Arkham in the pirate world

Late night

In a square some distance away from the central street of Portozzi Baralta, a huge tent was set up.

It was a circus tent. Although it was a popular tourist attraction for people traveling with their families during the day, it was already closed at this time and there was no one around.

click

On the street at night, a figure pulling a cart appeared.

The cart carried large wooden boxes, and the man pulling the cart wore shackles on his feet. There were also several men in shackles behind the cart, transporting what looked like heavy goods.

"come yet"

Ace, who was leading the carriage, entered the circus tent through the service door. During the day, the little gangster was already waiting in the backyard.

Ace nodded slightly as a response to the gangster's question. He moved his body and showed the goods behind him to the other party.

The man pulling the cart fell to his knees looking exhausted.

"Hey, you still have a fish-man slave," the little gangster said with some surprise and envy when he saw the man.

"It's convenient for doing physical work," Ace said.

The cart was pulled by Wares.

"So, the fishman is in that box"

"yes"

There is a wooden box on the cart with "raid" clearly written on it.

"Before I call Mr. Oliver over, I'll take a look at the goods first."

Ace then opened the small window on the wooden box, and through the small window, part of the mermaid's tail fin could be seen.

"Let me out." A slightly hoarse and timid female voice came from inside.

"Oh," the little gangster got excited. Female mermaids cost tens of millions. If you were lucky, you could get hundreds of millions of beli.

"I want to get it done quickly" Ace closed the door.

"Just wait, I'm going to call Mr. Oliver over now. He's already over there." The little gangster took out the phone bug.

"Well, yes, it's been negotiated." After putting down the phone, he said, "Wait a moment, Mr. Oliver will be here soon. Well, just sit there and wait for a while."

"All right"

Ace sat down on the chair next to him.

The little gangster rolled his eyes and saw another box. He asked curiously, "By the way, what is the other big box?"

“That’s another product.”

Ace said when he saw "Wait a minute, I advise you not to look inside. Although it is asleep, it is still a huge beast."

"It's really scary." The gangster left the cart disapprovingly.

"I saw the celebration on the way here. It was amazing." Ace was speechless.

"Of course, it was arranged by Mr. Oliver after all."

"What kind of person is he?"

"If I can describe it in just one sentence, I have never seen a purer person than him."

"pure"

Before the gangster could explain, a loud voice came from outside the tent, "Make big money, make big money."

slam

A hand with a gold ring opened the curtain of the tent, and then, a man wearing a colorful striped suit walked in. He had a tanned complexion and a two-part hairstyle that was carefully divided into upper and lower parts. Wearing gold nugget-like rings from thumb to little finger, she was followed by a middle-aged woman wearing heavy makeup, and behind her was a secretary who was playing with an abacus.

Both his face and body are almost the same as those of a gorilla.

"Is that person pure?"

"He likes making money to a pure level, Mr. Oliver," the gangster replied.

"Oh little bastard, how's it going? Did you make any money?" Oliver raised his hand in greeting.

"Thanks to you, this year's celebration was also a great success."

“It’s hard to make money”

Say something nice.

"People in the nearby waters have worked patiently for a year just to enjoy this celebration, and we are trying every means to open their wallets and collect the money saved by these poor people in one go. This is our business model. So, The poor get poorer and the rich get richer.”

"As expected of Mr. Oliver, you are so skilled. After all, let me show off my skills tonight."

"Oh, I heard there's something good." Oliver finally looked at Ace at this time.

His gaze was extremely oppressive. If he were an ordinary citizen, he would be so scared that he would shrink into a ball just by being stared at like that.

"I'm busy today, sorry to bother you." Ace saluted the other person without taking off his hat, and the fake nose was still on his face.

"There's no need for such rigid greetings. Were you the one who brought the things? You're so young. So, is this it?"

Oliver looked at the wooden box with "raid" written on it.

"I'll open the wooden box right now and make a lot of money, hey."

Oliver directly waved his fist with a gold ring, and the wooden box was smashed into pieces with a burst of crackling sounds.

What's in the box is the mermaid

"Hey, hey, hey," the little gangster's voice changed when he saw the mermaid.

In panic, he dragged Ace and ran a little further away.

"What's wrong"

"Hey, what's going on? It's completely different from the photo. Isn't she an old woman? It's too much of a photo fraud."

The little gangster took out the previous photo and pointed it at Ace to compare.

"The one in the wooden box is undoubtedly a mermaid," Ace said seriously, explaining, "It's just that as I got older, my tail has split into two parts and turned into a mermaid. Isn't that the person in the photo? There's something wrong with your eyes." Bar"

"Are you a liar born from your mouth?" The little gangster complained, feeling that he was not going to die soon.

