I Have No Interest In Devil Fruit

〖Abandoned town—〗

Nine Snake Warriors and a group walked on the dilapidated streets, with snake bows, swords and other weapons in hand, and looked around with a little vigilance.

Judging from the density of houses and buildings, this place was probably a very prosperous town in the past, but after more than ten years, it has already been deserted. Rows of houses on both sides of the street are not only in disrepair for a long time, but also obviously have signs of being looted and destroyed. Most of the doors and windows are in a state of destruction. There are basically no furniture and objects left in the houses, or the urban residents fled at the time It was taken away from time to time, or it was scavenged by waves of pirates passing by later.

The women of Nine Snakes don't have much emotion, they are also a new wave of pirates.

Walking through town after town like this...

The styles of buildings and streets may be different, but the dilapidated scene of the disaster is similar.

When you search in all directions, if you can't find anything of value, you will feel it is a pity.

But, of course, nothing is missing.

For example, pirates in the usual sense don't search for things they took away, so they collected a lot. Some iron or steel objects, or metal furniture that is not easy to carry and has little use. Pirates look down on these worthless scraps of copper and iron, but the women of Nine Snakes carefully collect them.

The flora and fauna resources on Nine Snake Island are not bad, but it is not a mineral-rich island.

Who would use wooden arrows that are nothing more than sharpened heads when metal arrowheads can be used as conventional weapons? It is also domineering, and the destructive power of the metal arrow must be greater.

Bring these scraps of copper and rotten iron back to the island, where they can be forged and turned into weapons.

With a snake wrapped around her arm, Marigrud was walking in an empty house. There were signs of being ripped apart everywhere. There was a faint musty smell in the air. When she looked up, the ceiling was soaked with hair. Rotten, caved in a corner down. The floor was broken, the drawers were messy, the whole room was bare, there was nothing to loot.

"Huh?" Marigruder raised her foot and realized that she had stepped on something. She squatted down and touched it, and found an old photo in the dirt and dust under the cracks in the floor.

He wiped off the stains on the photo vigorously with his fingers. It turned out to be a group photo of two people, a boy and a girl who looked about the same age.

The boy has green skin and short hair, a strong figure, a thick face, and a pile of firewood on his back; 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, the giant woman behind the couple on the sailboat he met before coming to this island.

Flipping to the back, there is still a line of handwriting.

The handwriting was already very blurred, and Marigruder barely recognized a few words, probably "prince", "unlike", "good" and so on...

"Mary, let's go!" the other soldiers shouted from afar.

"Oh, here we come." Mary put the photo away.

prince? She thought about the boy in the photo, the prince of the ice cream kingdom? According to the records in that book, when the king called "Tyrant" destroyed the country fourteen years ago and left to become a pirate, he was only seventeen years old... That is to say, the person in the photo The boy 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 I saw on Jiu Snake Island and Xiaokong Island three years ago. They are both gentle and quiet.

Mariegruder was even more puzzled. Why did such a person become a "tyrant"?

………………

〖The outskirts overgrown with wild grass—〗

"Woo!"

With a strange roar, a huge black shadow jumped out from the side of the road and rushed towards Lynch and Robin.

Neither Lynch nor Robin moved.

The pitch-black battle armor flashed out, held down the head of the huge black shadow that rushed over, and pressed it directly to the ground with a "bang".

The huge black shadow struggled, but under the suppression of the palm of "B.I.B", no matter how he flopped on the ground, the position of his head remained motionless.

He blinked, dazed.

He wanted to flap his hands and feet to catch the guy who was holding his head, but suddenly his arms were pulled by something—the thing from his back pulled him backwards to his back, making him He can't exert his strength at all! This is so strange, what is behind his back? !

The huge black shadow pressed down by "B.I.B" was even more confused. On the back that he couldn't see, there were four colorful arms, twisting his hands backwards and holding them down.

It turned out that this guy who suddenly jumped out from the side of the road was actually a gray-bearded old man, but what was different was that this old man had a physique of three to four meters—this was because he was slightly hunchbacked , because of his stooped figure, if he straightened his back, he might be four or five meters tall.

"I said, old man, you are the one with thin arms and thin legs, what are you trying to do by jumping out suddenly to frighten people?"

Lynch squatted in front of the old man who was taller than him.

Unexpectedly, the old man became excited, "Old man? I'm only twenty-eight years old, how can I be an old man?"

"what?"

Both Lynch and Robin were secretly surprised.

Both "B.I.B" and Robin let go of their hands, and the one in front of him lay on the ground for a while, and slowly got up under Lynch's gaze.

Lynch fell back tactically.

As far as this person's face is concerned, he has gray hair, a full beard, thin limbs, and a stooped figure... This is twenty-eight?

"It's so pitiful, you've already aged so prematurely at the age of twenty-eight..." Robin murmured to himself.

"Hey! I can hear you." The old man looked down at Robin.

Robin said: "I don't know how many more years I can live? Maybe I will die at any time..."

The old man said: "I told you what I can hear... who will die at any time! Isn't it too vicious? Damn it, are you really pirates?"

The old man became excited again, but was quickly suppressed by "B.I.B".

Clap clap! The old man lay on the ground and kept patting the ground begging for mercy.

"B.I.B" let him go.

"Cough, cough, cough!" The four- to five-meter-tall old man kept coughing and panting in ORZ on the side of the road.

Lynch: "Aren't you twenty-eight?"

"Don't look at me like this, think back then..."

The old man took a breath for a while, touched his messy white beard and hair, and looked up at the sky at a 45-degree angle, as if reminiscing about the past.

It's just been a long time, and there is no more text.

Robin: "Progeria is often accompanied by memory loss..."

"You don't think you're talking to yourself, do you?" The old man turned his head and said speechlessly, "I can hear everything I've said!"

Robin followed suit and said, "Alzheimer's disease..."

"I'm twenty-eight years old!" the old man shouted, "Stop talking about it, why are you so calm about dementia, aren't you too scary?"

Lynch smiled and said, "You're very energetic! A twenty-eight-year-old man, isn't he afraid of us two pirates now?"

"You don't seem to be pirates, and you don't seem like bad people..." The old man sat down on the ground by the roadside, "This country has not perished! I have always believed in this, those pirates who dare to come to this island , will always disappear silently after a while... On this island, there are still people guarding in the dark! Maybe it's him too..."

"You wait first." Lynch interrupted his sudden NPC-style 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."

"Huh?" The twenty-eight-year-old old man was stunned.

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〖Royal Palace—〗

Hancock walked in the palace where the traces of time could already be seen, and he compared the difference between this palace on the outer sea and the palace on Nine Snake Island in his heart.

Suddenly, she turned around and noticed that her younger sister Sandersonia had disappeared at some point.

Hancock didn't care either.

Although he didn't carefully dissipate his knowledge and domineering aura, he could vaguely sense that Sang Da's aura was not far away, and he didn't encounter any danger...

"what!"

In the distance, there was the scream of Sandersonia.

Hancock frowned slightly, and disappeared on the spot in a blink of an eye, flying at a high speed following the screams.

When she passed the corner of the palace corridor, she immediately showed a look of astonishment.

Around the corner, she unexpectedly saw Sang Da in her childhood and girlhood...