Pirates: From Vice Captain to Lord of the Dead

The few remaining ferocious beasts that still retained a bit of rationality, after seeing this group of humans who were more brutal than wild beasts, fled the place in a hurry, and they did not chase them anymore.

"Let's leave once we're done. Wait for me." Reiner jumped down from the stone pillar.

Pick out some ferocious beasts that have shown good strength in the battle just now and collect them.

It took a while to collect the souls, and Sanji took this time to build a fire and roast a cow.

Several people carried huge skewers of meat and ate as they walked, heading straight towards the main island.

A total of less than thirty powerful beasts were collected, which was probably enough to fight against the elite naval force consisting of two lieutenant colonels and a colonel.

Reiner tore off a piece of beef, chewed it roughly, and swallowed it. He roughly calculated the harvest in his mind and said, "Let's see if we can fill it up to 100 when we reach other archipelagos and the main island."

"By the way, didn't you dislike creating a large number of undead before? Why did you suddenly think of forming an undead army? This kind of thing can only be used in war, right?" Zoro spoke casually as he walked.

"It's better to be prepared. Who knows?" Reiner said nonchalantly.

Glancing at Zoro and Sanji, I couldn't help but wonder, if the war at the top starts as scheduled soon, should I take them with me?

Not long after they left, in the palace in the center of the main island.

Dr. Indigo, dressed in a white coat, walked out of the laboratory and was about to go to the reception room to entertain the captains who had already landed on the island.

Bulu Bulu~~

click!

There was a call from the Den Den Mushi in his arms. Dr. Indigo reached into his white coat and took it out. After answering the call, he said nothing, just looked at the Den Den Mushi silently and then blinked.

"Oh, I answered the call. Something terrible has happened, Lord Indigo! There was a big noise on an island. We thought it was a herd of animals rioting, but when we arrived, we found hundreds of experimental animals collapsed!"

“Nani!!”

Indigo stared and screamed, "What the hell is going on! Is there a problem with the potion, or are they killing each other!?"

"No! There are knife wounds and bullet holes. I'm afraid someone broke in after the island fell into the sea and defeated them all!"

"Defeated?! What a joke! How could hundreds of beasts that have evolved for twenty years be defeated in such a short time!" Indigo yelled at the Den Den Mushi.

This is impossible!

Absolutely impossible! !

If those beasts were so weak, how could he have studied here for so many years!

"I'm going to the monitoring room! You guys have people carrying image Den Den Mushi to search island by island. There must be a reason!"

"Yes!"

click!

Indigo hung up the Den Den Mushi angrily. The admiral would be back tomorrow at the latest. If he knew that so many mutant beasts that were to be released into the East China Sea were killed inexplicably,

"Bastard! Who the hell are you? I'm going to skin you and make a specimen of you!" Indigo was immediately furious.

Chapter 162 Let’s go to war!!

Above Marinford, on a flying island shaped like a ship.

"Something terrible has happened, Admiral! We just discovered that another island has been decimated by mutant beasts." The Den Den Mushi imitated the caller and made a sound with a panicked expression.

".Okay, I got it. Hurry up and find the murderer and try to delay him. I'll be there soon." Golden Lion had a gloomy face.

His tone was extremely cold, the armrest of the chair was crushed, and he was extremely angry at this moment.

Clang—clang—clang!

The two feet of Ying Shi and Mu Ku were tied up and made a clanging sound when they stepped on the ground.

The Golden Lion walked to the bow angrily. Around its flying battleship, there were several naval warships floating.

Looking down at Marinford, Garp and Sengoku were standing on the terrace of a high-rise building, looking at him with serious expressions.

"Twenty years ago, I received a lot of care from you, you two bastards."

The golden lion grinned, revealing a mouthful of white teeth, and said grimly: "Today I am just giving you a small gift in return. Soon, I will announce to the whole world

"I, the Golden Lion, am back! Hahahaha!!"

Huh-huh!

As he waved his hands downwards, several huge warships instantly lost control and fell straight towards Marinford below.

Golden Lion gritted his teeth and walked back to the cabin, not paying attention to the results below. After venting his anger, the more important thing now was to get back quickly!

He had been on the island for so many years without any incident, and now was the time to start implementing his plan.

As a result, just one day after leaving, the nest was stolen!

Who is thinking about me!

"Unforgivable!" The Golden Lion bit the cigar hard on the corner of his mouth, waved his hand, and the flying battleship immediately rushed back at an extremely fast speed.

At this moment, on the other side of the archipelago.

It was already evening, and the sunset glow and the afterglow of the setting sun intertwined to create a beautiful picture.

Reiner and his crew passed through two islands at an extremely fast speed, hunted some game, and successfully "sneaked into" the main island.

