Chapter 112: The decisive battle is approaching, and Sengoku is at his wit's end!

Sabaody Archipelago—compared to twenty-some days ago, this place has undergone massive changes.

The islands, usually exceptionally bustling, are now basically devoid of residents.

After all, following the cataclysmic event of the "Celestial Dragons being kidnapped," the island's inhabitants had long since fled in terror.

They were primarily afraid that the Marines would suddenly issue a "Buster Call," which would leave their lives forfeit.

On top of that, there was a rumor that the Marines had been trying to suppress, yet it spread rapidly: the two criminals who kidnapped the Celestial Dragons would return to conquer the Sabaody Archipelago!

Under these circumstances, how could they possibly dare to continue staying on the Sabaody Archipelago?

However, the civilians fleeing was actually a good thing for the Marines; at the very least, it caused fewer headaches when arranging various operations.

Nowadays, warships can be seen frequently patrolling the waters around the Sabaody Archipelago, and a large number of Marines have appeared on the islands themselves.

The Marines have mobilized a massive force to garrison the Sabaody Archipelago, and the entire island chain has entered a state of high alert.

Beyond that, the areas around Jiayadao and the Long Ring Long Land also have numerous Marines stationed there, with Marine squads patrolling every part of the islands daily.

Under these conditions, naturally, no pirate would be foolish enough to approach.

Marine Headquarters.

The high-ranking Marine officials have been driven nearly insane with busyness during this period!

The matter of the three kidnapped Celestial Dragons, whose whereabouts remain unknown to this day, has long since drawn the highest level of attention from the World Government.

Facing the interrogation of the Five Elders, Sengoku can be said to be under immense pressure, because even now, the Marines have yet to capture the culprits behind all of this!

"Damn it, it's all the fault of those bastards. Why did they have to commit such a deranged act?"

Sengoku angrily grabbed a handful of rice crackers and shoved them into his mouth, his heart feeling nearly frantic. He hated that guy named Lin Xuan to the core for causing him so much trouble.

Garp, sitting nearby with his arms crossed, burst into laughter: "Hahahaha, I actually think they're a few interesting guys. I can't take it—every time I think of the Five Elders' faces, I suddenly want to laugh, hahahaha!"

"Garp... shut your mouth!" Sengoku roared in anger.

What time is it, and this guy still has the mood to laugh!

He has been so stressed by this matter lately that he has started losing hair constantly; he is truly afraid that his thick head of hair might end up bald!

Looking at Garp, this thick-headed guy, Sengoku was so angry he wanted to beat him up!

Over the past half-month, Marine Headquarters has held countless high-level meetings for this matter, and every single meeting has revolved around one theme: studying how to safely rescue the three Celestial Dragons!

No matter what, the Sabaody Archipelago must absolutely not be occupied, and the three Celestial Dragons must be rescued safely.

Otherwise, this world would likely be plunged into terrifying, turbulent waves!

Sengoku looked at the troop deployments on the small map in front of him, his expression grave to the extreme.

Even now, they have yet to devise a truly effective plan.

"This time, no matter the cost, we must rescue the three Celestial Dragons and simultaneously suppress the enemy with force!" Sengoku said, gritting his teeth.

Meanwhile, despite the Marines' efforts to debunk and cover up the news, many people still believed that so-called "rumor"!

Whether it was various pirate factions or the Revolutionary Army, everyone began to pay attention to this matter.

"Truly impressive, to be able to escape the Marines' pursuit and even dare to declare war on them directly!"

"It's said the other side only has two or three people, yet they've run the Marines in circles. It's truly unbelievable!"

"Actually, what concerns me more is the rumor that those guys also captured three Celestial Dragons as slaves? And they even declared they would hold a public trial on the Sabaody Archipelago. Is this thing true or false?"

"True or false doesn't matter anymore; daring to say such things is proof enough that they are bold enough!"

"Heh, relying on just two or three people to fight the entire Marine force? I think they must be truly insane, right?"

As the one-month deadline agreed upon by Lin Xuan and the Marines drew closer, the whole world was buzzing with discussion.

And Lin Xuan, up on the Sky Island, after subduing Kaguya Otsutsuki and resting for three days to let her recover some chakra, while also cultivating a number of White Zetsu to serve as sacrifices, finally set off with Conis and Kaguya Otsutsuki to return to the Blue Sea.

During this time, his reputation points, after a period of continuous explosive growth, had completely slowed down; he hadn't even recovered the ten million reputation points he spent to subdue Kaguya Otsutsuki.

Clearly, after the previous events had been continuously spread and fermented, the reputation points they could bring him were about tapped out; they couldn't bring him any more.

Therefore, he could not continue to keep a low profile; it was time to harvest another wave of reputation points!

As it turned out, just as Lin Xuan and his group left the Sky Island and returned to the Blue Sea, they were actually intercepted by pirates looking to rob them.

The result was without suspense: this group of pirates was easily crushed by Lin Xuan and his group.

Among them, most of the small fry were dealt with by Conis!

This angel young lady from the Sky Island truly had excellent talent for ninjutsu. After ten days of training and with the help of some primary strength-enhancing potions Lin Xuan secretly purchased, her strength had fully reached the level of a Genin from the Naruto world.

Dealing with powerful great pirates was naturally beyond her, but dealing with small fry was more than enough.

As for the powerful pirate captain on this ship, he was naturally dealt with by Kaguya Otsutsuki.

However, this time Lin Xuan did not kill these pirates, feeling that his own manpower was too scarce and that doing everything himself was too troublesome.

So, he kept the group to serve as coolies to help him with miscellaneous tasks!

The captain of these pirates was named Ferekes, a pirate with a bounty of thirty million, who was considered somewhat famous in this sea area.

Of course, this was what Ferekes's subordinates said; at the very least, Lin Xuan had never heard his name, so he treated him as a background character!

However, that was not important!

What was important was having people to help sail the ship and help serve tea and water!