My friends are all pirates

But at this time, what the St. Marianne needs is not someone to plunder, but someone who can help it, so it continues to move forward.

About two weeks later, the St. Marianne found one such island.

There is only one town on this island, and its name is Royal.

Royale is not a place with a very good environment. Compared with the last stop of the Don Quixote family, this place is simply terrible.

The sun in this place is scorching, and what covers the sea is not a cold mist, but an extremely hot, suffocating air. There are no gentle rolling hills on the island, but the volcanic ridges that penetrate the jungle surface will spew out steam and sulfur from time to time. , there are often storms here.

Of course, it still has advantages, that is, the sea surface near the island, the visibility is more than a hundred feet underwater, and it is so clear that you can see the sandy coral bottom and colorful underwater creatures. Talking birds and a large number of huge turtles will continue to crawl out of the sea in large numbers, laying piles of eggs as big as adult pheasants here.

Everyone, including Doflamingo, came to the New World for the first time. According to the information of the Don Quixote family, there is a large and wealthy port here. Merchants rely on the prosperous spice and slave trade , creating "extreme brilliance" here, and everyone is looking forward to it.

The St. Marian detoured around the long sandy headland and entered the port at the apex of the headland, but when the scene of the port was presented to everyone, everyone including Doflamingo was disappointed.

The port looks almost abandoned, and many areas have been submerged in water. Judging from the situation at the scene, it should be caused by an earthquake, or it may be caused by war, because the beach is full of broken shipwrecks. The surviving buildings are low-slung, narrow, and untidy, and that would be fine, but the stench coming from the windward side makes this place unbearable.

It is foreseeable that anyone who comes to this port may first deal with various invisible infectious diseases such as malaria, yellow fever, dysentery, and plague.

When the Don Quixote family landed, the locals shunned them, so the Don Quixote family abandoned their relatively flexible communication plan, rushed into the local management agency, and dragged these fat guys Go to the muddy field outside the building, let their clothes, which are much cleaner than others, be covered with muddy water and other dirt, and then ask one by one.

Finally, I know what's going on here.

It is a war.

This bustling and depraved place became a battlefield for pirates and navies a while ago. Edward Newgate, who is known as "Whitebeard", led a fleet to raid this place himself, bravely confronting... oh no, the one who dared to be beaten was Vice Admiral Sakaski of the Navy Headquarters.

In the memories of the fat pigs, firstly, the earth-shattering earthquake woke up the island from the night, the towns, farms and human beings were shaken off like a large number of bedbugs, part of the town sank into the sea, and the rest of the area was almost destroyed. At least [-] of the [-] residents died. The single-masted trading ships and ocean-going slave ships that were still in the port at that time were all destroyed, and then a fire fell from the sky and burned the remaining things to almost nothing. All that remains is the stone bunker and a trapped house.

Part of the sandy headland also collapsed during the earthquake and turned into a small island. Port Royal, once famous for its prosperity and depravity at the entrance of the New World, is no better than a slum now.

And when this war happened, the Don Quixote family was robbing the heavenly gold.

It's no wonder that Kuzan of the Navy Headquarters came here to beat up the Don Quixote family. It is estimated that the lieutenant generals were already full of anger, and the Don Quixote family just hit the gun.

After figuring things out, Doflamingo began to consider whether to continue changing places.

Because he felt that he underestimated the strength of the confrontation between the pirates and the navy in the new world, so the plan had to be adjusted.

As for why Whitebeard wanted to personally attack a mere port, he was not incomprehensible.

The world government has been trying to open up the new world, and it has adopted a method similar to the colonization on the blue star. The pioneering land adheres to the principle of self-government but not autonomy. What the world government has to do is to move the population to the corresponding place and provide them with The corresponding starting construction resource.

From Marie Gioia's point of view, they thought it would be less irritating to the great pirates entrenched in the New World.

But this is only wishful thinking.

In the eyes of the great pirates, the world government should not enter the new world, no matter what form it is in.

The relatively more chaotic island magnetism in the New World makes this place more difficult to fully explore, but the closer to the red earth continent, the magnetism will be relatively stable, making it a relatively more livable place and a place to establish stable waterways. The most essential The place is naturally entered by the world government first, with several million people.

