One Piece, I will gather the faith

The episode at the Balabala BBQ Bar made Garp and the other two on their way back fall into different degrees of thinking.

Among them, Garp's feelings were the most profound. He recalled the old man's enthusiasm, the gratitude that could not be concealed on his face, and the free food, and his heart could not calm down for a long time.

For him who had seen too much tragedy in the world, this was a huge shock, and he had never seen such welfare anywhere.

He was also sincerely happy for the strange old believer, because the old man finally found his spiritual home, and it seemed that he could live without worries in his later years.

At this time, he subconsciously had the idea of ​​meeting the boy, but his purpose was not to investigate whether he had colluded with pirates and attempted to subvert the country's regime.

It was to remind Lake to insist on doing the right thing and not go astray, otherwise, he really felt it was a pity.

In Garp's view, the Frost Kingdom seemed to have the tendency to become the most beautiful paradise in the world, and he also wanted this beauty to continue.

Soon after, the three returned to the base.

Smoker and Tashigi had been waiting for a long time. When they saw them coming back, they hurriedly told them what they saw at Lake's house and what they heard from the enthusiastic old lady next door.

Hearing that the old lady was so enthusiastic because she mistakenly thought they were here to admire Lake, the group could only sigh that the power of faith was too strong, which directly brought strangers closer.

However, Garp and the others had just seen it, so they were not surprised and just smiled indifferently.

Smoker obviously did not come to welcome them back on purpose. He obviously had something important to do, one was to synchronize the results of today's investigation, and the other was to find out what happened back then.

At this time, Smoker looked at Colonel Barthalom Bell with a serious face, as if he was not looking at his colleague, but an enemy.

"Colonel Bell, please give us a detailed account of the incident when the pirates kidnapped the Winks family. What exactly happened? Why did those pirates only let Winks Lake go?" He got straight to the point.

Facing the curious eyes of the crowd, Colonel Bell had to briefly describe the situation at that time. The content was basically true, but some details were concealed.

"Winks Lake, did you really save him from the pirates?" Smoker asked doubtfully.

"According to the report of his men, he fainted on the ground at that time, and when we arrived, the pirates had already fled, so strictly speaking, we did not save him."

"Does that mean he was the only one who survived? Did the pirates let him go? Or is it really as he said, this is God's protection? Obviously there is no way to know." Smoker sneered.

"What about those pirates in the end?" He asked again.

"We caught up with them, and they were all killed by us in the resistance." Colonel Bell's tone was stiff, and he seemed reluctant to discuss this topic, as if there was something he didn't want to say.

"It seems that there is no evidence. We can't know how he survived at that time. But with your strength, you didn't leave a single person alive?" Smoker obviously noticed something was wrong.

"The battle was fierce at that time, and I didn't pay much attention. I killed them all. Besides, they killed so many people. They were extremely evil and deserved death, so I executed them on the spot."

Colonel Bell was very sure of the truth.

"Are you sure that's the only thing?" Smoker's eyes were sharp and his expression was serious. "You know, Winks Lake is now a lieutenant general of this department. If you hide something, you should know the consequences."

"This..."

After being reminded by Smoker, Colonel Bell also realized that he was no match for Lake now. If Lake really knew that he was involved in the past, would he come to deal with him?

If he was really caught without anyone knowing and tortured, no one would know. When he thought of this, a cold sweat suddenly broke out on his forehead.

The other three people saw this and knew that there might be something fishy going on. They did not urge him, but looked at Colonel Bell quietly, waiting for his further explanation.

"It was the request of the Mab family." Colonel Bell finally confessed, with obvious nervousness in his tone.

"You were bribed?" Smoker obviously couldn't stand such a thing, and his face suddenly became gloomy.

"Hey, Smoker, maybe it's a sponsorship for the navy, don't take it so seriously?" Cap didn't know what he was thinking, and he made a round.

"Humph, what kind of organization is the Mab family? Where are they?" Smoker didn't insist on it. After all, this matter was not his responsibility.He said he didn't have the right, so he continued to ask unhappily.

"The Mab family is a merchant family in the Frost Kingdom. It is said that they are related to the underworld. Later, they were exterminated. It is said that it was all done by the Creation God Cult." Colonel Bell explained everything.

Smoker's face became even gloomier after hearing this. At this time, he had already determined in his heart that Lake was not a good person. He inferred that he must have contributed to the pirate attack on the allied countries this time, otherwise it would be too coincidental.

"It seems that this Mab family should be the mastermind behind this series of events. Now we should start from here and investigate to see what kind of clues there are." Bogart said on the side.

"Hahaha, very good idea, Smoker, thank you for your hard work again." Garp ordered, and it was obvious that he was ready to be a hands-off boss again.

But Smoker didn't say anything. He couldn't let Garp investigate. After all, he is his superior. Even if he doesn't put up a fuss with him, he can't push too far. He still has to be sensible.

In fact, Zhan Guo asked Garp to take charge. Did he really let him investigate? Zhan Guo didn't expect such a meticulous job. It's just that Lake is very powerful, and he is afraid that Smoker and others may be in danger if they act rashly.

Garp and others decided on the direction of the next investigation and went to rest.

However, Lake was constantly training in the Fantasy World. The time flow rate was 1:10. At this time, he had been training for five days.

He has gradually begun to adapt to the all-round pressure brought by the 50-fold gravity field. But it will obviously take more time for the body to fully adapt and be completely insensitive.

In addition to the gravity field, swimming training in high-speed water flow has also become the norm. In the water flow with a flow rate of 10 meters per second, Lake is like a flexible and ferocious swordfish, quickly hitting the waves and surging in the water.

At this time, his heart, lungs, kidneys and other organs of the body are running at high speed, and his metabolism is abnormally fast. Standing next to him, you can almost hear the blood rushing in his body, and the sound of his heart beating is like a drum.

If he was not in the water, it is estimated that his body would heat up sharply.

After all, with his physical strength that exceeds that of ordinary people by many times, he is still doing such an all-out extreme sport. The energy required is obviously not ordinary, and the consumption of energy will inevitably generate heat.

Fortunately, the fast-flowing water helped him cool down in time, otherwise it would be difficult for him to maintain such training for a long time. Although he is not worried about getting injured in the fantasy world, the feeling of discomfort is still real.

Now, in addition to the necessary rest, he is doing high-intensity training almost every day. And most of the time he conducts confrontation training in the water, only one hour a day to practice swordsmanship and consolidate swordsmanship.

He clearly feels that his body is getting stronger, especially the armed color domineering under the full pressure, it seems that the whole body is instinctively emerging.

Lake believes that this is the body's protective mechanism in the extreme pressure confrontation.

He believed that as long as the body was not crushed at once, it would gradually adapt. From the experience of the past four years, he firmly believed that this was evolution, a magical ability given by the Creator.

And he believed that human beings' understanding of themselves might not be deep enough, and perhaps the current understanding could only be regarded as some superficial knowledge.

Of course, Lake also had a unique training ground that no one else had, which could provide him with all-round pressure and make his whole body stronger in the confrontation, so that he could understand so deeply.

Others would not even think about such conditions.

Driven by the desire to become stronger, Lake was training tirelessly without delaying a moment.

At the same time, the outside world was also changing.

The influence of the Creation God Cult was constantly fermenting, and more and more people followed suit, but the change in the power of faith was not obvious. After all, most of the new believers were just shallow believers.