Pirates: The Fourth Scourge

Chapter 241 Mrs. Xia Li
Fishman Island.

Coral Hill, this is the southeast of Fishman Island, the bustling port town of Dragon Palace Kingdom.

"It's a dreamlike place." Sanji walked on the streets of Coral Hill, watching the mermaids and murlocs coming and going, his excitement level was already full.

However, different from the original book, at this time, he has not experienced the hell of the "Kama Baka Kingdom" and the demon kingdom, and naturally he will not get nosebleeds when he sees a beautiful woman.

Although he was very excited, he was still able to maintain a certain gentlemanly demeanor in front of the mermaid woman.

"I'm so hungry, let's eat first, okay?" Luffy was not as excited as the others at all, but followed them weakly.

When they were in Chambord Island before, they just bought some clothes with Nami and Robin, and they encountered such troubles when they were preparing to eat, which resulted in them not eating and buying ingredients.

After returning to the boat, the remaining ingredients were not enough for Luffy to eat and drink freely, and because there were three mermaid ladies on the boat who didn't eat fish, they couldn't fish and eat on the way, so he always had In a state of half-satisfaction, so that I don't even have the thought to see novelty gadgets.

"Alright, I'm hungry too." Nami, who was in charge of the ship's economic lifeline, nodded in agreement.

"Then let's go to the one in front!" Sanji said quickly, pointing to a luxury building in front.

"Mermaid Café? Is there food to fill your stomach in that kind of place?" Franky asked, looking at the place Sanji was pointing at.

"I think this guy went there because he saw two beautiful mermaid maids standing at the door," Usopp said mercilessly.

Although Sanji was exposed, he, who has always been thick-skinned, didn't care at all, and ran straight to the cafe in front with his long legs.

After a few words with the two mermaid maids who greeted the guests, he turned around and said to the straw hat group behind him, "Come on, there are a lot of delicious food here!"

"Here we come!" Lu Fei rushed to the Mermaid Cafe after hearing that.

"I can't help it, just this one."

Seeing that her own captain had run into the house, Nami had no choice but to say.

After a while, everyone was already sitting in the Mermaid Cafe.

"Welcome, guests from afar, I am Kemi, the waiter of the Mermaid Cafe, and this is our menu." A mermaid woman with short light green hair and a pink fishtail came to them and asked.

As a chef, Sanji was naturally in charge of ordering food. After he took the menu from Cammy, he glanced at it and said, "Um, isn't there any meat here?"

When Kaimi heard this, she showed an apologetic expression and said, "Sorry, our customers here are basically mermaids, and we mermaids don't eat fish and meat, so the store only provides cakes, fruits from the seabed, and shellfish. Dishes with kelp."

"Is that so?" Sanji nodded slowly, then looked at Luffy with a questioning look.

After all, Luffy is a person who doesn't like meat, if there is no meat on the table, Luffy is the one who suffers the most.

As for the rest of them, it doesn't matter.

"No meat." Lu Fei pondered, "Forget it, then do as the Romans do."

Kemi on the side was relieved when she heard what Luffy said, and she said: "Actually, the restaurants on the whole street here do not sell meat. If you want to eat meat, you can only go to Murloc Street. However, that place is very hostile to humans, so if you go there, it may be dangerous."

"Hostile to humans? Why?" Usopp wondered.

When they first arrived at Murloc Island, although the three mermaids told them about the basic situation of Murloc Island, they did not mention that Murlocs would be hostile to humans.

"How should I say it?" Kemi looked at the gauze curtain behind with some hesitation, and when she saw that there was no movement inside, she whispered, "That's because most murlocs are racist. Because humans look down on murlocs and murlocs. Because of the mermaid, the murlocs also hate humans, especially the murlocs in the murloc street. The murlocs there often do things like robbing passing human merchant ships and pirate ships, especially the current murlocs in the murloc street. The leader, Hody Jones, the captain of the new murloc pirates, is even more terrifying, I hope you will never meet him."

"But isn't Brother Jinpei easy to get along with?" Luffy asked strangely.

"Huh? Do you know Boss Jinbe?" Kemi was a little surprised.

"Of course, he also said that he would show us around when we came to Fishman Island. It's a pity that he didn't leave any contact information before he left. He just asked us to find him in a place called Sea Forest."

