I formed the El Cat Investigation Team in Pirates.

"What? Red Hair has arrived, and the Navy already knows that I looted the research institute?"

When Xie Wen received another call from Hua Meimiao, he was somewhat speechless. This red-haired girl came too quickly, and besides, why did you just come if you wanted to? Why make such a big fuss?

"Didn't you stop them?"

"I wanted to stop him, but before I could get the Toot to the surface, that guy used a flying slash to cut through the ice, and I didn't have time to stop me, meow."

Hua Mei Miao's tone was also helpless.

In fact, if they had paid full attention to the movements near the Mechanical Island immediately after knowing that Red Hair was coming, they would have had a chance to stop the Red Hair Pirates before they got close. But after all, there are only a group of cats on the ship. You can let them guard for a while, but forget about asking them to watch for several days in a row. Even Hua Mei Miao herself does not have that patience.

"Forget it, just come if you want. We are almost done here, so just ignore him and leave him alone."

Although it didn't have much impact on Xie Wen, he was still more or less unhappy that his whereabouts were inexplicably exposed by Shanks, so after explaining things to Hua Meimiao, he temporarily put aside the matter of Red Hair and continued to copy the information in the Second Research Institute with the cats.

If the redhead couldn't wait and left...

Then just leave.

Anyway, it wasn’t Xie Wen who was looking for him, but he was looking for Xie Wen.

Just as Xie Wen was thinking this, he suddenly felt a faint sense of depression...

"Is this... Dominant Color?"

Xie Wen and the others who were working turned their heads and looked in the same direction. That was the source of the domineering color.

"Is it necessary to go to this extent, Shanks?"

Xie Wen complained with a dark face.

Although Shanks has reduced the intensity of the Conqueror's Haki a lot, most people would only feel some palpitations and depression and would not faint. However, it still feels like an exaggeration to directly use a large-scale Conqueror's Haki to stimulate Xie Wen.

Colonel the gorilla who returned to the port had the same idea.

"Cang, Cang Lanxing has left! If you also want the technology left by Vegapunk, I can make a copy for you!"

Even though Shanks had reduced the strength of his Conqueror's Haki, Colonel Gorillas was now standing in front of Red Hair, and naturally felt even more uncomfortable, so he quickly and tremblingly stated his bottom line, hoping that Shanks could leave quickly.

"Ah... So he came here for Vegapunk's technology? I'm sorry, but I'm not interested in those things. I just want to find the Blue Planet."

Shanks put away his Conqueror's Haki. He was just not sure whether Xie Wen had really left, so he used the Conqueror's Haki to test or notify him. Now that the test was over, he just had to wait for Xie Wen's response.

After Shanks retracted his Conqueror's Haki, Xie Wen decisively said to Miao Erya and the others: "Don't worry about him, let's continue."

What the hell, you exposed my whereabouts and you want to force me out, how can this be a good thing? Just keep waiting!

So, Shanks waited foolishly at the bow of Red Verse's ship for more than half an hour in the cold wind, but still failed to wait for Xie Wen to show up...

"It seems... they have really left..."

Shanks scratched his head, laughed dryly and looked at his deputy captain and external brain, "Beckman, it seems we are a step late."

Ben Beckman shook his head helplessly and said, "That can't be helped. Their ships are too maneuverable... Speaking of which, when you contacted Morgans before, why didn't you ask him for Blue Star's contact information, or ask him to help arrange a time and place for a meeting with Blue Star?"

"Oh yeah! It can be done this way!"

Shanks suddenly realized what was going on and slapped his thigh.

Ben Beckman: "..."

"Well, since we are not welcome here, let's leave first. Then you can contact Morgans and arrange the meeting properly."

Ben Beckman sighed helplessly again and waved his hand somewhat disinterestedly.

Although Colonel Orangutan, who was on guard at the dock, could not hear what Shanks and Beckman were saying on the ship, he could see that they seemed to be planning to leave, and he immediately breathed a sigh of relief.

But before he could even finish his breath, he saw Shanks and the others, who were originally planning to leave, suddenly turned around and looked at the woods behind them.

Immediately afterwards, Colonel Orangutan and his men could also hear a series of heavy footsteps approaching quickly.

Accompanied by the sound of footsteps and rustling that was already approaching, they soon saw a huge snow-white figure emerging from the woods.

It was an elephant made entirely of snow, but it was a mechanical elephant. What was amazing was that this mechanical elephant gave people a contradictory feeling of being both ancient and high-tech.

And Xie Wen, whom Shanks had been looking for, was now sitting on it with Robin and the cats.

"Wow! There are so many people, meow!"

(=ΦwΦ=)

Klee lay on Xie Wen's shoulder, stretching her little head to look down.

"Red Hair Shanks? Why are you here?"

Before Shanks could speak, Xie Wen took the lead and pretended to be stupid.

"Eh? Didn't Morgans tell you? I have something to talk to you about."

Shanks easily believed Xie Wen's performance, or rather, he didn't care about these small details.

"Oh..." Xie Wen nodded, looked at the marines beside him, then looked at Shanks, and continued to play dumb: "So that domineering color just now was emitted by you?"

"Yeah," Shanks nodded as well, then complained, "But you didn't react at all, so I was left here in the cold wind for quite some time."

As a result, Xie Wen spread his hands and said, "I didn't know it was you."

While the two of them were talking here and there, the navy officers beside them were so nervous that they almost fainted. After all, the bounties of Xie Wen and Shanks alone added up to more than 7 billion Baileys, and the highest rank among them was only a colonel...

Therefore, this group of navy officers did not even dare to make a sound, let alone ask Xie Wen about the research institute's affairs, for fear that the other party would find an excuse to kill them.

However, Xie Wen and Shanks had no intention of causing trouble for these navy men. As the Dudu Sea Dragon emerged from the water and switched back to its normal form, Xie Wen and the others also returned to their ship.

"This is not the place to chat. Let's go. I remember there is an uninhabited island not far away. Not only will no one disturb us there, but the climate there is not so bad either."

Xie Wen said hello to Shanks, and then sailed the Dudu towards the uninhabited island.

Shanks quickly asked the sailors of the Red Hair Pirates to catch up, and after hesitating for a moment, he suddenly shouted to Xie Wen in front of him: "Wait a minute! Since your ship has been underwater, how could you not know that I'm here?!"

"Tsk... How did you suddenly become smart? It's a pity that you're still not smart enough..."

Xie Wen smacked his lips and muttered softly.

However, he did not answer the red-haired question, but just asked the Toot to speed up.

"Captain..." Ben Beckman suppressed his laughter and patted Shanks on the shoulder, "Others have already given you a way out, why did you expose it yourself?"

Shanks: "..."