The Prison Break Plan Begins

Truth be told, Chen Qiang was not a native of the One Piece world; he was a transmigrator. Before arriving here, he was just an ordinary young man with nothing remarkable about him.

However, upon crossing over, he appeared directly inside Impel Down. He was promptly discovered by the jailers and thrown into custody, where Hannyabal subjected him to inhumane torture every single day, desperate to extract the truth about how he had arrived there.

No matter how Chen Qiang explained that it was all an accident—even going so far as to reveal the truth about his transmigration—the other side simply refused to believe him, continuing the daily torment.

Had it not been for the existence of his "Golden Finger," Chen Qiang would have long since perished under that relentless, inhuman cruelty.

The cheat Chen Qiang gained upon transmigration had only one ability: Super Regeneration. No matter how much damage his body sustained, it would absorb energy from the environment to recover rapidly. Even if he were blasted into smithereens, he could quickly reconstitute his flesh from the spot and recover. Furthermore, each time his body healed, it would undergo reinforcement, making him stronger than before.

Once he realized what his cheat was, Chen Qiang could no longer endure the torture. He began his journey of prison breaks, attempting to escape over thirty times within the first month alone.

During his initial attempts, Chen Qiang was still captured by the jailers due to their sheer numbers. However, as the frequency of his escapes increased, his strength grew, and the ordinary jailers could no longer hold him.

Consequently, the Jailer Beasts were deployed. They beat Chen Qiang into a critical state and captured him a few times, but as his strength continued to climb, even the Jailer Beasts were no longer his match. Eventually, Magellan had to intervene personally, capturing him and locking him away in Level 6 of Impel Down.

Even so, Chen Qiang persisted in trying to escape every single day. This repetitive cycle left Magellan with no time for anything other than bathroom breaks and guarding the cell; he couldn't leave for a moment, as Chen Qiang might break out even while he was in the restroom. It had become an exhausting ordeal for the warden.

However, yesterday, when the Empress arrived at Impel Down and Luffy caused chaos throughout the prison, Chen Qiang did not attempt an escape. This led Magellan to believe that the "nail" method had finally worked, giving him the peace of mind to leave Level 6 to handle long-neglected paperwork and hunt down Luffy and his group.

"Let's go! To Marine Headquarters! We have to save Ace!" Once Chen Qiang had fully recovered, Luffy roared at the top of his lungs.

"Crocodile! Inazuma!" After shouting, Luffy looked toward Crocodile and Inazuma standing behind him.

"How annoying!" "Understood."

Inazuma nodded in response, while Crocodile curled his lip in resignation. Despite his attitude, however, his hands did not slow down.

Crocodile raised his hand, and a small desert tornado manifested in his palm. A violent blast of sand erupted from his grip, shooting straight toward the ceiling of Level 6.

"BOOM!"

A powerful corrosive force instantly carved a massive hole through the ceiling.

Meanwhile, Inazuma was swiftly using the two giant scissors that were his hands to cut through the floorboards. Once he had cut enough, he gave a light flick, and the entire section of flooring he had detached swung upward, connecting perfectly with the hole Crocodile had just corroded to form a staircase leading upward.

"Alright! Let's move!"

With the passage upward revealed, Luffy didn't hesitate for a second, charging up the rotating floorboards first. Seeing Luffy take the lead, the others followed closely behind.

Soon, the group reached the gap between the levels of Impel Down and began discussing their next steps for the prison break.

"Our current manpower isn't enough. If we want to escape, we need to release more prisoners to cause chaos throughout the entire facility; that's our only chance!" Ivankov was the first to speak.

"No problem. That's what I was thinking, too," Crocodile nodded, agreeing with the plan.

"You all go ahead. I'll go open the Gates of Justice, and we can meet at the prison entrance," Chen Qiang had no objections to their plan. Having watched the anime, he knew that even after escaping Impel Down, they would still need to open two Gates of Justice.

One gate was already being manipulated by Blackbeard's crew, so it wouldn't be an issue for them, but the one near the prison had to be opened manually.

In the anime, it was Mr. 2 who disguised himself as Magellan to head there and open the gate.

However, since Chen Qiang was involved now, he certainly wouldn't let those who shouldn't have died meet their end, so he volunteered for the task. Of course, another reason was that he remembered from the anime that Hannyabal had hesitated in the corridor between Level 4 and Level 3, and he wanted to get there first to finish him off—he didn't want to wait a single moment longer.

"Little brother Chen Qiang! Do you know where the control console is?" Hearing Chen Qiang's words, Ivankov asked.

"I went there once during a previous escape attempt. It's on the first level above the sea, right next to the interrogation room!" Chen Qiang nodded.

He hadn't been familiar with the layout of Impel Down at first, but after dozens of escape attempts, he had visited almost every corner of the prison. There was practically nowhere left he hadn't seen.

