People in Naruto: Hyuga Branch? Start now! - Chapter 342
c342 Hancock returns
The Kuja Pirates are a pirate group led by Boya Hancock, the King of the Amazon Lily Kingdom.
The crew members are all women, and the crew members are all elite warriors carefully selected from the Amazon Lily Kingdom.
The flag of Nine Snakes is nine snake heads surrounding a somewhat cute skull.
At this time, Hancock was standing under the skull flag, frowning and looking into the distance.
This voyage took a total of seven days, but there was no harvest at all. No merchant ships, pirate ships, or even slave ships were encountered on the way!
Because he did not anticipate this situation in advance, Hancock did not formulate a response plan. So when he wanted to change his plan to rob the town, the supplies on his ship were no longer enough.
In desperation, Hancock could only return to the voyage and then think about how to solve the problem of feeding the people.
There is definitely no shortage of meaty nine snakes. Whether they are wild beasts in the woods or fish in the sea, Hancock does not just catch them casually.
But there is nothing we can do about other supplies, such as salt, sugar, cloth, ironware, thread, and rope.
These are not something a small country like her with a small population can produce, and it relies heavily on external supplies.
But this time. . . .
“We have to use our reserve supplies, and we have to replenish them quickly before setting off again!” Hancock sighed and looked at Nine Snakes in the distance.
The bottom of Nine Snake Island is no different from an ordinary island. Only at the top is a huge Hydra statue. There are two huge Chinese characters under the statue: Nine Snakes.
“There are no foreign ships docking, so it doesn’t seem like anything, eh?” Hancock squinted his eyes and suddenly saw a mountain top, where smoke seemed to be rising.
“Someone is barbecuing on the mountain?” Hancock frowned. No, it’s so far away. Even if it’s barbeque, how can the smoke from the barbeque reach here?
“Telescopes!” Hancock stretched out his hand, and someone hurriedly handed over a pair of binoculars.
Hancock took it and took a look, and then he became very angry.
She discovered that there was no barbecue going on on the mountain at all. Instead, there was an extra house at some point, and the smoke was coming from the house!
Moreover, there are not only houses on the mountain, but also a group of people on the mountain. It seems that they are cutting down trees?
Although there is no express provision from Kuji, isn’t it natural that all Kuji’s properties belong to me?
How dare you chop down my tree?
Hancock waved his arms angrily: “Speed up!”
The two big snakes under the boat immediately sped up. The journey that originally took one hour was completed in half an hour.
As the distance got closer, he could see more clearly, and not only could he see it, Hancock could even hear the laughter coming from the mountains in the distance.
Okay, not only are you cutting down my tree, but you are also so happy?
Does my tree make you so unhappy?
Seeing the ship docking, Hancock jumped directly to the shore, then stepped on the rock wall with his long legs and ran up the mountain.
“Buzz!” After a moment, Hancock jumped up and reached the top of the hillside.
The closest thing to her was the smoking house, and someone was adding firewood outside the house!
Hancock was walking around the house about to get angry at everyone, when suddenly she felt something was wrong.
This seems to be more than just cutting down trees, but more like harvesting something?
Production and harvest are the most beautiful scenes in the world, and even Hancock can feel this beauty.
She couldn’t help but lower her voice, but it was still cold: “Who can explain to me what is going on here?”
“Also, what you picked are red beans??”
“Sir She Ji!” The woman who was busy adding firewood to the house saw Hancock and immediately stood up excitedly: “Sir She Ji, you are finally back!”
It didn’t matter that she shouted. Not only did she call all the women who were giving birth, but even the women planting trees on the mountain turned around.
When they saw that Hancock was coming, they immediately stopped planting trees and rushed towards Hancock crazily.
“Hmph!” Hancock reluctantly nodded as he looked at the people’s support for him.
Very good, it seems that they did not betray me.
“What are you doing?” Hancock asked.
“Oh, they are picking red bean fruits!” A woman replied: “And they are planting red bean fruit trees!”
“Red bean fruit?” Hancock bent down and picked up a red bean fruit: “What’s the use of picking this?”
She has also been trained since she was a child, so of course she knows that red bean fruits cannot be eaten.
