Chapter 424: Rot and White Pigeons

The old man was obviously more distressed after hearing Robin's words.

He held his head and pounded it twice, then sighed dejectedly, "I am just an ordinary citizen. I don't know how the royal family did it before... As citizens, we fulfill our obligations and hand over the Heavenly Gold on time... But the royal treasury is always attacked by pirates... The king couldn't bear to collect Heavenly Gold from the people again, so he had to borrow money from the Chamber of Commerce in the name of the royal family... It seems that this happened again and again, and the king could no longer support it, so he had to intensify the collection of Heavenly Gold from the people... Then there would always be pirates looting the royal treasury, over and over again..."

[“How could this always happen?” “There weren’t any pirates who robbed the royal treasury. It was all a lie made up by the king. He wanted to keep the gold for himself.” “The king is lying to us. The gold is safe and sound. He embezzled it and asked us to hand it over again.” “The king colluded with the Chamber of Commerce to squeeze our property…”]

The events and sounds of this country two or three years ago seemed to reappear in the old man's eyes and ears.

"In short, everything collapsed in the end. The citizens could no longer pay the Heavenly Gold, and the king could not repay the money he borrowed from the Chamber of Commerce," the old man murmured, "The Kingdom of Igor was kicked out of the World Government. Without the protection of the navy, the pirates invaded the country wantonly... Everyone died and ran away. But I am old and don't want to leave this land. I just hope that before I die, there will be no more pirates..."

"As for the pirates," Lin Qi stuffed the huge roasted beast leg into his mouth, squirming and chewing, and even found time to speak, "There is a pirate ship landing on the shore over there."

He pointed in a direction.

"What?" The old man woke up in shock, looked in the direction where Lin Qi pointed, and said in disbelief, "That direction is almost several kilometers away from the coast. How could you see it!"

Robin reminded: "If he says yes, then yes. You'd better believe him."

"...Pig, it's time to go!" The old man looked deeply at Lynch and Robin, pulled the giant eagle that was fighting with Little Green for meat, turned over and rode on the eagle's back, shouted, and the giant eagle flapped its wings and flew into the sky, heading towards the coast where Lynch pointed.

While gnawing on a bone, Rose carefully peeked at the pirate named Giorno. The female pirate next to him suddenly looked over, propped up her chin, and asked, "You said that your hometown and the people there are sick. What is that disease?"

Luo Si lowered her head and chewed the brittle bones slowly. "A kind of rot..."

"Rotten disease?" Lynch touched his head, wondering, "Is this a real disease?"

Rose said nothing.

"..." Robin looked at the girl who lowered her head and suddenly asked, "Did you decide to go to the Drum Kingdom because you met the doctor who was expelled from the Drum Kingdom?"

Rose was struck by lightning, and looked at Robin with pale eyes, "Why...how could you..."

"You know that it's impossible to learn medicine in the Drum Kingdom at this time, and there are no doctors to teach you." Robin said slowly, "You didn't go there to learn medicine. You knew that we were vicious pirates with bounties of hundreds of millions, but you still approached us... Before, you were alone on our ship and saw the pirate ship approaching, but you didn't think of hiding... You didn't think that medicine could save your hometown from the beginning. You just wanted to die with the idea of ​​'trying to save your sick hometown'."

"No! That's not right!" Rose bit her lip and said, "It's not like that..."

"I've been a little curious from the beginning," Lynch spoke suddenly.

Rose looked up and saw him chewing a thick animal bone with a "crunch" sound. She asked casually, "Kureha, the old miracle doctor who is over a hundred years old, is a well-known witch in the Drum Kingdom. You stayed there for a year and a half, so it's impossible that you didn't know her."

Rose swallowed her saliva and breathed rapidly. Giorno asked with a teasing smile, "How many times has she appeared in front of you? Why... just ignore her? I asked Kuleha, you never tried to learn medicine from her."

Robin looked up at the sky and said, "She bravely ran around to save her country, but in the end she died alone and miserably overseas. Although it was unfortunate, this is the only way to be a good princess, isn't it?"

"My country has lost hope. I can only watch everyone and my father rot in pain..." The girl trembled, tears flashing in her red eyes, "How can you understand the feeling of losing everything..."

"..." Robin forced a complicated smile and said nothing.

"Stop talking nonsense and go get supplies." Lin Qi patted his butt and stood up. "If we don't go now, the old man will probably die..."

………………

"Wow, old man, is the pet you brought an eagle or a pig?!"

"Hahaha……"

Everyone in the Iron Boots Pirates laughed loudly, and in front of them, the old man was knocked aside, and his giant eagle turned into a wild boar, rushing towards the pirates again and again, but became scarred by repeated musket shooting, and blood was all over the body... The giant eagle raised its head and let out a pig's cry, and the captain of the Iron Boots Pirates, "Iron Boots", raised his iron boots, laughed and kicked the pig's head.

Blood splattered and the pig-headed eagle fell down.

"I didn't expect that there would be such an interesting beast in this barren place."

The captain of the Iron Boots Pirates laughed with his head raised, but suddenly out of the corner of his eye he caught a glimpse of a familiar-looking man standing on a tree not far away.

"It's him..." The old man lying on the ground managed to get up with difficulty.

"Captain, that's..." The pirates under him also noticed, "Giovanna Giorno!!!"

"Why are the JOJO Pirates here..."

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The captain of the Iron Boots Pirates had bloodshot eyes and his scalp was numb, but he gritted his teeth and shouted fiercely: "What are you afraid of! We are all pirates, the worst that can happen is that we fight them!!"

"captain!"

But just as his men were in tears, their blood boiling, and they were mustering up their courage, suddenly, the man he saw out of the corner of his eye disappeared.

Behind the Iron Boots Pirates, near the direction of their pirate ship, came the voice of Giorno: "Don't talk to the corpse, it will look weird."

Lin Qi walked slowly onto the Iron Boots Pirate Ship, and the pirates behind him were all "bang", "bang", "bang" with blood splashing all over their bodies...

Rose, who had hurriedly used the Pipe-Pipe Fruit to catch up, arrived here and saw this scene.

Dozens of pirates fell to the ground in the blood mist, and Giorno and Jolyne calmly walked onto the pirates' ship. It was only then that Rose realized that the "supplies" Giorno had mentioned before actually referred to the supplies on this pirate ship...

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In the center of the huge magic circle, sat a stern-faced young man wearing a black top hat and overalls.

On the right shoulder of the stern-faced boy stood a white dove.

There is a small black tie around the white dove's neck, which is consistent with the style of the stern-faced boy in a black hat and overalls.

Surrounding the magic circle were dozens of people wearing cloaks.

Everyone shook hands in front, bowed their heads and murmured prayers: "Please have mercy on us, Pigeon Evil God, and give us some money..."

"..."The cold-faced young man and the white dove on his shoulder were both speechless.

(End of this chapter)