Chapter 81: I never expected it to be such a coincidence!

On Jiayadao, a strange man with a chestnut-shaped head crawled up from the edge of the coast.

This person was Mont Blanc Cricket, the descendant of the famous "great liar" Mont Blanc Noland.

As the descendant of a "great liar," Cricket had grown up bearing the mockery and insults of others. To prove the existence of the City of Gold and break the curse on the Mont Blanc family, he had staked his entire life on fighting against fate.

He had always believed in the conjecture made by his ancestor Mont Blanc Noland before his death, holding that the City of Gold had sunk into the sea. Thus, even though he suffered from the bends, he frequently dove into the depths to search for it.

At this moment, Cricket had just finished a deep-sea exploration and crawled ashore from the water.

As it turned out, the moment he came up, he saw his two companions—Masira the Monkey and Shoujou the Orangutan—hurrying toward him, anxiously telling him a piece of news.

After listening, Cricket could not help but be greatly shocked: "You mean, a large number of Marines have appeared near Jiayadao and are currently surrounding a few people who just arrived on the island?"

"Mm-hmm!"

Masira and Shoujou both nodded repeatedly.

Cricket then rushed to the port, where he saw that it was indeed as they had said; over a dozen massive Marine warships had completely surrounded a small boat.

Seeing this scene, Cricket was also stunned: "Who on earth is on that boat, to make the Marines put on such a grand display?"

At this time, many others on Jiayadao had already been stirred by the commotion and were also watching from nearby.

Cricket could hear the people around him discussing it.

"The people on that small boat seem to be the wanted criminals the Marines just put a 200 million bounty on!"

"The two guys who spread rumors in the newspaper about kidnapping the Celestial Dragons at Sabaody Archipelago and severely injuring a Marine Admiral?"

"That's right, it's them! I saw them dock their boat at the port just now; it's definitely the two people on the wanted poster!"

"Strange, why did they come to our Jiayadao? And they actually left their ship here and took a small boat to the south?"

Cricket gripped his binoculars and looked ahead. As he listened to the chatter of these people, his heart suddenly stirred: The south? Could it be that they are aiming for the Sky Island?

He suddenly felt it was ridiculous; he never expected that there would still be people in this world who believed in the existence of a Sky Island!

However, it didn't matter. Looking at this formation, he figured these guys were all about to be captured by the Marines!

Thinking of this, Cricket looked toward the direction where the Marines had them surrounded, a look of pity appearing in his eyes.

Yet, just then, he suddenly thought of something, and his expression changed slightly: "No, today seems to be exactly that day... With these guys' position... it's possible they might actually be able to escape!"

Meanwhile, Lin Xuan and his group, who were being surrounded by the Marines, were all feeling somewhat annoyed.

Uchiha Madara let out a cold snort and said impatiently: "These Marines are truly like ghosts that won't go away!"

Senju Hashirama, however, showed a look of curiosity, sizing up the surrounding Marines, and said: "Are they the so-called righteous Marines of this world?"

Lin Xuan's gaze also swept rapidly across the surrounding warships, and he suddenly discovered a few familiar figures on one of them.

Marine Admiral Kuzan, and several Marine Vice Admirals!

Among these people, there was no need to mention Admiral Kuzan; the Marine Vice Admirals were also different from the random nobodies they had encountered before—they were all characters who had appeared in the original story, and their strength was quite extraordinary.

The corner of his mouth curled slightly, and he said: "Kuzan? This is an interesting fellow! I didn't expect that even as we are about to head to the Sky Island, these guys would actually deliver themselves to my doorstep to let me farm some reputation points. They really are good people!"

And while they were sizing up the enemy, Admiral Kuzan and the others were also cautiously sizing them up.

Especially when they saw Uchiha Madara, Admiral Kuzan and the others were somewhat astonished.

According to previous reports, shouldn't this Uchiha Madara have been suspected to have died shortly after leaving the Sabaody Archipelago?

Looking at it now, he actually didn't die?

When looking at Senju Hashirama, Admiral Kuzan's brow could not help but furrow: "There's actually another one? I wonder if this guy is as troublesome as that Lin Xuan and Uchiha Madara?"

Vice Admiral Momonga on the side said: "How is that possible? It's already rare enough to have one or two powerful characters emerge on the sea occasionally; how could such high-level powerhouses appear again and again?"

Admiral Kuzan nodded and said: "However, even if his strength is average, the strength of that Lin Xuan and that Uchiha Madara alone is not something we can underestimate. Everyone, be cautious; we must not let them run away!"

"Yes, Admiral!" The several Vice Admirals beside him immediately responded solemnly.

They had all seen the miserable state of Huang Yuan and Sentomaru with their own eyes; otherwise, this time it wouldn't have been Admiral Kuzan personally bringing several Vice Admirals along.

Of course, because Lin Xuan and his group were still holding three Celestial Dragon hostages, the Marines did not dare to act rashly.

Therefore, Admiral Kuzan spoke personally, using a megaphone Den Den Mushi to shout at Lin Xuan and the others: "You have been surrounded by us. Release the hostages immediately and surrender!"

Lin Xuan naturally couldn't be bothered to listen to the Marines' threats and looked toward Uchiha Madara and Senju Hashirama.

Just as he was about to ask which of them was interested in taking action to resolve this, he suddenly felt a vibration coming from the small boat beneath him.

He couldn't help but be stunned for a moment, and then a look of surprise appeared on his face: "I didn't expect us to arrive at such a coincidence; is this exactly the time the Knock-Up Stream erupts?"

"Knock-Up Stream? What is that?" Senju Hashirama asked curiously.