I formed the El Cat Investigation Team in Pirates.

"Hahaha! Xie Wen, you're finally back! How's it going? My army of ferocious beasts? Although there are some problems with the direction of our research, their strength is still pretty good, right? And Xiao Huiyuan also said that it will only take two or three years to adjust them back!"

As Xie Wen and his companions passed through Daft-Green's protective belt, Shi Ji came up to them impatiently. All he could say was his eagerness to form an alliance and his envy for Xie Wen.

In just a few days, Shiki already understood how big the gap was between Meowth and Indigo, and Indigo himself said that if Meowth had joined the plan from the beginning, it would not take twenty years at all, and Shiki's requirements could be achieved within ten years.

Besides Huiyuan Meow, there is also Meowerya who is only slightly inferior in medicine. And from what the two cats revealed when they talked, the reason for such a gap is that Meowerya is not interested in this...

Xie Wen's ship, the Toot-Too Progress, which made countless pirates drool with envy, was designed and built by her.

Not to mention nature-type cats like Klee and Sharmew, as well as Meowthjuro and Link-Meow who are said to be able to compete with Hawkeye.

Such a situation of so many "cats" could only be seen during the heyday of his Flying Pirates.

It is also because of this that the usually proud "Golden Lion" also lowered his head and tried his best to win Xie Wen's support.

Just like now...

Xie Wen lowered his gaze to Shiqi's legs.

The feet that were originally equipped with blades like the Blue Steel Shadow have now turned into wooden legs that are very consistent with his identity as a pirate, and the detached "Sakura Ten" and "Wooden Dead" are now hanging on Shiki's waist.

Seeing that Xie Wen noticed his feet, Shiqi laughed heartily again.

"Hahahaha! Didn't I say before that I would give them to you?" Shi Ji took off his sword, stretched out his arms and raised them in front of Xie Wen, "As long as you agree to join forces with me, they will be yours!"

"Ugh……"

Xie Wen couldn't help but sigh, "You acted so sincerely that I felt a little embarrassed to turn hostile."

"……what do you mean?"

Shiki stopped smiling and asked grimly.

"That's exactly what it means..." Xie Wen slowly pulled out the fresh knife Shiragi, pointed at Shiki and said frankly: "I never planned to join forces with you from the beginning, it's just that Xiao Ai is more interested in IQ, so I came to take a look, but seeing that you are so enthusiastic, I won't play any tricks."

"Then you really tricked me..."

There was a murderous intent in Shi Ji's words, and the look he gave Xie Wen seemed to be filled with poison.

After all, before this, he really thought that there was a high probability that Xie Wen would join the gang. The current situation was undoubtedly a betrayal to Shi Ji.

Although betrayal between pirates is very common, it is precisely because it is so common that it is even more unforgivable.

What's more, Xie Wen's words almost made it clear that he had taken advantage of him. How could the proud "Golden Lion" swallow this?

"Lion Power·Earth Scroll!"

Without any more nonsense, Shiqi directly attacked Xie Wen. The mud under his feet surged and formed several huge lion heads, which opened their mouths wide and pounced towards Xie Wen.

"Stay out of this, Shiki will be in my care. The rest will follow the plan."

Xie Wen gave instructions to the cats, then swung the Shiragi in his hand at the attacking Lion Head and Shiki who was floating in the air.

Monster hunting flow · Starry sky, moon and earth!

The huge earth and stone lion heads were easily chopped into pieces by the flying slashes, and some of them even penetrated the towering earth wall and continued to fly towards Shiki who was behind them.

"Lion Chiguri!"

Shiki wielded "Dead Tree" and "Sakura Ten" and also slashed out several flying slashes, but after colliding with Xie Wen's slashes, they were instantly defeated, while Xie Wen's slashes did not show any obvious weakening.

"Damn it! If it weren't for the rudder on my head..."

He launched dozens of slashes in succession, and finally even used his unstable Armament Haki, and Shiki barely managed to block Xie Wen's attack, but his expression did not look very good.

In fact, he has always known that his strength has declined, but in the more than ten years after escaping from prison, he has basically not fought with other strong men, so he has no exact concept of how much his strength has declined.

