Chapter 154: A Chance for Escape or Entrapment?

Outside Water 7, at the Sea Train Research and Development Base, a thin man with an afro, a black suit, and leather boots steps out of the World Government ship.

This man not only wore white gloves on both hands, but also a white mask covering his face.

He walked into the base building alone. The navy soldiers who were responsible for guarding along the way seemed to have received advance notice, and no one came forward to ask.

He walked all the way to the office on the top floor and knocked on the door gently.

[Knock! Knock! knock!]

"Come in!"

Sitting behind the desk in the room was Jerome, the director of the Sea Train R&D Base.

"I'm Brook, from Cipher Pol-9. Nice to meet you~" He said while emitting a strange laugh and sat down in front of Jerome.

That's right.

It was Brook who had become the second world superstar after Tesoro. Because he only publicly used the stage name 'King of Soul', not many people knew his real name.

"Well, I know why you are here, and I have prepared the relevant information, but I still want to warn you that you cannot hurt Mr. Tom or any technician in any way!"

"And it's better not to be discovered by Mr. Tom. We don't want to have a big conflict with him. Do you understand?" Jerome looked at Brook coldly and said in a deep voice.

He is now the base director here. The sea train project is directly linked to his future political achievements. He will never allow these butchers who can only assassinate to mess around.

"Yohohohoho~ Don't worry, I'm just looking for something, I didn't come to kill anyone~"

"Okay, remember what you said." Hearing Brook's response, Jerome relaxed a little and took out a detailed map from his desk, pointing to an area with a pen.

"This is Mr. Tom's studio, and there are four bookshelves here. The second bookshelf on the right side stores the design drawings and related information of all the ships he has built so far. You can focus on it."

"Thank you very much. Then I'll take my leave~"

Brook memorized the map. Then, he stood up and said: "Now I need to explore the place."

"Okay, I will arrange your identity as a senior government protection officer. Except for the highly confidential research room, studio, and conference room, you can walk around freely in other places."

This made Brook speechless, and he thought to himself: 'You call this being able to walk around freely?'

But he still didn't say anything. After thanking him, he turned around and left the office. The next time was spent on getting familiar with the environment, mainly understanding the location and surrounding situation of Tom's studio.

When night came, Brook sat on his bed in his room.

The next moment, a green light emanated from him and a green skull-like ghostly figure appeared. It was the power of his devil fruit, the soul projection ability!

Relying on the fact that he was a soul, Brook ignored the obstacles along the way, silently passed through the walls and doors, and easily came to the interior of Tom's studio.

Work became boring from here. She searched drawers, cabinets and even the inside of sofas in the office.

After confirming that there was not what he was looking for, he began searching the second shelf on the right as directed by Jerome.

Find the design of Pluton!

When the sky outside the window began to lighten, Brook finally found a file on old yellow paper with several pages.

"Yohohohoho~ I found it!"

After flipping through it, Brook was very excited when he saw the word 'Pluton' and various size data and illustrations.

The next step was simple: he put the design back in place, ready to take photos during the night with a Den-Den Mushi...

...

In Noah's Ark, Gild Tesoro walked out of the throne room, cold sweat on his forehead.

"The... the King of the Celestial Dragons... Imu-sama... The Ōka Shichibukai... The Golden Emperor..." Tesoro murmured.

"Tesoro, what's wrong with you?" At this moment, Stella ran up to him and asked him anxiously, but he offered her an awkward smile.

"Nothing, I was just accepted as a subordinate by... Saint Nerona, this is a good thing!"

...

Headquarters of the World Government, offices of the Ministry of Communications.

Morgans sat at the workstation assigned to him, ignoring the documents on the small table.

He is really upset about his current situation and has been sighing these days. Who made him choose to accept the recruitment of the World Government when facing the threat of death? But Morgans still resisted to work for these news that were not under his control and whose contents were not decided by him.

But he still couldn't figure out why Big Mom obeyed the orders of the World Government and even sold out the entire underworld?

"Little bird, the director is calling you!"

At this time, a colleague came over and shouted at him, which caused Morgans' strong dissatisfaction. "I'm not a bird, call me by my name, have some respect!"

"Hehe~"

The other party laughed indifferently.

