[Chapter Heading Serial·Deck 8 from the World·"Brugioa Kingdom"]
[In a magic supplies store, George, a former wandering painter, had messy hair and looked sleepy at first. After opening the latest newspaper, his eyes almost fell out of his eyes in shock. Tilda, the proprietress of a former hypnotist, laughed and used chicken feathers
The duster brushed against the shelf, and a huge reward notice for visionary Marianne was posted on the wall. The girl tilted her head and looked at the camera innocently, freezing this photo...]
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"More than ten years ago, when Lynch and I first came here..."
In Chambord Park, at the top of the Bubble Ferris Wheel, Robin and Hancock were sitting side by side. Sanda was kneeling on a chair, looking into the distance with curiosity.
In just a few days after the war, the once bustling Chambord Islands now looked deserted and dilapidated.
This does not mean that everyone and everything on the island has been harmed by the unscrupulous pirates.
The main reason is that people who dare to do business on this island have a keen sense of smell. When they see that the wind is in the wrong direction, a large number of people directly escape by boat, or the store doors are closed tightly and security is tightened to prevent them from leaving.
As for tourists, it is true that there were many casualties during this period, but many people also fled. It is estimated that for a long time, only pirates will dare to visit this archipelago.
Before Lynch took action to suppress it, the island was truly chaotic.
I heard that there was also a major incident in which the Tianlong people were hacked.
However, at this critical moment, everyone knew that the Navy would never be able to spare any senior generals to take care of the injured Celestial Dragons, so sap, black hands, and cold guns all came to greet the Celestial Dragons.
The tyrannical Celestial Dragons in the past hid back in Mariejoia in despair. It is estimated that they will not dare to set foot on the Chambord Islands again until the situation in the navy stabilizes and the general's combat strength is replenished.
The once most lively and prosperous Xiangbodi Park now looks deserted. If it weren't for Robin and Hancock's quarrel, the park manager would not dare to neglect and personally activated the facilities in the amusement park for them, allowing them to play as they pleased.
In fact, the park manager was so ecstatic that he kept taking pictures of Robin and the others with a phone bug, and decided to keep them permanently. He even chose the most beautiful one, enlarged it, washed it out, and put up a sign at the door. With Son of the Devil and the Pirate Empress, even
It's the signboard of the Ripple Messenger standing behind them. Which pirate with no eyesight dares to harass his park?
On the slowly rotating Ferris wheel, Robin held Hancock's arm and softly told what happened that year.
Suddenly, Sanda next to him screamed, "It's Master Tulip!"
Hancock and Robin were a little surprised. They poked their heads out of the Ferris wheel bubble and saw a tall woman with long blond hair and a fluttering floral skirt standing under the Ferris wheel, waving a newspaper towards them.
It's tulips.
When the park manager saw that she really knew the Devil's Son and the Pirate Queen, his attitude became even more polite.
The three girls did not wait for the Ferris wheel to slowly turn to the bottom, but jumped out of the bubble directly. Robin spread out his petal wings, and Sanda also flapped a pair of snake wings behind her, and quietly landed with her sister and princess.
"Master Tulip!" Sanda greeted obediently.
"Why are you here?" Hancock walked towards Tulip.
"Can't I come and see my cute little baby?" Tulip looked at Hancock with a smile.
"Hmph!" Hancock sneered, "You mean your precious son? Don't worry, he's still alive."
With Luffy's current strength, he jumped headlong into the battlefield and became the center of attention without any scruples... If there weren't so many partners around him to help each other, he would most likely have died in Marineland.
Tulip pinched Hancock's smooth and elastic face, this girl was just not forgiving.
Looking at Robin who was smiling and saying nothing, Tulip smiled and said, "Do you still hate yourself now?"
Robin's face suddenly turned red.
"What are you talking about?" Hancock rubbed his face, looking suspicious, looking at Tulip and then at Robin, "Why do you hate yourself?"
Sanda was equally puzzled.
Robin took two steps forward and hugged Tulip, and said in her ear with a bit of gnashing of teeth, "Don't tell anyone..."
"Okay, okay, don't say it, don't say it." Tulip smiled and stroked Robin's back.
