The thick clouds in the sky fluttered rapidly with the fierce wind, and the dark clouds pressed down by the layers looked like hungry predators peeping at the sea.
Navy Captain Crohn looked up at the sunless sky and murmured: "...The rain is coming."
Colonel Crohn's adjutant, Captain Danitz, stood beside him and reminded: "Sir, the time is almost up. It will take up to 30 minutes for the ship of the 'Vicious Chain' to arrive at the sea near the entrance of the Upside Down Mountain. The wind direction is opposite.
It’s in their favor.”
Colonel Crohn smiled bitterly: "Even if they arrive, what can we do? The order from the headquarters is very clear - do not provoke the 'Vicious Chain' and let them enter the Grand Line."
Crohn was very unwilling to do so. His best chance of returning to his headquarters was to head off to the Grand Line in such a swagger. But he still had to stay in this barren Western Sea, and it was very likely that he would have to stay for the rest of his life.
He must do something.
At this time, bursts of exclamations came from the watchtower.
"It's coming! It's the ship of the 'Male Chain'!"
"Too fast! How can there be such a fast ship! There are still 10 minutes... no, at most 3 minutes, the 'Vicious Chain' will arrive in the nearby waters!"
Crohn quickly walked to the edge of the deck, and the ketch of the 'Vicious Chain' could already be vaguely seen with the naked eye on the sea level in the distance.
What a swift speed! This dark blue two-masted schooner shuttled through the waves like a flying fish between the waves.
Crohn narrowed his eyes. This draft...didn't they bring any supplies? No, not only the necessary survival supplies, this ship even had very few artillery pieces!
This is no longer overconfidence in oneself but pure stupidity, isn't it, Mafia Victor? The sea is not a playground. As the son of a fisherman, don't you even understand this?
Crohn thought about it and figured out that something was wrong. Based on his past behavior, Mafia Victor was not the kind of reckless man who was blindly confident. Could it be that... he used the ability of the zipper fruit to store all the supplies?
The zipper is in space?
Damn it, why didn’t the Navy realize that the Zipper Fruit was such a powerful combat-assisted dual cultivation Devil Fruit?
This actually cannot be blamed on the Navy. It was a coincidence that Colonel Marvin ate this fruit. Although he subsequently reported the fruit's ability and previous appearance, he only ate the fruit for a short month and coupled with his limited talent,
Marvin has only developed logistical capabilities such as material storage.
Originally, the Navy Headquarters planned to call him to play a role in the logistics force. Unexpectedly, before the transfer order came to Marvin, he encountered the notorious "Bronze Apple" pirate group and died tragically at the hands of "Bronze Teeth" Shuleg. The Chain Fruit
It also disappeared on the yú dà hǎi.
No one thought that the Chain Fruit would appear again in such a shocking manner.
The ship is getting closer.
On the deck of the Beagle, Victor stroked the railing and used the zipper to control the sail. The Beagle slowed down under his control and gradually approached several naval warships guarding the entrance to the Upside Down Mountain.
"Good afternoon, Colonel Crohn." Victor smiled and greeted the middle-aged navy man on the deck of the battleship opposite.
"I didn't expect that the 'Vicious Chain' who has been in the limelight recently actually knows the name of an ordinary naval colonel like me?" Crohn's eyes narrowed even more. He had never dealt with this zipper man face-to-face, but the other party
He recognized himself at a glance.
He has already investigated himself?
Before he could think about it, Victor said with a smile: "I am also living in the town of Alghero, so how can I not know the commander of the 91st Naval Branch?"
Crohn smiled incredulously and asked: "I wonder where Mr. Maffia wants to go? The town of Alghero is not in this direction."
"Some words are too clear to listen to, Mr. Crohn." Victor's smile dropped slightly, obviously he was a little tired of Crohn's ignorance: "Are you sure you want to stop me?"
