[One Piece] Almighty staff

When Leah woke up, it was dusk.

The climate change in the calm zone is not as obvious as outside, but the temperature change still exists.The area where they docked was still cold in January, and the sky was getting dark quickly. Although there were a few stars on the dark sky, it was not yet time for dinner.

When Lia opened her eyes, she could faintly hear the sound of boys around the kitchen banging on the door frame.

The boy who has just grown up is full of energy, loves to play, and has a big appetite. Every day he rushes to eat, which annoys the cook.Most of the time, the chef will raise the kitchen knife to drive people away, but occasionally he will take some leftover bread to fill their stomachs.

However, there is a big appetite for heavy labor, and it is rare to have leftovers from the previous meal.Liya's food is very generous, but the kitchen is not messy, and every meal is counted very carefully, and it is never wasted.

Therefore, reminding the meal is a pre-dinner trick-or-treating sport for the boys, and it doesn't affect their happiness even if the chef catches up with him and punches them twice.

At the beginning, she still knocked on the rice bowl with spoons and chopsticks, but Liya couldn't bear it.Knocking on the rice bowl will become a little beggar in the future, baa!

The materialistic captain suddenly became convinced of a strange folklore and strictly forbade knocking on bowls, so everyone had to knock on the doorframe instead.

Leah is not picky about this, anyway, it is not as noisy as knocking on the rice bowl.

Speaking of which, the silver mines on Mine Island have already closed the mines and filled up many pits to build factories. Unexpectedly, experienced workers discovered rich bauxite, which accounts for a larger proportion than silver mines. I don’t know. How many.The original owner is only interested in silver mines that can be sold at high prices and made into handicrafts, and the bauxite mines have not been touched at all.

So after some discussion and research, [-]% of the widely used bauxite was shelved.Although she is also very happy, she has limited technology and even more limited financial resources.I can only make a preliminary plan, save money first, and refine some for emergencies.

Now the biggest role played by bauxite is that the rice bowls are all aluminum lunch boxes produced by the company's own factory.Old-fashioned is old-fashioned, and it is true that light leather is durable.Well, up to her and Teacher Zefa, down to the dog guarding the factory, they all use the same rice bowl.

Liya didn't go to bed until noon. She didn't sleep last night. After dealing with the murloc, she went to see Whitebeard again. Her brain started to ache from dawn, but her energy was very high. She struggled to fall asleep after tossing and turning for a long time.

Counting the time, I haven't slept for long when I woke up.And it's not that I've slept enough, it's that I woke up from the fever.

His hands and feet were cold, his breath was hot, and his eyes were dark.Familiar symptoms of fever.

She was in the hospital before leaving Marin Vandor.The old illness has not healed, and it is blown and snowed for a while, so it is not surprising that the disease relapses.When Monica gave her a physical examination in the morning, she reminded her that she was overtired and should pay attention to the possibility of fever at night.

Although it was not night yet, fortunately Monica brought back all the pills prepared for her and put them by the bedside.There was warm water in a thermos bottle on the table, and Liya picked out the right medicine and took it.Even though she hadn't eaten all day, she still had no appetite at all.

After leaning against the bed for a while, she planned to say that she would not eat dinner.After taking the medicine and sleeping for a long time, the fever will almost be gone when I open my eyes again.

As soon as he struggled to get up, the first officer knocked on the door and came in.Holding a newspaper, he turned around and closed the door with a strange expression on his face, and then opened the curtains, so that he could see the situation outside at a glance.

Looking out of the window, there is nothing unusual on board. The boys have recruited new murloc partners to be the chef, and they even brought the mermaid girls as shields.

The chef was merciless, bypassing the two girls and brutally cleaning up the other boys, even their new murloc friend was not spared even if he was a guest.The female crew took the little mermaid away and stood aside to watch the excitement.

After getting along for a while, everyone on the boat had already grasped the nature of the murlocs, and the chef let go of them.Except for adding more aquatic products, there is no change in the diet.Everyone eats whatever the guests eat, as long as they can fill their stomachs.Children who are disobedient will be taught the same lesson, and they don't worry about offending anyone at all.

Of course Fisher didn't care, not to mention him, even his most radical and human-hating younger brother, Jinping, had no objections.

It's even a bit commonplace: "It's so noisy, no place with little ghosts can be clean. When I was on the street, I chased them every two days and beat them, and it didn't change at all when I came out."

Jin Ping is accompanying the boss to drink away his worries.

