Around nine o'clock in the morning...

At this time, Portgas D. Ace, the captain of the second team of the Whitebeard Pirates, who has the ability to burn fruits and is nicknamed "Fire Fist", is powerful and has a bounty of 550 million Baileys. There are only more than three hours left in the final public execution.

And in the No. 60 area of ​​the Chambord Islands, outside the government access and naval headquarters base, a large group of residents who were transported here to take refuge are watching the images on the large projection screens through video phone bugs. The situation of the execution ground in the marine fortress of Vendor.

At this time, people can already see from the projection of the phone bug:

Numerous naval elites were waiting in line. The two sides of the execution platform and the surrounding auditorium were full of naval elites at the rank of naval officer. They were motionless, standing majestically at their respective posts like statues.

Compared with the situation where Roger, the Pirate King of the previous era, publicly executed and let people gather to watch, that kind of formation is completely in a different state.

"Ouch!"

"The time is coming soon for this formation. Presumably, Whitebeard has already arrived at Marlin Vanduo, right?"

"Who knows..."

"But will he really show up?"

"You have also seen that there are so many navies, and they are all elites. Even the white beards probably wouldn't dare to show up, right?"

Under the large projection screens, the residents who were watching and waiting for the development of the situation began to discuss in a low voice.

"yes…"

"Even if it's a white beard, he's a man of his age. Does he really dare to go?"

"It's hard to say..."

"Cough~!"

"After all, he was a character before the era of the great pirates, and he should be very old now. It seems that there is no news about him at all recently. On the contrary, the rookies of the pirates are more active."

"Yes, I haven't seen him in the newspaper news for several years."

"..."

"Hey!"

"What nonsense are you talking about?"

"??"

"Don't you think about it, if it weren't for the fact that the other party would go, the Navy Headquarters would have summoned so many elites, even Qibuhai had been forcibly recruited, and almost all the troops were used to stand up for it?"

"besides!"

"If we didn't get the exact information, how could we all be transported here for refuge?"

"Well…"

"It makes sense!"

"There is more!"

"That Straw Hat Pirate Luffy and that scary Ugly Pirate will definitely show up then!"

"Bear, bear kid?"

"That's right, it's her!"

"!"

"how do you know?"

"I'm afraid you haven't heard of it? Just the day before yesterday, the big prison city was attacked by the straw hat pirate Luffy and the bear boy Annie. They managed to break in, and finally saved a lot of people and left safely. Now The Navy is still covering that matter!"

"!"

"You, how do you know?!"

"how do you know?"

"Hey! Because my son is the Major Admiral of the Navy. He is on duty in the confidential department of the Marshal's Office. Let me tell you, this matter is no longer classified. It will be made public soon after the war is over."

"hiss…"

"That, that's a big deal!"

"Now, tell me, who will win in the end?"

"It's hard to say..."

"well…"

"What will this world become?"

"..."

"..."

The group discussed for a while, and then soon gradually fell silent, and began to look up at the several large projection screens with dignified and somewhat ugly faces.

What is the result? It is useless for them to say anything now. It is not based on their will. Apart from staring at the screen and paying attention to the development and direction of the situation, ordinary people without power can do anything no.

'Pirate Whitebeard, scarier than ghosts;'

‘There are also bear children, let the bear bite the general. '

'The flames are burning, **** sit down;'

'Raise your legs and step on your stomach, and your crotch is full of poop! '

Not far away, a group of innocent little kids were playing skipping rope, while singing nursery rhyme doggerel in that kind of baby-like tone.

If Admiral Huang Yuan was here and heard it, maybe he would be so angry that he vomited blood, and then fell to the ground and died?

Naturally, the yellow ape is now on standby in the fortress of the Marine Headquarters of the Navy, so I'm afraid it won't be easy to hear.

But at this moment, the same thing is happening all over the world, in the four seas of southeast, north, west, and the great sea routes. People all put down what they were doing, gathered around various phone bugs, and waited for today. The result of this public execution.

Of course, to be more precise, it should be waiting for the final result of today's war?

The sun is getting higher and higher, and the sun is getting hotter and hotter.

Seat of the Naval Headquarters, Marine Vandeau Island.

