One Piece: From the Rocks Era to King of the World

Chapter 235: Chapter 235 The King of Usury



"You are a mermaid, why do you want to join humans and betray the fishmen!"

Many fishmen who hated humans questioned Gerald angrily.n/ô/vel/b//in dot c//om

"Water strike!"

Gerald's eyes turned cold, and he raised his hand to grab a few water droplets and threw them out. A dozen people who had just questioned him were immediately hit by the water droplets, blood spurted out, and they fell to the ground in an instant.

"Now I will teach you a rule. You must be respectful in front of the strong. Otherwise, you will die without knowing how you died!"

"You should be thankful that our captain wanted to recruit you, so he didn't kill you just now. Otherwise, all 100,000 fishmen in Fishman Street would have died here!!"

Jeral snorted.

"Your captain has left, what are you doing here?"

Tiger stopped the fishman who was about to take action and started asking instead.

"Murloc Karate-Nine Thousand Watts Fist!!"

Jalal did not answer, but instead used Murloc Karate to punch the group of Murlocs hard on the head.

Suddenly, the fishmen felt a strong airflow rushing past their heads, and rows of tall buildings three hundred meters away were blown to pieces.

This shocked them terribly. If that punch had been aimed at them, at least a thousand people present would have been killed or injured.

"That's right, the 9-kilowatt fishman karate is so much stronger than Boss Tiger!"

Some murlocs recognized the power of Gerald's murloc karate, which simply refreshed their understanding of murloc karate!

"I stayed only because we are both murlocs."

"Eleven years ago, I was a slave, a fishman captured from Fishman Island by damned slave traders. Later, the captain rescued me and did not care about my slave status and let me join the Promise Pirates!"

"In the Promise Pirates, the captain taught me how to become stronger, so that I am no longer threatened by slave traders. Even now, slave traders run away when they see me!"

"Now, I am the captain of the Promise Pirates. I can get a salary of two million berries every month. I have thousands of pirates under my command. I have a mermaid wife and a human wife at home. I have three children. I also have my own house and garden on land."

"I have achieved what I have today through hard work since joining the Promise Pirates. Now the Promise Pirates are going to build a murloc fleet, so they are coming to Fishman Island to recruit murlocs. This is your chance. As for whether you can seize it, it all depends on whether you want to or not!"

After saying this, Jalal turned around and left without staying any longer.

"Boss Tiger, I want to leave here and join the Promise Pirates!"

"I want to go too. I've had enough of this place. I want to go to the land and marry a human wife!"

If Li Yuan's words were the hammer that crushed the self-esteem of the murlocs, then Jelar's words were the glue that mended their self-esteem, letting them know that they, the murlocs, could live so well and become so strong!

With Gerald's personal experience, they believe that they, as fishmen, can also become superior people like Gerald!

"You are crazy, the Wuji Pirates are going to sell you to slave traders!"

Even now, many fishmen are still unwilling to believe in the Promise Pirates.

"Impossible. I heard that the Promise Pirates hate slave traders the most. In the territory they rule, all slave traders will be attacked."

"Yes, I heard that the Promise Pirates rule over hundreds of millions of people, and they are not short of money at all."

"No matter what, this is our chance to change our fate. I don't want to live in a rotten place like Fishman Street anymore. I want to go out and fight. Even if I die, I won't regret it!"

""

Many fishmen were now injured, but they still dragged their injured bodies step by step towards the port. They wanted to board the ship of the Wuji Pirate Group. They didn't want to live in such a humble way like before!

"Boss Tiger!"

Many people are waiting to see Tiger's attitude. He is the boss of Fishman Street, and many fishmen are willing to listen to him.

"If you want to join the Promise Pirates, go ahead. Don't worry about me. Although I won't join the Promise Pirates, I will soon form a group of merman pirates to roam the seas!"

Tiger said.

"That's great, Boss. We'll go with you then."

Two days later, there were more than a thousand more murlocs on Hades, and most of them

were the ones who were beaten in the Murloc Street.

"Captain, your method of recruiting is really effective!"

Looking at these fishmen coming on board, Jerald couldn't help but flatter them.

"Come on, stop saying nice things. From now on, you will be the one leading these fishmen."

Li Yuan waved his hands.

Fishmen need to be led by fishmen. If they are placed under the command of other human cadres, those fishmen will not be so easy to obey and believe.

"Don't worry, Captain. I will definitely train them well and make them a qualified murloc

fleet."

