Chapter 178 Xiao Mei's Little Thoughts
Chapter 178 Xiao Mei's Little Thoughts
"Lord Stussy!"
The maid couldn't help but scream. Having followed Stussy for several years, she already realized what was going to happen next.
As a traitor who was also instigated by Borsalino, Stussy's strength is naturally no match for Cyborg Sora, but he is also not someone that ordinary CP agents can contend with.
Without giving the maid any chance to escape, Stussy controlled her in the blink of an eye and then bit the maid's neck.
As the sweet blood flowed into her mouth, the expression on Stussy's beautiful face gradually began to distort.
As a user of the ability of artificial animal type, mythical beast, human-human fruit, and vampire form, Stussy can obtain the target's memory by sucking blood.
Facts have proved that she and Borsalino have still underestimated the Five Elders. Although the Five Elders are still busy mobilizing troops and generals on the surface, they have already begun investigating the identity of the mole behind the scenes.
Moreover, the investigation was traced back to Stussy, the Queen of Pleasure Street, not long after it began. Once the Five Elders got serious, there was no way her actions could be hidden from their eyes.
If nothing unexpected happens, while people are being sent to test her, the assassination team responsible for killing her has also set out. In no more than three days, she, the once high and mighty Queen of Happy Street, will die at the hands of the assassins sent by the Five Elder Stars.
"It was really thrilling. I almost fell into the hands of this little bitch... But why do the Five Elders want to know the whereabouts of the Red Hair Pirates?"
Stussy casually threw the maid who fell into a deep sleep after she sucked her blood into the sea, took out a handkerchief and gently wiped the blood from the corner of her mouth, with a thoughtful expression on her face.
Before being sent to test Stussy, the maid also received an order from the Five Elders to find the whereabouts of the Red Hair Pirates.
After reporting the information to the Five Elders, the maid, who knew nothing about the Five Elders' true purpose, used the information about the Red Hair Pirates as an excuse to meet Stussy.
However, she didn't expect that before she had the chance to test Stusi's thoughts, the suspicious Stusi took the initiative.
If it were the usual Stussy, he wouldn't be so sensitive even if he had some doubts, but now was the time when Stussy was most suspicious.
After pondering for a moment but failing to figure out the reason, Stussy did not dare to delay any further. She was not as overwhelming as Borsalino.
If she were caught up by the assassins sent by the Five Elders, even the Queen of Happy Street would have little chance of resistance.
To be on the safe side, Stussy didn't even go back to pack his things. He just flapped the bat wings that grew on his back and flew into the night sky.
At the same time, in a certain sea area in the New World, an extremely large pirate fleet was marching towards the holy land of Marijoa.
The sufficient or even over-sufficient military force allowed this huge fleet to travel day and night. Hundreds of excellent navigators were divided into three shifts and were constantly calculating the best route.
No matter whether it is merchant ships, passenger ships, pirate ships or naval warships, when they discover this huge pirate fleet that covers the sky and the sun, they will flee as soon as possible.
Of course, there were also some particularly brave pirates who voluntarily surrendered and joined the fleet, continuously expanding the size of this super pirate fleet.
"The quantity is correct. Go back and tell Doflamingo that if there are any extra weapons and ammunition, just send them over. We'll pay him ten times the price!"
Katakuri, a senior fighter of the Cosmic Dark Matter Pirates, is on his flagship, receiving members of the Don Quixote family who have just escorted a batch of weapons and supplies.
Although he is already a big shot in this super pirate fleet, Katakuri still made a special trip to inspect the batch of weapons and equipment that had just been delivered.
He even condescended to personally receive members of the Don Quixote family, even though they were just Doflamingo's subordinates who were far weaker than him.
The purpose was naturally to stockpile as many weapons and equipment as possible before the war broke out. Even if it only increased his side's chances of winning by one in ten thousand, it might allow one of his brothers and sisters to survive.
"I'm sorry, the factory in Dressrosa is already working overtime at full capacity. It will take at least half a month for the second batch of arms to arrive..."
The person in charge of leading the Don Quixote family is Diamante, a senior cadre whose status in the Don Quixote family is second only to Doflamingo. At this time, facing the gentle Katakuri, he looked very nervous.
Not long ago, he caused a big disturbance in Dressrosa and suppressed all members of the Don Quixote family, including Doflamingo, by himself.
In Diamante's eyes, Katakuri's image is basically synonymous with the Great Demon King.
If Diamante wasn't worried that other executives might make mistakes when delivering goods, and if Trebol and Pica still had missions to complete and weren't suitable for going out to sea, he would never have taken the initiative to meet Katakuri.
