"What the hell are you doing!"
Renetia carried the mechanical hammer on her shoulder and glanced at Palu unhappily. Just as she was about to continue scolding him, she heard the sound of a cannonball hitting her ears and a strong wind blew up her pink hair.
She saw a cannonball coming straight at her, and on the side deck, a naval lieutenant was holding a cannon and aiming at her, with smoke coming out of the muzzle.
"Lady Renetia!"
Ajin screamed and wanted to move but it was too late. The shell was about to hit Renidia's face.
If such a small body was hit by a cannonball,
a small hand pressed on the rapidly shooting shell, and a ball of electric sparks flashed from the palm of the hand and wrapped around the shell.
"Power stopped."
The shell remained still in Renidia's little hand, without exploding or falling.
In addition to accelerating the impact, the power can also reverse the braking force applied in other directions.
It takes force for a cannonball to fire and then fly. By applying this force in the opposite direction, the impact of the cannonball can be offset. Even if a cannonball is fired, it will not explode unless it suffers a severe impact.
It won't even fall off.
Of course, Renetia was not strong enough to hold the cannonball with one hand, and it was very heavy, but she was still able to reverse the downward momentum and stay in the air for a short time.
Without this control ability, she would not be able to control such a large Death Star.
"Don't try to sneak attack me!"
Renetia let go of the hand that was stopping the shell, held the mechanical hammer with both hands, and hit it forward with all her might, "Power home run!"
BANG!!
The cannonball was hit by the hammer, and the accelerated force made the cannonball fly back faster than before, hitting the cloaked naval lieutenant and exploding in a cloud of smoke.
"Iron!"
A loud shout was heard in the smoke, and as the smoke dissipated, the naval lieutenant stood still. The explosion of the shell only damaged his clothes and the cannon, and although he was bleeding, he was still able to stand.
"I am Onka, a colonel of the Navy Headquarters, also known as 'Iron Cannon'. You are an evil kid, I must..."
"Power whack-a-mole!"
Renetia twisted the hammer handle, and the electric sparks in her hand were transmitted to the hammer handle, which quickly extended it. She raised the long hammer and smashed it hard on the naval captain's head from high altitude. The hammer head driven by the power was so strong and fast that it smashed him into the floor with one hammer, and even penetrated the entire ship and crashed heavily into the seabed.
"What piece of iron? I have hit you so many times!"
Renetia bared her fangs and looked fiercely at Palu who had gotten up, "Hey, Palu?!"
"Yes, yes!" Palu stood still and responded subconsciously.
The defensive power of the iron block is certainly commendable. After all, it can withstand lead bullets. This naval lieutenant can even withstand the power of artillery shells, so he must have been well trained.
But personal defense is personal defense, and the strength of a ship is the strength of a ship.
It's hard to say whether she can knock someone down, but Renetia can easily knock someone away.
At most, it's like hitting a mole made of iron, just hit it down.
When Palu was practicing with iron blocks, she also knocked Palu away in this way, and then her men jumped into the sea to bring him back. This trick is the most useful when facing someone who uses iron blocks.
"Oh, Letty, be careful. If the boat is damaged, water will enter it."
Marika, who was not far away, smiled gently at him, and hit the head of an attacking navy with the iron rod in her hand. With a dull sound, a dent appeared on the navy's skull and he fell down.
"ah!"
Renetia yelled, and with one hammer she swept the navy in front of her away. She trotted over and looked down at the hole, then turned back aggrievedly and said, "Water is coming in."
"Then we need to end the battle quickly." Marika said with a smile, and swung down with another stick, breaking all the knives of the nearby navy, hitting them right in the chest, causing a dent.
However, the iron rod in his hand was bent by the continuous swinging.
"Don't you have something harder? I prefer cooking with my hands rather than fighting with them." Marika threw away the iron rod, looked around, and walked towards a knife that fell on the ground in front of her.
Bang!
A sharp sound came from all around, Marika's ears moved, and her bent body instantly straightened up, and a hole appeared on the deck.
Marika turned her head and saw a thin naval lieutenant squatting on the edge railing of the warship, holding a long rifle that was different from the standard flintlock rifle and aiming at her.
"Oh, the commander of the warship?" Marika said with a smile.
"Marika! A leader of the Calamity Pirates!"
The thin naval lieutenant said in a deep voice: "We can't let you continue to fight."
Bang!
He pulled the trigger again, and a fast afterimage burst out from the muzzle, heading straight for Marika.
Marika's pupils shrank, and she subconsciously grabbed a knife on the ground and instantly blocked it in front of her.
