Chapter 65: The Navy's Bounty! Skyrocketing Prestige Points!

"My god, are... are these things true?"

"Attacking the Celestial Dragons, putting slave collars on them, and even defeating a Navy Admiral? Issuing a direct challenge to the Navy? Threatening to seize the Sabaody Archipelago?!"

"How could anyone dare to do such a terrifying thing? Are they not afraid of death?"

"I must be dreaming, otherwise how could such an absurd thing exist!"

"It's too ridiculous! I think this kind of report is just pure fabrication!"

Just as Sengoku and the others had anticipated, as that news report spread, it caused a violent shock throughout the world, with countless people stunned and discussing it fervently.

It wasn't until the afternoon that a statement refuting the rumors and two freshly printed bounty posters were issued from Navy Headquarters and immediately dispatched through garrisons around the world. This caused the public's discussion to subside slightly, though it did not completely die down.

Meanwhile, on a certain stretch of sea in the Grand Line, a wooden boat was still sailing slowly.

On the boat, Lin Xuan, who had just finished eating, suddenly heard the system's notification sounds ringing in his mind one after another:

"Ding! Congratulations to the host, Prestige Points +99,999!"

"Ding! Congratulations to the host, Prestige Points +99,999!"

"Ding! Congratulations to the host, Prestige Points +99,999!"

In just a short moment, he had already raked in over a million Prestige Points, and this growth was continuing, with the speed even increasing rather than slowing down!

Lin Xuan's eyes lit up instantly: "It seems the events on the Sabaody Archipelago have already spread! That Genjutsu I cast before leaving was worth it!"

As it turned out, when he was leaving the Sabaody Archipelago, he had already discovered the reporter hiding nearby to peek, and he had also anticipated that the Navy would certainly block the news later!

Lin Xuan had gone to great lengths to create such a stir, and since he was planning to reap a massive harvest of Prestige Points, he naturally wasn't willing to let the Navy block it just like that.

Having happened to discover that reporter, a bright idea struck him, and he cast a Genjutsu directly, making it so that Kizaru and the others couldn't see the reporter at all!

It must be said that people in the One Piece World are generally physically formidable, but their resistance to Genjutsu, even for a Navy Admiral like Kizaru, is nothing special, let alone when he was already severely injured?

Therefore, with the help of Lin Xuan's Genjutsu, that reporter was able to luckily escape from under the Navy's noses.

Besides that, Lin Xuan also cast a Genjutsu on that reporter, giving him a mental suggestion: that no matter what, he had to report what he had seen. That was why there were newspapers spreading across the whole world!

Lin Xuan was watching the Prestige Points in his account grow continuously, and in the blink of an eye, they had reached five million.

"At this rate, in a single day, I can reach at least tens of millions of Prestige Points! In a few more days, it's even possible to reach a hundred million!"

Just as he was speculating in his heart about what level his Prestige Points would eventually reach, he suddenly discovered that the speed of the growth began to slow down.

"Hmm?"

Lin Xuan couldn't help but feel puzzled: "Why is it starting to slow down? There can't be so few people in the One Piece World, right?"

As far as he knew, just the countries under the rule of the World Government in the One Piece World numbered one hundred and seventy. Among them, Alabasta had a population of over ten million, and Fish-Man Island had over five million.

Adding in certain countries not under the jurisdiction of the World Government, by conservative estimates, this world had at least two billion people.

Even if not everyone read the newspaper, it shouldn't have started to drop sharply in growth after contributing only a few million Prestige Points.

However, after pondering for a moment, Lin Xuan knew roughly what the situation was.

"It must be the Navy taking action, wanting to cover up the facts and control the situation!" Lin Xuan couldn't help but curl his lip.

It just so happened that a News Coo flew by in the air. Lin Xuan waved his hand, and it immediately dropped a newspaper over. Of course, Lin Xuan also had a pirate he controlled pay the corresponding fee with Berries.

Who told Lin Xuan that he didn't have a single Berry on him?

Then, he began to read the newspaper quickly and found that the newspaper reporting the Sabaody Archipelago incident was nowhere to be seen.

The front-page headline he could see on that newspaper was the Navy's rumor-refuting announcement.

Presumably, that newspaper reporting the Sabaody Archipelago incident had already been recalled, and the Navy stationed around the world had likely already received orders to go everywhere and collect the newspapers from the hands of those who had bought them.

When he saw that he and Uchiha Madara were actually being described as manipulating the newspaper office, slandering the Navy, smearing the World Nobles, and that a bounty had been issued, Lin Xuan couldn't help but laugh: "These Navy members still have the face to call themselves justice; they are truly too shameless!"

Then, he took out those two bounty posters, and upon seeing the bounty amount on them, the look of dissatisfaction on his face became even more intense: "The Navy actually only gave a bounty of two hundred million? This is a bit too stingy, isn't it!"

One must know that in the original plot, after Luffy caused a scene at the Sabaody Archipelago, his bounty shot up to four hundred million Berries at once!

Lin Xuan felt that the threat he and Uchiha Madara displayed should far exceed that of Luffy at that time; he didn't expect the bounty given by the Navy to be so low!

However, the difference was that Luffy's bounty was accumulated and raised continuously, while he and Uchiha Madara reached two hundred million Berries in one step; this situation was already extremely rare in the One Piece World.

Moreover, the Navy was probably also worried that if the bounty was given too high, it would instead arouse the suspicion of the whole world, making their rumor-refuting announcement have the opposite effect.

Of course, in the current situation, even if the Navy urgently refuted the rumors, it was impossible to completely suppress the influence of the matter; instead, there would be citizens who would continue to discuss whether this matter was true or false.

Lin Xuan's Prestige Points would at most grow a bit slower, but the duration of the continuous growth would likely be extended, and in the end, he might even earn more Prestige Points!

What's more, the Navy could at most cover this matter up for a month. A month later, when the decisive battle on the Sabaody Archipelago began, the world would naturally understand everything, and the Prestige Points that should be Lin Xuan's would simply not be able to run away! ===== CHAPTER 67 =====