Xie Wen's flying slashes made Shi Ji realize the reality...

Even if his plan was not successfully implemented unexpectedly, the World Government only needed to send an admiral to carry out a decapitation operation, and he would not be able to stop it.

But even so...

"It's not that easy to get my head! Lion's Might - Earth Scroll!"

Since my own swordsmanship cannot defeat him, I will use the power of the fruit to fight!

Shiki, a great pirate whose life had experienced many ups and downs, naturally could not give up so easily. He activated the ability of his fruit again and floated quickly into the sky.

Monster hunting flow · Starry sky, moon and earth!

Xie Wen used the same trick again and cut the lion heads made of mud into pieces, but this time Shi Ji was prepared. Under his control, the chopped mud quickly gathered together again and continued to transform into huge lion heads that bit towards Xie Wen.

At the same time, a large number of bricks, armor, shields and other solid objects flew out from the palace at the rear, surrounding Shi Ji and protecting him.

However, the first test attack had already allowed Xie Wen to understand Shi Ji's current strength level...

How to say it, although he is not quite clear about the strength of Luffy in Gear Third, but if the ability of the fruit is not taken into account, Shiki is probably at the level of 300 million Baileys now. If the ability of the fruit is included, it will be around 1 billion.

He definitely can't beat Katakuri, but he should have no problem tying him down or even defeating Drought Jack with some strategy.

In fact, Xie Wen has always felt that Shiki's Float-Float Fruit is not strong in single combat, but strong in the overall strategic layout. What if he can learn from Yixiao and play the role of Heavenly Justice?

Burying people with mud may seem grand and intimidating, but the lethality is hard to describe, not to mention that everyone in the pirate world is a cockroach...

Even Crocodile, who plays with sand, knows how to develop moves like the Desert Sword!

What Xie Wen wanted to complain about the most was that in the movie, you just buried people, but you deliberately left Luffy and the others' heads exposed, for fear that the Straw Hat Pirates would be suffocated to death in the mud.

I can only say that it is worthy of the guy who spent twenty years to create an uncontrollable animal army. His thinking is very unique.

Or is it the pot of the rudder?

While Xie Wen was secretly complaining about Shiki's various actions, he ignored the lion heads that were rushing towards him from all directions, raised the fresh knife Shiragi behind his head, and made a charging move towards Shiki in the sky...

Monster Hunter Style·Breaking Thorns and Annihilating Spin·Heaven!

"!!!"

Sensing the danger, Shi Ji quickly put all the protective items in front of him, but it was of no avail. This invisible force directly penetrated everything blocking Xie Wen's way and created a circular hole between Xie Wen and Shi Ji.

"Pfft-!"

Shiqi spat out a mouthful of blood and looked down at the hole that also appeared in his chest.

“The Spear of Elbaf? It’s really… a nostalgic move…”

He had fought against giants before, so he naturally recognized this move. What's more, Charlotte Linlin, who was in the Rocks Pirates, also knew this move.

But neither the giants nor the former Big Mom had been able to defeat him with this trick. Unexpectedly, he would fall easily to it now.

"It's really unbearable...Roger..."

Muttering the name of his former greatest rival, Shiki took his last breath and fell from the sky.

Along with it fell the surrounding soil that had risen from the ground, and...

These islands are suspended in the sky.

"hold head high--!!!"

At this moment, a loud dragon roar was heard from below. Kaido, who had transformed into a Sakura Dragon, avoided the surrounding sea water and raised a large amount of flame clouds to support the main island, stopping its falling trend.

Before, I took the cats to tour the island. In addition to opening the maps and illustrations, another reason was to let Kaido Meowth confirm whether he could support the main island with his ability.

As for the other islands, no one lived there and no IQ was planted there, so Xie Wen naturally didn't bother to care about them.

Of course, there is one most important thing to do right now.

Xie Wen quickly rushed to Shi Ji who had fallen to the ground. He didn't bother to pick up the "Ying Ju" and "Mu Ku" that had fallen beside him. He took out the hunter's knife and stabbed Shi Ji in the abdomen...

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