Bang!
A ball of sparks flew out, lifting Marika's waterfall-like black hair. A small hole was shattered on the side of her hair. The broken hair fell onto the deck, and the afterimage was nailed to the railing of the warship behind her, making another crisp sound.
There was a crack on the blade, and a crack extended along the crack, breaking the blade.
Marika turned her head and saw that what was nailed to the railing was a bullet that was still smoking.
Unlike most lead bullets used, this is a spindle-shaped bullet with a very sharp front end.
"It's not just any gun."
The gun was also different. It was longer than a regular flintlock rifle, the barrel was made of significantly better steel, and the stock was different from a normal gun.
"I am a captain of the Navy Headquarters, Wright, also known as 'Flying Gun'. Remember my name, I will be the one to arrest you!"
Swoosh!
As soon as Wright finished speaking, Marika swung her arm and threw the broken blade out. The huge force of the broken blade threw out a gust of wind and hit the marine squatting on the railing.
At this moment, Wright jumped forward quickly, showing extremely high jumping ability and speed, and landed on the middle platform of the second mast of the warship, and shot Marika again.
Bang!
Marika was already moving the moment he jumped up, and even so, the shot was aimed at her and hit her shoulder almost, tearing her clothes and leaving a bloody mark on her snow-white shoulder.
"Oh, no need to reload?" Sager on the bow showed a surprised look.
In this sea, not to mention those strong men with some combat ability, the vast majority of ordinary people use a mixture of swords and guns. It is not that guns are the main weapon, or that guns have no attack power, but that close combat is more cost-effective.
Because it's too slow.
A normal flintlock rifle needs to be reloaded after each shot. The attack power is not small, but with that reloading speed, if the first shot doesn't kill someone, the person will have been hacked to death seven or eight times by the time it takes to reload and fire the second shot.
Otherwise, how could there be someone who, after firing a shot, holds the gun barrel and uses the butt of the gun as a weapon to hit people?
But there is also black technology.
For example, the flintlock rifle that Renetia made for Sager that can carry six bullets, and the rifle he now has that far exceeds ordinary firearms in terms of power, range, and speed.
The sea is magical, isn't it?
"It moves very fast." Marika looked up, the smile on her face unchanged.
"Because I'm very thin and light, my speed and jumping ability are first-rate! I know you're very strong, but it's useless if you can't catch me!"
Wright smiled confidently, "On the contrary, I can snipe you at will!"
"That's really good."
Marika picked up a weapon with a smile and threw it upwards.
Strength also represents speed. As long as the strength is strong enough, the thrown object will be very fast, and speed also represents power.
Bang!
The weapon she threw smashed the platform in the middle of the mast, reached the upper mast, and stopped after creating a large dent.
But Wright had already jumped away.
"They all said it was useless!"
Wright jumped to the top of the building on the warship and continued to aim at Marika in the air, but just as he moved, a black shadow quickly floated up and wrapped around his hands, feet and neck.
That's
"hair?!" Wright said in horror.
Marika's black hair fluttered like snakes, and a few strands of it stretched forward like black ropes, wrapping around Wright's body and tying him in the air.
Life returned.
Hair Binding Technique!
"If you are tied up, you will not be able to move, right?"
Marika smiled and stretched out her hand. "If you had let me knock you down at the beginning, maybe you wouldn't have to suffer so much. Be careful."
Swoosh!
The extended hair suddenly retracted, bringing Wright's body quickly to her.
Bang!!
A palm strike hit his throat with great force, bending his cervical vertebrae forward. His face turned blue, his tongue stuck out, and he collapsed powerlessly.
The hair let go of his body and let it fall to the ground, and the long strands of hair shrank back to their normal position, returning to their original state.
Marika glanced at the lifeless person on the ground and shook her head, "It's a pity that he couldn't bear it."
Sager smiled slightly, and he knew that this woman was hiding something.
Knowing how to return life and using it to control hair are completely different concepts.
The former may just absorb energy quickly without even realizing it, while the latter can consciously control every part of the body.
After the three troublesome colonels of the headquarters were killed, Lily and others rejoined the battlefield. Although the number of sailors on the three warships was not small, numbers were not an obstacle in front of the strong.
When Sager's cigar burned to the end, the battle on the warship was over.
"quick!"
Lily slashed with her sword, knocking down the last group of naval troops that were still fighting, and shouted: "Save those who need to be rescued, loot those who need to be looted, this warship is going to sink!"
