo.

"Thanks to Eric, my business can no longer continue." Xia Qi shrugged and said with a smile, "However, I also saw a completely different world because of this."

"In addition, I am preparing to open a new store in a tourist area, where there are many tourists."

Xia Qi said to Lei Li angrily: "If I hadn't waited for you, I would have moved here long ago. I even chose the address of the new store."

"Oh, by the way." Xia Qi glanced at Reilly: "Eric found the One Piece."

Luffy's eyes widened and he rushed to Xia Qi: "You, what did you say?"

"Eric found four pieces of historical text, arrived at Lovedrew, and found the legendary One Piece." Xia Qi repeated it again. She turned to look at Reilly: "And the whole process was broadcast live on TV."

"Huh?" Everyone was stunned.

"Historians have also deciphered the historical text on Ravdru." Xia Qi squinted at Reilly: "Your captain has deceived everyone in the world."

"Well……"

Someone couldn't help but ask: "What exactly is there in Ravdru?"

"Gold, treasures, these -" Xia Qi deliberately prolonged her voice and said: "None of them, only buildings and historical texts from time immemorial."

"Alas..." Almost everyone showed disappointment. After all, it was the One Piece! The legendary secret treasure! One Piece said it himself and put all the treasures there...

"It's impossible if you think about it..." Rayleigh shook his head and smiled bitterly: "The captain can only control the part of the treasure that belongs to him, and Roger is not interested in this."

"At that time, he was suffering from an incurable disease and could not see the end of the story, so he made a decision willfully. We also wanted to know whether the person predicted in the historical text would appear in the future, so we did not say anything about the specific situation of One Piece.

carry."

"As a result, there is no Joy Boy, and there is no so-called Sun God... ha."

Xia Qi chuckled lightly, knocked away the ash from the burnt cigarette, and continued: "For 99.99% of the people on the sea, Lovedru is a treasure trove where Roger's savings have been stored for many years and contains countless gold and silver treasures.

"

"As a result, once the truth about Rafdru was announced, many pirates lost hope, gave up resistance in despair, and some even committed suicide by jumping into the sea. After that, not many people were willing to go to sea to become pirates..."

"Oh, Lovedrew has become a tourist project. You only need to spend some money to check in there..."

“What does ‘check in’ mean?”

"Take photos to prove that you have been there." Xia Qi shrugged: "Although there are no treasures, it is still a legendary island, so many people go there. And those who go show off to others when they come back, causing Lafdrew to

It was overcrowded and had to limit the number of people.”

"..." Everyone was completely speechless. Only a few people knew that the "Final Island" they had visited had turned into a holy place to check in.

"Plop!" Luffy seemed to have lost all his strength and collapsed on the ground.

…

Smoker and Tina are running.

'Why did you show up?'

‘Wouldn’t it be nice to just disappear?’ These thoughts kept echoing in Smoker’s mind.

"Smog-kun!" Tina's call woke up Smog.

"What's wrong?" After coming back to his senses, Smoker took a closer look and found that the troops maintaining public security had been dispatched and were conducting road control to keep out most of the people who were ready to watch the fun.
To be continued...