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Chapter 130 Buggy Express
The morning sun bathed the entire sea, making the waves sparkle, and the sea breeze with a hint of saltiness blew across the deck.
Enel stood at the bow, looking so bored that he was about to grow mushrooms, with his arms crossed.
The boundless ocean was reflected in his golden pupils, and he was as excited as a god about to be released.
"Finally I can get some fresh air!"
He grinned, and tiny flashes of lightning jumped on his fingertips, crackling, as if beating the rhythm of the boring days.
"I've been at G5 Base for so long that my bones are almost rusting and turning green!"
Luo leaned lazily against the side of the boat, tapping the scabbard of "Ghost Cry" with his fingertips. The corner of his mouth raised slightly, but he said in a cold tone:
"Don't get too excited. This is just routine business. I'm not taking you on vacation around South Blue."
Smoker stood in the middle of the deck with a cigar between his legs, and the smoke curled up like a mobile chimney.
He squinted his eyes and looked at the distant horizon. A voice came from behind the smoke:
"Although Buggy Express operates under the guise of a dispatch company, recent intelligence reports indicate they've been involved in a number of shady activities."
Enel waved his hand impatiently, and the lightning threw out a string of sparks, scaring the lookout on the deck so much that he almost jumped into the sea.
"Who cares? Pirates who dare to resist will be chopped down, and the disobedient ones will be chopped down into obedient ones!"
Luo and Smoker looked at each other and sighed at the same time.
Luo shook his head and raised his hand to press down the brim of his hat: "Okay, you can chop it up as you please, but remember not to shut down the power for the whole street."
Smoker blew out a puff of smoke. "Also, intelligence, remember to leave them alive, don't let them end up like a bunch of roasted scraps again."
Enel rolled his eyes. "Tsk, you're nagging like an old lady!"
Solebay Kingdom Port
The warship slowly approached the shore, and the three people walked down the gangway one by one.
Enel took a deep breath of fresh air and did an exaggerated stretch. "Ah—finally, it's not the sweat and smoke of the military camp! The air here is even sweet!"
Luo lowered his head and pulled the brim of his cloak, his face calm and he said, "Keep a low profile. We are operating undercover this time, not here for a stroll."
Smoker had already walked steadily up the street ahead, and without looking back, he said, "Stop talking nonsense, keep up, and don't fall behind."
Enel followed with a pout, muttering quietly, "Each one is more boring than the last... There's no sense of adventure at all..."
However, after walking a few steps, his eyes suddenly lit up and he pointed at a street food stall and shouted, "Hey, hey, hey! Look at that—Roasted Lightning Fruit!?"
"This weird snack actually exists?!"
Luo mercilessly grabbed the back of his cloak and dragged him away: "If you run around again, I'll send you back to the base to raise mosquitoes!"
Enel looked hopeless: "Alas... Is it so difficult to be a god these days..."
Buggy Express Headquarters Building
The three of them stood on the street corner, staring at the building in the distance that was the pinnacle of local tycoon aesthetics.
There is a huge sign in the shape of a clown's head hanging at the door, with an exaggerated slogan "Making money is justice" written on its face.
The sculptures on both sides of the gate are even two mechanical Buggy statues waving large golden sticks, swinging back and forth in funny movements.
Smoker frowned and looked at it for a long moment before uttering, "...Looks more serious than I thought?"
Luo sneered, "It's just a glitz on the surface. Who knows, the next batch of customers might be buried in the wine cellar downstairs."
Enel couldn't hold back any longer. He rolled up his sleeves, his eyes gleaming. "What are we waiting for? Just go in and give them a 'Thunder God's Strike'!"
Luo pressed his shoulder: "Hold steady, the priority of this mission is—"
"boom!!!"
A bolt of lightning exploded directly in front of his eyes, and Enel had already turned into a flash of lightning and disappeared into the street.
The next second, a series of screams and sounds of shattering glass erupted from inside the building.
Luo covered his forehead and took a deep breath: "This idiot, can you please have some brains?"
Smoker held a cigarette in his mouth and blew out a smoke ring with a normal look on his face. "Let's go and clean up the mess that 'Lord Thunder God' made."
