Pirates: Your Emperor is Back!

It seemed like just another normal day.

Marin Vandeau, Navy Headquarters.

Marshal's office.

Zhan Guo opened the window of the office, looking at the rising sun over the sea, he couldn't help stretching.

The admiral known for his seriousness can only relax briefly at this time.

A large amount of information and documents are piled up on the table beside it.

"call……"

Sengoku couldn't help but took a deep breath.

He still has a lot of work to do and can't rest yet.

But before tackling those jobs...

Warring States came to the side window, skillfully brewed a cup of black tea for himself, and took some senbei as a snack by the way.

He sat on the sofa, drinking tea and eating senbei, feeling very comfortable.

I don't know how that brat Barlow is doing in the Universal Alliance, but Zefa has full confidence in him!

Well, there are still ten minutes to rest.

Warring States habitually picked up the newspaper on the side, lamenting that it was another peaceful and beautiful day.

I looked down at today's headlines:

A case of platinum lead disease was discovered in Alabasta, and the Universal Alliance decided to send medical aid to the North Sea.

Warring States: "..."

"puff!"

He took a sip of hot tea and sprayed it out.

What the hell? !

Warring States put down his teacup, staring at the report in the newspaper.

...

In black and white——

Yesterday, a case of platinum lead disease appeared in the Alabasta port and was found by patrol soldiers.

Because the world government declared that platinum-lead disease is a highly contagious infectious disease, for the safety of many citizens, Alabasta immediately sealed off the surrounding area and admitted the platinum-lead patient.

Due to the rapid action of Alabasta officials, so far, no other nationals have been reported to be infected with platinum lead disease.

According to the patient with platinum-lead disease, his hometown is plagued by the spread of platinum-lead disease.

The emergence of platinum-lead disease is not only a problem for Alabasta, but also closely related to every country on the sea!

Therefore, under the leadership of Alabasta, a large number of medical support troops will be sent to the North Sea for free medical assistance after the internal research of the Four Seas Alliance.

The Four Seas Alliance will do its best to help countries plagued by platinum lead disease!

...

This is the approximate content.

Warring States clutched the newspaper tightly, with an uncertain expression.

Platinum lead disease...

What is platinum lead disease?

Ordinary people don't know it, but Sengoku, who is the admiral of the navy, knows it all too well.

The so-called platinum-lead disease is actually not a disease, but a different kind of "poisoning"!

Platinum lead is a kind of lead ore, which can not only be used to produce tableware, paint, sweet seasoning, cosmetics, but can even be used in military weapons!

The origin of this special mineral is located in the dream city of Frevans, which was once known as the "White Town".

High-quality platinum lead products have many buyers around the world. Therefore, with the help of the world government, the platinum lead industry quickly became the pillar industry of Frevans.

For a time, platinum lead brought a lot of money to Frevans, and countless people became rich overnight!

But the good times didn't last long, and the terrible "platinum lead disease" appeared.

The hair and skin of the patient will gradually turn gray, and finally die in excruciating pain.

The essence of platinum-lead disease is actually a poisoning symptom caused by the absorption of platinum-lead ore particles by the human body.

In other words, platinum-lead disease is not a "disease" at all!

The world government had grasped the properties of platinum and lead decades ago, but in order to encourage the residents of Frevans to mine platinum and lead in large quantities, it did not popularize this information to the public.

The people of Frefans who mined platinum-lead mines had no protective measures and were naturally poisoned on a large scale.

In order to cover up this scandal, the World Government, while assisting the Frevans royal family to escape, declared that platinum lead disease is a highly contagious infectious disease.

As a result, Frevans was isolated from the world, and finally even turned into a massacre against platinum-lead patients!

Countless platinum-lead patients died tragically under the butcher's knife of the world government. Only Trafalgar Luo, who was next to Rossindi, survived, and began to hate the world ever since.

...

However, Warring States did not know that there were platinum-lead patients surviving.

When reporting the mission to the Warring States period, Luo Xidi deliberately concealed the existence of "Luo", but temporarily interrupted the mission of the undercover Don Quixote family under the pretext of "private affairs".

So the current Warring States period did not link this news with Rossindi, but frowned and thought about another thing:

Why is the Universal Alliance suddenly linked to the "platinum lead disease"?

Hate to admit it, but as one of the "darkness" of the World Government, everything about Frevans and Platinum Lead Disease is cleaned up.

