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In a short period of time, Li Wei completed the setup that covered almost the entire One Piece world. He was very satisfied with what he named the Aurora Road.
"Should we imbue the Aurora Road with a soul?"
Li Wei hesitated for a moment, then decided to postpone it. Covering the Aurora Road was easy, but imbuing it with a soul was too vast and would require a relatively slow process.
After making this decision, Li Wei closed his eyes for a moment. He was calculating the location and distance of Rogge Town in his body's memory.
Soon, Li Wei opened his eyes again, his whole body transforming into a beam of light, projecting himself into the Aurora Path.
Roggetown, arrived in an instant!
If Li Wei hadn't calculated the distance in advance, given the speed of light, he probably would have flown too far ahead.
This speed is almost like teleportation. From the moment Li Wei laid down the Aurora Path, it meant that any corner of this world was only a blink of an eye away for him.
Li Wei's control over the One Piece world has increased significantly once again.
Chapter 409 Loguetown, Lu Fei's Execution
East China Sea, in the town of Logue—
"Xiao You, slow down."
A middle-aged man called out helplessly to a little girl in front of him who was skipping around eating three layers of ice cream. She was a first-grade student at Rogge Town Elementary School.
"Dad, you're so slow."
Xiaoyou stuck out her tongue and happily licked the ice cream her father had bought for her.
As for the middle-aged man, although his tone was helpless, his face was full of doting affection.
Unexpectedly, Xiaoyou, who was focused on eating ice cream, accidentally bumped into someone coming from the front and got ice cream on them.
"My ice cream..."
Xiao You's eyes immediately welled up with tears.
"Xiao Yu!"
The middle-aged man quickly walked over, looking at the newcomer with a worried expression. This was a young man with messy hair and unkempt clothes, who didn't look like a good person at all. So he was very worried about provoking thugs. For ordinary families, hooligans were no different from pirates.
"No, I'm sorry, my daughter did it on purpose. I apologize, I will compensate you."
"Huh?! I picked these pants out of the world's most expensive garbage dump. They're incredibly valuable. Do you even deserve them?!"
The newcomer glared at him, startling the middle-aged man so much that his face turned pale. Even Xiaoyou was frightened and was about to cry.
"You can't afford to pay for my pants, but I can afford to pay for your ice cream."
However, the slovenly young man changed his tone and snapped his fingers, producing a ten-layered ice cream. He handed it to the little girl, who happily accepted it.
"Thank you, big brother."
Pat your head, pat your head.
"Be careful when you walk next time. Not everyone is as rich as me," the man said irritably.
The middle-aged man breathed a sigh of relief after the young man had walked away.
“What a strange person,” he said.
"Dad, you're not allowed to scold my brother like that. He's a good person," Xiaoyou said angrily. "He gave me ten layers of ice cream, which is much more generous than you, Dad."
The middle-aged man gave a bitter smile.
He was also very grateful and fortunate. The young man looked slovenly and didn't seem like a good person, but he was actually quite nice. No, although he said strange things, he was actually a good person. You really couldn't tell.
"Dad, hurry up and go."
Xiao You urged.
"coming."
In the original story, Xiao You bumped into Smoker, but Li Wei happened to arrive and changed the plot.
……
On the side of the road—
“Colonel Smoker, that guy just now looked like…” A naval soldier asked a man with short silver hair, wearing a large coat with the word “Justice” on the back and goggles around his neck, looking flustered.
Smoker is a user of the Smoke-Smoke Fruit and guards Loguetown, specializing in capturing pirates heading to the Grand Line.
In the early stages, Smoker, who possesses a Logia-type Devil Fruit ability, was no match for Luffy. If it weren't for Dragon's intervention, Luffy would have been killed in Loguetown.
"You read that right, it's Li Wei, the 'Cataclysmic' pirate with a bounty of 300 million."
Smoker, a chain smoker, spoke with a gloomy expression as he puffed on a large pipe.
A bounty of 300 million is a very troublesome situation in the East China Sea.
Nevertheless, he did not back down and prepared to arrest him. If he hadn't seen Li Wei's unexpected friendliness towards the little girl, he might have already taken action.
Now, he plans to wait and see.
……
Upon arriving in Loguetown, Li Wei realized he was early. He remembered Smoker; if that part of the story had started, Smoker would definitely have chased after Luffy. Besides, the crowd wasn't making a fuss. If someone were actually caught and beheaded, the crowd would definitely go to watch the spectacle, just like in the original story.
So Li Wei wasn't in a hurry and strolled leisurely through Rogge Town. However, his appearance was quite prejudiced, and passersby deliberately avoided him, not wanting to provoke him.
Moreover, Li Wei also noticed that when he went to buy food, most of the shop owners didn't seem to mention taking his money. He didn't know why, maybe they saw that he was poor, weak, and helpless and took pity on him.
As Li Wei wandered around, dark clouds slowly began to gather in the sky above Rogge Town.
"That's about it," Li Wei murmured, looking at the sky.
"Thank you for your hospitality, boss."
As if by magic, Li Wei produced some Baileys and tossed them to the owner of a snack shop.
"You're welcome."
The boss was all smiles. He had originally planned to do business at a loss, but Li Wei offered him several times more money than he had offered. However, when he happily picked up the pele, he couldn't help but curse.
Because he discovered that the Pele had Li Wei's image printed on it...
"Are you crazy? Who would use Pele like that?"
