Among the Marines, the three Colonels watched Luffy and the others maneuver the Going Merry away, and they could not help but be secretly astonished.
Using the waves caused by cannon fire as propulsion to make a ship race forward was no simple feat.
It required extraordinarily sophisticated navigation skills, along with meticulous calculations of timing and the currents' movements.
The Straw Hat Crew actually had such an incredible navigator?
Still, it did not matter that they had escaped.
They had deployed their entire force. How could things be that simple?
"Not good, we've got trouble!"
At that moment, aboard the Going Merry, Nami peered into the distance through her telescope. She suddenly spotted something and immediately frowned.
"What is it?"
"This is bad! We're done for!"
Once their course stabilized, Usopp quickly used the magnifying scope he had bought to scan the sea. Suddenly, his whole body shook. As though he had seen something terrifying, he cried out in shock.
"This... could they have calculated this from the beginning? They're surrounding us, trapping us like turtles in a jar!"
"What exactly is going on?"
Sanji looked over as well, but without a telescope or magnifying scope, all he could see with his normal eyesight was the endless blue sea.
"It's the Marines. We've been surrounded!"
Luffy's sharp eyes caught sight of them. Pointing into the distance along their route, he saw over twenty large ships lined across the sea like an iron chain blocking a river.
Just like the group of Marines they had encountered before, one fleet was ahead and another behind, leaving them trapped in the middle.
They were about to face the cannon fire of at least forty cannons at once!
"Damn it, the Marines? Did they plan this all along, intending to sink us this