After returning from the Whitebeard boat, Fisher fell into deep thought and didn't speak much all day.Jinbe couldn't ask anything, and didn't ask Aladdin or the first mate.The boss didn't want to say it, so he simply drank with Fisher and waited for Fisher to express his emotions.

The first mate directly dragged the chair to the end of her bed, assuming that something had to be discussed in the long run, which gave Lia a headache.Enduring the dizziness of exploding fireworks in her head, she slowly sat back on the bed.She had read today's newspaper at Whitebeard's in the morning, and she didn't see anything that required her to face the enemy. The first officer probably brought an extra-issue newspaper.

If nothing serious happened, the first officer would not disturb her sleep.But if something happened, even if she didn't wake up, according to her own rules, she would have to be called up to discuss the matter.

"An accident happened in Beihai again." The first officer handed her the newspaper.

Liya took it, and read it ten lines at a glance according to the folded-out layout, with a slightly condensed expression.

It is indeed a big deal.

The extra-issue newspaper of the World Economic News Agency specially reminded that this morning, near the entrance of the Inversion Mountain in the North Sea, a super-large-diameter vortex was caused by the subsidence of the island.As of [-]:[-] p.m. today, more than [-] large merchant ships have been affected and sunk when they passed the Inverted Mountain.

Before the sunken island that caused this phenomenon sank, it was at war with Germa 66, the famous "evil army" in the North Sea.

According to World Economic News, the cause of this incident is related to a human trafficking incident: a slave organization in Beihai abducted the heir of a certain royal family. Germa 66 accepted the commission of the royal family in Beihai to smash the largest slave trading organization in Beihai, tortured and killed several leaders, and bombed the North Sea. Organize islands.

The client is the largest royal family in the North Sea non-alliance country, and the country is not under the jurisdiction of the world government.Non-confederated countries are neither supported and sheltered by the forces of the world government, nor do they need to obey the laws and regulations of the government.On the surface, the slave organization is also an unscrupulous business group.

Therefore, the two major power organizations of One Piece World, Shizheng and the Navy, learned of the news after the newspaper was published.

According to reports, after receiving the news in the morning, the Navy immediately sent personnel to the North Sea to intervene in the investigation and deal with the damage of the vortex.

The phone bug was buzzing on the desk, Liya seemed to be in a bad state of mind, the first officer didn't let her move, got up and squeezed the phone bug.

It was Drake who called. He is now Marin Fandor, but he just got the news: "I only found out about it after reading the newspaper. The navy dispatched troops to Beihai didn't reveal the slightest thing. It should be directly assigned to an external force."

Liya frowned slightly, and exchanged glances with the first officer.

She didn't hide her concern about Beihai from the chief mate. At the same time, she had other plans in Beihai. The chief mate was worried that the turmoil in Beihai would affect their actions.

As for her, she couldn't help thinking of what Sakaski had said to her the night of the fight in Dorag: "Don Quixote's human slave trade plan will not succeed."

At that time, she was skeptical, and wondered in her heart whether she was deliberately defrauding her by abducting her to his house.

However, it now appears that Sakaski may actually have revealed very confidential information to her.

"Is there no movement from the world government?"

Drake knew what she was thinking: "Ms. Sisser said, apparently not yet."

If Esisel's intelligence network can't detect relevant information, it means that this matter has not been cleared up by the government at least, and there are also opposition groups in the government.

Drake calmly reminded her: "This busted slave organization is the one we're investigating."

Leah invested a lot of energy in Beihai, more than half of which was used to investigate and monitor the Don Quixote family, including their recent frequent human trafficking plan.According to her analysis, this is at least one of the two "big projects" that Don Quixote has ranked first in the past two years.

As for the other... She has limited energy and is planning to find a way to push it to Sakalski.

She admits that going to great lengths to delay and disrupt the activities of Doflamingo's human traffickers is not only because large-scale, organized, and formalized human trafficking is a catastrophe for the common people, but also because it can quickly bring peace to the good people. Hod amassed a vast wealth and connections.

Leah can't sit back and watch the Don Quixote family become bigger and stronger. Their tentacles that have reached into the navy have not been pulled out and cut off, and she has not yet helped Rosindi find a safe and suitable way out.Until then, delay anyway.

But she never expected to directly overthrow the lair of the human trafficker organization.It's not that she didn't think about it, it's just that Beihai didn't have the strength to do this, and those who had the strength didn't take it seriously.

Drake said with a smile: "I didn't expect such a good thing."

Leah heard his teasing and smiled.

But there is no such good thing.

Behind the slave trade organization are the major forces and nobles led by Doflamingo; the island that was bombed and sunk is also the main base of the slave organization, and the nobles spent a lot of money on the island.

