Chapter 188 Explosive news
The base price of a Devil Fruit is 100 million Baileys.
Depending on ability and class, the price will double up.
Even so, it is priceless.
The most common occasions for Devil Fruits to appear are basically some well-known auctions with a hard enough background.
It's just that people who are eager for Devil Fruits usually push the auction price to a price that ordinary people can't afford.
It was also thanks to Arthur that he had some means to find some sellers in the underground world who were unwilling to put the devil fruit up for auction.
It's a pity that fate is unfortunate, or it is born with the insulating properties of Devil Fruit. Arthur has struggled for so many years, but he has never been able to buy a Devil Fruit.
Now that the great collector of Devil Fruits, Maud, is in front of him, he must consider whether this is the only chance in his life to be closest to Devil Fruits.
In order to seize this opportunity, with a feverish mind, he directly squatted in the port in advance, waiting for the arrival of Morde, and then made a request to buy Devil Fruit.
But Maud knew that Arthur had no money right now.
Although he now holds five Devil Fruits, he is not generous enough to sell them cheaply.
Most importantly, he is not short of money at all.
Therefore, in the face of Arthur's request, Maud's sentence is that you have money, which is a clear rejection.
Arthur's brain cooled down, but he was desperate for Devil Fruit, and he didn't want to miss this opportunity no matter what.
He even figured out a way to write an IOU to Maud, but quickly overruled it himself.
"I don't have money, and I want to 'get' a Devil Fruit from Maud, what should I do to..."
Arthur's head turned quickly in an instant.
In this situation, there are very few ways to think of it.
And the only way with a higher possibility, Arthur himself is difficult to accept.
But in the end, the desire for Devil Fruits prevailed.
In less than a second or two,
Arthur raised his eyes to look at Maud, and said solemnly: "I have no money, but I can sell this life to you!"
"Your life?"
Maud shook his head slightly. It wasn't that he looked down on Arthur. Based on his requirements for the team members, Arthur was still a long way from passing.
To put it horribly, Maud didn't need Arthur's life at all.
Just when he was about to refuse, Maud suddenly thought of the "hack" of Arthur's permanent pointer in the Leviathan Island bar, and the [Line Skill] that Arthur was proficient in, so he stopped talking in time.
Seeing Maud shaking his head, Arthur's heart sank to the bottom.
Selling one's life to Maud, even to become Maud's slave, is the only way Arthur can think of to get Devil Fruits from Maud.
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But even so, it failed.
Thinking back on the bad experiences in the past, Arthur felt like he was going to be depressed.
"Come on board, I'll give you a chance to reflect 'value'."
Just when Arthur's heart was ashes, Maud's sudden words were like breaking the dawn of the night, and Arthur's whole heart was instantly alive.
He suppressed the excitement in his heart, and his eyes were full of bright light.
"Boss, I won't let you down!"
After being in the underground world for many years, he directly changed his name to Boss Maud.
Maud said blankly: "I haven't recognized your 'value', so don't rush to call me boss, and don't be too happy too soon."
"If the 'value' you show can't meet my requirements, I will let you off the boat as soon as possible. On the contrary, if you can show the value that satisfies me, it is nothing to give you a devil fruit for free. ."
Hearing Maud's words, Arthur restrained the light in his eyes and nodded heavily.
Around, everyone in the Maud Pirates, even if they did not agree with Arthur's ability, would not object to Maud's decision.
"Come on board."
Maud strode to Netherland.
When he was on Leviathan Island, Maud was severely underfunded in order to build a ship, and it happened that Arthur sent the permanent pointer of the small garden to him.
At that time, due to insufficient funds, Maud could only use some means to hack the permanent pointer of the small garden directly from Arthur.
Afterwards, Maud collected two waves of experience points in the small garden, and also mastered the crucial hegemony skills.
It was these things that made Maud willing to give Arthur a chance.
If Arthur can get his approval, then he doesn't mind giving [Line Fruit] to Arthur.
Arthur looked at the back of Maud walking towards the Netherland, and his fighting spirit was like a raging fire.
"I absolutely have to seize this opportunity!"
Arthur muttered to himself in his heart.
Under the watchful eyes of the Neptune family and the residents of Fishman Island, Maud and his party boarded the Netherland one by one.
After a while.
The sails were raised, and the flag pattern of the Maud Pirates painted on the sails became quite three-dimensional with the sails swelled together.
Maud stood at the side of the ship, calmly watching Neptune and others on the port.
