Chapter 172 120 million and 150 million
[Chapter Heading Serial·Big News 23·『……』]
[East China Sea, Shimotsuki Village. A one-year-old green-haired baby boy was crawling around chasing a newspaper that was flying in the wind. When he came to his senses, he found that his home had gone to who knows where…]鈥斺
Arriving at the open sea, Hancock was like a curious baby, asking questions about everything.
If you see a sea animal you don’t recognize, ask about it.
If you see a sudden change in the climate, ask about it.
I saw a female soldier taking out a thing, so I ran over to ask, and it turned out to be something called a record pointer...
"What is that?" Hancock pointed to a column of water rising from the sea not far away.
The pirate group member thought about it and guessed: "I don't know, maybe it's some sea beast spitting water! Like a whale or something..."
Hancock was disappointed. "It's no different from the sea beasts in the Calm Belt..."
It’s just that the sea kings in the doldrums are larger, and the climate is single, with only “calm wind and no waves” as the sea state.
…
Hancock lay on the bow, holding a monocular telescope and looking at the sea ahead.
The camera turned and a dark shadow seemed to flash by. Hancock blinked and looked around, and the telescope frame circled a ketch.
"It's a merchant ship!" a female soldier shouted from above and behind.
Inside the cabin, Snake Princess sat still, raised her hand and said, "Since we have met, it is fate. Let's go and take a look."
"Turn and speed up towards that ship."
There were female soldiers on the deck shouting and whistling.
The Nine Snakes' ship didn't really need a rudder. After all, their ship was being dragged forward by two giant snakes that grew up in the doldrums.
The two snakes were very human-like and immediately changed direction and swam away.
Hancock was a little excited and a little expectant.
For the first time in my life, I saw people from the outer sea with my own eyes! I wonder if they are similar to the people described in the book "Room". Can so-called men really be that bad? There is a very important reason why Hancock doesn't trust the book - first of all, Giorno is a man; secondly, Giorno is a little rude to her, a little impolite in fighting, and doesn't pay much attention to people after entering the state of cultivation, but in general, the way Giorno looks at her is not much different from the other people and other women on the Nine Snake Island that Hancock knows, and he is not as mean, obscene and evil as described in the book.
Within the circle of the monocular telescope, a group of figures ran out from the deck of the merchant ship, seemed to gather together, and looked towards Hancock and the others.
Found us? Hancock was a little happy.
But the next second, they were no longer happy. The people on the merchant ship actually jumped off the deck one by one, and threw down lifeboats and small wooden boats at the same time - these people actually abandoned the ship and left!
Someone on the deck of the merchant ship seemed to be cursing at those who were escaping on the sea, but after taking a look at the approaching Nine Snakes Pirate Ship, the hideous and terrifying snake-haired skull pattern, and the two man-eating giant snakes on the bow, he was finally so frightened that he trembled, closed his eyes, and jumped into the sea.
"Don't go?!" Hancock was so angry that she almost wanted to smash the monocular in her hand.
Those who escaped from the merchant ship formed a dozen lifeboats and small wooden boats, rowed hard, and quickly got away.
The red ship, dragged by the two giant snakes, slowly approached, with their sides pressed against each other.
The Nine Snake female warriors were not surprised at all, and they jumped from their own ships to the deck of the deserted merchant ship with laughter and conversation.
Snake Princess said: "The old rules, take out half of the food, weapons and cloth."
The female warriors said in unison: "Yes!"
They began to plunder inside and outside the merchant ship, and transported the goods to their own ship one box at a time.
Far away, the lifeboats and small wooden boats were packed with people from merchant ships, who watched the looting of the female pirates in silence.
A young sailor said indignantly: "I don't understand, why do you want to escape? They are just women!"
A muscular guard nearby cursed, "You know shit! Can't you see the huge flag of the Nine Snakes Pirates? The women of the Nine Snakes, are they even women? Any one of them can kill you so badly that your mother won't even recognize your body!"
The old merchant, puffing on his wet pipe, sighed, "The Nine Snakes' pirates always only rob half of the place and won't do anything to the extreme, so that we don't have to fight them desperately! If we encounter them, we'll just consider it our bad luck!" The old man said hoarsely and self-deprecatingly, "Although, even if we fight them desperately, in the end it will be us who will die... You are still young and don't know how cruel and terrifying those women are. Alas..."
Someone nearby murmured, "It's not always so scary..."
These people drifted for a while, and when they saw the Nine Snakes' red ship slowly leaving the merchant ship, they comforted each other and paddled back.
