General Lanlin of One Piece

Chapter 830 Sadness and Anger

three days later.

The country of peace.

Ah Yu held a bamboo tube filled with clean water in her hand and walked carefully on the charred ruins, avoiding the ashes that were still emitting black smoke, and approached a tall and thin figure in front of her.

The man was wearing a military uniform that had been smoked black. The cloak on his back was tattered and covered with dark red blood. He was holding a double-edged sword in his hand and was digging the ground.

He was so absorbed in digging that he did not hear the footsteps coming from behind him.

Ah Yu was a little nervous, but she still mustered up her courage and raised the bamboo tube filled with water in her hand, and whispered, "Uncle...Uncle, please...please drink some water."

The man who was digging paused and turned around.

"what!"

When Ah Yu saw the other person's face, she was so frightened that her body trembled, and the bamboo tube in her hand fell to the ground with a slight bang. The turbid water in it spilled and poured onto the hot ground, and white steam immediately came out.

"I'm sorry, did I scare you? This face of mine is indeed easy to scare people. Little girl, thank you for your kindness. You are a kind person. It's a bit dangerous here. The geological movement after the volcanic eruption can easily cause landslides. You'd better go back to the center as soon as possible."

The man's voice was extremely hoarse, like the friction of rusty iron, and an even more terrifying smile appeared on his shriveled face like a skeleton. Then he turned around and continued digging with his only remaining right hand holding the long sword covered with mud and black ash.

He was tall, but his back was hunched and his body was covered in dirt. Even Ah Yu could feel the exhaustion that enveloped him. Every time he dug the soil, a heavy wheeze would come out from his mouth and nose, like an old bellows working under a heavy load.

But he never stopped. He used his only remaining arm to tightly grasp the long sword in his hand, inserted it into the dry and cracked soil covered with black gray, pried the soil open, and then pushed the soil aside with his hands, gradually digging a one-foot-deep pit in front of him.

After digging a hole, he sat quietly beside the hole, rested for a while, then grabbed the sword and started digging a second hole on the ground next to it.

Without seeing the other person's scary skull-like face again, Ah Yu's heart gradually calmed down.

She stood behind the man and watched him dig holes one after another. After watching for a long time, she finally couldn't help it. She mustered up the courage and asked in a low voice.

"Uncle, what are you doing? Digging holes and planting trees?"

"Plant trees?" Peng En, who was busy digging a hole, paused. Without looking back, he pulled a stiff smile and shook his head gently with his back to A Yu. "I'm sorry to disappoint you. I know this poor country has been ravaged by wildfires and burned a lot of forests, but I don't want to dig holes and plant trees. I just want to dig some holes to bury those innocent people who died in the disaster and the comrades who unfortunately died in the battle. Of course, your suggestion is very good. If I can find some living saplings around later, I will consider planting some trees. I think those dead people will not mind, and may even be happy to be buried under a tree, right?"

When saying this, Peng En's tone was relaxed, and there was even a hint of laughter in his voice, but A Yu heard the sound of water drops falling on the ground.

"Go back, little girl. It's dangerous here. Go back to your family."

Peng En stood for a long time, then bent down and continued digging the hole.

A Yu looked at his back for a long time, pursed her lips, picked up the overturned bamboo tube from the ground, and turned away.

She walked through the bamboo forest of Bianli Village that was burned by the lava fire, bypassed the forest path full of huge cracks, passed through a depression where dark red lava was flowing, and came to the ruins of Bianli Village.

In the open space in front of the ruins, all the citizens of Wano Country who survived the disaster gathered here and were making a fire and cooking.

Among the crowd, there were G5 Marines in white uniforms maintaining order.

Ah Yu walked with her head down among the numb and lifeless crowd, listening to the occasional crying of a child beside her. As she walked, the corners of her mouth gradually flattened and tears flowed from her red eyes.

Her master, Tenguyama Hitetsu, did not die in the volcanic eruption, but died in his sleep. And if she herself had not been rescued by the marine who looked like a skeleton, she would have died in the raging mountain fire.

Although Ayu was extremely sad at the moment, she still remembered clearly what her master had taught her before his death: one should be grateful and repay kindness.

Ten minutes later, at the edge of the cliff of Jiuli.

"Uncle, please drink some water."

The little girl's voice rang in Peng En's ears again, and he almost thought that there was something wrong with his ears and that he was hallucinating.

Peng En turned his head in confusion and saw again the little girl who was frightened by his appearance before, and the bamboo tube held high in her hand.

"Uncle, please drink some water." Ayu repeated again. She looked at Peng En with no more fear in her eyes. Instead, she said with gratitude, "Uncle, thank you for saving Ayu. Thank you for your navy for saving everyone in Wano Country."

