Chapter 42: News of the Devil Fruit

After the drunken Ward and his companions came out of the tavern, they went into the alley alone to relieve themselves.

Naturally, the pirate didn't have any public morality, so he swaggered and unbuttoned his pants, hummed a song, and swayed left and right to shoot at the root of the wall.

There seemed to be someone at the entrance of the alley looking inside, but he couldn't see clearly in the night, and after Ward caught a glimpse of the other party out of the corner of his eye, he turned his head and scolded angrily: "Get away!"

As soon as Ward finished speaking, he heard the sound of wind breaking in the back of his head, and then he didn't know anything.

By the time Ward regained consciousness, he was trapped in a chair with his hands and feet fixed.

He opened his eyes in confusion and saw a mottled wall with peeling skin, and then looked around to see that he was in an empty room that had been abandoned for an unknown amount of time, and the two oil lamps hanging opposite him provided a somewhat dim light.

The four men stood not far in front of him, because of the backlight, so these specific appearances, Ward couldn't really see them.

Ward's head was still a little dizzy, especially in the back of his head, and he struggled lightly twice, realizing that his hands and feet were tightly tied to the armrests and legs of the chair with strong straps.

"Who are you?" Ward twisted, the chair he brought swaying back and forth, "Do you know who you're messing with?"

"Oh, who did we provoke?" asked the tallest man in the middle, who seemed interested.

"Lao Tzu is a pirate under 'Redbeard' Barbarossa!" Ward said through gritted teeth.

The tall man who had just spoken walked towards Ward, and when he got closer, Ward realized that the other party was just a young man, probably less than twenty years old, with blonde hair, sword eyebrows and starry eyes, quite heroic, and his blue eyes stared at Ward's eyes for a while, and suddenly smiled.

"Do you think I'm lying?" Ward looked at those blue eyes with a fierce face, "I don't care who you are, if you don't want to die a miserable death, you'd better let me go quickly!"

"No, I'm going to catch the Redbeard Pirates," the blonde young man patted Ward's cheek lightly, making a few crunch noises, ignoring Ward's increasingly angry look as it turned out to be, "I'm laughing because I didn't catch the wrong person. ”

Ward was furious: "You ...... looking for death. ”

Before Ward could finish speaking, a man with a flaming hair on the other side and an equally young man had rushed over, and this man's temper seemed to be the same color as his, and he kicked Ward directly in the chest, knocking Ward and the chair down.

The red-haired young man was about to hit Ward, but he heard the blonde man who first started talking to Ward and said behind him without looking back, "Ah Jin, hold him." ”

These four young men were William, Akin, Aramis and Edmund.

Ah Jin stepped forward to grab the vengeful Edmond and whispered to reassure him.

William helped Ward, who was still cursing, to his feet, and reached out to help him gently pat the dust stuck to the ground on the back of his head.

"This ...... "Excuse me, but I don't know what to call you?"

Ward sneered and turned his head away from William's question.

William smiled: "Hard bones, amazing. ”

After he finished speaking, he tilted his head towards Alamis, who was pacified by Akin, and Edmund.

Aware of this, the two men stepped forward, one left and one right, and lifted Ward and the chair under him and placed them horizontally on a large wooden table in the center of the room.

I don't know where I got the defective product of this wooden table, the legs in one corner are shorter, which makes the table tilt a little, and Ward is lying on the table like this, suppressing a trace of fear in his heart, pretending to look at William and the others with disdain.

"You must be an old pirate, you must be very water-oriented," William pulled out a cotton cloth from his bosom and shook it in front of Ward, "so I ask you to play a little game about water." ”

William put the cotton cloth on Ward's face, and Ah Jin on the side didn't know when, he had already picked up a kettle in his hand and slowly poured water on the cotton cloth.

Some cold water fell on Ward's face, startling him slightly, but when he realized that it was just water, he relaxed a lot.

Edmund had already reached out to fix Ward's head, and sure enough, after a while, Ward struggled violently.

Edmund pressed Ward's head with a hideous face, and William slowly took out another cotton cloth from his bosom and put it on Ward's face, while Arkin continued to pour water on his mouth.

This kind of criminal law was naturally conceived by William.

In William's previous life, "waterboarding" since the birth of the Middle Ages, until his time, has not been outdated, this seemingly simple, but not terrifying torture method, from the Spanish Inquisition to trial heretics, has been used by the CIA to torture terrorists, it can be said that it has truly experienced the test of time, and can make the tortured person feel the pain of drowning most truly.

William counted the time, then took off the cotton cloth, and Ah Jin stopped just in time.

As soon as the cotton cloth was removed, Ward breathed widely, his eyes wide, and the remaining water in his nose poured into his lungs, causing him to cough loudly.

Ward, who had just looked stiff, was now weak, and when Edmund let go of his hands, his head tilted limply, gasping for breath.

"Can you tell me now?" asked William.

"W-what? tell you?" said Ward, grimacing, as if he had agreed to confess.

"Wrong answer!"

But when William heard this, he ignored Ward's struggles, covered the cotton cloth again, made a color to Akin, and took up a new jug and began to water it.

William silently counted the time in his heart, and after a while, he took the cotton cloth off again.

"Ward, Ward, I, my name is Ward. When the cotton cloth was ripped away, Ward breathed fresh air again, and said eagerly.

"Very well," William nodded in satisfaction, "how long have you been on the Redbeard Pirates' ship?"

"Seven months. ”

"Is there any connection between the Redbeard Pirates and officials of the Kingdom of Navia, the World Government, or the Navy?"

"I don't know. Ward hesitated for a moment before replying.

William raised his eyebrows, and Ward exclaimed in panic, "I don't know!

William ignored his pleas for mercy and put on the cotton cloth again, but this time it took a little less time to remove the cotton cloth.

"Let me change the word, do you know that the Redbeard Pirates have 'any' connection to the Kingdom of Navia, or the officials of the World Government?"

Under the threat of death, Ward's mind raced: "We often anchored in the private harbor near Kalmar City, sometimes went to the city to rest, and the guards would not stop the interrogation during the process, and there was a young man named Chloe on the ship...... ”

William didn't give Ward time to react, and suddenly interrupted: "Tell me about your captain, what is his strength, where does he come from?"

"What? I," Ward's mind was jumbled and he said incoherently, "I don't know. ”

Fearing that he would be tortured again, he barely thought about anything, and spat out the first message that came to his mind: "I only know that he has eaten the Devil Fruit ......." ”

As soon as the name Devil Fruit popped out of Ward's mouth, not only William couldn't hide the surprise on his face, but even Alamis, Akin, and Edmund also raised their heads and looked at each other.