The atmosphere of the banquet reached its peak, and the revelry continued until late at night.
So much so that when they got tired and drunk, they simply fell asleep on the deck and stayed there until the sun rose the next morning, its warm rays shining on them.
Chapter 407: A Marriage from All Nations
The Marineford War ended yesterday, but today, people all over the world are still talking about what happened on the battlefield yesterday.
Whitebeard's domineering spirit that disregards life and death, the despair-inducing power wielded by the three admirals, and Chen Yong'an's army that seems to be controlled only by gods.
These are all topics that people enjoy discussing.
Amid the numerous discussions, Chen Yong'an's previous remarks in the newspapers were brought back to the forefront.
There is an army that has overthrown the Celestial Dragons' rule, and this is not just empty talk.
On the Lexington, which was en route to the Amazon Lily, Chen Yong'an received a phone call from Kalifa.
"The World Government is preparing to take action against Princess Vivi. CP9 agents have already landed in Alabasta."
"While I and the army were away? You were there too?" Chen Yong'an asked.
"Yes, I came here with the shipwrights from Water Seven to inspect the constructed tracks and factory."
"Then be careful. Thank you for the information."
"I will."
After hanging up the phone, just as Chen Yong'an was about to call Weiwei, he received a call from Weiwei first.
"Chen Yong'an! What have you done now!"
"What?!" Chen Yong'an was confused. "Participating in the Marineford War? Didn't you watch the live stream yesterday?"
"That's not what I meant!" Vivi gritted her teeth. "I meant Charlotte Linlin, the Fourth Princess!"
“Hey, you can call me a womanizer, but you absolutely can’t insult my taste,” Chen Yong’an slammed his fist on the table angrily. “I’m not that twisted!”
"What are you thinking?" Vivi retorted angrily. "I'm talking about Auntie's daughter, Charlotte Brin!"
"Breen?"
Chen Yong'an remembered Pudding; she was a mixed-race three-eyed girl and a Paramecia-type Memory Fruit user, possessing the ability to read, extract, replace, and alter the memories of designated individuals.
Because of the eye on her forehead, she was disliked and bullied by her mother when she was a child, which led to her distorted personality as an adult, hiding a different face beneath her approachable appearance.
Of course, when Pudding covered her third eye on her forehead, she still looked quite sweet and cute, and her figure was slim and sexy.
Why are you bringing her up? I don't even know her.
"Why would that old lady send someone over, specifically asking you and Pudding to marry?"
"How would I know? Maybe it's for political reasons, or maybe that Pudding has taken a liking to me. Who knows? Pudding's here too?"
"No, she said you need to go and greet her in person, but the messenger sent by the Great Mother is on a ship full of treasure and goods from the New World. This is the dowry the Great Mother is giving you."
How much is it worth?
"It's probably worth tens of billions."
"It's alright, it's just the cost of a few warships."
A hundred billion Berries is indeed an exaggerated number for an individual, considering that even the heads of the Four Emperors are only worth four or five billion.
But for some wealthy businessmen, this amount of money is not a large sum for a major country.
"So what do you say? Do you want to arrange a marriage with Auntie?" Vivi asked.
"Don't you have any objections?"
"What opinion can I have?" Weiwei gritted her teeth. "Haven't you provoked enough people? Do whatever you want, I can't control you anyway."
Chen Yong'an tapped his fingertips on the table, thought for a moment, and said, "Let me think about it. By the way, CP9, which is directly under the World Government, has arrived in Alabasta. Be careful and try to stay with Robin. Don't give them a chance to make a move."
“Just CP9,” Vivi said with a hint of disdain. “I’m not someone to be trifled with.”
Vivi herself is a princess with strong martial spirit; otherwise, she wouldn't have been able to rise to such a high position as "Executive Commander" when she infiltrated Baroque Works. She is the kind of person that ordinary pirates cannot deal with.
After learning the powerful training method from Tina, Vivi also started training with her.
Although he wasn't particularly strong, he had at least mastered two types of Haki.
With the added assistance of Compound V, even a CP9 expert in physical combat might not have a chance against Vivi in her current form.
"Anyway, be careful. Bye."
"Ah."
After hanging up the phone, Chen Yong'an called everyone to a meeting at the restaurant.
