Chapter 148 Is it worth it?

Xia Chen walked in the forest, took out the Den Den Mushi that Rocks had just given him, and the corners of his mouth curled up slightly.

"Locks? Haha!"

Xia Chen put away the Den Den Mushi casually and walked forward in silence, not knowing what he was thinking.

However, as he was walking, Xia Chen suddenly felt something and looked in a certain direction. He murmured:

"Even after such a big plot change, you still come? Interesting!"

After saying that, Xia Chen's figure instantly disappeared from the spot.

After a while, Xia Chen appeared next to the Meili, and there was another person here at the same time.

Xia Chen looked at him indifferently and asked, "Tyrant Bear! What are you doing here?"

That’s right, the person who appeared here at this time was Xiong. He did not answer Xia Chen’s question immediately, but asked Xia Chen:

"Demon King Xia Chen, where is the Straw Hat Boy?"

"Shouldn't you answer other people's questions before asking them?" Xia Chen looked at him and said calmly.

The bear shook his head and said, "I can't tell you why I'm here!"

"Then there's nothing to discuss. I can't tell you, and at the same time, I won't let you go find them!"

Xia Chen would never allow the situation in the original work where Kuma wanted to bounce the damage suffered by Luffy to Zoro to bear.

Xia Chen and everyone else have come this far and have completely integrated into this group. The partnership bond between them does not need to be presented in this way.

Hearing this, Xiong narrowed his eyes and just looked at Xia Chen quietly. The air around him seemed to freeze at this moment.

"I advise you not to attack me...you will die!"

After saying that, an extremely strong domineering aura emanated from Xia Chen and crushed towards the bear.

If I can't beat Rocks, can I still beat you, a bear? Even if the bear has the fighting power of a general, Xia Chen is now confident that he is not his opponent.

Feeling this powerful domineering aura, a look of surprise appeared on Xiong's face, and the look in his eyes when he looked at Xia Chen changed slightly.

After a while, Xiong said calmly: "I won't do anything bad to them!"

"I know that! If you simply want to use your fruit ability to help them bounce back the damage, then I welcome it. But if you want to use this to test the friendship between our partners, then there is no need!"

Xia Chen is now speaking frankly. If you are here to help, I welcome you, but if you are here to do something irrelevant, then I'm sorry, we don't need you!

The friendship between them doesn't need an outsider to interfere!

After he finished speaking, Xiong looked at Xia Chen with even more surprise in his eyes, as if he didn't expect Xia Chen to say that.

Xia Chen didn't beat around the bush and asked directly: "How did you know we were here?"

In the original work, it can be explained that the next island of the Seven Water City is Fishman Island, so it is speculated that they might come here.

But the problem now is that they have just come down from Sky Island and haven’t even seen the shadow of the Seven Water City. It would be a bit far-fetched to use this reason again.

Xia Chen stared at the bear and continued, "Let me guess, you should have Luffy's life card. As for who gave it to you, I guess... it was Long!"

Hearing what Xia Chen said, Xiong narrowed his eyes and began to look at Xia Chen with an unfriendly look.

"Don't get excited! It's not difficult to know that you are a revolutionary. Besides, I won't do anything bad to you. You don't have to be so defensive against me!"

Hearing this, Xiong stared at Xia Chen for a few seconds, then slowly said: "Long told me that he met you in Rogue Town and said that you are a very interesting person!"

"So Long also told you my identity?"

"No!" Xia Chen shook his head.

"Long didn't tell me any information about you, so you don't need to worry about how I knew it!"

"Hmm..." Xiong looked at Xia Chen and pondered for a while, and finally said: "Seeing that you are with them, then it is true that I don't need to come!"

"But since you know so much, you should also know that they won't be able to survive in the new world with their current strength!"

"Hmm?" Xia Chen was silent for a while after hearing this. Is this the reason for the two-year agreement?

Although Kuma didn't know the current strength of Luffy and the others, he still thought that their strength remained at the time when they defeated Crocodile.

But Xia Chen was very clear about their strength, and naturally knew that they were definitely much stronger than in the original book, but there was still a gap between them and two years later in the original book.

This is a fact. Those two years were an enormous opportunity for the improvement of a group of people.

Moreover, it is not just strength that is improved. For example, Nami, Chopper and others have each improved their navigation and medical skills during those two years, which cannot be improved by just staying on the sea and sailing all the time.

Thinking of this, Xia Chen had a guess, looked at Xiong and asked: "So what do you mean?"

……

After some time~

Xia Chen stood there in silence, digesting the information he had just received from Xiong.

It turns out that Dragon was the one who pushed Luffy's two-year agreement behind the scenes, so he asked Kuma to fly them to various places, and these places were all studied by Dragon and were more suitable for their growth.

Thinking of this, Xia Chen looked at Xiong and asked, "Can you show me the information you collected?"

Xiong did not answer, but took out a folded piece of paper from the interlayer of the book and threw it to Xia Chen.

After opening the paper, Xia Chen's face showed surprise. It not only recorded the strength assessment of Luffy and others, but also recorded their respective characteristics, and finally planned a relatively perfect growth path for them.

Although the above strength assessment is from the previous version, the other information is still very valuable for reference.

Xia Chen was silent again for a while, then asked: "Do you have permanent record pointers of these places?"

"Huh?" The bear was a little confused at first, but still took out a small box from his body.

(＃°Д°)!

Seeing the bear's body open like a locker, Xia Chen had a strange look on his face.

Although he said he knew that the bear was a cyborg, he really didn't know that you had also modified this function!

Xiong said calmly: "I am a cyborg, and... I will completely lose my consciousness soon!"

"I know this!" Xia Chen said calmly, looking at Xiong.

Of course he knew all these things about the bear, and he even knew exactly why he became a cyborg.

I can only say that Bear is indeed a good father! He gave all his love to Bonnie!

He lost consciousness for Bonnie, and even after losing consciousness he would still save Bonnie based on instinct!

Xiong was silent for a while, then he opened the small box, took out a few permanent record pointers and threw them to Xia Chen...