[Chapter Extra·Days on Jiu She East Road·Bug Fix·"Follow Me"]
[Obviously, there was not much physical exertion, but Hancock was soon sweating profusely, his heart was pounding, and his body was controlled by snake hair poison, so he could only act according to Xu Lun's words... After a while, she calmed down her breathing
, hearing Xu Lun’s voice in the darkness, she followed her. Although her vision was temporarily blocked by the command of snake poison, she could not follow Xu Lun’s footsteps because of her ability to see and hear...
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〖Goa Kingdom, Windmill Village——〗
The boy wearing a navy T-shirt with a seagull pattern was carrying a vegetable basket and walking happily in the countryside. The farmers, fishermen, villagers passing by... men, women, old and young, all laughed when they saw him.
"Luffy, are you out shopping for groceries again?" An old man was holding a hoe and wiping his sweat with the towel on his neck.
The six-year-old boy smiled and said: "Yes!"
An aunt carrying a bag of vegetables took out a carrot from the bag and joked: "Luffy, how much does a carrot cost?"
The last time Luffy went out to buy groceries, after buying carrots, he gave all the hundreds of beli he had to the store, leaving not a single penny left. He went back and made the person who asked him to buy groceries half mad.
Luffy couldn't figure it out, something that tasted so bad must be very expensive!
Who would buy it if it tastes bad? It should be cheaper! Fortunately, Luffy is young, otherwise people would have to hang this brat up and take care of him.
"Luffy, don't buy the wrong thing this time!" A passing resident smiled and patted Luffy's head. "If you buy the wrong thing again, I won't let you sleep in my house next time."
Several villagers came to pinch the boy's smooth cheeks, smiling, and they all liked the little grandson that Lieutenant General Garp left in this town.
Garp did not arrange any special residence for Luffy, but in his hometown, Garp's name is the biggest passport, and the villagers naturally care about Luffy.
In the past few years, Luffy has been in Windmill Village, basically staying at Aunt Mary's house today, Grandpa George's house tomorrow, and the village eldest uncle's house after that. Sometimes he just wants to have fun and eat, so he just sleeps in Miss Maginot's bar.
...Miss Maginot is very kind. Not only does she always provide Luffy with free meals, but she also buys him new clothes from time to time. She seems to treat Luffy as a biological brother...
What's even more rare is that the young man Luffy has a simple and carefree personality. No matter what worries he has in his stomach, he will not be able to survive the next day.
He actually didn't think there was anything wrong with such a life at all. On the contrary, sometimes he felt that it was so satisfying to not have his grandfather come to give him the iron fist of love every three days.
In addition, Luffy is handsome and cute, so he is loved by everyone in Windmill Village, a corner of Goa Kingdom.
Luffy said dissatisfied: "I have figured it out and I won't buy the wrong one again."
The old man at the entrance of the village was holding a cigarette and looked at him and smiled.
Arriving at the market entrance, Luffy held up a vegetable basket and said, "Buy vegetables!"
The vegetable vendor didn't need to ask him what he was buying. He deftly picked up some fresh ingredients and put them into his vegetable basket. Luffy happily handed the stack of Baileys to the other person, "Here."
The vegetable vendor held back his laughter and took it, when a loud roar came from beside him: "Why does it cost so much!"
The aunt was worried and followed her all the way. She took two steps forward and grabbed a few bills from the vegetable vendor's hand, and glared: "Change!"
"I'm just teasing him..." The vegetable vendor shrank his neck and changed his money obediently.
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Luffy said happily: "I just said I won't buy the wrong one again."
He sat in front of the bar with a vegetable basket next to him. Maginot behind the bar said helplessly: "Your solution is to wait for others to help?"
"What's wrong with that?" Luffy didn't feel there was any difficulty in being helped. He put the remaining change from the groceries on the table, "Mackino, I want to eat a 'just meal'."
Maginot put away the money with a smile and went to make a "just meal" for Luffy, which was actually just a piece of bread, a steak, a plate of fruit, and a bowl of soup.
While Luffy was concentrating on eating, Maginot quietly put the money just now in Luffy's food basket, and watched the little boy eat with a smile on his back. Every time he saw him eating, he looked very engaged and happy, which made Luffy very happy.
People feel that life has become more interesting.
While we were eating, there were not many drinkers in the bar, and the diners seemed to hear some noise and ran out one after another.
"What's wrong?" Luffy gnawed on the steak with his fork. He turned around strangely and saw that there seemed to be quite noisy on the street outside. "Is there a circus passing by?"