This is totally a lie.

At this time, Oliver was looking at the mermaid coming out of the wooden box with a blank look on his face, making inarticulate sounds from his mouth.

"Uh-oh"

Bangsi, who was still wearing a mermaid-like swimsuit and makeup, stared back at him.

Perhaps the shock was so great that he couldn't make a sound. Oliver took a step back. For some reason, he waved to the gangster with some embarrassment and pulled him to a place a little further away.

Ace tilted his head, always feeling that the situation was a little strange.

"Hey, little bastard, what's going on?"

"I'm very sorry, Mr. Oliver." The little gangster turned pale with fright, and said quickly, "It's all that kid's sweet talk. He's such a bastard. I definitely want him to have a better memory."

The gangster glared at Ace fiercely and shouted, "Hey, you dare to play tricks on Mr. Oliver, you are thought to be able to get away with it easily."

"That's so beautiful, a real mermaid"

"I mean, it's so beautiful."

The little gangster suddenly stared at Oliver with his eyes wide open and his mind confused.

And Oliver stared at Bonsi, with an expression on his face that only a man who is completely in love would have.

"Mr. Oliver, do you have poor eyesight?"

"When a man is in the presence of a beautiful woman, he can't see anything," Oliver said.

He yelled "Hey, boy" to Ace.

"Ah, what's the matter, boss?"

"That mermaid princess, I bought her and I won't let her enter the trading channel. She belongs to me. I'm here to redeem her." Oliver just stared at Bonsi, looked at her from head to tail fin, and then took a snap shot. board.

"Haha." Ace scratched his head.

The little gangster ran to Ace again and whispered in his ear, "Hey, don't think about such a stingy thing as raising the price."

"No, I am"

"Boss Oliver, he seems to be very fond of that old mermaid."

"No, why is there no such development in Nedius's strategy?"

"Countermeasures"

"nothing"

"Anyway, I can tell even if I don't care, he just likes old women." The little gangster pointed at the potbellied woman next to Oliver.

"No matter what, it's a blessing in disguise after all. Smile, smile quickly, smile and just close your eyes."

"I know, I know, wait a moment, I have something to tell her," Ace said.

"Ah, what can I say to a slave?"

"But there's a lot to say, and it's also related to my business."

Ace walked to Bonsi alone and started talking to her in a low voice.

"I said, what's going on, Ace?" Bonsey asked doubtfully.

"I'm not sure, but in short it seems to have gone smoothly, and then we'll continue as promised." Ace slightly revealed the piece of paper in his hand, which was Bangsi's life card.

After that, the place where Bangsi will be taken is probably also where other slaves are. Ace's purpose is to grasp the full picture of the slave trade secretly carried out on the island of Portozi Baralta, in order to warn those who dare to despise Baidu. Man with beard and flag.

"I know, I really can't stand you" Bonsi complained.

"I feel a little sorry for you, but that guy seems to like you, aunt. What are you going to do?"

"Ask me what to do? Why should I be with that kind of gorilla?"

"No, no, aunt, aren't you still a flower? If you become a pirate, you won't have many encounters." Ace started to worry in a strange place.

"I'm sorry, but the type I like is the kind of frivolous boy like Brother Whitebeard, the old-fashioned man, or the man with superb cooking skills like Boss Sachi."

"Hey, haven't you finished talking yet?" the gangster shouted.

Ace turned around with a smile on his face.

Although it didn't matter what the price was, Oliver quoted the price based on the price of a young mermaid, not a mermaid with a forked tail.

Young mermaids are naturally beautiful, but mermaids with forked tails, well, most of them will age quickly and become ugly more easily than human women of the same age. Therefore, young mermaids and mermaids with forked tails are completely different. A market, a sky, a place.

Ace immediately agreed to make the deal.

The secret technique allowed Ace to identify the bundles of banknotes stuffed in the suitcase.

"no problem"

"It's a really good deal. When you have goods to sell in the future, remember to come to me."

Ace and Oliver shook hands tightly.

"By the way, what kind of slaves do you usually deal with, Boss Oliver?"

"Oh, that's just right." Oliver winked at the secretary.

The secretary walked aside and turned on the switch on the pillar, and the lights suddenly lit up in the tent.

Ace suddenly took a breath.

Surrounded by mountains of iron cages.

When you think of the circus, you will think of beast performances, and the cages here contain not only lions, bears, elephants and other beasts, but also slaves.

