I Have Been Sleeping Among Pirates For A Hundred Years

Chapter 17 Spend Some Useless Youth

After another day of sailing, the Guru finally arrived at Delai Island.

When Caribu saw that Joel was still lying lazily, with no intention of taking responsibility, Caribu's heart dropped a little.

At this moment, he had no intention of trying to figure out what this adult was thinking. The feeling of returning home after a long absence had already filled his heart.

Unfortunately, this good mood did not last long.

The standard warships moored at the port and the Marines stationed there made him realize something was wrong. The familiar depressive atmosphere in the town was like a dark cloud, covering the clear sky in his heart.

He got off the boat and walked quickly towards the village.

…

"It's urgent."

Joel stood up and leaned against the railing of the boat, looking sideways at Caribu's back indifferently, then stretched, got off the boat, and walked toward the town.

Marine soldiers are constantly patrolling the streets of the town.

Occasionally, there were loud shouts and curses at the end of the alley. If you glanced at it, you could probably see a circle of Marines beating a man, like...

Street gangsters are extorting money.

Pedestrians came and went in a hurry, but no one paid attention.

Joel continued walking without any interest, admiring the architectural style and street layout around him.

On the fountain square in the town street, there is a huge human statue seven or eight meters high.

He was a high-spirited young man, wearing a cloak, with his slender and straight body wrapped under the cloak. At first glance, he looked quite majestic.

But if you look closely, you can find that the carefully carved lines and streamlines have been worn away over time.

Under the statue, townspeople pay homage from time to time.

Joel touched his chin. The statue looked a bit like himself, but it was only similar in appearance. He didn't remember that he had ever shown that attitude of wanting to protect everything.

He is not such a boring person.

Wandering into a tavern, the original noise turned into silence as soon as the tavern door was opened.

Everyone's eyes were on him at this moment.

Of course, this is not his fault. With his outstanding physique and height of nearly two and three meters, he is still very rare even on the entire island.

Not to mention the lazy but very luxurious temperament displayed by Joel's movements, which did not look like someone who would come to this civilian pub to drink.

But he just sat down at the bar and ordered a drink quietly.

"Boss, a glass of iced Coke."

"Um?"

The tavern owner was obviously stunned and seemed a little confused, but he still pushed over a glass of iced Coke.

Soon, the surrounding eyes dispersed, and the sound became noisy again.

"Have you heard that someone died in the village to the west yesterday, and there was a big fuss."

"Is it the good deeds of those G-46 branch bastards again?"

"It's them. Those bastards also captured a pirate accomplice in the village. I heard that he was imprisoned in the town's jail. Today he will be taken to the square and executed in public."

"Anyone who resists them will be regarded as a fellow pirate. Marines are a bunch of fucking bastards!"

Drunken mantras mixed with anger and complaints came one after another, while at the bar, a man sat silently, quickly eating the egg fried rice in front of him.

"Boss, have another bowl."

Joel looked sideways slightly. The man was wearing a gray and blue striped turban on his head, and his cheeks were a faint black-purple color. It seemed that his complexion was extremely poor because he had not slept effectively for a long time.

"You don't have long to live."

Joel put down his wine glass and said calmly.

"Yeah, you can see it too?"

Ah Jin's tone did not fluctuate at all, and he continued to bury his face deeply into the basin-sized bowl, as if this was just a trivial matter.

"Won't you be sad about death?"

"Not upset."

He answered very difficultly, but also very easily.

"Don't you even have the thought of surviving?" Joel found it interesting.

"Are you alive..."

Ah Jin held the rice spoon in the air for a long time, seeming to be thinking about something, but soon buried his face again and continued to wolf down, "It doesn't matter anymore, I just want to regain my strength now."

"The toxins in your physical strength can be removed."

"I asked the doctor and he said I was terminally ill."

"Do you choose to believe me or the doctor?"

Ah Jin finally turned around and looked silently at the elegant man at the bar.

Not only did the doctor say there was no cure, he himself also clearly felt that every early morning, there was an indescribable cramping pain in his internal organs.

Moreover, as long as you exercise a little, your heart will beat violently and your whole body will sweat.

And these are undoubtedly the characteristics of life weakening and entering death.

But……

The little luck left in his heart kept him from speaking. He looked at Joel's handsome profile, trying to see some clues from the latter's expression, but he couldn't see anything.

