【One Piece】Dawn in the Darkness

"What about Baron!?" Lucci hid in the corner and listened quietly to the conversation of the navy passing by. "No wonder he felt familiar. It's so unfortunate that he fell into the center of the fortress that the navy is proud of." Thinking of the commander of this base, Lucci sighed. He really didn't expect to meet him again.

"Hey, man!"

Lucci turned his head and looked in the direction of the voice. There were two strange men, neither of whom was wearing a navy uniform. One was short and fat, and the other was tall and thin. The tall and thin man was the one who spoke. They did not look like the navy of this fortress. Lucci pretended to be serious and asked, "Who are you? Baron is on alert. Unidentified people are not allowed to walk around freely."

"We are the chefs of Marijoa. We came here on the warship that just arrived at the port." The tall man answered while handing his ID to Lu Qi. "We two brothers were invited by the kitchen manager here."

"This fortress is like a maze. We are lost. Can you take us to the kitchen?" another asked impatiently.

"Of course, please follow me," Lucci said as he led the two men to a secluded location.

……

After dealing with Zoro and his sword, Nami looked at the huge training ground in front of her with some despair. While cleaning, she kept thinking, why did she come here to do such a thing? She is not a real navy!

Nami reacted and angrily threw the mop and bucket aside. "This can't go on. She needs to change her identity!"

A moment later, Nami, who had changed into a nurse's uniform, patted her clothes happily and walked confidently in the corridor, "Now there will be no problem at all!"

At this moment, several nurses suddenly rushed out from the end of the corridor and pulled Nami towards the infirmary without saying a word.

"It seems that this warship has encountered a tropical hurricane and suffered serious damage, but now is not the time to do this. We must quickly find the Golden Merry and escape from this damn place!" Nami thought absentmindedly while bandaging the injured soldier's arm.

At the same time, Chopper was chased by the navy and hurriedly hid in a box of deer antlers, and was then sent to the navy's infirmary.

After Nami left, Zoro kept reaching out to grab the three knives placed on the tree on the cliff on the balcony, but he was always just a little short. When he finally touched them, the three knives suddenly fell down.

Zoro immediately loosened his grip on the balcony edge and quickly chased after the knife as it fell off the cliff. Naturally, he and the knife fell into the sea below.

Zoro successfully got the knife, swam up from the bottom of the sea, stuck his head out of the water and took a long breath, "Huh! I'm coming up." Before he could react, a dozen guns suddenly surrounded him and pointed at his head.

"Welcome to Nabaron, the pirate hunter, Roronoa Zoro." Jonathan said to Zoro who popped his head out. He had just witnessed the whole process of Zoro falling into the sea with a knife in his hand on the balcony, and had been waiting for him to surface.

Zoro looked at the marine speaking in silence.

……

"What about Baron?" Sanji repeated as he changed his shirt. "That iron-walled fortress that the navy is so proud of?"

"It is also the best natural defense base owned by the Navy. The main reason why this base is considered an iron wall is the commander of this base." While waiting for Luffy and the others to change their clothes, Lucci told them the information he had learned.

"The most important thing now is not the closed fortress itself, but their commander. The commander of this fortress is a vice admiral named Jonathan. He is a very smart and observant person. He is best at strategy. He is also an old friend of Admiral Akainu. He is also quite capable."

"Lucci, how do you know so much?" Sanji asked puzzledly.

"We've met before." Lucci scratched his hair, thinking of the mess they had made in this fortress last time, and said awkwardly, "We've been on a mission here before."

"Then you should be very familiar with this place!" Sanji said in surprise.

"That's true, but now everyone is scattered. We need to gather with others as soon as possible and find the Merry." Lucci said seriously, "We must get out before 9 o'clock tonight, otherwise it will be very troublesome."

"Okay, let's go eat now!" Luffy shouted impatiently after changing his clothes.

"Well, remember that you two are the chef brothers from Marijoa." Lucci said as he handed the ID cards to Luffy and Sanji. "Oka and Os."

"I see. What about you?" Sanji asked.

"I'm just an ordinary soldier." Lucci looked at Sanji and said with a sly smile, "Hello Mr. Os, I'm Nick. Next, I'll take you to the kitchen."

"Okay, thank you for your help." Sanji replied with a smile.

"Lucci, let's go!" Luffy didn't care about what they said about disguise, he just wanted to eat.

"Idiot." Sanji shook his head helplessly, feeling that they would be exposed soon.

"Let's go." Lucci said with a smile, and then took Sanji and Luffy out. They walked through the corridor and arrived at the cafeteria smoothly. Fortunately, they did not encounter any navy who questioned their identities.

"It's the smell of meat!" Luffy stared at the door in front of him and drooled. He was completely attracted by the meat and his body moved forward involuntarily.

Seeing this, Sanji immediately grabbed Luffy's collar to stop him from moving forward, and said helplessly, "Don't you know what patience is?"

"I only know what it means to eat as much meat as you want!" Luffy retorted.

"It will be ready soon." Lucci said with a chuckle, then knocked on the door, opened it and led them in, and said to the chef inside, "Hello, these two are..."

"Are you two the chef brothers from Marijoa? Idiots who spend 100 million Baileys on food every week." Jessica interrupted Lucci and looked at the two people behind him. She said with a bad face, "No matter how noble the place you worked in before, I will not let any chef who I don't approve of set foot here!"

Sanji glanced at Lucci in confusion.

Lucci shrugged at Sanji. He was a little surprised by this situation. They could only hope for the best.

However, with Sanji's cooking skills, there should be no problem. Lucci was not worried at all. He turned around and left the kitchen and went to the cafeteria outside to prepare for dinner. There was no other way. He was also hungry. If nothing unexpected happened, the food would probably be made by Sanji.

While Sanji was having a cooking competition with the navy chefs, Lucci had already taken a lot of other food from the buffet table nearby and found an inconspicuous corner to start eating.

Lucci took a big bite of the meat on the fork and glanced around the room casually while chewing. All the navy officers in the cafeteria hall had rushed to the kitchen door, watching the cooking competition going on inside with excitement and anticipation, exclaiming from time to time.

"The new chef wins!"