Chapter 423 Pig Knight
The recording needle pointed at the island below. The needle trembled slightly, slowly recording the magnetic force of the island...
Robin put the pointer in his arms for the time being, and would check on the pointer's condition after he and Lynch went to the island to get some supplies.
As long as Lynch switches to the magnetic fruit, he can instantly replenish the magnetic force of the pointer at any time, so there is no rush.
The two of them went to this not-so-big island as if they were going on a picnic.
Different from the former Magnetic Drum Kingdom and the current Medical Snow Kingdom, this is a spring island with a pleasant climate and the sound of birds and flowers everywhere.
But what is different from that winter island is that... this island with a nice environment seems too "natural", even almost having a "wild" atmosphere.
Robin observed the environment along the way in the woods. She lowered her head, pushed aside the half-human-high weeds, and found that there was a dirt road under her feet that should have been very wide.
“Is it abandoned?”
As Robin was thinking this, a four or five meter tall beast's huge head poked out from the weeds and opened its bloody mouth towards her...
Lynch stretched out his big hand, pressed the beast's head with one hand, and gripped it tightly.
The latter let out a heart-wrenching scream, and finally a muffled sound came from his head, and he slowly collapsed to the ground on his side.
"Go look over there." Robin pointed to another forest ahead.
Lynch raised his foot and kicked, and the beast's corpse weighing tons was kicked and spun around. The last leg of the beast fell into the hands of "BIB" and was dragged "chi chi" all the way behind the main body and Robin.
Robin came to the forest, which was a grove of fruit trees. She observed the branches full of wild fruits and said, "There are signs of human cultivation, but it is not very obvious anymore."
She turned back to look at Lynch, who activated his Observation Haki and instantly swept across the entire island. He roughly determined, "There is basically no human presence on the island."
The two walked out of the woods side by side, stood on the hillside, and looked out over the plain in the distance, where there was a town.
Soon, Lynch and Robin were walking on the streets of that town.
Houses collapsed, and the streets were littered with rotten wood, rusty gun barrels, torn clothes, and broken swords...
On the corner of the street, there is a dilapidated building that looks like a restaurant and is overgrown with weeds.
There were marks of swords on the wall. Robin reached out and touched it, rubbing his fingers. Considering that this island is a spring island with spring all year round, he judged: "These marks are probably more than two years old."
"It seems that we can't buy proper food."
Lin Qi felt a little regretful. The weeds were very tall, higher than his waist. After he took a step, there was a crisp sound under his feet. He pushed aside the weeds and looked down. What he had stepped on was actually a dry skeleton.
Robin squatted down and found a black bullet embedded in the skeleton's spine.
With a click, she took it out with her fingers.
"It's lead bullets..." Robin sighed and stood up, "A type of lead bullet commonly used by pirates. It's easy to manufacture and cheap."
Whoosh, the wind blew, and the wild grass between the broken walls swayed gently, rustling, mixed with the girl's scream.
Rose crawled out of the weeds, followed by a black wolf almost as big as her.
Lynch and Robin watched the wolf chase the girl.
"That is to say, at least two years ago, this town was completely destroyed after being attacked by pirates," Lynch said, "including the entire country on this island."
The girl fled in panic after being attacked by the wolf.
"It seems so..." Robin nodded.
As a PhD in history and archaeologist, she still felt sorry even though she had seen many similar situations in books.
Forced to climb to the top of the ruins, the wolf pressed forward step by step, and finally pounced on Rose with a howl.
Rose pressed her left hand against the wolf, creating a tubular passage from its mouth to its buttocks, and inserted her right arm into it. Finally, with a "puff" sound, a sharp thorn on the wolf's back spurted out blood.
The wolf's bloody mouth was turned into a pipe by the Pipe-Pipe Fruit, so it could not bite Rose. It could only watch in vain as Rose's right arm stabbed its abdomen again and again, and finally it slipped down weakly and fell down.
Rose sat down on the top of the broken wall, holding a plate in her bloody right hand.
Lynch raised his right foot slightly and then gently put it down.
Lanjiao is ready, Lanjiao is cancelled.
Robin saw this and couldn't help but smile at him.
Lynch rolled his eyes and looked at her hands behind her back, making the usual gesture to activate the ability of the Hana-Han-No-Mikoto.
And among the hair of the wild wolf lying in a pool of blood, there was clearly a petal scattered among them.
Robin spread his hands and winked playfully.
"Swish, swish..." The corpse of a four or five meter tall beast was dragged by an unknown force and passed by them, approaching Giorno and Jolyne.
Rose took a deep breath, pursed her lips, followed the beast's corpse closely, and came to the two pirates.
Lynch gave her a questioning look.
Rose said nervously, "I'm here to return the plate..."
She handed over the plate and found that it was already stained with wolf blood after she had made it into a sharp tube to stab the wild wolf. This made her even more nervous.
"Bululu." A familiar voice came from Kujo Jolyne's shoulder.
When Rose looked up, she saw the green Den Den Mushi popping out from Jolyne's shoulder and being handed to her by Jolyne. The Den Den Mushi licked the blood off Rose's hand, and finally opened its mouth and bit it, eating the plate full of wolf blood into the castle in its body.
"I……"
Seeing the two pirates turning around to leave, Rose opened her mouth, and when the two turned back in confusion, she gritted her teeth and said, "I broke into your ship, don't you... hate me? I mean..."
