"Brother Yi, what should we do now?" After completing Fang Yi's plan, the trio hid in a corner and started discussing what to do next.
"With battles of this level, there's nothing we can do to help! Whether it's the captain's battle or those of Rayleigh and Jaba, we can't get involved!" Fang Yi said seriously as he looked at the chaotic battle in the distance.
"Right, right!" Bucky nodded his head repeatedly, showing his strong agreement.
Just passing by that area earlier, the aftershocks of the battle almost killed him. Now he finally understood why Fang Yi always said to stay away from the captain during battles. The captain was scarier than the enemies!
"Moreover, there's something very suspicious now. The number of the Rocks Pirates doesn't seem right! Several of their high - ranking cadres haven't shown up yet!" Fang Yi frowned and said.
"Maybe they're carrying out some other mission?" Shanks guessed.
"But even I can tell that if the Rocks Pirates are defeated here, it's all over! At such a crucial time, if you were them, would you disperse your combat power?" Fang Yi shook his head and said.
"Which means... they probably have some sort of plot?" Shanks was stunned for a moment and then said in surprise.
"Since we can't help here, let's go find the other cadres. This whole thing is about the Celestial Dragons, so it's important to find where they are held. From now on, we'll split up!"
After thinking for a while, Fang Yi said:
"Shanks, you're more steady. I'll leave the Celestial Dragons to you! Bucky, there seemed to be the sound of fighting in that direction earlier. Go check if it's a cadre of the Rocks Pirates. As for me, I'll look around. Whether we find anything or not, we'll meet here in an hour!"
Shanks and Bucky glanced at each other and nodded simultaneously.
They knew this area was the most dangerous and they could be caught up in all sorts of battles at any moment.
After the discussion, Shanks ran towards the Celestial Dragons' palace, while Bucky headed in the direction where Whitebeard and Zephyr were fighting. As for Fang Yi, what he had to do now was to find a high - vantage point to facilitate his reconnaissance.
But just as Fang Yi was passing through an alley, he heard a very familiar voice.
"Ma~ Mama~~ It seems that the captain and the others are already in battle! Alright, guys... go and help the captain! I still have some things to take care of!" A woman with a charming figure, carrying a large sword on her shoulder, looked at the chaotic battle in the distance and said to her subordinates with a smile.
"Yes, Lady Linlin!"
Hearing the woman's order, those pirates shouted and rushed towards the battle area. Fang Yi, hiding in the corner, didn't even dare to breathe loudly.
Because he had already recognized who the woman was. She was Charlotte Linlin, the future captain of the BIG MOM Pirates and one of the Four Emperors.
"Oh no!" Hiding in the corner, Fang Yi just hoped that she would leave quickly.
"Alright, after taking care of the remaining little mice, we can go and do our own things! Hehe~ Hehehe~~" Just as Fang Yi was hoping the other party would leave, suddenly a great sense of crisis enveloped him.
Without thinking, Fang Yi immediately jumped out of his hiding place.
"Eh~ The little mouse actually came out on its own?" Charlotte Linlin was just about to make a move, but unexpectedly, Fang Yi jumped out by himself.
"Um... I said I'm just an ordinary person who got lost. I wonder if you'll believe me?" Fang Yi said, scratching the back of his head awkwardly.
"Hehehe~~ Kid, what do you think?" Charlotte Linlin looked at the bow and arrow in Fang Yi's hand and said with a mischievous smile.
"Heheh..." Fang Yi knew he couldn't deceive the other party, so he could only respond with a silly smile, hoping the other party would let down their guard.
"Then shall I do it, or will you do it yourself?" Charlotte Linlin looked at Fang Yi with great interest and asked.
"What... what's that?" But Fang Yi was looking at Charlotte Linlin's back in horror, as if he had seen something extremely terrifying.
Charlotte Linlin and the Longbread beside her were both stunned for a moment, then instinctively turned their heads to look, only to find there was nothing there.
"That little brat... actually dared to play tricks on me!" After turning back and finding that Fang Yi had already run far away, Charlotte Linlin immediately roared angrily.
"Forget it, Linlin! We have more important things to do!" Longbread beside her shook his head and said.
"Humph! You go to the palace first. I'll go and kill that little brat!" Without looking back, Charlotte Linlin chased in the direction Fang Yi had fled.
"Linlin..." Seeing Charlotte Linlin leave, Longbread shook his head helplessly and could only head towards the Celestial Dragon palace alone. His goal was clear, which was the treasures in the palace.
"No way! She's really chasing after me!" While running away, Fang Yi looked back and saw that Charlotte Linlin was actually chasing after him.
