Chapter 597: Green Pepper: Why is Rayleigh spreading rumors? !
[Chapter Opening Serialization·Heart Pirates 5·"The Birdcage Disappeared..."] [As the two mutes were staring at each other, they suddenly felt the island beneath their feet tremble slightly. They turned around and looked inside the birdcage, only to see a rock giant that looked huge and majestic even from such a distance was collapsing... When they used the room ability of the surgery fruit and the silent ability of the silence fruit to steal a small spare boat from the warship without anyone noticing, they looked up and were stunned to see that the huge wire cage covering a corner of the island was rapidly disintegrating...]——
"Thief?"
The leader of the Babao navy was a middle-aged man at least four meters tall, with a messy beard and an unkempt appearance. Upon hearing what was said, he looked at the short thief who was being chased by the shop owner. The guy was in a panic and actually ran towards them.
“Ah!”
The short thief obviously realized his mistake. He stammered and screamed, and crawled back.
"You stole something and you want to run away?"
Old Cai... No, it was still Ah Cai at this time. Ah Cai, the grandson of Mr. Qing Jiao, the 12th generation pillar of the Babao Navy, clenched his naginata tightly and was about to chase after the thief, but was stopped by the middle-aged man: "Come back, Ah Cai."
Ah Cai stopped and turned around to ask in confusion: "What's the matter, Dad? I'm going to catch a thief!"
"It's just stealing. There's no need to be so exaggerated."
The four-meter-tall middle-aged man with a messy beard was named Tian Jiu. He was the son of Mr. Qing Jiao and Ah Cai's father. He said nonchalantly, "If they weren't starving, who would steal food from the store?"
Ah Cai snorted, put his naginata at his feet, and said unhappily, "Dad, it's because you're always like this that I don't want to hand over the position of the pillar to you."
Tian Jiu waved his hands indifferently, "Who cares about the position of a pillar of the navy..."
The shopkeeper, who was hit on the butt by the thief who turned back to run, didn't care about the father and son's quarrel. He sat on the side of the road and cried out in grievance: "We can't let him go! It's my shop that was robbed!"
"Oh, yeah..." Tian Jiu pulled out a few crumpled, greasy Baileys from his pocket, threw them to the shopkeeper, and said with a smile, "Is this okay?"
The shopkeeper picked up the banknote with a hint of disgust, shook his head and walked away.
“Ahh, woo woo, ho ho ho…”
The voice of the thief was heard again. Tian Jiu, A Cai and other members of the Babao navy looked over and were all more or less surprised.
Did you see that right? Aren't those Giovanna Giorno and Jolyne Kujo, members of the JOJO Pirates that were active in the newspaper headlines a while ago and are now one of the Seven Warlords of the Sea? Giorno was holding the short thief in his hand.
"Ahhh..." The thief held the stolen oil-paper-wrapped food in his arms tightly, and could only make moaning sounds, unable to speak clearly.
Lynch pinched the old man's cheek and immediately discovered that his tongue was broken off.
“Ahh…”
The dumb old man looked at him, his face full of fear, and he began to tremble.
Lynch could see with a casual glance that the old man was covered with scars under his ragged clothes. It seemed that he was not very skilled at being a thief and had been caught and beaten many times.
"You all have no problem with thieves?"
Lynch carried the mute old man and looked around. The townspeople avoided his sight, as if they did not want to cause trouble, and soon dispersed.
Lynch didn't care and just put the old man on the ground.
With a thud, the mute old man fell to the ground, still looking at Lin Qi in fear. The oil paper bag in his arms fell to the ground, and the tie loosened slightly, revealing a few fried cakes inside.
It was not until the Babao navy arrived that the mute old man picked up the oil paper bag and fled quickly.
"..." Robin retracted his gaze and looked at the Babao navy walking across the street.
Tian Jiu crossed his arms and lowered his head to Giorno and said, "Why are the Seven Warlords of the Sea here?"
Lin Qi said: "That's all you know, right?"
"Hmm?" Ah Cai stood beside Tian Jiu with his naginata in hand, a question mark popped up in his head.
Lin Qi looked at him and asked curiously, "How old are you, young man?"
Perhaps it was because of the cultural affinity, Ah Cai actually understood and said in a deep voice, "Fifteen years old."
Fifteen years old? I would believe it if he was fifty! Lin Qi looked at Ah Cai's face that seemed to be prematurely aged and said with emotion, "I am a little anxious..."
Ah Cai said unhappily: "What on earth are you doing here? Even if you are the Seven Warlords of the Sea..."
Lin Qi looked up at Tian Jiu and said with a smile, "I heard that the leader of the Eight Treasures Navy, Qing Jiao, is unparalleled in boxing, so I came here to learn from him!"
Who told you this? You must have heard it wrong!
Ah Cai and the others secretly complained that the old man's unique "cone" was the one that made him the best in the world! Unfortunately, ever since that strange cone-shaped head was punched bald by the navy hero Garp, "Cone Pepper" has become "Pepper", and the old man has been depressed ever since.