Renetia blasted a hole in the boat with a hammer, and seawater had already started to enter the bottom of the boat. Although the hole was not big, the battle lasted quite long, and by now the entire ship had sunk more than half. If nothing was looted, the ship would surely sink.
There is definitely no need to look for any supplies on this ship that is about to sink. The important thing is to mobilize the men who are still standing to look for the pointer. As for the other two ships, there is no rush and they can be searched slowly.
Dozens of pirates rushed into the buildings on the deck and the cabins inside, while the rest began to rescue the surviving pirates.
One by one, those who were injured and fell in the battle were helped up. Ajin found a gangway on the warship and set it on the bow of the Death Star, allowing the injured to return to the ship.
Lily was quickly counting the people. The more she counted, the uglier her face looked. Finally, she got on the ship, walked to the bow of the Death Star, and stood behind Sager.
"Sager."
"Just say it."
Sager picked up the jeweled wine glass and poured himself a glass of wine.
Lily pursed her lips and said, "At least more than 200..."
Needless to say, Sager knew what it meant.
In this world, the most ordinary people who have not been trained are still normal, but those who have trained a little and have some skills have terrifyingly high physical fitness. The fatal injuries he knew before were not fatal to them at all.
Those who were shot by lead bullets, or wounded by knives or swords will not die easily. For those who are stronger, even if their skulls are broken or their chests are pierced, they are at most seriously injured and can recover with enough time.
The men he recruited are the type who will not die easily.
But not dying easily doesn't mean you won't die.
A serious enough injury can still cause death.
In this battle, he lost more than 200 of his men and was trapped in this warship forever.
"When I recruited them, I told them that if they followed me, they would die."
Sag slowly stood up and looked at the people lying densely on the deck below. The bodies of his men accounted for a minority, and most of them were navy.
In his opinion, more than half of the navy's deaths were caused by the wounded. If they were not treated in time, there would be more deaths.
More than 500 against more than 1,000. With the enemy's entire army defeated, this little loss is already very good.
The commander of the enemy's warship was only a colonel, and the personnel he led were the basic navy of the Grand Line. Otherwise, this amount of damage would definitely not be enough.
The higher the level, the more people and elite troops there are on the warship.
If a lieutenant general leads the team, it must be a large warship with at least fifty colonels, which would be difficult to deal with.
Of course, Sager can use his domineering Haki to stun the navy here. Judging from the strength of these people, it would be good if there is one person who can stand.
But he wasn't here to play house games with his men. If he could do this now, would he still be able to do it in the new world?
Without awareness, it was only a matter of time before he died.
He turned his head and looked at his men on board the ship, "Do you regret it?"
"How is that possible!"
One of the men collapsed on the deck, holding his chest. Upon hearing this, he tried to raise his head, letting more blood flow from the corners of his mouth, but still grinned:
"From the moment I set out for freedom, I have been a man of the sea. A man of the sea will always end up on the sea, Captain!"
The other pirates were either smiling or showing excitement, and some of those who were dying were showing fear, but as for regret, no one had such emotion.
"Ahhhhhh!"
The mute Miott had just put his two men down and was shouting with his fist raised. He seemed a little dissatisfied and seemed to want to have another fight with the navy.
"very good."
Sager tilted the gem wine glass, spilling the wine into the sea, and said, "This is just the entrance to the Grand Line, and where we are going is the New World! My fellow men, work hard to improve until you can keep up with my pace and my ambition!"
"oh!!"
Regardless of whether they were seriously injured or able to stand, they all shouted in unison at this moment.
"Lily, I leave it to you."
Sager said lightly, turned and walked towards the captain's room.
"I see."
Lily nodded, looking at Sager's back, her fists clenched tightly.
She had to become stronger!
Otherwise, not to mention Sager's ambition, even her own dream would be difficult to achieve!
It was not until Sag's back disappeared and he entered the captain's room on the second floor that Lily reacted and went downstairs to search the remaining two warships.
The warship that was taking in water was gradually submerged by sea water.
Not long after, the remaining pirates completed the looting, and those who needed treatment were given treatment, and those who needed rest were rested, and all returned to the ship. The pirates who were lucky or unfortunate enough to have been stunned by the domineering color when Sager used it to deal with the sea kings previously also woke up one after another.
After learning about the battle that had just taken place, some were unwilling to accept the consequences, while others were afraid. But no matter what, in order to vent their anger, they fired cannons to sink all the warships.
"Sag, the statistics are complete."
