Pirates: I, who cultivated phantom beasts, made myself emperor

Cheng Cheng laughed, said no more, and greeted Ace, Sauron, and Usopp to drink with Luffy.

The few of them sat around the deck and clinked glasses happily together.

"For freedom! Cheers!"

Everyone raised their heads at the same time and drank it all in one gulp.

"Ace, don't leave, stay and be my partner!" Luffy said to Ace while drinking.

Ace sat cross-legged on a wooden barrel, scratched his head helplessly and said, "I'm sorry, Luffy, I can't be your partner, and I'm hunting someone down now, and I'm leaving soon."

"That's it, then okay!" Lu Fei suddenly seemed a little lost, and then happily raised his glass to everyone in the next moment: "To Ace's successful pursuit, let's drink!"

"cheers!"

Everyone raised their glasses happily again.

Ace looked puzzled, "Can this also be an excuse to drink?"

"Don't worry, they just want to drink, just find an excuse." Nami looked at Luffy and the others with a smile.

Cheng Cheng put down the wine glass gently, walked up to Ace, and said solemnly: "Ace, I, the big brother, will support you in whatever you do, but only in this matter, Even if Big Brother doesn't want this old face, he still asks you to listen to me once, just once."

"Don't go after Teach, okay?"

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Chapter 54 Respect for Freedom

Solo Nami on the Meili all looked solemn. In their impression, Cheng Cheng had never spoken in such a serious tone.

Even when he encountered the three naval warships in Cocosia Village, Cheng Cheng's expression was calm and indifferent.

Luffy asked curiously: "Who is Tiki? Is he strong?"

"Blackbeard Titch, he used to be my subordinate, but he committed an absolutely unforgivable crime on the ship!" Ace explained to Luffy calmly.

Then he turned his head to look at Cheng Cheng who shook his head slightly, and said in a soft and firm voice: "Brother Cheng Cheng, I can listen to you on other things, but on this matter, I'm sorry, I can't do it." arrive."

"Ugh!"

Cheng Cheng sighed deeply, poured another glass of wine, raised his head and drank it down. He looked at Ace and continued to ask, "Do you want to go even if it costs you your life?"

"Go, and must go!"

Ace's eyes were firm, and he said without hesitation: "The existence of any traitor will never be tolerated on Dad's ship, and as the former captain of Blackbeard Teach, I have to do this, and only I can clean the portal!"

"Some things you know you will die, so what? Luffy, let me ask you, if you know that you will die in the process of becoming the One Piece, will you continue to survive in this sea?"

Lu Fei immediately restrained his smile, and said righteously: "Of course!"

"Brother Cheng Cheng, when you were young, you were much smarter than the three of us. The three of us, Lu Fei Sabo and I, would listen to you almost every time, but since I left Windmill Village that year, I have long Life and death have been abandoned."

"After I joined Whitebeard One Piece, I gave my life and death to Whitebeard again."

Cheng Cheng was silent, just quietly poured another glass of wine, but this time he didn't finish it in one gulp, but put it to his mouth to taste slowly.

Ace continued: "From the moment I chose to go to sea and become Heize, I have chosen freedom instead of suppressing myself. As for what you said, let me wait until I am strong enough to go. Revenge, it is really impossible for a gentleman to take revenge for ten years."

"Ten years have passed, so how should I spend the intervening ten years? Revenge that is late, is that still revenge? It is the honor of my life to be honored to join the Whitebeard Pirates, and my mission will surely To die defending this honor."

"I knew you would be the answer."

Cheng Cheng put down his wine glass with a helpless smile, came to Ace and patted him on the shoulder lightly, and continued: "Whether it is from the perspective of being born as a human being, or from the perspective of my brother, or from the perspective of the sea From the perspective of a thief, you, me, Zoro, Nami, and Chopper, each of us is equal in personality and free."

"I'm free, so I use what I know to decide to follow my own will to stop you from chasing and killing Tiqi!"

"At the same time, you are also free, so whether you go after Tiqi or listen to my stop, this should also follow your will, and it is up to you to make the decision."

"Your will is very important to me!"

"I will also obey your will and let you make free choices!"

After saying this, Cheng Cheng's whole body trembled, his legs went limp, and he almost fell to the ground.

It seemed that these words exhausted all his strength, and his body, which was already weak and had only a trace of energy left, was completely hollowed out.

After taking several deep breaths, Cheng Cheng's face returned to ruddy, as if he had made up his mind to exchange ten fairy beans from the system and hand them over to Ace himself.

"These fairy beans can restore your physical strength and injuries. You must remember to eat when you are injured."