"What are you talking about?" Hancock was even more confused. He pulled Robin and asked in disbelief, "You still have something to hide from me——"
But when Robin raised her head, her face was red with embarrassment. Hancock, who had never seen her like this before, was immediately stunned.
"This is the only thing that won't work!" Robin bit his lip.
Seeing that the park manager beside him looked shocked and confused, Sangda quickly pulled his sister and the princess out of the park.
…
On the way, Tulip gave the newspaper she brought to Hancock and Robin, and said with a smile: "There is your latest reward order."
"At this time, does the Navy still have the energy to issue a new reward order?" Sanda was very curious.
Tulip said: "It is at this time that the navy will not show weakness and must remain strong. Even if it is just a show."
Hancock sneered and opened the newspaper casually as he walked.
She didn't pay much attention to the content of the news. How many people died in the Whitebeard Pirates and how many people died in the Navy were no different from a bunch of dead snakes, insects, ants and beasts in her eyes, just a bunch of numbers. Only about Lin
She looked twice at the words and photos of Qi and Robin...
"Five billion Baileys?!" Sanda, holding Lynch's new reward order, exclaimed.
Hancock took a look and was quite dissatisfied, "Why is it lower than Whitebeard? Is the Navy blind?"
Whitebeard's bounty is 5 billion 46 million.
Lynch's 5 billion, although the difference was only over 40 million, or rather, it was precisely because there was only a difference of over 40 million that made Hancock very unhappy.
"Whitebeard is dead." Tulip walked beside him, "Roger, the only one with a higher bounty than Whitebeard, is also dead."
"That means..." Robin said to himself.
Sanda opened his mouth wide and said in surprise: "Lin Qi is the person with the highest bounty among the people alive at present?"
Tulip smiled and said: "That's almost it."
Robin suddenly frowned, touched his chin and pondered.
Hancock and Sundar opened other reward orders and soon discovered the latest reward orders for Robin and Hancock.
"Son of the Devil" Nicole Robin, bounty: 1.38 billion!
Even Sanda's own bounty, although he was basically on standby at high altitude during the battle on top, and only showed his face at the end, the bounty has also increased a little, from the original 400 million to 450 million.
Millions of Baileys.
Although the increase was not much, Sanda was quite happy to see it. The navy was really stubborn.
Hancock looked at it twice and became even more disdainful, "It's only increased by several hundred million, who are you looking down on?"
"It's already amazing. My two precious daughters are both well-known big shots." Tulip smiled and hugged Hancock and Robin. "A bounty of this level can be found all over the sea.
There aren’t many people.”
Who cares? Hancock rolled his eyes and almost rolled his eyes to the sky, "Who is your daughter? Don't blindly identify her."
Hancock had been coaxed by Tulip since he was a child, so he naturally didn't care about her temper and was still smiling. Robin couldn't help but laugh. He was a little moved and put one hand on Tulip's arm.
She held Sanda's palm and suddenly asked: "Is Lynch already the one with the highest bounty?" She looked at Tulip, "What about Dorag? His bounty shouldn't be very low..."
"Well, it's really not low, but..."
As Tulip said, she couldn't help but smile, and the four of them went deep into the Chambord Islands and gradually drifted away.
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"You only have a reward of 1.5 billion?"
In the shabby bar, Lynch was spinning the gold iron rod in his hand and couldn't help but be very surprised when he heard what Dorag said.
I thought you were worth five billion too!
Hearing this, Dorag smiled, raised his glass and took a sip, and asked: "I live in the shadows most of the time and have never publicly done anything similar to yours. How can I get such an exaggerated reward?"
Where’s the gold?”
"Dolag, you know what I mean." Lynch said, "Revolution, brother, are you trying to dig up the roots of their world government, and you only have a reward of 1.5 billion?"
Sauron, who was opening the newspaper and the latest pile of reward orders, also raised his head and said with a smile: "The newspaper clearly says that you are the most vicious criminal in the world."
"This is about what standards the Navy uses to set bounty amounts." Dorag gently shook the wine glass in his hand and said to himself, "Although many people say that the bounty amount is related to the pirate amount.
It has nothing to do with personal strength, but is that true? Most of the time, the level of the bounty does represent whether a pirate is strong or weak..."
Sauron frowned and thought, but Lin Qi grabbed the golden iron rod and tapped it lightly on his shoulder. He suddenly paused and said, "I understand, it's 'guidance'."
Dorag glanced at Lin Qi in surprise and smiled: "That's pretty much what it means."
"The Navy, or the World Government, intentionally gave the world such a hint..." Lynch said to himself, "The stronger the pirate's combat effectiveness, the higher the bounty. And the more pirates have subordinates with high bounties,
Individual bounties will also increase, representing the overall combat capability."
"And what about me?" Dorag smiled.
"You are not a pirate in the traditional sense." Lynch pointed out, "If you are given a high bounty that is not in line with 'common sense', what kind of signal will it send? Many pirates who like to show off need to learn from
Is that true? In other words, will it give people the feeling that the world government is actually more afraid of your revolutionary power than the pirates who are causing disasters everywhere?"
Lynch shook his head and said: "Although the World Government has given you the title of the most vicious criminal in the world, in the bounty system, it still puts you in the regular pirate system to evaluate you, and you are not
Treating you and the revolutionary army as a real opponent."
"That's probably it." Dorag smiled and drank. "Actually, Tulip was very unhappy after being offered a bounty. He once advised me that we should also run a newspaper. We would also post bounties on the navy and comment on the world's pirates.
Strength, build our system.”
"Oh? Isn't this very interesting?" Lin Qi was quite interested.
"I don't agree." Dorag shook his head and looked out the broken window, "The tide of the times is coming, and storms are coming! There is no time."
Lynch nodded.
Sauron was half-understood about their maneuvers and continued to open the bounty order in his hand.
"Fire Fist" Porter Carter D. Ace, bounty: 1 billion 10 million!
…
Looking at these bounty figures that seemed out of reach in the past, Sauron couldn't help but feel excited.
"Know yourself and the world!"
"Become stronger! Try to surpass me! - Roronoa!!!"
Hawkeye's voice echoed in my ears that day, seeming to become clearer.
The last sentence gradually faded away, and Sauron repeatedly savored the previous sentence "Know yourself, know the world."
He placed his hands on the three knives at his waist. He could tell which knife was which by the touch of his fingertips without looking.
The Demonic Swordsman and Demonic Swordsman are three generations old, the good and quick swordsman Snow Zai, the great quick sword and the Taoist Ichimonji... The eyes of the swordsmen of the Three Sword Styles are burning with fighting spirit.
Over there, Lynch and Dorag looked towards the door of the shabby bar. Tulip came with Robin, Hancock and Sanda together.
"It seems you know." Robin waved his latest reward order to Lynch.
"Well, it's just a matter of fun." Lin Qi said with a smile, "It looks more festive."
The bounty amount is so scary, how can we be happy? Sangda is speechless, the bounty is the best in the world!
Hancock sat next to Lynch, picked up his bottle and took a sip.
"..."
Lin Qi put his arm around her shoulders, pinched one of her cheeks and touched her.
Hancock was forced to pout his face obediently, frowned and glared at him: "What are you doing?"
Lin Qi smiled, pinched her, and turned back to Dorag: "——In this sea, if you want to become stronger quickly and get a higher bounty value, there is a shortcut, and that is to become a devil fruit.
By."
All eyes were on him.
"In this way, many things will be easier to handle..." Lynch said to himself, "For the World Government, for her."
Dorag looked at Lynch with sharp eyes, "There are rumors that the cause of Whitebeard's final death was bizarre, and at the end, he left a message to the world. What was it specifically?"
"What you asked is actually the same thing."
Lynch pulled the dissatisfied Hancock to stand up and called Robin and Zoro to leave the shabby bar together. "Let's go. Luffy and Ace should be awake. They should all have similar questions. Let's go together."
Explain it."
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"Nami, your bounty has been increased to 300 million beli?!"
"Even Chopper has 100 million Baileys?!"
Luffy woke up, the blanket slipped off his body, and he looked at Usopp yelling while holding a newspaper on the grass.
Chopper was nearby and he didn't know whether he was squirming or twisting his body shyly, while Usopp quickly knelt down on the ground in frustration and cried silently: "Is it because my Transparent Battle was too successful?
It was completely unnoticed, the bounty was only symbolically increased by 10,000 beli..."
"It's doubled!" Chopper comforted from the side.
"It's gone from 10,000 Baileys to 20,000 Baileys. I don't want this doubling!" Usopp yelled with tears in his eyes.
Out of the corner of his eye, he saw Luffy passing by with a bandage on his body. Usopp couldn't help but happily held up the bounty sign and shouted: "Luffy! Your bounty has increased a lot!"
"Ah? Oh, I understand." Luffy asked, "Usopp, Chopper, have you seen Ace?"
Nami and Brooke came over and pointed into the distance: "It should be in the woods on the other side of the hillside. They just disposed of the remains of Whitebeard and their companions."
"I'm going to take a look." Luffy ran over there as soon as he heard this.
"This guy is unusually quiet..." Usopp and Chopper touched their chins in unison, looking at Luffy's running back and thinking, "Could it be that there's something wrong with the quality of your senbeans, Chopper?
Did his brain get damaged?"
"Yeah, yes, it's Senzu-" Chopper jumped up and punched Usopp, "How is that possible!"
"Hehe..." Meili, who was sitting on Nami's shoulder, covered her mouth and snickered.
"Luffy! It's okay!" Nami shouted from a distance. Over there, Luffy turned back, grinned, and gave a thumbs up.
Nami smiled helplessly, "What a worrying captain..."
…
When Luffy found Ace, he saw him kneeling there, as lifeless as if he were dead.
The remaining captains of the Whitebeard Pirates gathered around, leaving a space for Ace. Seeing Luffy coming, someone wanted to stop him from disturbing Ace - Marco stretched out his hand to stop him and nodded to Luffy.
, "Go. When he woke up and found out that his father had died, he was really shocked..."
"Ace..." Luffy murmured, and walked step by step to Ace, who was kneeling in the open space and letting the sun shine. He was suddenly startled, and the face of Ace in front of him was filled with tears, and he was crying silently.
.
As if his soul had been sucked out, Ace's face was expressionless, but his tears kept falling.
"It's me, Ace!" Luffy turned to sit in front of Ace, but he had never seen his brother look so fragile. He was at a loss for a moment and didn't know what to say. "You...
…”
Ace was still in a daze, and Luffy couldn't see it. After pondering with his brain, he stood up, rubbed his fists, and punched Ace hard in the face.
boom!
Ace was punched and sent flying, and he fell several times before he stopped.
Many of the surrounding Whitebeard remnants were startled and couldn't help but rush over, but were stopped by Marco, Bista and other captains.
"Stop acting like this! This doesn't look like Ace at all!"
Luffy clenched his fists and said loudly, "My brother Ace is a man who will never give up on his companions!"
He pointed at the pirates around who wanted to protect Ace's Whitebeard remnants, "Don't you still have them?!"
Seeing the Straw Hat Boy's words, Bista heard that many brothers around him were very touched, and some were even wiping tears. In fact, everyone has been hit one after another recently, and because of the sacrifice of his father, some of them are depressed and sensitive.
.
"Luffy……"
Ace's mouth was bleeding and half of his face was swollen. He sat up with his hands on the ground and suddenly heard a chuckle from behind him: "You actually let this kid Luffy educate you. Ace, as a brother, it's a bit embarrassing!"
This voice——?!
Ace turned around suddenly, just in time to hear Luffy shout in surprise: "Saab?!"
Sure enough, walking up from a short distance behind Ace was a young man with short blond hair, Sabo, who was dressed similarly to that time, wearing a high hat and goggles, still holding a broken water pipe as a weapon.
"Ace, I'm sorry..."
Sabo walked over step by step, leaned over and stretched out his hand to Ace, smiling with tears in his eyes, "I'm late."
"..."
With half of his face swollen, tears stained his face from crying, and blood dripping from the corner of his mouth, Ace lowered his head and murmured, "No..."
Snap, he took Sabo's extended palm and was pulled to his feet. Luffy shouted excitedly from behind: "Sabo!!!"
Ace looked back and saw Luffy rushing towards him with open arms. No, it should be said that he hit him.