Pirates: The Fourth Scourge

Chapter 5 Public Beta Half a Year Later
After Hei Shi watched the few people go away, he also turned his eyes back, looked at the bag in his hand, opened it and took a look, it happened to be three boxes.

And inside the box, there is naturally a man-made devil fruit - SMILE.

This is the former naval scientist Caesar Courant, who used the unknown substance "SAD" as a raw material and transformed it in Don Quixote Doflamingo's factory.

Although it is a man-made devil fruit, it also has the effect of a devil fruit.

Although it only has the ability of the animal department, it is also very sought-after on the black market.

Kaido, one of the Four Emperors, is its biggest buyer. It is said that he wants to build an "animal-type ability user army" of more than 500 people.

And another big customer of artificial devil fruit is naturally black time.

Of course, Hei Shi didn't want to use artificial devil fruits when he bought them, and he didn't plan to create any army of capable people.

He has only one purpose for hoarding man-made devil fruits - to sell them to players who will enter the game in the future.

When it is dark, you can clearly see the top announcement in the game forum - [161 days before the public beta].

Yes, in less than half a year, this game will be officially tested.

The official website of the game did not announce when the second test and third test will be carried out, but Hei Shi feels that they have already done it, otherwise they would not have announced the official public test half a year ago and a year later.

Hei Shi vaguely remembered that when he first entered this game, the number of pre-registrations for this game was more than 300 million, which is actually not too many.

After all, there are so many virtual games in this era, and the types of gameplay emerge in endlessly. Every one or two months, a masterpiece will appear, so it is already a rare thing for a game to have millions of players.

Coupled with the fact that people died during the closed beta of this game, and the settings that the characters cannot be revived after death, these settings are quite discouraging. Therefore, it is not bad to estimate that the number of players will reach 200 million after the public beta.

And this game, what is the most classic setting?
Isn't it a devil fruit?

Who entered [ONE PIECE], didn't they want to eat an invincible devil fruit to become a capable person, and then sweep all directions and become the overlord of one party?
However, the scarcity of devil fruits is doomed to prevent players from generally becoming ability users.

After all, the quality of a Devil Fruit in [ONE PIECE] is at the level of [Legend]!Even if the ability is extremely ordinary, the devil fruit that no one wants to eat has the same quality.

If the highest-quality items in a game become rotten, it naturally means that the game has come to an end.

But [ONE PIECE] is a game that is just preparing for the public beta, which player can get such [Legendary] level items in a short time?
Of course, except for the Emperor of Europe.

But that is very few.

In addition, the recharge system ratio of this game is 1:10 of real money, so it is rare for a god to recharge tens of millions just to buy a devil fruit.

Therefore, most civilians or small krypton players may find it difficult to eat devil fruits even at the end of the game.

And at this time, the artificial devil fruit will show its role.

[Epic · Man-made Devil Fruit · Zoology · Bird Fruit · Sparrow Form]: A man-made devil fruit, generally speaking, everyone has only one chance to eat it in a lifetime, eating it can make you a person with abilities, and at the same time Strength +50, Dexterity +80, Spirit +50.Notice!There is also a small probability of failing to acquire abilities and becoming an idiot who can only laugh!

For example, the three man-made devil fruits traded between Heishi and Doflamingo this time, one of which is in the form of bird fruit sparrow.

Its ability is to turn people into sparrows, or sparrow people.

Although the sparrow or something doesn't sound like a species that fights hard, it can fly!Moreover, the three main attributes of strength, agility, and spirit are all added in such a pile.

For players, can this not be sought after?

Can it not be fragrant?

So delicious.

Therefore, since Caesar Courant escaped from prison and made SAD for Doflamingo, Heishi and Doflamingo had such an extra deal.

Now, nearly thirty devil fruits have been stockpiled in Heishi's warehouse, waiting for the players to come and pay a small price to take them away.

"When it's dark, it seems that your ship is estimated to need a major repair."

At this time, Franky, who was still on the boat, jumped off the boat and said to Hei Shi.

"No need, you can disassemble it." Hei Shi shook his head and said.

At this time, the ship is already crumbling, and even if it is repaired, it may be very troublesome. It is better to let Frankie dismantle it. Anyway, he is a dismantler, and Frankie's house is not far away. His little brother They are naturally nearby.

"That's okay, then how do you go back to Huaskra? How about I find a younger brother to take you back?"

"Don't be so troublesome, I'll just take a passenger ship." Hei Shi shook his head and rejected Franky's kindness. He wasn't so pretentious that he wanted to be escorted home.

While speaking, a group of people approached from a distance.

"Hey, Frankie!"

The person who came was Esbagu, the mayor of the city of seven waters and the leader of the Carrera Company. Behind him was the secretary Khalifa, the foreman Barry, Rob Lucci, Kaku, and several black-timers whose names could not be named. people.

"Oh, it's an iceberg." Franky hummed calmly.

"What happened here just now? Are there pirates making trouble?" Espagu asked.

Franky grinned, "No, nothing happened."

Seeing that Frankie refused to tell the truth, Espagu had no choice but to turn his gaze to Hei Shi: "Mr. Hei Shi, long time no see."

"Long time no see." Hei Shi nodded, because of Franky, he naturally communicated with Espagu several times.

However, at this moment, he was not in the mood to chat with Espagu, but glanced at Rob Lucci behind him.

This is known as the strongest player in "CP9" for 800 years.

What's interesting is that Fuzifu claimed to be shoulder to shoulder with the genius Rob Lucci, and was knocked out by him just now.

I just don't know, how many tricks can the current Rob Lucci block him?

The current Rob Lucci, because of his undercover career in the past few years, has actually not improved in strength, even Luffy can't beat him.

Of course, if Luffy hadn't unlocked the blood lock and stamina hang, plus Pirate King's "classic no kill", Luffy would definitely not be able to defeat him.

But this does not deny the potential of Rob Lucci, because in the two years after the First World War on Judicial Island, Rob Ludge quickly completed the transformation, not only greatly increased his strength, but even directly became the leader of cp0 directly under the Tianlong people.

Naturally, Rob Lucci also noticed Hei Shi's gaze.

Intuition told him that this man was very dangerous.

As a cp9 agent, he naturally knows something about the owner of the "Dark Time House" on Huaskra Island, which is not far away, even though he rarely goes out now, and concentrates on working under Espagu in order to seek "Pluto" drawing.

"Mr. Espagu, in fact, nothing really happened here just now."

Before Espagu opened his mouth to speak, Hei Shi had already answered first.

When they saw Hei Shi and Frankie, they were unwilling to tell themselves what happened just now, and Espagu was also helpless, so he had to give up asking.

But what he can be sure of is that there must have been a fierce battle here. After all, the broken ship, the deep pit on the ground, and the traces of human figures on the mountain wall are all evidence after the battle.

"Miss Khalifa, are you interested in going to the bar for a drink tonight? I invite you." Hei Shi looked at Kalifa, the blond royal sister.

Khalifa, who was wearing a small black suit and fishnet stockings on her legs, pushed up her glasses and said indifferently, "Irreverent guy, you are sexual harassment."

"Yeah, let's just forget about not being interested." Seeing this, Hei Shi shook his head and sighed.

"Then, see you next time, Franky, and Mr. Espagu." Hei Shi waved his hands casually to them, and then disappeared from everyone's sight within a few breaths.

"Huh" Rob Lucci breathed a sigh of relief.

This man put too much pressure on him just now, especially his sight, as if he could see through his disguise at a glance.

"Let's go." Espagu took the lead.

Although he really wanted to stay and talk to Frankie, the relationship between the two should not be exposed in front of outsiders.

(End of this chapter)