While the Marine top brass at the New World G1 Branch were holding an emergency meeting...
Marine Admiral Sky Snake Kukulkan at Marineford, the Marine Headquarters, also ordered the recovery of newspapers scattered everywhere and convened a meeting of the Marine top brass.
These newspapers caught all the Marine top brass off guard.
Countless young Marines with a sense of justice showed extreme disgust and anger toward the World Government and the Celestial Dragons.
Especially the recruits in the boot camp.
Some of these recruits decided to quit the Marine on the spot... and the Four Elders in the Holy Land Mary Geoise looked even worse after seeing the newspaper.
They angrily ordered the CP Chief to issue warnings to every news agency, while frantically searching for the small news agencies that published the news.
They were determined to completely kill off these news agencies that dared to report the secrets of the Celestial Dragons.
As a result, the Cipher Pol agents they sent to assassinate the heads of these small news agencies couldn't find them; even the headquarters of the news agencies were already empty.
"Damn it! This must be a pre-planned conspiracy by the Rocks Pirates!"
"Isn't it obvious? How else could the Rocks Pirates appear on Red Soil Island so quickly!"
"You don't actually think the Rocks Pirates and Harald just happened to find Red Soil Island by chance, do you?"
"The top-secret information about us holding the competition on Red Soil Island must have been known by the Rocks Pirates long ago!"
"Bastard! Who on earth leaked the intelligence!"
"It was Somaz and Maffey who applied to use Red Soil Island as the island for the purge competition!"
"Those two good-for-nothings, they must have accidentally leaked the news."
"When we moved against the Barlorick Family back then, the seeds of trouble were already sown..."
The Four Elders felt their scalps tingle with immense anger.
Now they didn't know how to report this terrible news to Lord Imu.
They could only first order Marineford, CP Headquarters, and all Affiliated Kingdoms to conduct a comprehensive sweep and seizure of these newspapers.
At the same time, they ordered the major news agencies to immediately publish clarifications.
Claiming it was a conspiracy by the Rocks Pirates and that the news and photos were fake.
That the Celestial Dragons had no such competition, and even less so had any Celestial Dragons died outside of the Holy Land Mary Geoise.
Now the World Government could only engage in emergency public relations like this.
After the morning newspaper was distributed worldwide, the major news agencies quickly received emergency tasks from the World Government.
That afternoon, new newspapers were continuously distributed worldwide to clarify and cover up the newspapers orchestrated by the Rocks Pirates.
However, this big news from Red Soil Island had completely exploded across the world in just half a day.
Not just the Affiliated Kingdoms, even the underground dark world exploded!
The Celestial Dragons' Native Purge Competition certainly shocked the world, but the Rocks Pirates' massacre of the Celestial Dragons was even more shocking.
Especially Fang Huo's world-shaking masterpiece: the Celestial Dragon Corpse Balloon Skewers.
This shattered the fear many people had of the world nobles, the Celestial Dragons.
These high-and-mighty descendants of gods still died at the hands of pirates; they were also made of flesh and blood.
They weren't much stronger than ordinary people!
On this day, the whole world was in an uproar and shock... The balance of the world had been broken, and the divine halo of the Celestial Dragons had also been shattered... Kings of Affiliated Kingdoms in various sea regions began to consider choosing a safer umbrella between the World Government and the New World Alliance... However, they still had to see how the World Government would deal with the Rocks Pirates and the New World Alliance next.
If the Rocks Pirates and the New World Alliance couldn't withstand the retaliation from the World Government and Marineford...
...then these Affiliated Kingdoms wouldn't need to make a move.
But if the World Government couldn't do anything about the Rocks Pirates, they would have to think carefully.
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In a certain sea area of the West Blue.
A massive floating island was drifting toward the New World.
This was precisely Red Soil Island, made to float by Golden Lion Shiki.
Landing on an ordinary Flying Battleship on the floating Red Soil Island.
"Rocks! Are you sure you want to leave with these Celestial Dragons?"
"These guys might have some tracking devices, life devices, or life paper from the World Government on them..."
"Aren't you afraid of bringing disaster to your hometown?"
"I still have the same suggestion: why not relocate your clansmen to a Sky Island in the New World?"
In Rocks' Captain's quarters, Fang Huo and Rocks were holding a secret meeting.
Fang Huo learned that Rocks actually wanted to take those Celestial Dragon captives directly back to God Valley while they were still in the West Blue.
To avoid the recurrence of the God Valley Incident, Fang Huo reminded Rocks once again.
"Don't hide anything from me anymore, Captain Rocks."
"I know all the secrets of the Davy Clan."
"Davy D. Xebec! I even know your ancestor was named Davy D. Jones."
To prevent Rocks and the Davy Clan from dragging him down, Fang Huo directly laid all his cards on the table with Rocks.
"wahaha, I knew I couldn't hide it from you, you bastard Prophet!"
"Since there's a risk in going back to God Valley, then accompany me there to pick up the old lady and old man from my family."
After some careful consideration, Rocks finally accepted Fang Huo's suggestion.
After all, Fang Huo had hinted and explicitly stated more than once that God Valley would be discovered by the World Government and that Rocks himself might fall.
For the safety of the Davy Clan and to avoid involving the innocent civilians of God Valley...
...Rocks finally made the decision to have his clansmen move away from God Valley, where they had lived in seclusion for hundreds of years.
"It just so happens that I want to go to God Valley too."
Fang Huo showed a faint smile; since he had said he would make Figarland Garling a cuckold, he naturally had to capture that mysterious Red-haired woman.
Her red-haired bloodline could override Saint Garling's blonde bloodline, and she had talented offspring like Shamrock and Shanks; her bloodline must be extraordinary.
And for Saint Garling to take an interest in this lower-world woman from a non-Affiliated Kingdom, her looks must be stunning.
After all, you could doubt Saint Garling's character, but you couldn't doubt his taste.
"What are you plotting again?"
Rocks raised an eyebrow, thinking to himself: Could Fang Huo be targeting someone from the Davy Clan?
But the current Davy Clan had no women of suitable age and beauty.
"It's none of your business anyway."
Fang Huo shrugged; he only knew that the Red-haired woman seemed to be very famous in the town of God Valley.
When she pushed two babies in a stroller down the street, she received a lot of attention, and the residents' attitudes were very friendly.
This indicated that the Red-haired woman's status, wealth, and reputation were likely all quite good.
This would make it much easier for Fang Huo to find her.
As Rocks and Fang Huo decided to temporarily leave the flying Red Soil Island, some Cadres wanted to go along.
But Rocks didn't intend to let others know about his hometown, God Valley; he only wanted to act with Fang Huo.
Even if Stussy, Linlin, and Furiko wanted to go, they could only stay in the Lost World and could not appear in God Valley.
After all, if the old-timers of the Davy Clan didn't get used to it, they might move back to God Valley.
And so, Rocks and Fang Huo, these two irresponsible Captain and Vice Captain, left the main group.