In the next second, there was a loud thud.
Because Kaede Sato did not take it, the scroll fell on the sand in front of Kaede Sato, and some of the sand was immediately splashed by the scroll.
Seeing that Kaede Sato did not take the scroll, Marlowe's face immediately became even uglier. He gritted his teeth, and in the end, he did not choose to remain silent.
He already had enough troubles on him. If he were to offend the direct subordinate of Boss Sakaki, he would probably die a tragic death in the upcoming Rookie Tournament.
Although Marlowe was usually impulsive and willful, he was not stupid. Even if he usually preferred to solve all problems with his fists, when he really encountered something that he could not solve with his fists alone, he would still use the art of compromise.
Now, Marlowe had encountered a problem that he could not solve with his fists alone.
Because of his previous relationship with Ah Xing and Mia, Marlowe was now being hunted by both Ah Xing and Mia. To be precise, Ah Xing was the leader, and Mia was the assistant.
In fact, Marlowe was not afraid of Mia. What made him feel extremely troubled was Ah Xing, a female ninja who was proficient in assassination ninjutsu. Recently, she had been following him like a shadow.
If he was not careful, and Ah Xing did not dare to blatantly assassinate him, he would have almost been poisoned to death several times.
Now, Marlowe was like a bird startled by the twang of a bow. He finally understood the horror of provoking a female ninja like Ah Xing.
Marlowe now carried a large number of powerful antidotes with him at all times, and he had great distrust of all foreign food. Unless he tested it with a silver needle, he did not dare to touch or eat any food.
As the second generation of the Rockets, Marlowe knew far more about the Newcomer Tournament than Kaede Sato. Before the second stage began, he had already received accurate information.
The second stage of the Newcomer Tournament would be held on an uninhabited island in the Orange Islands.
(Note: The island where Red Lotus Town is located is very close to the Orange Islands.)
(Note: The Orange Archipelago is the area of the Orange Alliance, which Xiaozhi once participated in. This area is located in the south of the Guandong region. There are a large number of islands, most of which are uninhabited.)
(Note: Due to the small number of inhabited islands in the Orange Archipelago and their scattered distribution, the Alliance has invested very little in this area. As a result, it is still a paradise for pirates and smugglers.)
Of course, since Mallos knew about it, Ah Xing, the second generation of the Rockets, naturally knew about it as well.
Therefore, Marlose knew that Ah Xing would not let go of such a chance to kill him easily in the upcoming competition between the newcomers.
Therefore, he decided to find a capable helper to help him get rid of Ah Xing.
Currently, many powerhouses from team Rocket were gathered on Red Lotus Island. They were waiting for the second stage of the rookie tournament to begin. Many of them were direct subordinates specially nurtured by the leaders of the various factions.
As one of the few second-generation powerhouses in the Rocket, Marlose naturally knew many of the direct subordinates specially nurtured by the leaders of the various factions.
However, perhaps because Marlowe had gone too far this time, or because Xing was too strong, or because his reputation among the new generation of the Rockets was too bad, he actually couldn't find anyone who was willing to help him, even though he thought that his conditions were already very tempting.
Marlose was not a person who was willing to wait for death. In desperation, he thought of Kaede Sato, who he had fought with on the Rocket plane not long ago.
After his Taser Beast lost to Kaede Sato's Abbo, Marlose sent someone to investigate Kaede Sato. At first, he only received information that Kaede Sato was a civilian trainer with a clean background.
However, Marlose was not blind. He saw in the Rocket plane that Kaede Sato and Kondo Castle had a "pleasant and intimate" conversation.
Who was Kondo Castle? He was the closest subordinate of Boss Sakaki. Marlose naturally knew about this information. Therefore, he swore that Kaede Sato, who was able to put his arm around Kondo Castle's shoulder, definitely had an extraordinary background.
Most importantly, Marlose did not believe that a civilian trainer like Kaede Sato could grow to such a high level in just over a month and defeat him, even though it was because the other party had despicably used the terrain to his advantage.
After that, Marlose finally found the latest information about Kaede Sato through his connections with Jishi Ma. As he had guessed, Kaede Sato was Boss Sakaki's subordinate.
