Renka had been on the main ship the whole time, but no matter what happened before, he never came out of his room. Even when the warship was attacked by Sea Kings, he didn't care at all. That was the Celestial Dragons ' disregard for life. He was sent by the Five Elders to teach Vic a lesson, and there would definitely be a battle between him and Vic later!
"Ignore them. Go ahead and capture them on the island. When the time is right, I will come to the island, Dark Dragon will definitely be there too. I will meet him there for a while!"
Renka sat behind his desk and said calmly. He had sensed Vic's aura before, and it was indeed very powerful, but he didn't take it to heart. He was one of the people who participated in the God Valley Hunt more than 20 years ago. He was a person who had fought against the Rocks Pirates and the Roger Pirates and escaped unscathed. Naturally, he had his pride.
"Yes! Saint Lunka!"
After respectfully agreeing, the masked CP0 member withdrew and began arranging the naval encirclement of the island. He didn't give any further instructions regarding Vic's ships; they were simply placed wherever they were.
The other warships just need to maintain a safe distance and surround the island. As for why Saint Lunka was so certain, and why Vic would definitely go to the island, he didn't try to guess. What his master said must be right; he just had to wait and see.
At this moment, Vic was completely focused on his cultivation, paying no attention to what was happening outside. He was unaware that this mission was actually involving a powerful figure, and also unaware that he had already been assigned a task by a high- Holy Knights!
Barnett didn't turn his warship around; he stopped a short distance from the island, choosing this spot casually and lazily. Other warships had to arrange their positions according to his ship's layout.
Some ships had already docked, while more warships needed to circle around the island to block it from the other side. Such a large-scale operation naturally alarmed the civilians on the island, causing considerable unrest.
Everyone's speculating about what the World Government is up to. Is it launching Buster Call? But the people on their island haven't committed any such crimes!
Those who first discovered the situation on the shore were extremely uneasy and terrified. Some had already boarded their small boats to escape the island, but government agents with the ability to walk on Geppo over and destroyed their vessels.
They ignored the people who fell into the sea and quickly went to other places to destroy ships, even those that were moored on the shore and unoccupied.
Those who fall into the sea can only swim back to the island and wait in fear for what is to come. Those who continue to swim outwards are truly reckless. The ocean is vast, and one cannot reach the other side by swimming alone; that would be a near-death experience.
"Our whereabouts must have been leaked. They're after us. Am I going to have to go through that ordeal again, like six years ago?"
What heinous things have we done to deserve this? Why are they trying to wipe us out? There are only a few of us; why go to such lengths? The World Government thinks too highly of us!
More than an hour later, news of the warships surrounding the island had spread throughout the entire island, and Vic's target had also received the news. A woman's voice rang out from an inconspicuous house in the city, sounding like resentment, despair, regret, and injustice from heaven, but without fear!
"Should we take a gamble? Let's run away before they search us!"
A thin, ordinary-looking man wearing glasses spoke to the masked woman who had just spoken. His eyes showed fear and resentment, emotions shared by the others. Only the masked woman who had spoken showed no fear, but rather composure and relief, along with a trace of lingering affection and guilt.
"It's no use. We've already missed the best time to escape. The World Government's operation this time was too meticulous. Their warships have surrounded the island, and they even destroyed all the ships along the coast for fear we'd escape."
Escaping by swimming would be incredibly difficult. Even if they could evade the warships' detection, and even if they managed to dive through their blockade, the lack of land and islands in the short term would still mean certain death. The chances of survival were extremely slim.
Besides, if we escape, the people on this island will suffer. So many warships will inevitably launch indiscriminate attacks because they can't find us, which would be no different from the Buster Call. We can't let innocent people be implicated!
The masked woman continued, seemingly tired of hiding for so long and unwilling to implicate innocent bystanders.
"Aren't we innocent? The charges against us were imposed by the World Government. We only wanted to explore the truth of history. Is seeking knowledge a crime?"
The bespectacled man said somewhat indignantly that he did not consider himself or his companions criminals at all; they were merely seekers of knowledge.
"Stop talking. This is my opinion. Anyone who wants to try to escape should leave now. I will burn all the notes and books here later. I won't leave any clues for the World Government. Good luck!"
Once all the warships had surrounded the island, CP0 agents dispatched a large number of people to search it. The target showed no intention of resisting, and even the bespectacled man, who had a strong will to survive, seemed to have been persuaded by the woman.
They all gave up resisting and trying to escape, whether they knew they couldn't escape or didn't want to implicate the civilians on the island, so they were quickly tied up and taken back to the beach.
"We're all here. If we wanted to escape, we wouldn't have surrendered so easily. We hope you won't implicate innocent people!"
The masked woman looked at the CP masked man in front of her and said, seemingly afraid that these agents might misunderstand that there were still their accomplices on the island, causing unnecessary casualties. The woman was still kind-hearted and didn't seem like a criminal who would mobilize so many people.
"This isn't something you can decide, nor is it something we can decide. You should think about your future!"
As he spoke, the masked man reached out and removed the black veil covering the woman's face, then immediately put it back on after seeing her face.
"Don't even think about it with that kind of face. You're going to have a really tough time. Sometimes death is better than life!"
The woman only had half a face intact; the other half was covered in burn scars, which looked rather eerie. So the masked man only glanced at her before closing his mask.
He had assumed that this woman, with her shapely figure and clear, feminine voice, would be a stunning beauty beneath her veil, and that she might become a slave to one of the Celestial Dragons in the Holy Land. But upon seeing her face, he knew that was impossible; at best, she would be a laborer, and whether she would survive was uncertain.