"So... Fang Yi, Shanks, Buggy, and Barrett stayed on Sabaody Archipelago?" On the Oro Jackson, Roger asked Rayleigh with a speechless look on his face.
"Exactly!" Rayleigh replied with a gloomy face, "Shakky just contacted me. They're planning to sneak into Mariejois to bring out the user of the Ope Ope no Mi!"
"Wowahaha... Those idiots!" Roger laughed until tears welled up in his eyes. Then he said to Rayleigh, "Mate, let's turn back! Those kids have no idea what kind of place Mariejois is. They won't succeed!"
"But... Roger..."
"Come on, mate! They're the future of this world!" Rayleigh was about to say something else, but Roger interrupted him by patting him on the shoulder.
"No...," Rayleigh's face darkened, "We can't go back now!"
"Huh?" Roger was full of question marks and asked in confusion, "Why?"
"After coating the ship, the limited air inside is only enough for us to reach Fish - Man Island. Since we're already close, turning back now would cause us to run out of air. So we have to go to Fish - Man Island first and then head back!" Rayleigh explained.
"Ah~ I see. Well, there's no other way. Let's go to Fish - Man Island first. After obtaining the rubbing of the Road - Poneglyph, we'll go back to Sabaody Archipelago," Roger thought for a while and replied.
"But by the time we get back, those kids will probably have finished their business. Either they'll really succeed, or... they'll all be caught by the Navy!" Rayleigh said with a gloomy face, "That Fang Yi guy must have calculated all this and deliberately did it this way!"
"Wowahahaha... What a remarkable guy! In that case... let's just trust them!" Roger laughed heartily.
Roger wasn't angry about Fang Yi tricking him, Rayleigh, and the others. He was just a little worried that they might be caught by the Navy.
"Stop the ship ahead! This is the territory of Fish - Man Island. What are you surface dwellers doing here!?" Just then, the Oro Jackson was surrounded by a group of fish - men soldiers from Fish - Man Island.
"Wait a minute! Look closely, it's me! King Neptune! And it's me, Roger!" After seeing the fish - men clearly, Roger quickly stepped forward and said.
"Roger!? I see! So it's you who's going to do that thing!" Neptune said seriously.
"Huh?" Roger was completely dumbfounded. He had no intention of doing anything bad on Fish - Man Island!
It wasn't until the Oro Jackson was "escorted" by the soldiers led by Neptune to Fish - Man Island that Roger understood what was going on.
It turned out that there was a prophecy saying that there would be an event where "the gates of Fish - Man Island would be destroyed" recently. So Neptune, who was already the king, personally led the soldiers on patrol.
"What the hell! You, a guy like this, actually get so worked up because of a prophecy?" After understanding the situation, Roger said with a look of disdain, "And I'm not the kind of guy who would do bad things!"
But as soon as the words were spoken, a soldier of the Neptune Army immediately came to report to Neptune that the normally docile Sea Kings, for some unknown reason, suddenly attacked the gates of Fish - Man Island and tore through the outer bubble.
"Pass the order! Immediately block the hole and take emergency measures!" Neptune calmly commanded.
"Yes!" After saluting, the messenger soldier turned and left.
"Has it really come true?" Rayleigh and the others looked at each other in dismay. They all knew that when Neptune met them just now, he suspected that they were going to damage the gates of Fish - Man Island. Unexpectedly, the gates were really damaged.
"Look! I told you we weren't the ones who did it!" Roger said to Neptune with a look of being wronged.
Neptune was completely at a loss for words. If Roger and his crew hadn't shown up right then, and if the soldiers had been on continuous patrol, they would surely have detected the Sea Kings in advance and stopped them.
"By the way... Who gave you the prophecy? It's so accurate!" Roger couldn't help asking out of curiosity.
"It's Shyarly!" Neptune didn't hide it and pointed to the shark mermaid beside him and said, "She's our prophet here. She's only three years old this year!"
"Three years old?" Roger and the others were extremely surprised. To be able to make such a prophecy at just three years old was quite remarkable.
"The reason why the Sea Kings are so violent is that they're waiting for the birth of the Mermaid Princess!" Little Shyarly, holding a crystal ball, said seriously.
"The Mermaid Princess? Is this another new prophecy?"
"So, the king is about to have a princess? That's really congratulations!"
Hearing this, the surrounding fish - men and mermaids immediately congratulated Neptune.
They seemed to have full faith in little Shyarly's prophecies.
"Wait... I've only been on the throne for a few months and I'm not even married yet! How could I have a child?" Neptune felt it was absurd.
"But Your Majesty, all of little Shyarly's prophecies have come true!" A member of the Neptune Army said with a smile.
Due to Shyarly's prophecies, Fish - Man Island has been in a complete mess recently. However, Neptune can't tell Shyarly to stop making prophecies. After all, it's a good idea to make preparations in advance if something big is really going to happen.