Giorno actually came to challenge the old man who was no longer so powerful. Wasn't he just looking for trouble? !
Ah Cai was about to object, but Tian Jiu said nonchalantly, "Is that so? Then come with us, and we'll take you to find the old man."
"Dad!" Ah Cai was dissatisfied.
Tian Jiu scratched his untidy beard and said, "It's okay, right? Giorno and Jolyne have nothing to do with that navy hero Garp. The old man won't go berserk!"
Navy hero Garp? Robin was puzzled.
Ah this... Lynch couldn't help but look at Robin. This Nine Snake Princess, and Luffy's grandfather, the son of the previous Nine Snake Empress, are they completely unrelated? The two followed the Eight Treasures Navy towards their base.
It was a mountain stronghold located in a valley outside the town. The whole mountain was filled with quaint fortress buildings, many of which were built by carving out the mountain walls.
Sure enough, the architectural style is very similar to that of the Nine Snakes... Robin only took a glance and felt as if he had returned to the Nine Snakes.
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When Tian Jiu, A Cai led Lin Qi and Robin to look for Qing Jiao, "Qing Jiao" was sitting in the room, feeling sorry for herself in front of the mirror.
A few days ago, he went to his treasure trove again. The gold, jewels, and valuables under the ice... the treasures accumulated by their Babao Navy for generations. After losing the "spike" to open the door, Qingjiao could no longer open the ice to touch them.
Obviously... the treasure is right before my eyes...
There is no mistake in the poem, post, content, and read the book on 6, 9, and bar!
“Ahhhhhhh!!!”
A deafening cry came from the room, startling Robin who was walking to the door, "Why is someone crying?"
Ah Cai almost blushed. Grandpa, what the hell, was he touching his head in the mirror again? Why did he start crying at this time? Tian Jiu didn't care. She knocked on the door carelessly, "Grandpa! You have a guest!"
The deafening crying in the room suddenly stopped. After a while, the door was opened, and a majestic figure over five meters tall appeared in front of everyone.
The bald old man with a thick white beard didn't look like he had been crying. He looked down and saw Lynch and Robin, and asked in surprise, "Why are the Seven Warlords here?"
"Now that I've brought the person here, I'm leaving." Tian Jiu turned and left.
Seeing this, Qing Jiao immediately lowered her head and glared at Ah Cai, "What did your dad do today?"
Ah Cai then told Qing Jiao that his father had paid for a thief today. Qing Jiao was furious when she heard it, "Thief, a thief again! You bastard, you are going to piss me off to death! If it wasn't for you back then -"
Realizing that there were outsiders present, Qingjiao stopped talking angrily and glared at Lin Qi and Robin, "You two have come all the way to see me, what's the matter?"
What the hell did my dad do back then... Ah Cai looked in the direction where his dad had long since disappeared, and turned back to say, "It seems like Giorno is here to fight with you, Grandpa."
"Fight?" Qingjiao was surprised.
Lin Qi didn't beat around the bush and said with a smile: "I heard from Rayleigh that your Eight Punches are very powerful, and you can even practice Conqueror's Haki, so I came here to try it out."
"Can you cultivate Conqueror's Haki?" Qing Jiao was surprised and said depressedly, "How can Rayleigh spread rumors blindly?!"
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But let’s talk about the other side.
The Kingdom of Flowers is mountainous. In a hidden cave in a barren mountain, a short, dumb old man came here holding an oil-paper bag.
“Ahhh, ahhhh…”
He put down the oil paper bag, pointed to his mouth and made a gesture of eating.
The cave was filled with the smell of blood, and in the dim darkness, one could roughly see the corpses of the Dragon Flag Army scattered all over the ground.
A young man in coarse cloth came out, took the oil-paper bag, turned around and said, "Second sister, have something to eat."
A hoarse female voice came from deep in the cave: "You ran so fast, I thought you would never come back..."
"Ah!" The mute old man shook his head and waved his hands, stammering and gesticulating, but no one could understand what he was saying.
He walked deeper into the cave and saw a masked woman taking off her black clothes and tightening the bandages around her body. Blood was faintly seeping from the bandages.
Seeing this, the mute old man said “ahhh” and nodded.
The masked woman turned around and said coldly: "Don't forget to deal with the body."
"Ah!" The mute old man nodded repeatedly, fumbled out many bottles and jars from his arms, picked for a while, took out one of the jars, pulled out the stopper, and sprinkled some powder on the corpses of the Dragon Flag Army on the ground.
Chichichichi…
More than a dozen corpses quickly burst out with astonishing heat, emitting a large amount of foul-smelling smoke, and then the corpses quickly deflated as if they were melting, and in the end only pieces of hot armor were left...
The masked woman Xiangchun looked at the mute old man with hatred in her eyes.
(End of this chapter)