“The seeds in this fruit are dried and ground into powder, which can be used to make tea, called red bean tea!” The girl said: “The seeds of this red bean fruit are very expensive. One kilogram can be sold for 000 beli. Each tree can produce 10 kilograms of red beans, which can be sold for 80,000 beli!”
“We plan to plant 10,000 trees, so we can earn 800 million beli every year!”
“Red bean tea, red bean seeds, 800 million?” Hancock frowned: “Are you kidding me? I’ve never heard of red bean tea while I’m outside. I’ve only heard of black tea! Have you been deceived? ”
“No!” The girl said quickly: “We have all drank it, and it is really delicious. Sir She Ji, do you want to try it?”
Hancock looked at the white seeds on the ground and was inexplicably moved. The main reason was that Nine Snakes were too poor. If there was really an additional income of 800 million per year, wouldn’t there be no need to go out and plunder?
800 million, buying all the salt can kill eight thousand of them!
“Have a cup!” Hancock said.
The girl hurriedly invited Hancock to a table in the small workshop and poured her a cup of red bean tea.
After all, this is a red bean tea workshop, so how can we miss red bean tea?
Hancock looked at the girl putting a large piece of sugar into the coffee, and subconsciously felt a little repulsive.
If a drink needs sugar to be drunk, what kind of qualified drink is it? Why don’t I just drink sugar water?
But she didn’t rush to deny it, and waited for the girl to fully dissolve the sugar and coffee, and then handed it to her.
After taking a sip, Hancock frowned: “Why does this taste like drinking burnt wood?”
“That’s the taste!” The girl laughed, “And don’t think it tastes a bit strange, in fact, red bean tea is also a functional drink!”
“Functional drink?”
“That’s what Lord Bai said!” The girl said, “It’s a drink with special effects. Red bean tea can keep people awake, enhance training effectiveness, enhance combat effectiveness, and enhance concentration. It has a great effect on students, soldiers, office workers, and crew members!”
“Is there such a thing?” Hancock frowned and took another sip.
Stay awake? It seems that there is really a feeling.
“Wait, who is Lord Bai?” Hancock discovered a blind spot: “Nine Snakes, is there anyone with the surname Bai?”
“Uh!” The girl was stunned and said quickly: “Lord Bai said he was a traveler from another world, who came here six days ago. She also told us the effects and functions of red bean tea!”
“Lord Bai, a person from another world?” Hancock asked: “Where is she?”
“That’s it!” The girl looked around and pointed to the bottom of the hill.
Hancock looked at the sound and his eyes shrank.
There was a man standing on the flat ground at the foot of the mountain, directing several women to dig tree roots.
This man was wearing a white gown, which was totally out of place with the woman in a bikini next to him.
The women on Nine Snakes Island had never seen a man, so they might not think it was strange, but Hancock recognized it at once.
Isn’t this clothes a man’s style?
So this Lord Bai is a man?
A man came to the island and stayed for six days?
Although Hancock still looked calm, she was obviously anxious. She didn’t even have time to walk on the right path. She jumped with her long legs and came directly to Ning Yuan.
“Are you the Bai Lord?” While asking Ning Yuan, she also asked the women opposite Ning Yuan: “Who asked you to go ashore?”
“Ah, is there any problem?” Ning Yuan blinked: “I went ashore by myself!”
“This is the Nine Snakes!” Hancock’s voice became arrogant: “There is only one end for a man to go to the island, and that is death!”
As she said, she stretched out her hands and made a heart shape: “Tell me the route and method of your landing on the island!”
“Can you spare my life?” Ning Yuan’s eyes lit up.
Hancock chuckled: “I can let happiness die!”
Ning Yuan smiled, found a tree stump to sit down, and then asked: “Don’t you know me?”
“You are an unknown person, why should I know you?”
“Isn’t that right?” Ning Yuan scratched his head: “I killed three Tianlong people, shouldn’t the media report it? Didn’t you see it?”
“What?” Hancock was stunned, his eyes widened: “You killed three Tianlong people?”
“Yes!” Ning Yuan nodded.
“Who can testify?” Hancock asked.