These two pirates are so weird! I sneaked into their ship, why didn't they react at all? "It's just a ride, it's nothing." Lin Qi waved his hand and said generously, "Don't you want to learn medicine and go back to your hometown to cure diseases and save people? You should hurry up and do your work."
Then he continued walking somewhere else with Robin.
After walking a few steps, Rose still followed behind.
There is no mistake in the poem, post, content, and read the book on 6, 9, and bar!
Lynch stopped and Robin stopped too. Rose was startled and saw Jolyne Kujo turned around. She hurriedly wanted to explain, but found that Jolyne Kujo was not looking at her, but at the sky.
Rose looked up and saw a huge eagle-like shadow hovering in the air.
Whoosh! A shadow shot down from the giant eagle at high speed, attacking Giorno, but the strange thing was that Giorno was not in a hurry, and his movements were not fast, but he just raised his hand at the right time, and the shadow was caught by him "snap" as if it was delivered to his hand. Lynch flipped his hand and looked, "Throwing stones?"
"Caught?!" The man on the giant eagle was also shocked. He had a cloth bag around his waist, which was full of stones.
The giant eagle cried loudly above Lynch and the others' heads, flapped its wings and circled, and soon a piece of stone fell down with a "whoosh", "whoosh", and hit the three of them.
Lynch pulled Robin and the girl Rose behind him, and in the rain of bullets in the stone forest, he fired back a bullet, which hit the giant eagle in the sky with a bang and shot it down.
The ground was covered with gravel, and an old concerned voice came from where the giant eagle landed: "Pig, are you okay?"
Rose stuck her head out from behind Lynch and saw that the giant eagle that had fallen from the sky was slowly climbing up in the smoke and dust. Its shadow became even bigger, its feet became stronger and stronger, its wings spread out like a canopy, its head also became huge, and there were two horns on its head...
And in the dust, next to the shadow of the giant eagle, a thin human figure stood up.
"Oh my god, is it a dragon?!" Rose screamed, "Dragon Rider?!"
When the dust completely cleared, Rose was embarrassed. It turned out that the giant eagle's head was not a dragon's, but a pig's head. The two horns were not dragon's, but wild boar's upturned fangs... A giant wild boar with eagle-like wings? As for the thin figure next to it, it was not a dragon rider, but an old man who looked more like a primitive wild man.
"Are you pirates? You are not welcome here!" the old man said angrily, touching the cloth bag around his waist, and there was no stone left.
Lynch and Robin watched calmly.
"There's no other way. We can only rely on you to protect this place, Pig," the old man pointed at Lynch and the others and shouted, "Go ahead! Knock them down!"
"Roar~~" The giant eagle turned into a tusked wild boar, spread its wide wings, dug twice with its hooves, and charged towards Lin Qi and the others with a thud.
A few seconds later, the giant eagle returned to its original appearance, and the thin old man, both with a bump on their heads, sat on the ground obediently and apologized.
"I'm so sorry, I mistook you for pirates and attacked you rashly..."
"You don't have to apologize for this," Lynch said. "After all, we are on a wanted list, so it's normal for us to be considered pirates."
"They are pirates indeed!?" The old man and the giant eagle jumped up, and a second later, they lay on the ground with several more bumps on their heads.
Lin Qi clenched his fists and said, "If you can't talk properly, then you should just lie down, old man."
Soon, a bonfire was lit in the town where only ruins remained.
Lynch skillfully skinned and removed the organs of the wild beasts and wolves, and roasted them over the fire.
Rose looked at him carefully twice, and seeing that he didn't react, she quietly moved closer, staring at the wolf that was roasting in the flames.
Lynch, Rose and Little Green were fighting over the barbecue, while Robin was chatting with the old man.
This old man is the last resident of the country on this island that was destroyed by pirates. The only one accompanying him is this giant eagle that ate the Pig-Pig Fruit, who helps him drive away the pirates that approach the shore.
"This country is about to disappear completely. Even the pirates are staying here less and less. In fact, there is no need for me and Pig to drive them away. The pirates will leave on their own..." The old man looked at the flickering fire, and the wrinkles on his face became even darker. "Two and a half years ago, the pirates completely destroyed the Igor Kingdom. The citizens died or fled. No one is willing to stay in this hopeless place anymore..."
"The Kingdom of Igor," Robin thought for a moment, "I remember it was a member of the World Government. Didn't it seek help from the Navy?"
Hearing her talk about this, the old man twitched his lips, revealing a smile uglier than crying, and shook his head and said, "Because it couldn't pay the Heavenly Gold, the Igor Kingdom was disqualified from joining the World Government...Without the protection of the navy, more and more pirates came here to plunder, until finally the country was completely destroyed."
As if she heard his words, Rose, who was fighting with Xiaolu for the barbecue, froze.
At this time, the old man's pet giant eagle had quick eyes and beak. While she was in a daze, it snatched the barbecue away, threw it up, and opened its mouth to swallow it.
"The share of Heavenly Gold will vary according to the actual situation of each country," Robin said. "Although the Heavenly Gold collected by the World Government is a considerable burden, it is rare for an entire country to be unable to afford it and lose its qualification as a member country because of it. As far as I know, such a situation will rarely happen."
It is not uncommon to find families everywhere that go bankrupt because they cannot afford the sky-high payment.
But there are very few countries that cannot afford to pay the heavenly gold, and it is even rarer for the entire country to collapse because of it.
(End of this chapter)