In front of the official residence of the Adjudication Division in New Tokyo.
Although Wano Country experienced a handover ceremony yesterday for the Prime Minister, the holder of the highest power in the country, the new Prime Minister made a cry for the injustice that Wano Country has suffered for a long time in his inauguration speech on the oath-taking platform, which caused a stir.
Countless people across the country are excited and excited!
But people's excitement always comes quickly.
It goes quickly.
Perhaps after the inauguration ceremony of the new Prime Minister Higashikata Higashikata yesterday, the excited people who could not sleep at night would invite a few friends to sit in an izakaya.
Through his drunkenness, he burst into an impassioned rant about the various preferential treatments enjoyed by gods in Wano Country and the various evil deeds of the Adjudicator who ignored the laws of Wano Country!
But wait until you wake up.
The ordinary and mediocre life still has to go on.
Even if I scolded the adjudicator no matter how hard and indignant I was when I was with my friends last night, when the hurried passers-by passed by the dark and gloomy official residence in Chiyoda District after work this evening, they still moved unconsciously.
He opened his eyes, as if he was afraid that if he took one more look, he would encounter some misfortune.
Of course, not everyone is like this.
At this moment, across the street from the black official residence of the Adjudication Department, a very abrupt group of four people stood casually and naturally on the side of the road.
On the roadside, the man wearing an ordinary gray coat, although his height and appearance were not the most outstanding among the four, his Yuan Ting Yue Zhi temperament showed at a glance that he was obviously the core of the four. The others
No matter how dazzling a person is, they can only become a foil like a green leaf next to this man.
The setting sun slowly sinks on the western edge,
Dusk is getting darker.
In this light red background, Hoover Corleone, the newly promoted captain of the Corleone Pirates, one of the Four Kings of the Four Seas, appeared without warning on the streets of Wano on the shores of the East China Sea.
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He squinted his eyes and looked at the official residence of the Adjudication Division in New Tokyo, with a smile on his lips.
"Old guys always like to build buildings like a ghastly coffin. I don't know if it's scary or not, but if you stay in that kind of building for a long time, people will inevitably become boring and boring.
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When he said this, he did not look back, nor did he specify whom to talk to.
But the two men and one woman standing around him moved their ears slightly, obviously paying attention to the man in front of them at all times.
The vice-captain Buck on the right, who was as muscular as a bear and had a broad waist, a round waist, and a beard, scratched his head and said angrily, "Boss, I think the people in the Adjudication Department are quite interesting, especially after I smashed them into meat pies."
The arrogant look in front of me makes me so happy that I can’t sleep every time I think about it. Hahaha.”
Buck, the bear-like vice-captain, actually laughed out loud after he finished speaking, which caused the last office workers who were in a hurry to cast a slightly surprised look at him.
The Adjudication Division is almost like the god of plague in the hearts of ordinary people in Wano. Most people wish they would never have anything to do with the Adjudication Division in their entire lives. The fear they have accumulated over the years makes them pass by the official residence of the Adjudication Division in New Tokyo.
Sometimes I speed up my pace unconsciously.
But these four people were lucky. They stood opposite the official residence of the Adjudication Division and watched for a long time without saying anything. One of them actually laughed out loud.
Are you not a fool?
"Are you stupid?"
Someone asked this sentence for a passerby.
The person who said this was Rossetti, the captain of the first division of the Corleone Pirates.
She was wearing a casual women's suit and a pair of rather fashionable pink sunglasses on the bridge of her nose. She had a tall and fit figure and was full of a wild aura like a cheetah.
After complaining angrily to Vice Captain Buck, Rossetti, the captain of the first team, turned to look at the man in front of him whose shoulders looked a bit steep and sharp under the setting sun, and spoke in a respectful and worried tone.
, "Boss, the locator on Xiao Haixi lost the signal at noon today. Could it be that someone from the Adjudication Department discovered her, and then?"
"Haixi is a smart girl who is very good at making use of her own strengths. The people in the Adjudication Department think very highly of themselves. Don't worry, it won't be the result you think."
Hoover Corleone continued with a smile, "As for the locator losing the signal, I expected it. It is still too difficult to receive the signal in the place they are going to."
The bear-like vice-captain Buck heard this and immediately muttered, "No way? Although Wano is a small country in the East China Sea, I think their mobile signal network penetration rate is still quite high. How can there be no signal in some places?"
Hoover Corleone smiled noncommittally.
"There's always a place for it."
"where?"
Rossetti, captain of the first detachment, asked.
"Such as hell."
Hoover Corleone chuckled.
After hearing his words, both Rossetti and Buck couldn't help being slightly startled.
At this time, the man who kept a distance from three of the four people and wore a brown cap with the brim always lowered suddenly said, "It sounds like you think your men are dead."