Lily pushed open the door of the captain's room, and walked in with Marika and Renetia. They were holding a few things that looked like hourglasses in their hands. Inside the glass ball was a pointer hanging inside the ball.
"We have 421 people left on the ship. Those who didn't participate in the battle are fine, but among those who did, there are still more than 100 wounds. The rest are slightly injured. They have been bandaged with medicine, but the seriously injured can only maintain basic vital signs. We need a doctor."
"Let's find an island with a town to rest and find a doctor to treat them. Have you got the nautical chart?" asked Sag.
The recording pointer is the most important, and it is indispensable in the Grand Line, but the nautical chart is also important, at least they need to know where they are going.
There was no way they could get a nautical chart of the entire area. Even in the East China Sea, after they robbed so many warships, the nautical charts they obtained were only of the local waters. As for the basic world map, it made no difference whether they had it or not.
The world is so huge that we don't even know how many islands there are. The world map is just a rough outline. If you expect to use it to find the geographical location, you will never find it.
Even with a detailed nautical chart, it is impossible to tell exactly how many islands there are in the sea area, but you can get a basic idea.
"I got it."
Lily was a navigator, so she certainly knew the usefulness of nautical charts and took them from the warship.
"Also, we found a bounty."
She placed a few record pointers on the table and took out a few bounty notices. "It should be something about Rogue Town. We are all wanted."
There are a total of eight bounties, including Ajin and Palu. Ajin's bounty has increased to 15 million, and Palu's bounty has also increased to 10 million.
There is also a photo of the mute Miot wielding a large sword with a ferocious expression.
The name was also dug up, and the reward was six million, which was not high.
As for the rest,
it was a photo that should have been taken in Rogue Town, showing Renetia participating in a robbery. In the photo, she was carrying a mechanical hammer, and her smiling face was full of pride.
Renetia, DEAD OR ALIVE, bounty of 23 million.
"Hehe, I'm a wanted criminal too!" Renetia put her hands on her hips, looking very proud.
"What did you do?" Sager asked curiously.
He was fighting with Zephyr at that time and had no idea what these people had done. But since there was a reward, it meant that something eye-catching had happened in Rogue Town, otherwise it must have been robbery. How come these few people were on the list?
"Hmm."
Renetia thought for a moment and said, "It seems that they think the door is opening too slowly, so I will blast them one by one!"
Now I remembered that when this girl was robbing under the name of Black Sail Pirates, she would destroy half the town at any time. She was all about violence.
It seems that Rogue Town is in a mess.
Sager looked at another photo, which was also taken in Rogue Town. It was a photo of Marika with a smile on her face. Only the part above the chest was captured, but a pile of ruins could be seen behind her.
Marika, DEAD OR ALIVE, reward of 30 million.
"What did you do again?" asked Sa
ger.
She was a cook and she didn't fight with others easily. Her salary suddenly rose so high, even higher than Renetia's. She must have done something extraordinary.
"There are too few rare ingredients in the food market, but I found a large manor with a lot of good things. Although I wanted to buy them with money, I didn't have any money at the time, and the other party wouldn't sell them."
"so?"
"So since I'm a pirate, I can rob them, but the enemy's defense is very outstanding, and a lot of people came to support them. I heard that they were all nobles. In order to be faster, I had to lift up the house, and that's how I solved it."
Marika crossed her arms, propped up her cheek with one hand, and smiled softly: "It turned out that besides that manor, there are many other places with good ingredients, so we grabbed them all. It took a lot of effort."
When she hugged him, her arms made her chest look even bigger, and her size was no less than Lily's.
Sager nodded and understood!
One destroyed the commercial street, and the other smashed the noble and wealthy area. No wonder the bounty is so high.
"Sager, are we short of some public funds?" Lily said at this time.
Robbery also has to have a purpose, and it can't all be about robbery. Some things still require consumption, such as seeing a doctor and finding a venue for a banquet. Why make something that can be done with a little money into something dangerous?
They are pirates, not vandals.
Sager also thought it made sense. "Not having money is not a big deal. How about this? Is it okay to reduce the cadres' quota?"
Several people shook their heads in unison.
Of course they had no objection.
None of these three people is obsessed with money. Lily just wants to follow Sager, Marika just wants to cook, and Renetia just wants to study ship technology.
If it really worked, her own money would definitely not be enough, and Sager would have to pay in the end. But the results belonged to Sager, so in the end it was all his.
There is no need to ask anyone else.
Ajin definitely has no objection.
As for Palu, I don't consider it.
Sager's share of the spoils is different from that of other pirate groups, so no matter how much it is cut, it will not affect anything.
