I formed the El Cat Investigation Team in Pirates.

Although Xie Wen was somewhat surprised by Shi Ji's enthusiasm, he wanted to know the location of his air base, so of course he would not refuse the other party's invitation.

"Jie hahahaha!"

Shiki was very happy to get Xie Wen's response. Originally, he had planned to contact several pirate groups that he thought he could win over, but now...

Naturally, the task of recruiting "cannon fodder" would be postponed, and instead, one would focus on winning Xie Wen's support.

"In that case, let's go back! Just follow my pirate ship."

Shiki walked to the side of the Toot Toot, stretched out one hand and gestured twice, and the hovering airship in the distance immediately changed direction. Then he floated away from the deck of the Toot Toot and flew towards his own pirate ship.

Because he was worried that Xie Wen would misunderstand, he did not mention his intention to use the power of the Float-Float Fruit to control the Toot-Tot to act together. Even his hands were very quiet and did not touch the Toot-Tot.

Xie Wen, who had been paying close attention to this, heaved a sigh of relief. He was indeed worried that after he fell out with Shi Ji, the other party would use his ability to control the Dudu or something. But now it seems that Shi Ji is sincere enough in wanting to form an alliance.

But if I do this, wouldn’t it be difficult for me to turn against him later?

After all, Shiqi was planning to give him his "prosthetic limb"!

Of course, Xie Wen would never really let Shi Ji go just because of this small favor.

Moreover……

Shiki also has a Float-Float Fruit blind box on him! So I can only say "sorry" to him.

Xie Wen rubbed his chin and sighed in a fake manner.

"Brother Xie Wen, are we really going to cooperate with that old man? Klee doesn't like him very much. His 'voice' sounds evil."

(=w=)

Seeing that Xie Wen really let Dudu follow, the little puppet gently pulled his ear to remind him.

"Of course not," Xie Wen rubbed Klee's little head and explained, "Didn't I hear him say there's a strange plant called IQ? Let Xiao Ai go and see what's going on first."

The other things were not easy to explain, so Canglanxing wanted to save trouble and simply pulled out Huiyuan Meowth as an excuse...

Anyway, he had plans in this regard, and it was not that he was completely fooling Klee.

As expected, the little puppet's observation Haki was unable to detect anything wrong. After getting the reasonable explanation, she turned around and started laughing with Duduhao.

On the other hand, Huibara Cat was very satisfied with Xie Wen's "deliberate" care for him. He hugged his head and licked it a few times, then jumped off his shoulder and put his head close to Xie Wen's hand.

Naturally, Xie Wen stroked Huiyuan Cat's head very well.

……

"Well, this direction..."

After flying for a distance following Shiqi's pirate ship, Xie Wen, who had noticed something, took out the hunter's manual and opened the map.

On the dynamic map, their direction and approximate destination are clearly visible.

“Is it really the Calm Belt?”

That's right, this guy Shiji is PDST for bad weather like storms, and he does not have a good relationship with bad weather. The two major failures in the original book were related to the climate, so it is very reasonable that he would choose to place the base in the calm belt where he would not be encountered by wind and rain at all.

Even if we put aside these metaphysical things, from the perspective of safety and privacy alone, the Calm Belt would have been Shi Ji's best choice.

The flying pirate ship controlled by Shiki's ability and able to receive wind and human acceleration is not slow. The speed of the Toot Toot is even more so. After switching to the Sky Comet Dragon form, only a few people in the world can catch up with her. Even in the floating dragon form, she can still use fire jets or electric transmission to accelerate.

So soon, they arrived near the doldrums.

"Brother Xie Wen, look! It's Sky Island Cat!"

(=`=)σ

Klee stood on his shoulder and pointed to the distant sky. Several islands that looked only palm-sized were looming in the clouds.

Obviously, Shiqi did not place the base too deep into the doldrums, but only in the marginal area.

[Thank you, brother Wen. That old pirate is here again, meow.]

(=ΦwΦ=)

Duduhao, who was lying on top of Xie Wen's head, also made a "voice" to remind him, and then she jumped off Xie Wen's head and dived into her own body with a beautiful entering-water posture.

"Jie hahahaha!"

Before Shiqi's men arrived, that iconic laugh was already heard.

"Did you see it? That's the base of our Flying Pirates!"

After landing on the deck of the Toot Toot, Shiki pointed to the "sky islands" in the distance and said proudly.

then……

He started dancing again.

Xie Wen: "..."

After another eye-catching dance, Shiqi opened his arms to the air and excitedly added the last name.

"STRONG-WORLD!!!"

Well, Xie Wen now finally knows where the name of the movie "World of the Strong" came from.

"So, these islands aren't really sky islands, but ones you sent to the sky with your fruit power, meow?"

(=w=)

Huiyuan couldn't help but say, "But the air pressure and temperature in the sky are different from those on the ground, right? Wouldn't this affect the growth of the plant called IQ?"

Shiki looked at Haibara Meowth with some surprise. He was not surprised that Haibara Meowth knew about Sky Island. After all, the Toot Toot could fly, and Sky Island was no secret in the second half of the Grand Line. It was just because Dr. Indigo had also said something similar.

"Hahaha! So you are Xie Wen's ship doctor?" Shi Ji laughed after being surprised, and then answered patiently: "But you can rest assured about this. Wilmeyou was originally a high mountain island above the clouds. I just moved it from other places to the Windless Belt. The altitude has not changed much."

"I see..." Huiyuan nodded in understanding, and then asked, "After we land on the island, can you give me some IQ to study, meow?"

"Hahahaha! Of course no problem! If you need, I can even show you the research materials!"

Shiqi promised very generously.

The reason why he was so generous, besides wanting to win over Xie Wen, the main reason was that he didn't take Huibara Cat seriously at all.

As for the Felynx Survey Team, his long-cherished "ally", Shiki had done a lot of homework, so he naturally recognized that Haibara Meowth was the "Cat Brain" with the lowest bounty in the entire survey team.

Perhaps the bounty was low because the ship's doctor was not responsible for combat, but considering Haibara Meow's medical skills, Shiki also didn't think the bounty could be very high.

After all, for a cat-like creature who obviously doesn't look like an adult and has probably studied medicine for less than two years, it's already amazing that he knows a little bit about medical skills and pharmacology. How could he know more about pharmaceutical research than his right-hand man, Dr. Indigo?

I guess even if you put Indigo's research materials in front of this little kitten, she wouldn't be able to understand it.

Shiqi thought with some amusement in his heart.