"Damn it!"
"Why does trouble appear again and again in the West Sea!"
In the Vice Admiral's office at the Navy Headquarters, Dauberman looked at a document on the table and listened to the report of the subordinate next to him. He couldn't help but cursed angrily.
He was scolded by Akainu because of the Ghost Hand Ross incident before, and he was almost kicked out of the Navy Headquarters to hunt down Ross himself. Now, only half a month has passed since the Ross incident, and another double swordsman has appeared. Pirates.
"Take a fake one and replace it with a bunch of bastards from the G8 branch base!"
After carefully reading the report, Dauberman couldn't help but cursed the G8 branch base on the Grand Route.
Obviously, although the G8 branch base defeated the Ghost Sword Pirates that time, they were unable to capture the Captain Ghost Sword. For the sake of military merit, someone caught a fake one and replaced it. Now that the matter was revealed, the other party directly used the evasion method. It means knowing nothing.
In this case, the most he can do is criticize him for being tricked by pirates and deduct some military merit. It is impossible to directly dismiss him and investigate.
"Lieutenant Admiral Dauberman, what should we do... As for the Ghost Hand Pirates, unless the base commander on the Grand Line leads the team, there will be no way to solve it. The Twin Swords Pirates are also almost difficult to deal with."
A major general responsible for monitoring Xihai asked with a troubled expression.
"It is impossible to dispatch the Lieutenant General's base commander of the Grand Route to the West Sea. This will cause problems in the deployment of the Grand Route's troops. The generals will not agree."
Dauberman clutched his forehead with a headache. It would be fine if there was only one pair of swords. Now there is a more troublesome Ghost Hand Pirates. He never thought that the West Sea among the four seas would be so difficult to deal with.
At this moment, a major general next to him suddenly thought of something and reported in a low voice: "By the way, Lieutenant General Dauberman, after the Ghost Hand Pirates replaced a new ship in Boatman Town, the recent course seems to be in line with the Twin Swords." The pirate group is surprisingly unanimous..."
"oh?"
Dauberman was slightly startled, thinking that wherever Ross went, both the navy and the pirates were destroyed, and he couldn't help but show a hint of thinking.
"If the Ghost Hand Pirates and the Two Swords Pirates encounter each other, they may fight to the death and both sides will suffer. In that case, there may be a chance... Send the order to the nearest West Sea branch to prepare and supervise their actions at all times. No Orders not to act without permission!"
"yes!"
The major general retreated.
…
Ghost Number, training room.
More than a dozen heavy sandbags of different sizes were hanging there and swinging continuously. When Ross closed his eyes, he seemed to be able to see in all directions, avoiding every sandbag with incomparable accuracy.
More than half a month has passed since the completion of the Ghost Shadow. In this period of more than half a month, Ross has completely mastered the Haki of Knowledge and Information. In the interface of the talent system, the branches of Haki of Knowledge and Information have also become The activated golden color.
Nowadays, he can shuttle back and forth among more than a dozen sandbags as easily as eating and drinking. Even in a hail of bullets, he can still walk on the ground with his domineering power.
besides.
Rhodes has never given up on the strengthening of physical fitness and the training of Devil Fruit abilities. The distortion fruit and physical fitness have been slightly improved, and the scope of the power of distortion has become larger.
The Twisted Fruit, a devil fruit, seems to have the ability to develop in countless directions just from the talent tree of the talent system, but in actual operation it is not that simple.
Rhodes tried to develop the ability to distort gravity in advance without improving the system, but the result was a failure. The power of distortion could not touch the ethereal gravity at all.
Obviously, it is extremely difficult to transfer from the distortion of matter to the distortion of illusory power. Without the talent system, it is probably impossible to do it at all. Just like Whitebeard's Shock Fruit, no matter how powerful it is, it cannot shatter the real thing. The space and time are broken, only the atmosphere is broken.
but.
Regarding the direction of distorting sound, Rhodes has made a little progress, because sound is still a little more traceable than gravity.
"about there."
Ross exercised in the constantly swinging sandbag for a while, then walked out of it, went to the corner of the room, put some extremely heavy weights on his back, and began to do simple push-ups and squats.
He had considered using the Sea Tower Stone for training before, but he forgot to collect the Sea Tower Stone stick and bullets when he killed Kapenbeki. Later, it became very troublesome to buy it after going through the underground black markets on several islands. Couldn't buy any.
call! call!
In the constant ups and downs, Ross, who was naked to the upper body, began to sweat, which continued to drip on the cold floor.
The load he is carrying is a very special mineral material in this world. Its strength is average, but its weight is higher than steel. A small piece can hold up a large piece of steel.
With his current physical fitness, carrying a large weight like this would be very effective in exercising.
"One hundred and thirty-one, one hundred and thirty-two..."
Ross kept counting silently in his heart.
Half an hour later.
After finishing a thousand push-ups, Rhodes got up and drank some water. After resting for ten minutes, he started practicing a thousand squats. His physical training was one group at a time, one thousand in one group.
When he finished a thousand squats, even with his current physical fitness, he was still a little out of breath, so after taking a short rest, he took a shower to postpone the practice.
After leaving the training room, Ross came to the upper deck.
Robin was sitting on the side of the deck elegantly reading a book, while the handymen on the ship were busy cleaning the ship's planks, not daring to be lazy.
"The Watergold Sea is ahead, and it's still a day's journey at most."
Ross came to where Robin was sitting, took out the compass and chart and put them on the table. After measuring for a moment, he determined the current position, looked at Robin and asked:
"How is the situation on the island here?"
"According to the information collected, the Watergaard Sea is a chaotic sea with no country. It consists of a total of twenty-one islands, one of which is a large island, six medium-sized islands, and the other fourteen are small islands."
Robin stated the information he had collected previously about the Watergaard Sea area one by one, and combined with Rhodes' judgment on the charts, they quickly determined the location of each island.
Rhodes bypassed a small island directly in front, pointed to a medium-sized island behind, and said: "There is no need to go to this small island with only one town, go directly here... This kind of chaotic sea area without a country, underground forces It’s complicated, and information is relatively easy to obtain.”
Robin nodded.
Two days later, the Ghost arrived at the designated island and anchored near a remote cliff. Rhodes and Robin landed on the island to collect intelligence.
The collection of intelligence this time was easier than expected. Although neither of them collected information about the exact location of Devil Sheriff Lafitte, the location of the Two Swords Pirates was determined.