On the vast ocean, the Spab hoisted its sails and headed into the distance.
"How much further to Burnett Island?"
Arlong asked Hachi on the sea ship.
Hachi replied, "We're about twenty nautical miles from the Zhumeda Archipelago, and around sixty nautical miles from Burnett Island."
"I remember a nearby island was occupied, right?" Arlong asked curiously.
Hachi nodded and said, "It's Mel Island, thirty nautical miles from here. It's to the southeast, just like Burnett Island."
Chuu chuckled and said, "Boss Arlong, actually, the villagers on Mel Island told us about Burnett Island. That villager told us about this island to get out of paying three months of tribute for his family."
"Wasn't that the information you got when you were collecting tribute? How many people are in his family?" Arlong asked curiously.
Chuu nodded and said, "There are four people in his family: two adults and two children."
"Two adults, two children, three months, that's only 1.2 million Belly in tribute."
Arlong smiled and said, "To make 1.2 million Belly, they sold out an island. Humans are truly creatures who forget righteousness for profit."
Hachi was slightly taken aback and said plainly, "I don't think they did it for the money. If they couldn't pay, they would have been killed. They did it to save their lives."
"You..."
Arlong's expression froze. Thinking of Hachi's straightforward nature, he didn't press the issue. He stood up and said, "I'm going to the cabin to rest. Wake me when we arrive."
Arlong said this and headed for the cabin, but at that moment, with a boom, the ship's hull shook violently, tilting sharply to one side.
"What happened?"
Arlong swayed slightly but regained his balance.
Hachi stepped forward and stood firm, while Chuu grabbed the ship's railing to steady himself.
However, some Fish-Men who hadn't managed to grab onto anything were thrown to the ground with a splash as the pirate ship tilted and swayed.
"Boss Arlong, the ship, the ship is leaking!"
A Fish-Man rushed out of the cabin and shouted loudly.
"The ship is leaking?"
Arlong frowned and asked the other anxiously, "How bad is the leak?"
The Fish-Man replied, "The ship's planks on the left side of the seventh and eighth compartments have been destroyed."
Arlong asked, "Can it be repaired?"
The Fish-Man replied, "Lord Kaneshiro said there are watertight compartments, so it can still be repaired. People have already been assigned to fix it."
Kaneshiro was a Goldfish Fish-Man, the shipwright of the Arlong Pirates. His skills were superb, and his importance to the Arlong Pirates was no less than that of a captain.
"That's good then."
Arlong was relieved to hear that Kaneshiro could fix it. Although the ship might crash and Fish-Men might fall into the sea, they wouldn't be in danger, but this ship was very precious and couldn't be easily sunk.
"Then why is it leaking?" Arlong asked.
The Fish-Man replied, "It seems like we were hit."
"Hit? Was it a rock, or a Sea Beast?"
Arlong looked at Chuu, who was standing by the ship's railing, and said, "Chuu, go down and take a look."
"Yes."
Chuu immediately went to the edge of the ship and dove in.
Splash.
Chuu jumped into the sea and dove to the seabed. He looked at the area the sea ship had passed, but there were no rocks or Sea Beasts.
But at that moment, he felt the seawater tremble.
"Hmm?"
Chuu slowly descended, looking around from beneath the pirate ship. The next moment, he saw a dark shadow rapidly enlarging on the other side of the pirate ship.
"What is this?"
As the other party approached, Chuu saw that it was a sea fish. He realized it was rushing towards the stern on the right side of the pirate ship.
Chuu quickly swam upwards, surfacing. But as soon as his head broke the water's surface.
Boom! The pirate ship was hit again.
This time, the impact was even greater.
The people on the pirate ship stumbled, and Arlong shouted loudly, "What in the world is it?"
"There's something in the sea, a giant sea fish hit the sea ship."
Chuu shouted loudly to the ship.
"A sea fish?"
Arlong frowned. What kind of sea fish could smash such a large pirate ship?
"Here it comes."
Chuu suddenly felt the water pressure increase. He looked down and saw that the dark shadow hadn't stopped. With a flip, it swam from the seabed and appeared below him.
"Let's go up first."
Chuu's strengths were his swimming speed and water cannon, not his strength. Fighting such a large sea fish underwater would be more trouble than it was worth.
He pushed off the seabed with his legs, his body shooting out of the water.
But just then, a giant tentacle broke through the surface and whipped towards him.
