Chapter 242: Meeting My Sister
Around the Corner [Abandoned Town——]
A group of nine snake warriors walked on the dilapidated streets, with snake bows, swords and other weapons in their hands, observing their surroundings with a little vigilance.
Judging from the density of houses, this was probably a prosperous town in the past, but more than a decade later, it is now deserted. The rows of houses on both sides of the street are not only in disrepair, but also have obvious signs of looting and destruction. Most of the doors and windows are in a state of destruction. There are basically no furniture and objects left in the houses. They were either taken away by the original residents when they fled, or looted by the waves of pirates who passed by later.
The women of Nine Snakes did not feel any emotion, as they were also a new wave of pirates.
Just like this, we walked through one town after another...
The styles of the buildings and streets may be different, but the dilapidated appearance of the disaster is similar.
When you search everywhere and don't find anything valuable, you will feel sorry.
But of course it's not like there's nothing to find.
For example, pirates in the normal sense would not plunder and take away things, but they collected a lot. Some iron or steel objects, or metal furniture that is not easy to carry and has little use. Pirates don't care about these worthless copper and iron, but the women of the Nine Snakes collected them carefully.
The flora and fauna resources on Jiushe Island are decent, but it is not an island rich in minerals.
If metal arrows can be used as regular weapons, who would use wooden arrows with sharpened heads? Even if they both have domineering power attached to them, metal arrows are definitely more destructive.
These scraps of copper and iron can be brought back to the island and forged into weapons.
Marigrud walked in a deserted house with a snake wrapped around her arm. There were signs of rummaging everywhere, and the air was filled with a faint musty smell. Looking up, she saw that the ceiling was soaked and rotten, and a corner had collapsed. The floor was broken, the drawers were messy, and the whole house was bare. There was nothing to loot.
"Huh?" Marigrude lifted her foot and found what she had stepped on. She squatted down and felt around, and found an old photo in the dirt and dust under the cracks in the floor.
I used my fingers to wipe away the stains on the photo. It turned out to be a photo of two people, a boy and a girl who looked about the same age.
The boy had a crew cut, a sturdy build, a kind face, and was carrying a pile of firewood on his back; the girl was chubby and cute, winking at the camera playfully while licking an ice cream in her hand.
If Lynch were here, he would definitely recognize the girl in the photo as the giant woman behind the couple on the sailboat he met before coming to the island.
Turn to the back and there is another line of handwritten words.
The handwriting was already very blurred, and Marigrude could only recognize a few words with great difficulty, probably "Prince", "unlike", "good" and so on...
"Mary, let's go!" other soldiers shouted from afar.
"Oh, here it comes." Mary put the photo away.
Prince? She thought that the boy in the photo was the prince of the Ice Cream Kingdom? According to the book, the king who was called "tyrant" was only seventeen years old when he destroyed the country and left to become a pirate fourteen years ago... In other words, the boy in the photo was the young Kuma?
The temperament of the young bear in the photo is very similar to the bear holding the Bible that he had seen on Nine Snake Island and Little Sky Island three years ago. Both were equally gentle and quiet.
Marigrud was even more puzzled. How could such a person become a "tyrant"? ………………
[The suburbs covered with weeds——]
"Woo-la!"
With a strange roar, a huge black shadow suddenly jumped out from the side of the road and pounced on Lynch and Robin.
Neither Lynch nor Robin moved.
A man in black armor flashed out, held down the head of the huge black shadow that was rushing over, and pressed it to the ground with a "bang".
The huge black shadow struggled, but under the suppression of "BIB's" palm, no matter how he lay on the ground and thrashed, his head did not move at all.
He blinked, confused.
He wanted to flutter his arms and legs to grab the guy who was holding his head, but suddenly his arms were pulled by something - something on his back pulled them back to his back, making him completely unable to exert any strength! This is so strange, what is behind him? ! The huge black shadow pressed to the ground by "BIB" was even more confused. On his back, which he couldn't see, there were four colorful arms twisting his hands and holding them back.
It turned out that the guy who suddenly jumped out from the roadside was actually an old man with gray hair and beard. The only thing that was different from the others was that this old man was three or four meters tall - this was because he was slightly hunchbacked and had a hunched body. If he stood up straight, he would probably be four or five meters tall.
"Hey, old man, you have skinny arms and legs, and you suddenly jumped out to scare people. What do you want to do?"
Lin Qi squatted in front of the old man who was taller than him.
Unexpectedly, the old man became excited, "Old man? I'm only 28 years old, how can I be an old man?"
"ah?"
Lynch and Robin were both secretly surprised.
"BIB" and Robin both let go of their hands. The person in front of them groaned on the ground for a while, then slowly climbed up under Lynch's gaze.
Lynch tactically retreats.
Just look at this guy’s face, with gray hair, a full beard, thin limbs, and a hunched body... Is he twenty-eight?
"How pitiful! He's already aged like this at the age of 28..." Robin muttered to himself.
"Hey! I can hear you." The old man looked down at Robin.
Robin said: "I don't know how many more years I can live. I may die at any time..."
The old man said, "I've said everything I can hear... Who can die at any time? That's too vicious, isn't it? Damn it, are you really pirates?"
The old man became excited again, but was quickly suppressed by "BIB".
Pah pah pah! The old man lay on the ground and kept clapping his hands on the ground begging for mercy.
There is no mistake in the poem, post, content, and read the book on 6, 9, and bar!
"BIB" then let him go.
"Cough, cough, cough!" An old man about four or five meters tall was coughing and gasping for breath on the side of the road. "How nasty! How could they be so violent to an elderly person..."
Lynch: "Aren't you twenty-eight?"
"Don't look at me like this, think back to the past..."
The old man took a breath, touched his messy white hair and beard that looked like dead grass, and looked up at the sky at a 45-degree angle, as if he was reminiscing about the past.
But after half a day, there was no further news.
Robin: "Premature aging is often accompanied by memory loss..."
"You don't think you're talking to yourself, do you?" The old man turned his head and said speechlessly, "I can hear you even if I say so!"
Robin followed suit and said, "Alzheimer's disease..."
"I'm 28 years old!" the old man shouted, "Don't go on. Why are you talking about Alzheimer's disease so calmly? Aren't you too scary?"
Lin Qi smiled and said, "You look very energetic! A 28-year-old man, are you not afraid of us two pirates now?"
"You don't look like pirates, nor do you look like bad guys..." The old man sat down on the side of the road, "This country hasn't perished yet! I have always believed that those pirates who dare to come to this island will always disappear silently after a while... There are still people guarding this island in the dark! Maybe it is him..."
"Wait a minute." Lin Qi interrupted his sudden NPC-style speech, "Although this identity is not my original intention, but - it is not wrong to say that the two of us are pirates now."
"Ah?" The 28-year-old old man was stunned.
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[Royal Palace——]
Hancock walked in the palace, which already showed signs of time, and compared the differences between this palace in the outer sea and the palace of Nine Snake Island in her mind.
Suddenly, she turned around and noticed that her sister Sandasonia had disappeared without a trace.
Hancock didn't care.
Although I didn't use my Observation Haki carefully, I could still vaguely sense that Sanda's presence was nearby, and I didn't encounter any danger...
"ah!"
From a distance, Sandasonia's screams were heard.
Hancock frowned slightly, and her figure disappeared from the spot in a flash, flying towards the scream at high speed.
When she turned the corner of the palace corridor, she was immediately surprised.
Turning the corner, she unexpectedly saw Sanda as a young girl...
(End of this chapter)