Pirates: Davy Jones is the captain of the Dread Ghost

Chapter 278 Gathering is a fire, scattered is a sky full of stars
The "Grand Line" originally had four types of islands: spring, summer, autumn and winter.

Each island has its own four-season climate.

This has led to a special and strange phenomenon - even between two islands not far apart, the seasons and climate may be completely different.

The "Blackbeard Pirates" secretly attacked and occupied an island whose season was completely opposite to that of "Whitebeard's Home Island".

"Whitebeard's Home Island" now has a suitable temperature, the breeze is blowing, and everything is recovering.

What "Blackbeard" Marshall D. Teach saw was an island in the depths of winter, with heavy snowfall and biting ice.

The pirates who followed complained.

Why did you choose such an island instead of attacking those islands where spring flowers are blooming and fruits are abundant?
Everyone was cold and hungry. The dried meat they took out from the warehouse was so frozen that it could be used as a sword. If you pee in the wild, it might freeze into popsicles.

In order to keep warm, the pirates threw everything they looted and could be ignited into fireplaces, bonfires, and stoves, huddled together like chickens, and drank from the same pot of rum tremblingly.

Except for the initial pleasure of burning, killing and looting, everything else on the island made them feel very unsatisfied.

Teach was quite satisfied with his raid.

After the "war on top", his figure underwent drastic changes.

First, his body gained a little weight, and then his height grew like a bamboo, until most pirates had to look up to him.

This is a path that many strong people will go through, and it has nothing to do with race. After all, not everyone is a giant.

When they are young, they may only be 1.8 or 1.9 meters tall. When they break through a certain combat bottleneck, their stature will suddenly increase to two or three meters, or even more than ten or twenty meters.

Teach grew taller for this reason.

However, there are still several pirates who are taller than him.

These people are basically the core members of the "Blackbeard Pirates".

Counting Teach himself, there were ten people surrounding this round table in the brightly lit hall with a burning fireplace.

He was explaining his purpose to this group of people.

"Ace and Marco are both acting too decently." Teach grinned, "They would never have imagined that we just killed one of their captains last night, and today they would take advantage of the funeral to recall the other captains to seize this opportunity. An island!”

The facts were indeed as he expected. The entire process of seizing the island was quite smooth, with almost no decent resistance encountered.

He wears a black hat with the iconic emblem of the "Blackbeard Pirates" - three white skulls on it, their empty and terrifying eyes looking in different directions.

Teach's chin is covered with a black beard, which is tied into three sections with gold hoops. He is truly a "black beard".

"Captain Teach, we are not asking you why you are raiding now." Gizas Badges poured rum down his throat and placed the empty glass heavily on the round table with a bang, "We are asking Why did you choose this island?”

Even though "Champion" Badgers is on a freezing island, he still bares his upper body, exposing his strong muscles to show his bravery and good fighting skills.

He is one of the few "people without fruit abilities" in the "Blackbeard Pirates".

But his right arm is covered with a solid and thick arm armor, which is full of marks left by swords and bullets, which is enough to prove his combat prowess.

Teach had promised to "hunt Devil Fruits" for him, but he didn't understand why he was wasting time on such an island?Not only Badgers, but most of the people sitting around the round table had the same question in their minds.

"Transparent Rain" Shiliu, "Otontsuki" Van Oka, "Evil King" Avalo Pizarro, "Devil Sheriff" Lafayette, "Wakazuki Hunter" Katrin Diemei, "Big Barrel" Basque Choate, "Reaper" Poison Q...

Including "Doflamingo's Messenger" and "Cube" Diamanti, nine pairs of eyes looked at Tikki together.

Diamanti arrived two days ago to discuss the "Pirate Alliance" with Teach on behalf of Doflamingo.

Teach was not in a hurry, but instead invited Diamanti to join the raid and let him see how the "Blackbeard Pirates" acted.

Therefore, Diamanti also killed a lot of people in the operation to seize the island, and he was quite compatible with the "Blackbeard Pirates".

If the "Great Battleship" San Juan Wolf had not been stabbed to death by the Dire Ghost in the "War on Top", there would have been 11 people here.

But no one grieves, they never remember the dead.

They came together for each other's interests and ambitions, not for some innocent bond, friendship or family affection.

In the same way, Teach is only their nominal "co-leader". They are not loyal to him to the death, but they are just temporarily following Teach, which can bring them good benefits.

Teach knew this very well. He needed to give everyone a reasonable explanation, otherwise his "Admiral Majesty" would be damaged.

A thousand-mile embankment breaks down in an ant nest. When his prestige falls below a certain level, he will be betrayed, or even more cruelly insulted.

If you want to ask why he knows this result, it is because countless similar betrayals have occurred in the "history of pirates".

Among them, the one that has been buried deepest by the World Government is about the "Rocks Pirates".

Locks D. Jibek gathered strong men such as Newgate, Kaido, Lingling, and Wang Zhi under his command.

In the end, they unanimously abandoned Rocks in the "Battle of the Valley of the Gods".

Gathering is a mass of fire, scattered is a sky full of stars.

Newgate, Kaido, Lingling, and Wang Zhi all later had their own pirate groups and became notorious and powerful pirates.

No one planned to avenge Rocks, and even some things in the "Valley of the Gods" were promoted by them.

Teach followed Rocks' example and formed the "Blackbeard Pirates" when the time came. Even the pirate ship was named "Gibek" after Rocks.

Now that he has followed Rocks' old path, of course he must be careful about Rocks' final outcome.

He didn't want to be attacked one day on a certain island by the strongest pirate and the strongest navy in the world. The crew members all stood by and watched, and were eventually defeated.

He will never make the same mistake as Rocks.

So, after Teach roughly devoured a piece of his favorite cherry pie, he grinned, revealing two rows of missing teeth.

"Don't be anxious." Teach explained patiently, "I am leading the 'Whitebeard remnants' into my trap step by step."

"What trap?" Diamanti, as an outsider, was very interested in the strategic purpose of this battle.

(End of this chapter)