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“This is too boring!”
Hancock complained on the deck of the Nine Snakes, "Can't we find an island to land on?"
The female soldier next to her was carrying a box and passed by. She smiled and said, "Yes, they will land, but they haven't arrived yet..."
"Really?" Hancock's eyes lit up and she raised her hand, "I'll go to the island then, too."
Snake Princess walked out slowly and said gently, "That depends on what island it is, Hancock."
Hancock was puzzled and asked, "What's the difference?"
"Lady Snake! There is a pirate ship ahead!" the female warrior on lookout suddenly shouted.
Swish, in an instant, all the female warriors on the boat grasped their weapons, some held swords, and some gently stroked their beloved snakes, ready to transform into snake bows and shoot arrows at any time.
When the Nine Snakes Pirates' ship slowly approached the pirate ship, the pirates on the ship held swords in their hands, alert and nervous, ready for battle.
Hancock jumped onto the bow and said happily, "You didn't run away? That's great!"
The captain who was leading the pirates shouted, "You..."
Hancock ignored him and glanced at the pirates on the deck of the pirate ship in front of him... He couldn't help but frown! Although his appearance and style are indeed similar to Giorno, he has the so-called masculine characteristics. But these pirates are dirty, and what kind of clothes are they wearing? Moreover, they look so weak!
There is no mistake in the poem, post, content, and read the book on 6, 9, and bar!
Especially their eyes, which were cloudy, flickering and so boring.
That’s it?
A hand reached out to the back of Hancock's neck and lifted her up. It was Snake Queen.
Snake Princess was tall, at least two meters tall, and her gentleness revealed a sense of majesty. She only glanced at the pirates on the opposite ship who were on high alert. Without using her domineering aura, the pirates suddenly shouted, put away their swords and guns, and jumped into the sea from both sides.
Hancock was already feeling depressed, and seeing this scene made him even more depressed. Are all the people in the outer sea, and all the men, like this?
At the side, the old woman Linglan had noticed Hancock's expression since a while ago and couldn't help but think about something.
"Get on board." Snake Queen waved her hand.
The female soldiers responded in unison, nimbly and calmly jumped onto the empty enemy ship, and began to loot supplies with skill.
He also assigned several people to wander around the side of the ship, and when they saw pirates showing up, they would draw their snake bows and start shooting.
Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh, the arrows attached with armed color domineering are no joke. They sank into the sea and exploded directly, and the unlucky pirates directly dyed the sea surface red.
"No need to be polite to them!" said the old woman Linglan sternly, "All men are bad. It would be better if they all died."
The female warrior next to him kindly reminded him, "Lord Linglan, if all the men are dead, it won't be possible for only the women to survive..."
Lily glared at her fiercely! "Boring..." Hancock also shot a few arrows happily, but soon became bored. With such a target, it was not as fun as shooting at the animals on the Nine Snake Island, not to mention opponents of the same level as Giorno and the man in black armor. "Let me see what's on the pirate ship in the outer sea?"
She had no sense of helping to move things. But who could blame her? Hancock wandered around the pirate ship, but didn't find many interesting things. Instead, she was suffocated by all kinds of "poisonous gas" such as sweat, foot odor, fish, garbage, etc.
"Hey, is this... a bounty?"
Hancock staggered into the captain's room with the window open, finally breathing a sigh of relief, and soon discovered various bounty warrants posted on the walls.
They were all faces she had never seen before, with all sorts of random names, and Hancock had no interest in remembering them.
I just flipped through it casually and saw two familiar faces among the wanted posters on the wall.
Kujo Jolyne, 120 million Baileys.
Giovanna Giorno, 150 million Beli.
Hancock took down the two bounty warrants and examined them carefully.
"It's a pretty good drawing!" she whispered to herself, "It's just that Giorno seems a little smaller, and Jolyne doesn't look the same..."
"Hancock! It's time to go." The old woman Lily of the Valley passed by the window and urged her.
"Oh." Hancock said perfunctorily impatiently, and wandered around the captain's room for a while before following them back to the Nine Snakes Pirate Ship.
Everyone else was carrying boxes of food, clothes, gold, silver and jewelry, but Hancock went empty-handed and returned empty-handed - oh, except for two more bounties.
The female warrior found Snake Princess with a trophy and handed it to her, saying, "Snake Princess, we found a permanent pointer on the pirate ship."
Snake Princess took it and took a look. There was a place name engraved on the wooden frame of the permanent pointer.
(End of this chapter)