Pirate's Ape Fruit

Chapter 442 The Hungry Slums

The Country of Flowers is not a big country, it just has two more cities, so on the surface it makes the Country of Flowers look like a big country, but in fact, in Luffy's view, it is just a small island country. .

Abu followed Luffy but didn't say a word the whole way.

Luffy not only gave Abu a look on his face, he even said in a low voice: "Why are you from this country too? Is it so difficult to be a guide?"

Abu looked very depressed. He was the one who refused to speak, and he was also the one who blamed him for being silent. However, he did not dare to challenge Luffy because his head was not strong enough. "Where do you want to go?" ?”

"Take me to the ghetto."

"Slums?"

Abu's face was full of surprise.

Although Abu didn't know why Luffy chose to go to the slums, he had been to that place several times, and the ground was very clean, and everyone had food to eat, and there was medical care if he was sick, so he was not afraid of Luffy finding out. What comes.

They hadn't even reached the slum yet, and they were still in a bustling downtown. They were stopped by several patrolling guards. "Who are you?"

"Of course we are citizens of this country!!" Luffy opened his eyes and lied, "I wonder what your lord does?"

"You said you are a citizen of this country? Why don't you look like it to me? You do look like a spy from the Kingdom of Ice?"

After all, Luffy was someone who came out to make a living, unlike Abu who stayed in the Kingdom of Flowers every day or went to the battlefield. Naturally, he knew what they wanted to do, so he took out a Bailey with a denomination of one thousand and said: "My lords, that's all I have."

Luffy was not only robbed of his money, but also slapped. "What? Just that little? Do you think we are beggars?"

As soon as this man left, Luffy's expression turned extremely ugly, "It seems that the Flower Country is not as good as you said on the surface?!"

Abu was also very frightened, but looking at Luffy's current expression, he probably won't have an attack for the time being, and there is still a chance.

What Abu saw was not the scene he usually saw when he went out. Those patrolling soldiers were not only ripping off Luffy, but also those who could tell at a glance that they had no power. They were their targets. He had already witnessed how they rip off people. , I have already stolen money from several people, and one was even beaten because he had no money.

Luffy patted Abu on the shoulder and said, "We'll find out when we go to the slums."

Abu is in a very low mood now, which is completely different from the Flower Country he imagined.

Abdu began to hate these people, and he was full of justice, but he did not take action because according to the agreement, he could not reveal his identity in front of outsiders, so he could only pretend that he had not seen anything and led the way to fly to Go to this slum.

Before they even entered the slums, Luffy and the others were stifled by the fumes. This place was not an ordinary stench. You should know that it was covered with ice and snow, and the stench was so strong that it would probably kill people if it was a bright day. Smoked to death...

Luffy saw Abu's footsteps stopped and asked, "Are you giving up?"

Abu did not answer Luffy's words, but took a step forward, leading him to move forward...

Not long after they left, they were held hostage by some local gangsters with knives who were entrenched in slums and wealthy areas.

These people must know everything, so Luffy first pushed them to the ground and rubbed them back and forth hard. After subduing them, he asked aloud: "How can the slums be like this?"

The leader, who was beaten until his face was swollen and his head was swollen, said in a bad voice: "Brother, if the slums were not like this, would they still be slums?"

"The slums I came to last time were very clean, and there was no smell at all. Everyone had food to eat, and there were doctors to see them when they were sick. How could this be what you said?!" Luffy said with a He asked with serious doubts on his face.

"Boss, the royal family and the nobles wanted to fool the leader of the Babao Navy. We cleaned the land, and we did it by force. We also had to cooperate with them in acting. Otherwise, we would all be arrested for mining, or even treated as Gladiators entertain them, do you think we are willing to be such scum?”

"Then you did it anyway?"

"People are starving to death in this slum every day!"

After Luffy got the answer he wanted, he released the person directly. There was no need to embarrass these ruffians anymore. As they said themselves, if they didn't want to starve to death, they could only take this road.

