One Piece: The Legend of Beasts

As soon as Rocks said this, everyone present was shocked. Captain John was so shocked that the bottle of wine in his hand fell to the ground and broke into pieces.

"Do you know what you're talking about?"

Newgate asked in confusion, "Before we officially declare war on the World Government, you need to hide your abilities! Leave this expedition to me!"

"The enemy is a pirate group with a huge fleet. Even if all our forces are added together, they are still slightly inferior in number. It is still difficult for you to fight them with your own army. What's more, the situation on the government side is still unknown."

Rocks walked up to Newgate, stretched out his right hand and gently patted his chest, a confident smile appeared on his face, and he said word by word: "With me here, things will be much easier. With their appearance, they are not qualified for me to use my abilities!"

Newgate listened to him seriously and gradually felt relieved. He scratched the back of his head and said lightly: "You are still as stubborn as before. It's up to you, but as your 'person in charge', I have to go with you."

"Hahahaha! With you here, sinking those fleets is a piece of cake!"

Stussy rushed forward, pressed herself against Newgate, and cried in a delicate voice, "Ah~ Newgate, I want to go with you, too!"

"Hey, Rocks didn't mention you by name, why are you so excited?"

Guroliosa put his hand to his mouth and smiled contemptuously, "Newgate is going to carry out an important mission, not to play house with you!"

"I have a new invention which I am going to use, and which Newgate will certainly like."

Stussy sneered and said, "As for you, I guess you don't have any other skills besides that pretty face, right?"

"Pfft! You mean those 'masterpieces' that are flawed nine times out of ten? Stop making me laugh!"

"Huh? You want to be the first test subject?"

Seeing that they were about to fight again, Newgate had no choice but to say to Rocks: "Let them accompany me. Stussy aside, Guloliosa is good at making plans. It will be much easier for us to move forward with them."

"Haha! You really are interested in them!"

Rocks smiled intentionally or unintentionally, then turned to the two girls and said, "Since your abilities are indeed reliable, I will allow you to participate in this operation!"

"Wow, that's great!" Stusi and Guroliosa shouted in unison with starry eyes.

Rocks stopped looking at them and continued to shout to everyone, "Who else wants to participate in this operation? Take this opportunity to make it clear!"

Looking at this fierce yet interesting leader, Lingling touched her big round belly and smiled: "Well, well, well! I won't go this time. I'll be giving birth in a few days!"

"Chew, chew! I have to take care of her food and daily life!" said the long bread while chewing the bread slices made from the floor.

"Gulp gurgling...it's better for me to stay in the tavern and drink!" Captain John took out a bottle of wine from his arms and poured it into his mouth.

"Forget it. I don't want to fight that guy Shiqi."

"Haha, that's not like you, Wang Zhi! Although I thought so too!"

"Hahaha! Then you're going to miss the chance to make a lot of money."

Rocks smiled maliciously and waved his hand, "I will personally be the commander-in-chief of this operation, leading the troops of Newgate, Stusi and Guroliosa..."

"Wait a moment, Mr. Rocks."

A gentle voice interrupted Rocks's words. Everyone looked out the door after hearing it. Two young men walked side by side and strode into the room. The young man on the left, wearing a helmet, raised his right hand and walked towards the hedgehog-haired man with a smile on his face: "We heard what you discussed just now. We are also very interested in this operation. Please allow us to go with you."

Lingling was a little surprised by their arrival, and immediately said angrily: "Hey! Who told you to act on your own? Come back here!"

"Oh, hehe! Don't be so excited. Be careful not to get a miscarriage!"

Another young man with a pair of horns on his head said with his signature laugh, "When we return safely, we will give you 60% of the treasure chest!"

"Well, well, well! That's more like it."

After hearing his solemn response, Lingling's expression gradually eased, and a bit of greed flashed in her eyes, "Don't let me down."

"There's really nothing I can do against you."

Newgate sighed slightly, turned to Rocks and asked, "What do you think? Although they are still trainee crew members, they have completed many dangerous missions so far. It is not a bad thing to have two more powerful fighters."

"When did you become so talkative?"

Rocks put his hands in his pockets, walked up to the two young men and stopped, looking down at them with a wicked smile on his face, "From the beginning, I decided to take them on the expedition!"

"what?!"

Hearing Rocks' sudden words, Kaido stood there in surprise, and glanced at Uno inadvertently. Seeing that he was still calm, with a faint smile on the corner of his mouth, as if he had guessed the other party's thoughts a long time ago, he immediately realized why Uno brought him here so early in the morning.

"You two will be temporarily transferred from the Lingling team to the Newgate team. Is that okay with you?" Rocks asked the two cadres his last words.

"Well, well, well! I don't care about these things. As long as I get my share of the treasure, that's all that matters!"

"I can trust Uno, but as for Kaido..."

Newgate looked at the young man with a complicated expression, "I'll be thankful if that kid doesn't mess with me. He almost scared me to death ten days ago."

Lingling on the side tried her best to hold back her laughter, thinking of the day when Kaido ignored the advice of others and hunted a sea king without authorization, but was swallowed by it. If she and Newgate had not arrived in time, he would probably have become a pile of excrement by now.