Next, will the monstrous power over the common people of the world be the first to cast a thunderbolt, or will the new human trafficking organization quickly counterattack?

"Didn't the nobles favored by the Tianlong people participate? If the Tianlong people take action..." Drake didn't finish speaking, and his voice fell heavily.

Liya curled her lips, and there was no smile in her eyes: "No."

"The Tianlong people have not yet enjoyed the 'results', and they dare not act in the name of the Tianlong people."

Not to mention that the Tianlong people used the power of the navy to attack.

Leah didn't know that the Warring States had secretly held a combat meeting for this.But she has no less information than the navy, and the hard work she spent in Beihai is no joke.And because of buying slaves, she has dealt with Marie Gioia many times, which is enough for her to figure out a lot of things based on the relationship between Tianlong people and nobles.

Why did the Celestial Dragons, whose eyes are higher than the top, regard civilians as dung, never thought of creating a slave-robbing institution for a long time in the past?

Because it is not needed.

For the so-called "descendants of creation", as long as they want, there is nothing they cannot have.Whether or not there is a specific slave institution does not affect them taking all the people or things they fancy as their own.The existence of slave institutions at best makes the scope of this behavior wider, faster and more varied.

So the real beneficiaries are actually the "middlemen" who created this institution.

In the eyes of many aristocrats, the lives of civilians really don't matter.Even Don Quixote Doflamingo, who has turned into a bandit and has the blood of a Celestial Dragon, probably thinks so.Otherwise, it would be impossible to find hundreds of orphans to raise Gu.

"Fisher really did a great job." Leah turned her gaze out of the window and sighed silently.

The red murloc on the ship's side was still drinking in a muffled voice, his back revealing a sense of depression and depression.

At present, not only have the Tianlong people not tasted the benefits of the legitimacy of the slave organization, but because of the widening of the slave selection level, it has attracted the hidden danger of being able to break into the Holy Land and threaten the safety of the Tianlong people.

This group of Tianlong people who claim to be the most noble in the world are undoubtedly the most life-saving in the world, and it is unlikely that they will have the idea of ​​​​rekindling the idea of ​​​​establishing a slave institution in a short time.

As long as Fisher Tiger survives, if nothing else, the legalization of the slave institution will be an open question for a long time.

The first officer was more concerned about the immediate issue: "What will the navy do? If the navy wants to increase surveillance of the North Sea because of this incident, it is not a good thing for us."

Speaking of it, the navy seems to have nothing to do with this matter on the surface, but... Liya once again focused on the vague report that the navy was about to intervene in the investigation, and felt that Sakaski would be responsible for this matter.

As for the first officer's concerns.Drake thought for a while and said, "Probably not."

He knows his hometown.As the sea area with the highest proportion of African Union countries in the four seas, the North Sea has always been the most chaotic sea area.It's not that the navy and the government haven't tried, but without enough real and powerful force to station troops, everything is in vain.

However, there are very few countries in the North Sea Alliance. Many countries that cannot afford the "franchise fee" are poor and evil, and countries that can afford it but are unwilling to join are also fierce and powerful. Few are willing to support the construction of naval bases.There are not many naval bases in Beihai.In addition, in order to ensure that some bases that have already established their heels, the resource tilt is very serious, and the level of the rest of the bases is uneven.

Leah agrees with him.

The key is that neither the world government nor the navy has the power to take action against the North Sea for the time being.Not to mention the other three seas, the pirate power in the New World is too large to be shaken. Just looking at the navy and even having to join forces with the government to carry out the Shichibukai plan, we know that these two major regimes are currently overwhelmed.

The group of world nobles who live in the sky are still thinking about how to make their lives more extravagant every day.

Liya held the newspaper, looked at the world map on the wall, and said softly: "We have to hurry up." The North Sea will be chaotic, and it is a good time to fish in troubled waters.

She needs to have a lot of money ready for this timing.It is also time to export the important commodities accumulated on the two small islands for profit.

Both the first mate and Drake knew how risky the operation was, but they remained silent.No matter how difficult it is, they will try their best to support her.

The Shizheng and the navy have weak influence in this area, and the countries in the North Sea are doing their own thing, and there is no unified maritime force organization with a unified voice to maintain order.Therefore, Beihai is the lair of many lawless forces, and it is also the hiding place of many vicious wanted criminals, and it is also the sea area where most human traffickers attack.

This is also an important factor for Leah to set her sights on the North Sea.Having been to this sea area herself, she knows too well the feasibility of finding a free land in the North Sea.

