Chapter 136

Syrup Village, island Navy base, in the communication room.

"What? You mean they actually ran to the Sky Island and even defeated some god?"

In front of Aokiji, Sengoku's surprised voice came over the Den Den Mushi.

"Yes, Fleet Admiral!" Aokiji responded with a serious face, and then told Sengoku other information he had investigated.

Like Senju Hashirama's strength being no less than Uchiha Madara's, being able to control trees, turn into a giant, and possessing some mysterious power that could restrain Logia Devil Fruit abilities.

Like Uchiha Madara and Senju Hashirama both having learned Armament Haki and Conqueror's Haki, and having started researching Observation Haki.

Like Lin Xuan being able to withstand the full attack of a Rumble-Rumble Fruit user without injury, and even being able to absorb lightning to cultivate.

And the three missing Celestial Dragons; he had investigated for a long time but hadn't found any trace of them, suspecting they had been killed by Lin Xuan, but Lin Xuan wouldn't admit it.

Each of these series of news was enough to shake Sengoku's mind; reporting them all together made Sengoku take a long time to come back to his senses.

Sengoku said in a deep voice: "I didn't expect that we still vastly underestimated their power and mystery! By the way, have you found any useful clues about how many of them there are and where they come from?"

Hearing this, Aokiji couldn't help but show a look of helplessness on his face, saying: "This is information I have been focusing on investigating, but so far I haven't found any useful content. That guy named Senju Hashirama once told me that they might have hundreds of people participating in the great battle at Sabaody Archipelago, but I feel this is unbelievable!"

Speaking of this, he suddenly remembered another thing and said: "There is one more thing. After I went to the Sky Island with them, that Lin Xuan sent me away. When he reappeared later, he brought an old man who looked very ordinary. According to my observation, that old man's strength is also extraordinary! And, strangely, I asked around on the Sky Island, and no one knew that old man; it was as if he appeared out of thin air!"

At the Navy headquarters, the more information Sengoku heard him report, the bigger his headache felt.

Sengoku immediately said: "I will immediately convene an emergency high-level meeting. You prepare to attend and report to everyone again. We will discuss together whether to send troops to the Sky Island to encircle and suppress the targets!"

"Yes!" Aokiji responded solemnly.

After hanging up the phone, Aokiji took a deep breath, but in his mind, he was pondering the feasibility of the operation to send troops to the Sky Island to encircle and suppress Lin Xuan and the others, as well as the probability of success.

However, just as he was thinking about these things, he suddenly heard the sound of an alarm ringing inside this Navy base.

Aokiji couldn't help but frown, walked out of the communication room, and happened to see a group of Navy soldiers rushing toward the base gate.

He couldn't help but ask the Navy Major in the lead: "What is going on?"

The Navy Major immediately saluted him before answering: "Reporting to Admiral Kuzan, someone reported that a group of people suspected to be pirates appeared on the island and just spoke rudely to a Celestial Dragon in public. We are going to arrest them!"

"Spoke rudely to a Celestial Dragon?"

Aokiji's brow couldn't help but frown, but inwardly he sighed: It seems the Sabaody Archipelago incident couldn't be covered up after all!

In his view, it was almost impossible for anyone to dare to insult a Celestial Dragon before, let alone insult one in public.

But now it has happened, which shows that this is the negative impact brought by the Sabaody Archipelago incident, that is, Lin Xuan and the others!

However, he had no interest in participating in such things.

For one thing, he felt that such an unknown small island, even if pirates appeared, probably wouldn't have any strength, so there was no need for an Admiral like him to take action personally.

Secondly, he himself didn't like Celestial Dragons, and he didn't want to deal with things like insulting Celestial Dragons at all.

Most importantly, the headquarters was going to hold a high-level conference call next, and he had to attend and report things to his colleagues; he had no time to manage this matter.

As a result, because Aokiji didn't take action, some ordinary Navy soldiers couldn't catch Luffy and his group at all. It just so happened that the Going Merry was repaired, and they directly boarded the ship and escaped to the sea.

On the sea, Luffy and his group, who had just escaped from Syrup Village, were sailing fast on the Going Merry.

Seeing the pursuing Navy being gradually left behind, Nami, Usopp, and Zoro all breathed a sigh of relief.

Luffy, however, looked excited and said: "I didn't expect that so-called Celestial Dragon to be so powerful. I just said two sentences, and it actually attracted the Navy to hunt us down. It's too magical!"

"Magical your big head!"

Nami mercilessly smashed her fist onto Luffy's head and shouted angrily: "Do you know that because of that sentence you just said, we almost lost our lives!"

"That's right, that's right!" Usopp also nodded repeatedly, expressing agreement.

Zoro suddenly asked: "Luffy, you don't really not know what a Celestial Dragon is, do you?"

"I don't know! Are Celestial Dragons very powerful?" Luffy asked curiously.

"Are you really from this world?!" Nami shouted speechlessly.

At this moment, she thought that she had actually followed such an unreliable captain, and for a moment, she only felt that her future was dark.

Sure enough, she had to get away from this group as soon as possible!

Usopp on the side patiently began to popularize what a so-called Celestial Dragon was to Luffy.

As a result, after listening, Luffy was not afraid but became even more excited: "If that's the case, aren't that Lin Xuan and Uchiha Madara they mentioned very powerful?"

"You just realized that? Otherwise, how could they have a bounty of 500 million?" Nami shouted angrily.

At the same time, she took out three bounty posters she had seen at the tavern earlier, which clearly featured Lin Xuan, Uchiha Madara, and Senju Hashirama, who had just been added to the bounty list.

Seeing the bounty of 500 million for Lin Xuan and Uchiha Madara, Nami's eyes were shining with gold: "So much money! If I could get this bounty, even if it's just for Senju Hashirama, who has the lowest bounty, I could buy Cocoyasi Village back from Arlong and the others!"

Of course, she also knew that she could only think about such things; it was impossible to do.