Chapter 190 Talent Show, End Point
The call was from Tesoro. After ending the conversation, Brett immediately set out for Dressrosa.
He couldn't help but be anxious—there was only one reason Tesoro would specifically call him: what he'd asked him to investigate last year finally had leads.
It was something very important.
A Marine base.
Not just any Marine base, of course. Brett was looking for the Marine base that stored rocks called Dyna Stones—the most special Marine base built on one of the three legendary End Points that, if destroyed, would trigger volcanic eruptions capable of destroying the New World.
Brett was very interested in Dyna Stones, as they were terrifying weapons that could easily blow up an entire island with just a few rocks.
His judgment was that because Dyna Stones were extremely dangerous and exploded upon contact with air, making them difficult to store and transport, the source of Dyna Stones was very likely near the island where that base was located.
Since last year, he'd been asking Tesoro to help search for that island's whereabouts.
Undoubtedly, the existence of that island was an extraordinary secret within the World Government.
But fortunately, after nearly a year of searching, Tesoro said he'd finally discovered some clues.
Brett naturally couldn't suppress his excitement. He had originally wanted Tesoro to directly tell him the island's location.
But Tesoro insisted he come to Dressrosa in person.
So Brett could only set out with anticipation.
It was indeed worth anticipating.
After all, even if his judgment was wrong and the Dyna Stone source wasn't near that island, it didn't matter—as long as he could steal the Dyna Stones stored in that Marine base.
Brett traveled light, heading toward Dressrosa alone at top speed. In just half a day, Brett had already arrived above Dressrosa.
This city didn't have much change from a year ago, just more various buildings and heavier foot traffic on the streets.
The high-rise where Tesoro's company was located had grown even taller. With Tesoro's ability to manipulate gold, construction was very easy.
After using Observation Haki to confirm Tesoro's location, Brett descended from the sky and landed in front of a window.
He pushed open the window.
Inside the room, Tesoro wore loose pajamas and lay in bed looking through a stack of documents of some kind.
Hearing the sound, Tesoro looked up. Seeing Brett, his eyes widened in anger. "What's wrong with you, bastard! Can't you knock even once!"
"Next time for sure."
Brett leaned against the windowsill. "Let's talk business first."
"What I'm doing now is business!"
Tesoro waved the stack of papers in his hand. "Do you know what this is?"
"Not interested."
Brett rolled his eyes.
This bastard was really going to forcibly keep him in suspense, wasn't he?
Tesoro acted as if he hadn't heard Brett's words. His anger vanished and he became cheerful instead. "Morgans and I are planning to hold a talent show!"
"Talent show?"
Brett's mouth twitched.
Are you really some kind of entertainment industry male protagonist?
You made me come all this way just for this?
"Don't you think DreamWorks has too few stars?"
Tesoro said. "Although I've always believed I alone am enough to support the entire company, to expand our influence, we need more cards!"
"So we've decided to conduct a talent show worldwide! To select a batch of the highest quality stars!"
"Hahahaha, the entire process of this talent show will be published in newspapers—it'll be a worldwide carnival feast!"
Brett had to admire that Tesoro and Morgans were indeed business geniuses.
This was naturally a brilliant idea.
People in this world had no resistance to entertainment like last year's movie. How could they withstand a talent show with maximum hype throughout?
Undoubtedly, this would probably become another generation's collective memory.
"Hahahaha, Morgans suggested selecting one person from each different race to form an idol group for activities. I thought it seemed very feasible." Tesoro smiled smugly.
Of course it was very feasible.
They'd jumped straight to group talent shows.
"How about it, Brett? Does Fish-Man Island have any recommended candidates?"
Tesoro asked.
Openly rigging it, huh.
Brett said, "No recommendations, but I won't stop compatriots interested in this from participating."
"Excellent!"
Tesoro snapped his fingers. "Speaking of idol groups, how could we not have dreamlike mermaid ladies?"
"But Brett, I'll need your help later."
"Help?"
"Didn't I say we want members from various races? Some races are troublesome, like..." Tesoro paused. "Giants and such."
Brett understood—he wanted to borrow his reputation, right?
"Besides, think about it carefully—this is a good thing, isn't it?"
Tesoro smiled meaningfully. "We can even use this opportunity to try contacting other minority races on the seas."
Brett raised an eyebrow.
Good idea.
Not all minority groups like fish-men and mermaids were World Government opponents, but at least they were definitely disadvantaged in the current world order.
To a large extent, they might really be potential partners for Fish-Man Island.
"Then I'll lend you my name this time."
Brett said with a smile.
Tesoro rolled his eyes. "Stop being so arrogant, bastard. I'm different from the past now!"
Brett just smiled.
He believed Tesoro wasn't bragging—this year's Tesoro was definitely much stronger than last year's, but wasn't the same true for everyone?
"Alright, can we talk business now?"
Brett said. "Where is that island?"
Tesoro's expression also became serious. "I can't be certain it's really there either—I can only say that after nearly a year of investigation, it's the most likely place."
"I collected all the legendary materials about End Points on the seas, and after lengthy, tedious screening work, finally identified some islands."
"What followed was simple—cross-referencing with Marine New World base distributions, and one island entered my sight."
Tesoro got up from bed and took out a map of the New World, spreading it open. Brett saw that somewhere on the map, someone had already marked an X in red pen. "Thinking about it carefully, its location is very special—it's not close to any nearby member nations, and it has a high secrecy level within the government. If you weren't specifically searching for bases by island, you might not be able to find it."
"If this New World really has the Marine base you mentioned, then I think it can only be there!"
"Excellent!"
Brett's mouth curved upward.
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