These people belong to various races. When they see Oliver, some are afraid, some have no reaction, and some are beating the iron cage angrily.

"Slaves are imprisoned in a circus"

The sight in front of him made Ace very uncomfortable. The slave trade was equivalent to the Celestial Dragons. Such thoughts came to Ace's mind.

"This is a traveling circus. Even if there is a cage, no one will notice that there are slaves in it."

Oliver said proudly, "As long as you are young, no matter whether you are male or female, there will be buyers. However, after all, you are doing a prohibited slave business in Whitebeard's territory. If you can't sell the goods at a good price, there will be no buyers." To make money, for example, the man must be a famous pirate, the woman must be good at singing and dancing, sexy and beautiful, and she must be a valuable race represented by the fish-men."

Ace frowned and asked, "In Whitebeard's territory, you handle so many slaves, aren't you afraid of Whitebeard?"

"It was my dad who had a drink with him, not me," Oliver said disdainfully.

"Having said that, it seems that this island still hangs Whitebeard's flag and is under its protection," Ace emphasized.

"The era of flags constraining people is over." Oliver's tone changed obviously.

哐

Oliver approached an iron cage and kicked it, threatening the slave inside.

"what do you mean"

"From now on, it's a new era, and so are pirates. When our younger generation were still kids, or even before they were born, Roger, who had died long ago, was blinded by the rumor that he left behind a treasure. , I won’t let him play with your life. Dreams are not just for dreams. How to make money? Now is no longer an era where strength alone speaks. Onepiece risked his life to finally get a small handful. Can a guy with gold coins be called smart? Look at this town. Under the broad daylight, as long as you are down-to-earth, hard-working and willing to work hard, you can make money. Customers will be very happy to send money over. You can say that money is like a god. I heard Mr. Arkham? He is the leader of the new era. As for Roger and Whitebeard, they are from the old era and should be swept into the garbage heap of history."

"What should Renyi do? Whitebeard will not tolerate slaves. He is doing the slave trade while using his banner. That will ruin the old man's face. Besides, even that guy Liszt is against slaves. He's a trader, I heard. His fleet defeated the notorious Jigula gang in the New World."

Ace walked towards one of the cages. The young fish inside froze in fear.

"Although I don't like that guy very much, he is much more classy than you. You don't seem to be afraid of Whitebeard."

Oliver said with a calm expression on his face, "I'm not competing with him. There's no question of whether I'm afraid or not. Whitebeard, Whitebeard, both of them are afraid of him to death. This island doesn't need two pirates." "

"Two Pirates" Ace got to the heart of the matter.

"Who is the boss behind this slave trade?"

Oliver stared at Ace.

Although he is the talkative person in the town, this is probably not something he can accomplish on his own.

Suddenly, there was a commotion around the tent, and it felt like it was surrounded by a large number of people, probably Oliver's army.

Oliver handed his handbag to the woman next to him, stared at Ace and asked, "Brother, are you the one with the white beard?"

"No," Ace shook his head and said, "Although I am not a white-bearded person, I understand benevolence and righteousness. Slaves are prohibited under that flag. I can pretend that I haven't seen what happened so far. I advise you not to say too much." If you say so, remove the tent and go apologize to Whitebeard."

"Since you are not a white-bearded person, why do you want to speak for him?"

"Because I ate his food"

"what"

"You have to do something after eating." Ace showed his benevolence and righteousness, which has nothing to do with gains or losses.

"Then come to our place for dinner. How about tonight is a celebration, or you can't eat our food?" Oliver said.

Ace was silent.

"In addition to Whitebeard, there are other Yonko. No, in fact, there is no need to stick to a skull flag. There are many dirty countries, bad navies, and Celestial Dragons in the world," Oliver said.

"Hidden behind the scenes is the rest. Did you sell this land?"

Oliver smiled and said, "As for officially receiving the adopted son's cup from each other, it's going very smoothly."

This is unbelievable for a moment, but this is the source of Oliver's confidence. At least Oliver is carrying out activities with this intention. He wants to take the adoption cup that his father took over from Whitebeard.

"Exchanging two righteousness cups, do you want to recognize the two bosses? Your father accepted the Whitebeard's cup. As his heir, Whitebeard is your father's boss, but you still have to accept the righteousness of others. Zi Bei, that’s no joke.”

A dull sound made the air tremble, and the sound coming from the wooden box made the beasts in the cage become restless.

Just when I felt the wooden box shaking, the wheels suddenly flew out. With a crackling sound, the wooden box was broken from the inside, and a huge creature emerged from it.

"Is it a bear?" the little gangster screamed.

