Japan seems to be in the midsummer season now. Even though it is already past two o'clock in the afternoon, people still feel like the wind is blowing against them like a heat wave.
It was in such a scorching hot temperature that a group of black-clad troops riding heavily armored motorcycles ushered in the wilderness of Mulu County. The roaring noise caused animals within a few hundred meters to run around in fright.
They were in groups, but in an orderly manner. The distance between vehicles was almost the same, and they scraped one car mark after another on the ground under the scorching sun.
Counting roughly, the number of people seems to be around a thousand.
"Crocodale!!!"
Suddenly, a loud explosion came from the front, and the sound was so loud that it even drowned out the sound of the engines of nearly a thousand heavy motorcycles.
Soon, some people at the front of the motorcade discovered an extremely familiar figure standing about two hundred meters away.
Douglas Barrett, Army Lieutenant General, their instructor!
"This guy......"
Crocodile narrowed his eyes and stopped the motorcycle.
Over the past few days, I have become accustomed to the two-meter-five-meter-tall Sky Bird Beauty next to me. Looking at Barrett's huge body, which seems to be more than four meters, my pupils shrank in disbelief.
Could it be that the world called starfish is full of giants like this?
"Except for Crocodile, the rest of the army should go back to the base!"
Following Barrett's order, the nearly a thousand army soldiers behind Crocodile looked at each other, and after a moment, they all controlled the accelerator and passed quickly from both sides.
Although they could also feel the chill emanating from Crocodile, these people were still more afraid of Barrett, who had been training them for a while.
Crocodile ignored the Army's choices at all and just looked at Barrett, who was two hundred meters away, expressionlessly.
"Aren't you leaving?"
At this time, he opened his mouth, and the person he was asking was Amata Mima, who was still in the same place. There was a slight smile on the latter's handsome face.
"This is my first time here. I don't know the way. I'd better go back with you."
"Ha ha ha ha--"
Crocodile was amused by him, then he took out a cigar from his arms, lit it, and handed it to Amata Mima, "Then just take it and stay away, smoke it, and watch it as if you have learned something."
"
"OK."
The latter naturally accepted the cigar, although he did not smoke and had never seen such a thing before meeting Crocodile.
next moment.
The moment Tiantori Mima took the cigar in his hand, Crocodile on the heavily equipped motorcycle quickly turned into earthy yellow sand and faced Douglas Barrett, who was rushing towards him from the opposite side.
【boom!!】
Two high-speed afterimages, one yellow and one blue, flew across a hundred meters in the blink of an eye and collided violently.
"Crescent Dune!"
"Big gun!"
The sand-blade-turned right arm tore through the air and struck heavily on the black fist with a layer of blue light on the surface.
Instantly.
The two men's bodies shook, and their energy surged wildly, turning into layers of ripples visible to the naked eye and spreading in all directions.
When these ripples touched the ground, the entire ground shook violently at first, then dense cracks appeared continuously, and finally with a loud bang, it completely cracked, faulted, and sunk.
"Stupid crocodile!"
"I told you that I asked you to lead the men to attack King Kong Guo head-on, right?" Barrett said with an angry smile while wrestling with him.
"so what?"
Crocodile sneered: "You are a lieutenant general, and I am also a lieutenant general. How can you still take care of me?"
"Then let's see if I can control you today!!"
Barrett shouted violently, and the veins on his right arm suddenly bulged, and the muscles became knotted, and he began to pour more power into his fist.
"Um?"
Crocodile's expression changed because he felt the fierce force coming from his 'arm'.
【Bang————】
The next second, he was blasted away by a punch, flying high into the sky like a cannonball, but Barrett showed no intention of stopping.
He exerted force under his feet and stepped on the already cracked ground, erupting with a violent and cold dark blue aura. In an instant, he pushed down the layers of air and chased after him.
【Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang!】
In the distance, Tiantiao Mima witnessed the most jaw-dropping and shocking scene in his life.
In the high sky, I saw Shah Crocodile and Douglas Barrett both wearing black coats of justice, turning into afterimages and chasing each other all over the sky, like a fierce fight like lightning and flint.
Every collision between the two people would produce an ear-splitting sound like a metallic trembling.
Groups of white mist exploded within sight, like flowers dotted between the yellow sand and blue mist.
If he hadn't been a Kabaneri and his body had been strengthened to a certain extent, otherwise he wouldn't even be qualified to see the afterimages of both sides.
"Shalan!"
Crocodile's angry shouts echoed through the sky that had long since turned into a battlefield.
【Whirring whirring----】
Suddenly, the sky darkened, and a wind-driven tornado appeared out of thin air, rushing towards Barrett's location like a mountain.
"Does playing in the sand deserve a shout-out?"
Douglas Barrett roared loudly, and dark blue waves of energy erupted from his body. This was his overlord-colored domineering energy.
The dark arms stretched forward, then opened his palms and grasped them hard, and vast energy surged out of his hands crazily.
Accompanied by a thunderous explosion, the wild sand that had expanded to the point of reaching the sky and the earth was torn apart alive by his domineering force and palm power!
"Desert Sword——"
At this moment, Crocodile seemed to have been prepared. Taking advantage of the moment when Barrett's energy was exhausted, he threw the most powerful single-target move directly at the latter's face.
The arm turned into a sand blade again, like an extremely sharp slash, entwined with purple lightning, and slashed in a straight line.
"Combined..."
It's just that he forgot that Barrett is also a Devil Fruit user.
[Boom, boom, boom]
Under the influence of an invisible supernatural wave, the cracked ground began to quickly gather around Barrett, and they took shape very quickly.
Really, just a second before the arrival of the 'Desert Sword', it turned into a rock giant covered with a layer of armed domineering, nearly twenty meters tall, with a black surface and a blue surface.
【DUANG——————】
The huge gravel blade fell from the sky, slashing hard on the chest of the rock giant like a raging sea wave, and a large amount of purple lightning overflowed where it touched.
【Click!】
Barrett, who was in the body of the 'Giant' and was controlling it, instantly noticed that the domineering force on his body had been breached by ten centimeters, which made him frown and his eyes became solemn.
"What's going on with this move? Why does the Shasha Fruit user's attack contain lightning?"
But he soon discovered that the 'Desert Sword' that had cut into his 'chest' was powerless, which caused a cruel smile on Barrett's face.
"It turns out it was just a moment of strength!"
The next second, Barrett controlled the combined rock giant, swung his huge black palms and slapped hard on both sides of the sand blade, and immediately exploded it into a mess of sand with a loud bang.
"this......"
Crocodile in the air was dumbfounded.
【call out----】
Douglas Barrett actually quickly broke away from the rock giant, leaving the sound of the sonic boom behind him at lightning speed, and appeared above the former's head in the blink of an eye.
"After all, your domineering power is still weak!"
【Bang!!】
With a loud noise, Crocodile flew down under the shocked eyes of Tiantiao Meima, blasting the entire ground in that area, and a large amount of smoke and dust billowed up like an angry dragon...