A long time ago, the World Government regarded the New World as an inseparable part of the great empire. The Navy Headquarters set up several branches here, and the investment was not stingy.

But obviously, these places that have already been mastered are already too big for the world government that has consumed most of the ruling resources in the four seas and the first half of the great waterway. To support each other, it may be completely impossible to get from one place to another, and the same is true for the delivery of supplies. Even using a small and flexible sloop or schooner to the nearest branch may take several years. a week's time.

In the Underworld, this is no secret at all.

As the big pirates began to represent the maritime power of the new world, it became their consensus to devour this elite area. Although the navy did its best, and even some fragmentary areas guaranteed minimum-intensity patrols, there were still thousands of them. Small and less valuable strongholds have been destroyed or captured by pirates over the years, so new development has long been abandoned. It is the Navy Headquarters’ responsibility to the various branches of the New World to ensure that the World Government is safe and sound in the most elite areas of the New World. Guaranteed assessment requirements.

Port Royal was one of the ports invested and developed by the world government at the beginning, and now it has become a victim of the rise of pirate forces in the new world.

In her present form, the St. Marianne obviously had no effective support, but given long enough the tropical climate would corrode the sails, rigging, anchors, and other shipboard fixtures In the absence of stable strongholds and smooth trade channels, it will not be possible to replace them in time.

The survival threshold of the new world is everywhere.

After making a decision, Doflamingo gave an order, and the St. Marianne left the port surrounded by stench and continued to sail westward.

This voyage is one month.

During this month, the St. Marianne encountered eleven hurricanes, five tons of hailstones, three days of windless sun bathing, seven attacks by sea kings, and one day a passing volcanic eruption.

It's almost a month, and there are a few rest days, but it's okay.

It's just that although there are many capable people on this ship, there are not many who are useful in the face of natural disasters, and the main ones are man-made disaster players.

This made Asherid think about it—the Don Quixote family went offline as soon as the manga opened a new world chapter. Maybe it was because the man-made disaster-type players accounted for the vast majority of the organization.

The one-month voyage made the atmosphere on the ship a little dull. Fortunately, no one picked on Asherid like Rao did back then, and Asherid also silently brushed up on this "interesting" voyage. Depending on your proficiency.

During this process, he felt as if he knew the logic of the cultivation of the devil fruit ability.

Eating a devil fruit is the same thing as having a genetic surgery. Having the ability is equivalent to having an extra finger. It does not need to consume any physical strength. Using this finger consumes physical strength, but how to use it or how to develop it is the same as Physical strength doesn't matter, it belongs to the brain.

Asherid's understanding of combustion and flames is actually at the level of a compulsory education class. By the way, he chose to switch to a liberal arts monk because he was a double "champion" in physics and chemistry.

Now, he only knows that the more complete the combustion, the more heat will be released. If a large amount of heat accumulates in a limited space in a short period of time, it can cause an explosion. In the case of preheating the fuel, the combustion temperature can also be increased, so rounding it up, it is a process of first absorbing heat and then releasing heat.

Accumulating heat, this Asherid is very familiar with, the elemental body is a natural heat blocking system.

But in the burning fruit, the fuel becomes "physical strength". If you want to warm up the fuel, it means that your body has to absorb heat. Is this cognition correct? Asherid doesn't know. He thinks about it day after day on the boat. The problem, I don't know why, the more I think about it, the more I believe it, and then one day, he encountered that volcanic eruption.

A huge volcanic bomb fell on the St. Marianne that day, and Acheride happened to be in the best position to chop rocks. He was already holding a sword to chop, but he had the ability to "eat" the opponent's heat for no reason. Impulse, as if the heat on that volcanic bomb had become something within reach.

When he slashed the volcanic bomb with his sword, under the eyes of everyone, the volcanic bomb turned into a fragile glassy stone due to rapid cooling.

Ah Sherid finally confirmed one thing - although he is a scumbag, if a devil fruit sits with him in the examination room to answer the questions, they will definitely be troubled brothers.

His ability is to follow the idealistic route.

On the 19th-20th, there is a reward for tickets, and by the way, first order

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The second testimonial in my life

As soon as I got home, I quickly sent a testimonial. The editor said that I would post it today.

