Chapter 660: World Famous Paintings

Once these words were spoken, the entire scene fell silent.

Yebai, Zoro?

Why aren't you Yebai Luffy?

In fact, when Zheng Qian's fleet first appeared on their surveillance radar, they had already been detected. They had been trying to contact Zheng Qian, hoping their ships would change course and not block their path.

This wasn't really because the United States detachment was being particularly overbearing.

It was just that Zheng Qian had gone too far.

He led dozens of his massive cruise ships to lie across the United States' path, not sailing forward, but stopping in place! Yes, it was as if he were waiting for the other side to crash into them voluntarily.

"This escort fleet is very pathetic; it only has one destroyer and one cruiser."

Duan Qiran lowered his binoculars and said in a deep voice. After thinking for a moment, he added, "However, it wouldn't be a problem if they wanted to force their way through. Even just the destroyer's firepower would be enough to send us all to our watery graves."

Zheng Qian nodded; he was very clear about this logic.

He was only on a yacht, and all the ships around him were civilian merchant vessels with absolutely no combat capability to speak of. Moreover, Zheng Qian hadn't really intended to go head-to-head with the United States military; he was well aware of his own weight.

He just wanted to disgust the United States.

No, to disgust Shang Yanxiong.

Meanwhile, the destroyer's captain, Gini Feta, roared into the radio through gritted teeth:

"Immediately, right now, get out of our shipping lane! You only live once, don't joke with your own lives! I'll order us to sail right through, and you'll all be meeting God!"

The Asian man beside Gini Feta frowned slightly. Based on the real-time satellite transmission, he seemed to recognize Zheng Qian.

His name was Huang Yuchen, and he was one of Shang Yanxiong's subordinates. This time, he was mainly here to assist the United States with various preparations. Behind these two warships were over a dozen cruise ships already loaded with various supplies and on their way.

Upon hearing this, Zheng Qian just sneered repeatedly.

He replied, "Meet God? Sorry, if you dare to do anything to us, I guarantee I'll make the United States make a complete fool of itself in front of the whole world! Our ships have broken down and are waiting for rescue. I advise you to take a detour quickly and not meddle in other people's business. Otherwise, one day I will definitely send you to meet Marx!"

"Haha... Hahahaha!"

Gini Feta laughed wildly at the sky, pointed at Zheng Qian in the distance, and said to the people around him, "Did I hear that right? Was he just threatening our United States destroyer? Him? With those few merchant ships? Shit! Get him for me!"

"Wait! Captain, he is likely the mastermind behind the obstruction of our merchant ships heading to the Red Sea!" Huang Yuchen narrowed his eyes and said hatefully, "It's him, commanding those nearly a thousand cruise ships to sail everywhere on the high seas and maliciously blocking the docks! I suggest that if necessary, we can have the soldiers execute him on the spot!"

Gini Feta looked at [Yebei Zoro] on the monitor, and his anger grew even more intense.

Since joining the United States military, he had never felt so stifled.

In the past, if he encountered oblivious merchant ships on the high seas, he would simply detain both the people and the ships, regardless of their nationality. But this time he couldn't, because there were simply too many of the other side's ships!

Now was a tense time for all nations. If he rashly brought the fleet over, although he could wipe out these cruise ships under Zheng Qian's command with a single button, it wouldn't work. This was, after all, right on Jiuzhou's doorstep.

Doing some small tricks usually was fine, but if he really brought an aircraft carrier battle group over with great fanfare, what would happen?

Furthermore, the flag state of the attacked merchant ships was Jiuzhou, which made it even more impossible.

Plus, troops were already being deployed to the Red Sea, so they could only barely manage to mobilize these two warships for escort.

However!

If it was confirmed that the mastermind was on that yacht, they wouldn't care about all that anymore.

"Heh, get the helicopters ready!"

Gini Feta said through gritted teeth, "Bring that damn Jiuzhou person here for me! Don't let a single person on board go; grab them all! Men and women alike! Damn it, I want them to know the price of pulling these stunts on the high seas!"

"Understood, sir!"

Several soldiers were just about to make arrangements.

Huang Yuchen suddenly shivered and quickly grabbed them, "Wait... wait!"

Gini Feta frowned and asked, "What is it?"

"This... this woman... cannot be captured! No, that's not it, what I mean is... wait a moment!"

The only woman who could make Huang Yuchen so wary was, of course, Shang Rongyan.

At this very moment, Shang Rongyan had been brought out of the master bedroom onto the deck by Celinka. She looked around with a suspicious expression, and even shot a look of utter disdain at Zheng Qian, "Eh~ Celinka, are you sure we're supposed to film a promotional video here?"

Celinka looked awkwardly at Zheng Qian, then forced a smile.

"That's right, look, Shang! All these cruise ships around us make for a great background, and the view from our poseidon era is excellent. The name of this promotional video is going to be 'The Pirate and the Princess', an innovative work for our program..."

Hearing this, Zheng Qian nodded with satisfaction.

Before coming, he had specifically instructed Celinka to find an excuse to bring Shang Rongyan out.

He was absolutely certain that Shang Yanxiong's people would be on the United States warships; this was the basic instinct of a simp, something he could guess with his toes. And as long as he had Shang Rongyan with him, it was equivalent to having a trump card to save his life.

Zheng Qian looked at the infrared laser dots on Shang Rongyan's body and was even more satisfied.

Shang Rongyan subconsciously covered her chest.

She didn't know why Zheng Qian was looking at her like that.

Her outfit wasn't actually revealing; it was a very cute princess dress, even though she herself had nothing to do with being cute.

However, when Shang Rongyan looked around and saw many large cruise ships nearby, she nodded quite satisfiedly, "Hmm, at least this looks like the kind of spectacle a princess should have. If we were just filming on a yacht, what would be the difference between us and those escorts? You guys arranged this well this time. Alright, we can start. But... Zheng Qian, do you really have to dress like that?"

Zheng Qian nodded slightly.

He spread his legs naturally, stood in the Jianglong stance, held one blade in his left hand, and clutched two blades in his right hand.

He said with a stern expression, "If I don't do this, how can I be Yebei Zoro? But it's a little different, this is 'National Style · Three-Blade Style'. This blade is called a Tang Dao, get it? It's just that it was later learned by Japan."

"Xiao Duan, get the aircraft moving."

Duan Qiran immediately picked up the walkie-talkie to command, and dozens of helicopters immediately took off from the surrounding merchant ships.

They were mounted with all sorts of long and short lenses, using various angles to capture Zheng Qian, the warships, the merchant ships, and everything else.

Zheng Qian was busy striking poses. This footage would be broadcast to the entire world simultaneously via Stardust Live, the international streaming platform Sun Live far away in Oman, and more.

This image was later known as [World-Famous Painting].

And what Zheng Qian didn't expect was that because of this action, he won the deep friendship of the Arab World, and in the near future, it would bring him unimaginable benefits.

"Isn't it just filming a promotional video? Why make... such a big deal out of it?"

Shang Rongyan already felt that something was not quite right.

Gradually, she noticed the United States warships slowly approaching in the distance.

Her astonishing train of thought began to spin rapidly again.

A moment later, Shang Rongyan curled her lips in triumph, "Hmm, Celinka, your arrangements this time are not bad at all. You actually even got warships involved? Good, very good, this is the only thing worthy of the great me, Shang Rongyan. We can start. Should I strike a Spider Spirit pose?"