Chapter XVIII: The Past

The consequence of One Piece Roger's words before he died is that all the ghosts and spirits tend to run to the sea, including ambitious and single-mindedly want to become the next One Piece, as well as wild dogs who follow the trend and just want to indulge for a while, and even thugs who are crushed by the cruel reality and give up on themselves.

On the one hand, this situation makes the navy overstretched and unable to catch pirates, and on the other hand, it also makes the competition in the pirate industry more and more fierce - if everyone runs to be pirates, then there are no merchant ships, no prosperous villages and towns, what will they rob?

In nature, when the number of predators far exceeds the number of food, the predators either starve to death, keep eliminating the weak until they regain their balance, or actively change their eating habits and find another way to survive.

Of course, humans are smarter than animals, and they will not wait for death, and many pirates quickly learned another skill - slave trading.

What a job for pirates, when they defeat a peer who has been bountied by the navy, but it is difficult for them to get paid by the navy and the world government due to their status as pirates, they can also choose to use their peers as slaves and sell them to those who need them.

And limited to the chaotic nature of the pirates, they can't just sell their peers, before the opening of the era of pirates, there was also a slave trade in this world, but it was after the opening of the era of pirates that the slave trade, especially the trade of human trafficking, reached a peak in a very short time.

As mentioned earlier, the original owner of William's body was a victim in this environment.

When William was twelve years old, he and his mother met pirates on their ship, and his mother committed suicide in despair, but he survived because he was young and had long eyebrows and clear eyes, and was sold as slaves by the pirates.

The Draco people, who have a long history, still maintain a slave culture and are keen to raise slaves of various races, including humans, and as part of the slave culture, slaves raised by the Draco people will be branded with the mark of 'Dragon's Hoof' on their bodies, as proof that the slaves are 'inferior humans'.

No matter what race you are, no matter how high or low your original status is, whether you are a criminal, a merchant, or even a prince, when you are branded by the Draconians, you will have only one identity - a slave.

The original owner of the body did not think of escaping or asking for help, even if he showed that he was illegally trafficked by pirates, it would not help, but not only that, but the frequent behavior caused his master, the Draconian Tordos Saint, to feel bad, so at a banquet, Tordos Saint proposed to use slaves for fun.

St. Toldos performs a show with another Draconian, who has a young slave of William's age, to "pass the time" and "have fun".

William and another teenager of the same age were locked in a cage, attacking each other like cockfighting dogs, like wild beasts, and finally William won by virtue of the little advantage he had in his early years of learning swords, but this experience undoubtedly planted the seeds of fear in his young mind, so he behaved very well-behaved in the days to come.

His performance also paid off, and he quickly gained the trust of the Tordos Saint, believing that he had been "domesticated", and in order to show off his "beast taming" methods, the Tordos Saint showed off this to other Draconians in public more than once, and even in a safe enough place, such as a ship or residence, he would remove the collar that restricted William's movements, and used it to prove it to the other Dracos.

On these occasions, St. Tordos was not worried about William escaping, and William also knew that he could not escape, and he had been waiting for his chance.

This opportunity soon came, in the year 1505 of the sea calendar, that is, two years ago, St. Toldos, as a representative of the world's nobles, visited the East China Sea, where the pirates were the weakest among the four seas, to show his affirmation of the work of the navy. William.

During this journey, William waited for the right moment until a great storm arrived, and he thought that this was his chance, so he took advantage of the chaos to drag Tordos St. into the sea, William recklessly killed Toldos St. in the sea, and then climbed into a small boat that he had secretly untied and fell into the sea.

The little lonely boat was lucky not to be capsized by the waves at William's prayers, but unfortunately, he soon encountered a pirate ship and was directly coerced into joining the gang, but not long after he got on the ship, he developed a high fever because of the rain and fear in the storm.

The pirates were going to throw him directly into the sea to fend for himself, but they didn't expect him to recover quickly on his own, and this process was when "Sun Bo" occupied "William's" body.

If you want to talk about the hatred of the Draco people, today's William naturally does not have the same personal experience of the original owner of the body, the body and mind have been destroyed to the hard work, but this does not prevent William from putting the Draco people in the opposite position, in addition to the perception and attitude from modern people, the more important thing is that the original owner killed a Draco man in the process of escaping.

There are many kinds of privileges of the Draco people, and one of the most well-known by the world and the one that can best reflect their status is to protect the safety of the Draco people, once they are offended, even the admiral has to come forward, no one knows about this matter, but once it is exposed, the consequences are unimaginable, so from the beginning of the crossing, William and the Draconians, and even the world government, are actually opposites.

Fortunately, the situation on the ship was chaotic at that time, and no one would care about the life or death of a slave afterwards, let alone anyone would think that someone would dare to kill the Draco people recklessly.

A few young people chatted for a while about the contents of the newspaper, as the low-level people vented their dissatisfaction with the privileged class of the Draconians, but whether it was the wanted criminals with a reward of 200 million Bailey, or the Great Voyage, or the Draconians and the Holy Land, they were still too far away from them, so they got back to the topic.

William folded the newspaper that several people had read and put it in his arms, and he set up a special study in the courtyard to put the newspaper, and at the same time summarized all kinds of external information recorded on it, and once he found it useful, he wrote it down in his notebook.

After he put away the newspaper, he asked Edmund, who was bored and biting his nails, "How did you do what I asked you to do?" ”

Several people looked at Edmund when they heard this, and the other party said with a bitter face: "I didn't know those people too well before, so I'm still in contact now, so I can't just say that I want their boss to come out for a meeting as soon as we meet, right?" They must have refused without any reason. ”

William ignored his complaints, got up and flicked the dust on his clothes, and lightly ordered: "Speed up over there!" ”

Edmund nodded honestly, in fact, this thing is not difficult to do, otherwise William would not be relieved to let him do it alone, he originally lived in a village on the same island as Frostmoon Village, and what William asked him to do was to invite the head snake of that village to come forward and negotiate a business with William.

(I really don't want to keep begging for these things, delaying everyone's reading, but the collection card is 900, obsessive-compulsive disorder is uncomfortable to live or die, friends who have not registered or logged in, for the sake of me who is not lightly ill, raise your noble hand!) ）