"Alright then! We'll go release the prisoners, and I'll leave the Gates of Justice to you, little brother!" Hearing this, Ivankov and the others had no objections.

"Good! Let's move!" Once the plan was set, Luffy urged everyone to start.

"Wait!" But at that moment, Chen Qiang spoke up again, interrupting Luffy.

"What is it?"

"Leave Vice Warden Hannyabal to me later. I still have a score to settle with him!" Regarding Luffy's inquiry, Chen Qiang flicked the blade he had obtained from Ivankov, a sinister expression playing on his lips.

"No problem!" This time, it wasn't Luffy who answered, but Ivankov.

For prisoners like Chen Qiang and Crocodile who had been released from Level 6, Ivankov wouldn't refuse any reasonable requests as long as they didn't interfere with the escape plan.

Much like the cigar and cloak Crocodile had just demanded from him.

"In that case, let's go!" Seeing that no one else had any objections, Chen Qiang stood up and signaled the others.

"Let's go! Save Ace!"

"Charge!"

The group rushed out of the Level 5 prison area and quickly reached Level 4, only to be met by a massive blockade of jailers.

"Tiger Roar!"

Chen Qiang, who was already at the front, saw the jailers blocking their path and held his blade horizontally in front of him. A massive, blood-red tiger manifested behind his back.

As he swung his blade forward, the blood-red tiger lunged from behind him, pouncing directly into the crowd of jailers.

"BANG!" The jailers who had been blocking their path were sent flying by the impact of the giant blood-red tiger.

"Gomu Gomu no Pistol!"

"Sables!"

"Death Wink!"

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After Chen Qiang made his move, the others did not remain idle, launching their own attacks against the jailers ahead.

The prisoners following behind them also quickly engaged the jailers in combat.

"Go and release the prisoners! I'm heading out first!" Seeing that the others were already locked in battle with the jailers, Chen Qiang left these words behind and charged directly toward the passage leading to the third level.

"What a reliable young man!" Ivankov remarked with a sigh as he watched Chen Qiang's figure speed away.

"He really is a reliable guy!" Luffy nodded in strong agreement.

"Tch!" Crocodile, however, was unimpressed by Chen Qiang's actions; after finishing off the jailers in front of him, he simply headed toward the prison cells on the other side.

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Relying on his near-immortal constitution, Chen Qiang tanked the jailers' attacks and charged toward the third-level passage, cutting down every jailer who stood in his way with a single strike.

Soon, following his advance, he arrived at the entrance to the fourth level, only to find that the gate was already sealed shut.

"You think a mere gate can stop us? How unexpectedly naive," Chen Qiang muttered with disdain as he looked at the door blocking his path.

"Tiger Rend!"

As he spoke, a thick, blood-red energy erupted from Chen Qiang's body, rapidly converging into the long blade in his hand. With a thunderous roar, he brought the sword down directly onto the tightly shut gate.

"Crack! Boom!"

As Chen Qiang's blade struck, massive cracks appeared across the entire gate, spreading rapidly until, with a loud bang, the door was shattered into pieces.

"Hannyabal!"

With the gate destroyed, the passage behind it was revealed. Chen Qiang rushed into the upward corridor, and within a few breaths, he spotted Hannyabal, who was standing there in hesitation.

As the saying goes, enemies are red-eyed upon meeting; the moment he saw Hannyabal, a fierce red light flared in Chen Qiang's eyes, and he charged straight at him.

"Eh? Who's calling me?" Hannyabal, who had been deep in thought, turned around in confusion after hearing someone call his name from behind.

"Vice Warden Hannyabal, watch out! It's the Undying Chen Qiang, he's broken out again!" Hannyabal hadn't noticed the situation, but the jailers who had been monitoring the area immediately recognized the man charging toward them and hurriedly warned him.

"Ah!" "Boom!"

Before Hannyabal could even respond, he was sent flying by a single strike from Chen Qiang. Had he not instinctively raised his weapon, Blood Sucker, to block the blow, he might have been sliced in two.

"Vice Warden Hannyabal!"

Seeing Hannyabal sent flying, some of the jailers rushed in the direction he had been thrown to check on him, while the others remained, quickly raising their guns.

"Bang!" "Bang!" "Bang!" "."

Without a moment's hesitation, they opened fire on Chen Qiang.

"Tch! How many times do I have to show you? Why don't you get it? These guns are useless against me!" Chen Qiang didn't bother to defend against the incoming bullets. They left wound after wound on his body, but the injuries vanished almost instantly, and the bullets were pushed out by his muscles.

"Tiger Pounce!"

Without hesitation, the blood-red giant tiger manifested behind Chen Qiang once more, and as he swung his long blade, he dove straight into the ranks of the jailers ahead.