Chapter 57: Smoker
Rogue Town.
It used to be just a very ordinary island, not prosperous, and not very famous.
Everyone lives an ordinary life, but all that quietly changes after a certain man goes to sea.
Gore D. Roger.
Legend has it that the man in general, the only king who has conquered the sea, is known as the existence of One Piece by the world.
Born and died in Rogue Town, he was the one who ushered in the era of pirates.
So even though he has been dead for more than 20 years, there are many, many naval clusters on ordinary islands in the weakest of seas.
Right on the docks of Rogue Town, a group of hapless pirates are being suppressed by the navy at this moment.
On the dock, a group of pirates with blue noses and swollen faces who had lost consciousness were tied to the side very casually. There are not many navies here, even less than the pirates, and the only navy that ties the pirates with ropes is a little fanatical and proud to look at the man with two cigars in his mouth.
The man had rare white broken hair, his face was extremely resolute, a white coat was open, revealing the majestic physique on his chest, and the smoke from the two cigars was extremely regular, as if it was manipulated.
A naval soldier stepped forward and saluted the cigar man, looking extremely respectful: "Worthy of Colonel Smoker, it will be solved at once." β
"Is that Luffy sure he's here?"
The man named Smoker paid no attention to the words of the naval soldier, and instead asked him.
"The route is confirmed. The gang should be here. β
"Hmm!"
Smoker nodded lightly, got up and was about to leave, and at this moment. A little girl in a straw hat broke into his field of vision, and what he cared about the most was that the little girl was also carrying a man with long dark blonde hair covering his cheeks behind him, this special combination made Smoker take a few more looks.
"Huh? How did you come to the port, how did you come? I'm running towards the town! β
Lu Fei looked left and right in confusion, and when he saw Smoker in the distance, his eyes lit up, and he shouted 'Hey' and walked towards him quickly.
Looking at Lu Fei who was walking towards him, Smoker tilted his head to the side and asked, "Is she also a companion of this group of pirates?" β
"Ugh!"
The sailor glanced at Lu Fei who was walking by. Shaking his head: "I don't know, but it doesn't look like it, it shouldn't be." β
And just as the two were talking. Lu Fei had already walked in front of Smoker, but she didn't notice the identity of the other party at all, with a smile on her face: "It's just right, how do you go to the death table?" β
"Death table?"
Smoker raised his eyebrows when he heard this. He took a closer look at the extremely heroic little girl in front of him. Looking at the extremely sunny smile on his face, he couldn't help but feel a little dazed, how long has it been since he saw such a smile?
Ever since he became a colonel, everyone had looked at him with respect, but this respect could also be described as a kind of alienation, and even the children of the town hurried to give way when they met him. So when he saw the smile on Lu Fei's face and the relatively plain smile, he felt a little happy in his heart for no reason, and asked completely subconsciously: "What are you doing on the execution table?" β
After saying this, even he himself was slightly stunned. I couldn't help but smile bitterly in my heart.
"I want to see where One Piece died."
Lu Fei pressed the brim of his hat, his expression full of anticipation.
"Huh?"
Smoker snorted in confusion. He looked down at the little girl who had not yet reached his belt, and said nothing.
Seeing this, Lu Fei thought that he didn't know the whereabouts of the execution table, and pouted: "Don't you know?" Then forget it! With that, he turned and prepared to leave.
"Wait!"
Smoker's voice came immediately, and the cigarettes on the two cigars in his mouth suddenly turned in one direction, drifting against the wind towards the alley: "Go in the direction where the smoke drifted over." β
Seeing this, Lu Fei's face was overjoyed, and he looked in the direction where the smoke was going: "Ah, it's there!" Then he smiled brightly at Smoker: "Thank you!" With that, he ran into the alley.
Seeing this, Smoker didn't stop him, but just quietly watched Lu Fei's rapidly disappearing figure until he disappeared, and then withdrew his gaze.
On the other hand, Lu Fei followed the smoke to a small alley where only two people walked side by side, surrounded by old buildings, and all the smoke had disappeared.
"Ah, really, I'm going to the execution table, where the hell is this?"
Lu Fei looked left and right in the alley for a while, and then shook his head: "Forget it, sooner or later you will find it." Then he walked aimlessly through the uninhabited alley, trying in vain to leave here and go to the execution platform.
"Huh?"
After walking for a while, Lu Fei suddenly found a bar sign that interested him very much.
Gore D. Roger.
This well-known name is the name of this bar, which makes Lu Fei, who is looking forward to One Piece, curious, and enters the bar without hesitation.
Pushing open the door, there is a dark passage staircase, the staircase leads to the ground, it looks extremely old, there is not even an oil lamp on either side, but through the afterglow, you can still find that the walls on both sides of the staircase are plastered with various bounty orders.
Descending the passage, with a shrill creak, Luffy stepped into the hotel with Odd on his back.
It was a dimly lit and old hall, like a passageway without any lighting tools, but there were a lot of things that a hotel should have, the chairs were neatly arranged, the wine rack behind the bar was full of all kinds of wines, and the most novel thing for Lu Fei was the old man at a table in the hall and the things placed directly opposite him.
A skull, an old man, a dimly lit room. The combination of various elements makes this place full of gloom, and if ordinary people come, they will definitely feel extremely unaccustomed.
