Pirate's Swordsman

After listening to the girl's words, the old woman looked up at Xia Nuo, with a look of gratitude on her face. She came tremblingly to him, bent her knees, and was ready to kneel down in front of him.

"Grandma, there's no need for this."

Xia Nuo, with his quick hands and quick eyes, helped the old woman up early, smiled and said, "Just do it casually, don't take it too seriously."

"This guest from out of town."

At this moment, an old and deep voice sounded. Xia Nuo turned around and saw that the white-haired old man sitting behind the long table was looking at him and said in a deep voice:

"I am Gant, the mayor of this town. On behalf of Thea and Leah, I would like to express my gratitude to you. However, although it is rude to say such words at this time, I still hope that you can come back tomorrow after dawn. ,leave here."

"Mayor?"

The two girls raised their heads at the same time and screamed.

"I don't want to do this either."

The old mayor raised his right hand, sighed, stopped what the two girls were saying, and then looked at Xia Nuo and said: "But after all, this is related to the lives of everyone in the town. I ask my guest to be more understanding."

"It's okay to leave, but you have to tell me what happened in this place, right?"

Xia Nuo didn't pay attention to the other party's expulsion order, but smiled and said, "Otherwise, I wouldn't be willing to leave like this in a daze."

"I wonder what happened?" The old mayor was slightly startled and asked in confusion, "Why, is this your first time coming to the Kingdom of Alabasta?"

"That's it."

Xia Nuo nodded slightly, "What's going on with those zombies outside? When did your town start to look like this?"

"Not just our town, but the whole of Alabasta, has become like this."

The old mayor now realized that the handsome young swordsman in front of him really knew nothing about their situation, so he patiently explained:

"The zombies in our town started to appear about half a year ago, but some towns in the north have already seen this situation more than a year ago."

"The first place where zombies appeared was probably Badger Bear Town in the northeast of the royal capital. People there suddenly discovered one night that the corpses in the cemetery were emerging from the ground one after another, and then they launched an attack on the people in the town. As a result of the attack, more than half of the people in the entire town died that night.”

"And the corpses of these dead people disappeared inexplicably. Not long after, someone would see that they had all turned into zombies and returned. In this way, this terrifying corpse tide gradually spread, and it only took a few days. Within a few months, it spread to the entire Shengting Island, putting the entire country into a state of crisis."

"But fortunately, these zombies cannot move freely during the day and only come out at night to kill. Therefore, the country has not yet collapsed. People like us in small rural areas can barely escape this disaster by relying on the fortresses we built. .”

"Is it already so serious..."

Xia Nuo probably had some guesses in his mind. After thinking about it for a while, he asked again, "Don't you Alabasta have a standing army of six to seven million people? Isn't it possible that they can't do anything against these zombies?"

"Army? Where is the army?"

The old mayor took off his glasses and wiped the lenses. He looked desolate and said sadly:

"When the zombie wave first broke out, the army was completely defeated. At the beginning, we were expecting His Majesty King Kobra to stand up and take control.

He led the army to quell this terrible disaster, but we later learned that this wave of corpses was caused by a collaboration between him and Moonlight Mogliari! "

What kind of statement is this?

Xia Nuo frowned. From the first moment he saw the zombie outside, he guessed that this strange scene was related to Moria, but he did not expect that even ordinary people in the countryside already knew this name. King Kobra was also involved.

"In my impression, your King Kobra always seems to have a good reputation, right?"

Xia Nuo pondered, "What are the benefits of joining forces with Moria to do this kind of thing?"

"Of course it's to pursue immortality!"

When this matter was mentioned, the old mayor was quite angry and gritted his teeth and said:

"Everyone was spreading rumors before that in order to get Moria's support and make himself immortal, that bastard Cobra joined forces with Moria and allowed him to carry out experiments, which reduced the country to For Zombie Nation!”

"If we hadn't been lucky enough to have Lord Crocodile here, I'm afraid his and Moria's conspiracy would have succeeded long ago!"

"Crocodile?"

Xia Nuo's eyes flashed slightly, "That King Shichibukai who has been staying in your Kingdom of Alabasta?"

"That's right!"

The girl next to her suddenly spoke up. When she mentioned that person's name, her face was full of reverence:

"Although Master Crocodile is a pirate, since he came to our country, he has been punishing evil and promoting good, repelling incoming pirates, and has helped everyone a lot."

"This time after he became aware of Moria and Kobra's conspiracy, he stood up immediately and led the citizens to continuously launch resistance. Only then did the entire country not completely become a zombie country! "

You probably understand what's going on.

Xia Nuo sneered in his heart. Although he didn't know when the Moonlight Moria guy came to Alabasta, it was obvious that these two scheming guys had already secretly colluded together.

One is a red face, and the other is a bad face. With a scapegoat like Moria, Crocodile no longer needs to do tricks like dancing fans. He can directly stand up as the savior to destroy zombies. His reputation will undoubtedly accumulate faster. .

He glanced at the people around him and found that everyone's expression was similar to that of the girl Thea. If this continues, it is estimated that in less than a month, the foreign position, and even the entire Alabasta, will completely fall to Croque Dar is in control.

"Uncle Mayor, why did you want me to leave before?"

Xia Nuo looked at the old mayor and asked meaningfully, "Isn't it because these zombies are more aggressive towards outsiders on Shengting Island?"

"That's it." The old mayor put on his glasses again, nodded and said: "This is not only us, but also a rule of thumb that many people in the country know. As long as there are outsiders around, these zombies that come out at night will Even more crazy, it will even attract zombie siege from other surrounding areas. In other words, with you here, the level of danger we face will be greatly increased."

Is it true...

Xia Nuo laughed and shook his head. This was an old trick that could be guessed.

On the one hand, the people are in extreme fear, and on the other hand, they try their best to drive away foreigners in disguise and create a closed environment to avoid variables.

And all of this is just to allow Crocodile's plan to usurp the throne to proceed smoothly.