"Half a month later?... Try to speed up. Go back and tell Doflamingo that if the Don Quixote family can deliver another batch of arms within seven days, I can ask my mother to help stop Kaido and prevent him from causing trouble again."
After considering for a moment, Katakuri gave Diamante a condition that made him very excited. The cooperation between the Don Quixote Family and the Beasts Pirates was not initiated by Doflamingo himself.
Even if the Beasts Pirates later became Doflamingo's backer, it does not mean that Kaido will be an excellent partner.
After all, arms, devil fruits that can enhance strength, and even artificial devil fruits are hard currency wherever they are in the New World.
If he was not forced to do so, Doflamingo, as the seller, could have just waited for a higher price instead of having to pay tribute to Kaido on time.
It is not difficult to imagine how much suffering Doflamingo suffered when cooperating with the violent and capricious Kaido, so that as soon as Katakuri opened his mouth, Diamante had the urge to agree immediately.
"Well... I still have to discuss this with the young master, but no matter what the result is, the second batch of arms will definitely be delivered on time!"
Diamanti controlled himself with great difficulty and did not agree immediately.
Although Katakuri seems to be a better partner than Kaido, for such an important matter as changing the partner, only Doflamingo in the Don Quixote family is qualified to make the decision.
"Well, go back quickly after collecting the balance."
Katakuri didn't waste time with Diamante after he finished speaking, and turned to look at his sister Brulee beside him.
Brulee, who looked like an old witch, quickly pulled Katakuri into the mirror, and soon after, she walked out of the mirror on the flagship of the Cosmic Dark Matter Pirates, the 'Overlord'.
As a user of the "Mirror-Mirror Fruit", Brulee can move freely between different mirrors, and it is precisely because of this that she becomes the best tool to connect this huge pirate fleet.
No matter how many times he saw this spaceship that could fly in the sky, Katakuri couldn't help but exclaim in amazement, and at the same time gained a little more confidence in defeating the World Government.
"Lord Boros, I have just counted the weapons and supplies in the fleet's stockpile. There is still a 12% gap from the planned target. However, at the current supply speed, we should be able to complete the mission before reaching Mary Geoise!"
Katakuri half-knelt in front of Boros and spoke very respectfully.
Although it may sound a bit "filial" to say this, after Boros annexed the Big Mom Pirates, the members of the Charlotte family obviously lived a better life.
At least I don't have to worry all day long about my mother's bulimia attack, nor do I have to be careful with my words, for fear of accidentally angering her and depriving her of her life.
It's quite ironic that under Boros's absolute violent suppression, Charlotte Lingling hasn't suffered from bulimia for a long time, as if she had been completely cured by Boros.
"I'll leave these matters to you. You don't need to come to me to report so often in the future."
Boros, who was sitting on the throne, spoke very coldly.
It’s not that he has any problem with Katakuri, but it’s Boros’s personality. He doesn’t care about anything that is not related to fighting.
If Katakuri reported now that a strong man came to attack, Boros should be interested. If that strong man is Borsalino, Boros will probably get excited immediately.
"Yes, I understand!"
Although he was given considerable power, Katakuri remained calm, which made Charlotte Linlin, who was sitting below Boros, grit her teeth.
The son whom she was once most proud of has now become someone else's lackey. The most hateful thing is that the damn guy Katakuri is willing to do it. How can Charlotte Linlin not feel extremely angry?
However, she is no match for Boros. Even if she joins forces with Kaido to fight against Boros, the current best record is only less than half an hour.
No matter how they tried, they could not find out Boros' true strength.
The only thing that is certain is that the armor on Boros is definitely not his weak point, because she once teamed up with Kaido to find an opportunity to break the armor on Boros.
Then she and Kaido successfully created the worst record when facing Boros. Boros without armor only took forty-seven seconds to beat her and Kaido down.
“Hahahahahaha!”
Looking at Charlotte Linlin who was so angry that her fat was shaking, Kaido couldn't help but laugh out loud with glee.
Compared with Katakuri, the filial son, Kaido suddenly felt that the actions of Yamato, the rebellious son, were not unacceptable. At least Yamato did not help the one-eyed monster to monitor him, nor did he tell tales to the one-eyed monster at every turn.
But before Kaido could be happy for long, he saw King walking into the temple carrying a few boxes. Even though Kaido was drunk, he could feel that those boxes seemed particularly familiar?
"Boss Boros, all the devil fruits you want are here..."
