Pirates of the Lazy General

Chapter 72 Psychedelic Leaf?The secret hidden on Mochi Island!

"Where did you get this leaf?"

Leo asked Ace.

This guy just said that he found something that was not right, and then he took out these few leaves, which means that he must know something.

As expected, Ace recalled it, and immediately explained: "I took this from the shop where I ate."

He had just arrived on Rice Cake Island not long ago, because he was too hungry, so he went into a restaurant to eat the "Overlord Meal" as usual.

Of course, with Leo’s accusations in Rogge Town last time, he seems to have realized that it is a very bad thing to eat the overlord’s meal, so he planned to take the few fish he caught on the sea after eating. The big fish are put into the back kitchen and used for meals.

But who knows, as soon as Ace sneaked in, he discovered that the chefs were pounding the leaves.

Yes, hold a device similar to a garlic masher, crush the leaves, grind them into fine powder, add them to the food, and serve them out for guests to taste.

Ace was shocked when he saw this scene.

It turns out that the rice cake island can produce so many flavors of rice cakes, all because of the strange red leaves.

However, what kind of leaves can make ordinary rice cakes perfectly reproduce the taste of various foods?
Ace usually has a lot of nerves, but that doesn't mean he's stupid. If you really want to compare him with his idiot brother, it's like one is in the sky and the other is in the ground.

Ever since, Ace, who realized that something was wrong, took out a few leaves while the chefs were going to the bathroom, and wanted to study them carefully.

But who would have thought that as soon as he left the store, he accidentally caught sight of Obak's signboard, so he subconsciously forgot about the leaf...
Later, after drinking a cup of milk tea, Ace ran out of the beverage store and ran into Leo, feeling that the taste was not right. This was the whole process before.

"So you want to tell me that all the food on Rice Cake Island is basically added with the powder of this bright red leaf, and this leaf seems to cause hallucinations in people who eat it?"

Leo summed up what Ace had just said.

Ace nodded when he heard the words, and looked at Leo with a look that you are really smart.

You know, when he was in Windmill Village, his younger brother Luffy basically couldn't understand what he said.

"Then why do you still eat the rice cakes I brought?" Leo asked again.

Ace: ∑(O_O;)
"vomit!"

Leo: "."

Is this the thick line in the legend?
It's the red leaves that can induce hallucinations. They and the navy just ate a lot of barbecue-flavored rice cakes. The people on this island are really so bold, even the navy dare to cheat?

Thinking of this, Leo immediately turned his head again, and set his sights on the young man who was still lying on the ground moaning.

After half an hour.

Rice Cake Island, inside an old and unused wooden house.

Leo put Xuezou on the man's neck, with a fierce expression and fierce eyes.

"Don't say it, don't say that I killed you!"

"Lieutenant Leo, before you scare others, can you take off your navy uniform first?"

A group of soldiers complained in the back.

The knife was almost half a meter away from the neck, so it had no deterrent effect at all.

"Oh."

Leo nodded, immediately took off his uniform, and then put Xue Zou back on the opponent's neck: "You should know that you are afraid this time!"

Everyone: "."

"It's not that I don't say it. If I say it, I will definitely be killed by them."

The young man looked like he was about to cry but had no tears on his face.

"Will you be silenced if you say it?"

Leo touched his chin upon hearing this.

It seems that this island does have some secrets that they don't know about.

"It's okay, just tell me, we are the navy, we can definitely guarantee your safety." Da Siqi also persuaded.

"It's because it's the navy, so I can't say it."

The young man had a firm expression on his face: "You guys should give up, even if you kill me, I won't..."

bass-!
Ace, who was shirtless, pulled out another ghost sticking out of Leo's waist.

next second.

"I said I said, I said it's okay!"

Everyone: "."

Is this... the deterrent force of pirates?
"This matter has to start from five years ago..."

The young man sighed and began to talk about what happened in 1514 in the Haiyuan calendar.

It turns out that Rice Cake Island was not called Rice Cake Island at first, but an ordinary island called Tayu Island.

It was around mid-February 1514. Suddenly one day, someone discovered some strange trees on this island, and disaster began to come from that moment.

It was a tree growing upside down in the soil. The trunk and branches were all buried in the soil, and the only thing exposed to the air was the rhizome of the plant.

And every time a certain time comes, the leaves growing in the soil will emerge like buds, and the appearance of this kind of leaves is particularly bright red, like a red fruit. An unstoppable desire to take a bite.

And the most important thing is that once the person who has bitten the red leaf, all of them will be infected with extremely serious addiction.

Probably April 1514.

Two months later, a certain nobleman who got the news from nowhere, personally drove a boat to Tayu Island, and brought a group of slaves over to start experiments here.

Sure enough, once they tasted the taste of this leaf, everyone became as if they had been poisoned. As long as they didn't continue to eat it for a period of time, they would lose all their strength and lie on the ground with convulsions all over their bodies.

Not only that, but the nobleman even discovered an extremely interesting thing, that is, every slave who tasted this red leaf described the taste differently, and some said it was delicious. Barbecue, some say it's like a cloyingly sweet dessert.

Fruits, seafood, snacks, as long as there is almost any imaginable food taste, there is almost everything.

Only then did the nobleman discover that this leaf not only has the effect of making people addicted, but also has the function of psychedelic taste. Therefore, since then, he named this leaf "Psychedelic Leaf".

"Psychedelic leaves?"

Leo and the others who heard this word all showed expressions of disbelief.

"So, we just ate so many barbecue-flavored rice cakes, didn't we?"

Some marines were frightened instantly, and choked their own throats with a look of fear.

The young man shook his head and said: "Don't worry. After the psychedelic leaves are ground into powder, the addictive effect will be greatly reduced. If you eat it all the time, once or twice once in a while, there will be no problem."

"That's it."

Everyone showed a look of sudden realization at the same time.

"But I have another question."

Leo, who was sitting cross-legged on the floor, raised his hand and asked, "Why do we all taste like barbecue when we eat rice cakes from a barbecue shop?"

"This is the level of 'psychological suggestion'."

The young man coughed and explained very professionally: "Because you saw the signboard of 'Barbecue Shop' written above the store door, and after entering the store, you saw all kinds of barbecue pictures on the menu. , have brought the effect of psychological suggestion to you, that's why the situation like what you just said happened."

"I see!"

Leo slammed his palm and understood instantly.

That being said...
Those dessert shops and western restaurants on the island also use this method to attract customers?

Low-cost rice cakes are sold at the price of various noble ingredients, and the only thing needed is the powder of psychedelic leaves
"That guy seems to be more profitable than me." Leo said to himself with emotion.

at this time.

"Lieutenant Leo, I found out who is driving the Obak on this island!"

(End of this chapter)