From today, he has one more promise to fulfill.
To this end, he has to become stronger, strong enough to fulfill all the promised promises.
Whether it's Fishman Island, or Bear and Sunny's...
The Netherland slowly left the port and went to the deep sea outside Fishman Island.
As the Netherland continued to rise, the fish-man island below gradually turned into a small spot of light.
Lafayette and Jim were nervous and focused.
One of them is a navigator and the other is a helmsman, and they are responsible for the safety of the entire team.
Even if they had successfully completed a voyage to Fishman Island, they still didn't let up at the deep seabed below 10,000 meters.
In contrast, the others were much more relaxed, drinking wine while admiring the wonders of the deep sea outside the bubble wrap.
The Netherland climbed slowly and steadily until it successfully took the Shanghai stream, and the climbing speed instantly increased several times.
"That way there will be no problem."
After successfully sending Netherland to the upwelling current, Lafayette's pressure has eased a lot.
Along the upwelling current, the sailing all the way is very smooth.
In the end, the Netherland jumped out of the sea like a flying fish, and then fell heavily, causing a large wave of waves.
After jumping out of the sea, the scene in front of everyone's eyes was a thunderstorm, strong winds, and stormy waves on the sea.
"Boom--"
In the sky with black clouds surging, a deafening thunder suddenly sounded, and the thunder and lightning flashed away in the thick black clouds.
"Pretty bad weather."
Maud came to the bow and looked up at the thundering sky.
His calm look was in stark contrast to the busy crew behind him.
"Um?"
Suddenly, Maud's eyes narrowed slightly.
On the sea surface directly in front of Netherland, a cyclone visible to the naked eye appeared.
Such cyclones, which Maud had seen many times in his voyages, were precursors to the formation of tornadoes.
Maud was about to remind Lafayette, but saw that the originally slender tornado cyclone expanded several times unreasonably in just one or two seconds.
Every second, the tornado cyclone expands at an astonishing speed, while rolling up a huge amount of seawater.
"Good guy."
A look of surprise flashed in Maud's eyes.
Rao is the waterspout that he has seen many times in the great waterway, but it is the first time that he has seen such a perverted waterspout with such a perverted expansion speed and scale.
This is the new world...
So, in the future, it's better to take the empty road.
at the same time.
A clear sky somewhere.
The terrifying three-masted ship was quietly suspended above the sea of clouds.
The trip to Fishman Island, with the size of the terrifying three-masted ship, cannot be coated to go to the sea.
Therefore, the horror barque can only stay in the new world, waiting for the return of Maud and his party.
Jaya, who was in charge of controlling the terrifying three-masted ship, naturally stayed in the new world.
The crew members of the Monk Pirates, the Heart Pirates, and the Hawkins Pirates also stayed with her.
During the time when Maude and the others went to Fishman Island.
Jaya continued to insert the black stones of the Isle of Thunder into the hollow hull area of the Terror Barque one by one, in order to improve the ability of the fluttering fruit.
The rest of the crew, as coolies, were responsible for improving the image of the Terror Barque.
First, the gloomy and cold vast forest of meaningless,
Secondly, there are quite dazzling tomb areas and building ruins.
Their first task is to flatten these areas, and then wait for Maud and the others to come back and transform the vacated areas.
Thanks to their efforts, the appearance of the island is changing.
on the balcony of the castle.
Jaya stood quietly, her long hair and skirt fluttering in the wind.
In her hand, she was holding a life card.
"Maud's side... Has an accident happened?"
Keeping the oncoming strong wind out of his palm, Jaya noticed the direction the life card was pointing and suddenly turned to the other side.
Although the life card is as usual, this sudden change made Jaya a little worried.
"Could it be swallowed or taken away by the sea kings?"
Jaya muttered to himself worriedly, and immediately followed the direction pointed by the life card and used his abilities to change the course of the terrifying three-masted ship.
Her main task is to rendezvous with Maud and the others who have returned to the sea as soon as possible.
I thought that with the guidance of the life card, the reunion should not be difficult.
But after all, this is a more dangerous new world, and it may usher in a disaster at any time.
........
Five days later.
An island in the New World.
The sky was clear, and seagulls circled over a humble port.
The heavily damaged Netherland is moored in port.
Its main mast was broken, a large piece was lifted on the left side of the hull, the cabin shell was damaged to varying degrees, and both the main sail and the auxiliary sail were torn in large areas.