Of course, benefits come with risks.The violent incidents in Beihai are much higher than the other three seas, and even the average combat power and bounty of pirates are the highest in the four seas.

However, perhaps precisely because it is difficult to be tamed and brainwashed by the world government, Beihai's performance in culture, technology and other aspects is very impressive.

Many literary books that Leah knows come from Beihai, even Lili's "Little Liar Rolando" and his favorite "Sea Warrior Sky" - "World Economic News" based on the real stories of naval heroes The story is based on the comic book story published - the villain character Germa 66 of the Evil Legion, also comes from Beihai.

Beihai is a place where good and bad are distinct.

Her two small islands are already in the remotest corners of the New World.But compared to Beihai, it is still too close to the world government.

*

Rocinandi pushed the dusty felt blanket away with her shoulders, and almost cut off her nose with a sharp silk thread when she walked inside.His hands were full of things, and he couldn't dodge in time, and a thin bloodstain was cut on the bridge of his nose.

The dense cobweb-like threads shrank quickly, and quickly and silently withdrew out of a passage, while the rest of the threads were still criss-crossing and covering the entire iron hut.

The light in this place is too dark, the sky has always been gray, and only a poor glimmer of light from outside the door can vaguely reflect a few strands of streamer light inside the house.

The man half leaning on the innermost side waved at him: "Why have you been out for so long?"

Rocinandi slipped through the blanket and walked in, and the room was once again dark.

He had lit a small stove before going out, but now it was extinguished so that only the warmth remained, not even a spark left.

When Doflamingo heard him, he hurriedly put things on the ground in the dark, and fiddled with the lighter for a long time without re-igniting the stove, but the black feather coat caught fire again.

Rossindi quickly put out the fire on his clothes, and the Doflamingo snatched the lighter from his hand, clicked it twice casually, and the stove was lit.He stared blankly at the fire of the warm orange gradually boiling, and glanced at Doflamingo as if he didn't recognize him.

Doflamingo raised his eyebrows when he saw him, threw the lighter back to him, and laughed lazily: "Idiot."

When they separated, he was ten years old, and he had already lived through the hardest days of his life, so it's nothing to start a fire now.

He doesn't care if he is scolded, seeing that he still has the strength to satirize others, Rosindi will stop talking to him.Put the iron cans taken out of the garbage mountain on the small stove, and pour water to burn it.

Rossi knew about the human trafficking, but although Doflamingo didn't hide it from him, he didn't hand it over to him.He couldn't do anything other than take a big risk to deliver information to Lieutenant General He. During these days, he was so anxious that his hair fell out.

Unexpectedly, before the navy could exert its strength, Doflamingo overturned by himself!

What a stroke of good fortune.Rosindi thought happily.

But when he turned his head to see his brother's wounds all over his body, he felt a little complicated.

Doflamingo stared at the small broken pot on the stove and frowned: "Where did you get it?"

It's too dirty.

Rossindi gestured and told him that the jar had been cleaned by a source of water and it was not dirty.

"Don't understand. Talk."

The sharp outlines were indifferent, and the corners of Doflamingo's lips were straightened, his expression flickering in the dancing flames.

This big mistake not only smashed a large amount of his chips, but also almost made people put the blame on him.He was in a bad mood, more and more moody, and since Rosinetti found him, he hadn't had a nice word out of his mouth.

Rosindi just paused in the gestures, lowered her eyes silently, not knowing what to think.

Doflamingo gave him a sideways glance, not concealing his disgust: "Why did you come here first?"

As long as it's another person, it's already busy now, it's time to finish the work, it's time to collect information, even if you go out and find a few "partners" of the nobles to kill and vent your anger, there is no chance to see him get angry.

Rossindi didn't care at all.

It wasn't the first day he was so disgusted by Doflamingo.Doflamingo thought he was stupid and timid since he was a child. Even though his mother often protected him, Rosie was often caught and scolded by his brother.

It's all about scolding, but Doflamingo has been a domineering protector in his bones since he was a child. He never really bullied him, and he never let others bully him before leaving Marie Gioia.The two brothers have their own way of getting along, and no one cares about a little verbal fighting.

Just a little fresh.Rossindi thought.

Because he belatedly realized that after the reunion, this was the first time Doflamingo laughed at him as wantonly as before.When he first came back, Doflamingo didn't even ask about his past.The rhetoric prepared by Rosindi was useless.

But Doflamingo just genuinely thinks that his younger brother has not lived up to expectations for more than ten years, and at such a big size, he is still so clumsy that he wants to scold him just looking at him.