Abu doesn't even have the courage to take a step forward now. If Luffy hadn't pulled him, he would still be standing where he is now.

The houses in the slums are just like his name. The houses are either small or dilapidated. Most of them are small igloos made of water. There is no floor to separate these ice walls. There is only a broken wooden bed or a broken wooden bed. The floor made of wooden planks, lack of food, and lack of warmth caused the people here to either starve to death or die of illness, and more of them lingered on the road of illness and hunger...

Luffy and Abu had been wandering in the slums for a long time without knowing it. Many people begged them for money and food, and they also met many people who made a living by robbing them.

This reminded Luffy of the Waste Terminal.

Although this place is not as extreme as the Waste Terminal, if this situation continues, sooner or later it will become a scene of purgatory.

When Lao Cai saw Abu coming back, he immediately asked, "How is Abu?"

Luffy also completely admired the look in Lao Cai's eyes. He was already like this and still couldn't see it at all. He was also completely convinced.

Luffy said with a smile: "Old Cai, thanks to you having a pair of eyes, it's all for nothing."

"Is it that bad?" Lao Cai asked with an expression of complete disbelief.

Abu lowered his head and said loudly: "Brother, don't say anything. I can't see any hope for our country now. It turns out that we are all living in this lie together."

Luffy also admires the Qingjiao family. After all these years, the Country of Flowers is just a small island country. In other words, you can complete a nationwide tour by just walking a few steps, but you haven't noticed it yet. You can't even think about it.

Qingjiao must be the most concerned about this, because he and Luffy agreed that if the king, royal family, and nobles of the Flower Country are incompetent and harm the people, then he must let the revolutionary army come in and change the Flower Country and the Ice Country. , let them become a public state...

Qingjiao is so old, so he can naturally imagine that if there is such a change in the Kingdom of Flowers, the biggest beneficiary will definitely be Luffy, so he must still be a little unwilling to give up.

Just by looking at Abu's expression, Qingjiao knew that something must have happened without even thinking about it.

Qingjiao no longer asked how Abu was doing, but asked the people below to cook a big meal, hoping to entertain Luffy well.

When Luffy saw Qingjiao asking someone to treat you to such a feast, he naturally knew that he must be asking for something, or he wanted to intercede with the royal family, royal family, and nobles of the Flower Country at this table, or Said, Qingjiao still wants the flower country in his mind.

During the meal, Luffy remained silent throughout the whole process, but Qingjiao only spoke when they were about to see each other, "Captain, we in the Kingdom of Flowers have been fighting wars for hundreds of years. Do you think you can stay and watch? After all, The result in a war environment? I’m still a little unconvinced!!”

Luffy knew from the beginning that if he succeeded, Qingjiao would be a rock in the pit with his stinking and hard temper, but he would not admit it, so he had to rub it with Qingjiao, otherwise, if this guy If he betrayed him, he would never be able to kill him.

Luffy said with a very confident expression: "Green pepper, no matter how many times, the result is the same!!"

Because Luffy is very clear about human nature, he is very confident, "Okay, Qingjiao, I can give you another chance. If 70% of them want to overthrow the royal family of the Flower Kingdom, then you can I can’t cheat anymore.”

"This?"

Luffy saw that Qingjiao still wanted to bargain with him, so he said softly: "If you do this, then I will let the revolutionary army come over now?"

"Captain, can't I just listen to you?"

Luffy knew about Green Pepper. If he hadn't secretly told Hanada Motoki about it in private, then he would have lost.

After dinner, everyone went back to their respective rooms. Nami asked with a puzzled look on her face: "Luffy, you already won, why do you still want to buy green pepper?"

"You haven't seen that old guy's temper. If you don't make him fall to the ground, he won't be convinced!!" Luffy said with certainty.