"No, that's just a mask for the celebration," Ace sighed. Even though he was wearing a bear mask, he was still human underneath the mask.

"Oh, there's a big guy coming out. Is that a commodity?" Oliver looked up at the tall masked man who was two heads taller than him.

"Hey, boy, do you want to throw away Whitebeard's adoption cup?"

"what"

"Hey, why are you coming out?" Ace shouted to Tikki, who was wearing a bear mask.

"Ah" Teach stood on the broken cart and looked back at Ace.

"Why do you think it's the right time? It's just following the trend."

Teach's eyes were bright and his fighting spirit was high.

Now that the slaves' location and Oliver's intentions are known, it's time for closure.

Wores and the other pirates who were pulling the cart took off their handcuffs and shackles and picked up the weapons hidden in the wooden boxes.

At the same time, Oliver's army surrounding the outside also broke into the tent.

"Wow"

The little gangster screamed, and he was thrown aside by Bangsi.

"You've made a lot of money. Did you dig a hole for me from the beginning? You're so brave. However, my army will gather hundreds of people one after another."

"No matter how many hundreds of people you have, once there is no leader, they are just a bunch of thieves, hahaha." Tiqi clenched his fists.

Glancing at Teach who seemed about to go up and beat him up, Ace warned again, "Oliver, aren't you going to apologize?"

"Why is it that I'm going to apologize? I'm going to tie you all up and throw you into the deep currents. Hey, let that one out," Oliver ordered.

The secretary immediately ran to a cage and pulled the handle.

sonorous

The huge cage was opened, and a black figure ran out of it with a pig's snort. The strong impact hit Ace, and he was knocked out of the tent. Ace, who was half turned into flames, was A burning trace was drawn in the night sky, he adjusted his posture and landed.

"What's going on?" He turned to look at the tent in surprise.

"It's the toothless pig called the pig of hell. Kill him," said Oliver loudly.

"It is a terrifying beast that will chew up everything in front of it. After all, it is prepared for the Impel Prison. Mere humans are just its rations."

Oliver's men, who surrounded the tent, cheered for the beast that was released.

Its size is estimated to be about the same as a large rhinoceros, similar to a warthog. Although it is a pig, it has long tusks and sharp teeth.

Suddenly, the toothless pig looked at Oliver's men

"Ah, don't come over"

Seeing the toothless pig rushing towards Oliver's men, Ace couldn't help but complain, "You are idiots, right?"

Even so, he still stood in front of Wantooth Pig.

The full-toothed pig, which was running wildly, rushed towards Ace. Suddenly it braked suddenly and stopped in front of Ace's outstretched palm.

The beast, with its hair standing on end and its teeth bared, suddenly became quiet as if it had been cast by magic. It sat down and stared at Ace with its unexpectedly cute round eyes.

"Hey, darling, it seems a little weird to say that. It's not a horse or a dog. If you want to coax the wild boar, it's up to you. Who cares?" Ace stroked the nose of the fully-toothed pig.

"Are you hunting rare animals? I remember that my Kodaz fell into a hunter's trap in the forest and was almost put in a cage and sold like you." Ace thought of his friends on the boat.

Oliver's soldiers were stunned when they saw that this young man with a prosthetic nose could easily tame the toothless pig.

Ace looked at them, not hiding his displeasure, and took off the prosthetic nose, and a flame ignited in Ace's hand.

"what"

"No way, Fire Fist"

The name "Fire Fist" Ace has been spread in this sea area, mainly because of the burning flames, which are very recognizable.

boom

In just a few minutes, Ace used fire to defeat Oliver's soldiers and make them surrender.

Then he looked towards the circus tent.

"What's wrong, that guy Tikki"

Ace rushed into the tent, and the scene inside the tent was already terrible.

People were lying everywhere, the victims of the "disaster" who had been completely wiped out by the overwhelming force.

The enemies who tried to stop the bear-masked man were all beaten until they lost consciousness. No one, whether it was the secretary or the middle-aged woman, was spared. Even the iron tent supports were tilted.

"thief hahaha"

"Make a lot of money!" Oliver shouted unconsciously after being beaten to the point of dying.

Although Oliver still had some confidence in his ability, facing Teach was like a battle between a giant bear and a small monkey.

"I'm very unhappy now"

Teach clenched his fingers tightly. With his strange strength, he should be able to crush a person's head as easily as an apple.

"Well"

"You seem to have said something, right? It's no longer an era to rely on strength to speak, thief hahahaha"

Oliver was stimulated by the pain. Even though his hands kept shaking, he still raised his pistol and pointed it at Teach and said, "Watch me kill you."