"Also, I will teach you another breathing method now, which should improve your strength in a short period of time. It took three days for Tuanzi to learn it, and two days for Sauron to learn it. I believe it won't delay you too long. Time."

Ace smiled warmly for a moment, and immediately agreed: "Of course, Brother Cheng Cheng."

Cheng Cheng looked at his playful smile, and cursed, "Your uncle, if I hadn't been so weak now, I would have tied you up for the fuck, and I'm still talking nonsense here!"

"Hey, that's really troublesome Brother Cheng Cheng." Ace said with a smile.

With two chopsticks stuck in his mouth, Lu Fei walked over staggeringly, and said vaguely: "Brother Cheng Cheng, I want to learn, I want to learn, after Sauron learned, everything will change now." It's so powerful, I can't beat him."

"You sun god, learn to breathe water! Get lost!"

Cheng Cheng scolded angrily, and then looked at Sauron who was full of energy: "Sauron, you make a sword, let me see how you master the breath of water now?"

Sauron nodded with a smile and readily agreed.

Two days later.

The Merry continued on to Juba, upstream along the San Dora River.

Alabasta is a superpower in the first half of the great sea route. The kingdom alone has a standing army of 60. Juba is the trading center in the west of Alabasta, a former oasis city.

But after three years of continuous drought, the rebel army destroyed it long ago.

Along the banks of the San Dora River, as far as the eye can see, there are all ruins of collapsed buildings, deserted, and the original oasis city is now almost deserted.

What a powerful strength Ace is. When he came into contact with the breath of water, he learned it in only one day. On the second day, he improved the breathing trajectory of the breath of water to the breath of fire.

Originally, Ace didn't pay much attention to what Cheng Cheng taught him. After all, in his eyes, Cheng Cheng's current strength is not very strong except that he can be armed and domineering, which is a bit beyond his expectation.

After learning the breath of fire, Ace can clearly feel that his strength can be increased by at least [-]%.

He couldn't help but changed his opinion of Cheng Cheng.

Could it be that brother Cheng Cheng is really strong?

Ace jumped onto the guardrail and said to everyone, "Everyone, I'm leaving now, goodbye!"

"Blackbeard is not in Juba, you can go to the west of Alabasta." Cheng Cheng said flatly.

"Okay! You and Luffy put away these two blank papers, it will guide us to meet again."

Ace readily agreed, and handed two white square papers to Luffy respectively: "Goodbye, the next time our brothers meet again, it will be at the peak of pirates!"

"Yes!" Luffy said with a smile.

Cheng Cheng didn't speak, but said in his heart that he was more than the pinnacle of pirates.

Everyone waved goodbye to Ace, and in the sunset, Ace jumped into a small boat and drifted away.

Tuanzi has changed a lot in the past two days. With the efforts of Nami and Vivian, he is no longer the little beggar with messy hair and dirty body.

The current Tuanzi is wearing a pink dress, her hair is tied into a pair of ponytails hanging down her waist, her skin is fair and icy, her facial features are still not delicate, but her features are pretty, especially her slender eyebrows are raised slightly Picking her up made her a little less frail than a girl should be, and made her a little more heroic out of thin air.

With the Dragon Slayer Sword hanging from her waist and the Zhenhai Sword on her back, she now looks like a heroine who can walk freely on the sea.

With eyes as dark as pearls, she stared at Ace's back, and she murmured: "Master, Uncle Ace isn't really dead, is he?"

"of course not!"

Cheng Cheng let go of the hand holding the wooden railing, looked away from the distance, and turned to rubbing the hair of Tuanzi, which had become much softer, and said softly: "It seems that Master has to hurry up to plant trees!"

Tuanzi stared at the five deep finger marks sunken on the wooden railing, lost in thought.

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Chapter 55 Going to the Royal City

Despite making such full preparations, Cheng Cheng was still a little worried, and said to Nami, "Nami, find me a piece of letter paper, I have to write a letter right away."

Nami agreed, turned around and entered the cabin, and quickly came over with a piece of white letter paper and a quill, "Brother Cheng Cheng, we're all here."

After finding a random place to sit down, Cheng Cheng picked up the quill pen and pondered for a long time before finally starting to write, but he gave up after writing only one word.

The characters he wrote with a quill pen were crooked, like ghost characters.

Cheng Cheng sighed, and said awkwardly, "Nami, you should write for me."

Before Nami had time to agree, Vivienne took a step forward, blushing and said first, "Let Sister Nami take a good rest, let me write."

Cheng Cheng didn't care who wrote it. He nodded, organized his language a little, and then began to read slowly. Because he had to take care of Vivian's writing speed, he changed the speed of speaking very slowly.