"If that's the case, Haizhisen will have to pass through Murloc Street too. It's probably in the northeast of Murloc Street." Kemi thought for a while.

"By the way. Just now, you mentioned the new Murloc Pirates? Why did you add the word 'new'?"

At this moment, Nami said suddenly.

"Uh, that's because the old Murloc Pirates were wiped out by a group of pirates not long ago. It is said that Hachi who escaped said that they were a group of very powerful pirates!" Kemi replied.

"Sure enough." Nami's face darkened.

The old Murloc Pirates. It was the pirate group that ruled Cocoyasi Village for many years, and all members were murlocs.

Except for Robin, Chopper, and Franky, the others were also taken aback.

Cammy didn't notice the expressions of other people, she continued: "Although the current Murloc Pirates is a brand new pirate gang, they have inherited the will of the old Murloc Pirates. , is incompatible with human beings. Really."

"Judging from your tone, you seem to dislike them too?" Nami continued.

"Of course, although the mermaids of the older generation are more disgusted with humans, because humans often came to our fish-man island to abduct and capture mermaids, but in my generation, our fish-man island has been destroyed by white people." The bearded pirates took shelter, so the human pirates didn't dare to make trouble. Humans who come to Murloc Island now basically come to travel or go to the new world through here. However, because the new Murloc pirates are everywhere recently The plundering of human merchant ships and pirate ships has affected the business of our Mermaid Cafe, and you should have noticed that there are no human beings in the huge coral hill except you, which was not the case before." Cammy sighed.

"Don't you have a regular army in Murloc Island? They don't care about this? Besides, Jinbei doesn't care either?"

"How should I put it? One reason is that the new Murloc Pirates are very powerful. Even the Neptune Army may not be an opponent due to their large numbers. In addition, among the 500 million population of Murloc Island, there are only some young Merfolk and a small number of them. The young murlocs advocate peaceful coexistence with humans, and most of the others are hostile to humans, especially our queen, Princess Otohime, who was shot dead by humans. This has led to more people hating humans, so, Robbery of human merchant ships is what most murlocs and a small number of mermaids want to see. It is revenge against humans. So the King of the Sea Army can't control this kind of thing, even if they have stopped it before, but the next day A group of murlocs and mermaids gathered to protest at the gate of Dragon Palace." Kemi sighed.

"Okay, everyone, hurry up and see what you need to eat. I've been chatting with you for too long, and my salary will be deducted later." Kaimi turned his head and looked at the gauze curtain behind him, sticking out his tongue road.

"Then that's it." Sanji actually checked off the dishes he needed long ago, but he didn't want to interrupt Kemi so he kept silent.

"Okay, wait a minute." Cammy smiled.

"Wait. One more."

At this moment, a voice suddenly came from the door.

"Ok?"

Everyone in Luffy turned their heads to look at the door in disbelief when they heard this voice.

"Uncle Hei...?" Luffy said in surprise.

"Why are you here?" Franky was also very puzzled.

"Of course I came to play." Hei Shi approached slowly, and behind him, Luo, Beibo, Xia Qi and other members of the Red Heart Pirates followed.

"Add an extra portion to all the dishes you ordered just now." Sanji said to Kemi who was standing aside.

"Good guest." Cammy nodded.

"Wait a minute, little girl, help me cook these things by the way."

Hei Shi stopped Kaimi, and took out a pile of meat from the space package.

"That... sorry, guest, we don't eat meat here, and the meat should be fish." Kemi apologized.

"Of course I know you don't eat meat, and I won't let you eat it. Can you cook it for us?" Hei Shi raised his eyebrows.

"But." When Kaimi looked at the tall Hei, he couldn't help showing a trace of panic on his face.

And the other mermaid waiters in the restaurant also looked at this side with displeasure.

Some mermaids have even pulled out their phone bugs, ready to contact Haiwangjun at any time.

"Just do as he says."

At this time, behind the gauze curtain, came a sexy and hoarse voice.

"Ms. Xia Li." Cammy's eyes widened when she heard this, and she turned to look at the gauze curtain behind her in disbelief.

Their mermaid cafe, since she worked here, has never cooked meat, let alone fish.