Usually, outside the fortress of the navy, on the other side of the naval port, in this large town where most of the families of the naval officers and soldiers stationed at the headquarters live, at this time, it is always very lively, with countless officers and soldiers Families or residents who do business here go to the market, or are busy in the streets and courtyards long before the sun rises.

but…

Today, it is quiet here, the whole town is dead silent, there is no sound of people at all, whether it is the market, street, courtyard or various shops, all the doors and windows are closed at this time.

At the same time, the streets are also slightly messy, only stray wild dogs or unattended wild cats lazily basking in the sun on the spacious streets, and looking around suspiciously from time to time.

Obviously, their simple brains don't understand why those terrible biped creatures in the past suddenly disappeared today?

"..."

Suddenly, in this deserted big town, a man was wearing a small red waistcoat, blue half-leg jeans underneath, straw slippers on his feet, and a straw hat on his head. A sixteen or seventeen-year-old boy suddenly appeared here, and successfully scared away the black wild cat that was lazily lying in the middle of the road basking in the sun and yawning.

"So it is!"

"Annie!"

"Come and see!"

"The notice says that all the townspeople have taken refuge, and the navy sent warships to send them all to the Chambord Islands, which are the closest to here."

That's right, the sixteen or seventeen-year-old boy who was talking and scaring away the black night cat just now was Luffy!

At this time, he was standing on the bulletin board on the street, and after looking at the sternly worded evacuation notices posted on it, he finally knew why the town of Marin Fanduo was so empty that there was no one there.

Fortunately, he just thought that these residents had all gone to the naval base to watch the public execution, and was about to lose their temper, but finally found out that this was the case?

"..."

|?˙?˙)?

"There's really no one left..."

(?~?)

Trotted and hopped to the side of Luffy, and glanced at the notices posted on the white wall on the side of the street, Annie sighed in frustration.

"it's a pity!"

ε=(′ο｀*)))

Fortunately, she specially teleported herself and Luffy here just now, thinking to buy some delicious food first, and then mix with the crowd to watch Ace's public execution.

But in the end, not only was there no food to sell here, but even the residents who could have been onlookers were all taken away by the navy for refuge?

"It seems."

"It seems that there are only two of us left in this town..."

Looking at the empty streets and the shops and residential buildings with locked doors and windows on both sides of the street, for a while, Luffy didn't know what to do.

"Annie, what should we do?"

"It must be difficult to save Ace now, right?"

Turning his head to look at the towering mountain-like naval fortress in the middle of the island, and seeing the countless elite naval officers standing on the high wall above, Luffy's expression became even uglier.

Although he really wants to break into the navy's execution ground right now, no matter how stupid he is and he doesn't like to use his brain to think, he knows that if he dares to act rashly before the people with white beard appear, not only will there be no way to save them. Ace, on the contrary, he will be arrested by the navy soon?

After all, there are only him and Anne here now, and Dibaru and Xiaoba are all left on the Sonny, and they are cruising the open sea at this time, and they don't dare to get too close to Marin Fando. They don't have any foreign aid now.

"Of course we can't go now!"

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"Let's find a place to wait. If we are here, we will be discovered by those patrolling navy uncles soon!"

o(′▽｀)o

After finishing speaking, Anne walked aside and walked to a closed pastry shop, first looked up at the 'Closed' wooden sign hanging on the door, and then looked at the locked door.

"..."

(??ω??)

"Alahoo hole is open!"

?(ψ｀▽′)o--*?

It was just a simple little magic, and the big copper lock that was locked automatically opened and fell to the ground. Then Annie pushed the door open and walked in, and saw that there were indeed a lot of delicious food inside. Stuff and lots of seats to sit on.

"hurry up!"

|??ω?`)

"Stupid Luffy, don't look at it, come in quickly, or those patrol uncles from the navy will come and catch you later!"

☆?(o*?ω?)?

Walking into the shop first, and seeing that there was no one inside, Annie turned around and waved to the stunned Luffy outside.

"ah…"

"Annie!"

"What kind of magic did you just do, can you open the lock directly?"

Subconsciously walked over, and then picked up the intact brass lock on the ground, and found that there was no trace of damage, Luffy asked in amazement.

"Just a little lockpicking trick!"

(???3?)

Annie didn't want to pay attention to the other party, and walked directly into the store.

