Chapter 427: The Trash with Only Five Dao Power
[Island of Real Gold and Silver, Rich Country, Suburbs of the City——]
On the ground in the wild, more than a dozen people were lying on the ground in a mess, their bodies covered in blood from claw marks from wild beasts. Some of them had blood holes all over their bodies that were still oozing blood.
Broken swords and flintlock rifles scattered on the ground.
The flames flickered and the smoke curled up.
There were two tall figures in the thick smoke.
A werewolf-like majestic figure slowly shrank and finally turned into a young man wearing white sleeves and black robe.
The other one was equally tall, over 2.6 meters tall, but he looked round. From a distance through the smoke, he looked more like a giant egg with a person standing on it than a human figure.
Jabra returned from his werewolf form to his human form, and glanced at the pirates on the ground with a dull look: "They are so weak, really! These pirates are so bad, and they dare to enter the Grand Line? No wonder Lucci was too lazy to come along..."
"Six-style acrobatic skills: hand combination..."
Jabra turned around and saw his teammate, Otonashi Owl, who looked like a giant egg standing on its head, gesturing with both hands to the pirates lying in a pool of blood on the ground, "The power is only five..."
"Only five, after all, they were almost beaten to death by us." Gabra nodded, and suddenly cursed, "You are kidding! Is this how you test your power?!"
Six-style skills: Hand-to-hand combat... To put it simply, it is an auxiliary skill that uses iron blocks to harden oneself, withstands the opponent's attack, and then judges the strength of the opponent's attack.
In Gabura's opinion, this move is purely a self-abuse move. Among his companions, only Otonashi Owl has a special liking for this move. Gabura often doubts this boy's habit.
Otonashi Owl said nonchalantly, "Tsk... They are so weak, it seems they are not pirates planning to rob the palace treasury."
"Hey!" Gabra said, "Don't tell us our goal casually."
Otonashi Owl raised his hand to his mouth and quickly made a zipper-up motion.
"The higher-ups shouldn't have allowed a 17-year-old rookie like you to participate in this operation..." Gabra said with disdain.
Otonashi Owl made a zipper-unzipping motion in front of his mouth again and reminded: "Lucci is one year younger than me."
"Why do you have to mention that guy..." Jabra thought of his sixteen-year-old companion Rob Lucci, and felt very indignant, but he couldn't say anything like he did when he disdained the owl just now.
Three years ago, Lucci was sent to a certain allied country to solve a pirate incident. At that time, 500 soldiers were defeated and captured, and the pirates used this to threaten the king. As a result, Lucci, who was only 13 years old at the time, broke into the pirates' den alone, first killed all the 500 soldiers and hostages, and then completely let go and slaughtered all the pirates.
Today, three years later, Lucci's strength has only increased, there is no doubt about it.
It’s just that the murderous intention is too strong!
Even Jabura, who had eaten the Wolf Form of the Dog-Dog Fruit, sometimes felt that even if Lucci had not been rewarded with the Cat-Cat Fruit - Leopard Form for the mission three years ago, that boy's innate thirst for blood was still extremely terrifying.
Lucci once said that the reason he joined CP9 was simply because this department was the only one that had the power to legally kill people.
Even ordinary civilians can be killed if they hinder CP9's mission.
Gabra shook his head and asked, "Where's Bruno?"
After a while of no response, he turned around and saw Otonashi Owl looking at him quietly with his mouth pulled up.
Gabra was so angry that he roared, "Don't close your mouth at this time!"
"He should still be in town..." Otonashi Owl unzipped his pants and said leisurely.
………………
The three of them left the restaurant.
To be honest, Lynch didn't enjoy the meal.
Mainly because I didn’t eat enough.
Lynch didn't intend to evade payment and dine for free; but even if he and Robin could afford it, the restaurant couldn't spare so much food and ingredients.
Therefore, Lynch could only eat half of his meal with regret. Finally, under the stunned gaze of the chef and the rest of the restaurant, he left with Robin and Rose, who had already eaten their fill, leaving the mess on the table.
