"Is everyone here?"
"Everyone is here."
Domino took a step forward with a list in his hand, looked at the CP0 member and said, "Two hundred and ten marines, one hundred guards, four hundred and fifty slaves, a total of seven hundred and ten people."
"Um.."
The man in a suit, who was about 2.5 meters tall and wearing a white mask, nodded and then asked, "Why are these people wearing hoods?"
"Well, this was a request they made themselves. They said it was to alleviate fear, so..." Domino explained.
"Is that so..." The man nodded, then rubbed his chin and said, "But why do I feel something is not right?"
As soon as the words fell, Domino and Ai Li's heart skipped a beat at the same time.
However, Vivian stepped forward and asked, "Excuse me, what's wrong?"
"It's a little unusually quiet," the man replied.
"Quiet?"
After saying that, under Smoker's slightly worried gaze, Vivian took off the hood of one of the marines, pointed at that person and said, "In order to prevent anyone from escaping or causing a riot, we injected tranquilizers into each of them before they came."
After saying that, Vivian reached out and slapped the man hard on the face. The sailor not only did not react, but fell to the ground and fell asleep.
“I see.” The masked man nodded and waved his hand, saying, “The burial site is in the cemetery behind Pangu City. You can take the people there.”
"OK."
...
"Phew! That was a close call."
"We were almost discovered, weren't we?"
"Fortunately, I injected tranquilizers into these guys in advance. Otherwise, even if they didn't make any noise, it would easily arouse other people's suspicion."
Domino was sighing when he heard the faint cries for help from several of the "navy" soldiers in front of him: "Please... let me go... I promise I won't do it again..."
Ai Li listened and glanced at a middle-aged man lying beside the pit, shivering. Just as she showed an expression of pity on her face, she saw Vivian immediately walked over and kicked the man hard in the ribs and said, "Promise not to do it again?"
While kicking him, he also pulled off the hood on the man's head. "Timothy Leopold of the Steel Helmet Pirates, with a bounty of 67 million. He has personally massacred more than a dozen villages before entering the New World. He has killed hundreds of people, if not thousands. If I let you go today, those innocent civilians you killed will probably come to me in the middle of the night to claim their lives, right?"
Yes, that's right, the more than 700 "navy", "guards", and "slaves" wearing masks at the scene are all pirates in disguise.
Most of them were prisoners who had been captured by the navy recently and had not yet been classified and sent to Impel Down for detention. Among them, nearly 500 were crew members of the Steel Helmet Pirates. The remaining 200 or so were all made up of pirates from the other three pirate groups.
This was the plan Vivian had in mind.
As for where the real "funeral personnel" are
Of course it was hidden in the cabin of the warship.
Vivian had already made a plan. After burying all these guys alive in the cemetery, he would immediately return home. On the way, he used the universal capsule to conjure up a cargo ship out of thin air and sent everyone to his own Kensangmia Island.
"Push them all down," said Vivian.
"receive!"
Upon hearing this, Vivian's subordinates were all very excited and stepped forward to start pushing the prisoners into the deep pit that had been dug in advance.
Not long after, when Vivian personally covered the soil with a shovel, the soundproof cover above the soil had completely dissipated.
But even so, the surroundings were still eerily quiet, as if those more than 700 people had never existed in this world.
"Hiss~~cough cough cough..."
Vivian smoked a cigar, glanced at Smoker, who had been standing in front of the cemetery without saying a word, and said, "I just killed more than 700 people."
"I saw it."
"In the most cruel way possible."
"I know."
"Am I doing the right thing?" Vivian asked.
"Perhaps, instead of killing people, you should say that you saved more lives today?"
"Is that so?" Vivian nodded, then turned around and said, "I'm a little tired. I'll leave the rest of the cleanup work to you. I'll take my people and leave first."
"Okay, I'll take care of everything for you." Smoker reached out and patted Vivian's shoulder, "Go back and have a good rest."
After that, after Vivian hunched over and disappeared from his sight, Smoker sighed, reached into his arms, and began to fumble for the cigar.
About ten seconds later.
“Vivian!
!”
Smoker's roar once again echoed throughout the entire Mary Geoise cemetery.
...
"This plan is going too smoothly. I thought we were going to be discovered by the elevator guards."
In the cabin of the warship, Domino still patted his chest with some regret and talked to himself.
Vivian, who was standing by, couldn't help but smile when he heard this and explained, "Of course it went smoothly. I informed Saint Musgarud in advance. I guess the phone call just now was an order from Saint Musgarud to let us go up."
"Saint Musgarud?"
Domino and Ellie tilted their heads at the same time as they heard the name for the first time.
"Well, just a friend of the Celestial Dragons." Vivian waved his hand without further explanation, but turned his gaze to the group of navy soldiers behind him who were also crowded in the cabin.
"We are about to leave the Red Earth Continent. What are your plans? Do you want to go back to your hometown, or do you want to go to Kensangmia Island with me..."
Before Vivian finished speaking, many soldiers immediately expressed their opinions: "Of course, we will follow you, Lord Vivian, to Kensangmia Island."
"General Vivian... We, our families have been monitored by the World Government. If we go back now, they will probably be implicated as well."
"So, I beg you to take us in."
As they spoke, many people knelt on the ground at the same time and begged Vivian.
"Don't beg or anything, just get up quickly. Now that I have saved you, I will definitely save you to the end." Vivian said as he released his Armament Haki and lifted up all the people kneeling on the ground.
"Thanks.."
"Thank you, Master Vivian."
“Wuwuwuwu…”
The cabin was soon filled with cries of gratitude.
However, at this moment, a navy soldier ran down the stairs at the cabin entrance in a panic, rushed to Vivian and said, "No... this is bad!
”
"What's wrong? Did the World Government send a ship to follow us?" Vivian asked.
"No...no." The soldier took a breath, swallowed and said, "It's a pirate ship!"
"Pirate ship?"
"Yeah, if I'm not mistaken, the one drawn on the pirate flag should be the logo of the Nine Snakes Pirates, one of the former Seven Warlords of the Sea!"
The words fell.
Vivian: (⊙o⊙)