dmims Chapter 165 The Chaotic Steel Island
Chapter 165 The Chaotic Steel Island
Chapter 165: The Chaotic Steel Island
Mu Chong listened quietly to Lorian's statement without saying a word. He hadn't expected that the decision he and Yixiao had made on a whim would have such a significant impact.
"Phew!! Hero! Tell me how to survive!"
As if making a momentous decision, Lorian exhaled a deep breath, slowly raised his head, and looked at Mu Chong with unwavering eyes.
Upon hearing Lorian's question, Mu Chong's face broke into a happy smile.
At that moment, even the candlelight seemed to brighten, illuminating the small room.
Who would choose to die if they could live? Neither CP's number four nor Vice Admiral Lorean had the resolve to die.
Imagine an extremely thirsty old man with a bottle of water on his left and a bottle of poison on his right. Which do you think he would drink?
Only when the candle was almost burned out did Mu Chong slowly leave the room where Lorian was, carrying a diary filled with dense writing in his hand.
When Mu Chong returned to the room where CP member number four was, the candles had gone out, and number four was lying on the wooden planks like a lump of mud.
"You...I...I've finished writing. I finished writing it before the candle burned out!"
Seeing Mu Chong enter the room with a candle, Number Four regained his will to survive and immediately defended himself.
Mu Chong ignored Number Four, instead looking down at the notebook on the ground. With a flick of his wrist, he activated his Power-Power Fruit ability, and the notebook floated lightly into his hand.
Swish!Swish!Swish!
After glancing at it casually for a few moments, Mu Chong then picked up what Lorian had written and compared it with his own notes.
Mu Chong's action caused Number Four, lying on the wooden plank, to narrow his eyes rapidly. A tremendous sense of panic instantly enveloped his entire body, and cold sweat poured down his back.
The room was unusually quiet, save for the sound of Mu Chong flipping through his laptop.
a long time!
Mu Chong closed the two notebooks, turned and walked out of the room. Just as Number Four was about to speak, a calm voice entered the room.
"Stay alive! Tomorrow, I'll arrange for someone to bring you food!"
As Mu Chong's voice faded, the room fell into darkness and silence once more.
……
Meanwhile, in a village on Iron Island shrouded in darkness, in a house that had already been ransacked by pirates, three men dressed in different ways were sitting around a square table talking.
"Hassite! What should we do? I didn't expect that old guy Brute to be so resilient. Davis and his pirate gang have been attacking for days and still haven't taken them down. Are we just going to keep at it like this?"
A man wearing a black overcoat, with short, yellowish-green hair parted in half, and appearing rather thin, spoke to the man next to him.
“False Horse! Asking Hasit won’t help. We can’t contact that guy Number Four, so we have no idea where that ship is. All we can do now is keep Davis attacking the Kingdom of Driggs! We can’t give them a chance to breathe!”
Just after the short, yellowish-green haired man, Pseudo-Koma, finished speaking, a man dressed in purple samurai attire, with a neatly trimmed beard, and who looked somewhat older, spoke up.
"But……"
"False Horse! Tomorrow, go and pressure that Finance Minister again, make him put pressure on the old emperor, and make him use the Heavenly Gold to quell the war!"
Just as Pseudo-Koma was about to speak again, Hassett, the only one of the three who hadn't spoken, let out a deep voice.
Hassett, dressed in a grey robe, his bulging chest muscles pushing open the hem to reveal thick chest hair, sat there like a small mountain, a burly man with a fierce, menacing face.
"Okay!"
Having received a reply from the fake horse, Hassett paused slightly before speaking again.
“Solis, make contact with Captain Davis again tomorrow. I suspect that this guy didn’t put his full strength into attacking the Kingdom of Driggs. He’s a greedy fellow. If necessary, we can teach him a lesson!”
"Hehehe! Don't worry! Hasit! I told you long ago that guy was unreliable, but Number Four stubbornly believed him. Leave it to me tomorrow!"
Upon hearing Hassett's words, the previously composed bearded Solis revealed a ferocious smile.
"Right now, we can't get in touch with Number Four via Den Den Mushi, so we can't get any further instructions. But no matter what, we must get that old bastard Brute to use the Celestial Gold before Number Four arrives!"
"understood!"
"Humph!"
While Hassett and his two companions were discussing their plans in the small house, on the western side of Steel Island, an area almost entirely covered by mountains and filled with massive trees, a vast forest rarely visited by anyone, lay hidden in its heart.
Meanwhile, on the eastern edge of this vast forest, dozens of bonfires of varying sizes burned, and around them sat people feasting and drinking.
This group of people was the pirates that Hasit and the other two had mentioned earlier—the Davis Pirates.
"Captain Davis! Look, several days have passed now. How long are we going to drag this out? The brothers are starting to complain about living in this forest!"
Around a campfire sat six or seven men with fierce faces. Some were eating meat and drinking wine, some were wiping their long knives, some were lying sprawled on the ground, and others were staring intently at the man at the head of the group.
"Hmm? Complaints? Hmph, tell the brothers that if we succeed this time, our Davis Pirates will never have to worry about food or drink again, and we'll have endless Beli. And promise them that on the day the Kingdom of Driggs falls, they can choose any woman in the kingdom!"
The man at the head of the table began to speak slowly, and although his pace was slow, each sentence struck the questioner's chest like a heavy hammer blow.
Davis, the captain of the Davis Pirates, is nicknamed "Bear Davis" and has a bounty of 490 million Berries. He is a Zoan-type Bear-Bear Fruit user, possessing a massive and imposing physique. His over four-meter-tall frame and terrifying muscles give him an extremely intimidating presence.
"Yes, yes, Captain!"
Davis's answer startled the pirate who had asked the question, who quickly nodded in response.
"Olo, any new news from over there? We've been dragging this out for so long, and that damn guy hasn't even made a single move? Isn't that a bit strange!"
Davis ignored the pirate who had asked the question, and instead turned to a man sitting in the darkness beside him and asked...
"Captain Davis! We haven't heard from that guy since we last contacted him. He must be on his way. But we don't need to rush. The ones who should be worried are those three guys on the island. They're probably getting restless by now!"
Oro, the vice-captain of the Davis Pirates, prefers to hide in the dark and vehemently hates light. He always wears a black overcoat, completely wrapped in it, and a wide-brimmed black hat. He also wears a black skull mask that he never takes off.
"Hmm! Then let's wait a bit longer! But, Olo, do you think that old guy Brute might try to curry favor with me by using that Heavenly Gold?"
Davis was already used to Oro's behavior; the man was always like this. However, it was precisely because of him that the pirate crew had repeatedly succeeded.
"Screech! He will! Even if he doesn't, someone will force him to. Those heartless bastards won't let him get away with it. How can someone targeted by the Celestial Dragons possibly live a good life!"
When his captain asked him a question, Olo, who had been keeping his head down, answered in detail, but no one could see the expression on his face beneath the mask.
Iron Island is currently in a state of extreme chaos, with the three factions engaging in intrigue and scheming against each other, but Mu Chong, who is aboard the Freedom, is completely unaware of all this.
And he, accompanied by the vast starry sky, was slowly making his way towards Steel Island.