This must be a joke...

he thought.

Bang!

The door of the tavern was pushed open very roughly, and the Marine soldiers filed in with muskets raised, and instantly surrounded everyone in the tavern.

"Captain, I saw that pirate enter this tavern with my own eyes."

A soldier whispered.

Captain Marine shouted shrilly: "Everyone leans against the wall and raises their hands. Anyone who doesn't do this will be considered a fellow pirate!"

A rustling sound quickly came from the tavern, and the residents who had been yelling angrily just now quickly leaned against the wall.

"Then you two are pirates."

The captain's pair of triangular eyes took in everything in the tavern.

Joel turned a blind eye and shook the wine glass, while Akin suddenly stood up. This move also scared the soldiers and quickly pointed the barrel of their gun at him.

"Is Captain Krieg in your hands?"

Ah Jin raised his eyes, and the crutches hidden under his wrists glowed coldly.

"Krieg's overestimating idiot, yes, he will be sent to the execution stand at noon today, and will be executed by Lord Baron himself at that time, squeak——"

The captain gave a peculiar laugh.

Ah Jin looked at the other person: "I remembered... I should have seen you in East Blue. Your name was Tiger... no, Mouse, right?"

"Zhizhi! As expected of the ghost man Ajin, he also knows my name!

If it were East Blue, I wouldn't kill you dirty pirates. Unfortunately, this is the Grand Line, Lord Baron's G-46 branch. Even if you get close to me, I won't be able to keep you alive. "

The captain laughed strangely.

He was the former Colonel Mouse of the East Blue 16 branch. After the fish-man dragon was arrested, Marine senior officials sent someone to intervene in the matter. Following the accusations from the Cocoyasi villagers, he was quickly suspended for investigation.

At the critical moment when he was about to be sent to a military court, his old leader, Colonel Baron, saved him and allowed him to get out of the quagmire of the incident.

Although he lost the power of colonel of the branch, he still retained the rank of captain of the headquarters. Of course, the two statuses are essentially equal.

In order to prevent the fish-man dragon from revealing the conspiracy between the two, under Baron's operation, the dragon was escorted from East Blue's branch prison to Impel Prison, where no one can escape.

As for why Baron has such power to operate this matter, it is simply because he is the disciple of Marine Chief Instructor and former Marine Admiral Zephyr.

The investigators sent by the headquarters did not want to offend the complex network of relationships under Zephyr's education system, so they turned a blind eye and let it go.

Of course, the mouse would be saved by Balon because he had never stopped paying tribute to Balon with the captured treasures over the years.

Moreover, because Balon liked to call others mice contemptuously, he changed his title to "Rat" without hesitation to show his loyalty.

All of this led to his current impunity.

"I don't mean to get close, I'm just wondering if I can exchange you for Captain Krieg."

Ah Jin said bluntly.

As soon as he finished speaking, before he could respond, the iron crutch in his right hand flew out instantly, turning into an afterimage and embedding itself in the wooden door next to Captain Mouse.

At the same time, he burst out with an astonishing speed, using the iron crutch to separate the Marine team, and directly took the enemy's head.

With one movement, he was close to the mouse in an instant. If nothing else happened, the Marines would not have time to react.

But this amazing explosive power also put a huge load on his weakened heart and lungs.

His heart seemed to be tightly grasped by invisible hands, and the severe pain caused his steps and movements to deform involuntarily.

It was this kind of accident that made the Marines come back to their senses in shock.

They swarmed forward and surrounded Ajin in the center like a tide. Although they were knocked down one after another, they would quickly make up for it one after another, exhausting the latter's little physical strength.

After nearly a hundred soldiers lay scattered on the ground, Ah Jin retreated almost fainting, feeling like he was about to suffocate.

The insufficient supply of Qi and blood made his face paler than a corpse that had been dead for three days.

"Zhizhi——"

Captain Mouse looked at the pirate who broke out from East Blue and sneered.

Even though the situation didn't look good, he knew he still had the upper hand.

Because behind him, there are hundreds of well-armed soldiers on standby.

Can a pirate fight a hundred well-trained soldiers?

Even if he can fight a hundred, can he fight two hundred or three hundred?

Impossible, absolutely impossible.

"How about it?"

Joel looked at everything in front of him lazily, "Do you want to believe me?"

"Then...what's the price?" Ajin let out a long breath.