The boss was speechless.
In a fit of anger, the shopkeeper threw a dozen of these items, which would later become priceless and be named "Catastrophe Coins," into the trash can. Just then, a homeless man passed by, saw them, thought they could be sold for some money, and took them.
The boss, however, did not mind.
……
"Hahaha, Straw Hat Boy, today is your death day!"
Buggy the Clown stands on the execution platform, holding a knife, with the shackles binding Luffy's head beneath his feet.
"Hey, you bastard, hurry up and say your last words."
"This is where the Pirate King was executed. It's an honor for you to die here as well."
"Let me go, let me go..." Luffy struggled.
People kept gathering around to watch.
"Damn it, Luffy has been captured again."
Those who are subject to reincarnation said unwillingly.
Since some people want Luffy to die, there are also people on Luffy's side.
"There's nothing we can do; the group that's against us is very strong," someone sighed.
"There is hope, as long as the lightning strikes successfully." Not everyone is pessimistic.
"...I hope so, but I'm not too hopeful. I originally wanted to follow this kid and get some of the protagonist's luck, but I didn't expect...what a pity."
"Actually, I quite admire Luffy."
Although they each had different purposes in choosing to side with Luffy, they had to be passive at this moment because they all knew in their hearts that since the other side was able to stop them and allow Buggy to capture Luffy, they must have already prepared a spell to save Luffy's life at the critical moment.
They simply wouldn't give up. Fighting to the very end was their mindset. It wasn't that they didn't want to save Luffy now; in reality, if they acted at that moment, the other side would definitely obstruct them. Their only hope was that lightning bolt.
"coming soon!"
They stood frozen in place.
Suddenly, Buggy the Clown swung his knife down at Luffy's neck.
"Sorry, I'm going to die here."
Luffy finally gave a bright smile.
A bolt of lightning struck down from the sky.
PAS: I spent the whole day at the hospital today. Luckily, I was smart yesterday and left one and a half chapters for today. Ugh... this is the third update. I need to rest now, I'm really tired.
Chapter 410 Encounter, Revolutionary Army Leader Dragon
"Guiding Technique!"
Just as the lightning struck, a voice rang out from the crowd, and the lightning that was supposed to hit Bucky the Clown was redirected, striking a nearby house instead.
This is because the guiding technique worked, diverting the lightning to another location.
At this moment, the reincarnators who sided with Luffy were also about to make a move. However, just as they were about to save Luffy, several figures suddenly broke through the crowd around them and rushed towards them.
"Damn it, when?!"
Some people were amazed, thinking that among those who guessed the other party, there must be someone skilled in concealment, otherwise they wouldn't have been able to miss them at such close range.
They were helpless; the gap between the two groups of reincarnators was indeed too great, and they could only watch Luffy die.
The reincarnators opposite also revealed a sinister smile; their plan to murder the protagonist had probably succeeded.
It's fortunate that those top geniuses didn't descend upon the East Sea. At this stage, only the relatively weaker reincarnators are there. And those top reincarnators obviously couldn't come to the East Sea. Secondly, they are fortunate that among their group, the relatively strong ones all intend to kill the protagonist.
There are benefits to taking sides with the protagonist, and there are also benefits to killing. The latter is more profitable, otherwise they wouldn't be so ruthless.
"You've lost." Someone said this without uttering a sound, but you could read the message from their lips.
However, with a loud bang, Bucky the Clown let out a scream.
Both sides were stunned and turned to look at the execution platform. They saw Buggy the Clown crackling with electricity, while Luffy's head shackles broke off, and he regained his freedom.
"Ah, that was close." Luffy picked up his straw hat, put it on, and said with a grin, showing a lot of nerve.
"Damn it, you guys were hiding this so well?!" someone on the other end gritted their teeth.
Luffy's group, who were standing by his side, were also stunned. How could this be? If there were any other people among them, they would have called them out to fight together long ago. Why would they hide them and let them capture Luffy, leaving them until this dangerous moment?
The other side seemed to have realized that there was outside help involved. Although they didn't know who it was, they could tell that it was Luffy's side.
"go!"
Just as the enemy leader was about to fight to the death, he suddenly gave this order.
"Why? We should be able to fight them. They are probably all show and no substance, just trying to fool us."
"Don't ask why, we'll talk about it when we get back. Now, let's retreat immediately."
The person who spoke didn't care whether others listened to his orders or not. After all, he was temporarily chosen to command and lead the team, not a true leader. So he slipped away first.
Seeing this, the others immediately followed suit. Since they were chosen to lead the team temporarily, they must have some unique skills.
Why do you want to withdraw?
On the way back, one of the reincarnators asked.
"Look at the sky."
A man shrouded in black robes pointed to the sky above, to the aurora path that Li Wei had covered the world with.
"What is the connection between this and these strange phenomena?"
"What does it have to do with anything? Don't you think it's too much of a coincidence? These strange phenomena appeared not long ago, and then reinforcements arrived from the other side. You should have observed these phenomena as well. They've probably covered most of the East China Sea. How terrifyingly powerful must the person who can create such a phenomenon be?"
The person who had asked the question was immediately speechless.
They all knew that there was no plot about this strange phenomenon in the original work, so there was no doubt that it was a product of their reincarnation. They just didn't know which top genius had come up with such a grand scheme, covering up most of the East Sea. They really didn't expect that there was such a ruthless character hidden in the East Sea. They were just unlucky.
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