Sanji held a cigarette in his mouth, took a few puffs and asked with a worried look on his face: "If nothing else happens, Qingjiao will definitely reveal this matter, and maybe we will be kicked out of the Flower Garden soon." country?"

"No!" Luffy said with certainty, "Because they can't afford to offend us."

"So they will definitely bribe us!!" Usopp's laughter was all over the floor. "I don't know how much gold and silver they will use."

Luffy smiled very wickedly and said, "If he bribes us, will that mean we have a chance?"

"Isn't this the soft-mouthed person you know?"

Zoro said not politely: "You want me to stab someone in the back, but I can't do such a thing!!"

"We just need to refuse!!" Luffy said confidently.

"reject?"

Chopper, a little elk, didn't have enough head in the first place, and now he naturally didn't know what Luffy wanted to do. "I know! We want to take advantage of this opportunity to blackmail you! We want the lion to open his mouth and become a real sea." thief!!"

Luffy was completely speechless. He really didn't know if this little elk had been led astray by him.

Robin closed the book and said, "The most ruthless people are the Imperial Family. As long as we do nothing, we will wait for the results we want."

"That's it."

"Really?"

Nami and the others didn't believe that such a good thing would happen.

Nami may not understand that sometimes the more work you do, the more you will get, and more often than not, you can just sit back and wait for the work.

When Luffy returned to the room, he used the fruit's power to directly transform into a mini dwarf. He was probably only the size of a mosquito. If he wasn't careful or careful, it would be impossible to spot him.

Luffy didn't expect that after becoming so small, flying would be so satisfying, as if he was traveling through the universe.

As expected, when the old guy Qingjiao heard that Luffy and the others had gone to rest, he prepared to leave secretly.

If Qingjiao used his sense of knowledge now, he would find that he was being stared at by Luffy.

But it was no use to him.

This is Qingjiao's overconfidence in himself.

As expected, Qingjiao is now heading towards the Kingdom of Flowers.

When Hanada Motoki heard that Qingjiao suddenly came to him, he was so intoxicated that he asked people to remove all these things. After all, he knew Qingjiao's character and had a certain understanding of Qingjiao's character.

"Brother Green Pepper!!"

Hanada Motoki is one after another. Just by changing his clothes, he looks several years older, and his emotions are like that of a good emperor who is working hard to rule.

"Brother Huatian, something big happened." Qingjiao quickly told the story.

"Really?"

"real!"

Qingjiao didn't say politely: "Can I make a joke about this kind of thing?"

Hanada Motoki knew from Qingjiao's expression that this was not a joke, but a real thing.

Hanada Motoki was like an ant on a hot pot all of a sudden. It was impossible for him not to be in a hurry. He learned about Luffy's strength from Qingjiao's mouth. He had wiped out all the four emperors. It would take a little while to deal with him. The king of the small flower country can still do it easily, I guess even a fart can kill him! !

"Brother Qingjiao, you also know that there are wars every year, and some things can't be changed even if we want to change them!!" Hanada Motoki said with runny nose and tears: "You also know what a huge burden the war brings, so the people in the slums It was definitely not intentional."

"I know."

Qingjiao frowned and said loudly: "I have been fighting for so many years, so I don't know the harm caused by war. Otherwise, I would not be able to tell you this."

Hanada Motoki was always a cunning person, but now that Qingjiao said this, he felt a lot more at ease. He even asked tentatively: "Brother Qingjiao, what do you think I should do next? What do they want?" Money? Or do you want something?"

"I don't know about that."

"so what should I do?"

Luffy admired that Hanada Motoki's acting skills were not ordinary, but he couldn't figure out whether Qingjiao's head was often used as a weapon when he was young and broke his head, but he didn't notice it. A little bit of suspicion comes out...

Luffy is not in a hurry at all, especially someone like Hanada Motoki. If he were in a hurry, he might even dare to kill his own son, so all Luffy has to do now is wait.

After Qingjiao hurried back from the kingdom, she asked: "Are people still sleeping?"

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