One Piece: General Xuanming, Defeat the New World

As he flipped through the newspaper in front of him, the smile on Roger's face gradually faded, and his facial expression became visibly gloomy.

"This is trouble, Rayleigh."

Roger sighed and handed the newspaper to Rayleigh.

From Roger's exclamation just now, Rayleigh could roughly guess what had happened, but he still needed to take the newspaper and analyze the specific information in it.

At the same time, Roger also briefly described what happened in the newspaper to his other companions.

"To put it simply, the Flower Capital and the Navy have established preliminary friendly relations and are now negotiating on a specific cooperation plan, but the specific content of the cooperation is not described in the newspaper."

"The most important thing is that the commander of the navy in this operation is the admiral candidate, Vice Admiral Xuanming. Based on past battle records, this admiral candidate possesses terrifying strength that is no less than that of the navy admiral, as well as super strong defense and endurance."

Roger sighed. Roger, who was always optimistic, suddenly felt a little tired and helpless at this moment. Everything was going wrong and there were obstacles one after another ahead.

"Captain Roger, do you think this admiral candidate can really stand up to the admiral? Even a vice admiral cannot stop us from moving forward."

Seeing the captain's cautious expression, Buggy asked curiously.

In Buggy's eyes, the strength of the navy is completely linked to military rank. After all, if Carsen can really be on par with the admiral, why not promote him to admiral?

Therefore, in Buggy's simple and direct judgment, being an admiral candidate means that their strength is not as good as that of the navy admirals. As long as their strength is not as good as that of the navy admirals, they don't need to worry.

"Stupid Buggy, it's not that simple. The Navy is very complicated, that's it..."

Hearing Buggy's judgment, Shanks slapped Buggy on the arm in silence.

"It's just... I can't really put it into words, but it's just not that simple."

Just when he was about to mock Buggy, he found that he didn't seem to know what was going on with the navy, and his face turned red with anger.

"Okay, Buggy, Shanks, stop making a fuss. This matter is very important. We need to think about it carefully."

Lei Li used a kind tone to calm the two little ones temporarily, then he pushed his eyes on the bridge of his nose and repeatedly looked at the information in the newspaper.

"Roger, according to the information in the newspaper, this navy had already arrived in Wano Country before we arrived in Wano Country, so it should not be coming for us or the main text of the road sign history."

"In other words, this could be just a simple coincidence, or the navy wants to establish a naval base in Wano Country."

Raleigh seized upon the time reported in the newspaper to launch his own analysis.

"The deputy captain is right. I think so too."

On the side, Jabba kept nodding his head, his face full of approval. After all, Jabba's position in the team was just a pure fighter, Jabba was the first to fight, so it was really difficult for him to analyze the intelligence.

Hearing Rayleigh's words, Roger subconsciously breathed a sigh of relief. The nature of being targeted at him and a simple coincidence was completely different.

But Rayleigh's next words really poured cold water on Roger.

"But don't be too happy too soon. Sengoku should have already informed the navy stationed here about our arrival in Wano Country."

"More importantly, we do not have the ability to confront this navy head-on."

"What's more, Rear Admiral Sakaski is here with us, and Carsente has also recruited some local swordsmen from Wano Country. This team has become quite large now."

"Besides, we can't ignore Kaido's existence."

Rayleigh held his forehead helplessly. There were problems everywhere now. If only Carsent came alone without Sakaski and other high-end combat forces, then Rayleigh had already planned to threaten Carsent through the navy.

But facing an army with no combat power gap, all means are difficult to implement, not to mention there is that guy Kaido, who knows if he will suddenly jump out and attack fiercely.

The current Roger Pirates Group is not much different from the "Precarious" Group, but they cannot withstand any major setbacks.

"Oden, do you think we can trust your father, the current Daimyo of Wano Country?"

Listening to Rayleigh's analysis, Roger, who had been silent for a long time, suddenly raised his head and stared at Kozuki Oden with burning eyes.

"I...I don't know."

Kozuki Oden puffed out his chest and was about to pat it to make a promise, but he hesitated when the words came to his lips.

He didn't know what he looked like in his father's eyes. Although he and Sukiyaki had reconciled, they had broken off their relationship once before.

He also had no idea to what extent his father, the contemporary daimyo, had cooperated with the navy, and whether he was being coerced.

You know, Kozuki Sukiyaki has a lot of sons, but there is only one daimyo, and the Kozuki family cannot afford to lose. He does not deny that there is still a father-son relationship between him and Kozuki Sukiyaki, but he doesn't know to what extent this relationship can go.

The most important thing is that they are pirates, the same pirates as Kaido. They have just been beaten up badly by Kaido, so it would be strange for Kozuki Sukiyaki to have a good attitude towards Roger's pirate group.

"I'm sorry, you can use this relationship as a last resort, but you can't hold out too much hope."

After hesitating for a long time, Kozuki Oden sighed and rejected this hope. He didn't want to make Roger's already unhealthy body worse because of his wrong belief.

"I understand. There's no need to be like this. You did a great job putting your companions first, Oden. There's no need to blame yourself."

Roger nodded and said a few words of comfort.

Then, Roger looked around. He originally planned to continue talking with Rayleigh, but when he saw that his companions around him were all dejected and depressed, he had to suppress this idea.

"Friends, there is no need for us to be so depressed. This is just adding some obstacles on our way forward. Even if we cannot obtain the text of the signpost history, we can still leave safely through Captain Rayleigh's transmission."

Roger spoke in as casual a tone as possible, injecting some hope into his companions.

"Or, friends, we can just leave Wano Country and head directly to the Elephant Lord Zou Island after a short rest for a few days. There must be no damn navy there."

It has to be said that with the ability to listen to the voices of all things, Roger's ability to mobilize emotions is quite strong. After Roger said a few words, the members of the pirate group were no longer as nervous as before.