Today is a good day. One is that the second contract book is about to be put on the shelves, and the other is that grandpa is also discharged from the hospital today. It should be considered a false alarm. Although the lungs are infected, it is not serious. The main reason is that Alzheimer’s will be intermittent in the future. The attack... When I came out of the emergency ward the day before yesterday, I didn't know my dad anymore, so I asked my mom, "Where is your husband?"

Then came the serious speech.

Regarding my hard-to-tell the past, I have already said almost everything in the previous book of Hokage, so I won’t talk about it here.

Because the results of the first book were really good at the time, the editor let me sign the book A when it was first published, and I still trust me. This is the result of the power of book friends. grateful.

This book will learn some lessons from the previous book. The previous book was more or less high and low. In order to be more popular, the quality was sacrificed. On the one hand, without the manuscript, the plot concept is not very perfect. And it is easy to be affected by work, so I have basically determined 3K chapters for this book, two chapters are fixed every day, and the principle of saving more than 20 chapters after being put on the shelves is to be updated. Only two chapters are reserved for use. It is even more painful. Although the last Hokage did not exceed a year from the beginning to the end of the book, there were two months in the later period because I was too busy with work and the update was interrupted. No matter from the sense of reading or from my own idea of ​​continuous Sex has a great influence, this book will avoid this, which is also the reason why the manuscript was saved at the beginning. When the book was published, the manuscript was nearly [-] words—it was abolished before that. An old draft of nearly [-] words.

As for the reason, it is actually because of how to write One Piece fans. I have repeatedly revised several sets of plans at the beginning. There is always the risk of being backstabbed by fans who have not finished drawing comics, but this is only one aspect, and the other is to write in the end. What kind of story to write, after all, if you don’t know what kind of story to write, you probably won’t be able to write anything.

I personally belong to the kind of people who usually like to read miscellaneous books. Regarding the Age of Discovery, I basically read books with the British First Empire and Spain as the background, and this one does have quite a lot of similarities with One Piece. So when I was writing One Piece, I unconsciously used some of the things in it to make up the details. In terms of pirates, I also introduced many characteristics of pirates in the age of great navigation. To put it bluntly, it is for the sake of writing stories and myself. Such a sip, otherwise there will be only bang bang bang bang, which is quite dry.

Of course, there is another aspect that attracts me to write about pirates. In short, you know, after getting used to the painting style of One Piece, I really like to see girls appearing...

Compared with Naruto, this book is definitely not so fast-paced. Firstly, the world of One Piece is very big, and there are indeed many things to consider and make arrangements, and the pig's feet will eventually have to go on stage by themselves. Accumulation is still necessary, and right now In terms of progress, Zhujiao still has a lot of things to learn--Ba Qi learned it later.

Finally, let me talk a little bit about the feeling of this reward.

this this this this this...

I seem to be too brave, but after I came back today, I took a closer look at the data in the background. Fortunately, I didn't break through the saved draft.

But it’s been two days since I’ve said it, it’s outrageous to take it back, and to put it bluntly, it’s not terrible to be owed. Originally, a writer needs to write a good story with more words, which is a bounden duty, and falling in love is not a proper job, so I bravely Bravely wait until the end of the 20th, just as my holiday is on the 21st.

In order to code quietly, I sometimes go to the hotel to open a special room and sit in it for a day, but I definitely can’t do this during the Chinese New Year. I go home after work on the 20th. I really haven’t slept much these two days. My head is hurting, the update on the 20th may be later, because I am afraid that I will make a mistake when switching the status of the book, so I will not fix it on the 20th, and the latest will be released at 11 o'clock. There should not be so many things to do on the last day of work. I I can still save one or two chapters, and the manuscript will explode on the 21st. On the 22nd, I will go back to my home to restore the ruthless codeword machine.

If... I mean if, if the saved manuscript is not enough, and I owe it, I will maintain 6K a few days ago, and then release it every 10 chapters. I can rest assured that everyone can see it Peace of mind—but I don't think it would be that exaggerated even if I owe more.

This is the end of the testimonials. Thank you for your continued support. The word count of this book should be about the same as that of Hokage's main story, and it may take at most a year to finish writing.