Coupled with the severe fatality of platinum-lead disease itself, it stands to reason that no one should be able to cross the red earth continent and then go to Alabasta.

Taking a step back, even if platinum lead patients were lucky enough to reach Alabasta, Alabasta had just been connected to the Drum Kingdom.

As a "country of medical care", there must be doctors who understand the pathology of platinum-lead disease.

According to the performance of that Ryan Rowan, he cannot be the kind of person who unconditionally listens to the world government. The fake news that the world government uses to intimidate ordinary people cannot fool him.

So... why is Alabasta acting so exaggerated?

Not only did they quickly isolate the incident site, but they also dispatched a medical support team across the Red Earth Continent to the North Sea...

etc!

Across the red earth continent? Heading to Beihai?

Zhan Guo's pupils shrank suddenly, suddenly thought of something, and murmured:

"He's..."

"He's pretending to be confused."

A familiar voice came from the door, Zhan Guo looked up and found that it was a crane, also holding today's newspaper in his hand.

"Although it's not a big event that caused a world sensation, everyone outside is discussing today's news."

Crane came in, sat on the sofa opposite the Warring States, and sighed.

"Really, I haven't eaten breakfast yet."

Warring States handed the senbei to He, frowning slightly, "What do you mean by what you just said?"

"I didn't eat breakfast."

"Not that sentence, the last sentence."

Zhan Guo rubbed his brows helplessly, "Stop making trouble, Xiao He, this joke sounds like that guy Garp..."

Having said that, Sengoku's expression relaxed slightly.

Years of friendship have already made this group of older navy members familiar with each other's thoughts.

He made a small joke, most likely to let Zhan Guo not worry and calm down first.

There are two possibilities for doing this:

Either the matter itself is not worth worrying about;

Or it's useless to worry about it.

——Obviously, this incident is the latter.

"It's too late."

He ate the senbei slowly, and said slowly: "Now the whole world probably knows about this, and newspapers everywhere are selling like crazy."

Zhan Guo touched his chin, "Why?"

"What?"

"Why would he do that?" Sengoku asked.

He—meaning, of course, Ryan Rowan.

Zhan Guo probably had a guess in his mind, but he still wanted to hear He's opinion first.

"I've said it before, he's pretending to be confused."

He went to make himself a cup of tea again, "That emperor is a master at pretending to be confused."

Then Crane brought a world map, spread it out, pointed to Alabasta and said:

"Alabasta is a country located in the first half of the great sea route. If you want to go to the North Sea, you must either cross the windless belt or cross the red earth continent."

"The technology that crosses the windless belt has just recently made a breakthrough at the Institute of Science and Technology, and it is impossible for Alabasta to master it."

"Also, even if the emperor can rely on his personal strength to forcibly break into the windless belt, he can't do it again and again, and the risk is too great."

"So, they only have one option to cross the Red Earth Continent."

"The Red Earth Continent—is the territory of the Tianlong people."

Crane looked calm, analyzing bit by bit.

"The Tianlong people have a grudge against Ryan Rowan. If the Four Seas Alliance wants to cross the Red Earth Continent, it must face the Tianlong people's difficulties."

"That's very troublesome, and it's not the best solution."

"So, the emperor chose to use the platinum-lead disease as an introduction, and planned to go to Beihai with great fanfare in the name of treating the platinum-lead disease."

Crane said slowly:

"Platinum-lead disease is a tricky thing—all countries in the world think so. Now that someone is willing to take action to solve it, countries naturally welcome it."

"In this way, in order to stabilize the people's hearts, the world government must at least support the actions of the Four Seas Alliance on the surface. A single Tianlong person cannot affect the overall decision-making of the world government."

"This is a 'bright chess' move. Although we can see his actions clearly, we have to follow him."

He rubbed his chin, "It's just that I can't figure it out a bit."

"It stands to reason that among the four seas, east, west, north, south, the easiest to establish a trade route with the Four Seas Alliance should be the weakest East China Sea, right?"

"Why did the emperor choose Beihai?"

Crane leaned back on the sofa, turned his eyes to Zhan Guo, and said with a chuckle: "The world government must have something that we don't want 'little lieutenant generals' like us to know, Zhan Guo?"

This is a rhetorical question, because the crane is only responsible for the analysis, and she has to leave the rest to Zhan Guo for his own judgment.

Hearing this, Zhan Guo was taken aback.

He did.

The five billion Berry deal between the world government and the pirates——

Fruit of surgery, Minion Island!