Huh?
Chuu was slightly stunned and raised his hands to block in front of him.
Bang.
Chuu was hit squarely. Although he wasn't sent flying by the tentacle's force, he lost the ability to move upwards and began to fall.
Splash.
Several tentacles emerged from the seabed and struck at Chuu.
You want to kill me?
Chuu snorted coldly, stomped on the ship's deck with his right foot, and shot backward.
Whoosh whoosh whoosh.
The tentacles missed completely, and Chuu leaped over the sea fish, falling into the ocean.
As long as I'm in the ocean.
In the ocean, as long as it wasn't a giant Sea King from the Calm Belt, no matter if you were a sea fish or a sea beast, you couldn't catch me.
But the moment he fell in, the sea fish suddenly twisted its body, performing an unbelievable rotation. Its head charged towards him, opening its massive maw to bite at Chuu.
Ah.
Chuu had just entered the water and didn't have time to dodge. A huge mouth appeared before him.
It's over.
Chuu panicked inwardly, but he still raised his fist and punched towards the top of the giant mouth.
For many sea fish, attacking the upper jaw and the area where the nose is located could interrupt their movements, and even give a chance to make them pause.
For example, if a person encounters a shark and it tries to attack them, don't try to escape; you can't outrun it.
Try attacking its nose. If that doesn't work, punch its nose.
But it was no use.
Crack.
Chuu was bitten directly, and the giant sea fish then turned, swimming away towards the distance.
"Tentacles, a black sea fish."
Seeing this, Arlong's face turned cold. Wasn't this the sea fish that killed Kuroobi? And before that, it had attacked many Fish-Men.
He hadn't appeared for two years.
Arlong thought he had disappeared, gone somewhere else, or been scared away by Moo Moo.
But who knew he would choose to attack now.
Damn it.
Arlong jumped into the sea, chasing after the sea fish.
"It's that sea fish." Hachi also jumped into the sea, following closely behind.
"Keep up with Lord Arlong!"
Plop, plop. Several Fish-Man soldiers jumped into the sea.
Arlong was the fastest. He pushed back with both hands, kicked off the water with his legs, and his immense power exploded as his body shot forward.
He was the first to chase the sea fish, but the sea fish was faster, faster than him. And it wasn't just swimming forward but also diving deeper into the water.
Arlong chased for a distance and found that the gap between him and the sea fish was widening. The blood in the surrounding water told Arlong that it was Chuu's blood.
Having been bitten by the sea fish, Chuu was likely in grave danger.
But Arlong still pursued it relentlessly, and the further he chased, the greater the distance became.
I can't catch up.
Arlong chased for three to four nautical miles, about five to six thousand meters, and the sea fish's form had already disappeared.
He could track Chuu's blood, even a trace of amino acids and the scent of blood would tell him the trail of its departure.
But its speed was faster than his. If he kept chasing like this, he would never catch up.
And competing in speed with the sea fish in the ocean, he would be exhausted first.
"Damn it."
Arlong stopped, surfaced, and his expression was one of immense fury.
This was the sea fish that had been attacking the Arlong Pirates. After he killed Kuroobi, this was the second executive he had killed, and the seventh Fish-Man.
"Boss."
Hachi swam to his side and asked, "Where's the sea fish?"
"He got away."
Arlong said with a dark, gloomy expression. Looking at Hachi, he shouted angrily, "You're too slow."
"Boss Arlong, you didn't catch him either," Hachi muttered softly.
"You."
Arlong trembled with rage, waved his hand, and said coldly, "Let's go back first."
Arlong led Hachi back the way they came. After swimming for two nautical miles, they encountered other Fish-Men who were far behind. After rejoining them, they headed towards the ship.
However, the Fish-Man soldiers were quite slow. These two nautical miles took Arlong four to five nautical miles' worth of time compared to when he was chasing the sea fish.
And when Arlong brought them back to not far from the Sea Ship, still some distance away, Arlong saw a scene that made his eyes split with rage.
In the distance, the Spab was already more than half sunk, with only the mast remaining.
And beside the ship, blood permeated the water. A giant sea fish was hunting Fish-Men there, its tentacles binding two Fish-Men beneath its belly, and it had just bitten a Fish-Man who was trying to escape.
The surviving Fish-Men were few and far between.
Seeing this, Arlong felt an overwhelming surge of anger, his eyes turning blood red.
I'll kill you.
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