After the stupid brother grows up, except that he can no longer talk, he seems to be more capable and reliable.But Doflamingo always felt that he was still as useless as before, so useless that he didn't even bother to ask him to do more.

From now on, it seems that the ability to do it when he just came back is all vain and superficial.

But it happened that this good-for-nothing brother found him first.

The veteran cadres who had been with him for more than ten years failed to find him at the first time, but the brothers who had been separated for more than ten years came quickly and accurately as if by fate.Just like going around in circles in the past ten years, or returning to him inexplicably.

The stove is too small, the temperature in the room has not yet risen, and every wound on my body is hurting.He didn't want to talk anymore, leaned back against the wall and dozed off.

The filaments hanging in the air were suddenly driven by a weak air current, like a butterfly flapping its wings, gently brushing against his earlobe.

brother.

Doflamingo raised his eyelids, his gaze was like lightning.

Rossindi suppressed a sound in his throat through the darkness, and tried to make two breathy syllables.

The man looked at him through the sunglasses with no expression on his face.

Brother... He hasn't called out like that in many years.

Rossindi moved his lips and repeated the mouth shape again, but this time the vocal cords in his throat were not moved, and he did not make a sound.Silent, like that period of time that was sealed.

Brother didn't answer.

Rossindi scratched his face, lowered his head and took out a bulging silver-white compression bag from his body.Tear off the top and pour into a pot of boiling water.

The slightly pungent and rich food aroma spread domineeringly in the small space, attracting the attention of another person.

Stewed eggs, stewed meat, stewed meatballs, stewed big row, squeezed out from the vacuum compression bag can be a jar of extra-rich ingredients.

This is the lo-mei bun sold by Liya in the only two small port shops in Beihai. You can choose the luxurious set meal.After squeezing out the little bit of brine that came with it, Rocinandi took out a small fork and stirred it to make the food not stick together.

Liya's shop is located in the second and third most visited ports in Beihai. At this stage, the ability to collect intelligence is limited. The main thing is to build a reputation for the product and find business routes to make money.

After trying so hard to contact Rossi without any flaws, the current situation can only make him come from time to time to report that he is safe and improve the food to satisfy his hunger.Leah, who sent messages or something, didn't want to. She was thankful that Rosie could take care of herself first.

Rocinandi traveled around with the Don Quixote family, and led Jun to see a doctor from time to time, and the frequency of going to the small shop was not high.Every time I go, I eat and drink and then take away a bunch.

This package of luxurious lo mei is the only remaining stock that he has been reluctant to eat. The ingredients are freshly selected in the store and processed in vacuum compression. Every piece of lo mei is picked by himself, but he couldn't eat it by himself.While stirring, Rossindi began to think about what to order when he went back.

They are now on a garbage island, struggling to find clean water, let alone anything else to eat.Doflamingo was seriously injured, and Rosinanti was busy bandaging his wounds a while ago, evading the pursuit of the nobles and the search by the navy, and he didn't eat for two whole days.

When the soup in the pot boiled for the second time, Rosinetti wrapped the pot with a thick cloth, inserted a fork and handed it to Doflamingo.

Doflamingo didn't take the jar, and he changed back to that lazy posture, holding the fork up and leaning back directly with a marinated egg, a small scrape on the jawline was covered with thin blood scab.

The marinated egg is light brown in color, moderately salty, and when you bite into the smooth and tender egg white, the semi-liquid thick egg yolk flows slowly and mixes with the egg white soaked in mellow spices, creating a unique sweet fragrance in your mouth.

After two bites of an egg, Doflamingo was satisfied.He likes to eat eggs with a liquid heart, and this is the only similarity between Rossindi and him.

He glanced at it lightly, and Rossindi had no choice but to continue to hold the jar and move forward to make it easier for his lazy brother to eat.

In the closed hut, the air gradually warmed up.Rocinandi stared down at the food in the jar, under the light of the orange fire, the pieces of meat stew exuding heat and aroma were soft and well-defined, very delicious and attractive.

Oh, it smells so good.

Doflamingo chewed the fish balls slowly, watching his stupid brother's head ignorantly getting closer and closer.After a while, he stretched out his hand.

Rossindi was in a daze, his nose was cold, and the rough touch passed by, scraping the small blood on the bridge of his nose that was cut when he entered the door, scraping away the thin line of blood that oozes out.

The long and strong knuckles were gently twisted by the fingers, and the faint bloodstains were scattered on the fingertips in an instant.

Luo Xidi heard his brother chuckle in a daze, and said lazily, "Idiot."