Kaido's face turned red, and he tried his best to suppress his inner anger and squeezed out a far-fetched smile: "Don't worry, I will definitely follow your arrangements this time..."

Captain John swallowed a mouthful of wine and said drunkenly: "Those two kids are young, but they are much more reliable than us old guys. I have no objection. Burp~"

"Chew, chew! These two little brats always do something unexpected."

Baguette chewed on the chocolate bar that was transformed from a steel pipe and said, "Maybe a new era is coming. Chew!"

Stussy smiled and waved: "Ah~ Brother Kaido, this is the second time we have carried out a mission together in three years. Please take care of me again~"

"Humph, don't you have Newgate? Why are you hooking up with another little devil?"

Guroliosa crossed his arms unhappily, looking Kaido up and down, a blush on his face, "He looks quite rough, just the type I like."

"Hahahaha! It's settled!"

Rocks drew out the long sword from his waist, raised it high in the air, and shouted with full energy, "In addition to the people I mentioned before, plus Kaido and Uno, in three days, be ready to go to Shirakko Island and snatch all the items they traded!"

On the street on the west side of Beehive Island, an old woman was using the imperial coin as a walking stick, walking forward shakily, with a cunning smile on her frail face.

—Yo-ee-ee! It went better than I thought! Rocks is pretty easy to talk to!

—Speaking of which, not long after I left, I met a kid with fierce eyes. Even though I have seen a lot of storms and waves, I broke out in a cold sweat when he glared at me! He looks very similar to the wanted criminal named Kaido, so he must be me. That kind of guy is not someone who lives under someone else's roof. Maybe I can make good use of him in the future!

- Forget it, it's too early to think about this. The most troublesome thing is that I finally found someone, but she was captured by pirates again. That's why I ran thousands of miles to Beehive Island. Although I haven't talked to her, I heard that name with my own ears! If I can rescue her, it will undoubtedly be of great help to the revival. It's not enough to rely on me alone, I can only do it with the help of more powerful pirates!

—Whether you are pirates or government officials, go ahead and kill them! The one who laughs last must be our Kurotan family!

Just as she was immersed in her own thoughts, she bumped into a man head-on and fell to the ground with him.

"asshole......"

The pirate with a turban and a full beard rubbed his dizzy head and cursed angrily, "Don't you have eyes when you walk, old woman?!"

"I'm really sorry, my eyesight is not very good. Are you hurt?" The old woman stood up, helped the pirate up with an apologetic smile, and touched his face with her right hand intentionally or unintentionally.

"Okay, I'm fine."

Seeing the other party's sincere attitude, the pirate softened his tone a little, pushed her hand away and slowly stood up, "Be more careful next time, other people's tempers are not as good as mine."

Looking at his receding back, the old woman chuckled and said, "What an arrogant guy, but he just happened to help."

As she spoke, she touched her face with her right hand. Her old face was visibly deformed, and the wrinkles on her face gradually faded away. Before long, she looked completely like the person just now.

"Let's go back to Shiqi first, otherwise they will become suspicious. Eeyore!"

She straightened herself up, hummed a little tune, and swaggered towards Rocky Harbor.

On the turbulent sea, a fleet is sailing forward in a mighty manner.

"We'll reach Shiraguru Island in a few hours."

At the bottom of the cabin of one of the warships, a pirate knocked on an iron railing with a blade and shouted, "You are the most important commodity, don't even think about running away!"

In front of him was a huge cage made of fine steel, which held all kinds of people, including women, the elderly, and babies who were only a few months old.

"Of course, if you really want to run, I won't stop you."

The pirate said jokingly with a smirk on his face, "As long as you don't mind being eaten clean by the sea beasts lurking on the bottom of the sea."

After saying that, he walked out of the cabin and locked the door, and the scene returned to silence.

There were several torches placed on the walls, flickering a faint light in the spacious dungeon.

"Mom, I'm so scared!"

A little girl threw herself into her mother's arms, sobbing. Although her mother was in prison, she kept stroking her daughter's head and comforting her softly.

"In a few days, we will be sold as slaves."

A burly man slumped on the ground and said in a lost voice, "Rather than being deprived of my freedom, it would be better to be swallowed by a sea beast and be done with it."

"do not want!"

A short-haired girl with freckles on her cheeks fell to her knees with a plop. The chains on her hands clanked and she held her head in panic and screamed, "I've seen the miserable conditions of slaves in the Sabaody Archipelago. I don't want to be like them!"

Her crying voice immediately stirred people's emotions, causing more and more people to feel grief. For a moment, the whole dungeon was filled with wailing and wailing.

At this moment, a long "gurgling" sound echoed all around, drowning out the sound of people crying.

"Hmm... I'm so hungry..."

A weak groan came from somewhere, and everyone slowly stopped crying. They all looked towards the source of the sound and saw a figure lying on a pile of straw in the corner of the cage, with heavy shackles on her hands and feet. Due to the dim light, their specific appearance could not be seen clearly, but they could vaguely tell that it was a woman.

"I can't do anything... Is there anyone... who can give me some food..."