Free Web NovelChapter 1309: Chapter 20: The Inescapable Fate and the Future
The ships moored on the shoreline were consecutively sunk, seven in total. The Big Mom Pirate Group certainly noticed something was wrong, but these ships couldn’t stray far from the coast; otherwise, the Big Mom Pirate Group members on the island would be isolated.
If they didn’t sail away, these ships would eventually all be sunk. They were in a dilemma.
Su Xiao loaded five bullets into the chamber of the Duke of Extinction. Such opportunities were rare; once he started bombing ships, the Big Mom Pirate Group would notice him and devise countermeasures.
When Su Xiao sunk the twelfth ship, many of the Big Mom Pirate Group’s ships began to gather behind the large rocks on the shore. They found that the ships hidden behind the rocks hadn’t been attacked at all.
When the last pirate ship disappeared from Su Xiao’s sight, there were already 15 bullet casings at his feet, and he had sunk a total of 14 ships, with one shot going astray.
The Big Mom Pirate Group’s fleet was bewildered; they had no idea who was attacking them. Four kilometers was too far for the gunshots to travel, effectively muting the sound.
There were more and more biscuit soldiers at the port, increasing from the initial dozens to hundreds. They weren’t afraid of death, or rather, they weren’t living beings at all.
Dressrosa had a total of seven landing points. Before the war, the Donquixote Family had already arranged them from 1 to 7.
Landing Points No.1 to 5 each had a cadre of the Donquixote Family guarding them. The confrontation between Doflamingo and Katakuri was at Landing Point No.6. Landing Point No.7 was the one impacted by biscuit soldiers.
Landing Points No.1 to 6 wouldn’t be breached in a short time, but Landing Point No.7 was already in a precarious situation. At least 40% of the Donquixote Family’s pirates in this area were dead or injured. If this weren’t Dressrosa, the pirates at Landing Point No.7 would have already fled. Those biscuit soldiers seemed like small, close-combat Gundams that ordinary pirates couldn’t destroy. Even Pika would need more than half a minute to destroy one.
If Landing Point No.7 was breached, it could lead to the other landing points being flanked from both sides.
Su Xiao still hadn’t found where Charlotte Cracker was hiding, but he had identified the source of the biscuit soldiers. Based on his observations, all these biscuit soldiers came from behind a giant rock.
Su Xiao immediately contacted Bubu Wang, who blended into the environment and leapt onto the giant rocks on the shore, quickly reaching the designated position.
On a giant rock nearly ten meters high, Bubu Wang crouched down and peered toward the side closest to the coast. A man with purple hair and a scar on his eye came into Bubu Wang’s view: Charlotte Cracker.
Charlotte Cracker was sitting in a beach chair with his legs crossed, right in the shade under the rock. There were several pirates beside him.
Clap, clap, clap...
Charlotte Cracker clapped his hands, and dozens of biscuits appeared around him. These floating biscuits gathered together, initially forming one biscuit soldier after another.
These biscuit soldiers walked out from behind the rock, striding quickly towards the battlefield.
Seeing this scene, Bubu Wang was filled with curiosity. It jumped down from the rock and crouched a few meters away from Charlotte Cracker.
Charlotte Cracker yawned, completely unaware of Bubu Wang. Yes, Bubu Wang’s ability was this unresolvable, despite its lacking combat strength.
Bubu Wang took a ruler out of the team storage space. It began to measure the distance between Cracker and the rock.
After a long time, Bubu Wang nodded in satisfaction and gave Cracker a glare. In Bubu Wang’s whimsical mind, it didn’t feel intimidated; it even gave a parting glare at Cracker, one of the Sweet Commanders.
Bubu Wang jumped back onto the giant rock, nimble in its movements. It went to the other side of the rock, which was already at the edge of the battlefield.
Being in the battlefield, Bubu Wang acted like it was wandering in its own backyard. It took out a watercolor pen and started drawing on the rock.
A moment later, Bubu Wang drew a red circle on the rock and calibrated it with a heat-sensing device.
