Just then, the door was pushed open from the inside, and a man in a white robe, holding a bamboo stick, and wearing sunglasses walked out.
The three Marines immediately dropped their cards, stood at attention, and saluted him.
"Vice Admiral Vergo!"
Vergo nodded in response, then walked out from behind the counter and calmly looked at Luo Yan from two or three meters away.
"Did you just have some dissatisfaction with us, sir? If you have any complaints, you can tell me. Please don't make things difficult for my subordinates."
Luo Yan narrowed his eyes, carefully sizing up this Vice Admiral. His spirituality warned him about this person, proving that he was a strong individual, but not to an extremely dangerous degree. After all, he could fly, and his flying speed already exceeded the speed of sound. If he wanted to leave, a Vice Admiral couldn't stop him.
"It's not that I'm dissatisfied; it's just my first time claiming a bounty, and I wasn't aware of a handling fee. I thought your subordinates were pocketing my money."
Vergo glanced at the bag Luo Yan was holding, his expression still calm.
"Claiming a bounty does require a handling fee. It's the same no matter where you claim it."
"Understood! Anyway, I just found that corpse at sea, and I'm quite satisfied with getting fifty-five million."
With that, Luo Yan walked towards the door with a smile, and Vergo's brow subtly twitched.
"You're saying you found that corpse?"
Luo Yan's foot, which had just stepped out the door, paused. He didn't turn around, but there was a hint of a smile in his voice.
"What? Is it because I didn't personally kill that pirate, so you want to reclaim the bounty?"
"No, I just hope you can tell me who killed that pirate."
"Who knows!"
Luo Yan shrugged and walked away quickly. Vergo didn't stop him, standing there, quietly watching Luo Yan leave, lost in thought.
Luo Yan returned to the pre-arranged meeting point and waited for half an hour before Xia Tali and the other two returned, both empty-handed.
"Didn't you go to buy blood? Where is the blood?"
Luo Yan asked in surprise. Xia Tali's face immediately fell upon hearing this.
"Don't even mention it. The hospital here doesn't sell blood; they said we need a Marine's certification. Where are we supposed to get a Marine's certification?"
Although a bit unexpected, it was also reasonable. After all, this place was garrisoned by G5, so it was definitely under complete Marine control. In the New World, those who needed to buy blood were most likely either Marines or pirates. Marines could naturally get a certification, and without one, they wouldn't sell it.
"Is that so? Then there's no other way. Let's go. If worst comes to worst, we'll just find a group of pirates to kill and collect some blood."
Xia Tali was still not very happy, but there was no better alternative, so she could only nod in agreement.
Luo Yan's ship weighed anchor again and gradually moved away from the island. Vergo, at some unknown point, stood on the shore, watching the sailboat depart, holding a den den mushi.
"Luo Yan claimed a bounty here and just left."
Vergo's tone was calm, and then laughter came from the den den mushi:
"Fufufufu! What do you think of that guy?"
"We didn't fight, so I can't be sure, but he gives me the feeling of a raging storm. He must not be weak. Do you need me to send someone to track him?"
Vergo saw Luo Yan's ship about to disappear over the horizon and quickly asked. The den den mushi laughed again.
"Fufufufu! No need. I only asked you to pay attention to him because the Revolutionary Army's movements have been quite significant recently, and some old guys want me to provide some intelligence. And it just so happens that I received information about his connection with the Revolutionary Army some time ago."
"I see. Then never mind."
Vergo nodded, his expression no longer so serious. He put away the den den mushi and returned to G5.
On the ship, from the moment they set sail, Luo Yan stood at the stern, looking at the island they had just left.
Although Vergo's observation was relatively covert, for a Sequence 4 demigod, such an un-mystically concealed gaze could not escape his spiritual intuition. He had long since noticed Vergo's hidden scrutiny but did not expose it. He did not want to directly fight a Vice Admiral right now, especially since this Vergo was not only a Vice Admiral but also one of Doflamingo's men, involving too many complications and troubles.
"Hmph! Vergo."
Luo Yan snorted, turned, and returned to the cabin... "Captain, Captain! Big news, big news!"
That day, Luo Yan was in his room, using extraordinary materials and metal to research how to make talismans, when he heard shouts from outside, followed by loud knocking.
"Stop knocking, the door isn't locked."
Luo Yan impatiently shouted at the door. He had just made some progress when the knocking interrupted his thoughts.
The door was pushed open, and it was Little Golden Monkey. Potter was standing on its shoulder. Little Golden Monkey was holding a newspaper, but it was Potter who was shouting.
"Ace was captured?"
Seeing the newspaper in Little Golden Monkey's hand, Luo Yan immediately asked. Potter, who was about to continue shouting, was as if choked, unable to make a sound, but it immediately nodded, indicating that Luo Yan's guess was correct.
Luo Yan summoned a gust of wind that rolled up the newspaper from Little Golden Monkey's hand and placed it in his own. The front page of the newspaper announced Ace's capture and Blackbeard becoming a Shichibukai.
"It's finally starting..."
Luo Yan murmured softly, returning the newspaper to Little Golden Monkey.
"Go tell Mite to enter the Calm Belt. I'll steer the ship myself after that."
"Yes, Captain!"
Potter, being a bird, didn't think much of it and immediately responded. Little Golden Monkey, needless to say, quickly left after closing the door for Luo Yan.
Luo Yan took a deep breath, closed his eyes, and began to outline the symbol of the Tyrant on a spiritually rich crystal. This symbol was not difficult to know; it was on the back of the Tyrant card.
As the last stroke fell, the crystal transformed, becoming a silver-white talisman, a Thunder Strike Talisman! When activated, it could unleash a demigod-level Thunder Strike, a truly high-level talisman.
"Phew! Finally succeeded."
Luo Yan let out a long sigh of relief. Having only made one talisman, he felt mentally exhausted at that moment.
In the past, Luo Yan didn't bother with these things because he was still very weak at the time. Not to mention whether his spirituality was enough to make talismans, even if he did, they would just be useless, without any powerful effects.
And after he went to sea, he was first in a hurry to hunt Arlong, then in a hurry to plan to meet Whitebeard, always feeling a sense of urgency, with no mood to research this.
Now, the urgency was finally gone, and Luo Yan had also become a high-sequence powerhouse. The talismans he made also had considerable power, so he could naturally begin to research them.