After saying this, Jin glanced at his elder brother Kaido cautiously. He knew how much Kaido valued these animal-type devil fruits.
Especially the most special mythical beast species, which was originally intended for Yamato. It has been kept until now and no one qualified to eat it has been found.
"...Hiccup...Devil...Asshole! I collected those Devil Fruits with great difficulty!"
Kaido stared at the box with drunken eyes for a long time before coming to his senses. He slapped the table in front of him to pieces, stared at Boros fiercely and shouted loudly.
Just as the Big Mom Pirates are very interested in all kinds of superhuman devil fruits related to food, the Beasts Pirates or Kaido also has a special obsession with animal-type devil fruits. He once wanted to form a legion composed entirely of animal-type devil fruit users, but later found that it was unrealistic and was forced to use artificial devil fruits instead.
Now Boros is actually going to take away the animal-type devil fruits that he has collected with great difficulty, especially since one of them is a mythical beast. How can Kaido swallow this?
"Bring it up."
However, Boros completely ignored the furious Kaido and spoke to Jin with an expressionless face.
In the past, even if facing Whitebeard, the furious Kaido would have swung his mace and hit him without hesitation.
Whether or not he can win is one thing, but on this ocean, there is no one that Kaido is afraid of!
But now, facing Boros who treated him like air, Kaido not only did not rush forward at the first time, but also turned his angry gaze to King who was loyal to him, as if he wanted to scare King away with his eyes and let him not give the devil fruit to Boros.
Seeing this scene, Jin was immediately caught in a dilemma. He wanted to obey Brother Kaido, but he didn't dare to offend Boss Boros.
His own life or death is not important, after all, his life belonged to Brother Kaido. But when he thought about the consequences of angering Boss Boros, King, who has always been very rational, immediately made the wisest decision.
Four animal-type devil fruits soon opened in a row in front of Boros, one mythical beast type and one ancient type, and the remaining two were ordinary animal types, which were already the bottom stock of the Beasts Pirates.
After all, most of the time, as long as there is a chance to increase their strength, pirates will use it without hesitation.
Of these four animal-type devil fruits, except for the mythical beast fruit, the rest were the last "tribute" from the Don Quixote family.
When the devil fruit was offered, Jin was mentally prepared to escape at any time.
Otherwise, if he was affected by the battle between Brother Kaido and Boss Boros, even he might be seriously injured.
Fortunately, Kaido did not choose to take action until Boros reached out to open the box containing the devil fruit.
"Asshole! What are you going to do with my devil fruit?!"
Kaido roared unwillingly, saying that Boros had achieved an unprecedented achievement by beating the extremely hot-tempered beasts so hard that they dared not take the initiative to attack.
It's a pity that both the former members of the Beasts Pirates and the cadres of the Big Mom Pirates were kneeling obediently in the open space in front of the throne at this time, and no one dared to look up to appreciate Kaido's predicament.
Charlotte Linlin on the side unusually did not provoke Kaido, but stared at the devil fruit in Boros's hand with burning eyes.
In the previous battle between Boros and them, Charlotte Linlin was able to basically confirm that Boros was not a devil fruit user.
Now this person seems to be planning to eat the devil fruit, maybe this is her chance.
It is true that in most cases, apart from gaining the DEBUFF of being afraid of water, devil fruits will only enhance the power of the user.
However, some devil fruits can also make the users have some weaknesses that they shouldn't have. Maybe this is her chance to escape Boros' control, or even defeat Boros? !
"Everything in the Universe Dark Matter Pirates belongs to me, including you!"
However, Boros had no intention of eating the devil fruit in his hand. He just opened his huge one eye and glanced at Kaido, then turned his attention back to the devil fruit.
Regarding the power called Devil Fruit which is unique to this indigenous planet, Boros has also tried to study the ability of Devil Fruit during this period.
It's not for the purpose of obtaining the power of the devil fruit, but to find the possibility of defeating Borsalino by studying the devil fruit.
But Boros soon gave up this plan. He felt that the upper limit of the Devil Fruit was still a bit low. Even the ability of the Devil Fruit after awakening was at best at the level of a high-level fighter.
Even if it is developed to the extreme, it is only on the same level as Kaido and Charlotte Linlin. This level of power is not taken seriously by Boros.
Therefore, when Borsalino asked him to help search for devil fruits, Boros simply gave all four devil fruits he had to Borsalino.
As for why these four devil fruits all belong to the Beasts Pirates, it is purely because the BIG MOM Pirates don’t have any in stock at all.