Maginot wiped her apron and asked Luffy to continue eating, "I'll go out and take a look."
She pushed open the two doors of the bar and saw villagers hurriedly walking on the street, gathering towards the port.
Maginot felt strange. When he saw an acquaintance passing by, he stopped him and asked, "Larry, what happened?"
Larry left a message: "Pirates are coming!" and trotted along with the crowd to the port.
"Pirates..."
Maginot was a little worried, but as a young girl, she couldn't help much by following him, so she might as well go back and take care of Luffy.
When Luffy saw her coming back, he bit his bread and asked, "What's wrong with everyone?"
Maginot shook his head and said, "It seems like there are pirates passing by... Don't worry, it will be fine."
The naval hero Lieutenant General Garp would come to his hometown in Donghai twice when he had nothing to do. Basically, few people had the courage to harass the Kingdom of Goa, Garp's hometown.
And the pirates who really have the courage and don't care about Garp's reputation will not choose to stay in this "weakest sea" and become little pirates. They have already rushed into the Grand Line and tried to make a name for themselves.
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Luffy chewed the bread and said, "Grandpa said that pirates are all bad guys, and he always wants me to become a sailor..."
"Then do you want to be one?" Maginot asked with a smile.
"I don't know..." Luffy seemed to be considering this issue for the first time. He had been beaten in front of his grandfather before, and he shuddered when he thought of this. "As a marine, you have to face grandpa every day, right? It's so scary..."
Makino chuckled.
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At the port, the village elder was surrounded by villagers standing behind him, confronting the pirates who had come off a pirate ship on the shore.
"Pirates! You are not welcome here." The village elder said in a deep voice.
The villagers behind him responded in unison, all looking fierce.
Among the pirates, the leader, a red-haired man wearing a straw hat, scratched his head in distress, "Oh, I'm disgusted..."
Lucky Lu, who was chewing on a big chicken drumstick, laughed and said, "We are pirates, so it's normal to be hated, right, Captain?"
"That's right!" Shanks seemed to suddenly realize the funny look, "Hahahaha..." Jesus and other crew members laughed along with him.
The villagers were speechless. Are these people really pirates? What are they doing for fun?!
"They are so happy."
The village elder suddenly heard the childish voice at his feet. He looked down and his hair stood up in shock, "Luffy, why did you come here! It's very dangerous here!"
Luffy held a spoon in his mouth and watched the group of pirates who returned to the pirate ship. They did not intend to forcefully enter the village, but they did not leave just yet. They simply held a banquet on the deck...
"They are so happy." He muttered again, and with a smile on his face he wanted to run over and join the party on the ship, but the village elder grabbed him by the back of his neck and lifted him up, "Mackino, take him back!"
The village elder turned around and shouted, and Maginot apologized repeatedly and chased after him.
Um?
On the pirate ship, Shanks took off his straw hat, revealing his bright red hair. He noticed the villagers on the shore who were still wary of them, as well as Maginot and Luffy walking towards the village, and couldn't help but smile.
laugh.
"What a beautiful lady, captain." Jesus walked over with a smile, "Would you like to stay here for a while?"
The other companions shouted: "Jesus Bu, you want to go home?"
"Who said that?" Jesus denied, "A man under the pirate banner has not yet become famous in the sea, how can he be homesick?"
He raised his finger and rubbed his nose, "...I will be looked down upon by my son."
The vice-captain was stunned, "You have a son?"
"Didn't I tell you?" Jesus Bu was stunned.
"When did you say that?!" Everyone fell down, and soon they were laughing and joking again.
In such a joyful atmosphere, Shanks took a sip of wine, wiped the corners of his mouth, and said to himself: "The wine in Donghai is not bad, I might as well stay a little longer..."
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The village elder was extremely depressed. Although it was an unexpected good thing that the pirate group did not invade their Windmill Village, they actually stayed at the port and refused to leave.
Windmill Village is located on the edge of the island. Even if you go to the main city of Goa Kingdom, there may not be any men from the king's army willing to send troops to deal with these pirates.
As for the navy... not all kingdoms and islands have navies stationed there. Some of the franchising countries are willing, and some are not willing. How can nobles be willing to sponsor an additional naval branch for nothing?
The royal family of the Kingdom of Goa was unwilling. Therefore, there was no navy branch on the island.
If this group of pirates looted Windmill Village, they might be able to attract the attention of the naval branches on other nearby islands. However, this group of pirates are very peaceful and do not rob or make trouble. They usually stay on the pirate ship and play with themselves.
Occasionally, pirates come down to the shore and do not go near the windmill village. They just fish on the shore with a smile in front of the vigilant villagers, go hunting in the mountains and forests, or swim in the sea...
The pirates hunted a large sea beast weighing several tons, and the villagers were very greedy. They could eat this one for a long time.
"You want it?" Shanks sat on the huge corpse of the sea beast, lowered the brim of his straw hat, and said with a cool smile, "Then let's trade it for 'treasure'!"
The villagers were speechless. Just spend money to buy it. Why do you say it sounds so good!?
The business with the pirates was not done in the end.
Because the villagers who quickly ran off to do business actually joined the pirates' banquet, and even took the initiative to help prepare the sea beasts, eating and drinking together, singing and dancing, which made the village elder so angry that he almost had brain congestion.
What made his vision even more dark was that without paying attention, that kid Luffy ran over and got into the pirates' banquet!
"Luffy! Come back here!"
The village elder roared at the crowd surrounding the sea beast's skeleton and meat. Luffy was eating with Lucky Lu and his mouth was full of oil. He turned around and stuck out his tongue to the frustrated village elder and made a face, "No!"
"This meat is delicious, Mackinac, come and eat it too!" Luffy waved to Mackinac, who was walking behind the village elder.
Maginot smiled helplessly.
Such a big sea beast was eaten up in just one banquet. After the banquet, the villagers woke up from a dream and ran away in shame when they saw the unhappy-looking village chief.
"I'm so happy..." Luffy held his bulging belly and tilted his head back to look at the black skull flag flying on the top of the ship's mast on the shore, "Shanks, what is the 'treasure' you are talking about?"
Shanks drank a glass of wine happily and said with a smile: "'Treasure'? Of course it is——"
"What all pirates want!!" the crew members shouted in unison, laughing together.
"Really..." Luffy's eyes began to light up, and then Jesus Bu came over smelling of alcohol. He had good eyesight and spotted the pendant under Luffy's collar, "Luffy, what is this?
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"This?" Luffy pulled out the snake-shaped pendant, "Grandpa said it was a gift from my father..."
He scratched his head, "But an aunt once said that a beautiful sister gave it to me. But after my grandfather sent me here, I never saw that aunt again..."
"Wow~~" Jesus Bu and others laughed, "It's a treasure given to you by others! Then you must cherish it!"
Luffy smiled and said, "Yes."
Vice-captain Beckman blew out the smoke and said with a smile: "Captain, he also has similar treasures..."
"Eh? Does Shanks have a pendant too?" Luffy looked under Shanks' neck, but Shanks pushed him away in disgust, "I don't have that kind of thing!"
He took off the straw hat on his head, stuck out his tongue and said, "This is it!"
Luffy curled his lips, "Isn't he just a Straw Hat? I've seen many similar ones."
Shanks smiled and said, "I have seen many similar pendants to yours."
"That's right!" Luffy thought for a while, suddenly realized, and asked curiously, "Who gave Shanks' straw hat?"
"Well..." Shanks looked at the straw hat in his hand, "He is a person I respect very much..."
"Captain! Captain!" At this time, a crew member rushed over holding a newspaper, "There is big news!"
Shanks took the newspaper, and the vice-captain, Lackey Lu, and Jesus Bu all leaned over and soon showed surprised smiles, "It's that kid... Haha, why is he on the news headlines again!"
Luffy's little head also popped up. He didn't read the words but only looked at the photos, wondering: "Who are you talking about?"
"He's a very powerful guy!"
Shanks pointed at Luffy's nose cheerfully, "Much better than you!"
"Nonsense!" Luffy was angry and waved his arms, "I'm very powerful! Grandpa often trains me..."
"Your grandfather?" Lucky Lu chewed on the bone.
Luffy nodded and said, "His name is... what is grandpa's name? Anyway, he is a marine, others seem to call him 'hero'..."
"hero?"
The same figure appeared above everyone in the red-haired pirates, especially their captain, red-haired Shanks. They still had memories of that naval hero who haunted them and chased the Roger Pirates all over the world.
Xin, he stuck out his tongue with a grimace and said: "You are that old man's grandson!" Then he mocked, "You are often trained by him, it seems you are very pitiful!"
Luffy didn't even refute, he wrinkled his face and nodded with lingering fear.