Chapter 1 Fruits
Haiyuan calendar year 1512.
West Sea.
Alghero is a bustling medium-sized town, famous for its handmade products and flowers. There is also a sizeable naval base stationed in the town. The relatively safe environment and well-known specialties attract tourists from all over the world.
It was June, and the sun was still hot at three o'clock in the afternoon. Even the stone pavement was scorching hot, but the most prosperous bakery in the town, "Simon's Cheese Ring", was unusually quiet at the moment.Passers-by were curious to find several strong men standing at the bakery door. Even though their faces were flushed by the sun, they did not dare to make any big movements, but just stared at the bakery door.
boom! ! ! !
With a violent sound, a tall figure crashed through the door of the bakery and fell onto the street. Several frightened passers-by bravely stepped forward and found that the person lying on the ground was Cartman, the notorious gangster in the town. .
But the usual arrogance could no longer be seen on the face of this local ruffian bully at this moment. His mouth, nose and even his eyes and ears were oozing blood, obviously he had been severely injured.Trembling, he shouted towards the bakery's door: "Victor! Even you can't break the rules of the gang! Brothers who attack the gang at will will be impaled!!"
Da da da……
With the sound of unhurried footsteps, a man appeared at the door of the bakery.
Compared to the gangster Cartman's huge body of three meters tall, this man is only about 1.8 meters tall. He was wearing a decent black suit, and his blond hair was slicked back. His age was between a teenager and a young man. His handsome face, as carved as a marble sculpture, looked very cold at the moment.
"You said I violated the gang rules?"
The young man named Victor slowly rolled up his cuffs and walked towards Cartman who was slumped on the street: "I don't think so, Mr. Cartman. Because you are no longer a member of 'Coral'. "
The young man walked up to Cartman and looked at him condescendingly, with a hint of teasing in his blue eyes: "To put it more clearly, you were ordered to be removed from the gang by the boss."
When Cartman heard this, a trace of despair finally appeared on his face. He roared and lunged at Victor, trying to fight for a way out, but all he saw was that his vision was blurred, and he was hit hard with a whip as fast as lightning. his chest.
Accompanied by screams and bone shattering sounds, the rogue Cartman flew four or five meters in the air, then slammed into the roadside flower bed and fell to the ground.He reluctantly raised his eyes to look at Victor who was walking towards him, and begged for mercy: "Please, please, Victor... please forgive me..." Before he could finish speaking, the black leather shoes stepped on his head directly, and the top of his head passed Come the cold voice: "I already told you when you molested my sister three days ago, you are dead, trash."
Before Cartman can plead for mercy, Victor kicks him in the throat.After a long time, he raised his hand and snapped his fingers, and those strong men who had been standing outside the bakery came trotting over, bowed slightly to Victor in fear, and quickly carried away Cartman's body that had gradually stopped convulsing.
At this moment, Victor noticed a girl poking her head out at the bakery gate. She was wearing a gothic dress and held a small parasol even inside the house. Her long pink hair was combed into a ponytail and her eyes were wide open. So it looks a little silly.Behind the girl was a red-haired saleswoman holding a whole bag of bread. She didn't pay attention to the damaged door of her bakery, but stared at Victor's handsome face with a flushed face, as if she saw a fanatical fan of a star.
Victor sighed slightly, took out two banknotes with a face value of Berries and gently placed them in the hands of the female clerk, and said gently: "This is the money for repairing the gate and flower beds, I'm sorry to disturb you, Miss Bell. Go back, Perona." He waved to the pink-haired girl and walked towards the Black Axe bar in the center of the town.
The pink-haired girl smiled strangely and took the steaming toast from the female clerk: "Hehehehehehe... Sister Bell, come back to your senses, your saliva is about to drop! I'm leaving, I'll come back to play with you later !" She waved her little hand at the female shop assistant and quickly chased after Victor.
A middle-aged tourist who witnessed the whole incident curiously asked the passerby beside him: "This young man is really good at skills, is he also a member of a gang?" Come to this town? Who doesn't know the name of 'Mr. Victor' in the surrounding islands?"
The middle-aged tourist was not annoyed and asked with a smile: "I am indeed visiting from a distant island. Can you tell me about this Victor?" The passers-by saw that the tourist had a good attitude and started to talk: "Mr. Victor, please don't He looks young, but he is one of the top experts in the Coral organization. And he looks cold but is actually very enthusiastic. Many people in the town have taken care of him. The cute girl with pink hair is Victor's sister Perona , a very lively little girl, everyone in the town likes her."
"So that's it... Who is that strong man who was beaten to death by him?"
"That guy's name is Cartman, a gangster who does all kinds of evil. I heard he is also a cadre of the 'Coral' organization. I don't know much about the grudge between him and Mr. Victor." A passerby shrugged: "But Mr. Victor's His skills are really impressive, I have never seen him lose before, and I guess the new colonel from the naval base is no match for him."
The middle-aged tourist smiled when he heard this, thanked the passers-by, and then walked slowly in the direction where the Victor brothers and sisters left.
I didn't expect to come across such an interesting thing when I inspected the new jurisdiction in my spare time. The fighting skills used by the young man didn't seem to be trained by laymen, and the whip leg seemed to have traces of Lan's feet in the Navy's sixth style. , I hope it's just a coincidence... Colonel Crohn, the new chief of the Alghero Town Naval Base of the 91st Branch, secretly wrote down Victor's name.
