One Piece: The Magician

The bright light in the dark night is always so conspicuous, and almost the entire g8 fortress' attention is attracted to the sky-high flame.

"It's so lively there, what happened?"

Looking at the fire in the distance, Sherlock gently pushed up his glasses with a calm expression and began to think quickly in his mind.

According to his plan, the Straw Hats should keep a low profile as much as possible after reuniting, so as not to attract the attention of the navy.However, Sherlock also knew in his heart that a plan was destined to be just a plan, and there would definitely be some surprises when it was implemented.

Take Luffy, for example, the funny captain. He never surprises anyone in terms of creating surprises.

Moreover, a magician can guess with his buttocks that this guy will habitually appear in a very lively and troublesome place.

"Okay, I think I can get a rough idea."

Sherlock sighed helplessly, then summoned the magic carpet and flew towards the burning place.

G8 Fortress central control room.

"I didn't expect him to be defeated so easily."

Lieutenant General Jonathan looked at the scene displayed on the screen in surprise. Even through the screen, he could still feel how hot the blazing fire was.

The location where they fought before was simply in an open space, otherwise the fire would definitely cause great damage to the G8 Fortress.

"Although the natural system will be restrained by some other natural factors, the effect is not so significant."

Shaking his head, Jonathan asked his adjutant: "It seems that Black Crow is done. What's the situation with Sand Crocodile now?"

"Everything is normal, Lieutenant General."

The young major looked puzzled: "It's strange to say that Crocodile's seastone handcuffs have been unlocked, but he gave up on escaping. I don't know what he wanted to do."

"Now with the help of Major General Alan, Sand Crocodile has put on the sea-floor stone handcuffs again."

"Really"

Lieutenant General Jonathan breathed a sigh of relief after hearing the news. To be honest, he did not expect that this night would be so "lively".

Next, it's time to deal with the Straw Hats. Hum, look at the time, it's almost time to "close the net".

While stroking his mustache, the corners of Jonathan's mouth turned up slightly.

"Tell them to go down and wait until their ship is captured by "Nabalon's Fang" before sending people to encircle and suppress them. Remember, they must be captured alive."

"Yes, Lieutenant General." The major saluted with a standard military salute after accepting the order, and was about to leave when the phone on the table suddenly rang.

"Blu Blu Bleu"

The unique ringtone continued to echo in the somewhat empty central control room. Jonathan raised his eyebrows. For no reason, he felt an extremely bad premonition in his heart.

Raising his hand to signal his adjutant not to leave yet, Jonathan calmed down and then answered the phone.

"Lieutenant General, something serious is going to happen." An anxious voice suddenly sounded from the receiver, and at the same time, the phone bug also made a very expressive look of panic.

""The bearded Lieutenant General's face was as sinking as water.

When Fred was fighting with Luffy, he spread oil everywhere, so after being hit by Usopp's Firebird Star, the entire coast instantly turned into a sea of ​​flames.The billowing smoke was mixed with blazing flames, just like the legendary Red Lotus Hell.

"cough cough"

Sanji coughed violently. The thick smoke and harmful gases produced by burning oil made the old smoker feel very uncomfortable. The high temperature evaporated the moisture in the air, and the skin on his face was baked extremely dry.

"Luffy, where are you?" The curly eyebrow cook was very anxious, because he knew very well that the idiot captain was wrapped in a ball of oil just now.

Sanji vigorously fanned the smoke that blocked his vision. After searching around for a while, he finally found his captain in an open space that was not surrounded by a sea of ​​fire.

"Hey Luffy cheer up."

Sanji grabbed Luffy's collar and shook it hard, but the latter didn't react at all, and his dirty face was as calm as a dead man.

"You guy!" Curly eyebrows were raised again and again. Sanji suddenly had a flash of inspiration when he saw this, and he shouted loudly into Luffy's ears in a hurry:

"Luffy has dinner."

The foodie captain, who was lying in the state of a corpse, opened his eyes in an instant, and then a carp jumped up. This sudden move almost knocked Sanji over.

“Where, where, where is dinner?”

Luffy wiped the saliva from the corner of his mouth and looked around eagerly.But the funny man soon discovered that there was nothing but flames and black smoke around him, and he couldn't help curling his lips in disappointment.

"What? There's no dinner at all." As he said this, the guy's expression became sluggish, and his body began to sway, as if he was about to faint again.