Morgans glared at him and then stood up and walked towards the principal's office, before opening the door with his hand-shaped wings.

"Tell me what happens?"

Even when facing his direct boss, he was not very polite. He sat down without waiting for the director to speak.

Fortunately, the director of the news agency didn't care.

"It was decided that you will be responsible for the cover and the main page of the next edition. Here are the relevant documents, take a look."

Seeing his boss push a document, Morgans frowned and took it reluctantly. However, when he turned to the first page and looked at the content, his eyes suddenly widened.

This made him quickly perk up and read the content carefully.

"The World Government plans to turn all the world's kingdoms and islands into affiliated nations. However, the delivery of the Heavenly Tribute will begin after the next Levely..."

As Morgans marveled at the breadth of the situation, he turned the page and suddenly, his large beak couldn't close in surprise. She felt as if her perception of her world had been shattered.

"Oh my god, not only Big Mom, but also Whitebeard, Golden Lion, World Destroyer, and Green Pepper have joined the World Government? And Kaido, Bullet, Crocodile..."

"What?!"

"Big Mom's Totto Land Kingdom is going to join the World Government, and there is also a seat in the Levely?"

"Whitebeard wants to establish a country? Also join the World Government? Also have a seat in the Levely? Is this world crazy, or am I crazy?"

"I heard that you like big news. This time, the news is big enough, right?" The news director said.

Morgans remained silent. He knew that if he accepted this task, it would mean giving up his principles and completely surrendering to the World Government.

A day later, tens of thousands of News Coo, with stacks of newspapers hanging from their chests, flew from the top of the Red Earth Continent in all directions.

...

In the second half of the Grand Line, the Whitebeard Pirates had returned to Sphinx Island. They had been notified that administrative officials and construction teams from the World Government would soon come.

"This time, my reputation is completely lost. I will no longer be the fearsome 'Whitebeard', only the subjugated king of the Whitebeard Kingdom..."

Edward Newgate was lying on a grass in a depressed mood, with the latest issue of the newspaper beside him.

Marco and others in the distance were unwilling to disturb their father when they saw him like this.

''How can this happen to you? How can you submit like this?' Marshall D. Teach lowered his head slightly to hide his anger-filled gaze. The Whitebeard Pirates are gone, so where will he have a chance to find the Dark-Dark Fruit? 'No, I can't waste my time here. I need to find a way to escape.'

He had also considered finding the Devil Fruit to be almost impossible. Being a 'good son' and staying here forever was the safest option.

But the unwillingness in his heart is so painful!

So he wanted to leave, and he was really not interested in playing the game of building a country.

However, an accident happened again.

When the fleet of the World Government arrived at Sphinx Island, the senior official leading the fleet first introduced the various plans for building a country to Edward Newgate.

Finally.

Suddenly looked at Teach, who was standing behind the crowd and was unhappy.

"We heard that Mr. Teach has a very special physique and does not need to sleep every day, so the medical school wants to give Mr. Teach a full-body examination to see if his symptoms can be cured."

"This..." Edward Newgate, Marco, George and others were stunned for a moment, and all their eyes were focused on Teach. They actually knew that the other party's body was different.

Being surrounded by so many people, Teach was very uncomfortable. He had kept a low profile over the years, not competing for anything, and not showing off, but now he suddenly became the focus.

But he quickly reacted and was overjoyed. Isn't this a chance to leave?

"Teach, the decision is yours. Do you want to do the checkup or not?" Edward Newgate hesitated for a moment and decided to give the choice to his son.

"Dad, I agree!" Teach responded enthusiastically and then, with a happy expression, said: "I can't stand any more days without sleep. If you can cure me, I will be a normal person like all of you."

But in reality, what he thought was that once he got on the World Government ship, he would find a way to escape, whether it was by sneaking away, jumping into the sea, or escaping by force.

However, at about 6pm, when Teach came to the dock happily with his bag on his back and a group of partners seeing him off, and was about to board the ship, he saw a familiar naval officer standing on it.

At this time, the senior official introduced them.

"Vice Admiral Kuzan will be in charge of escorting Mr. Teach from now on. You should all know him, he is a future Navy Admiral, and he can definitely guarantee Mr. Teach's safety on his journey."

Teach: "..."

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