"Hi Captain Whitebeard, I'm Ace's elder brother Cheng Cheng, I won't talk nonsense, Ace is on his way to hunt down Blackbeard Tiki at the moment, I think you know it, but you have to stop it He! Ace will be caught by the navy this time, and in half a year at most, Ace will be executed at the Navy headquarters. You don’t have to believe what I say, but I still hope you can send more cadres to support Ace, so as not to regret it in the end , and finally warn you old man again, don’t think I’m joking!”

After finishing writing, Vivienne and everyone were a little puzzled and asked, "Brother Cheng Cheng, who is this white beard you wrote?"

"He is the most powerful man in the world!" Cheng Cheng explained casually, and didn't want to say more about this matter.

The only thing we need now is to hurry up and plant trees.

Half a year, I hope I can make it in time.

After everyone docked on the shore in Yuba, they fixed the Meili and walked into the town.

Now Juba no longer has any shadow of the Western Trade Center, and the former oasis has disappeared, and now it is all in ruins.

Desolate, dilapidated, dilapidated, not a single intact building could be found.

The further they walked, the more frightened they became.

It was deserted and overgrown with weeds.

"What happened here?" Sauron said heavily.

After seeing these scenes, Vivian's eyes were red, and she said with a sad smile: "All of this is Crocodile's conspiracy. I have been lying in the Baroque Work Agency for two years, just to investigate this matter and collect Crocodile. criminal evidence."

"Finally, I found out that dancing fans are smuggled by the Baroque Work Agency."

Nami and the others looked puzzled, "Dancing fans, what is this?"

"Dancing powder can make the local area rain quickly, but at the same time, it will absorb the water in the surrounding area and cause the surrounding drought, so it is banned by the world government."

"But one day, people found this large amount of dancing powder from the palace. From then on, people in the country began to suspect that the king came, thinking that the king was greedy for enjoyment and sucked up the rainwater from other areas. Rebels against the king's government began to appear in the area."

Sanji frowned and thought for a while, then said: "Crocodile is the Shichibukai under the king, and he already has the right not to lose to the king. What is he doing this for?"

Cheng Cheng listened silently, of course he understood these things, and even knew that Lao Sha's real purpose was the ancient weapon Pluto.

As a hero who aspires to become One Piece, how could he imprison himself in a mere country.

"Princess Vivian, if you believe me, don't go looking for any rebels now, take me up to the palace, I will meet the king, and after I understand some things, I will help you kill Lao Sha... Crocodile."

When Weiwei settled down, her heart felt hot. Looking at Cheng Cheng's handsome face, she agreed without thinking, "Okay! Brother Cheng Cheng, I believe in you!"

At this time, in the ruins beside him, a thin old man suddenly appeared and walked over tremblingly. He kept staring at Vivienne and said nervously, "Vivienne? Did I hear you correctly just now? Are you Vivian?"

"There is no princess here, he is not Vivienne." Lu Fei said hastily from the side.

With a snap, Luffy was punched to the ground by Nami.

"Ah, it hurts, it hurts, why are you hitting me, Nami!" Luffy lay on the ground in pain and couldn't get up.

Vivienne was wearing a dark blue robe at the moment, hiding her uneven figure under the wide robe. Even so, she could still judge the woman's almost perfect figure from some key raised places.

The cyan hair stretched out from the wide robe, and after the old man saw it, he became more sure. He tremblingly stepped forward to support Vivienne's shoulders, and said excitedly: "It's really you, Vivienne, It's great that you're still alive, don't you recognize me?"

"It's no wonder, after all, I'm a little thinner now."

Vivian carefully looked at the old man in front of her who couldn't feel any malice. Suddenly, she seemed to think of something, her eyes widened, and she covered her mouth tightly with her hand to prevent herself from crying, "You are, you are Doto uncle?"

"Hmm!" The skinny old man nodded heavily.

Vivienne couldn't bear it anymore at this moment, and with a "wow", she threw herself into the old man's arms and began to cry.

I vaguely remember that when I parted from Uncle Duo Tuo three years ago, Uncle Duo Tuo was still a fat man with a shiny face.

"Uncle Doto, you have suffered all these years!" Vivian sobbed.

The old man took a step back, knelt down on one knee, and said sincerely: "Princess Vivienne, I believe in the king. He will never do anything to betray the people's country. This country must have been framed by bad guys!"

Afterwards, the old man told them that the rebel army was no longer here, but had gone to Katleia.

No one expected that this would be the result.

It took a lot of hard work to find the rebels, but they didn't expect the rebels to be in the port city where they had just set off.

Vivian looked at Cheng Cheng with firm eyes and said, "Brother Cheng Cheng, I believe in you, let's not go to the rebels anymore, I will take you to the royal city now!"