"You... aren't you afraid of me?" Peng En hesitated and didn't take the glass of water immediately. He leaned sideways, fearing that his appearance would scare the kind little girl in front of him again.

Ah Yu shook his head, "I'm not afraid, because uncle, you are my great benefactor. Master said that people should be grateful, but I have nothing now. Master is dead, and my home was burned down. I have nothing valuable to repay uncle, but uncle, don't worry, I will become a powerful ninja in the future, and then make money to repay you for saving my life."

Her arms holding the bamboo tube were trembling a little, and her stomach was growling with hunger.

Peng En felt a pang in his heart when he saw this. He quickly stuck the sword in his hand into the ground, carefully took the bamboo tube, stood up straight, held the bamboo tube in front of his chest, and asked solemnly: "Can I know your name?"

Ah Yu was stunned. Seeing Peng En's formality, she was a little flustered and stammered, "My... My name is Ah Yu."

"Hello, A-Yu, my name is Peng En." Peng En's skull-like face forced out a kind smile that was scarier than a ghost. "I accept your water. Just consider it as your reward."

"But... this is just a glass of water..." Ayu felt a little ashamed.

Peng En shook his head and said seriously: "No, this glass of water is the best gift I have ever received."

As he spoke, he put the slightly turbid water in the bamboo tube to his dry lips and drank it all without leaving a drop. The sweet water entered his stomach, but hot tears kept falling from the corners of his eyes. His shoulders trembled, he coughed violently a few times, and slowly sat down beside the pit he dug, crying with a choked voice.

"Uncle, why...why are you crying? Is Ayu's water not tasty? I'm...I'm sorry..." Ayu was at a loss.

Peng En shook his head vigorously. "No, I'm just very sad. My comrades suffered heavy casualties, countless innocent people died, Lieutenant General Luo is missing, and even the general has no news. With so many disasters, when will it end? I really don't want to see more deaths."

When Ah Yu heard Peng En's choking and painful voice, she thought of her dead master and couldn't help but feel sad and wanted to cry. But she held back. In Peng En's misty eyes, the seven or eight-year-old girl walked up to him, touched his head, and comforted him: "Cry if you want to, don't suppress yourself. Master said that if you are sad, just cry it out."

Peng En was stunned for a moment, and finally he could no longer hold back his tears, and he burst into tears with a hoarse voice, like a helpless old man.

Most of the Changying Port port collapsed.

"What we can be sure of now is that Law is not dead yet, he is just missing temporarily. If he is dead, then the hearts of Dekalban and others who were taken away by him using the power of the surgery fruit should have returned to their bodies. I guess something must have happened here when all of us were trapped in Uta's world, and someone took Law away."

Yamato, who was wrapped in bandages, spoke in a deep voice to Yun Que who was standing on the edge of the cliff. Yun Que turned around, nodded slightly, and whispered: "Yamato, your guess is right. Something must have happened while we were sleeping, otherwise the Zou Giant Elephant would not have died tragically here for no reason. I think Brother Rorschach must know something, but..."

Having said this, Yun Que's eyes lowered, looking a little dim.

Yamato looked at her thin figure wrapped in many bandages, sighed in his heart, thought about it, and walked up to her and patted her on the shoulder.

"Don't worry too much. Rorschach is a very lucky guy. He will never die. Even...even Kaido couldn't kill him, so how could a mere Devil's Heir possibly hurt him? Maybe when we return to G5, he will already be waiting for us there."

"I hope so." Hibari forced a smile after hearing Yamato's comfort.

But she was still worried.

Because based on the information from Kizaru, Hibari roughly guessed what the terrifying column of light that destroyed Wanbo Island was.

She turned slightly and looked at the vast ocean outside the country of Wano. In the distance, there were several warships and wooden boats. They were Bepo, Kirin and others, who were leading some marines to search for the Minks who had fallen into the sea.

Further away was the huge corpse of the Elephant Lord, as huge as a mountain range.

Being able to cause such devastating injuries to the epic beast, the Lord of the Elephants, and being able to make Wanbo Island disappear in an instant and turn into a huge pillar of light into a bottomless abyss, Yun Que could only think of the thing that Rorschach had once told her.

One of the three ancient weapons as famous as Pluto, the national treasure of the Celestial Dragons in the hands of the World Government, the King of Heaven, Uranus.

Judging from the super strength that Rorschach showed in the Gege world, Yun Que really didn't believe that Barrett could hurt Rorschach. But the reputation of the ancient weapon was too loud. Although he had never seen the appearance of the Heavenly King, the traces it left in this world were enough to clearly prove its terrible power.

