I Have Been Sleeping Among Pirates For A Hundred Years

Sabaody Island.

Crowe walked in area 30, followed by several Vinsmoke's genetic soldiers.

This is the commercial street that symbolizes wealth on the island of Sabaody, with various bustling shops, casinos and entertainment venues lined up in rows.

Frustrated businessmen, pirates with dark eyes, and ordinary people who occasionally buy a night of love shuttle through this street, coming and going incessantly.

After making a phone reservation in advance, Crowe is about to arrive at his destination - a large pawn shop.

According to Joel's instructions, he wanted to exchange some of the gold and silver jewelry he got back from Caribu into common currency.

Crowe had never thought before that he would come to this island of Sabaody, which he had only read about in books.

It’s not that he has no dreams, but he has always been cautious and thoughtful, and he doesn’t think he has the strength to achieve success on the Grand Line.

Just the Marines on the Grand Line already made him feel very troubled and exhausted.

In this kind of environment……

He just wants to live a peaceful and prosperous life.

——I don’t smoke, and I only drink wine briefly.

Go to bed before 11pm and sleep for 8 hours.

Drink a glass of hot milk before going to bed and do 20 minutes of stretching to relax your body before going to bed.

This way you can usually sleep until dawn. Wake up in the morning like a baby without any trace of fatigue or stress.

…

But all this is past thinking.

Now he found that the world in his eyes... suddenly became wider!

Those big pirates with a bounty of 50 to 60 million beli were originally entities that he did not dare to provoke.

He even didn't dare to get too close to the other party for fear of causing unforeseen trouble.

But at this moment, the situation reversed.

Although his strength has not improved at all, the big pirates did not dare to go side by side with him. They just stayed away and uttered stolen words:

"Did you see that the man in the black butler uniform is Xue Tong's subordinate? If you don't want to die on this island, don't provoke him!"

For events such as this, Crowe gradually changed from being uncomfortable at first to getting used to it later.

Walking into the pawn shop, he ordered the accompanying soldiers to open the treasure chest amidst the laughter of "Master".

In an instant, dazzling jewels and precious stones overflowed.

The owner of the pawn shop stared at the priceless treasures with dumbfounded eyes. After a while, he came back to his senses and quickly picked up one of the antiques and put it in front of his eyes for appraisal.

"This... this glass cup is glossy in color, unique in appearance, old and well-preserved. It is worth at least three million beli."

After that, he took out another necklace,

"And that pearl necklace, which is plump and round in appearance, and the size of the pearls is much larger than ordinary pearls. It can be pawned for 3.5 million beli."

He marveled and quoted the price.

Crowe pushed up his glasses with his palms and calmly did the accounting.

He suddenly felt strange to himself who was calmly facing this wealth at this moment.

Maybe it’s because I’ve experienced too many things now…

About an hour.

All three boxes of treasures have been counted.

"A total of 1,236 million beli."

The pawn shop owner put the treasure box into the treasury, took out thirteen suitcases, and handed them to Crowe.

After confirming that it was correct, Crowe ordered the soldiers to take the suitcase and leave the pawn shop.

"Shopkeeper, do you want to inform Jack the Ripper to snatch back the Baileys from these guys?"

One of his men looked at the backs of Crowe and the others and said warmly, "They look easy to deal with."

"Idiot! That guy is Xue Tong's subordinate. Doing such unreasonable things, you are too impatient to live!"

The pawn shop owner was suddenly sweating, and he hurriedly roared at his subordinate, "If you want to die, don't drag me with you!"

"Yes, yes, I understand..."

The subordinate retreated.

…

After leaving the pawn shop, Crowe walked towards Area 1.

There were always sneaky figures moving under the shadow of the trees. They looked at the suitcase in Crowe's hand with extremely greedy expressions.

But no one dared to step forward.

Arriving at the gate of the auction venue, there were already attendants waiting respectfully to greet them.

After Crowe handed over the 100 million Baileys auction price that Joel had previously borrowed on credit to the attendant, he pushed up his glasses and walked into the auction venue.

The auction, which was held as scheduled, was still very lively.

The slaves in thin clothes knelt in front of the stage without any dignity at all, looking sad.

"Slave No. 4 is a beautiful girl who has just turned eighteen. She was once the royal princess of the West Blue Moro Kingdom. She still maintains her perfect body. If you want to improve the genes of your next generation, you can buy it back immediately. Enjoy!”

"The starting price is three million Baileys!"

Disco shouted enthusiastically amid the girl's sobs.

"thirty million!"

Crowe calmly raised his hand and quoted an astonishing price.

All the guests present were in an uproar.

How could someone offer such an outrageous price? Will they be allowed to buy it?

"Thirty million times!"

"Thirty million times!"

"make a deal."

Disco swept across the guest seats and suddenly raised the microphone with excitement on his face, "Then product No. 4 belongs to this gentleman!"

“However, don’t be discouraged, there are still good products coming!

Let us introduce Slave No. 5, a young girl from North Blue Asia. She is also beautiful and has a gentle personality. She is not only good at medical treatment and bandaging, but she is also a good dancer... The starting price is 1.3 million. Bailey! "

"Thirteen million!"

The nobles who were about to make a move were about to bid, but when they heard the same voice bidding ten times the price again, they immediately put down the cards they were about to raise.

They looked at the man in black butler uniform who shocked the audience with his crushing price almost from the beginning, and were amazed.

How rich does this guy have to be... to dare to be so unscrupulous?

If you bid with him, God knows how high the price will be!

"Congratulations to this gentleman for once again gaining ownership of Product No. 5!"

Disco tried hard to suppress the excitement on his face and continued the auction.

They are worthy of being the subordinates of the legendary pirate Xue Tong, and their generosity is no less than that of the Celestial Dragons!

The future of this industry...will take off again!

Disco couldn't help but envision it in his mind.

Finally, the auction is over.

In the VIP backstage box of the auction at this moment, Disco brought in the slave women that Crow had just photographed one after another.

"Sir, there are twenty-three products in total."

He was smiling so much that his face almost wrinkled.

Crowe held up his glasses with his wrist, counted the number of people, and then asked the soldier to take out three suitcases and hand them to Disco, "Here are 300 million Baileys, you can count them."

"No need to count, I believe you won't lie to me, master."

With a smile on his face, Disco ordered his men to take the suitcase and handed the shackles key to Crowe.

He originally planned to get close to each other, but the latter had no intention of doing so and led the slaves away from the back gate.

These frightened women followed Crowe with shaky steps, either sobbing softly or panting nervously.

Finally, return to the dome.

Baby-5, who was idle, sat on a chair in the front hall, staring blankly at the crowd behind Crowe, but the latter just bowed slightly and said:

"Miss Baby-5, please take them to wash up and dress up. Lord Xue Tong will meet them tonight."