Codex Pirates

Chapter 18 Past

One Piece King Roger’s words before his death resulted in the fact that all the ghosts and ghosts tended to run to the sea. Some of them were ambitious and wanted to become the next One Piece King, and some followed the crowd, just for the sake of indulgence. Dogs, even thugs who were defeated by the cruel reality and gave up on themselves.

On the one hand, this situation makes the navy stretched and hard to catch pirates. On the other hand, it also makes the competition in the pirate industry more intense-if everyone runs to become pirates, then there will be no merchant ships and no prosperous life. Villages and towns, what are they going to grab?

In nature, when the number of predators far exceeds that of food, the predators either starve to death and eliminate the weak until the balance is restored, or they actively change their eating habits and find another way to survive.

Of course, humans are smarter than animals, and they will not wait to die. A large number of pirates quickly learned another skill without a teacher-slave trading.

What a job that is suitable for pirates. When they defeat a colleague who is offered a high reward by the navy, but they are limited to being a pirate and it is difficult to get paid by the navy and the world government, they can also choose to pretend to be a colleague. Slaves, sold to those in need.

However, due to the chaotic nature of pirates, it is impossible for them to only sell peers. Before the era of great pirates, there was slave trade in this world, but it was after the era of great pirates that the slave trade, especially the trade of human beings, was It reached a peak in a very short period of time.

As mentioned earlier, the original owner of William's body was a victim of this general environment.

When William was 12 years old, he and his mother met pirates on their family's boat. His mother committed suicide in despair, but he survived by luck because of his young and handsome face, and was regarded by pirates as He was sold as a slave, and after half a year, it was turned over and over again, and finally it was in the hands of the Tianlong people.

The Tianlong people with a long history still maintain the slave culture and are keen to raise slaves of various races including humans. As part of the slave culture, the slaves raised by the Tianlong people will be branded on their bodies. For the imprint of the 'Dragon's Hoof', as a proof of the slave 'inferior humans'.

No matter what race you are, no matter how high or low your original status is, whether you are a criminal, a businessman, or even a prince, after being branded by the Tianlong people, you will have only one status—slave.

It’s not that the original owner of the body never thought of running away or asking for help. Even if he revealed that he was illegally trafficked by pirates, it didn’t help. Not only that, but his frequent behavior aroused the disgust of his master, Tianlongren Tordos Saint. So at a banquet, St. Toldos proposed to have fun with slaves.

St. Toldos put on a show with another Draconian who had a teenage slave about William's age to "pass the time" and "have fun".

William and another teenager of the same age were locked in a cage, fighting each other like a cockfighting dog, like wild beasts. In the end, William won the victory by virtue of his little advantage of learning swords in his early years. The seeds of fear were planted in his mind, so he behaved perfectly well-behaved in the days to come.

His performance was also rewarded, and he quickly gained the trust of St. Toldos, thinking that he had "domesticated" him. In order to show off his "beast taming" methods, St. Tordos made public appearances more than once. Showed off this to other Draconians, and even took off the collar restricting William's movement in a safe enough place, such as a boat or residence, to prove it to other Draconians.

On these occasions, St. Toldos was not worried about William escaping, and William knew that he could not escape, and he was always waiting for the opportunity.

This opportunity will come soon. In the year 1505 of the sea calendar, that is, two years ago, St. Tordos, as a representative of the world's nobles, visited the East China Sea, where the pirates are the weakest among the four seas, to show his affirmation of the work of the navy. He fell in love with his "obedient" slave from the East China Sea——Morgan William.

During this trip, William waited for the opportunity until a big storm came. He thought this was his chance, so he took advantage of the chaos and dragged St. Toldos into the sea. Ri killed St. Tordos, and then climbed into a boat that he had secretly untied and dropped into the sea.

Fortunately, the small lonely boat was not overturned by the waves amid William's prayers, but unfortunately, he soon encountered a pirate ship and was directly coerced into it. In the storm, drenched in rain and frightened, he developed a high fever.

The pirates were going to throw him into the sea to fend for themselves, but they didn't expect him to recover soon, and this process was when "Sun Bo" took over the body of "William".

Speaking of the hatred for the Tianlong people, William today is naturally not as hard-pressed as the original owner of the body, who was tortured both physically and mentally, but this does not prevent William from putting the Tianlong people on the opposite side. In addition to the perception and attitude of modern people, what is more important is that the original owner killed a Tianlongren during his escape.

There are many kinds of privileges for the Tianlong people, and the one that is the most well-known to the world and can best reflect their status is established to protect the safety of the Tianlong people. Once they are offended, even the admiral of the navy will come forward. No one knows about this Fortunately, once it is exposed, the consequences will be unimaginable. Therefore, from the beginning of time travel, William, the Tianlong people, and even the world government are actually opposed to each other.

Fortunately, the situation on the ship was chaotic at that time, and no one would care about the life and death of a slave afterwards, and no one would have thought that someone would dare to kill the Tianlongren. As far as the world government is concerned, they only think that the helpless Tianlong people were unlucky enough to be blown away by strong winds or waves, so that their whereabouts are unknown, or even buried in the bottom of the sea. Slave kills master.

A few young people chatted about the content of the newspaper for a while, and vented their dissatisfaction with the privileged class of the Tianlong people as the bottom-level people, but whether it was a wanted criminal who offered a reward of 200 million Baileys, a great route, or a Tianlong People and holy places are still too far away from them, so we are back to the topic.

William folded the newspapers that several people had read and put them in his arms. He specially set up a study room in the yard to store the newspapers. At the same time, he summed up all kinds of external information recorded on it. Once he found useful information, he would write it down in the on the notebook.

After he put away the newspaper, he asked Edmund, who was biting his nails in boredom, "How did you do what I asked you to do?"

Several people all looked at Edmund, who heard the words and said with a bitter face: "I didn't know that group of people very well before, so I'm still in contact with them now, so I can't ask their boss to come out for a meeting as soon as they meet, right? They will definitely refuse without reason.”

William ignored his complaints, got up and flicked the dust on his clothes, and lightly ordered: "You speed up!"

Edmund nodded honestly. In fact, this matter is not difficult, otherwise William would not let him do it alone. He originally lived in a village on the same island as Frost Moon Village. What William asked him to do was Invite the local snake in that village to come forward and discuss a business with William.