On the shore of the island, a clean area has been cleared, which happens to be a blind spot in the wind direction. There are basically no cherry blossom petals falling here.
There are many people gathered here, and they all have special tattoos on their bodies. It is a skull pattern. Two bones form a cross and are placed behind the skull. Above the teeth of the skull is a crescent-shaped beard pattern.
they are--
Whitebeard Pirates!
At the shore at this moment, Phoenix Marco, who was less than thirty years old and looked very young, was standing there, looking at the sea not far away, holding a telescope in his hand and saying:
"It is indeed the Black Pearl of the John Pirates."
"Hey! Go tell dad!"
Marco put down the telescope and spoke to his companion next to him.
The people next to him immediately responded and quickly ran towards the inside of the island.
In this sea, there are not many existences that the Whitebeard Pirates can deal with seriously. There are only a few such as the Beast Pirates and the Big Mom Pirates, and the John Pirates are one of them.
"It seems like they are coming for us."
Foil Bista stood next to Marco, placing his hands on the hilts of his two sword blades, looking at the sea in the distance.
Diamond Jozi sat on the rocks behind and said solemnly: "If you want to challenge dad, let them all sink to the bottom of the sea."
"Not necessarily here to fight."
Marco picked up the telescope and took a look again, and said: "That guy John should know that there is no benefit in starting a war with us. He is not a lunatic like Kaido... huh?"
Just as Marco was speaking in deep thought, he was suddenly startled for a moment, and the hand holding the telescope moved in another direction, where he saw another ship.
Look carefully.
The ship had white sails hanging with no flags on it. It was a medium-sized sailing ship, and it was not a pirate ship. It looked a bit like a merchant ship.
Marco moved the telescope to the John Pirates' ship and found that the Black Pearl was chasing the 'merchant ship' and was getting closer.
"Someone is being targeted by the John Pirates."
Marco put down the telescope and said.
Next to them, Diamond Jozi, Foil Bista and others have also noticed the two ships coming towards us on the sea, and they are constantly approaching.
"They are not our people."
Bista's hand was on the hilt of the sword.
Marco glanced at Bista, folded his arms on his chest, and said: "It's not our people, it should be a merchant ship nearby. It's really unlucky to meet the John Pirates."
The Whitebeard Pirates have occupied some territory, but this poisonous cherry blossom island is not Whitebeard's territory yet, and the merchant ship sailing here did not fly the flag of the Whitebeard Pirates. Obviously
It is not dependent on their power.
The Whitebeard Pirates usually don't loot much and are in a relatively poor state. Most of the time they loot from other pirates, taking away other pirates' treasures or the property of the world's nobles, the Celestial Dragons, and they basically don't do anything to civilians.
Take action.
But they are not bad people either.
Under such circumstances, he would not go against the John Pirates for irrelevant people, not to mention that Whitebeard hadn't come over yet, and it was far away on the sea there, so it was too late to rush over.
Foil Sword Bista released his hand from the hilt of the sword, shook his head and said: "If the John Pirates came after us, then they are indeed very unlucky."
Under their gaze.
The two ships gradually approached the island, and the distance became closer and closer. When they finally approached a certain area, the sound of artillery sounded from the Black Pearl of the John Pirates.
Boom! Boom! Boom!!
Seven or eight bombarded Feng Ye's ship ahead.
These artillery fires were not intensive, and they obviously did not intend to completely destroy Feng Ye's ship, but intended to cause enough damage to the hull so that Feng Ye's ship could no longer escape, and then pursue them to plunder and plunder the contents of the ship.
Boom!!
The shells covered the area where Feng Ye's ship was, and the seawater splashed all over the sky, covering the shadow of Feng Ye's ship. Waves of waves rose up to a height of more than ten meters.
Marco and others on the shore looked at this scene and shook their heads.
Marco did not continue to look, but turned his head and said to the crew members of the Whitebeard Pirates who were coming from behind: "Hey! The John Pirates are coming, everyone, please pay attention! The trainee steps back,
Don't come here, you can't handle it!"
And just when Marco was shouting at the crew members behind.
Foil Bista, who was standing next to him, suddenly focused his eyes, as if he saw something surprising and uncertain. He looked at the sea and said: "Marco! Look! Something seems wrong!"
"Um?"
Marco turned around and looked.
I saw that after the splashing waves fell on the sea, Feng Ye's ship re-emerged from the waves. There was no sign of damage on the hull!
And the weirdest thing is that another round of cannonballs fired over, and before they were completely close to the ship, they all froze in the air, and then exploded one after another!
"Huh."
Captain John, who was standing at the front of the deck of the Black Pearl, looked at the scene on the sea in the distance and was slightly surprised. He said: "It seems there is someone on the ship."
He drew his sword.
Blocking the Black Pearl's bombardment was obviously some kind of Devil Fruit ability. If it could be blocked so easily, there must be someone with some strength on that ship.
But he didn't really care, because he was Captain John, one of the great pirates who roamed the New World, and there were only a few people on this sea that he paid attention to.
laugh!!!
After he drew his sword, he swung it forward directly.
With one wave of his hand, the green-brown sword energy flew through the air and struck directly at the stern of Feng Ye's ship. It was hundreds of meters away and was about to split Feng Ye's ship in half!
But just then.
A figure appeared on the roof of the ship.
The figure just stretched out his hand to press the green-brown sword energy that flew over, and directly pinched the incoming green-brown sword energy with his palm.
Zizzi!!
The green-brown sword energy was twisted into an arc shape, erupting with enough power to split a large sea king in half, but it was forcibly restrained in the air by that palm, like a python pinched by the neck, struggling continuously.
But they can't get rid of it.
Then the palm of his hand squeezed hard, and the huge green-brown sword energy suddenly collapsed, turning into countless light spots and dissipating in the air.
"..."
Marco's expression froze.
Foil Bista's expression also solidified.
Captain John also froze there.
Feng Ye slowly put down his hands and stood on the top of the ship, hundreds of meters away from the sea, looking at Captain John on the deck of the Black Pearl from a distance, and said indifferently: