A group of Nine Snake warriors walked on the dilapidated streets, with snake bows, swords and other weapons in hand, observing their surroundings with a little vigilance.
Judging from the density of housing buildings, this was probably a quite prosperous town originally. However, more than ten years later, the town has long been deserted. The rows of houses on both sides of the street are not only in disrepair, but also obviously damaged.
There were traces of looting and destruction. Most of the doors and windows were in a damaged state. There were basically no furniture and objects left in the house. They were either taken away by the original town residents when they fled, or were taken away by waves of pirates who passed by later.
Search everything clean.
The women of Kuji don't have any emotional emotions. They are also a new wave of pirates.
Just walking through one town after another...
The styles of the buildings and streets may be different, but the dilapidated scenes that have suffered disaster are similar.
When searching around, I feel pity if I can't find anything of value.
But of course it's not like you can't find anything.
For example, in the usual sense, pirates do not collect things that they take away, but they collect a lot of them. Some iron or steel-like objects, or metal furniture that is difficult to carry and of little use, are not worth much to pirates.
The scraps and scraps that cost a fortune are not looked down upon, but the women of Nine Snakes collect them carefully.
The animal and plant resources on Nine Snake Island are not bad, but it is not an island rich in minerals.
If metal arrowheads can be used as conventional weapons, who would use wooden arrows with just sharpened heads? With the same domineering power attached, metal arrowheads must be more destructive.
These scraps of copper and iron can be brought back to the island and forged into weapons.
Marigrud had a snake wrapped around her arm. She was walking in an empty house. There were signs of being turned over everywhere. There was a faint musty smell in the air. When she looked up, she saw that the ceiling was soaked and wet.
It was rotten, with a corner caved in. The floor was broken, the drawers were messy, the whole room was bare, and there was nothing to search for.
"Huh?" Marigrud raised her foot and found that she had stepped on something. She squatted down and touched it, and found an old photo among the dirt and dust under the crack in the floor.
I wiped away the stains on the photo with my fingers. It turned out to be a photo of two people, a boy and a girl who looked about the same age.
The boy has green hair and short hair, a strong build, a kind face, and is carrying a pile of firewood; the girl is round and cute, winking at the camera playfully, holding an ice cream in her hand and licking it.
If Lynch were here, he would definitely recognize the girl in the photo as the giant woman behind the couple on the sailboat he met before coming to the island.
Turn to the back and there is a line of handwriting.
The handwriting was very blurry, and Marigrud barely recognized a few words, probably "prince", "unlike", "good" and the like...
"Mary, let's go!" other soldiers shouted from a distance.
"Oh, here it comes." Mary put the photo away.
Prince? She was thinking that the boy in the photo was the prince of the Ice Cream Kingdom. According to the book, the king known as the "tyrant" destroyed the country fourteen years ago and left to become a pirate.
, he is only seventeen years old... In other words, the boy in the photo is the big bear in his youth?
The temperament of the young bear in the photo is very similar to the bear holding a Bible that he saw on Nine Snake Island and Xiaokong Island three years ago. They are both gentle and quiet.
Marigrud was even more puzzled. Why would such a person become a "tyrant"?
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〖A grassy outskirts——〗
"Ouch!"
With a strange roar, a huge black shadow suddenly jumped out from the roadside and pounced on Lynch and Robin.
Neither Lynch nor Robin moved.
The jet-black armor flashed out, held down the head of the huge black shadow that came over, and pressed it directly to the ground with a "bang" sound.
The huge black shadow struggled, but under B.I.B's palm, no matter how much he flopped on the ground, the position of his head did not move at all.
He blinked, confused.
He wanted to flutter his hands and feet to grab the guy holding his head, but suddenly his arms were pulled by something - something from his back, and was pulled back to his back, causing
He can't exert any force at all! This is so strange, what is behind him?!
The huge black shadow pushed to the ground by B.I.B was even more confused. On his invisible back, there were four fancy arms, twisting his hands and holding them down.
It turned out that this guy who suddenly jumped out of the roadside was actually an old man with gray beard and hair. The only difference was that this old man was three to four meters tall - and he was slightly hunched over.
, because of his stooped figure, if he straightened his back, he would probably be four or five meters tall.
"I said, old man, you, a guy with thin arms and thin legs, suddenly jumped out to scare people. What do you want to do?"
Lin Qi squatted in front of the old man who was taller than him.
Unexpectedly, the old man became excited, "Old man? I am only twenty-eight years old, why am I the old man?"
"ah?"
Lynch and Robin were both secretly surprised.
B.I.B and Robin both let go of their hands. The Ouch Ouch in front of him lay on the ground for a while, then slowly got up under Lynch's gaze.
Lynch's tactical fallback.
As for this person's appearance, he has gray hair, a full beard, thin limbs, and a stooped figure... Is this twenty-eight?
"It's so pitiful that you have already aged like this at the age of twenty-eight..." Robin muttered to himself.
"Hey! I can hear you." The old man looked down at Robin.
Robin said: "I wonder how many more years I can live? Maybe I will die at any time..."
The old man said: "I can hear what I said...who could die at any time! Isn't that too vicious? Damn it, are you really pirates?"
The old man became excited again, but was quickly suppressed by B.I.B.
Bang bang bang! The old man lay on the ground and kept slapping his hands on the ground to beg for mercy.
B.I.B then let him go.
"Cough, cough, cough!" The four- to five-meter-tall old man kept coughing and gasping for breath on the side of the road. "It's so bad! He is so violent to the elderly..."
Lynch: "Aren't you twenty-eight?"
"Don't look at me like this, remember back then..."
The old man took a breath, touched his messy white beard and hair, and looked up at the sky at a forty-five-degree angle, as if reminiscing about the past.
Only half a day passed, and there was still nothing.
Robin: "Premature aging is often accompanied by memory loss..."
"You don't think you are talking to yourself, do you?" The old man turned his head and said silently, "I can hear you after you said it!"
Robin followed the good example and said, "Alzheimer's disease..."
"I am twenty-eight years old!" the old man shouted, "Stop talking about it. Why are you talking about Alzheimer's disease so calmly? You are too scary, right?"
Lin Qi smiled and said: "You are very energetic! A twenty-eight-year-old man is not afraid of us two pirates now?"
"You don't seem to be pirates, nor do you seem to be bad people..." The old man sat down on the roadside. "This country has not been destroyed yet! I have always believed this. Those pirates who dare to come to this island
, will always disappear silently after a while... There is still someone guarding this island in the dark! Maybe even him..."
"Wait a minute." Lynch interrupted his sudden NPC-like speech, "Although this identity is not my original intention, but - the two of us, it is not wrong to say that we are pirates now."
"Ah?" The twenty-eight-year-old man was stunned.
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〖Royal Palace——〗
Hancock walked in the palace where traces of time could already be seen, mentally comparing the difference between this palace on the sea and the palace on Nine Snake Island.
Suddenly, she turned around and noticed that her sister Sundar Sonia had disappeared without a trace.
Hancock didn't care either.
Although I didn't carefully spread the sight and sound of Haki, I could still vaguely notice that Sangda's aura was not far away, and I didn't encounter any danger...
"ah!"
In the distance, Sundar Sonia's screams were heard.
Hancock frowned slightly, and disappeared in a flash, following the screams as he flew past at high speed.
When she turned the corner in the palace corridor, she showed a look of astonishment.
Around the corner, she actually saw Sanda in her childhood...