If Higashinohara was here, he would probably recognize this man wearing a brown cap as Ryunosuke Kamiya, the three-sword swordsman of the "Sakamoto Dragon Pirates" in the East China Sea who was rescued from the execution ground on Asahi Island last year.
I don't know why, but I got mixed up with the "Corleone Pirates" from the Western Sea.
Hearing Kamiya Ryunosuke's words, Hoover Corleone just chuckled and shook his head. He didn't explain much. Instead, he looked at the three-sword swordsman of the Sakamoto Dragon Pirates in front of him with interest and said,
"In my impression, except for the man known as the 'Sword Emperor' in the Judgment Department, there is no one who can cultivate such a killing sword type with such close skills."
"I heard that your condition for being our tour guide this time in Wano Country is to take you to meet the 'Sword Emperor'. I don't know your past, but now, do you really have the confidence to face that man?"
"Confidence. Of course I don't have that."
Hearing this, Kamiya Ryunosuke shrugged and said with a sudden change of tone, "But I have the courage. I just want to know the gap between us this time so that I can have a clearer goal on the road of practice."
Unexpectedly, Rossetti suddenly interrupted and said, "If the goal is too far away, it will easily lead to despair."
But Ryunosuke Kamiya shook his head again and said indifferently, "Sorry! I have neither despair nor confidence. I only believe that one day I will get back what belongs to me."
"Interesting fellow, have you considered joining my pirate group?" Hoover Corleone suddenly asked with a smile.
Ryunosuke Kamiya was slightly surprised and said, "Would the famous tycoon in the West Sea also take the initiative to invite others? But unfortunately, I have already had a drink with a certain man. Unless I die, I will never get off that ship.
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"That's really a pity."
Hoover Corleone said nonchalantly.
Rossetti couldn't help but glare at Kamiya Ryunosuke who "doesn't know how to flatter". There are countless pirates in the West Sea who are eager to board this man's ship, and they are even proud of getting a comment from this man. This pirate in the East China Sea
The thief must not know what opportunities he has missed.
At this time, Hoover Corleone suddenly looked away from the building, shook his head gently and said, "Okay, let's go back."
Are you going back now?
The three of them were a little surprised when they saw this.
However, this man who broke out of the Nine Celestial Family's family, spoke and acted with the carefreeness and neatness of the heir of a large family, and turned around and left as soon as he said it.
After walking only a few steps, he paused and said again, "One more thing. In seven days, we will go to the Sky Tree again."
"What are you doing at Sky Tree?"
"Pick someone up."
Vice-captain Buck scratched his head, somewhat unresponsive.
But when Rossetti looked at the back of the man in front of him walking under the bloody dusk, his face showed a thoughtful look, and his eyes became a little sharper.
According to the original plan, they did not need to pick up Hela, who had taken advantage of this social recruitment opportunity to infiltrate the Adjudication Agency to carry out the secret mission assigned by Hoover Corleone himself.
After completing the mission, she will join them.
But since Hoover Corleone has said this now, it means that when Ji Hela's operation is about to complete its mission, there will probably be certain variables - are the guys in the Adjudication Department still planning to kill people and silence them?
Rossetti took a deep breath and narrowed her eyes slightly, revealing a dangerous light.
She was not worried that Hela would become an abandoned child. Not to mention the Adjudication Division, even the World Government, the man walking in front of them would not abandon any of his family members on the ship.
Yes, it may be different from other pirate groups. The Corleone Pirates in the West Sea are managed by a family. As long as you can get approval and board the Corleone Pirates' ship, you are a member of the Corleone family.
The first commandment of the family,
That means you should never sell out and abandon your family.
At this time, what Rossetti, the captain of the Corleone Pirates' first unit, really cares about is the secret mission Hela has carried out this time and the "hell" she is currently in.
Although she didn't ask any more questions, she couldn't help but feel a strong curiosity deep in her heart.
No coincidence.
At this moment, when I realized that I had passed through the so-called [Border] gate and was still alive, a woman with light blue and semi-long hair named Hela stood on this cold and empty street, feeling the fragrance in the air with the tip of her nose.
The desolate smell of decay.
Hela stared blankly at the high-rise buildings that had been abandoned for who knows how many years and the black swamp under the ruins of the broken bridge. She couldn't help but have the same doubts in her heart.
Where are we?
This question was not only raised in her heart.
The other people who had passed through the [Border] gate from a height of more than 300 meters looked at everything around them, and their hearts were filled with the same doubts and shock!
At this time, Hela suddenly noticed that the young man who came with her was staring blankly at a yellowed newspaper blown by the wind at her feet.
Hela couldn't help but follow Higashinohara's line of sight and glance at the newspaper.
She had outstanding language talent since she was a child and was proficient in multiple languages. However, she found that she did not understand the complicated and obscure fonts in newspapers at all.