"Forget it! I have to take a chance! Hit it for me!" While running, Fang Yi drew his bow and shot an arrow behind him.
However, the arrow was directly swatted away by Charlotte Linlin.
"Kid, this kind of attack... is useless against me!"
Fang Yi shot seven or eight arrows intermittently, but none of his skills were triggered. Instead, the distance between him and Charlotte Linlin was getting closer.
"Damn it! If the Fatal and Stun skills won't activate, at least give me Precision! I finally managed to level up to LV.3 with so much difficulty!" Looking at the distance between them, knowing he could only make one more move, Fang Yi couldn't help but start praying.
"Whoosh~!"
"Bang!"
The miracle didn't happen. Charlotte Linlin still blocked Fang Yi's arrow with one hand.
"Hehehehe... Die! Damned kid!" Charlotte Linlin, who had already gotten close to Fang Yi, jumped up and punched directly at Fang Yi.
"I can't dodge it!"
"Even though Fang Yi could see the opponent's attack trajectory with his Hawkeye's Dynamic Vision, his body simply couldn't dodge effectively. He could only watch helplessly as the opponent punched towards him.
"Boom~~!"
Charlotte Linlin punched a huge crater right into the ground where Fang Yi had been standing. However, Fang Yi wasn't hurt. It wasn't that someone came to his rescue, but his Dodge Skill was triggered.
"Shit! The Dodge Skill has only a ten percent chance of triggering, and you triggered it right away. How about triggering the thirty percent chance of the Precision Skill once!" Fang Yi grumbled in his heart while running.
"Hmm? Well~ well well~~ It's a bit interesting... Kid, let me see how many times you can dodge!" After noticing that Fang Yi had strangely dodged her attack, Charlotte Linlin seemed to get interested. After licking her lips, she continued to chase after Fang Yi.
As Fang Yi ran, he thought about how to escape.
As for defeating the opponent... Fang Yi never even thought about it. Unless the one percent chance of his Fatal Skill was triggered, he had no possibility of winning.
Speaking of Charlotte Linlin, this future member of the Four Emperors gave Fang Yi the impression that there was something wrong with her head.
Perhaps because of her Soul - Soul Fruit, the future Big Mom, Charlotte Linlin, absorbed too many souls. Her soul became extremely muddled. As a result, her mental power was quite unstable.
Moreover, since she devoured Sister Carmel, a second personality emerged in her. And guided by Long Bread, that evil second personality, who would become Big Mom in the future, began to suppress her main personality for a long time. Her main personality was the kind and considerate Charlotte Linlin.
The final result was that the future Big Mom, one of the Four Emperors, often suffered mental breakdowns. Her food craving disorder, also known as "Pica" in the context of this story, was one of the manifestations because her soul simply couldn't control such a powerful body. This could be seen even when she was a child.
No matter what it was, as long as she wanted it, she had to get it. Otherwise, her powerful body would break through the brain's control and do things that even she herself couldn't understand.
So, this was the only thing Fang Yi could take advantage of.
Running blindly in panic, Fang Yi opened his backpack to check the items inside.
He had drawn lots quite a few times this year. Although there weren't many things that really improved his combat power, there were quite a lot of other miscellaneous things!
Although Fang Yi usually cleaned up many things to avoid filling up the backpack space with too many useless items, there were still a lot of things in the backpack.
"Found it!"
Seeing the cake in the backpack, Fang Yi was overjoyed.
This wasn't an ordinary cake. It was a cake rated as a gourmet cake by the system.
When Fang Yi took out this kind of cake for the first time, the crew members all praised it and claimed that they had never eaten a better cake.
Even Roger, who loved meat the most, said that after eating this cake, this delicacy was in no way inferior to his all - time favorite, big - bone meat!
"Found you, kid!" Just then, Charlotte Linlin appeared in front of Fang Yi, blocking his escape route directly!
"Hehe... Pretty lady, fighting and killing is so unpleasant! How about we sit down and have a cup of tea? I've got delicious cakes here!" Fang Yi took out the cake from his backpack and said with a smile.
"Sniff, sniff..." Charlotte Linlin's nose twitched. It seemed that she smelled the aroma of the cake, and drool dripped directly from the corner of her mouth. She shouted at Fang Yi, "Kid, bring that cake here! If it tastes good, I can promise not to kill you!"
Hearing this, Fang Yi directly threw the cake to her and said with a smile, "Aren't you afraid I put poison in it?"
"Mmm~ Mmm~~ Sure enough, it's the taste of delicious food!" However, Charlotte Linlin ignored Fang Yi. At this moment, there was only the delicious cake in her eyes.