Chapter 57 A Naval Stronghold Surrounded by Unemployment

In just one month, thanks to the blessing of the Devil Fruit, Asherid officially changed his job from a materialist fighter to a spiritualist.

It doesn't work if you don't turn, your brain is not used to it.

After more than a month of tossing, the St. Marian finally found a satisfactory place, an archipelago called Hama.

This archipelago is made up of hundreds of small islands, making it a perfect base for pirates.

Due to the large number of islands, a strong enough magnetism is formed, and every ship heading in this direction will have their three pointers pointing here, so the people on board have no choice at all.

Pirates can hide in the labyrinth of islands and make full use of at least a hundred little-known anchorages, where they can obtain drinking water and fresh fruits, clean and repair ships, and divide their spoils safely.

Unless there is an experienced navigator, even the navy dare not follow the pirates into the narrow channel between these small islands, otherwise it is easy to get lost among hundreds of low-lying mini-sand islands, and it is not easy to get lost. Beware of sharp reefs and unknown shallows.

Unfortunately, Doflamingo had done some work, and this island happened to be in his intelligence system. St. Marian sailed safely for four to five hundred miles before arriving in this sea area. It saw the island After the silhouette of the family was lowered, the family's flag was smoothly passed through the outer sea area and entered the labyrinth of the coral-covered archipelago.

Then without accident, it was attacked by three sloops with nearly 200 people.

Then there was no accident, the smiling Don Quixote cadres beat up this group of people, probably because they were in a good mood and they were very gentle, leaving a lot of lives to understand the situation.

This proved to be the right thing to do, and the St. Marianne was rewarded satisfactorily.

These three sloops have just been cleaned up, and there are plenty of fresh water, wine, ammunition and gunpowder stored under their decks. The pirate organization they belong to shares a safe haven in the archipelago, and the location is also very good. Well, it is very convenient for them to set off to attack the merchant ships passing through the Windward Strait.

But the relationship within this pirate gang has been tense, because the opinion of the leader disagrees with many people. Just a few days ago, the tense atmosphere was triggered. Through the vote of all members, the original leader lost two-thirds The trust of his companions, while also losing his own ship, was replaced by a younger, more aggressive leader who declared unlimited piracy, while the former leader who demanded limited activity was only able to retain a A three-masted sailing ship and asked to leave immediately, the deposed pirate leader left in the humiliation of everyone, accompanied by only 36 subordinates who were loyal to him.

After understanding the situation, everyone in the Don Quixote family agreed that this place is quite good.

So after looting all the supplies on the three sloops, under the leadership of the "navigators", the St. Marian broke into this port. This time, there was no mercy.

What's more, this pirate group has no ability to resist.

Its largest and most powerful ship is only a 120-eight-ton sloop, carrying no more than 80 people, and only [-] small cannons. However, relying on the environment here, these pirates still rely on the The local tribes mixed together and established a very simple pirate kingdom. Each pirate has several wives, a large group of mixed-race children and a small group of slaves. Their big families hide in fortified houses in the woods on the shore. In the house, it is protected by high wooden walls and ditches, and the entrance and exit passages are also deliberately built to bend, so that people who come for the first time can't tell the difference between south, east and north, so that the owner of the house has enough time to escape into the woods.

When the St. Marianne arrived at the port, the long row of cannons it exposed made the pirates completely unable to resist.

The St. Marianne was facing the wind with its sails fluttering. After Doflamingo ordered the anchor to drop, the sailors sank the heavy anchor into the clear water. As the wind pushed the St. Marianne to the lee, the anchor claws It also sank into the sand and coral seabed, so that the St. Marianne was exactly parallel to the "pocket" 120 eight-ton sloop.

But when the Don Quixote family landed, only the local tribesmen greeted them, and all the pirates ran away.

The Don Quixote family stayed on this island. Doflamingo carefully collected information about this pirate society, and learned that because the aborigines here were at war with each other, if any foreign power intervened, they would not Many of the small pirate organizations that entered the new world but did not dare to challenge the rules set by the big pirates and the navy lived in this archipelago for a long time, taking what they needed from the aborigines.

