Chapter 577

The crane said no more and turned away.

The words she left behind echoed clearly, buzzing in the ears of every marine.

After a long while,

the marines present finally reacted.

They gazed toward the direction Lu En had departed, their eyes filled with deep reverence and admiration.

"As Vice Admiral Crane said, General Lu En's strength is far weaker than we imagined."

"Don't forget."

"Not long ago, General Lu En fought General Master Zefa. Even General Master Zefa couldn't defeat General Lu En in a short time."

"Just imagine how strong General Lu En truly is!"

"Though Crocodile the Sand-Crocodile is strong, he certainly couldn't pose a lethal threat to General Lu En."

"…"

The group of marines gradually dispersed.

After Crane left,

he took out a Den Den Mushi.

Quietly reporting the full details of the mission to Admiral Kong above.

He also fully conveyed to those above the fact that Lu En had departed alone to invite Crocodile to Alabasta.

…

The journey from the Blue Sea to Alabasta would take roughly four to five days.

And that was only under ideal conditions.

If any setbacks occurred en route,

the duration would be stretched indefinitely.

Therefore,

Lu En's journey to Alabasta would require at least four full days.

Of course,

when he left the warship alone, he had already prepared countless supplies.

He wouldn't need to seek islands for resupply along the way.

He had already meticulously prepared enough provisions for four days of sailing.

Time flew by.

In the blink of an eye,

three days had passed since Lu En departed the warship alone.

During these three days,

his voyage had been extremely smooth.

He encountered no obstacles whatsoever.

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In fact,

he hadn't even seen a few pirate crews.

This made him puzzled.

Could it be…

Have these pirates all turned good now?

Otherwise, how could he sail for three full days without seeing a single pirate crew?

Occasionally,

he did spot numerous merchant ships passing by.

With nothing else to do, he interacted with them a few times, bought some useful supplies, and had no need to land on islands specifically.

But what he couldn't understand was,

why hadn't he encountered a single pirate ship?

Logically speaking,

the Grand Line's waters held far more pirates than the Four Seas.

Here,

pirate ships were visible almost everywhere.

Otherwise, the Marines wouldn't have been plagued by the explosive rise of pirates in recent years.

Precisely because more and more pirates had emerged in recent years,

it led to…

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The World Government's direct proposal to appoint the Seven Warlords of the Sea.

Yet throughout this journey, Lu En hadn't encountered a single pirate crew.

This left him baffled.

Faintly,

He sensed a faint unease.

"Forget it."

"Since I didn't run into any, no need to overthink it."

Lu En began his day-after-day monotonous training.

Over these three days of sailing, he had not wasted a single moment.

Most of the time was spent on cultivation…

In three days, his strength once again welcomed a small improvement.

Though the improvement was not too great.

But overall.

Every day, his strength would improve little by little, without pause.

Once enough time passed,

accumulating,

it would naturally push his strength to an extremely high level.

Just as Lu En was immersed in cultivation…

"Eh!"

At this moment, he suddenly let out a soft exclamation, his expression slightly surprised.

His gaze looked toward the sea ahead.

Then,

he saw the wreckage and debris left behind by a maritime disaster!

Countless shattered fragments of the ship's hull…

floated and drifted freely on the sea surface.

It could be seen that

here, a massive hull had once collapsed.

Moreover.

The time this ship had collapsed was most likely within the last few hours.

Otherwise,

this stretch of sea could not have left behind so much scattered wreckage — it would long since have been swept to the bottom of the sea by the waves with the passage of time.

"Shipwreck survivor?"

His gaze shifted, and Lu En saw a shipwreck survivor.

The survivor, clinging to a wooden pillar floating on the sea surface, barely clinging to life.

At this moment,

her eyes were filled with terror as she looked all around, seeking help from passing ships and.