Food
Whiskey Peak is a giant cactus-like mountain on an island, with its sharp spikes actually serving as hunters' tombstones.
Near the coast, there is a river that extends deep into the island, where the two largest cactus peaks meet.
At both ends of the river, near the coast outside the cactus mountain, many houses were built.
The island was desolate, with bare rock walls everywhere.
On one side of the riverbank, a cluster of white buildings has been constructed, resembling stacked blocks, none of them very large, with the tallest reaching six stories.
One of the pubs in the building was packed with people.
The leader was a burly man dressed in green, with a huge baseball bat next to him. One end of the bat had even created a crater in the ground.
Not far from him sat many people, all craning their necks to watch the man.
"Mr. 8, what are the orders from above?" A burly woman in a nun's habit sat not far away, looking at the man in green.
The man in green wiped the sweat from his brow and said slowly, "I just received orders that a new Vice President has been added to Baroque Works, codenamed Miss. all. Sunday."
"Vice President?"
A man wearing a wide-brimmed hat with a long sword at his waist raised an eyebrow. "To be able to surpass Senior Agent and cooperate with the president, one must be very strong. It seems that the strength of our Baroque Works has increased quite a bit."
"That's right."
Mr. 8 nodded and added, "In addition, Miss. all. Sunday is also the Supreme Commander of Baroque Works."
"Supreme Commander? The president won't appear before us, so the Vice President will be the highest-ranking person we can contact from now on." A woman in a tight-fitting outfit said with a frown.
"We're not even Senior Agent, so it's hard to say whether we'll even get to see her." Not far away, a man holding a yellow gun said nonchalantly, "My current goal is to get as high a ranking as possible within Baroque Works, so that once the president's 'ideal state' is established, we can get higher positions."
The Baroque Works promised its members the ideal state proposed by Crocodile. The higher one's ranking within the Works, the higher one's position would be after the state was established.
"You're lucky, you're already Mr. 11. We haven't even made it into the rankings," the swordsman in the wide-brimmed hat sighed.
"That's because you're not good enough," Mr. 11 said with a smile, toying with his gun.
"You..." The swordsman in the wide-brimmed hat froze for a moment.
"Alright."
The woman in the bodysuit waved her hand and said, "We'll wait for MissallSunday to contact us about the Vice President's matter. Let's discuss other things now."
As she spoke, she looked at the man in green, whose forehead was covered in even more sweat, and said, "Miss Monday, you, you come here."
Monday nodded and slowly said, "The most pressing issue right now is food. Food is still scarce in Whiskey Peak Town, and we can only guarantee our minimum needs at the moment. So we still need a lot of food. Mr. 11, you and your partner will lead the other bounty hunters out to sea to fish and bring back food for storage."
"Leave it to me," Mr. 11 said with a grin.
Mr. 8 nodded and said, "That's all for today. Send men to scout the coast and be ready for the pirate ships to arrive at any time."
"Yes."
The crowd answered, stood up, and filed out.
"Miss Wednesday, get ready, we're heading out to sea." Mr. 11 strolled leisurely at the back of the crowd.
"Clear."
Miss, dressed in a frog costume, nodded, gripped her gun, and swaggered away.
(Note: Due to time constraints, the current ranking will definitely differ from future rankings. For example, there was a Mr. 7 who went to the East China Sea to invite Zoro, but was killed in the process, and was subsequently replaced by someone else. The current Mr. 11 is the later Mr. 7, and Wednesday is the future Father's Day. The current Mr. 8 is the future Mr. 4.)
Two days later, at the entrance to the island's waterway, Xia Qiu was hiding in the seawater, gnawing on a sea fish.
His habitat is located at the entrance of the island's river channel, on both sides of the coastline near the seabed on the right side. Anyone who tries to leave cannot escape the Xia Qiu's exploration.
The water here is only about 40 meters deep, and the seabed is white mud and sand. Many mollusks and crustaceans live here, as well as some small fish.
These creatures are much larger than those in the East China Sea; the crabs and shrimp are over a meter long, and the fish are also around a meter long.
However, in Xia Qiu, one needs to eat too much to fill their stomach.
So Xia Qiu did not eat them, and when Xia Qiu arrived, these creatures fled in panic, but soon realized that Xia Qiu had no intention of harming them, and after a few days, they no longer worried about him.
There were even small fish eating food scraps between their teeth in the open mouths of Xia Qiu.
Xia Qiu has been here for five days, and not a single bounty hunter has gone out to sea, nor has any pirate ship arrived.
The current mayor of Whiskey Peak cannot be Igaram, the captain of the Kingdom Guard, but he is at least a Intermediate Agent.
Intermediate Agent have limited strength; even the Senior Agent MR5 four years later was easily defeated by Zoro.
The number of Intermediate Agent, including their partners, is at most only four.
It's estimated that the combined Reinforcement Energy provided by the four of them is less than that of Arlong, but perhaps a little more Kuroobi.
But when you factor in all the bounty hunters at Whiskey Peak, it becomes extremely valuable.
But these bounty hunters generally don't go out to sea, so how do you hunt them down?
Xia Qiu came up with a solution.
Whiskey Peak has a very harsh environment, with most of the area occupied by giant cacti and a small portion consisting of rocky cliffs.
Food cannot be grown here, so people have to catch it from outside, mostly sea fish.
Vivi and her partner went to hunt Laboon because food was scarce in Whiskey Peak Town at the time, and they planned to use Laboon as food. Laboon's corpse could provide the town with food for three months.
So they would definitely go out hunting or contact other people to transport food.
Regardless of the method used, Xia Qiu planned to cut off their food supply lines and prevent food from entering Whiskey Peak.
When food supplies in Whiskey Peak Town run out, they will have to go out to sea or contact other people.
Once they leave, I can capture them all and gain more Reinforcement Energy.
So Xia Qiu kept waiting.
Now, after Xia Qiu have returned from their hunt, they hide below the shore with their large mouths open, and small fish immediately approach, swimming in and out of their mouths to feed on the scraps of sea fish.
Xia Qiu, on the other hand, lay there lazily, quite content.
But at that moment, the sea began to tremble.
Da da da.
Xia Qiu released Ultrasound and discovered a ship slowly starting up, sailing along the river, and entering the ocean.
Xia Qiu quickly surfaced and chased after the boat, surfacing to observe closely.
The ship wasn't very big, only about forty meters long, not as big as many pirate ships that came to the Grand Line.
The ship had no cannons, but on the deck, in the recessed section between the port and starboard sides, there were two huge Harpoon Crossbow.
In addition, fishing nets and ropes were hanging on the side of the boat.
It looks more like a fishing boat than a pirate ship.
The ship also bears the letters BW, an abbreviation for Baroque Works.
Fishing boat?
Xia Qiu looked at the ship, quickened his pace, and followed it.
Updates will be concentrated in the evenings for now. I've been coughing for almost two months, going through several cycles of injections and medication. Yesterday, I started treatment for an allergic cough, going to the hospital both morning and afternoon. I get nebulizer treatments in the morning and nebulizer treatments plus injections in the afternoon, so I can barely finish this article in the evening. I'm almost driven crazy by this cough; I hope it will finally be cured.