The vortex caused by the times is like a huge black hole, containing some kind of special magnetic field, quietly gathering some characters at a certain node. To use a novel's romantic description, this is the symphonic notes of fate, eager to collide with each other.
At this moment, Alabasta is undoubtedly at such a special node.
"This desert is really lively …" A burly man with thick body hair, fluffy hair tied with a headscarf, three flintlock guns hanging on his left waist, a rum bottle in his right hand, and two necklaces hanging around his neck, a wild and rough aura exuding from his body. It was Blackbeard Marshall D. Teach, a former member of the Second Division of the Whitebeard Pirates. He was the one who killed his captain and defected. At this moment, he was standing at the door of a dilapidated tavern. He sat cross-legged on the ground casually and reached out to rub his leg hair. He looked at the Straw Hat group opposite him and laughed: "A man's dream will never end!"
The words that sounded like chicken soup were uttered from Teach's ugly mouth that was full of rotten teeth. It gave people an extremely uncomfortable feeling of cruelty. It was a firm and callous feeling that he could kill his own companions and betray everyone in order to pursue his dreams.
He has been hiding his true strength and lurking in the Pirates of Whitebeard, one of the Yonkō (Four Emperors) for 20 years, just waiting for an opportunity to plot a Devil Fruit he dreamed of – Dark-Dark Fruit (Logia), and when the opportunity came, Teach did not hesitate to kill his companions and grab the fruit.
The forbearance, patience, madness, and cruelty can't be described in words. This is a real big pirate, and every inch of his body is greedily breathing ambition and sin.
The brush with the Straw Hat group is just an episode. Luffy and others don't know the identity and deeds of Teach. He just instinctively hates this man.
"Ahaha, Captain, you are being abandoned. Do you need me to kill them?" The sickly as if terminally ill ship doctor Poison Q came over with a basket full of red apples in his hand and asked.
Not far behind him, there was a couple with a child. Their faces were sallow and filled with gratitude as they stared at Poison Q's back. Each of them held an apple in their hands and stuffed it into their mouths.
Bang!
The apple that he had swallowed suddenly exploded, and three headless corpses lay on the ground. Poison Q did not even turn his head as he let out a pitiful laugh and sighed, "Fate often uses this to measure the value of a person's existence. Looks like it's another three unlucky souls that fate doesn't pity!"
"So, that Straw Hat kid is a person who is favored by fate. He ate your apple and didn't explode. In that case, spare their lives." Teach patted the dust on his butt and stood up, and several men dressed in complicated and strange absurd clothes came over.
"We have escaped. It's not the style of our Blackbeard Pirates to hide." Teach pulled out an apple from the basket and stuffed it into his mouth. After chewing and swallowing it, he laughed insolently and said, "My life has always been tough. Then I'll choose this desert and get rid of Ace who's following me."
"This desert? The territory of Sand Crocodile, one of the Shichibukai? " Van Oka, who was wearing a flat forked black hat on his head, an eye patch on his right eye, and a long gun on his shoulder, hesitated slightly: "Will it cause unnecessary trouble? That Sand Crocodile's temper doesn't seem to be so good."
"Oh, fate tells me that Sand Crocodile is too busy to take care of himself recently, or his position as one of the Shichibukai is in danger." Teach thought about the various scraps of information recently collected in his mind and grinned sinisterly: "This is the perfect time for us to start. If one of the Shichibukai is vacant, then we can just take the head of Fire Fist Ace and make a win-win deal with the World Government. Using the head of the Pirate King Roger's son in exchange for a layer of legal skin, hahaha …"
"Is that all? Are you satisfied with the title of Shichibukai? "Poison Q interjected.
In the crazy laughter, Teach swallowed the apple core into his stomach and his eyes showed a sinister and cunning look. "How is it possible, Ace is a spinning top that stirred the whole era. How can a Shichibukai be enough? At least I have to drag my beloved Whitebeard down with me!"
"Dreams and ambitions need to be watered with blood that stains the whole sea to germinate, ahahahaha …" Marshall D. Teach laughed wildly.
At the same time, on the coast of Alabasta, a lone masted ship was docked and a man yawning on the deck suddenly woke up.
This man is Portkas D. Ace, the posthumous son of the Pirate King Roger. He is also the current Captain of the second team of the Whitebeard Pirates, a Logia Flame-Flame Fruit user. More secretly, he is also the sworn brother of Captain Monchi D. Luffy of the Straw Hat gang.
They didn't know that both brothers were in the desert of Alabasta at the moment. The former was helping Choba find the trace of Dr. Culeja, and the latter was naturally hunting down the traitor of the Whitebeard Pirates, Blackbeard Teach.
Ace has black hair, a healthy wheat-colored complexion, slightly freckled cheeks, an orange cowboy hat on his head, a red necklace around his neck, and a tattoo of the Whitebeard Pirates on his back (a skull with a scimitar-shaped beard and a cross-shaped bone inserted upside down in all directions), which he regarded as the glory of his life.
"Teach, I will catch you and wash away your sins with the blood of the traitor." Ace jumped off the ship, looked at the dry desert, and chose a direction to walk into the desert.
…
"It's impossible to find Dr. Culeja if we continue to look for him like a headless fly." Nami wiped the hot sweat on her forehead. The sun above the desert was so hot that she felt like she was being burnt.
"I've inquired. Yarlin was originally a Captain stationed in the Alabasta Naval Branch, but now he is replaced by White Hunter Smoker." Usopp then said, "It's impossible to find clues about Dr. Culeja from the Marines, so we can only look for him elsewhere."
"Where?" Choba asked.
"Alabasta's rebel army. A few months ago, the Magnetic Drum Kingdom's army landed in Alabasta and was destroyed. However, the Magnetic Drum Kingdom's army came to help the rebels. That is to say, Wapol is likely to be related to the rebels. So, the rebels may know some relevant news …"
"Then let's go to the rebels in Alabasta. Where are they now?" Luffy asked.
"Crocodile destroyed the entire Magnetic Drum Kingdom's army on the coast. The rebels were also greatly affected and suffered heavy casualties. They were split into two forces. One surrendered to Crocodile and the other drilled into the area of the Stone Forest. I mean, we don't need to provoke the Shichibukai. Let's look for the rebels in the Stone Forest."
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