"Hahaha, thief, remember it for me"

Teach slammed Oliver's body to the floor.

咚

"Just say it"

"Well"

As soon as Oliver spoke, Teach's fist was smashed into the stage floor, and his exposed body was trembling with convulsions.

Tikki's hand grabbed the other person's neck harder and harder.

"It would be too pitiful to be half-dead. Teach, it's over." Ace saw this scene and couldn't help but stop him.

"Ace"

"Captain Ace"

Bonsey and Wores looked at Ace with shocked expressions. They had witnessed the whole scene of Teach completely abusing Oliver.

"thief hahaha"

"That's it," Ace warned Tikki again.

"I reject"

Ace frowned.

"This guy wants to take over two adoption cups and doesn't take his father seriously at all. This is not a good example," Teach said.

From a pirate's perspective, Teach's words are undoubtedly correct.

"That's right, but although he was involved in the slave trade, he didn't take action against Whitebeard's possessions. He was just a brat who didn't know justice. As long as he is willing to bow his head and admit his guilt, this matter can be solved," Ace said.

"As long as I apologize to anyone who insulted our flag, I won't let him go even if he is a kid," Teach said loudly.

"Um"

"The so-called flag is equivalent to the status that God knows Beard's flag has today. It's because of someone's blood. That's right, it's us. War is something that no matter how much money we have, we can't win it. snarled Tikki.

Ace, with his hands ignited with flames, stared at Teach and said, "I said it from the beginning, anyone who is dissatisfied with my arrangement will quit."

Ace is serious

Teach stared at Ace, he grinned, then let go of the struggling Oliver, took off the bear mask, threw it aside, and laughed wildly.

"It's just going with the flow," Teach explained.

Ace was speechless, he really couldn't understand this weirdo.

"I am your caregiver. I have seen everything from beginning to end. I will report it to dad truthfully," Teach said.

"Yeah"

"Are you going to have a duel with dad after you go back? It's not easy to surpass others, hahahaha"

crunch

At this time, the tent seemed to collapse.

"I can't hold it anymore, let's go," Ace ordered to his friends. After releasing the animals and slaves in the cages, they escaped from the circus tent together.

Finally, the Oliver family on the island of Portozibaralta apologized to the Whitebeard Pirates and closed down their business. The matter was settled. The island was temporarily placed under the direct jurisdiction of the Whitebeard Pirates and peace was restored. .

In the pirate business, not everything can be judged by justice and evil. In order not to be targeted by the world government, most things will be stopped as appropriate, so there are rules of benevolence and righteousness, as well as various unwritten rules. rules.

Whoever breaks the rules will be punished

cessna island

A public execution was also held to uphold this rule. The person executed was Kivi, who was brought back by Enrique Dias.

This public execution was quite grand under Liszt's deliberate exaggeration. He wanted to use Kiwei's head to establish the prestige of the rules he had set, not only to those inside Cessna Island who still had a sense of luck. The intimidation of the "old man" is also to declare that his dominance on Cessna Island is unshakable, and to warn those casinos not to make any crooked ideas. If you can kill your own people, then outsiders can be killed even more.

Beside the guillotine, Sagres and others did not feel sad for Kiwi because he was once a member of the Justice League. Not to mention that within the Justice League, various pirate groups used to have grievances against each other, just talk about Kiwi. For his own selfish gain, destroying everyone's interests is enough to make everyone unable to sympathize with him. What's more, after Kiwei's death, everyone has a share in his territory. At most, he can only blink his eyes when his head falls to the ground. Pretending to be sad, I squeezed out a tear.

As for the locals and tourists who came to watch, their eyes widened when the guillotine fell. They watched blood splatter three feet and the head fell to the ground. Everyone's breath was stagnant, and then they started cheering loudly. , trembling all over, as if he had seen many beheadings, but it was a thrilling performance.

Everyone was shouting things like "well done" and "you deserve to die". In fact, many of them were just following what they said, because they neither knew why the beheaded person died nor what such a scene was. What kind of interests are involved behind beheading? They only saw blood and heads. After they went back, they had something to brag about in the bar. They were excited, that's all. As for who died. , why did he die, and what does it have to do with them?

People have always been blind. This has nothing to do with knowledge or wisdom, because humans are inherently gregarious beings, just like most gregarious beings in the world. As long as a leader makes a voice and takes the lead, there will definitely be people. Followers, follow him, even if there is a mountain of knives or a sea of ​​fire in front of you, you will not hesitate to jump down.

Maybe this is just following the crowd and following the general trend.

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