“Anyone on the street can!” Ning Yuan spread his hands: “And the World Economic News should have reported it. This happened six days ago. There is no reason for you not to know!”
Hancock frowned. It was such a coincidence that she didn’t meet a newspaper bird once in six days, so she really didn’t know that Ning Yuan killed a Tianlong person.
But this matter is easy to verify. The Nine Snake Palace will subscribe to the daily newspaper, so the news will not fall.
“Someone come here!” Hancock said coldly.
Behind Ning Yuan, the three girls who were just digging at the tree roots stood at attention immediately.
“Snake Lady!”
“Lock him up in the cell!”
“Ah?” The three girls were stunned: “But, Lord Bai taught us how to pick red bean tea!”
“Didn’t you hear my order?”
The three girls were speechless and could only reach out to grab Ning Yuan’s arm: “Lord Bai, I’m sorry.”
Ning Yuan felt her arm being grabbed and was speechless: “Sister, I should be considered a benefactor to you and the Nine Snakes. It’s not good to repay kindness with hatred like this!”
“I don’t know whether what you said is true or false. Even if it is true!” Hancock raised her head and looked at Ning Yuan with her chin: “No matter what I do, you will forgive me, after all, I am so beautiful!”
“Okay!” Ning Yuan sighed: “No wonder everyone says that warm men are ranked behind dogs. It seems that being a warm man is really not pleasing!”
“Huh?” Hancock immediately raised her head, but found that the man who was standing here just now had disappeared without knowing when!
“Where is he?” Hancock asked with eyes wide open.
The three girls looked at each other in bewilderment: “Suddenly, he disappeared!”
“How could this happen?” Hancock frowned: “Could it be that he has the ability of teleportation fruit?”
If he has this ability, it is not surprising that he can come to Nine Snake Island.
So, where is he now?
Is he still on the island? Or has he left?
Is he leaving temporarily or permanently?
And most importantly, did he kill the Celestial Dragons?
Hancock turned around and was about to leave, but suddenly found that perhaps because of picking red beans, there was now a wooden boardwalk in the original dense forest.
“Humph!” Hancock walked up with her long legs, then followed the path to the town first, and then returned to her palace.
“You’re back!” An old lady with a cane taller than herself walked out of the palace, and with a serious face, she took out a newspaper from behind and handed it to Hancock: “Look, the World Government has issued a call to the Seven Warlords of the Sea!”
“No!” Hancock waved her hand. Such calls have been issued by the Navy or the World Government for more than ten years. Generally, only the bears will respond, and no one else will go.
“This call is not ordinary. The navy ship that invites you is on the way!” The old lady frowned and said, “The current situation is different from before. The navy has warships that can sail in the doldrums. If we…”
Hancock raised her leg and kicked the old lady out of the palace: “So annoying!”
I finally came back, and you bother me with this kind of shit!
Wait!
Hancock suddenly thought of a question. What kind of opponent needs to gather all the seven warlords to deal with?
Could it be?
Hancock thought of a young man with a clear face and handsome eyebrows.
The memory is very deep because I just saw it.
“Is it him?”
Pick up the newspaper that the old lady dropped on the ground, Hancock looked at the front page headline.
“The Navy will publicly go out the pirate Ace, and the World Government has issued a call for the Seven Warlords!”
“Ace?” Hancock suddenly felt boring. What is there to pay attention to about Ace, huh?
Hancock lowered his head and saw the news title under the front page headline.
“The murderer of the Shampoodie case, Haku Ryuzhi, has not been arrested yet. Admiral Kizaru has revealed key information!”
“The answer to Shampoodie, Haku Ryuzhi, Lord Haku?”
Hancock immediately looked at the news, and then her brows became tighter and tighter, and finally she couldn’t help shouting: “Gorse Flower!”
“Lord Snake!” The housekeeper of the Nine Snakes, Gorse Flower, appeared outside the palace gate.
“Bring all the newspapers from the past six days, no, seven days, I want to see them!”
After a while, Hancock looked at the white-clad and armored Haku Ryuzhi in the newspaper, and slammed the table directly: “Asshole, you are lying to me!”
One is strong, the other is handsome.
One is middle-aged, the other is young!
This is not the same person at all!