"Today's news is quite interesting, isn't it?"
Orochimaru entered the room holding a tray, looking at the trembling Ryokugyu who was gazing at the newspaper. He sinisterly licked his tongue.
"Come over and get your blood drawn first..."
"..."
Ryokugyu looked at Orochimaru with despair.
"Your Woods-Woods Fruit ability is quite impressive..."
Orochimaru, holding a thick syringe, laughed and said, "You can actually merge with our Captain's Wood Release, it seems like we can create more Wood Release users now..."
"Why..."
Ryokugyu gritted his teeth and asked his question.
Why did the Konoha Pirates save him, only to bring him back as a so-called spy, making him a traitor in the eyes of the World Government and the Heavenly Celestial Dragons!
"We just want to torment the lapdogs of the Heavenly Celestial Dragons..."
Orochimaru laughed while drawing blood, speaking carelessly: "According to our last experiment, we found you can survive without nutrition, just like a real plant. It seems your Fruit Ability is really remarkable..."
This means...
Ryokugyu's ability might be able to achieve eternal life!
Compared to Ryokugyu, who is a miserable lab subject, the other batch of Konoha Pirates' captives are doing quite well. The CP9 agents have drifted to Shampodi Archipelago.
These agents quickly became sparring partners for the Konoha Pirates, having to accompany the Konoha Pirates in training the Navy Six Style, which is another unique training system on the sea.
Naturally...
The escaping CP9 agents thus ended up being wanted by the World Government.
Even in the World Government's press release, these CP9 agents, along with their deceased superior Spandam, were listed as one of the reasons for the Enies Lobby combat plan's failure.
However...
Most people no longer trust the World Government's news.
The people of this sea prefer to believe the news from Morgans, the president of the World Economic News Agency, because that's where the real news spikes come from!
Morgans has been constantly profiting from the actions of the Konoha Pirates, this super pirate group that keeps making big news, was once the darling of the World Economic News Agency.
The Enies Lobby incident certainly wouldn't be missed by them...
Moreover...
The Enies Lobby incident actually generated real news spikes!
In order to get accurate information, "Big News" Morgans even personally rushed to Shampodi Archipelago, hoping to interview the Konoha Pirates to get some information from their mouths, to help boost newspaper sales!
Unfortunately...
The members of the Konoha Pirates seem quite wary of the person behind them, never mentioning that person's name, and rarely willing to speak about it.
However...
It's okay!
If there's not enough news, Morgans can fabricate it himself, he's quite skilled at creating fake news, having concocted plenty of big news in the past!
If it weren't for the Konoha Pirates' rising fame, any big event could lead to in-depth reports from every angle for half a month, he might have had to continue fabricating big news!
Fortunately...
Some Heavenly Celestial Dragons caught his attention.
Because the Konoha Pirates' Heavenly Celestial Dragon slave auction is about to take place.
The once lofty, reckless World Nobles have now become lowly slaves at the mercy of others in the auction house. This stark identity reversal is clearly more intriguing than the seemingly unreachable puppet masters...
Not to mention...
Just the people attending the auction can produce several explosive news stories!
[The King of Dressrosa! The former World Noble!]
[Flamingo Donquixote Doflamingo declares he will participate in the Heavenly Celestial Dragon slave auction!]