Chapter 122: Yoba, Shichibukai

  After the people following Serlindi left the cave, Serlindi stood at the entrance.

  "No one else is coming out?!"

  Seeing no movement, he shook his head.

  "That's a shame..."

  Suddenly, his expression turned ruthless, and with a burst of force, he colpsed the cave entrance.

  Countless rocks fell, blocking the entrance, and the sand in the desert flowed down, filling the gaps between the rocks.

  The people inside the cave were shocked, but it was too te. They were sealed inside.

  Serlindi wasn't satisfied. He squatted down and touched the ground.

  The sand bandits were surprised to find that the sand, which had been flowing with the wind, quickly solidified into a stone sb, and the rubble and sand at the cave entrance merged into giant rocks.

  The entire cave quickly turned into a sealed stone coffin.

  All the sand bandits were dumbfounded.

  Serlindi said to them, "Don't worry, I'm very gentle to those who follow me. Dee ha ha ha ha."

  "However..." His face turned gloomy: "For those who betray me, I will be 100 times more cruel than I am to them!"

  "Now, let's go, destination Yuba City!!"

  "Oh, oh, oh!"

  Although many people were worried, there were always ambitious and simple-minded guys who saw this as an opportunity to change their fate.

  Sailing with such a powerful pirate would change their lives, right?!

  Inside the cave.

  The remaining hundreds of sand bandits cried and wailed, desperately smashing the rocks with their weapons.

  When Serlindi initially blocked the cave entrance with rubble, they looked terrified, but they weren't really panicking, and some even found it funny.

  With so many of them, there was no rock they couldn't move.

  Even if it was difficult to move, there were many among them who could smash rocks with their bare fists.

  But as Serlindi activated his ability, they suddenly realized something was wrong.

  The sand and rocks that had been piled together suddenly became a solid mass, and it was extremely hard. Not to mention using their fists, even using steel swords could only leave shallow marks.

  Judging by the thickness, it had to be several meters thick, and they couldn't dig through it even if they hacked until they died.

  At first, they tried their best to find ways to smash the rocks.

  Gradually, fear and despair enveloped their hearts, and finally, they went crazy!

  When a sand bandit took advantage of an opportunity and cut off his enemy's head with a knife, he completely unleashed the curtain of sughter.

  Everyone in the cave, whether friends, enemies, or strangers, picked up their weapons and desperately attacked those around them.

  For a time, the entire cave was like a scene from hell.

  But there was one exception.

  It was Daz, who hid in the shadows, his eyes showing no sign of panic.

  Suddenly, a sand bandit spotted him, his eyes bloodshot, and he raised his knife to ssh at his head.

  Daz didn't dodge or evade, just stared at him quietly.

  The steel knife struck his head, creating a string of sparks, but leaving no marks.

  Before the sand bandit could react, Daz's hand pierced his heart.

  The killing continued, and soon only a few people were left in the cave, their bodies covered in blood and flesh, standing in the pile of corpses, gring at each other.

  Daz: "..."

  [It's time to get out...]

  ...

  In the desert, a rge area had turned into solid rock.

  Suddenly, a fsh of bde light cut through the rock, revealing a dark passage.

  Daz, covered in blood, slowly walked out.

  As soon as he came out, his eyes widened, and his pupils shrank.

  "It's you?!"

  Serlindi stood calmly at the cave entrance, and the sand bandits were nowhere to be seen.

  "How are you here?! Where are those guys?!"

  "Dee ha ha ha ha, I originally just wanted to gain status and money, but I didn't expect to have an unexpected harvest!"

  Daz took a defensive stance: "What do you mean?!"

  Facing this powerful and strange opponent, he didn't dare to rex.

  Smoker nodded, not saying anything more. He found a quiet house and took out a bck Den Den Mushi for eavesdropping.

  "Hiss... hiss... First Line Commander... deployment complete!"

  "Hiss... Pell... expand patrol range... hiss hiss... watch the north side..."

  It seemed the Royal Guard moved quickly and their scheduling was organized.

  Suddenly, screams came from the bck Den Den Mushi.

  "Ah!! Report... hiss... 7th unit attacked... hiss... not sand bandits!!"

  "11th unit... hiss hiss... also found unknown enemies!"

  Smoker and Sanai looked at each other.

  Messages came from the Den Den Mushi from time to time, the enemies started to appear sporadically, and in increasing numbers.

  Suddenly, a commotion came from outside Smoker and Sanai's room.

  Several tall men kicked open the door and walked in with swords.

  "Oh... two people, too bad no women, hand over the money!!"

  Smoker said calmly, "Sanai..."

  "Yes!"

  Sanai picked up his gun and rushed forward, knocking them down in seconds.

  Smoker hung up the Den Den Mushi, got up, walked over, took Sanai's gun, and stabbed one of the scarred men in the thigh.

  "Speak... who are you people?"

  "Pain pain pain... I'll talk, I'll talk..."

  The scarred man gasped, telling the reason intermittently.

  It turned out they were pirates, coming to Yuba to join the excitement.

  Seeing the sand bandits coming, they felt it was unnecessary to csh with them and prepared to avoid them.

  At this time, a group of guys popped up out of nowhere, started to win people over, and unched an attack while the Royal Guard was preoccupied.

  As long as they cooperated with the sand bandits to defeat the Royal Guard, they could do whatever they wanted in Yuba!

  As for whether they would fight with the sand bandits, the merchant groups might have this concern, but the pirates didn't care at all...

  They were all after money and women, not conquering territory, no need to fight...

  So, the lurking pirates and underground forces emerged, wanting to get a piece of the pie in this chaos.

  [I see...]

  Smoker reviewed the information he had.

  He felt that the people who instigated the pirates and the people who organized the sand bandits were not the same group.

  The reason was simple.

  If they were the same group, they could have coordinated.

  They could have waited for the sand bandits to approach Yuba or fight the Royal Guard before acting, which would have increased their chances of winning.

  And they could have agreed on a time to attack simultaneously, instead of appearing wave after wave like now, giving the Royal Guard time to prepare.

  This showed that they only received the information about the sand bandits' attack, but didn't know the exact details...

  Smoker took a puff of his cigar.

  This style of taking advantage of others' misfortune was either CP or Baroque...

  At this time, dozens of kilometers behind the sand bandits.

  Serlindi, holding an eavesdropping Den Den Mushi, also received the information.

  "Dee ha ha ha ha, isn't this a coincidence!"

  "Riot! Kill! The bigger the riot, the better!"

  Daz frowned in confusion.

  "The emergence of an uncontrolble third party is not a good thing, right?"

  "After all, those sand bandits are your subordinates..."

  "Subordinates?!"

  Serlindi smiled: "Do you think I would accept those dregs?!"

  Daz was stunned and remained silent.

  The boss was very strict about choosing subordinates.

  Someone like Serlindi would never choose such lousy subordinates.

  It wasn't a matter of strength, it was a matter of being too low-grade...

  Like Dofmingo, no matter how strong Belmy was, he wouldn't like him, because the tter was just a follower...

  "What exactly is your purpose in doing this?"

  "I said, money and status!!!"

  "To be more specific, it's Yuba, and the Shichibukai!"

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