“Of course we’ll refuse!” Hancock said angrily. “He hasn’t even married me yet, and that Pudding is trying to steal him away. That’s just too much!”
"A marriage alliance with Big Mom's daughter?" Ada Wong pondered. "It's quite risky. These sea emperors have all fought their way up against pirates and the navy; none of them are easy to deal with."
“Grandma Charlotte Linlin is also known as a natural destroyer,” Mona added. “While the Kingdom she built is said to welcome all comers, it is said that it will not keep anyone who wants to leave or betrays it.”
This doesn't mean we're not trying to keep them or letting them leave; it means we won't leave them in this world.
Chen Yong'an knew the woman's personality well; she was a capricious person, especially when her "food cravings" flared up, she wouldn't even spare the people closest to her.
Even so, the "Nation of All Races," a nation founded by the old woman where all races live in equality, is the only utopia in this cannibalistic world.
No need to work, no worries about food and drink.
The only price to pay is to give the old woman one month's life every six months as protection money.
Or rather, it was used to create "Homies" to replace people in their work.
Compared to the world under the rule and exploitation of the World Government, where even getting enough to eat is a problem, it is no exaggeration to call Grandma's World of Tales of the Big Mom a paradise!
“The old lady is a very ambitious person,” Chen Yong’an said. “On the surface, she said she was marrying me, but in reality, her real purpose was to devour the power I had.
"Her so-called 'All Nations,' I'm afraid if I go there, I won't be able to leave."
“Then just refuse,” 2B said. “Or do you want the treasure brought by Big Mom’s messenger? What’s that saying again? Eat the bulletproof vest and fire the shells back.”
“I need the power of the aunties,” Chen Yong’an said, revealing his true thoughts, “to unite and fight against the world government.”
Our strength alone is still too weak. Even if we succeed in overthrowing the world government and rebuilding world order, we will need the support of these countries.
The angel agreed with Chen Yong'an's statement, saying, "Establishing order is not something that one country can decide. So, regardless of whether or not you form an alliance with the myriad nations through marriage, you still have to make a trip to the myriad nations."
“That’s right,” Chen Yong’an looked around at everyone, “After we send Hancock back to Amazon Lily, we’ll head to the New World!”
Chapter 408: Back to Amazon Lily
On the other side of the red walls, on the vast sea where powerful figures abound, can you leave behind your own legend?
Main Quest: Head to the New World
Task Reward: 1 Mastery Point
Task time limit: None
Perhaps because this main quest was initiated by Chen Yong'an, there was no set time as usual, nor were there any penalties for failure such as impotence or kidney deficiency.
Chen Yong'an was still a little unaccustomed to it for the time being.
In short, after Chen Yong'an explained his reason for going to the New World to meet Big Mom Charlotte Linlin, no one else had any objections.
After all, Chen Yong'an is the captain of this ship.
"Although we're all in this together, you absolutely must not marry that Pudding girl, you understand?" Hancock earnestly instructed, this being the only thing she was worried about.
"Why don't I just go with you? If the negotiations fail, I can fight for you. After all, I am the Pirate Empress. In terms of strength and beauty, that old and ugly woman is definitely no match for me!"
Chen Yong'an didn't know who was stronger since Hancock had never fought Big Mom, but he still refused Hancock's offer.
"You stay on Amazon Lily and protect it. If the World Government realizes our relationship and launches an attack while we're not around, it'll be troublesome."
“As expected,” Hancock turned her head away, her brows furrowing in a mournful expression, “you really do have feelings for that Pudding, and you want to run off and marry her, don’t you?”
Under the watchful eyes of everyone, Chen Yong'an couldn't easily appease Hancock and could only let her fall into her own mental drama.
Anyway, she would grumble to herself for a while and then cheer herself up.
After discussing the power base and key personnel under the aunt's command for a while, the morning meeting ended, and everyone went about their own business.
Chen Yong'an also told Weiwei about his upcoming trip to the New World to seek cooperation and alliance with the old lady, and asked her to help inform the envoy from the Kingdom of Worlds sent by the old lady.
As for a marriage alliance, let's forget about it; Chen Yong'an doesn't like doing that.
Moreover, alliances formed through marriage are the least reliable.
Common interests and common enemies are the key to forming an alliance.