Is this the word "hell"?
Hela couldn't help but think so in her heart. She moved her gaze slightly upward, a little curious as to why the young man behind her was staring blankly at the newspaper at her feet.
But at this time, the shock that surged in Higashinohara's heart had calmed down calmly, and his face quickly returned to "normal" - well, it means that he is just like other ordinary people.
of "surprise".
At this time, a burst of electric current came from the radio communication earphones they carried as they passed through the space, followed by a burst of mechanized synthesized sound.
"Squad voice attempt to access."
"Connection successful."
Immediately afterwards, the voice of the investigation team captain Gray Mine came from everyone's headphones.
"We have now entered an unknown area. Now we will use our current location as a base to immediately begin the first investigation mission. I will only tell you the specific mission content once."
"First, a team of two will explore around the stronghold for half an hour to eliminate possible dangers nearby. Don't forget that the [border] gate behind us will not be opened again for seven days. This is very important for us.
Whether you survive until that day is important."
"Second, if you encounter any emergencies during exploration, report them immediately in the team voice."
"Third, keep the survey recorder on at all times. When we meet in half an hour, I will check everyone's survey recorder."
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"Now, start investigating immediately."
The slightly cold voice of the leader of the investigation team, Gray Mine, fell in the team's voice, which immediately pulled everyone back from the shock of seeing the new world for the first time, reminding them of the purpose of crossing the border gate this time and their own goals.
identity.
Employers. To put it bluntly, they beat workers. If anything happens to workers, there is no need to be shocked.
Under Gray Mane's instructions, everyone immediately divided into two groups and began to explore around this completely strange and strange abandoned city with strong vigilance.
Of course, "strange" and "explored" don't apply to everyone.
For Higashinohara, who had moved to Jianghai with his parents since he was a teenager in his previous life, even though thousands of years have passed since the scene before him.
But when he walked on the streets of this desolate city,
Rather than exploring,
Rather, it’s like revisiting an old place.
Although many shops on both sides of the street have changed their names in the past, the landmark buildings that continue to appear in front of us are such as the "Pearl Tower", "Central Building", "Oriental Sports Center", "Grand Theater", "World Expo". and Jianghai Du
However, following Higashinohara's footsteps, some geographical features were awakened bit by bit to piece together the memories of this city deep in his mind.
At the same time, this also made Higashinohara more and more certain that this was the city where he had lived for more than ten years in his previous life.
It's just that the city in front of him is like an old and rusty steel giant, half of its body tilted into the desert of time. Higashinohara can only restore the past life of this city through those parts exposed outside the quicksand of time.
The scene in my mind.
Some places match up.
Some places just don't match up at all.
But as Higashinohara gradually calmed down from the shock of seeing this familiar city for the first time, countless questions arose in his mind.
Why?
Why is it that the world he lives in now, through the so-called [border] gate, can actually step into the world he lived in in his previous life thousands of years later?
Why is it like this here?
What is the "outer tide" mentioned in the newspaper?
If that was a catastrophe.
people of this world
Did they all perish in that catastrophe?
This means that thousands of years after the destruction of this world, he crossed the so-called [border] gate in an incredible way and re-entered the place where he once lived and now it has become as empty as hell.
A dead world.
etc!
Higashinohara suddenly realized something.
Strange monster!
Judging from the information he had in that world, the strange demon should have come to the world where he lives normally now through the gate of [Border].
Perhaps it is for this reason that the geniuses of the Adjudication Department call this place "Hell".
But he knew this was not hell at all.
And judging from the attitude of the Adjudication Division, it is obvious that they still have some intelligence information that they themselves do not understand, but where do they come from with this information about this world?
Higashinohara has read the history of Wano Country and knows that in the world he lives in now, devas came from outside the sky and suddenly appeared in that world thousands of years ago.
That's why they are called "celestial beings".
If Higashinohara doesn't know where the so-called "Hell" is, and the Heavenly Beings are so familiar with this place, then he might guess that the Heavenly Beings may come from the "Hell" behind the [Border] Gate, otherwise they have no reason.
You will know so much about this.
However, the fact is that Higashinohara knows the truth behind the so-called "hell", and he probably understands everything here better than all the gods.
Moreover, Higashinohara has lived in this world for so many years in his previous life, and it is clear that he has never seen or heard of the species of Celestial beings, so Celestial beings definitely do not come from the so-called "hell" world.
Does this mean that there are other worlds? Some kind of "catastrophe" similar to this has also occurred in the world where heavenly beings live.
Later, they would invade the world where Higashinohara lived in this life, break out a war with the local humans, and eventually establish a world government.
Then the problem is back to its original point.
That catastrophe
That tide the newspaper talks about
And the strange demons mentioned by the Adjudication Division