Whether it was murloc customers or humans passing by, even if they provided the ingredients themselves, they were all rejected.

If they dare to come forward and cause trouble, they will end up being dealt with by the Haiwang army who arrived immediately.

After all, the owner of this restaurant, Xia Li, is not an ordinary person. Even Neptune, the current owner of Dragon Palace City and the Great Knight of the Sea, values ​​her quite highly.

Because, Mrs. Xia Li's prophecy has never been wrong.

When she was 4 years old, she predicted the coming of the era of great pirates, and then predicted when Princess Shirahoshi would be born, without exception, they were all right.

"Hahaha Miss Xia Li, I killed your half-brother, you won't welcome me?" Hei Shi sat down and smiled behind the gauze curtain.

"Oh, how dare I? After all, who doesn't know your name in this sea now?"

The gauze curtain was gently pulled open, and then, a very large female mermaid walked out from inside. She had short black hair, cold blue eyes, and pale, slightly sickly skin.

This mermaid is naturally Xia Li, a famous fortune-teller on Fishman Island, and the local residents respectfully call her "Ms. Xia Li".

Seven or eight years ago, when Hei Shi passed by the Fishman Island, he made a special trip to find her once.

"Huh?" At this moment, everyone came to their senses.

This tall mermaid is actually that Aaron's younger sister?
"You wouldn't secretly poison to avenge your brother, would you?" Luffy said with wide-eyed eyes. The big table of food at Shampoo was poisoned before, but it made his heart ache for a long time.

"How is it possible? Although I have some blood relationship with him, we haven't spoken more than ten words, and we haven't even met each other very much." Xia Li shook her head and said.

In fact, Murloc Aaron was abandoned by his parents in Murloc Street when he was a child. When he grew up, he often ran amok on the bottom of the sea, and was regarded as a hooligan by the residents of Murloc Island.

When Xia Li was one year old, she was taken to Murloc Street by her father and handed over to Aaron to be raised, but how could Aaron have such kindness?Although he loves his companions very much, you must know that he was abandoned by his parents in Murloc Street since he was a child, and he will not care about the younger sister who was born to his father with a new love!
When Aaron was 15 years old, Xia Li was only one year old, and when she was four years old, Aaron joined the Neptune Army. Later, after Aaron quit the Neptune Army because of being reprimanded by Jinbei, he joined Fisher Tiger's Sun Sea Thieves, followed him on an adventure, but later Tiger was betrayed to death, and the evil dragon vowed to kill all the humans who betrayed Tiger, but fell into the hands of the yellow ape who was still a lieutenant general at the time, and was imprisoned. Advance the city.

He was not released until Jinbe became the Qibukai, but because of disagreement with Jinbe, he left Fishman Island and went to the East China Sea of ​​the Great Route to form the Murloc Pirates. Back to Fishman Island.

Therefore, Xia Li and Aaron have nothing to do with each other at all, so where is the brother-sister relationship?

"That. Although I haven't met Aaron, he should be a murloc, right? But, aren't you a mermaid? Why are you brothers and sisters?"

At this time, Chopper asked in doubt.

As a doctor, he is more interested in this kind of problem.

Luo Yi, who was seated not far away, turned his head slightly and looked at Xia Li, as if he was also interested in the answer to this question.

"This." Xia Li was stunned when she heard Chopper's question. She took a puff of cigarette, thought for a while, and said, "The offspring of mermaids and mermaids will only be mermaids, and the offspring of murlocs and murlocs will only be mermaids. It will be a murloc, but if a murloc and a mermaid intermarry, the child born may be a murloc or a mermaid. For example, my father is a murloc, but my mother is a mermaid, so the child born I am a mermaid."

"At the same time, because murlocs and mermaids share the same ancestral genetic memory, the fish species we belong to when we are born depends on the genes of the ancestor fish species many generations ago, not necessarily related to the fish species of our parents. Therefore, we It would not be surprising for any family to give birth to children of various postures. On the contrary, we are less able to adapt to the concept of using appearance similarity to judge kinship among the races on the ground."

When everyone heard the words, they suddenly realized.

"Then if the woman is cheating, wouldn't it be difficult to find out? After all, it's normal for her offspring to be different from her." Franky said suddenly.

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(End of this chapter)