The red circle drawn by Bubu Wang was at the horizontal level of Cracker’s head. Of course, Su Xiao couldn’t aim directly at the circle; if he fired at the circle, the bullet would hit the sand beneath Cracker’s feet.
Su Xiao began adjusting the shooting angle, with adjustments precise to micrometers, while Bubu Wang hopped onto another large rock to observe if Cracker moved.
Soon, from across the giant rock, Su Xiao locked onto Cracker’s position, completely unnoticed by Cracker.
Their distance was over four kilometers, and they were also separated by a large rock. Only if Cracker had Observation Haki as strong as his brother’s would he be aware.
Mystical perception? Sense of dread? It was impossible; the initial shooting distance was too far. Even if an attack targeted Su Xiao from this distance, he could only rely on his intuition ability to detect it when it closed to within seven meters.
Clack, clack, clack...
Su Xiao twisted the metal wheel on the Duke of Extinction, raising the crosshair in micrometer units.
On the distant rock, Bubu Wang suddenly stood up, both front paws pointing towards the adjacent rock—it meant Cracker hadn’t moved.
Su Xiao took a deep breath, his heartbeat slowing down. A human head was about that big, so he couldn’t afford an error margin over five centimeters for this shot.
His finger slowly pulled the trigger. As he squeezed, his heartbeat almost stopped. A heartbeat would cause a slight tremor in the body, making the bullet deviate by more than half a meter.
Boom!
The hydraulic buffer below the Duke of Extinction absorbed the recoil, and the bullet left the barrel.
At the moment the bullet left the barrel, Cracker, behind the rock, raised his hands, preparing to clap.
"Let’s end this boring war quickly. These mere Sea Rascals dare defy Mama’s will..."
Before Cracker could finish his sentence, he heard a loud noise beside his ear, and a spray of gravel assaulted him.
In the rubble, a bullet whizzed through, heading straight for the back of Cracker’s head.
With a crack, shattered purple hair flew, fragments of blood-stained skull popping up.
"Ah!!"
Cracker let out a hysterical scream. He was unlike 99% of strong individuals; he hated pain intensely. He even feared injections, or rather, he was afraid of pain.
The beach chair under Cracker flew several meters away as he tumbled into the sand at an angle.
With a thud, Cracker fell onto the sand. He wasn’t head-shotted, but the bone at the back of his head was shattered by the shot.
Cracker collapsed onto the sand, body slightly trembling. The powerful impact of the bullet damaged part of his brain, or rather, his brain was already exposed to the air.
In the fourth floor of the villa, Su Xiao quickly pulled the bolt, and a shell casing flew up as he already squeezed the trigger again.
Whoosh～
After a terrifying whistling sound, a bullet embedded into the sand beside Cracker, creating a three-meter-wide pit.
The second shot missed. Su Xiao pulled the bolt again. Less than a second of aiming later, he squeezed the trigger once more.
Another whoosh followed, the bullet hitting a meter away from Cracker, the strong impact sending him half a meter into the air.
The distance was too great. At this range, sniping ships and sniping people were entirely different concepts.
The Duke of Extinction had a capacity of five rounds, with only two bullets remaining in its chamber.
Without hesitation, Su Xiao fired the fourth shot. The bullet flew straight for Cracker, and with a whoosh, a shadow flashed before Cracker’s eyes.
Boom!
Sand surged high, a wall of darkness blocking in front of Cracker, with a thumb-sized hole blasted into it.
This wall diverted the bullet’s trajectory. Its appearance wasn’t coincidental but inevitable. A certain individual capable of foreseeing the future had arrived. Being blood-related and on the same battlefield, this terrifying person could naturally foresee his younger brother Cracker’s impending death.
Cracker lay on the sand, body twitching occasionally. From his posture, it was clear he yearned to stand, having been betrayed. Up to now, he hadn’t even realized who had betrayed him.
The sound of breaking through the air came from a distance—Doflamingo was rushing through the sky.