But Lu Fei didn't care at all, walked straight into the bar, looked left and right at the old man and asked, "Grandpa." Are you from here? Is the name of the store that says 'Gore D. Roger' on the outside sign? β
The old man looked at Lu Fei and Odriana on his shoulder with some dazed eyes, and slowly spit out two words: "Get out!" β
Lu Fei was stunned when he heard this, and looked at the old man with a puzzled expression.
"This isn't for a little girl like you!" The old man said coldly. He took the bottle and poured a glass of wine: "Besides, this store will close today." β
"It's out of business!" Lu Fei nodded suddenly.
'Bang! β
The old man put the wine bottle on the table with great force, and made a dull sound: "It's not that it's going out of business, it's me who wants to close the door, get out of here!" His face was obviously a little unhappy, and his voice was much higher.
"I'm just curious about the name!"
Lu Fei didn't seem to hear the old man's words, walked to the bar casually, and casually found a chair to sit down: "I'm lost." I want to go to the execution table, can you tell me how to get there, and what's going on with that skull on your desk? β
Hearing this, a fanatical look appeared on the old man's face: "This is the origin of the skull of the old man named ......." And the deeds of One Piece were told one by one.,Judging by the fluency of his words, it seems that he often speaks.,And it's the kind of feeling that no matter how many times you say it, you won't get bored.γ
Lu Fei on the side couldn't help but hear a burst of enthusiasm, and his face was full of excitement.
And the old man was also a little excited when he heard Lu Fei's speech that he was going to the Great Voyage. After the two drank twice as much. Lu Fei followed the path pointed by the old man to Central Street.
In the distance on the central street, you can see the huge and dilapidated death table, which is a symbol of the strength of the navy.
Even after so many years, it has not been demolished, and many travelers will choose to come here to pay their respects, and the so-called Central Street is also built around the execution table, relying on the prestige of the death table.
Coming straight to the execution table, Lu Fei looked up at the 4 or 5-story high execution table, and his expression was extremely excited: "This is the place where the era of pirates began. The yearning in her heart could not be more clear. A decision was made immediately.
"I want to see the scenery that One Piece saw before he died. Good. Let's climb up! β
With that, Lu Fei gently placed Odd on the ground and made his back lean against the iron frame of the execution table: "Rubber man, you wait for me here, I'll go up and have a look!" Then she got up and began to crawl towards the execution table, she did not use the power of the fruit, but chose to climb up little by little.
The steps that once climbed the execution table have been removed, so even if he can't walk all the way up like One Piece once did, Lu Fei has to climb up little by little.
As Lu Fei climbed, he immediately attracted the attention of the people around him, and they all looked at the little girl who was slowly climbing up with some worry.
But halfway through the climb, an uninvited guest arrived.
Smoker, the leader of the town's naval branch, is also a natural Devil Fruit powerhouse.
"Are you the pirate with the highest bounty in the East China Sea, the straw hat girl Lu Fei?" Smoker looked at the familiar little girl above, with some indescribable meaning in his eyes, and then shook his head and asked with a grim expression.
Lu Fei glanced at Smoke, and then smiled: "That's right, my name is Monchi D. Lu Fei, and I want to become the woman of One Piece." β
"One Piece? Heh-"
Smoker let out a sneer: "Then come and defeat me, I won't let you go to the Great Voyage without hitting me." β
"Can't you go to the Great Voyage without defeating you?"
Lu Fei still smiled without any intention when he heard this, and his tone remained unchanged at all: "Then I'll knock you down!" β
"Then try it!"
Then he jumped down and hit Smoker directly.
But she didn't attack a few times, and she didn't even force out the power of the Smoker fruit, and she flew out with the retraction because her legs accidentally wrapped around the flower bed.
"Is she stupid?"
Smoker couldn't help but twitch his eyes as he looked at Lu Fei, who was flying straight away, and then glanced at Odd under the execution table: "Is this the corpse she carried?" Then he looked up again at the direction where Lu Fei had left, and said to the navy that followed: "Go and mobilize people and horses to ambush around the execution table, she will come back, whether it is for the death table or this body." β
Time passed slowly, and Odd sat alone under the execution table, and the passers-by glanced at them with some curiosity, but no one paid attention.
And in the dark, there was a wave of people in capes, but they were just staring at Odd.
"Is thatβ?"
A man with a scarf in his cloak asked softly.
"That's right!"
Among the several people, the first man was wrapped in a cloak and had a big red nose on his face, but he nodded with great certainty: "That is definitely the corpse that the straw hat girl carried, and he is here to prove that the dead girl should be nearby, ready to act at any time, and let her die in the place where the One Piece once died when she returns." β
At the same time, the navy is also secretly mobilizing men and horses to surround the entire execution platform.
On the surface, everything is normal, but secretly there is a dark tide, like the calm before the storm.
When Luffy returns again, it's the moment when the storm hits, and it's also the time when a man who disappeared 16 years ago returns - (To be continued.) )
PS: Please look forward to the next chapter of "The Awakened 'Sleeping Beauty'", yesterday I worked overtime until 22 o'clock, and I came back tired and became a dog, so I really didn't move. Fortunately, I got off work at 20 o'clock today! In order to welcome the awakening of tomorrow's 'beauty', please use your recommendation vote to smash Xiaojiao to death!