Chapter 43 Media Friends

William didn't know much about the original book, but he also knew that there were Devil Fruits, and he had asked around about it, but he regretted the news he heard.

This fruit is scarce, and it can bring strange powers to the eater, so it is extremely expensive, a fruit is worth 100 million Baileys, and it is priceless, but not available.

In the East China Sea, this fruit is even rarer, and many people in the East China Sea, including Aramis and others around William, even regard it as a legend, a deception in the story, and even worse, they have never even heard of it—there are quite a few such people.

In view of this, it is no wonder that the faces of the four people will change, among the four people, except for William, because he is a traverser, so he knows that the Devil Fruit does exist, Ah Jin, Aramis and Edmond are all natives of the East China Sea, and they have never seen this kind of fruit or eaten the Devil Fruit since they were children, and they always thought it was a legend, but now they heard that there are living Devil Fruit abilities around them.

Limited to the information of the Devil Fruit in his mind and his understanding of the environment in the East China Sea, two questions popped into William's mind almost immediately:

First, What is Barbarossa the Redbeard's Devil Fruit ability?

Second, where did his Devil Fruit come from?

So William was particularly interested in the second point at this time.

William doesn't reject Devil Fruits, maybe people like Guina, Koshiro or Edmond who aspire to be a swordsman will hesitate or dwell on it, but William won't, he's a 100% pragmatist.

Despite the help of Destiny Square and the fact that the statue told him a lot about the Square, the cautious William was still unwilling to form a dependence on Destiny Square, and swordsmanship, as well as a group of loyal companions of Ah Jin, could still play a role without Destiny Square.

Changed to someone else, maybe when I heard that the statue would definitely kill the protagonist of the original book, it could indeed provide a lot of energy, so I thought about looking for the protagonist all over the world, and as for the follow-up rebound, I thought about relying on the Destiny Square that obtained a lot of energy to fight.

But William just asked questions, and then put it behind him, he has his own strategy, and he will only let Destiny Square help his strategy, instead of sacrificing the basics, dedicating the whole strategy, and even the whole life, to serve around the upgrade of Destiny Square.

In that case, who is the master and who is subordinate to him and the Destiny Square?

Therefore, the Devil Fruit, which can provide special abilities and belong to the power outside of this world and the Destiny Square, naturally arouses William's interest.

"Where did Barbarossa's Devil Fruit come from?" William asked, looking down.

"I don't know!" Ward said in fear, William's act of watercasing him without saying a word had already frightened him, and he didn't need to bother to talk at all, he said everything he knew like a bamboo tube pouring beans, "I only know that the captain has suffered a fiasco, and the rest of the crew is now only the deputy captain Reis and the navigator Hairedding, and he only ate the Devil Fruit in the process of this fiasco, so except for Reis and Haireddin, no one on the ship knows how the captain's Devil Fruit came about." ”

William frowned slightly, he knew that Ward was not lying, so he asked some other questions: "Do you know who instructed you to go to the cargo ship that you recently hijacked in the Kingdom of Navia?" ”

"Which one?" Ward asked, a little dazed.

William asked again, only to learn that as a member of the top pirate groups in the East China Sea, the "business" of the Redbeard Pirates was also quite busy, often going in and out of various shipping routes to plunder cargo ships.

Moreover, from Ward's mouth, I learned that there are also unknown forces that provide detailed information on various merchant ships for the Redbeard Pirates, which is so detailed that each cargo ship is recorded every day when it leaves the dock and when it enters the dock, which makes the Redbeard Pirates almost every time the thieves are not empty, and they can always wait for their targets on time in various waterways.

The cargo ship that Edmund and Wallon were on at that time was actually not much special compared to the merchant ships that were looted by the Redbeard Pirates in the past, and it was also provided by others, Barbarossa gave the order, and then Ward and other pirates carried out the order.

It wasn't until William spoke of the multi-day storm that Ward remembered which one it was.

When they had asked everything they wanted to ask, William, Arkin, and Aramis left the room, leaving only Edmund and Ward.

The three of them closed the door, but a puddle of blood stretched from under the crack in the door to the corridor where they were, and Edmund walked out of the room.

William glanced at Edmund, who seemed to be a little deflated, shook his head, and looked down at the newspaper he was holding.

The place where the few people were located was a remote abandoned workshop, and there were a few oil lamps hanging in the corridor, and William looked at the dim light for a while before scolding with a smile: "What a broken newspaper!" ”

Akin, Aramis and Edmund also leaned over to take a look, and then their expressions all became a little weird, peeking at William's face.

The newspaper had been brought from Ward, and after being reminded, he had finally racked his brains to provide all the unusual clues about the attack on Wallonia and Edmund's cargo ships.

In this robbery, in addition to the usual information provided by someone about the departure of the cargo ship, after the incident, the pirates on the ship were basically stuffed with this newspaper by the cadres to make them pay attention to the mastermind of the news in the newspaper.

The name of the newspaper was Tokai Daily, and it carried "scoops" about the "Young Godfather" who led the underground smuggling business in the Kingdom of Navia.

Just by looking at the headline, William knew that this newspaper that claimed to have scoop news was, and William was already an adult, and he was not a teenager at all.

Sure enough, William's suspicion is confirmed by the rest of the title, which contains a description of William's appearance, except for the fact that the blonde and blue eyes are consistent with William himself, the rest of the place is made up, apparently to fit the reader's imagination of the so-called "young godfather".

William flipped through the newspaper, then threw it at Ah Jin, and commented: "It's rubbish!" It's all made up! ”

"It says you have a scar on your face that stretches from the corner of your eyebrows to your chin!" Ah Jin buried his head in reading the news, and the expression on his face became very exciting with what he read, "'Whenever he gets angry, the scar looks like it's going to ooze blood', is this talking about you?" Could it be that there is another smuggling line in the place? Someone else is saying this? ”

Several people took turns reading it, and it had news about William, and it was written like a novel.

Because he was engaged in illegal activities, William followed the habits of his previous life and has always been more cautious, it is impossible for any photos to circulate, and if you want to know what he looks like, you can only rely on seeing it with your own eyes or according to other people's descriptions.

"Donghai Daily" has never been a reasonable party that exhaustively studies the content of the news, and the goal they pursue is not the professional ethics of any media person, but the sales of newspapers, and the title of "Young Godfather" is eye-catching enough, so they use this title, as for William himself is not a teenager, they don't care, in view of this, any description of William's appearance, words and deeds, is naturally aimed at attracting attention and pleasing readers.

In fact, if this newspaper sent some people to the local wharf of the Kingdom of Navia to investigate and consult with the laborers at the bottom, even if it could not get an accurate description from the mouths of these toiling people with a low level of education, it would not be so outrageous, but the other party obviously did not have this interest.

"Maybe I should thank these media friends?" William smiled.

"Maybe we should be more thankful that the bastards didn't take us seriously." Aramis spat out.

Whether it is from Ward's mouth or from the current observations, William and others have already seen that neither "Redbeard" Barbarossa nor those masterminds behind the scenes see them as much of a threat.