"So when are you going to come back and visit?" Vivi on the other end of the Den Den Mushi bit her lower lip. "You've been away from Alabasta for more than half a year now, haven't you? Don't you ever think about coming back for a visit?"
“Okay,” Chen Yong’an readily agreed. “I will definitely go back before heading to the New World.”
Besides going back to see Vivi and Robin, Chen Yong'an also wanted to see how the country he had helped to develop had become.
You can't keep wandering around outside without even knowing what's happened to your own base.
"Mmm," Vivi replied happily, already looking forward to the day they would meet again.
After hanging up the phone, Chen Yong'an got up and left the restaurant to go outside for a walk and get some fresh air.
The ship is now high above the clouds, with huge seagull wings flapping on both sides of its hull, giving it a much more stable flight in the air than it would on the sea.
After enjoying the breeze on the deck for a while and feeling a bit chilly, I went down to the lower deck to check out D.VA's workshop.
Yesterday, I captured two almost intact Pacifistas on the battlefield and stuffed them into the dock system below the Lexington to see what D.Va is up to now.
Upon arriving at the lower deck, Chen Yong'an was immediately struck by the stench of welding, so unpleasant that he instinctively covered his mouth and nose.
It's Mai Shiranui wearing a work mask, cutting down pacifists with flames.
White and blue flames shot out from Mai Shiranui's slender fingertips, slowly cutting across the Pacifista's hard body, leaving obvious cutting marks, and severing its forearm, which was equipped with laser weapons.
“A very powerful flame,” Chen Yong’an said. “You can make the flame as thin as a laser for precise cutting?”
Chen Yong'an suddenly remembered a novel he had read in college, in which the protagonist achieved industrialization with the help of a witch who could manipulate fire, and was able to handcraft steam engines, steel furnaces, machine tools and other industrial machinery.
"You mean like a laser cutting machine? That's impossible," D.VA retorted immediately. "Putting aside whether we have that kind of control, you have to understand that the precision that industrial machinery pursues is measured in 'micrometers'. How could humans possibly achieve that level of precision machining?"
"That seems to be true. Oh well, I don't need it anyway."
This world has no shortage of machine tools. Even if they were needed, it would be better to have Eve do the cutting than to have Mai Shiranui, a human, do it. Her sword is truly capable of melting iron like mud.
"That flame you were burning earlier looked pretty good. What was its temperature?"
“The auxiliary machine detected it; it’s only around 2,000 degrees Celsius,” Mai Shiranui said, spreading her hands as a ball of white-blue flame appeared. “It seems it can’t go any higher.”
"That's not bad either. Can you use this flame to make yourself fly? Like a superhero."
"Huh? I haven't tried that before."
"You can try it when you have time, but as long as you're playing with fire, just don't set the ship on fire."
"Don't worry," Mai Shiranui patted her massive chest, "I'm a professional at manipulating flames."
"Alright, if you have time to chat, you might as well help me move this arm over there, you muscular captain."
“No problem, leave it to me,” Chen Yong’an squatted down and picked up the pacifist’s arm that had been removed. “You’re planning to attach it to your mech?”
"It's not that simple. These aren't even part of the same system. We definitely need to break them down and study them first. Bring them to my studio so I can take a good look at them."
Chen Yong'an did as instructed and stayed there for a while longer, looking for any help he could get, until the kitchen had prepared lunch.
On the fifth day after leaving Marineford, we finally arrived at our destination, Amazon Lily, located in the Calm Belt.
In the distance, several cargo ships and warships flying the Alabasta flag were seen docked at the port of Amazon Lily.
During their absence, the first Alabasta merchant caravan to trade with Amazonian lilies finally arrived.
However, due to the fact that men were still forbidden from entering the Amazon Lily, the sailors on board could only move around in the designated ports for foreign visitors.
With the arrival of merchant groups, many new buildings were constructed in this port, such as taverns, inns, shops, and warehouses.
Chen Yong'an didn't go over to check; instead, he had Lexington fly over the island and land at the port of the Amazon Lily River.
Because they had been informed of their return beforehand, the victorious group was warmly welcomed by the warriors of the Amazon Lily.
They cheered for Hancock, but even more so for Chen Yong'an, who was surrounded by people in the middle.
Chen Yong'an's current reputation on Amazon Lily has already surpassed that of Queen Hancock.
Although Hancock herself doesn't seem to care at all.
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