"It's true, Marco won, Ace!" Vista stroked his upturned beard and said, "You owe him 3 million Baileys."

"No!" Ace squatted on the ground pulling his hair, refusing to believe that he lost to Marco again. He couldn't believe it. They had held so many drinking competitions, but he had never beaten Marco. How was this possible?

Ace suddenly remembered what Lucci had said about alcohol possibly being ineffective against Marco's devil fruit. He stood up excitedly and ran towards the restaurant with Marco, shouting "Hey! Marco... have you been using your..."

"Devil Fruit ability?" Marco sat on a chair in the restaurant hall, looking at the emotional Ace standing opposite him and smiled. "My ability recovers in real time. A phoenix will not be defeated by a few glasses of wine, Ace."

"Marco!!" Ace jumped up and shouted angrily, the fire in his eyes was almost perfectly reflected in his body, and flames kept jumping on his shoulders.

"Hey! Ace! Here's your newspaper!" Vista, who had just come in from the restaurant door, did not notice the angry flames emanating from Ace, so he directly threw the newspaper that Ace needed to him. By the time he noticed the flames burning on Ace's body, it was too late.

When he was angry, something was suddenly thrown at him, which scared Ace. He didn't hear what Vista said, but reacted subconsciously and threw a ball of fire, so the newspaper caught fire.

Ace suddenly realized what Vista said. He froze, his eyes immediately locked on the burning newspaper on the ground. When he noticed the words on the newspaper were engulfed by flames, Ace immediately panicked and blew quickly at it, "No! No!"

As a result, the flames grew stronger and stronger, and finally he snatched the milk that one of the Whitebeard crew members was drinking and poured it on the paper.

"Hey!" The man whose milk was stolen frowned slightly, but he did not blame him.

Ace didn't apologize to the man, his attention was completely focused on the burnt and soaked newspaper.

"For a man made of fire, you don't really know what to do with fire," Marko scoffed.

"Shut up!" Ace said angrily, then turned his attention to the newspaper. The title of the newspaper was almost invisible, and only some blurry words could be seen. Ace was a little annoyed.

"The leader of the pirate fleet, Creek, was defeated... The Clown Buggy Pirates were defeated... The Fishman Pirates, and the Sawtooth Arlong worth 2 million Beli was defeated... The three super pirate groups in the East China Sea were crushed..." He flipped through the newspaper in his hand, trying to find the information he wanted.

When he didn't find what he was looking for, he breathed a sigh of relief and threw the burnt newspaper aside. As he moved, a half-burned wanted poster fell out of the wet newspaper.

……

At the same time, several people were exploring on another island.

"This forest is so quiet that it's eerie. Maybe there are some things hiding in there." Sachi said with a grin.

The trees in the jungle were arranged very closely, and the huge vines were intertwined. The fog that permeated the surroundings made it almost impossible to see the road ahead. Being in such a jungle, people felt that they would be trapped in these huge trees and vines forever, which almost made people despair.

"There must be a lot of dangerous beasts here." Lucci said with a smile. They seemed to be able to see scarlet eyes staring at them in the depths. However, they had not encountered any animals yet. But it was obviously abnormal in a forest like this. It was too quiet. To be honest, this forest reminded him of the island where he had trained as a child.

"We don't need to discuss this topic right now." Izang said calmly, always paying attention to the movements around him.

"Sachi, we don't want to hear your horror stories at all now." Harta smiled and cut off some vines that blocked the way.

When a bloodthirsty vine suddenly stretched out towards Harta's feet, he was startled and quickly jumped away to cut off the vine attacking him. Looking at the scared bloodthirsty plant, Harta was a little annoyed. "In fact, we should bring Ace or Marco with us."

"Why? Because of the fire?" Thatch sneered. "I never knew Hartha was afraid of these plants."

"That's because these plants are annoying." Harta muttered.

"They drank too much at the banquet last night, although I don't think alcohol has any effect on Marco." Lucci used a knife to cut the lush vines in front of him and made a path through. "But Ace's fire will indeed be very effective in this situation."

"Wow!" Sachi screamed because his legs were stuck in a mud puddle. Although he pulled his legs out in time, his clean shoes and white trouser legs were inevitably stained with mud. Sachi shook off some of the mud on his feet and continued to move forward.

Due to the sudden incident just now, he was now walking a little behind Izo. Just as Sachi was about to catch up quickly, he suddenly felt something patting his shoulder from behind. He was so scared that he jumped directly towards Izo.

"Ah! Help me, Izo! Something strange hit me!" Sachi yelled and jumped onto Izo's back in an instant, which caused Izo's steps to stagger a little. He looked down at his waist and found that his favorite kimono was indeed stained by the mud on Sachi's body.

Thatch continued to yell and looked around frantically, as if there was something really scary, and he didn't notice Izo's dark expression at all.

Harta and Luchi saw Izou throw Thatch off his back, just in time for him to fall into a mud pit in front of him, and seeing Thatch sitting in the mud pit and staring in horror at more mud on his clothes, Luchi and Harta laughed the loudest they could uncontrollably.

"Izo!!" Thatch complained and shouted. Now he was almost covered in mud. He climbed out of the mud pit, rubbed off some of the mud on his body with a huge leaf, and then continued their adventure.

They walked along the trail for a long time, during which time they did not encounter any animals or people. Just when they thought there was nothing special to explore and were about to go straight through the jungle, a cave appeared in front of them.

"What do you think is in that cave?" Harta said excitedly.

"Maybe there's treasure!" Sachi said expectantly.

"I think we may have to deal with the guardian of the treasure first." Lucci stared at the dense bushes on the side, and a huge tiger slowly walked out of the dense bushes.

"Oh, that's a huge one!" grinned Thatch.

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