Chapter 027: Going It Alone

After making his decision, Wang Bo didn't hesitate and immediately began renovating the tavern.

With his skills, remodeling a tavern was a matter of moments. With just a wave of his hand, the tavern expanded, adding numerous tables and chairs, transforming into a modern restaurant.

As for the kitchen, Wang Bo didn't create one.

First, Wang Bo was too lazy to cook himself; second, every one of his companions was also too lazy to cook.

The reason everyone thought Wang Bo could open a restaurant wasn't because his cooking skills were exceptional.

Rather, it was because Wang Bo possessed the Gourmet's Tablecloth.

Whatever he wanted to eat, he just had to tell the Gourmet's Tablecloth, and it would appear.

Why bother cooking yourself?

Perhaps in the eyes of a true chef, Wang Bo's restaurant lacked soul, but in Wang Bo's view, he opened the restaurant just to pass the time... What need was there for soul?

After Wang Bo transformed the tavern into a restaurant, his luck didn't improve.

The people of Port Royal still refused to come.

His restaurant, like the tavern, was deserted.

But Wang Bo didn't mind. Over the next few days, he managed his nearly empty restaurant, occasionally playing chess with Athena to pass the time.

Wang Bo had initially thought that after Athena saw this world's version of herself, she would return to her own world. After all, she was the ruler of the Sanctuary. If she were away from the Sanctuary for a long time... well, nothing too serious would probably happen.

After all, this reincarnation of Athena came more than two hundred years after the previous one.

During that long two-century span, even without Athena's reincarnation, the Sanctuary remained the Sanctuary.

So Wang Bo didn't bother urging her to leave. He spent each day leisurely, living a carefree life.

Occasionally, he would return to the previous world to check if Hela had developed an antidote for the Thousand-Change Puppet Thread.

But as of today, Hela was still working on it.

She was just a little short of a breakthrough.

However, Wang Bo believed that before long, Hela would create the antidote for the Thousand-Change Puppet Thread, fully liberating those who had been poisoned.

As for Krypton and the Resident Evil world, they had already gotten on track.

New babies were born on Krypton every day. Perhaps in a few years, Wang Bo would have a powerful army of Supermen, capable of sweeping across all realms.

And in the Resident Evil world, after the crisis, humanity had shown unprecedented unity. Under the leadership of Clark, the Superman, they had already emerged from the shadows and were actively rebuilding the world, making great progress.

It wouldn't be long before this world returned to its pre-disaster state.

Meanwhile, in Middle-earth, the situation in Lake-town was also developing, with everything moving in a positive direction.

Wang Bo had even more reason to slack off.

As for Xiao Bai and Xiao Qing, they were still in seclusion. Judging by their demeanor, they might not emerge anytime soon, so Wang Bo had been feeling rather lonely lately.

But fortunately, he had friends like Milo around, so he wasn't too isolated.

This afternoon, Wang Bo was playing chess with Athena when the restaurant door suddenly swung open.

A man walked in, wearing a black hat adorned with white fur, a burgundy patterned shirt, a black trench coat, white trousers, and black boots.

The man had short black hair, sharp yellow eyes like an eagle's, a short beard, a cross-shaped dagger hanging from his neck, and a huge black sword strapped to his back.

Wang Bo took one look and recognized who he was.

One of the Seven Warlords of the Sea, Hawkeye Mihawk, the world's greatest swordsman in the One Piece world.

Wang Bo wasn't surprised to see him here, since the two worlds were merging, and he believed more and more people would appear in this world.

Before long, the buildings and countries of the One Piece world would also appear in this world.

In the end, the two worlds would merge into one.

So it was nothing unusual for just a Hawkeye to show up here.

"Ah, welcome." Wang Bo put down the chess piece, turned to Hawkeye Mihawk, and said, "May I ask what you'd like to eat?"

Hawkeye glanced around the restaurant, walked to a chair, sat down, crossed his legs, and said slowly, "Give me a large serving of ramen."

"Please wait a moment." Wang Bo pulled a Gourmet Tablecloth from his fourth-dimensional pocket, ordered a large serving of ramen, brought it to Hawkeye, then returned to continue playing chess with Athena.

Hawkeye saw Wang Bo's actions, his gaze flickered a few times, then he calmed down and said in a barely audible voice, "A Devil Fruit user?"

Wang Bo didn't answer.

Hawkeye didn't press further and began to eat. The moment the ramen entered his mouth, his eyes lit up.

As one of the Seven Warlords of the Sea, he had traveled far and wide and tasted countless delicacies, but he had never eaten ramen as delicious as this.

The main reason was that Wang Bo's Gourmet Tablecloth had been strengthened many times, and the flavor of the food it summoned had been elevated several levels.

Ordinary food couldn't compare at all.

After finishing the large serving of ramen, Hawkeye said slowly, "Give me fifty jin of grilled meat."

Wang Bo nodded. People in the One Piece world were generally very big eaters, mainly because their physiques were extremely strong, and without special energy to sustain them, they ate by the jin.

Although Haki was also a special power, it was a power of the physique.

It was completely different from powers like Cosmo, spiritual energy, or magic.

So in the One Piece world, the stronger a person was, the more they could eat.

And Hawkeye, as the world's greatest swordsman, was naturally a big eater; a large serving of ramen was far from enough.

Wang Bo casually sent over fifty jin of grilled meat, then returned to continue playing chess with Athena.

The two were playing international chess. Athena's chess skills were astonishing, and Wang Bo was often crushed, but after a few games, relying on his brain's excellent computational power, his chess skills skyrocketed.

Now he could go toe-to-toe with Athena, rather than being crushed from the start.

This had recently made Wang Bo addicted and unable to stop.

On the other hand, after eating fifty jin of delicious grilled meat, Hawkeye noticed that his body had fully returned to its peak state, and all his fatigue was gone, which surprised him greatly.

He became more certain that Wang Bo was a Devil Fruit user, and this user could create food out of thin air, food that not only filled the stomach but also restored one's energy.

Hawkeye knew exactly what that meant.

Such a person could be treated as a strategic asset.

Any pirate crew that obtained this user would gain a powerful advantage.

If he himself weren't a lone wolf, he might have invited this person to be his partner.