After all, there are too many members in the Charlotte family. Even if everyone is given one devil fruit, there are still many of BIG MOM's children who have never eaten a devil fruit.
"You bastard..."
Kaido was so angry that his whole body was shaking and his teeth were about to break, but he never had the intention of attacking Boros for the devil fruit.
After playing with the devil fruit in his hand for a while, Boros closed his eyes again, and suddenly an astonishing sense of oppression emanated from his body.
Charlotte Linlin and Kaido almost instinctively took a defensive stance, but saw a dark hole appear in front of Boros.
Brulee, who was kneeling behind Katakuri, began to tremble in fear. In the eyes of others, it was just a "black hole" that appeared suddenly.
However, only Brulee, the user of the Mirror-Mirror Fruit, could sense that the moment the "black hole" appeared, the surrounding mirror space was completely torn apart.
If she were still in the mirror space now, she would probably be torn into pieces along with the mirror space.
It turned out that Boros used his unparalleled mental power to tear the space apart and create a temporary channel connecting him and Borsalino.
However, such violent tearing will cause irreparable damage to the space in this area, so Brulee's mirror space will be affected.
"Four animal-type ones, all you want."
Boros casually sent the box containing four animal-type devil fruits into the passage. At the same time, his unparalleled mental power also had a brief but sufficient communication with Borsalino through the torn space channel.
After knowing how strong the enemy he would face next was, Boros was not nervous at all. Instead, he grinned with excitement.
Charlotte Linlin and Kaido couldn't help but feel weak in the knees when they saw this smile. Every time they saw Boros smile like this, they would be beaten up by this one-eyed monster.
Even with Charlotte Linlin's "Iron Balloon" and Kaido's incredibly strong physique, they could not withstand Boros' extremely terrifying violence.
Fortunately, this time the people targeted by Boros were not them. After completing the task assigned by Borsalino, Boros closed his eyes and rested again, looking forward to the series of battles in a few days.
On the other side, after receiving the devil fruit sent by Boros, Borsalino also breathed a sigh of relief.
"Well, this mythical beast one is for Tornado, the ancient one is for Xiao Yan, and the rest should be enough for Orochimaru to eat..."
Borsalino muttered to himself as he sent out the devil fruits one by one through the chat group.
Ever since Orochimaru discovered that the teleportation function of the chat group could allow the beast forms of animal-type Devil Fruit users to "smuggle" into other worlds, animal-type Devil Fruits had become Borsalino's priority strategic treasures.
However, Devil Fruits are not very common, and after deducting the 'useless' superhuman and natural types, the number of animal types left is even more limited.
Even with the size of the navy, they only collected three animal-type devil fruits in a short period of time.
Fortunately, Boros was helpful enough and sent a rarest mythical beast species, which solved Borsalino's urgent problem.
After delivering the devil fruits, Borsalino reopened the chat group and @ed several recipients to remind them to sign for them.
[Borusalino: @Blizzard @Xiao Mei @Oshimaru's devil fruit is sent over. Remember to give a good review after receiving it~]
[A passerby who wants to hug Luo Feng's thigh: Mr. Kizaru, you got it done so quickly, can you tell me what fruit you gave me? ]
[Borsalino: Fubuki's is a mythical beast, Xiao Mei's is an ancient species, and the rest are ordinary animal types...]
[Borusalino: @Kamado Tanjiro Tanjiro, would you like to get a devil fruit to improve your strength? ]
[Xiao Mei: I have received it! My cousin asked me to thank him on his behalf! ]
[Orochimaru: Haha, it looks like I can try some more interesting experiments...]
[Fubuki: I got it too. My sister said she is on her way here. After she eats the devil fruit, we will go to your place together.]
[Borsalino: Ahem, there’s no need to be so anxious…]
[A passerby who wants to hug Luo Feng’s thigh: Wow! A mythical beast species?! I’m so envious. If I had known earlier, I would have been more patient and waited for Mr. Kizaru to help me find a mythical beast species...]
[Graybara Ai: No need, I think the gorilla and you are quite compatible...]
[The passerby who wants to hug Luo Feng's thigh: It is an animal type, ancient species, gorilla fruit, and King Kong giant ape form! ]
[Grayfield Ai: Isn't that a gorilla? ]
[Tanjiro Kamado: Um...what is a devil fruit? ]
[A passerby who wants to cling to Luo Feng: Well, you can understand it as gaining some special abilities. If you are lucky, you can eat a powerful devil fruit and take off~]
[Borsalino: It's similar to what the passerby said, but after eating the devil fruit, you still need to train and develop it to become stronger. ]
(End of this chapter)