The disappeared Valley of the West Sea God, the bottomless abyss on the Judicial Island, and now the entire Wanbo Island that has disappeared.

Enel's Thunderbolt can easily destroy a sky island, but it cannot blast through the ground for thousands or tens of thousands of meters to form such a terrifying bottomless pit.

The power of ancient weapons has exceeded the scope of ordinary human combat power. Even Rorschach may...

Three days have passed since the disaster on Wanbo Island.

After three days of fermentation, this disaster with the largest impact, the widest number of people, and the most casualties in history was exposed in Morgans' world news live broadcast, shocking the world.

The news that the devil's heir Douglas Barrett and the singer Uta's conspiracy killed millions of innocent people spread like a storm, triggering countless condemnations and heated discussions.

An atmosphere of sadness and grief enveloped the world, and countless people who had lost their family members and friends were heartbroken.

Because the G5 ship was destroyed in the previous battle, and because of their own casualties and the subsequent rescue operation for Wano Country, they were unable to rush back to G5 in time.

Now Yunque and others are waiting for G5 and the headquarters to send warships to take them back.

However, Yun Que knew that the warships of G5 and the headquarters might not come so quickly. One reason was the distance, and the other was that G5 and the headquarters had suffered heavy losses in the Wanbo Island incident, and were also extremely busy with the aftermath.

Seeing that Yun Que was still worried, Yamato suggested: "Since you are so worried, why don't we take a warship to Wanbo Island, and I will accompany you to find Rorschach."

Hibari shook his head, "No need. Enel has already gone there. His observation Haki is much stronger than ours. If even he can't find Brother Rorschach, then it's useless for us to go. The most important thing now is to stabilize the current situation. We are not going anywhere. We will just stay here and not let any more accidents happen."

"Well... okay." Yamato had no choice but to agree.

However, soon, with the arrival of a person, the G5 members who were trapped in Wano Country and unable to leave were immediately rescued.

Zephyr, who looked older and had an indelible fatigue in his eyes, fell from the sky and looked towards Yunlark.

"Skylark, get ready. I'm here to take you back."

Marinford, Martyrs' Cemetery.

The afterglow of dusk cast a long and slender figure on Zhan Guo. He sat quietly in front of a newly erected tombstone, with a bag of senbei and a bottle of old wine on the ground in front of him. The shadow of the tombstone covered him and obscured his face.

"The memorial service for the marines has begun, Sengoku."

There were footsteps behind me, and at the same time a soft and old voice was heard.

Zhan Guo lowered his head and did not answer. His hunched back was as stiff as the tombstone in front of him.

Vice Admiral Tsuru sighed, looked over his shoulder, saw the senbei and aged wine placed in front of Sengoku, and his eyes darkened.

"I know you're sad, but... there are some things I need to tell you."

Seeing that Sengoku still had no response, Lieutenant Tsuru continued, "There was news from Yun Que that Luo was most likely not dead. His disappearance might have been man-made. Someone took advantage of the singing disaster to sneak into Wano Country and took him away."

After hearing what Vice Admiral He said, Zhan Guo's body, which had been hunched over for three days, finally stretched out slowly. He turned his head stiffly, revealing an unshaven, haggard, wrinkled old face, and his cloudy eyes showed some fluctuations.

Vice Admiral Tsuru sighed again and said something else.

"Over on Wanbo Island, Borsalino and Enelu sent news that they still haven't found Rorschach."

"Rorschach..."

Hearing Rorschach's name, Zhan Guo's numb expression finally relaxed, and an unconcealable worry appeared in his eyes.

Lieutenant General Tsuru saw his worry, shook his head, and told him something that made Sengoku furious.

"There's news from the World Government that Rorschach has been missing for too long. As the bridgehead of the New World Navy, G5 cannot be without the presence of a general. Considering the importance of G5, they will appoint Aramaki to serve as the temporary governor of G5. If Rorschach is not dead, Aramaki will be transferred back. If it is confirmed that Rorschach is dead, Aramaki will become the new governor of G5 and select new generals."

"What?!" Zhan Guo could no longer hold back the rage he had suppressed in his heart, and clenched his fists. "Why is the World Government doing this? Are they going to kill the donkey after it has done its job? Rorschach has done so much for our navy, and it's fine if they don't think of sending more people to look for him, but they're actually saying such heartless words at a time like this. Aren't they afraid that the entire navy will be disappointed?"

He stood up suddenly and strode out with a look of anger on his face.

"Don't think we don't know that Wanbo Island was destroyed by them! I want to ask the Five Elders what they want to do!"

(End of this chapter)