Chapter 32: Murmuring
The Hammer Pirates, the captain is a man who loves the ship's support and doubles as a shipwright.
The second likes to build ships, the third likes treasure hunting, and the first likes to drive his own ship to treasure hunting.
About a year ago, he found the "treasure cursed by the sea", a devil fruit......
Although I don't know what kind of fruit it is, even if it is just an ordinary animal fruit, the value is more than 100 million yuan!
Captain Hammer is better at dealing with ships, the crew is recruited, and the brutal crew is greedy, rebels against the captain, and brutally kills him, but when everyone opens the treasure chest, they find that it contains only an ordinary fruit......
At first, they thought that they had become the captain, but then strange things happened.
When the sailor knots the cable, he will inexplicably accidentally trap his hand, and when resting in the hammock, the hammock will inexplicably roll over and tie people inside, and when he sleeps in the bed, he wakes up and finds that the sheets and quilts are wrapped around him, as if he wants to trap himself!
This kind of seemingly inconspicuous strange thing, when one or two things happen, everyone just laughs at others for being clumsy.
However, as the situation intensified, fear spread on the boat when someone even got up in the middle of the night to pee and saw the cable swimming like a living snake.
On the surface, they encourage each other, but behind the scenes...... Someone at night, stole a boat and tried to escape.
As a result, there was another infighting!
A third of the crew had been reduced, and the fleeing boat suddenly slipped into the water in front of them, and when they tried to jump out of the boat, ropes tied them up like living creatures......
Apparently some kind of "thing" on the ship, getting stronger and stronger!
And then they could no longer control the boat, and therefore could not follow the direction of the pointer, and finally, when the ammunition ran out, a numb crew member, as if watching the rope come to life, tied himself up, and then ...... There was a meal in front of me!
As long as you don't resist, there will be a meal? Although it was just a meal without oil and water, it was ......
When the murderous pirates found out about this, they gave up resisting one after another.
At the same time, the strange presence on the ship seems to be getting stronger and stronger, and it is beginning to be able to combine into some humanoid monsters to kill the pirates who still want to resist.
Ultimately......
The Hammer Pirates' ship became a prison......
The prisoners among them could only strictly follow the schedule arranged for them, and even if the wind and waves of the previous night had almost wiped them out, they could not leave the cell until the time came for the exercise.
Even if someone is not completely numb and wants to escape, they can no longer eat food outside of the prison meal, and as long as the escapee sleeps outside the prison, they will die quietly in their dreams.
Ziegy "heard" this, and gradually understood, and ate it...... Or rather, it was this ship that absorbed the power of the Devil Fruit!
Ziggy also didn't understand if it was some kind of coincidence that triggered the effect of "the item gets the Devil Fruit ability", or was it ...... Does this ship have ship elves?
There are many examples of the former in the original work, but the specific principle is unknown, and the setting of the latter is also unclear.
Whether the ship was conscious first or happened to absorb the Devil Fruit before becoming conscious, Ziggy also did not know.
Ziggy's "Listener" ability is triggered the first time when the bell rings, at which point the Prison Fruit begins to perform the "Run" permission, and then continues to hear because the Anti-Prison Robbery ability continues to take effect.
That is, when the fruit takes effect, Ziggy can hear the demon's whisper.
And from the whispers he heard, Ziggy understood some key information - the ship "ate" the Devil Fruit, and so far, it seems that it should be the "Prison Fruit" of the Superhuman line, which is similar in nature to the "Fortified Fruit" of Capone Becky, one of the supernovas in the original work!
The effect of the Fortified Castle Fruit is to make the user become a "castle man", not only to accommodate the crew into their own body, but also to transform into a castle giant.
The Prison Fruit can imprison the enemy in one's own body, which seems to be less practical than the Fortified City Fruit.
Because the Fortified City Fruit can release the companions in the body castle to attack the enemy at any time, and the prison fruit can "admit" in its own body is the opponent who has already been defeated.
Isn't it good to kill the enemy directly?
As for the ability to twist and combine items into a "jailer", it's not very useful!
The range of activity of the "jailer" is inside the prison, that is, in the body of the user.
It's just because this "Prison Fruit Ability" is more special, it is a ship, and the things on the deck are theoretically part of its body, so the likes of Ziggy and Aaron will encounter the "jailer" "outside", otherwise it is only the ability to manage prisoners at most.
Of course, what other capabilities are there should be to be developed.
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Now, the ship is already "dead"!
Last night's storm had devastatingly destroyed the hull, and the keel had been broken, so the fruit ability would be precipitated.
Ziggy is here now, partly because of the will of the ship......
Aaron was also circling the Devil Fruits, seemingly studying something, and seemed ready to pluck the fruit at any moment - despite the general aversion to the Devil Fruits, the Fish-People were ...... If you exchange it for money, you won't be disgusted!
At this time, Ziggy hopes that by "listening" directly absorbing the fruit's ability, he can not be too restrained by the sea......
Because he couldn't control himself at this time, Ah Long felt that Zigge's body was slippery and cold before, but it was actually the ability of the prison fruit that was gradually affecting Zigge.
However, for Ziggy, it is not unacceptable, this ability is by no means a chicken rib - isn't it good to kill the enemy directly? Not good! Tiger Boss won't let you!
As for the question of being "cursed" by the sea......
At this time, the meaning of the murmur that Ziggy heard was still unclear if it was to be translated directly, but after listening to it more, he began to be able to obtain information directly.
In a way, Ziggy also began to empathize with the ship, so he also discovered many things.
For example, the hull of the ship is soaked in seawater, normally, if it is analogous to the Devil Fruit ability, it should lose its power at this time, but for the ship, only the outer ship guard, that is, the part that is in direct contact with the seawater, cannot stimulate the ability of the "Prison Fruit".
Maybe it's because it's a ship, not a person?
Or maybe it...... Because this ship did not eat the fruit directly, but under some other trigger condition, it absorbed the fruit ability!
If it is the latter, Ziggy uses "listening" to be infected, and it should not be considered to eat the fruit directly, right?
However, at this moment, Ziggy does not have much choice, because "listening" is not something that he can shield, and his body is already changing at this time.
If it's in Master of Mysteries, this should be considered a ...... Get out of hand!