"You will all be charged 2% of the salary. From now on, senior officials will get 3% and junior officials will get 1%. My share and that of the ordinary subordinates will remain the same. That's it."
Sager nodded and continued watching, and next was Lily.
Biendetta Lily, DEAD OR ALIVE, bounty of thirty-six million.
The photo has not changed, and the bounty has not increased much. It should be that he did not do much robbery personally and was busy directing people.
Then, it was his turn.
Lily took out a newspaper from the warship and said, "I've read the news. It said that we destroyed four kingdoms and robbed Rogue Town. Other than that, there's nothing. Even if the government takes Zephyr into consideration, isn't it still too high?"
Below the wildly laughing avatar are numbers with extremely large amplitudes.
Norton Sager, DEAD OR ALIVE, bounty of 270 million!
"Between 200 million?"
Even Sager himself was shocked.
"Just Rogue Town?" Sager raised his eyebrows.
Considering the Bridge Kingdom incident, his escape from Garp, and his battle with Zephyr, the bounty wouldn't be raised so much all at once, it would be too much.
"Um"
Sager was still thinking, and was suddenly stunned. Below his bounty order, there was another bounty order, a bounty order that was not for their pirate group.
It shows a little girl with black hair and blue eyes. She seems to be on a boat, looking sideways with a vigilant and alert look.
"Found on the warship, a little girl." Lily said, "Nicole Robin, bounty of 79 million, looks even younger than Letty."
"Yeah, what did he do to deserve such a high reward?" Renetia asked curiously, "Did he rob a hundred towns?"
And
Lily glanced at Sager, then glanced at the little girl with the bounty order. She always had a feeling that they looked somewhat similar.
Although that person had black hair and blue eyes, and Sager had white hair and black eyes, and even though there was a big age difference between them, their facial contours were still somewhat similar at first glance.
It's normal if they are similar, after all, the ocean is so vast.
"ah"
Sager took a sip from the wine glass and looked at the wanted poster carefully. "This is not the wanted poster now. This was a wanted poster from 20 years ago. But why are you digging it out now?"
Lily was sixteen, Renetia was ten, and Marika was only twenty-four this year. Although she was very friendly, she was not very old.
Twenty years ago, the oldest was only four years old.
Of course, I don't know what happened in the past, especially
what he did in Xihai, which is not enough to raise the bounty so much, but now such a large piece
of information has been found?
"Never mind, it's not important."
He swept aside all the bounty notices and said, "When you recruited the dead men, I think you remembered their names and hometowns, right? Count them, store their leftover property, and send it to their hometowns when there's a chance."
He was determined to become a landlord, but he was not stingy, and he would not even embezzle the money of his dead subordinates.
You didn't come out of a crack in a rock, so who doesn't have family and friends?
orphan?
Orphans also have a hometown!
Maybe.
Sager thought of a destroyed island in the West Sea, sighed, and picked up a record pointer to read it.
"Um?"
Just after taking a look, he felt something was wrong. He picked up another one and looked at it, and his expression became strange.
There are twelve recording pointers in total, six of which are different in three pairs, and the same words are engraved on the hourglass of each pair.
There are six more, all exactly the same!
"ALABASTA"
Sager read the words and raised his eyebrows: "Alabasta?"
"Sager, aren't you illiterate?" Renetia discovered the blind spot.
"I'm illiterate and I don't know how to pronounce it? It's impossible that I can't even read my own name?" Sager said unhappily.
He is indeed illiterate, but what he cannot understand are the words put together, not this simple pronunciation!
He threw the pointers on the table, "These are not record pointers, they are permanent pointers. If I'm not mistaken, three of the pairs point to the naval base islands where those warships belong. These six are heading to Alabasta."
The navy will not go out for no reason. They always go out with a mission, so of course they cannot bring a recording pointer. A permanent pointer is enough.
One goes to the destination and the other returns to the base.
"What do we do?" Lily asked.
"Of course we're heading to Alabasta. Are we going to the naval base? There are 300 people on a ship, how many people should a base have? Going to Alabasta is a good opportunity to find a doctor and see where the record pointer is."
As long as the direction is determined and there is a place to go, then there will be no problem.
He still had some impression of what happened in Alabasta, but it had nothing to do with him. He was a pirate, not a messenger of justice.
Maybe I can even rob the king there.
I vaguely remember that place seemed to be very poor, but no matter how poor it was, the king would not be too poor. At least there must be treasures worth snatching in that palace!
(End of this chapter)