Sanji's head was full of black lines and he kicked Luffy on the head.

"You bastard, don't faint again," the curly-browed cook sighed helplessly. He looked in the direction of the Meili with a very ugly expression on his face.

"The fire here is so fierce that the Meili can't get close to it. How should we get back to the ship?"

However, at this moment, a familiar and magnetic voice came from above the two of them.

"Come up quickly."

Sanji and Luffy looked up and saw the magician floating above on a magic carpet, looking at them leisurely and gently pushing up his glasses with the same classic movements.

"Sherlock" x2

"Bomb what bomb?"

Lieutenant General Jonathan asked loudly at the navy opposite the phone bug. Although he had heard it very clearly before, he really didn't want to believe his ears.

"We found a group of captured navy soldiers and a giant time bomb in the giant safe in the storage room." The navy soldier repeated word for word.

"Although there are differences in appearance and the size is several times larger, after our verification, this giant bomb is the one that the Sand Crocodile originally planned to detonate in Albana."

"Didn't that bomb disappear mysteriously? Why did it appear here?" The Navy Lieutenant Colonel who was listening on the side was so shocked that his jaw almost dropped.

After the arrest of Sand Crocodile, the Navy conducted strict interrogations on almost every member of the Baroque Working Society, but no one knew the specific whereabouts of the giant bomb with a so-called explosion radius of five kilometers. This is also a point that the Navy is focusing on investigating.

"It turns out that the bomb was recovered by the Straw Hats." Lieutenant General Jonathan's face turned extremely ugly, and he didn't look as confident as before.

"I remember it was a time bomb, right? When is it going to detonate now?"

"At 9:30 p.m., there are less than 40 minutes until the detonation." The navy on the opposite side of the phone considered the sentence and continued: "If you open the fortress gate now and order all personnel to evacuate the G8 fortress, it should still be too late. "

The G8 Fortress has always relied on its unique geographical environment. As long as the fortress gate is closed, the inland sea of ​​Nabalon will recede at 9 o'clock in the evening, and the countless reefs on the seabed will surface like fangs. Making it difficult for ships to move forward.

It is true that it is absolutely impossible for the pirates who plan to escape from prison to take a boat after the tide goes out, but on the other hand, the navy cannot escape even if they want to.

The only way to solve the low tide problem is to open the fortress gate before 9 o'clock.

"There's enough time, hehehehe"

Collapsed on the chair, Lieutenant General Jonathan smiled self-deprecatingly and said: "I thought that as long as they held the last line of defense, the Straw Hats would never be able to escape the G8 Fortress. Now it seems that they had no intention of relying on it from the beginning. Breaking through the gate themselves, everything they did before was just to distract us and delay time."

"I didn't expect, I didn't expect that a fisherman like me would be trapped in a fishing net." Jonathan put his hand on his forehead, feeling a sincere sense of frustration in his heart.

This kind of disguised kidnapping is actually not a high-end strategy. If it were normal, the resourceful Lieutenant General Jonathan would definitely be able to come up with many effective solutions, but unfortunately, he doesn't have much time to think now. .

Jonathan knew very well that there were only two choices before him now:

1. Choose to compromise, open the fortress gate to ensure that the water level in the inner sea will not drop, and then order all personnel to evacuate the g8 fortress.But if this is the case, the Straw Hats will take this opportunity to escape.

2. Carry out absolute justice, do not open the door, and fight these evil pirates to the death.However, a conservative estimate is that the giant bomb could destroy at least one-third of the fortress, and the casualties are incalculable.

On one side are the lives of thousands of naval officers, on the other side is the justice that he upholds as a navy.

If it were Sakaski, he would choose the latter without hesitation.

Somehow, Jonathan actually thought of his former colleagues in this situation.He also remembered that the reason why he left the Navy Headquarters and was transferred to Nabalon Fortress was because he did not recognize the absolute justice of General Akainu.

If you look at it from this perspective, this multiple-choice question doesn't seem to be that difficult to choose.

After exhaling a long breath, the bearded Lieutenant General's eyes became clear as he had already made up his mind. He turned to look at the big screen in the central control room and found that two ships were sailing quickly towards the fortress gate under the cover of night.

"Straw Hat Crew" Jonathan half-closed his eyes and said to himself in a voice that only he could hear:

"It's best not to let me meet you next time." To be continued.