[Charlotte Linlin at Cake Island]: "MAMAMAMA~ Do you want me to lend you a few Homies? I guarantee it'll be livelier than a Buster Call~"
"MAMA, are the desserts ready? Want to eat while we watch?"
"MAMAMAMA!"
Jonathan suddenly slammed the table and stood up: "Wait! Even the Four Emperors are in the live stream!"
At the edge of the screen, a rubber head wearing a Straw Hat was rapidly falling from the clouds.
Jonathan stared at the notification showing the real-time viewer count exceeding 500,000, and silently took out the safety key for the self-destruct button below: "After today... there will be no more Straw Hat Crew!"
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Edge of Sky Island · going merry
"Hey, hey... Isn't this too exaggerated?" Usopp's binoculars clattered onto the deck. The roof of the G8 Fortress reflected dazzling metallic light in the mobile live stream. Those weren't ordinary tiles, but densely arranged Sea Stone nets!
There was no attempt to conceal anything; they were playing with their cards face up!
Nami snatched the binoculars, her face instantly turning pale: "They've added new cannons to every gun emplacement!" Her fingertip trembled as she swiped across the live stream screen, "Look at this angle... they've even buried explosives where we might land!"
In the live stream, Jonathan was smiling and raising an hourglass. The comments scrolled wildly: [Five Minute Countdown] [Straw Hat is finished].
In the corner of the screen, hundreds of Marines could be seen loading special ammunition into the cannon barrels. The words "Rubber Special Attack" were clearly printed on the warheads. This time, they were under immense scrutiny and had to shoot Luffy down!
On the deck of the going merry,
"Hehe..." Luffy suddenly stretched his neck to peer at the screen, "They prepared a lot of meat!"
"Idiot! That's a trap!" Nami punched the rubber head into the deck, then turned and opened the storage compartment—six giant octopuses were leisurely floating in special bubbles. "Good thing I collected a lot of spare octopuses beforehand..."
Zoro suddenly pressed his hand to his sword hilt: "Something's wrong." His eyes were fixed on the faint metallic reflection on the screen, "The Marines are deliberately revealing their deployment in the live stream. They want us to..."
"—Jump into the real trap ourselves." Sanji exhaled a smoke ring and finished his sentence, then suddenly kicked open the kitchen floor.
Everyone gasped: Below was a whole row of propulsion devices made of jet dials!
Using these devices, they wouldn't need to descend at all for a short period, and could easily bypass the G8 Marine Base!
"When did you... you perverted cook?"
"Last night." Sanji grinned, "When a certain idiotic Captain said 'I want to fly faster than a cannonball'."
At this moment, a piercing alarm suddenly sounded in the live stream. Amidst the violent shaking of the camera, shouts came: "Target spotted! Black dot appearing in the southwest clouds!" The comments were instantly flooded with [Here they come] [The hunt begins].
"Now!" Nami sharply turned the rudder. "Octopus team prepare—All jet dials full power!"
The Merry suddenly seemed to be pushed by an invisible hand, the entire ship skewing into the clouds at a strange angle.
In the astonished eyes of the Marines below, the golden ship, which should have been falling vertically, instead drew a beautiful parabolic trajectory using the thrust from the octopuses' jets!
"How is that possible?!" Jonathan's cigar fell to the floor. "They changed their descent trajectory!"
In the live stream,
The Straw Hat Crew's ship stopped after descending for a while, and then actually sailed straight through the air.
This completely defied common sense!
....
High in the clouds,
The air sacs of the giant octopuses refracted colorful halos in the sunlight, like a string of floating rainbows.
Usopp was using a special long hook to latch onto an octopus's tentacle, sweat dripping down his long nose: "The octopuses are running out of air! Get ready to switch!"
A "whoosh" of deflating air came from below the deck. The previously inflated octopuses suddenly shriveled like leaky balloons.
The Merry sank sharply, the hull almost scraping the smoke from the Marine cannon fire below.
"Now!" Nami shouted sharply. Zoro and Sanji simultaneously cut the ropes, and new octopuses were immediately inflated by the jet dials.
The ship was lifted as if by an invisible hand, rising back to a safe altitude.
This series of maneuvers made everyone break out in a cold sweat, and the people in the live stream were watching with their hearts pounding!
Below,
Marine G8 Fortress · Command Room
Jonathan ground his cigar into the ashtray, sparks flying. The live stream screen constantly flashed mocking comments:
[Donquixote Family] donated 100 rockets: "Is this all the Marines got? Fufufu~"
[Buggy]: "Need air-dropped octopuses? I can give you a friend price~"
"Commander!" The adjutant suddenly shrieked, pointing at the radar. "Their flight path is drawing letters!"
On the monitoring screen,
The Merry's trajectory clearly formed a giant "SOS"—but the 'O' in the middle was drawn as a grinning skull.
"These little brats..." A vein bulged on Jonathan's forehead. He suddenly snatched the communicator: "Initiate'Scenario B'! Launch the drones supported by the science unit!"
High-altitude battlefield,
"Hard left!" Nami suddenly shrieked.
A cannonball wreathed in electrical arcs grazed the main mast, blasting a hundred-meter-wide hole in the clouds.
Usopp knelt on the deck, his legs weak: "That's not a normal cannonball! It's tracking? What kind of Devil Fruit ability is this!"
Luffy, however, stretched his neck and stared at the black dots getting closer: "Wow! Flying iron turtles!"
Dozens of Vegapunk's special drones were seen extending mechanical claws, each claw glinting with the cold light of Sea Stone.
The live stream comments instantly exploded:
[Sentomaru]: "Where are my Pacifistas?!"
[Kizaru]: "How scary~ These young people~"
"Gum-Gum—" Luffy's arm spun like a windmill, but just as he was about to punch, Sanji kicked him away.
"Idiot!" Sanji pointed behind the drone swarm, "Look carefully!"
Below, through the gaps in the clouds,
The kitchen chimney of the G8 Fortress was clearly visible—and a tempting aroma of roasted meat was wafting from it.
Nami's eyes instantly turned into Belli symbols: "It's the smell of 'Diamond Steak'!"
Zoro suddenly tore off his bandana: "Turn around."
"Huh?"
"I said turn around." His three swords were simultaneously drawn. "Since we're going to cause a ruckus—" He revealed a beast-like grin, "—Let's cause a big one!"
The Merry suddenly cut a sharp zigzag line in the air. The octopus jet ports at the stern collectively turned, and under the gaze of hundreds of thousands of viewers in the live stream, the Straw Hat Crew didn't run away. Instead, they dove towards the fortress!
Jonathan spat out the coffee he had just drunk onto the screen: "Are they crazy?!"
The comment from [Red-Haired Shanks] slowly floated by: "That's more like it (lol)"
When the first drone was cut in half by Zoro, Luffy's laugh echoed through the sky: "The party has started—!"
The fortress kitchen was almost empty now, because he had arranged all personnel to ambush the Straw Hat Crew at their predicted landing spot. Now... this was bad!
Meanwhile, the number of viewers in the live stream was rapidly climbing towards the one million mark.
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