Swish!
Just moments before, the two were standing amidst the ruins of Whiskey Peak.
In the blink of an eye, the two figures vanished from the spot.
When Vivi opened her eyes again, she was greeted by a scorching hot wind mixed with sand and dust.
To her horror, she discovered that she was not standing on solid ground, but was being held by Uchiha Xin, floating thousands of meters in the air!
And beneath their feet lay a magnificent desert city.
"Where... where am I...?"
Vivi stared intently at the familiar palace buildings below, completely stunned and speechless, even her breath caught in her throat.
" Alubarna! This is Alubarna, the capital of Alabasta!"
Vivi gripped Uchiha Xin's clothes tightly with both hands, her face filled with horror.
Normal navigation between the two locations takes at least seven or eight days, crossing countless dangerous currents and reefs.
But now, the opponent has overtaken you in an instant!
This extraordinary spatial ability completely overturned all of Vivi's understanding over the past twenty years.
She finally understood why Uchiha Xin had said he didn't need a ship.
At this moment, Vivi felt even more awe and shock at Uchiha Xin's unfathomable strength.
In the presence of this man, worldly distances and common sense have completely lost their meaning.
High in the sky, Uchiha Xin looked down at the desert city below, quite satisfied with the accuracy of his teleportation.
Alubarna, the capital of the Alabasta Kingdom.
The blazing sun hung high in the sky, its intense rays relentlessly baking this ancient desert city.
The wide streets were bustling with noise, the cries of vendors and the braying of camels mingling together, creating a vibrant and lively scene.
Buzz!
In mid-air, the previously calm space began to distort violently without warning.
A flash of purplish-gold light streaked past, and the spatial passage shattered like glass.
With one arm around Vivi, Uchiha Xin took a step out of the void and landed steadily on the stone slab of the most bustling square in the center of Alubarna City.
Vivi landed on her feet, still in a daze.
She stared blankly at the familiar streets and buildings around her, her mind completely blank.
One second she was in despair amidst the ruins of Whiskey Peak, the next she had crossed the endless ocean and returned to her homeland's capital.
Before Vivi could recover from this mind-blowing spatial leap, Uchiha Xin's deep black eyes narrowed.
The powerful, Advanced Observation Haki like an invisible net, instantly covering the entire city of Alubarna.
"As soon as we landed, Nezumi were already lurking in the shadows, spying on us. They were quick."
Uchiha Xin casually put his hands back in his pockets, his tone extremely indifferent.
No sooner had he finished speaking than a strange thing happened.
Rumble!
The hard stone slabs beneath their feet began to tremble violently without warning.
Immediately afterwards, large sections of stone slabs shattered with a deafening roar, and the yellow sand below surged and churned wildly like boiling water.
"Oh no! An earthquake!"
"Sand! The ground is all sand!"
The civilians surrounding the square were terrified by this sudden turn of events.
They screamed in terror and scrambled to escape in all directions.
The once bustling market was instantly thrown into chaos, with stalls collapsing and fruits scattered all over the ground.
A violent sandstorm shot into the sky, rapidly converging and compressing in mid-air.
In less than two seconds, the sand in the sky coalesced into a gigantic, terrifying sand serpent tens of meters long.
The sand serpent's scales were clearly defined, radiating a suffocatingly ferocious aura, its gaping maw large enough to devour an entire house.
With a sharp whistling sound that tore through the air, it pounced down fiercely on Uchiha Xin and Vivi from its high position.
A fierce wind howled, and sandstorms obscured the sun.
Faced with this terrifying surprise attack, Uchiha Xin didn't even raise his head.
He simply stood there quietly, the Power of the Extreme Path within him, which transcended the laws of physics, spontaneously circulating.
An invisible repulsion law instantly enveloped the two people within a half-foot radius.
Bang!
The massive sand serpent, upon touching that invisible law, felt as if it had crashed into an indestructible barrier of divine iron.
With a muffled bang, the entire sand snake crumbled into pieces, starting from its head.
The violent power was forcibly erased, turning back into countless harmless loose sands that scattered across the ground.
"There's no need to embarrass yourself by making such a pointless attempt at probing."
Uchiha Xin looked at the yellow sand covering the ground and spoke coldly.
The sand dunes ahead began to undulate violently.
The yellow sand flying everywhere quickly gathered in the air and gradually condensed into a tall human-shaped silhouette.
He had slicked-back hair, a hideous scar across his face, and wore a large black fur coat.
In his left hand was a Pure Gold barb that gleamed with a deadly cold light.
Crocodile, the Crocodile, one of the Shichibukai and the mastermind behind Baroque Works, slowly revealed his true form amidst the sandstorm.
Crocodile, with a thick cigar between his teeth, exhaled a heavy smoke ring and looked down at the two people opposite him.
His gaze swept past Uchiha Xin and landed on Vivi, a mocking and sarcastic sneer spreading across his face.
Welcome back to Alabasta, Princess Vivi Nefertari Vivi.
Crocodile's voice was hoarse and deep, exuding an arrogant air of absolute control.
"The undercover game you played at Baroque Works during this time was quite a show for me."
You and that guard captain named Igaram thought you had hidden yourselves perfectly,
They scurried around my territory like two pathetic Nezumi.
"Do you all think you can uncover my true identity and save this country from destruction right away?"
Crocodile burst into unrestrained laughter, his laughter filled with contempt for the weak.
Upon hearing these words, Vivi was shocked, and her face instantly turned ashen.
She bit her lip hard, her body trembling violently uncontrollably.
It wasn't until this moment that she Satori...
It turns out that the undercover operation that he and Igaram had been enduring humiliation and living in constant fear of danger had been completely exposed from the very beginning!
All their efforts and struggles were nothing more than a clown show to amuse themselves when Crocodile bored.
The fate of the entire Alabasta has always been firmly in the hands of this demon.
An unprecedented sense of fear and despair instantly surged into Vivi's heart.
However, when Vivi subconsciously turned her head,
When she caught a glimpse of the man beside her, his hands in his pockets and his expression as calm as still water, most of the fear in her heart suddenly dissipated.
She suddenly recalled the horrific scene of Uchiha Xin casually wiping out all of Baroque Works ' top agents at Whiskey Peak.