Chapter 399

The Five Elders helplessly discovered that they seemed to have no choice but to agree to Lin Xuan's request.

Because, originally their World Government side only had the advantage of numbers, but now that the Red-Haired Pirates had joined the war, they didn't even have this advantage!

If they were not careful, they might even be wiped out here!

Thinking of this, Curly-Haired Elder took a deep breath and shouted loudly directly to Lin Xuan: "We agree to your request!"

Hearing this voice, the whole field, which had fallen into chaos because of the appearance of the Red-Haired Pirates, suddenly became silent again.

Because everyone realized that Curly-Haired Elder's sentence at this moment meant that the Five Elders had yielded! It also meant that the World Government had retreated!

This was something many people didn't dare to think about originally, but now it was being staged right before their eyes!

Not to mention the people on the World Government side, even the Whitebeard Pirates and those prisoners who had escaped from the deep-sea prison, who could be considered to have personally contributed to this matter, were still a bit hard to believe.

However, before everyone could accept this, something even more unexpected happened.

Only to see Lin Xuan, after hearing Curly-Haired Elder's words, suddenly smile and say: "Sorry, the situation is a bit different now."

The Five Elders' expressions changed.

Long-Bearded Elder asked in a deep voice: "What do you mean?!"

Lin Xuan said with a smile: "Nothing, just suddenly felt that only collecting one hundred Devil Fruits is a bit of a loss! Anyway, your World Government is rich, I'd better collect two hundred Devil Fruits!"

As soon as these words came out, the Five Elders were all so angry they almost wanted to curse.

Lin Xuan was clearly seeing that the Red-Haired Pirates had come and it was more favorable to their side, so he was raising the price on the spot, and he doubled the price at once!

This kind of behavior of pushing for more was simply shameless to the extreme!

However, just when they were all about to go berserk, Long-Bearded Elder quickly calmed down, reached out to stop everyone, and then said to Lin Xuan in a deep voice: "We agree to this condition of yours!"

Curly-Haired Elder, Golden-Haired Elder, Hu Zi Elder, and Bald Monk all looked at him in astonishment, only to hear a voice in their minds: "We have no choice! We must leave here first, ensure the safety of Mary Geoise, and then make plans!"

For a time, the four of them fell silent.

They completely understood Long-Bearded Elder's meaning, especially the phrase "make plans"!

This made them have a lot of thoughts: for example, directly reneging on the debt? Or, for example, doing something to the Devil Fruits!

Sure enough, Long-Bearded Elder said again: "However, even if we have two hundred Devil Fruits, it's impossible to carry them with us at all times; we must wait until we return to Mary Geoise to give them to you!"

As soon as these words came out, before Lin Xuan could speak, Uchiha Madara sneered first and said: "Hmph, you guys are thinking quite beautifully; after you go back, are you preparing to renege on the debt directly?"

As soon as these words came out, the expressions of the Five Elders stiffened slightly.

However, before they could argue anything, they saw Lin Xuan wave his hand indifferently and say: "It doesn't matter, it's even better if they want to renege on the debt; we'll just go to them and take it ourselves! Tsk tsk, after taking the Navy Headquarters, it wouldn't be bad to take Mary Geoise as well!"

The expressions of Long-Bearded Elder and the others became even uglier.

Subsequently, Long-Bearded Elder suddenly coughed lightly and waved at Sengoku, saying: "Fleet Admiral Sengoku, come here!"

Sengoku suddenly came back to his senses and quickly leaped to the front of Long-Bearded Elder, and canceled his Buddha state.

"What does the Elder want with me?" Sengoku asked with a puzzled face.

Long-Bearded Elder asked: "How many Devil Fruits are there in the Navy Headquarters here?"

Sengoku immediately understood his meaning and reported truthfully and helplessly: "There are a total of fifty Devil Fruits left in the warehouse!"

Long-Bearded Elder nodded and then said loudly to Lin Xuan: "We will first deliver these fifty Devil Fruits to show our sincerity, and the rest will be made up later, how about that?"

Lin Xuan hooked the corner of his mouth and said: "Not bad! I have received your sincerity, but these fifty cannot be counted as given by you; after all, according to the conditions, this Marineford is my territory now, and the things inside are naturally my property!"

"You!"

Even if Long-Bearded Elder had good self-cultivation, he was almost so angry he was fuming at this moment.

However, he finally took a deep breath, suppressed the anger in his heart, and said: "Okay! Can we leave now!"

"Go, go! Hurry up and go! If you go slowly, maybe I'll change my mind!" Lin Xuan waved his hand at them with a look of disgust.

Putting things like changing his mind directly on his lips, and saying it as if it were a matter of course, Lin Xuan's skill in shamelessness made even Uchiha Madara, Senju Hashirama, and the others feel a bit unable to watch.

Long-Bearded Elder and the others didn't say a word and prepared to evacuate Marineford.

Only those Navy soldiers were still a bit hesitant.

"Fleet Admiral, are we really going to retreat?" Tina, a female officer full of justice, couldn't help but ask Sengoku at this moment.

Many Navy soldiers around also looked at Sengoku in unison.

Although the Five Elders were more noble, the Navy took orders from the Navy Fleet Admiral.

Plus, the Five Elders had lost all face just now, so they had no prestige in their hearts; if Sengoku ordered them to stay at this time, they wouldn't pay attention to the Five Elders' orders at all!

In fact, Sengoku was even more unwilling to leave Marineford than them, but he had no choice.

Who told them their strength was inferior to the opponent?