However, it was certain that Kaede Sato was a civilian trainer. This was because Marlose also knew that Boss Sakaki liked to train civilian trainers with clean backgrounds like Kaede Sato.
Therefore, in Marlose's mind, Kaede Sato was lucky enough to be favored by Boss Sakaki and secretly trained as a subordinate.
There were only two words in Mallos' mind regarding the civilian trainers, and that was "poor" and "weak."
Of course, after Marlose fought with Kaede Sato personally, he naturally did not think that Kaede Sato was weak. However, he still thought that Kaede Sato, a civilian trainer of the Rocket, was very poor.
Therefore, in desperation, Marlose decided to try his luck with Kaede Sato, hoping that he could get Kaede Sato's help with a generous reward. Even if he did not succeed, he still wanted to drag Kaede Sato down into the water and share some of the firepower with him.
As for his previous rudeness and disrespect towards Kaede Sato, in Marlose's opinion, his reward was enough to let Kaede Sato, an inexperienced civilian trainer, get over this small matter.
In order to get Kaede Sato's help, Marlose had brought enough sincerity this time. Just the scroll he had just tossed to Kaede Sato was worth a lot to Kaede Sato.
Why was this scroll so valuable to Kaede Sato? It was because this scroll was a map, and it was a detailed map that recorded the island where the second stage of the Newcomer Tournament would be held.
It could be said that any member of the Rocket who participated in the second stage of the Newcomer Tournament would have at least a 50% chance of getting a good result in the second stage if they had this map.
This map was something that Martyr Ma had spent a lot of effort to get for Marlose. As for how he got it, Marlose only knew that he was from the Poseidon faction within the Rocket.
Although there were many islands in the Orange Archipelago, many of them had already been explored under the tireless exploitation of maritime smugglers. One of them was the uninhabited island where the Newcomer Tournament would be held.
The Poseidon faction was one of the three strongest factions within the Rocket. This faction was in charge of the trade within the Rocket and had a close relationship with many maritime smugglers. Therefore, it was very easy for them to get a map of the island.
Marlose could tell from the serious tone of his cousin when he passed the map to him that the price for this map was very high. And since Kaede Sato was one of Boss Sakaki's people, the chances of him knowing about this map was almost zero.
Boss Sakaki was famous for being strict in the Rocket. It could be said that he had put in a lot of effort to organize this Newcomer Tournament, so he absolutely would not allow anyone to cheat.
The premise that Boss Sakaki didn't allow others to cheat was that he couldn't cheat either. Therefore, Marlose believed that Kaede Sato didn't know about this map.
In fact, Marlose had thought of using this map to rope in the direct members of the Rocket, but he didn't take it out at first because he was worried.
After receiving so many rejections, Marlous decided not to take it out because he already knew that the direct members of the Rocket Team were probably eager for him to be killed by Ah Xing. If he really took it out, he might be sold off by these people right away.
As for why he dared to take it out and give it to Kaede Sato now? The reason was very simple. Marlose believed that Kaede Sato didn't have this map in his hands, and he believed that Kaede Sato, a trainer with a civilian background, definitely wanted to stand out in this Newcomer Tournament.
As long as Kaede Sato wanted to stand out, he would never be stupid enough to report this map to his boss, because it was not in his best interest.
Yes, Marlous, who was at the end of his rope, was gambling that Sato Kaede didn't know about this map, gambling that Sato Kaede wouldn't expose him.
In the end, when Marlose saw Kaede Sato open the scroll and see the change in his expression, he knew that his first bet was right. Kaede Sato didn't know about this map.
"Are you sure it's real?"
Kaede Sato looked at the map in his hand with a lot of annotations, and his expression couldn't help but change. He took a deep breath and asked Marlose solemnly.
Seeing Kaede Sato's expression, Marlose's ashen face instantly disappeared. He smiled again, and then took out a green stone with lightning stripes on it.
"Of course, if you agree to my conditions, not only can you get it, but you can also get this thing. This is a good thing, your Pichu must need it very much."
Marlose shook the stone in his hand at Kaede Sato and smiled.
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