Anne naturally has countless ways to unlock the lock, and the one just now is the simpler one, but the least violent one, nothing rare, if it is not for fear of kicking open the door or twisting the lock directly If it would attract suspicion from the navy, she wouldn't be so troublesome.

"It's amazing!"

"Annie!"

"Doesn't that mean that after we rescue Ace later, we don't need to find the key to open the sea stone handcuffs and ankles?"

Looking at the intact copper lock in his hand, Luffy suddenly thought of the correct usage of the magic that Annie just said, and asked excitedly.

"..."

(￢д￢.)

However, Annie didn't want to answer the other party.

"Come in and close the door, the navy uncles are really coming on patrol soon!"

s(?｀ヘ′?;)ゞ

"besides!"

(??ˇ?ˇ??)

"Don't speak so loudly, otherwise, if you are caught later, they will definitely not rescue you!"

o(′^｀)o hum!

After speaking, Annie walked to the counter of the pastry shop and began to rummage through the containers and ovens.

"oh!"

"you're right!"

Luffy turned around, then stretched out his hands, and soon the two doors were gently closed by him.

Duda~ Duda~!

Duda~!

Immediately afterwards, the sound of neat footsteps came from a distance.

And looking outside from the dim pastry shop, Luffy saw a majestic and orderly navy patrol troop slowly approaching from a distance, he was so shocked that he hurriedly tried to hold his breath, not daring to speak or Make the slightest movement.

"..."

(??~??) Chew~!

At this time, Anne had already found a large basin of pastries that looked relatively fresh and still warm from baking, and then she sat on the counter and ate them.

"..."

Luffy still didn't dare to speak, just listened attentively, until the footsteps of the marines got farther and farther away, he was relieved and turned to look at Annie.

"!"

"Annie?"

"Break into other people's shops and eat other people's food, is that really okay?"

"Wow!"

"tasty!"

"Hmm~"

Although he said that, but the movement of Lu Fei's hands was not slow, he directly pulled the big basin of pastries, and held most of them into his arms, first tasted one, and then his eyes lit up, Then he ate it in big mouthfuls.

"The Lun family... gave money..."

(￣～￣) Chew!

Annie didn't mind, and pointed directly to the empty container inside the counter.

Where are the few golden coins she just threw there, their value is enough for her and Luffy to spend here, even if they eat all the pastries here, there will be no problem.

"So it is!"

"Then I won't be polite!"

"Ennen, umm..."

As soon as he stretched out his hand, regardless of whether the cakes were fresh or not, Luffy brought several pots of pastries to him, and while eating, he listened carefully and watched the movement outside.

"Don't look!"

(O^~^O)

"Spicy white beard will definitely come, just don't worry!"

(lll￢～￢)

Originally, Annie didn't want to come so early. According to her opinion, it would be better not to be too late after the fight between the two sides.

However, I couldn't bear it, that stupid guy Luffy went to knock on her door again after two hours...

No way, when she got angry, she directly sent the other party and herself to the town of Marin Fando when she was very troubled.

"It's useless for you to be anxious anyway!"

??(??￣?￣)????

"Hmmmmm~?"

(￣～￣) Chew!

"Hey! Delicious!"

(???????)

After casually saying these few words, Annie no longer cared about the other party, but began to eat bite by bite in this pastry shop that seemed to be specially for military officers and wealthy families.

"..."

However, it is impossible for Luffy to be completely relieved just because of Annie's few words.

"Ace..."

At this time, in the dim shop with the doors and windows closed, he was sitting cross-legged on a table by the window~lightnovelpub.net~ He kept reaching out to grab the pastry on the shelf in the shop while eating. Staring intently at the towering naval fortress outside the window and listening to the movement outside.

It is less than three hours before Ace's public execution. From now on, he must keep an eye on every move of the naval fortress. Once he finds that Whitebeard is dispatched, once he finds that chaos has occurred, he must rush to the execution ground as soon as possible. Trying to save his brother Ace.

This time, only success is not allowed to fail!

Because, now it is the last moment, this time is not like in the big prison to advance the city, if you fail, there is really no second chance.

 …

It was quiet outside the street, the team of marine soldiers just now had gone far away, and when neither of Luffy and Annie wanted to talk, only the little rustling movements and chewing were left in the shop. 'Hmmmm' sound.

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