A cool breeze blew across the plain under the setting sun, causing ripples on the grass. A group of people walked across the field with the setting sun behind them.

"Are the archipelagoes here natural? Even though they are so close to each other, the climates between the islands are completely opposite." Sanji looked around in confusion.

In just a few hours, they passed through islands with cool autumn and hot summer climates, and here it was like spring all year round.

In the distance, in the center of the island, there is a small island covered in snow.

"Golden Lion is a devil fruit user who can make everything he touches float and control it. Maybe some of the islands were moved from other places. Who knows?" Reiner responded casually.

He looked around and saw that the plains were deserted. "We made so much noise along the way, but no one from the other side came to find us. How slow!"

"It's because those undead of yours acted too quickly." Zoro said calmly.

At this moment, a clear voice came from far ahead.

"Hey! Everyone, my ghost has found a village!" Perona's shout came from a distance, followed by several negative ghosts.

"Oh wow~~, as expected, Miss Perona~~"

Sanji's eyes turned into hearts, and he held his hands with a crazy look on his face, "What a cute and charming little princess~~"

"That's great! Let's go quickly and take care of this guy while we're at it." Luffy shouted excitedly and rushed forward first, dragging a giant unconscious crab behind him.

"This guy is so impatient."

"Well, you'll get used to it."

"Hey~~"

Reiner and Zoro shook their heads and sighed before following.

After a while, the five people passed a row of abrupt green trees and finally arrived outside a village.

The village is surrounded by only a low wooden fence and a hundred or so dilapidated stone houses scattered around, giving it the feeling of a poor mountain village at first glance.

Most of the people living here are old people and children, who are thin. After walking for a while, they didn't see any young people.

All the villagers were wary or worried about their arrival. No one came forward to talk to them. They all avoided them and were unwilling to even look at them.

What's strange is that they all have sparse pink feathers on their arms, as if their arms are about to evolve into wings.

"But I ask, can there really be a village in a place like this? Aren't we worried about attacks from wild beasts?" Perona asked in confusion, putting her index finger against her cheek.

"Hello, old lady!" At this time, Luffy caught an old lady passing by, jumped up and greeted her with a smile:

"Hehehe, may I ask where this is? And, can we visit your home?"

Boom!

A knife strike directly hit the back of his head, and Luffy's head swayed from side to side like a spring.

Reiner was speechless. "Are you an idiot? How could a customer ask such a question on his own?"

"That's okay, but you should leave here as soon as possible."

The old woman looked a little flustered. After looking around for a while, she turned around and said in a soft voice:

"You are probably intruders. A guard just came to report that there are automatic patrolling video-denko mushi in this village. I'm afraid you have been discovered."

"Don't worry about that. We've avoided it all the way here." Sanji replied softly. He was actually puzzled that the other party would actually remind them.

The other party was talking about a giant Den Den Mushi that would crawl along a designated route on its own and then transmit back what it saw.

Sanji recognized it at a glance, because there were a lot of that thing at home when he was a child, so he reminded everyone, and with Perona's ghost leading the way, the group easily avoided surveillance.

"So that's it, then"

A hint of hesitation flashed across the old woman's eyes. She seemed to have struggled for a long time before she heaved a sigh of relief and said, "Come with me. I can tell you what you want to know."

Night gradually falls, the bright moonlight makes the sky slightly blue, and the moon and stars are sparse.

Inside the simple stone house, a dim kerosene lamp hung on the wall, its dim light barely illuminating the small room.

Reiner and his group sat together with the old woman. In the middle was a big, worn-out black pot, in which was stewed a seafood soup with big crabs as the main ingredient, which was bubbling.

Through the old woman's explanation, everyone also got a general understanding of the history of the island.

There is a plant called IQ on the island that can promote the evolution of animals and make them more adaptable to the environment.

Once upon a time, animals and people here could live in peace with each other, until twenty years ago, when everything changed after the arrival of the golden lion.

Shi Ji took over all the IQs and developed a drug [SIQ] to stimulate and accelerate the evolution of animals.

But at the same time, the drug will make animals more brutal.

Due to years of continuous drug injections, even some docile herbivores have become extremely aggressive.

If it weren't for the circle of [daft green] planted around the village, the gas it emits is extremely disgusting to the wild beasts, this place would have ceased to exist long ago.

However, the toxic gas is both a barrier that protects them and a slow-acting poison that harvests their lives invisibly.

Even if they are far away, everyone will inevitably inhale some, and over the years, the toxins in the body increase until the disease occurs.

The only thing that can remove the toxicity is the [IQ] plants that have all been taken over by Shiji. Because of his arrival, the balance of the island has been broken.

Even all the young women and strong men in the village were captured and forced to work.