Crohn forced himself to calm down and said loudly: "I know you are very powerful, 'Vicious Chain'. But now the battlefield is on the sea, and two of the three of you have eaten devil fruits. Even if you can survive the fire of these three battleships,
Can you survive at sea if you save your lives?"
Victor sneered, opened the five fingers of his right hand, twisted his wrist, and five golden chain blades were quickly linked to the hulls of the three naval battleships.
"Metal zipper·five-string pipa·puppet ballad!"
Both Crohn and his sailors felt that something was starting to go wrong.
First it was the cables that initiated the betrayal.
All the cables began to restless and break away from the sailors' hands. They were horrified to find that the cables gradually became metallic and twisted like a python.
The adjutant, Captain Danitz, immediately ordered a bombardment of the Beagle, but there was still no movement. He ran to the lower warehouse and saw that all the artillery had begun to be assimilated by the zippers and could not fire any shells at all.
I don't know who shouted, "Devil Fruit powers are afraid of sea water!" The sailors hurriedly scooped up sea water and poured it on the cannon and cables. However, except for completely extinguishing the cannon's fuse, it had no effect.
The sailors raised their cannons and tried to fight back, but they were all tied up and hung upside down on the mast by betrayed cables. The cannons and swords were scattered on the deck with a clatter. Only Colonel Crohn was left standing on the deck intact.
superior.
Colonel Crohn stood at the edge of the deck with a livid face, his knuckles turning white as he held the railing tightly.
Shame! Is there anything more shameful than plundering a navy's ship in front of his eyes? This damn gangster!
The cables were slowly coiled around the necks of the sailors. As long as Victor had a thought, hundreds of sailors would be hanged miserably on their own battleships.
"... I'm sorry, I made a mistake just now. We are only preventing criminals from forcing their way through the Upside Down Mountain. Mr. Victor, you are obviously not on the list of precautions... Please be merciful."
Crohn bowed slightly in humiliation and apologized to Victor.
"Mr. Crohn, what are you talking about? I was just joking with everyone." Victor smiled slightly, curled his right hand, and retracted the five chain blades instantly. The cables on the battleship also returned to calm, and the naval soldiers
They all fell to the deck.
After being awakened by Moonlight Moria's words, Victor truly understood why his chain fruit was rated as a special super-human fruit by the special insight and domineering 'Apocalypse'. Not only because it also has a 'superhuman body',
'Super power', 'super creation' three abilities, and more importantly, it is born with the ability to be semi-awakened! Once in contact, it can open and manipulate inanimate objects at will. And the zipper itself is not afraid of sea water
The effectiveness of sea floor stone unless the two are in direct contact with their own bodies.
The three warships made way towards the entrance of Topsy-turvy Mountain. Under the silent gaze of the naval soldiers, the Beagle raised its sails again and sailed straight towards the entrance of Topsy-turvy Mountain.
When he was on the wrong ship with Krohn, Victor said to him with a smile: "Don't worry, Mr. Krohn, I'm just going for a ride on the Grand Line. It won't be long before I get tired of playing and I will come back. Then we can have a good time
Have a drink! Goodbye!"
The Beagle gradually accelerated and sailed out of this sea area.
The adjutant, Captain Danitz, was unwilling to give up. He walked to Colonel Crohn and whispered: "Sir, do you want to use some means against the 'Coral' people who are staying in the West Sea?"
Crohn shook his head, sighed and said: "Forget it, just follow the headquarters and don't provoke him. Don't you understand what he just meant? Once we touch his people, he won't let him go.
Ours. Besides, we don’t have a suitable reason... Such a monster cannot be trapped and defended by the mere West Sea, so we should let the generals and commanders of the Grand Line headquarters give him a headache!"
Crohn still doesn't understand why Victor, who severely slapped the World Government in the face, was not offered a reward, and even the Navy's internal simulated reward was cancelled.
But this is nothing he can worry about anymore.
"...Let's go back to the town of Alghero. I want to eat the grilled cheese bagel from Simon's Cheese Ring."