Pirate Catcher in the Rye

"strangeness!"

"What's going on? Why is it that everyone in the house is okay, but no one outside has escaped."

Hawkins looked at the beautiful waitress. She was the only local here.

"Well, I'm not either..."

Snapped!

Hawkins casually took out a ruby ​​necklace and slammed it on the table.

The necklace is worth more than 100 million Baileys. Compared with these valuable small items, carrying Baileys is really troublesome.

"You should remember it now, right?"

"When I think about it, I remember everything, and I remember it very clearly!"

The beautiful waiter's eyes turned into the shape of Bailey, and she put the necklace into the 'treasure box' on her chest with a satisfied look.

Fortunately, she was very professional and then explained:

"There is something special about Alhambrani. Whenever the sun sets, both humans and animals become inexplicably violent."

"Only the people inside will not be affected, but the people outside will kill each other like those people until the last person is left, or until the sun rises again tomorrow."

“That’s why this town is so prosperous!”

Oh?

After hearing this, everyone understood that as long as the sun rose again the next day, people in this town could go out to pick up corpses.

No matter how poor those pirates are, each of them still has some money, not to mention there are thousands of people outside.

It seems that corpse picking is a hugely profitable industry!

"But... there were still many people dead the next morning."

"Oh, what do you mean?"

"Most of the pirates who know this secret will choose to stay, so many people will join the fight, including some local forces..."

The beautiful waiter did not continue, but everyone roughly understood the reason.

That is,

This town experiences two fires of this magnitude every day!

In the previous scene, unknowing pirates went berserk for some unknown reason and killed each other.

The next scene was a fight for the body between the body pickers.

It is indeed a popular industry. It is like thousands of troops crossing the single-plank bridge!

But one thing Hawkins would like to praise is that Alhambrani's sanitation work is really good.

Unexpectedly, there was no smell of blood left at all. When they came in, the whole town was still so fragrant with birds and flowers!

"So that's what the note in the logbook about being good at using poison means?"

"Poison?"

The beautiful waiter looked confused.

Sure enough, rumors are not trustworthy, even the logbook is not reliable!

Everyone looked at each other, their faces a little red.

Fortunately, they were cautious along the way, thinking that there was some poisonous insect or man-made reason!

Ok?

Suddenly, Hawkins turned his head and looked out the window. Following his domineering perception, he looked at a green-haired man who fell to the ground.

It was the aura of good strength that Hawkins had discovered before. At that time, he thought it was this year's supernova.

Unlike others, that guy seemed to have some sense, but unfortunately, this sense also harmed him.

Because he wanted to save his companions, he was beaten to death by his companions and the people around him!

Just because of a little bad luck, a promising supernova has died, and even the body will not be saved tomorrow morning.

"Tsk, tsk, it's no good if you have strength but no luck!"

Hawkins mused.

However, the elimination rate was not as high as he imagined. At least more than half of the pirates on this island survived.

The first half of the Grand Line is called Paradise because quite a few pirates can reach it successfully, not just Supernova.

It's just that because the rewards for those pirates didn't exceed [-] million, no one cared.

And including them, there are a total of nine Supernova Pirates this year, and the number of ordinary pirates will only be more!

Gradually,

The shouts of killing outside gradually decreased, and the carnival finally came to an end.

Even if the last person survives by luck, he still feels uncomfortable after killing all his companions.

And they themselves have become polished commanders!

Hawkins had to admire the residents of this town and the pirates who knew about it. They were able to keep it secret from so many pirates.

The human heart is like a ghost, and delusions shine upon it!

It is estimated that this waiter chose to tell the truth because they witnessed everything with their own eyes, and the necklace was only part of the reason.

"Hey, do you want to go tomorrow morning? That sounds good!" Baker asked enthusiastically.

But when he looked at everyone, only Bartholomew was interested.

Others either have little interest in Bailey, or are disdainful of the strength of those people.

"The first collision in the Grand Line, I'm going to blow up a hundred heads!" Bartholomew clenched his fists and smiled happily.

Anyway, the quality of the heads is about the same. He doesn't care whether those people are strong or weak. He just wants to leave some interesting records on this island!

As for Baker, he probably regarded two large-scale massacres every day as a 'specialty'.

Baker showed great interest in local specialties, no matter what they were, as long as they were unfamiliar things.

The new things made the 34-year-old uncle feel like he was 17 years old again!

After following Hawkins, I was nothing but youthful at the age of 17, and spent most of my time practicing.

boring youth,

Boss Hawkins made a mistake!

……

early morning,

Hawkins sat at the window, holding a glass of red wine in his hand, admiring the fighting below with interest.

Bartholomew and Baker were seen like two tyrannosauruses breaking into the battlefield, and people kept falling behind them along the way.

Especially for Bartholomew, Hawkins has been helping him count. He has broken the heads of 63 pirates and will soon complete his small goal!

"Hawkins!"

At this moment, Bettina suddenly got up from the bed, walked behind Hawkins and hugged him gently.

Bettina was a little speechless, there was nothing interesting about fighting and killing, and there was no decent opponent at all. It was a one-sided massacre by Baker and Bartholomew!

"Bettina, do you think the world government is like us now, watching countless pirates pouring into the new world?"

"Then drink red wine, sit at the top, and watch the 'performance' leisurely?"

Hawkins suddenly asked, but his eyes never left the battlefield below.

Strength is only part of the factor, and this is the main reason why he is unwilling to enter the new world too early.

He doesn't want to be treated like a monkey by the world government!

From another perspective, aren't Baker and Bartholomew at this time the same as the Yonko of the New World?

"how is this possible!"

Bettina rolled her eyes: "The new world is so big and the Four Emperors are so strong, how can the gap be so huge?"

Ha ha!

There was no refutation of Bettina's words.

As long as you stand high enough, nothing is impossible, and the World Government does have that qualification.

You know, the Navy is just one of the institutions affiliated with the World Government, but this institution is the absolute overlord of this sea.

In the seemingly ups and downs of the war, the navy's losses were actually very limited.

They destroyed the Whitebeard Pirates at no cost at all, and the losses were basically ordinary soldiers.

A simple world conscription, and they still have enough troops to squeeze into the new world.

Compared to the navy, a single pirate group is too fragile. Even at its peak, as soon as the captain dies, the pirate group will naturally disintegrate!

Therefore, from the perspective of the world government, as long as the new world is not unified, they are fully qualified to sit back and watch the situation like they are now.

Besides,

Even if all the pirates in the New World were integrated, would they really be worth the World Government's 800 years of heritage?