However, these things had little to do with the Roger Pirates. Urged by Jabba, after explaining their purpose to Neptune, they were led by Neptune to the Sea Forest, where there were two historical texts.
"Finding two at once is really a great harvest! But one of them isn't a Road - Poneglyph. It's a letter of penance written by someone called Joyboy!" After carefully examining the words on the two historical texts, Oden said to Roger.
Hearing Oden's words, Neptune was a bit surprised. He didn't expect Oden to be able to read these ancient texts.
"By the way... Roger! The stele we found on Sky Island said that the weapon capable of commanding the Sea Kings is here, right?" Oden glanced at Neptune and then whispered to Roger.
"Ahh~ That's what it says up here!" Cho nodded and said, "Alright, Xiaoyi, go ahead and make a rubbing of the Road - Poneglyph!"
But after he said that, he suddenly remembered that Fang Yi had taken a few kids and secretly left the ship, staying on the Sabaody Archipelago.
Jabba, who was in the process of making the rubbing, frowned and said, "Captain, I'm already doing the rubbing! Let's head back once this is done! I'm really worried about Xiaoyi and the others!"
Neptune, standing by, didn't quite understand what Cho and the others were talking about, but Oden's words about the weapon that could command the Sea King had caught his attention. He spoke up, "Just now, Shyarly predicted that I'd have a princess! In our country, every few hundred years, there's a mermaid born who can talk to the Sea King... Could it be..."
"So... Will your daughter really be the weapon that destroys the world?" Cho was also taken aback and looked at Neptune in surprise.
Neptune shook his head and said, "It's just a prediction! Moreover, different uses of power lead to different results!"
"I really didn't expect that the so - called Poseidon would be a mermaid!" Oden by the side was extremely surprised.
"Let's go meet that prophet and then set sail!" Seeing that Jabba had finished the rubbing, Cho immediately said.
Everyone was indeed a bit curious about such a prophet. Plus, their ship needed to be re - coated, which would take some time. Therefore, it was okay to go meet the prophet.
Although they'd seen her at the port before, they didn't have a conversation at that time because they were in a hurry to make a rubbing of the Road - Poneglyph.
"Shyarly, Right? I heard you're a prophet. Can you tell me when the Mermaid Princess you mentioned will probably be born?" Cho asked Shyarly with a big smile.
"Ten!" Shyarly glanced at Cho and only said one word.
"Looks like it'll be ten years from now!" Neptune who stood beside him let out a sigh of relief and said to Cho, "Cho, I didn't expect you to be interested in this kind of thing. I really misjudged you!"
"Hehe... Those who call the Mermaid Princess a weapon have left huge treasures in this world! Neptune, what we want is those treasures!" Rayleigh said with a smile.
"Waahaha... Right! Now you can rest easy! Your yet - to - be - born daughter with puffy hair won't be snatched away by us!" Cho also roared with laughter.
"How could she have puffy hair!" Neptune was immediately irritated by Cho's words and roared loudly, "Get out of here! Your ship has been re - coated. I'm sick of seeing you!"
The offspring of fish - men and mermaids are different from humans. The genetic factors and processes are different. Obviously, the results are naturally different too.
Just as Cho and the others set off again after making a rubbing of the Road - Poneglyph on Fish - Man Island, Fang Yi had already led Shanks and the others to the main gate of Mariejois.
"Alright, guys, we can't make any mistakes from this point on! Otherwise... We might end up spending the rest of our lives in prison!" Fang Yi glanced at the gate not far away and whispered.
"No problem!"
Shanks, Buggy, and Barrett all exchanged a knowing look with Fang Yi.
After obtaining intelligence from Shakky, they deliberately searched many places around the Red Line Archipelago. Finally, they tested the possibility of leaving through the sea with Wangzai's help after taking the underwater breathing pills. After everything was ready, they followed the merchants who wanted to pass through the Red Line Archipelago and came above it.
As the place dividing the Grand Line into two parts, the Red Line Archipelago is quite magnificent.
Unlike the notorious pirates, normal merchants who want to pass through the Red Line Archipelago only need to sell their merchant ships here and then buy a new one. Then they can set sail directly on the other side of the Red Line Archipelago.
These merchants who have sold their merchant ships need to board the Red Line Archipelago through the Sabaody Archipelago by themselves, then cross the Red Line Archipelago, and buy a new merchant ship on the opposite island.
Fang Yi and the other three of them mingled among these merchants. However, their chances of passing through the Red Line Archipelago were very low because both Barrett and Fang Yi were bounty criminals, and the Navy stationed here would not let them pass.
However, Fang Yi and the others' goal was not to pass through the Red Line Archipelago, but to enter Mariejois. So they had to create some chaos near the gate here.