"Where is this place?"
After getting off the car, Bai Qi felt a little lost looking at the vast sea before him and the small island behind him.
Had he... gotten lost?
Bai Qi wanted to get back on the train and have the conductor send him directly to the Marine Headquarters.
But the moment he turned around, there was no sign of the temporal train, not even the tracks were left.
"Forget it, it's better to rely on oneself than on others. Let's see if there's anyone on this island first."
Fortunately, providence provided a way out. Bai Qi found a town on the east side of the island, and there was a small port in the town.
However, the people in the town were not very friendly towards Bai Qi's sudden appearance.
The moment they saw Bai Qi, everyone's reaction was the same: screams, running, calling for their mothers, and some even fainted from fear.
Even though everyone was terrified of Bai Qi, one man still braved the panicked crowd and approached him.
This man was the only security guard in the town.
"You... Who are you? What are you doing... here?"
Struggling to suppress his immense fear, the security guard stammered.
Bai Qi raised his hand, and the security guard's body floated up, slowly drifting towards him.
"Human, tell me, where is this place?"
"East... East Blue, Torture Town."
The security guard replied tremblingly.
After hearing the security guard's words, Bai Qi stroked his chin. He hadn't expected to be in the East Blue. This meant he could potentially meet Luffy. If he were to eliminate Luffy, would it affect the entire world's order?
However, on second thought, time might be too tight. Since he was here to participate in the Summit War, Luffy's crew should be at Sabaody Archipelago by now. If he went now, would he be able to make it in time?
Just as Bai Qi was contemplating, a thunderbolt suddenly struck from the clear sky.
It was originally aimed at Bai Qi, but in this situation, a sudden thunderclap caused the already extremely terrified security guard to lose control and wet himself.
"Alright, alright, I won't touch him then."
In ancient times, humans believed in the existence of deities and considered lightning to be a sign of divine wrath.
There was a mistake here. Deities did exist, but lightning was not a manifestation of their anger; rather, it was one of the means by which the world consciousness intervened in the world.
The thunderbolt just now was a warning to Bai Qi not to lay a hand on Luffy, the Son of the World.
This e657 universe was unlike Bai Qi's world, which was a fusion of multiple modified worlds. This world was singular, being solely the One Piece world, and Luffy was the sole protagonist of this world, also known as the Son of the World, favored by the world consciousness.
Originally, the world consciousness had invited Bai Qi to set things right and ensure the plot continued according to the original script. However, the moment Bai Qi arrived, he was already contemplating eliminating the world's protagonist. Naturally, the world consciousness couldn't stand by.
Only after Bai Qi repeatedly assured it that he would not target Luffy did the world consciousness relent.
Recalling his consciousness, Bai Qi looked at the security guard again and asked, "Where is the nearest Marine base?"
"It's, it's, it's in Loguetown to the east, about half a day's journey from here."
Although he didn't know why this monster before him was asking for the location of a Marine base, he didn't care. Preserving his life was the most important thing.
"Loguetown, what a coincidence."
Having obtained the information he wanted, Bai Qi released the security guard from his psychic influence and flew off in the direction of Loguetown.
Half a day's journey referred to the time taken by ship, but Bai Qi didn't need to take a slow boat. Bai Qi had a more efficient method: flying.
With Bai Qi flying at full speed, a journey that would normally take half a day was completed in just over an hour.
"Hey! What is that?"
On a pirate ship, the lookout was the first to spot Bai Qi and immediately reported to the captain below.
"What? Something approaching rapidly? Flying over the sea? What are you talking about..."
The captain, who was drinking rum below, was somewhat disbelieving of the lookout's words. But when he followed the direction indicated, he was speechless.
Seeing a black dot in the distance charging towards them at an incredibly high speed, its size constantly increasing.
"Quick! Turn back!"
The captain shouted.
Unfortunately, it was too late.
Bai Qi, flying at high speed, had a close encounter with the pirate ship, and the captain even more fortunately had a close encounter with Bai Qi.
The outcome, as expected, was not hard to imagine.
Bai Qi, possessing an immortal body, was completely unharmed, not even a scratch left. The pirate ship, on the other hand, was smashed to pieces, and the captain was reduced to a mist of blood.
"Did I just hit something?"
It was only after flying for several hundred meters that Bai Qi realized he might have hit something. But when he looked back, there was nothing but seawater.
"Never mind, I'll continue on my way."
This pirate ship was not the first, nor would it be the last.
From Torture Town to Loguetown, Bai Qi had destroyed seven or eight ships knowingly on this stretch of road, not to mention those he was unaware of.
Finally, after destroying an unknown number of ships, Bai Qi arrived at Loguetown.
It could be said that it was worthy of being the place where the Pirate King Roger set sail and was eventually executed. Loguetown had now become a must-visit "influencer check-in spot" for countless East Blue pirates.
The once-port had been expanded multiple times, yet it remained crowded, with a large number of ships unable to find docking space.
An East Blue pirate who claimed not to have been to Loguetown would be embarrassed to call themselves an East Blue pirate when meeting a peer.
Among the four seas, the East Blue had always been considered the weakest by pirates. Even Sanji's father, Judge, harbored the dream of sweeping the East Blue.
What can I say? It's fortunate that Judge's dream of sweeping the East Blue remained just that—a dream. If that guy had dared to do it, Germa 66 would likely have been close to destruction.
The pirates of the East Blue were not weak, but rather extremely polarized. They were either ridiculously weak, like Creek, or outrageously strong, like Luffy's Straw Hat Pirates and Roger. Sultan Novel Network.
Of course, the reason for this situation was largely due to Luffy's grandfather, the Marine hero, Garp.
Garp's strength was self-evident, and his home was in Windmill Village in the East Blue. Every time he was on vacation, he would return to Windmill Village from Marine Headquarters.
Along the way, he would encounter pirates, and there would only be two scenarios: either he would sink their ship and send them to the sea, or he would sink their ship and hand them over to the Marines.
Either way, it had greatly suppressed the pirate activities in the East Blue.
After all, when a level one rookie encounters a max-level expert, who wouldn't be mentally scarred?
It could be said that pirates who managed to emerge from the East Blue and enter the New World were either sufficiently powerful or extremely lucky.