Chapter 498: The Land of Flowers! The Whereabouts of the Devil Fruit

In the Kingdom of Flowers, on the seaside of a southern city, Arthur walked quickly, looking back from time to time.

"Cooper?" (Arthur, what are you so nervous about?)

Cooper didn't notice that he was being followed and asked Arthur about the situation.

"Someone is following us, let's go."

"Cooper." (That's not like you.)

"I don't want to cause trouble. Anyway, I don't think anything good will happen to me."

He walked quickly, blocking all his aura to prevent the observation Haki from detecting it.

The leaders of the Babao navy who followed to the beach looked around.

"What about people?"

"Observation Haki can no longer detect any aura."

"That's amazing! It looks like it'll take some time to talk to him."

"What a hassle!" Qing Jiao was a little dissatisfied and annoyed. "It's only a 100 million bounty. Wouldn't it be better to just join forces and defeat him?"

"What about the lives of the people?!"

Bang! When he made such a suggestion, he was picked up by the leader of Erbao and slapped on the head and scolded.

"Let's go look for it."

……

In the city, Feng, who was forced to participate in an unregulated fighting competition, was kidnapped by another group of slave traders.

He had closed his eyes and was waiting to die, but then he felt his body moving.

He slowly opened his eyes and listened to the clanking of chains.

"No..." Feng thought, "I can't be sold around like this..."

He tried his best to drag his blood-clotting body and ran quickly towards the crowd.

The crowd was frightened by his appearance and quickly dispersed to both sides of the street.

When the slave traders transporting him heard the noise and turned around, they could no longer see the person on the haul bag.

"Human...Human! He's so tough to be so badly injured! Bastard."

Late at night, Feng, who was wandering through the dark alleys, arrived across the street from the inn where he would see a drunken Arthur for training every morning.

He was waiting on the other side and found that it took a lot of courage to want to die, so it would be better to find a goal and live on.

Arthur hid outside for a whole day to avoid being followed by the leader of the Babao navy, and soon after, he quietly returned to the inn.

When Feng saw the eagle and a familiar young man, he immediately shouted hoarsely,

"The Ice Sword Master!"

"Damn!" Arthur shuddered and turned around abruptly to look at the stone pillar on the street opposite the inn. A familiar face appeared in his eyes.

Cooper broke away from Arthur's shoulder and flew to the stone pillar behind Feng, looking down at him.

"Young man, you are not dead yet?" Arthur found that it was the slave he had been in contact with a few days ago, and went forward to talk to him.

"What are you doing here?"

Feng's eyelids were heavy, his breathing was weak, and he stared at Arthur who walked in front of him.

They seem to be the same age, so why is there such a big difference?

"You're a pirate, right?" Feng said hoarsely, staring into Arthur's eyes.

"The reward is 100 million berries. I saw it in the newspaper."

"So?" Arthur listened to Feng's words, looked around and sensed, always alert to the eight auras chasing him.

"I was a farmer and had a good family, but due to drought, the harvest in the village was completely gone. My 16-year-old sister, my parents, and I all starved to death."

Feng told Arthur about his misery, not because he wanted his sympathy.

"Can drought really kill people?" Arthur was puzzled. Although his life was hard in his previous life, he had hardly ever been hungry.

"Don't you know how to go fishing?"

"Fishing also requires skills and timing. It's not that easy for ordinary people."

"Oh... really..." Arthur stared at him, his mind filled with memories of fighting sea monsters in the water.

He thought to himself, "It doesn't seem like it requires any skills, but then again, ordinary people aren't as good as me."

"Then why are you looking for me? I have no sympathy for your experience. It's insignificant to me."

"Take me on as a pirate!" Feng said with the last of his strength, "As a condition, I will tell you the whereabouts of a devil fruit! A devil fruit that can heal diseases and injuries!"

Arthur frowned when he heard this. Such conditions really made him tempted.

If he had a healing devil fruit, the injured Fat Tiger, Cooper, and Leia around him would also recover quickly.

It is a great help to ensure the safety of partners' lives.

"Are you interested?" Feng saw Arthur's expression and immediately put forward conditions to him.

"In exchange, please let me board your ship. Even if it's just to clean the place... I'm willing to do that."

Faced with such a thing, Arthur's expression became serious, no longer so playful, and looked very easy-going, staring at him.

"How do you have this information?" Arthur stared into his eyes, not looking like he was lying.

He only saw a dying boy who was trying his best to stay alive.

She chose him instead of those rich and powerful people.

In this respect, he is very smart.

"Royce! The old man who bought me told me! He's dying of cancer! I got some information from the black market that there's a devil fruit that can save his life!

But he miscalculated, forcing me, a fighter with no combat experience and only a week's training, to compete in a no-rules fighting tournament against battle-hardened desperadoes!"

"Then what makes you think that I would want someone like you who has no strength? You will only be a burden by my side!" Arthur said to him coldly, wanting him to know what he was like.

"I will become stronger! I swear!" Feng saw the opportunity and his eyes became determined.

"I will never become a burden. If I become a burden, I will handle it myself. I will never drag you down!"

Looking at the other person's determined eyes, Arthur remained silent for a long time.

He casually took out a bag of money from his waist and shook it in his palm.

"Do you know the whereabouts of that devil fruit?"

"I don't know the exact location, but I know I can get information on the black market. If you..."

"I'm not going!" Arthur threw the money at him and turned to leave. "Go get some information for me. These few thousand Baileys are for your short-term survival."

"Does that mean you agreed to my exchange?"

"It depends on your performance." Arthur responded to him indifferently, "Let's go, Cooper."

This was like grabbing a life-saving straw, allowing Feng to find hope of survival.

I have nothing and I don’t care about anything.

What's wrong with being a pirate? If he makes a name for himself and comes back, who in this country wouldn't treat him with respect?

Back at the inn, Arthur prepared to go take a look at Fat Tiger.

As soon as he stepped into the courtyard, he found eight tall and strong men sitting in a pavilion by the lake in the distance.

The moment he came back, the eight people looked at him at the same time.

"I've been looking for you all day, the famous Ice Sword Master!"

"Come and sit down quickly. The king wants us to talk to you."

"What's wrong with you again?" Leia was sitting by the window of room 2-1 on the second floor, wearing a light nightgown, staring at Arthur below with her very seductive figure.

"You can make all the top military figures in this country come to you."

"What trouble could I possibly cause?" Arthur looked up at Leia.

"They came to us on their own!"

"You're always looking at other beauties outside, but you don't even look at the one at home. Sigh." Leia felt very lonely and said to Arthur in a sarcastic tone,

"Every day, besides practicing martial arts, I just take care of Fat Tiger. It's so lonely."

Arthur grinned at her and walked towards the pavilion helplessly. He sat on the tea stool in the middle of the pavilion with his arms folded across his chest.