The restaurant's signboard has cracks, which shows that the restaurant owner is living a miserable life. I guess he is not far from the situation of those people who used to crowd in the street to sell clothes.
Judging from the current living conditions of the people, it may not be long before this "island of real gold and silver" is renamed "island of rubbish and scrap metal".
In a few years, the "rich country" will probably be slowly called a "poor country"...
Judging from the comparison with the building in the memory scene of "BIB", this is the place where Skeleton Brook was worshipped as the evil god Satan by a group of believers after he was slapped away by Big Bear.
But that is something that may only happen in about twelve or thirteen years.
At this point in time, if nothing unexpected happens, Skull Brook is still floating on a ghost ship in the thick fog of the Devil's Triangle.
There is no mistake in the poem, post, content, and read the book on 6, 9, and bar!
Just as he was thinking this, Lin Qi heard someone on the street suddenly say in surprise:
"It's flooding!"
Lynch thought it was a flood or a fire. He was feeling puzzled when he looked up and saw a group of people who looked like businessmen walking along the street, leading several strong men and women, carrying several large wooden barrels behind them. As they walked, some colorless liquid swayed out of the barrels they were carrying - judging by the reactions of the residents on the street, the barrels seemed to be filled with water.
The residents seemed to have seen God descend, and they rushed towards the merchants, holding up their hands and shouting nonsense words such as "water of salvation", "water of abundance", "water of fortune", "water of resurrection" and so on.
"What's going on over there?" Lynch held down a person who was about to rush over excitedly.
It's not that he didn't want to pull or drag, he was just a little tall, so he could only hold down the passerby's head with his hands.
The passerby was a little indignant at first because his head was being held down, but when he looked back, he calmed down and explained in a friendly manner: "It's the people from the Haiqi Chamber of Commerce who are distributing free water... Everyone says that if you drink their water, you will get lucky and become rich again soon!"
"Does the person who drinks it become rich?" Lynch asked curiously.
The man shook his head, "No."
"Drinking when it's useless?"
"It's not that it's useless. It's just that although we make money, it can't cover the debt we have to pay back." The passerby wanted to get impatient, but he looked up and continued patiently, "In order to pay the annual heavenly gold, everyone can't afford to borrow money... There is nothing we can do about it. Even after the king's treasury was looted by pirates, he had to borrow money temporarily to make up for the shortfall in heavenly gold."
No matter whose money you lose, you can't lose the money of the Celestial Dragons. This is self-evident. The Celestial Dragons don't care if you are robbed by pirates or something like that. If you are short of the annual payment of the Celestial Gold, it will be very bad for you as a member country.
"This process sounds familiar..." Lin Qi pondered, and finally asked, "Who did you borrow money from?"
"Of course it's the Haiqi Chamber of Commerce." The passerby said as a matter of course, "They are one of the largest chambers of commerce in the Grand Line. Of course, they are the ones to borrow money from..."
As soon as Lin Qi's big hand loosened, the passers-by quickly ran away, squeezed into the crowd, and shouted loudly to ask for a bowl of water to drink.
Lynch even saw people in soldier uniforms who put down their work and joined the chaotic crowd to grab the water distributed by the Haiqi Chamber of Commerce.
"The treasury was robbed, and they couldn't pay the Heavenly Gold, so they took out loans, and then collected higher taxes from the people. The people couldn't bear the burden, so they had to take out loans..." Robin walked to Lynch's side, looked at the crowd rushing to grab the "Water of Fortune", and said softly, "The Igor Kingdom that the old man guarded alone before gradually fell into defeat. In the end, it was unable to hand over the Heavenly Gold and angered the World Government, and was stripped of its status as a member country. Then, the entire island was destroyed in the invasion of pirates, and the people fled overseas..."
There were too many people and the water was quickly snatched up. The merchant from the Haiqi Chamber of Commerce shouted, "This month's charity water has all been distributed today!"
The people of the "rich country" who were holding bowls or cups were greatly disappointed, and one man in patched clothes even burst into tears in despair.
(End of this chapter)