Olvia's Faith

"Fall back at once. Do as he says."

Spandine howled in pain. Seeing that the CP9 agents were still hesitating, he nearly cursed out loud. In his heart, he hated Ye Chen to the core.

Helpless, the CP9 agents retreated toward the shore. Once they were about a hundred meters away, Ye Chen felt it was enough and hurriedly turned to run back. He put every ounce of strength into it and ran at full speed, but a sinister chuckle suddenly drifted through the air behind him. "Ghost, do you think you can outrun my Geppo?"

Ye Chen broke out in a cold sweat. When he looked back, he was so shocked he nearly bit his tongue. "How is that possible?"

A CP9 agent in a black suit was leisurely watching him from the air behind him. No matter how fast Ye Chen ran, the man matched his speed. The distance between them remained neither too close nor too far. Ye Chen was running on the ground, but that CP9 agent was running through the air.

The earlier Rankyaku had already been hard enough for Ye Chen to accept. He had never imagined that people could fly through the air.

Bang! Bang! Bang!

After recovering from his panic, Ye Chen fired several shots in succession. Yet at such close range, the man's body moved like a sheet of paper drifting in the wind, effortlessly evading every bullet. Even after Ye Chen emptied the chamber in one go, he failed to harm the man in the slightest.

To Ye Chen, the CP9 agents were monsters. What he was seeing completely overturned his understanding of the world. He desperately ran forward, but the man continued haunting him from behind. After they had run a long distance, the CP9 agent suddenly cried out, "That's... I never expected Saul to be hiding in Ohara too. We've discovered something incredible."

Saul saw Ye Chen as well and immediately strode toward him. Although Saul was immensely built, like an insurmountable mountain that even blocked half the sky, he was not slow at all. Just as the CP9 agent following Ye Chen was about to seize him and leave, Saul blocked his way.

"Let go of Ghost." Saul threw a fierce punch, and Ye Chen was stunned once more. Saul's fist had clearly not touched the CP9 agent, yet a blue gust of force shot from his fist like sword energy unleashed by a swordsman's slash. The CP9 agent's expression changed drastically as he hurried backward, but the aftershock of Saul's blow still shook blood from the corner of his mouth.

Saul came before Ye Chen, grabbed him in his palm, and started walking away without continuing to fight.

"Hmph. Since you're on this island, don't even think about escaping."

The CP9 agent sneered and hurried back to report to the Marines. When Aokiji received the news, he was slightly surprised, then waved at the CP9 agent who had brought the report. "Leave it to me."

Looking at Ohara in the distance, continuously suffering bombardment, Aokiji's face remained as still as an ancient well, without the slightest ripple. Yet his heart churned like a raging sea, unable to calm for a long while. The World Government was willing to destroy Ohara in order to deal with the archaeologists here, even attacking the island's civilians. Aokiji found it difficult to accept.

However, Aokiji knew that he could not change any of this. Under the astonished gaze of the CP9 agent, Aokiji suddenly vanished into thin air. Icy shards were left behind on the warship, and even the temperature of the surrounding air dropped sharply. An inexplicable chill instantly surged from the CP9 agent's feet through his entire body. He knew that Vice Admiral Aokiji was an Ice-Ice Fruit user whose strength was unfathomable. Like Vice Admiral Sakazuki, he was a terrifying monster among the Marines.

"Ye Chen, take Robin and leave this place immediately. It's too dangerous here." Only after running a long distance with Ye Chen did Saul set him down. "What about you, Saul? Aren't you coming with us?"

"Go. Don't worry about me. They've already discovered me." As an elite vice admiral from Marine Headquarters, Saul knew that just from that CP9 agent seeing him, there was no need to guess that the man would quickly report his presence here to the Marines.

The Buster Call was no joke. The ones who had come were all formidable Marine vice admirals renowned far and wide, and there were five of them at once. Saul's enormous body made him far too conspicuous. He knew he could not escape at all.

Ye Chen hurried to find Robin. He could not spare any thought for anything else, because there was nothing he could change. Those people were far too powerful. Before them, his current skills were no more than those of an insignificant ant.

Back in the Great Qing Dynasty, with kung fu in hand, he could act without fear. No one dared bully him. But in this world, even those who did not know kung fu possessed other kinds of "sorcery." It filled Ye Chen with terror.

He finally found Robin in the library. The mother and daughter had already recognized each other, and Olvia was urging Robin to leave. When she saw Ye Chen, a smile immediately appeared on her face. "Ye Chen, take Robin and leave this place at once. The farther you go, the better. This is not a place for you two to stay."

"Mom, what about you?"

Robin tightly gripped Olvia's hand. The mother and daughter had only just reunited, and she would rather die than be separated from her mother again.

But Olvia pointed at the people desperately carrying research materials out of the library. A trace of determination flashed across her face. "Even if I die, I must protect those precious materials. I absolutely cannot let the Marines destroy them."

Slap! Ignoring the wounds on his body that were still bleeding, Ye Chen stepped before Olvia and struck her across the face.

"You..." Olvia covered her burning cheek, stunned.

Even Robin was startled.

"Have you lost your mind? Why did you hit my mom?" Robin desperately shoved Ye Chen away and demanded angrily.

"Your mother is the one who's completely lost her mind! Are those things more important than our lives? To you, are those worthless books more important than your own daughter? The value of research materials is to let those who come after understand the truth and live better lives, not to protect them with their lives in near-mindless stupidity! Besides, can you even protect them? The Marines are going to blast Ohara into the sea and destroy everything on this island. Can you wake up already?" Ye Chen angrily pointed at Olvia's nose and berated her.

Boom! Boom! Boom!

More than a dozen shells screamed through the air in succession, mercilessly crashing down around the library and blasting enormous craters into the ground. Several archaeologists were blown into the air. Before they even hit the ground, they had already stopped breathing. Even Doctor Clover was barely alive, continuously coughing blood from the corner of his mouth.

"Robin is in your hands." Olvia suddenly shoved Robin into Ye Chen's arms, then turned and rushed toward the library.

Even though Ye Chen had scolded and struck her, Olvia's faith, which she had upheld for so many years, did not waver in the slightest. To her, those materials were more important than anything else. Even her own life was not worth mentioning.