The west bank of Boatman Town.
Old Fitz and three boatmen were knocking and knocking, while four or five strong workers were constantly moving planks. The entire ship had begun to take shape.
While knocking on a ship plank, Old Fitz accidentally glanced at the sea in the distance, and suddenly saw a black shadow gradually approaching Boatman Town.
"That's...a navy warship!"
"Did you come so quickly?"
Old Fitz didn't expect the navy to arrive so quickly.
There is no navy branch base near Boatman Town, and the nearest branch base is more than ten days away. If the navy's response is slower, it will not be able to stop him from building ships.
But what he didn't expect was that in just two days, the navy had assembled so many warships to form a fleet and arrived here.
He only thought that it would take ten days to reach the nearest naval base, but he did not think that the navy had already assembled a fleet and had been following Rhodes' ship!
Obviously.
He underestimated the navy's determination to kill Rhodes.
Although Old Fitz has built many famous ships, he has never boarded any pirate ship. He has no problem dealing with young pirates who dare to rob him, but facing the level of combat power of a warship , there is nothing he can do.
"As long as you can get on my ship, no matter how many warships there are, you can easily get rid of them. But now... if only I could have a few more days."
Old Fitz clenched his fists.
At this distance, even if Ross takes the previous ship, he may not have time to escape from the naval fleet. The fleet of five warships, with such a huge combat power, is obviously going to destroy Ross directly here, without giving any chance at all. Chance.
"How can we protect Olvia's children and leave here..."
Old Fitz knitted his brows together, racking his brains to try to find a way to help Ross and Robin escape from here, but he couldn't think of it at the moment.
He knows a lot of people, even the red-haired Shanks has a deep friendship with him, but in this situation, even if he can notify Shanks far away in the new world and ask Shanks for help, Shanks will not be able to help him. It's impossible to fly here out of thin air.
There’s not enough time!
All the methods he could think of were too late in time. The navy ship came too fast, and it was probably chasing after Ross.
"This is really troublesome."
…
North shore of Boatman Town.
In the training cabin of the old ship, Rhodes was standing in the middle of five hanging sandbags, punching out one punch after another, constantly hitting the sandbags swinging around.
Over there, he was building a ship, while here, he spent all his time training, trying to master the Haki of Knowledge and Color as soon as possible.
Exercising every day and practicing every day, Rhodes is sometimes very tired, but he never stops because he knows in his heart that as long as he stops for one day because of fatigue, there will be the second and third days.
He didn't want to let fatigue become an excuse for laziness.
and.
As early as when the talent system first appeared, the system voice mentioned the words "it is recommended that the host not rely too much on the system".
Although Rhodes didn't know the disadvantages of relying too much on the system, the reminder itself was in line with his thoughts, because since the system would appear out of thin air, it might also disappear out of thin air.
If it disappears, won't everything about you disappear with it
Because of this, Rhodes has always maintained the habit of practicing every day. Although the system may not disappear out of thin air, the training will not stop.
call! call!
In the process of continuously punching the sandbags, Ross gradually entered a state of extreme inner peace, as if he could feel every moving muscle in himself and the air flow brought by every breath.
His perspective seemed to suddenly become that of a third party, watching his body standing there, punching the sandbags swinging back and forth.
"This feeling… "
Ross felt very strange.
This is the first time he has entered this state. He has never experienced it in his previous practice. In this state, he seems to be able to observe the changes in every detail of himself.
This state is also a state recorded in that note. It is a state in which every muscle and every sinew in the body can be controlled perfectly in detail.
And once you can enter this state, you will be very close to observing the domineering power of seeing and hearing!
The power of seeing, hearing, color and domineering is not so much the potential of the human body, but rather a power that will be ignored by people in most cases.
For ordinary people, their bodies are too weak, and the domineering energy they possess is also extremely weak, so weak that it has almost no effect.
but.
Even many ordinary people, when facing death and on the line between life and death, will feel that time has become extremely short, as if they can see the trajectory of the bullet fired at them.
This is actually the feeling that occurs when one is on the verge of death and the spirit is strongly stimulated, causing the domineering energy of sight, hearing, color, and color to be completely aroused in an instant.
certainly.
Ordinary people can at most be inspired by the thrill of life and death to have a moment of hegemony. Afterwards, they will probably be unable to capture that state again, and the outburst of hegemony will quickly calm down.
But for characters like Rhodes, what they have to do is to observe the existence of Haki under normal conditions and completely master this power!
"Calm...observation...calm..."
Ross tried his best not to be affected by this strange state of mind, keeping his heart calm and observing his every move.
I don't know how much time passed, but under this constant mechanical repetition, Ross suddenly observed a strange thing lingering on his body, like air currents.
Um? !
Ross's mind was shaken, and he was instantly out of a completely calm state, and the strange air flow instantly disappeared from his perception.
"That's right...that's it!"
There was a trace of excitement in Ross' eyes, and he was not frustrated that he had exited that state, because as long as he could observe it for the first time, he would definitely be able to observe it for the second and third time.
When he is fully aware of the existence of the power of seeing and hearing, he is not far away from controlling and using this power!
call!
Ross took a deep breath, calmed down, and prepared to continue practicing.
However, at this moment, the door of the training room was suddenly pushed open from the outside. Robin appeared at the door with a solemn expression and said:
"Captain, the navy is coming!"
Ross raised his hand and pressed down, stopping the sandbags swinging around, and said: "It's only been two days. It seems that he was already targeted when he was in the Kingdom of Flowers."
Robin nodded and said in a deep voice: "A total of three medium-sized warships and two small warships have arrived. The standard configuration of the West Sea Naval Branch Base should be two medium-sized warships and four small warships."
"In other words, the warships coming this time were either gathered from several nearby branch bases, or they came from places other than the West China Sea."
Ross picked up the leather hat on the table and put it on his head, then walked slowly towards the door of the cabin.
"Five warships really think highly of me. In this case, I can't let the navy down."