"Tsk, the material of the entire hull is basically made of Baoshu Adam, which is too fucking rich."
On the wooden bridge near the shore, a short old man with a pipe in his mouth stretched out his hand and stroked the hull of the Netherland, and couldn't help but utter a foul language.
For no other reason, the Netherland is too dreadful.
"I don't know what happened to you to make such a 'strong' ship damaged like this."
"Are you sure you can fix it?"
Maud stood behind the little old man, without explaining, but asked about the maintenance of the Netherland.
The little old man looked back at Maud, nodded and said, "As long as you don't mind the material problem, maintenance is a trivial matter."
"Excuse me then, please fix our ship as soon as possible."
"The money is in place, everything is easy to say."
The old man looked back, but he was a little surprised.
He knew Maud, but he never expected that the rumored big pirate would be so polite to a mere old ship repairer.
See you soon.
The old man sighed in his heart.
Maud nodded towards the old man, then turned around and walked towards the building not far away.
Five days ago, the unreasonably large tornado they encountered in rough seas nearly killed them on the spot.
Fortunately, the Netherland is very strong, and they did not let them end up in a shipwreck.
It's just that people escaped danger, but the Netherland was seriously damaged.
In desperation, Maud could only choose to rest temporarily on an island found in the nearby waters.
On the one hand, it is to repair the Netherland, and on the other hand, it is to wait for Jaya to come to them on the terrifying three-masted ship.
This island, which is temporarily resting, covers a small area.
Just looking at the port facilities, it is rudimentary and backward.
The town not far from the port is even more sparse with only twenty or thirty buildings.
When he first landed on the island, Maud's first impression of the town was barren.
Of course, this is also impossible.
Compared with the first half of the great waterway, the navigation in the new world is more thrilling and demanding, and it is naturally difficult to build a stable trade route.
As a result, it is difficult for islands with inherently poor environmental conditions to develop.
Even if it can develop to a relatively prosperous level, it will be targeted by the four emperors who rule the new world.
After all, a site means a protection fee income.
And the island where Maud is located is obviously not qualified to be favored by the Four Emperors.
Maud followed the dusty road to the tavern only a hundred paces from the port.
Next to the pub door.
Luo hugged the ghost crying, leaned his back against the wooden wall outside the tavern, and looked at Maud as he approached.
"Is that old man reliable?"
"The tone is not small, and it should be somewhat capable."
Maud smiled.
Regardless of whether the old man at the port can repair the Netherland, they have no choice in their current situation.
Luo took out a newspaper from his jacket with a slightly solemn expression, and said, "I asked for a newspaper from the tavern, it was yesterday."
"Why, in the past few days when we almost lost our boat, did something major happen again?"
Maud looked at Rona's solemn expression.
Luo threw the newspaper to Maud and said, "You can read it yourself."
"..."
Maud caught the newspaper and spread it out directly.
What caught my eye was a prominent title related to the navy.
"Has the Warring States abdicated..."
Maud's eyes swept across the headline, looking at the headline.
Maud, who has information about the future, is not surprised by the abdication of the Warring States.
However, the reason for the abdication of the Warring States period was not the defeat of the war, but the fact that he attacked Mary Joa and kidnapped the Celestial Dragons, and killed two Celestial Dragons.
"Akainu took over as the Marshal of the Warring States Period, Aokiji withdrew from the navy, and Uncle Yixiao took over as the general..."
Although it was reported yesterday, the change in the naval headquarters happened a week ago.
The Navy Headquarters was stunned for a week before the shocking news broke out.
Maud groaned.
After the war on the top, some developments turned out differently, while others quietly got back on track.
Without thinking much, Maud continued to browse the newspaper.
The content of the report on the other page points to the news of Zhenzhen Fruit.
"Oh?"
Maud's sight was immediately fixed on a photo.
The person in the photo is Vice Admiral Vergo of the Navy Headquarters.
But Maud knew that Vergo was Doflamingo's spy in the Navy.
"Zhenzhen fruit...I was eaten by this guy."
Maud's eyes narrowed slightly.
The shocking fruit that has been red-eyed by countless people has finally appeared...
It's just that the way it appears is very unpleasant.
Luo looked at Maud and said calmly: "It happened that this guy ate the fruit of shock, Maud, what are you going to do?"
Maud did not answer Luo's question immediately, but continued to read the newspaper.
In addition to reports of huge changes in the Navy headquarters and the fruit of the shock.
This newspaper, which was issued yesterday, also published several other explosive news...
