Pirates control thunder and lightning

"Energy users... are really troublesome."

Nicholas also had a headache. The Devil Fruit abilities in the pirate world were so outrageous that it would be quite troublesome even for a strong person if he accidentally fell into the attack.

Some abilities are almost pseudo-invincible, such as the natural type and the animal type, which are relatively easy to deal with, but some superhuman types are completely outrageous, so outrageous.

Just when Nicholas was lying on the throne, wondering if he could find a chance to ask Xia Qi to help collect a devil fruit illustrated book, he suddenly saw an interesting scene in his 'perspective'.

A thin little girl was carefully walking through the dirty, dilapidated alleys.

And it seems that he knows that there are monsters wandering around in the city, and he also specially disguised himself with various garbage and sewer sludge to confuse the sense of smell of those monsters.

Nicholas followed the little girl through the complicated alleys, crossed the commercial street, and entered a small alley. Then he saw the little girl stopped in front of a wall.

Then he looked around cautiously, and after finding that there was no one else, he struggled to move a stone.

After removing the stone, a small hole can be seen under the wall.

After the little girl entered the cave, she struggled to move the stone back to its original position.

Under Nicholas' gaze, the little girl moved downwards along the dark cave, looking at the familiar road. It was obvious that she had walked this road countless times.

"A 'caveman' in the city? But it's really interesting."

Looking at the little girl's destination, Nicholas showed an interested look.

Originally, he thought that many things that happened in his previous life were unbelievable, but after coming to the pirate world, the things he saw were far more unbelievable than those in that world.

After all, that world was at least somewhat orderly. In this pirate world where strength was paramount, the lives of the people at the bottom could be said to be dire straits.

Soon the little girl walked through the long darkness, and in front of her appeared an underground factory that was constantly emitting black smoke.

It seems that because it is completely separated from the upper world, the people here still don't know what is happening above.

The huge factory emits black smoke, even making the sunless dome underground even darker, artificially adding a layer of black sky to it. Except for the light emitted by the factory, the entire underground space is no longer visible. There is no light source.

The little girl carefully ran towards a rock wall. You could see that the huge rock wall was covered with dense caves, and many of the caves contained beings with extremely weak vitality.

There is not even a table or other furniture inside these residences, only a dirty mattress.

The little girl hugged the cloth bag in her arms tightly and looked around cautiously. She knew that these similar monsters here were more terrifying than the monsters outside. After entering one of the caves.

"Dad, Mom!"

The little girl shouted quickly.

In the cave, a skinny man and woman were lying on tattered bedding. It could be seen that the two of them had not eaten for a long time, and they could all be described as skinny and skinny.

The man stretched out his hand with difficulty, touched the little girl's head, and said weakly: "Katie, please keep your voice down. Mom is asleep. Don't wake her up."

"I..."

The little girl looked at the woman sleeping peacefully and opened her mouth without saying anything.

Then she seemed to have thought of something. She quickly took out the cloth bag from her arms, unfolded it and said to the man lying down: "Dad, eat, if you don't eat, you will be taken away and recycled like Uncle Jike next door. .”

Seeing the moldy bread in the cloth bag, the lying man showed a gentle smile on his face, touched the little girl's head and said softly: "Katie, eat it, and Katie, wait until daddy falls asleep too, You must find a way to get out of here. Dad knows that Katie is smart enough to do it."

After speaking, the man glanced at his wife who was sleeping peacefully next to him. For refugees like them on the sea, sometimes death is also a relief.

click~

With a soft sound, the man's hand fell weakly to the ground.

And Katie seemed to realize something, and she hurriedly stuffed some moldy bread in the bag into the man's mouth, but no matter how much she stuffed it into the man's mouth, the man seemed to have no movement to chew it.

Looking at her parents who were motionless, Katie stopped what she was doing and shed tears.

With a soft sound, when Katie turned her head, she found a strange person suddenly beside her. His face was not as pale and numb as the people here, his body was obviously very healthy, and his clothes were even neater.

"Human life is sometimes so fragile. Life itself has no meaning, but you may be able to find interesting things in the process of living, so are you willing to board my ship?"

In fact, Nicholas couldn't save the man in front of him even if he wanted to, because his fire of life had already become extinguished at any time. In other words, long-term overloaded labor had long squeezed all his life potential.

Katie wiped away tears when she heard the strange guy in front of her saying strange words: "Then can you save my parents?"

"I can't do it now, but maybe I can do it in the future."

Nicholas spoke.

"Okay, then I'll join you."

"My name is Albert Nicholas, and from today on I will be your captain."

"My name is Katie Reminis. From today on, I will follow Captain Albert Nicholas and become the captain's most loyal follower!"

Katie looked at her parents sleeping peacefully, wiped away her tears and sniffed, trying her best to behave like a little adult.

Nicholas took out a handful of candy from his pocket, tore open the package and handed it to her: "It's very sweet, do you want to try it?"

good smell...

Very fragrant.

Katie looked at the richly scented white candy in Nicholas's hand and swallowed hard.

"Eat, my future chef."

Nicholas handed Belin's homemade candy to her mouth. Betty finally couldn't help it and took a lick. This one bite made her feel unprecedented happiness. Is this the taste of candy?

"Let's go, count the time, Beilin and the others should have finished solving it."

With that said, Nicholas planned to get up and walk outside.

Katie followed Nicholas blankly, obviously now in her consciousness, Nicholas would be the person she followed.

When she saw the guards in uniforms and armor patrolling around, Katie grabbed Nicholas' clothes and told him to hide. After all, in Katie's mind, these guards in armor were the masters of this underground world.

"By the way, how did you get here?"

As several thunderbolts appeared out of thin air, a whole patrol of guards fell to the ground.

"what..."

After a moment, Katie reacted and told how they arrived.

In Katie's words, they are refugees on the sea. As for refugees, they are people who are unable to pay taxes. They have been deprived of their identity and can only wander around on the sea. People like them are often slave traders. Favorite prey.

Katie's parents came here after seeing the recruitment notice from the Taji royal family. They originally wanted to find a job and settle down, but they didn't expect that the Taji royal family brought them directly after gathering them from the dock. Here, what follows is work in the dark.

As for Katie, she escaped because she was too young.

Katie also discovered the secret passage leading to the earthly world while walking around.

"So, this is the legendary human flesh battery. Just scrap it when it's used up. It's really an extremely cheap labor force."