Chapter 681 Now the pressure is on Shanks' side
After searching for the soul memory of the eagle, and throwing the lifeless body on the ground, Adrian fell into a rare embarrassment.
Because he discovered that... this very cooperative deputy minister did not lie on the most important issue.
As the deputy director of CP0 and an authoritative person who can know a large number of high-level secrets within the World Government, Ajiu does know a large number of secrets. His power position within the World Government is even higher than that of the Admiral of the Navy!
But among the flowers in Pangu City, it is indeed not within the scope of Huang Ji's knowledge.
To be precise, only the five Five Old Stars know the message between the flowers and the existence of Im!
Huang Jiu was able to know the specific term "Between Flowers" only because he accidentally heard the internal meeting of the Five Old Stars. That was about six or seven years ago, when O'Hara's Omniscient Tree was ordered to kill the demon. A year of destruction.
From that time on, Huang Jiu vaguely knew that there seemed to be a great figure on the Five Old Stars, because in addition to overhearing "Between Flowers", he also faintly heard "Sir" and " "Report" are terms used exclusively by subordinates.
After that eavesdropping, Huang Jiu also received stern warnings from several Five Old Stars, and even underwent an interrogation.
Huang Jiu originally wanted to trade this secret, which the five old stars valued very much, from White Ghost's hands for his life, but he didn't expect...
Adrian has no intention of negotiating the terms of self-salvation with this defeated general!
Moreover, the information content that Huang Ji knew was too thin, even worse than that of Adrian.
However, through the soul memory of Huangjiu, Adrian could clearly see the general appearance of Pangu City.
It is a majestic castle located in the heart of Mariejoia, covering an extremely large area.
But compared to the majestic exterior, if you take a closer look, you will find that the architectural style of this castle is very old and out of touch with the current era, and... there are also quite a few damages in some details.
This is an ancient fortress that is completely different from the luxurious and extravagant style of Marie Gioia!
In addition, Adrian also confirmed the accuracy of all the information previously interrogated from the Eagle through the "soul memory that cannot lie".
"What a pity..."
Adrian looked at the dead body of Huangjiu and sighed with some regret.
Originally, he had planned to spare him this time if the Wild Eagle cooperated enough, and directly raised this level 100 master who had finally met him in captivity, turning him into a top-notch leek that could be harvested once a year.
After all, the mission of [Sea Emperor] cannot be completed in a year and a half. Even if there are side missions that require killing level 100 characters, other missions are also time-consuming and cumbersome. When dealing with these top-notch leeks, it is better to reuse and recycle them. Harvest.
Unexpectedly, due to some misunderstandings...
It was a waste of resources!
Adrian opened the panel and saw that the original S-level challenge mission had been transformed into a kill mission due to the death of the eagle, and he could perform a glorious ten-game series of four draws out of ten.
"Sustainable development..."
Being on a gold treasure ship in the sky, and the really important items had not yet been taken away, Adrian had no intention of directly drawing the four out of ten rewards from the Abandoned Eagle.
Looking up at the Redfors next to him, a red light flashed in his eyes.
Because of the previous thunderstorm and tsunami scene that seemed like a natural disaster and the end of the world, the battle on the Redfors ended quickly.
Shanks hurriedly eliminated those annoying World Government agents, and was about to call the helmsman to pilot the Redforth to escape from the thunderstorm and tsunami disaster area as soon as possible, but he did not expect that the seemingly frightening natural disaster would continue. In just a few seconds, it was directly dispersed.
And because of the tsunami that was completely frozen by the ice of death, the Redfors was also frozen in the ice and lost the chance to escape.
"If this iceberg... falls down, we will all turn into meat paste, right?"
"Tell the captain to chop it up!"
"I can make a big hole with one shot!"
The pirates of the red-haired pirate group, after finishing the battle and roughly cleaning up their injuries, started drinking and going crazy. But after hearing the last words, the pirates burst into laughter.
Ben Beckman was the first person to try to break through the power of ice that froze the entire sea.
It's a pity that the vice-captain's bullets wrapped with armed domineering energy failed to break the seemingly ordinary ice. Instead, they made it clear to the red-haired pirates that the ice was not as hard as they could have imagined. .
Fortunately, Shanks explained the reason to the members of the red-haired pirates in time. Everyone knew that the ice was made by the white ghost, and they immediately relaxed.
Why relax...
Because no matter how hard you fight, you can't beat the white ghost, you can only lie down...
Amidst the noise of people.
Adrian suddenly appeared on the deck of the Redfors. He looked around and saw a large number of corpses wearing uniforms of World Government agents. Of course, there were also many corpses of pirates.
"Has everything been resolved?" Adrian asked Shanks.
"Well, it's all solved." Shanks nodded, "What about you?"
"Same as you."
As Adrian responded, Fozzie Fu's voice and smile appeared in his mind.
It's a pity that the big cat who ate the saber-toothed tiger fruit is also a flying six-cell-level master. He could have been taken to Xiaokong Island as a guard...
Shanks' eyelids twitched again.
Adrian said it in an understatement, but how could it be possible that dealing with those ordinary agents was the same as dealing with the Abandoned Eagle? !
"Is there anything else?" Shanks asked dully.
"Of course, I still need to tell you about the ownership of the gold and treasure ship in the sky." Adrian explained, "After all... you discovered this ship full of treasures first."
Shanks's heart skipped a beat.
"You mean...this ship..."
"I want this ship!" Adrian said concisely.
Shanks frowned and quickly changed his expression to an apologetic smile. He rubbed his hands and asked tentatively: "Adrian, actually, there is someone on this ship that I value very much——"
"Rubber fruit?"
Adrian's interruption sounded like thunder in Shanks' heart.
"How do you... do you also know the function of that fruit?" Shanks looked at Adrian in disbelief, "You came here for this fruit too?"
Adrian looked at Shanks with some surprise. There seemed to be something in the red-haired Straw Hat boy's words...
Could it be that this guy knows the true identity of the "Protagonist Configuration Fruit" of the Rubber Fruit?
"What do you know about this fruit?" Adrian asked.
"...It...is important!"
Shanks said very vaguely that although his relationship with Adrian was relatively good, there were some things that still needed to be revealed.
If Adrian has a D (referring to his name)...
Shanks would take the initiative to inform him after hesitating for a while.
Unfortunately not...
Adrian saw Shanks' embarrassment and had no intention of asking the question.
Speaking of which, he actually knows the importance of the rubber fruit better than Shanks...
Straw Hat Luffy’s rubber fruit, that is a generational memory for so many people...
Adrian was also imagining what other abilities the Straw Hat would have after losing the rubber fruit...
Referring to the previous experience of Catalina Depen, she seems to always encounter the Nine-Tailed Fox Fruit.
Could it be that even if I take away the rubber fruit this time, Luffy will get it again through other means?
I'm inexplicably looking forward to it...
"I want the rubber fruit and the golden treasure ship in the sky."
Adrian put the distracting thoughts out of his mind and immediately made the choice an adult should make.
Shanks looked ugly, "You can't..."
"You still owe me two Devil Fruits." Adrian threw out the bill.
Shanks's expression became a little ugly again.
"Or are you planning to fight with me to grab this rubber fruit?"
Shanks held up his sword, feeling extremely stressed. (End of chapter)