Victor and Perona walked to the door of the Black Ax Bar. He pondered for a moment and turned to Perona and said, "Perona, you go home first."
Perona looked at Victor worriedly: "Brother Victor, is it okay? How about I stay too? I have already practiced my ghost fruit ability very well!"
Victor rubbed the pink-haired girl's head and smiled: "Don't worry, it's just an ordinary commendation ceremony. You go home first and be obedient."
After watching Perona leave, Victor's eyes turned cold, and he opened the door and walked into the bar.There was no one in the bar, so he went straight to the back of the bar and pushed open the door of the compartment, and his vision suddenly widened.
The compartment inside the Black Axe Bar is a room specially prepared by the 'Coral' organization for gang cadres. There is a luxurious round table inside, the top is empty, and only a small square box is placed in the center of the table.
There were several people standing behind the table. They were all Coral cadres. There was another person sitting boldly on the sofa behind the table. This person was tall and mighty, with a cigar in his mouth and short purple hair that looked like steel needles. He didn't get up when he saw Victor pushing the door open and coming in, with an inexplicable expression. He said with a smile: "My best subordinate, dear Victor, you are here. The movement just now was really quite big. How about it? This job is easy for you, right?"
"Thank you, boss. Cartman didn't want to hand over the work, so I gave him a ride as per the rules."
"That loser dared to embezzle the gang's money. He was so stupid. It would be a good time to die! Speaking of which, you did a great job in the battle in Katsuri Town, and all the brothers were convinced. In addition, Luo Zhongcun and Xiang Thanks to the two efforts at Sound Pier, as the boss, I agree to your request." As he said that, he pushed the box on the table in the direction of Victor, with a smile on his lips: "Open it, this is worth a thousand dollars. Billions of treasures from the sea!"
Victor ignored the half-smile expressions of the people around him, and slowly opened the box.Lying quietly in the box is a small blue cantaloupe, covered with jagged stripes.
The surrounding cadres were laughing, because the boss Pippin had already told them what the fruit's ability was. Generally speaking, only a very few people can identify the power contained in a Devil Fruit based on its appearance, but this fruit is an exception. Because it is a recognized waste fruit - the fruit of chains.
The fruit of the chain, as the name suggests, the person who eats it will become a zipper man, whose ability is to open a zipper on the object he has touched. 6 years ago, a naval colonel ate this fruit by chance. As a result, he not only got a useless trash ability, but also became a landlubber. He was completely reduced to a laughing stock. Killed in battle.
After many years, this fruit reappeared in the sea and was obtained by Piping, the boss of the 'Coral' organization. At that time, Pippin was already a user with the ability of the animal type Niu Niu fruit buffalo form, so he wanted to sell this fruit for a good price, but after 3 months, let alone million berries, not even million berries. People were willing to buy it, but after repeated inquiries, they learned that because the deeds of the naval colonel were so famous, everyone who knew the goods knew the specific appearance of this fruit, so how could they spend million berries to buy back a useless one? garbage fruit. Pippin had no choice but to store the fruit in his treasury and gradually forget about it.
Back to Victor. Victor took his sister Perona and took the initiative to join the Coral two years ago, and relied on his unrivaled skills to complete many difficult missions. The most astonishing one was when he was alone in Katsuri Town a month ago. One person severely injured six major cadres of the Suleiman Family, another major gang in the West Sea, causing the Suleiman Family to lose nearly 80% of its top combat power in an instant. In desperation, they had to make concessions to the Coral, making the Coral' gained huge benefits. According to the gang's rules, Victor's contribution would be worth 100 million even if it were replaced by Berry. However, Victor, who has always been indifferent to merit rewards, made a request this time - he wanted to obtain a Devil Fruit.
Boss Pippin was originally very wary of Victor, fearing that he would usurp his throne as leader, so how could he let Victor obtain the Devil Fruit to greatly increase his strength. But this time Victor's achievements are so dazzling that if he refuses directly, he would be challenging the gang rules. Just when Pippin was in a dilemma, one of his subordinates reminded him: "Chief, don't you still have a worthless and useless Devil Fruit in your hand? Just give it to Victor. Not only will it block his mouth, but it may also prevent him from increasing his strength. reduce!"
Pippin was overjoyed when he heard this, for he was right!Even if Victor knew the ability of this fruit, he proposed to get the devil fruit as a reward, so it is reasonable to give him the chain fruit as a reward.
So he immediately held an award ceremony to formally reward Victor in the Black Ax Bar. In order to prevent Victor from being dissatisfied with the ability of the chain fruit and violently hurting others, Pippin made two preparations. On the one hand, he brought together several other members of the gang On the other hand, he specially gave Victor an extra gift—let Victor handle the rogue Cartman himself.Cartman is a guy who embezzles gang property, and he already has the idea of getting rid of him. Cartman just molested Perona before, and Victor probably wanted to kill him a long time ago.Victor is his most capable and strongest subordinate, so it is necessary to appease him.
In the secret compartment of the Black Axe Bar, under the gaze of everyone, Victor picked up the fruit without hesitation and bit it down.Sure enough, the devil fruit tasted as disgusting as the legend said, but his expression never fluctuated.Because... everything is going according to his plan!He has been planning for two years, and one of his goals is this devil fruit in his hand.
The Chain Fruit is a special super-human devil fruit that is even rarer than the natural devil fruit!