This is also an important transfer station and initiator of the slave trade. Neither local people nor pirates are bothered by the implementation of the slave system. They participate in the slave trade as sellers or buyers. Slaves are highly profitable in this archipelago. Commodities, and their slave ship design even Doflamingo, one of the best black intermediaries in the underground world, would feel inhumane. The deck of the slave ship is covered with blood and tissue mucus from slaves. It is like a slaughterhouse, and diseases are always there. The rapid spread on the ship, the death rate of the crew is not lower than that of the slaves, and a "cargo" usually loses 40.00% of the crew and slaves. Even so, it is still a high-profit business, which makes these aborigines happy.

In the eyes of Asherid, these people are much darker than pirates, and he has every reason to burn this place to nothing—such a dangerous native, dare to sleep at night without killing them?

But it was stopped by Doflamingo.

Although Doflamingo didn't like the level of these people, he needed this place, and he also needed these black and white tribesmen to provide some services for his family.

But he also promised Asherid that when he left, Asherid could do whatever he wanted.

It's no secret in the Don Quixote family that Achérid is good at killing but hates slaves.

Logically speaking, this feature would prevent Asheride from being able to integrate into the Don Quixote family, but "good at killing" is really a bit fragrant, and besides hating slaves, Asheride does not dislike other businesses of the Don Quixote family. So Doflamingo still retains the idea of ​​absorbing Asherid. He thinks that Asherid's incompatibility can be resolved through time or other technical means, but talents are scarce.

There is no way, although they are doing well in the North Sea and the underground world, but Doflamingo's men are far from enough.

Two months after landing, the Don Quixote family set off again. When St. Marianne officially sailed into the waterway, Acheride, who saw that the island was not in good shape, threw a "fire Buddha" at the island, throwing those crooked All eight buildings were blown up to the sky, and the violent hot wind from the island blew away the hats of the sailors on the open deck of the St. Marianne.

Looking at the "Flower of the Other Side" blooming on the island, Yasherid felt that the island was much more pleasing to the eye.

But this is just venting anger and has no practical significance. Asheride understands this very well. After all, Doflamingo will have shares in the population auction venue of the Chambord Islands in the future.

Not to mention Doflamingo's group of Marie Gioia's relatives.

Ah Sherid can't change anything, and this thing has so much interest, so many people involved, the situation is very complicated, and he doesn't intend to criticize anyone from the moral level, his thoughts are very simple - seeing the slaves It will affect his eating, so whoever wants to be a slave in front of him, it is best to beat him.

The St. Marianne, which had completed its supplies, soon left the archipelago. Its next destination was the westernmost stronghold of the naval forces in the New World.

It is at the junction of the navy and the pirates, a hotbed of anarchism and chaos.

The St. Marianne arrived at the island called Delicia three weeks later. It was a large island, but when the St. Marianne arrived here under the banner of the Don Quixote family, it was overwhelmed by thousands of sailors. troubled by unemployment.

The way sailors live in the new world is not much different from the old world.

During the war, sailors are in short supply, and once the war is over, a large number of sailors will lose their jobs.

After a dispute with Whitebeard, the navy and the pirates had a very tacit understanding to stop their flags again. The navy stopped some ships from going to sea, and then directly swept out those sailors who were not very technically capable.

For these sailors, peace did not bring them safety. Outside the stronghold of the navy, the sea was still full of pirates, and the patrol force at the port was not a friendly role.

The streets, inns, and homestays of Delicia Port are inhabited by angry and poor sailors. They were forcibly conscripted because of the war between the navy and the pirates, brought to the new world, and now they are ruthlessly abandoned in a foreign land.

Even if they want to join the merchant fleet, it is very difficult for them. The merchants who suffered heavy losses in the nearby waterways during the war are still on the sidelines and will not immediately resume the trade volume before the war. The job opportunities for sailors will also decrease accordingly. Physically abused by pirates and the navy, financially discriminated against by businessmen, resentment and lack of job opportunities have begun to give them motivation for a certain life path.

The arrival of Qiwuhai made them excited.

Just because they were captured by the navy and served in the service, they know that it is the privilege of a few people to be able to talk and laugh in front of the navy. Sailors who have served in the navy usually want to board the ship of the strong.

And the name of Qiwuhai is no less than a big pirate.