Pirate Traveling Merchant

After leaving Bodo Island, Nolan and the others randomly came to another island.

Since they arrive wherever they go, they don't know what the island they will reach will be like.

At this moment, the island they arrived at was a very long and narrow island. The width of the island was very narrow. The widest part was only 100 meters long. If viewed from the air, it looked like a hole had been carved out of the sea.

Compared with the width of the island, the length of the island is very long, stretching for about ten kilometers.

Although the width of the island is very narrow, there are many buildings on it. Rows and rows of buildings are built on both sides of the island. Except for the only road in the middle of the island, there is not much open space on the island.

"Wow, this island is so weird." Nolan stood on the bow of the boat and looked curiously at the island in front of him.

"Do you know this island?" Nolan asked Gilder. Among the people on the ship, Gilder was the one who knew the Grand Line best.

"I don't know about this island either." Gilder shook his head. He didn't know there was such a strange island.

"Go up and have a look." Nolan smiled.

"Farewell. You can tell at a glance that such an island has little value. There is no need to waste time going up there." Gilder refused. He just wanted to reach an island with more developed commerce as soon as possible and start his second business immediately. .

"Okay, don't force yourself so much." Nolan hugged Gilder, "It's rare to encounter such an interesting island. If you miss it, you never know when you will encounter it next time. Let's go up and have a look. .”

Nolan ignored Gilder's resentful eyes and sailed directly towards the island.

Gilder wanted to say something else, but Besiton stopped him. "Stop talking. As long as Nolan wants to go, no one can stop him. Just give up."

"Has he always been like this?" Gilder asked.

Sidon and Feng nodded at the same time.

"When he formed an alliance with you, the shrewdness he showed was not normal. It only appeared suddenly at a certain time. I have been traveling with him for almost a year, and I have only seen him like this once." Sidon's expression Said seriously.

"Uh...sigh..." Gilder looked at the expressions of Sidon and Feng for a while before sighing resignedly.

"Hey, you have to arrange for others, I'm not saying you can't, but please don't arrange it in front of the person involved, okay." Nolan, who was at the helm, complained dissatisfiedly.

Sidon and Gilder looked at each other, then laughed, and the corners of Feng's mouth also raised slightly.A few people just sailed towards the island in a cheerful atmosphere.

When they got closer to the island, they discovered that the buildings on the island were very dilapidated, and many places were repaired and built with different materials.

This long and narrow island did not have a pier. Nolan docked the boat directly at the beach without buildings at one end of the island. After getting off the boat, they saw several children playing in the sand not far away, and their clothes were all in tatters. Rotten.

"Hello!" Nolan greeted them.

Only then did the children notice Nolan's arrival. Maybe they were too absorbed in playing in the sand and didn't notice their surroundings.

When they saw Nolan and the others, the children screamed in fright, dropped the sand in their hands and ran directly to the house.

"Uh..." Nolan froze on the spot, a little at a loss.

"Am I too scary?" Nolan asked

"Um"

"Yes."

"Maybe."

The three people from Sidon answered immediately.

"Shut up, I know you won't say anything nice." Nolan glared at the three people standing behind him.

"Let's go take a look first." Feng said suddenly.

"Um."

Several people also walked forward and entered the island's town.

After entering the town again, the four of them felt the dilapidation of the town more intuitively.The clothes worn by the people living here are very shabby.Although there are many houses, not many people live here.

"Um, are these people a little hostile to us?!" Sidon asked.

"Well, yes." Nolan and the others naturally discovered this situation.

Because people in the town looked at Nolan and the others with very wary eyes.Everyone here is staying in their houses now, and there is not a single pedestrian on the road.

"What's going on? The people here seem to be very repulsive to outsiders." Gilder was also a little puzzled. It's not like he had never been to a place that was repulsive to outsiders, but this was the first time he encountered such a repulsive person.

Although the people here were very hostile to Nolan and the others and were on guard with weapons, they did not show any intention of actively attacking.This made Nolan and the others even more confused. Since they were hostile to outsiders, why didn't they dare to take the initiative to drive them away?

It's not that Nolan hasn't tried to communicate with the people here, but as soon as Nolan gets close, they seem to be stimulated by something, waving the weapons in their hands randomly and yelling.No matter what Nolan said to them, it was useless. Nolan, who had failed to communicate, could only return to the road.

When Nolan was far away from them, these people would become quiet again and continue to look at them with wary eyes.

"No matter what we do, we can't communicate." Nolan spread his hands helplessly. Even if he wanted to know about the situation on the island, no one would tell him.

"Let's get out of here. Judging from the situation here, there's basically nothing to stay at." Gilder said.

"No, I have to figure out what's going on here." Nolan's stubborn temper rose, and no amount of persuasion from others was of any use.

Nolan continued to walk forward. Feng, Sidon, and Gilder looked at each other helplessly and could only follow.

When they walked to the center of the island, an old man suddenly walked out of the dilapidated house. This old man was not wary of Nolan and the others like the others, although he could still see vigilance in his eyes. But at least it won't be that extreme.

The old man walked in front of Nolan and the others and said, "Go back, outsiders, there is nothing worth plundering here."

"Well, old man, we didn't come here because we wanted to plunder something. We also came to this island by chance. When we came here, we just wanted to understand the situation here." Lan explained.

The old man looked at Nolan and the others with suspicious eyes for a while. He did not feel any hostility from Nolan and the others.

The old man sighed: "Tell me, what do you want to know? I will tell you whatever I can tell you."

From the look in Nolan's eyes, the old man knew that Nolan would not leave if he did not satisfy the other party's curiosity.

"What's the name of this island and why do you live here?" Nolan was like a curious baby.

"This island is called Gap Island. As the name suggests, this island is very long and narrow, just like a gap. As for why we live here, I can't tell you. If you really want to say it, you can call us people abandoned by the world. , As for why, you don’t need to ask more." The old man said seriously.

"There are no shops here, and there should be no ships landing here. How do you live?" Nolan continued to ask, as if checking household registration.

"We will catch fish in the nearby shallow sea, so that we can ensure our basic livelihood."

"Then you have been living on this island like this and have never gone out?"

"No, people who come here by chance and are willing to stay generally don't want to go to sea again."

"besides.............."

Nolan continued to ask a lot of trivial things to satisfy his strong curiosity.Although the old man was very dissatisfied, in order for Nolan and the others to leave as soon as possible, he still answered Nolan's questions patiently.Through the conversation with the old man, Nolan could guess that the people on this island were basically homeless people for various reasons. They came here by chance and stayed to join the group to keep warm.

During the conversation, Nolan was also observing the people around him.When he saw that many people had the unique marks of slaves, Nolan also understood why the old man didn't want to tell him why they lived here.

Because as long as someone knows and discovers that they are slaves, outsiders can capture them and sell them without any psychological pressure.

It is understandable that the old people would say that they are people abandoned by the world.

After talking for about half an hour, Nolan finally had no problem.The old man also breathed a heavy sigh of relief and directly issued an eviction order: "Can you leave now?"