Luo held his forehead with his left hand, "After so many years, how come you are still like a child..." He activated the ability of the Op-Op Fruit, and the ROOM space enveloped the two of them and disappeared.
A moment ago, in the Kingdom of Solbe, the headquarters of "Buggy Express".
This headquarters building, known as "South Blue's No. 1 symbol of wealth," has a lobby with interior walls covered in glittering plastic gold-plated panels and two giant Buggy statues at the entrance to the conference room.
In one hand, he waved a banner that read "Express Delivery, Extra Charge," and with the other, he made a scissor sign for a photo—a mechanical loop of the words: "Choose Buggy Express. Buy today, arrange tomorrow, and run the day after tomorrow!"
In the large conference room, Buggy was sitting with his legs crossed, wearing a leopard print cape that was so exaggerated that it covered half of the ceiling, and was talking proudly.
"Hey hey hey! Mochi, Kabaji!"
He sipped red wine from a tall glass while pounding the table. "If this trend continues, it won't be long before Buggy Express sweeps South Blue! Then Laozi will be the king of South Blue dispatch!"
Mochi excitedly waved his whip: "That's right! Then we can lie down and count our money!"
Kabaji sat aside, elegantly polishing the long sword that had chopped countless telephone lines with it, and nodded politely, "Finally, I don't have to rely on running around to make a living. As expected, business is the way to go."
Li Ji lay in the corner, rolled his eyes, yawned, and flicked his tail.
However, in this relaxed and happy atmosphere——
"Patta, patta…"
Buggy's eyebrows suddenly twitched wildly, his expression gradually stiffening. The wine glass in his hand shattered into pieces with a "snap".
"Wow—not good, not good, not good!"
He clutched his chest, his entire body shaking as if struck by lightning. "My intuition tells me—I'm doomed!!!"
Mochi almost fell off his chair: "Captain, again?!"
"Your lousy intuition said you were doomed last time, but in the end you just didn't get a chicken leg for dinner!"
Kabaji calmly adjusted his hat and said, "What a fuss! We're a legitimate dispatch company. We're just sending Pirates to help kill people. Who would be so bored as to bother with us?"
Li Ji rolled his eyes even bigger than the previous one, saying: I don't want to bother with you idiots.
Buggy slammed his fist and stood up, flipping half of the table over. "Shut up, you idiots! My intuition has never been wrong—except last time... and the time before that... But this time it's absolutely true!!!"
As soon as the words fell——
"Bang!!!"
The intelligence officer rushed open the door in panic, his face pale. "Captain Buggy! This is bad! Honeycomb Island has been destroyed by Marine Xuanlin Admiral!!!"
"What?!" Everyone screamed in unison, their jaws dropping to the ground.
"Beehive Island?! Didn't you say you were going to become the new Four Emperors?!"
"That's Silver Axe and Ochoku's territory!!"
Buggy's face turned pale instantly, and he jumped up: "Quick! Pack your things! Run now!!!"
Mochi was frantic: "But Captain! We finally managed to stabilize ourselves!!"
Kabaji was also anxious: "Yeah! After escaping from East Blue to South Blue, I finally had a career. How can I just give up like that?!"
Buggy shook his head frantically: "What do you know! My intuition tells me - if I don't run now, it's over!!!"
"boom--!!!"
The door was blown away by a violent momentum!
The wind blew violently, lightning flashed, and a golden figure appeared before everyone like a god descending from heaven.
A figure slowly walked out of the lightning, hands on hips, his mouth grinning into a standard "divine confidence" arc:
"Hello, where do you want to go?"
"ROOM!"
With a low whisper, Luo's figure instantly appeared on Enel's left, with the brim of his hat lowered and "Ghost Cry" slightly unsheathed.
A puff of white smoke floated in and took shape. Smoker stood on the right side with a cigar in his mouth, his aura full.
As the three of them appeared, the atmosphere instantly solidified into pure despair.
All the Buggy Pirates, including Licky, opened their eyes wide and dropped their jaws to the floor.
"What?!!!"
Mochi's whip fell to the ground, Kabaji's sword also fell, and even Li Ji dived into Mochi's back to hide.
Buggy slumped back into his chair, his mouth open wider than his head.