Jalal patted his chest and assured.

"This is just the first time to recruit. After these more than a thousand fishmen have seen the benefits of the Wuji Pirates, you will take them back to Fishman Island and let them share what they have seen and heard with the Fishman Island."

"By then, more murlocs will join the Promise Pirates and will be willing to live on the islands that the Promise Pirates give them. My goal is to build a murloc fleet of at least 50,000 people."

Li Yuan said.

In this world surrounded by the ocean, mermen are simply the chosen ones and the darlings of the sea. As long as the mermen hide in the sea, ordinary people will have no way to deal with

them.

This is probably the reason why the World Government wants to suppress the fish-men. Once the fish-men are allowed to come to the land and reproduce, they may become a major concern for the World Government in the future.

However, Li Yuan doesn't care about all this now. He needs a strong underwater force, and the merman is the best choice.

There are three types of combat environments in this world: sea, land and air. Currently, the strongest force of the Wuji Pirates is the land combat force. In the future, he plans to build up the underwater fish-man force and the force in the sky.

However, the sky force has not yet taken shape, and there is no direction for its development

for the time being.

"Captain, I understand!"

After hearing what Li Yuan said, Jerald knew how he would manage these fishmen next.

"Otohime, you must come back safely!"

Neptune watched Hades leave Fishman Island at the port, and the flag of the Promise Pirates was also left on Fishman Island, making Fishman Island the territory of the Promise Pirates.

At the same time, Li Yuan arranged for two captains, Mali of the Feather Fruit and Aimi of the Iron Fruit, to come to Fishman Island to guard it.

Although these two captains are not as strong as the cadres, their own strength is now comparable to that of ordinary vice admirals. They are more than enough to guard Fishman Island and scare the pirates who have just entered the New World.

After all, the profits that Fishman Island can gain are very huge. In the future, the Promise Pirates will operate Fishman Island. This is the only channel for pirates and some illegal entities to enter and exit the New World and the first half of the Grand Line.

As long as the business is well managed, the profit will be at least 10 billion every month. Li Yuan will not miss such a huge profit.

After returning to the Wuji Sea, Li Yuan arranged these fishmen on Siren Island.

A few days before Li Yuan set out for Fishman Island, Yadina had already prepared an island

for the fishmen to live on. This island is geographically close to Wano Country and is located in the heart of the Muji Sea, with almost no war or danger.

There are many trees and flowers planted on the island, as well as a lot of seafood and shellfish, making it a very suitable place for merfolk to live.

As for housing, in a short period of time, they only built houses suitable for two thousand people. The future buildings will need to be built by the fishmen themselves. If they don't want to, they can also spend money to hire humans to build them.

"Great, is this our home from now on?"

After getting off the Hades, the sight of the flowers blooming on the island and the warm sunshine was like seeing heaven to these fishmen who were used to the gloomy Fishman

Street.

"It's so beautiful!"

When Otohime saw this scene, she was also amazed by the sea of flowers in front of her.

"This island is called Flower Island. There is an inland sea on the island, which is very suitable

for the fishmen to live. You will live here from now on. If you have any problems, find Yadina and she will arrange it for you."

Li Yuan doesn't have that much time to take care of the murlocs, so the rest of the matters are

left to Jeral and Yadina.

After releasing the fishmen to Siren Island, Li Yuan came to Venus Island and to Lazili's

laboratory.

Ever since Yadina took over all kinds of food in the Wuji Sea, Lazili let go completely and devoted herself to the medical industry, developing many advanced drugs.

Today, the most popular healing medicines and scar removal creams in the world are all developed by Lazzli, and only the Infinity Pirates can produce them; no one else can produce

such medicines.

Moreover, the various medicinal baths that could only be purchased by the captain and officers of the Wuji Pirate Group had greatly increased their effectiveness after being improved many times by Lazili, and even had some effect on Li Yuan's physique.

"Husband, why are you here?"

When Lazili saw Li Yuan coming, she stopped the experiment in her hand, trotted to Li Yuan,

and took his arm intimately.

"Why am I here? If I didn't come to see you, you wouldn't even know you came to see me?"

Li Yuan glared at Lazili unhappily and said, this little girl is so addicted to experiments that

she can't extricate herself. He hasn't seen her for more than a month. If Li Yuan doesn't come again, who knows if this little girl will continue.

"How could that be, my husband? I have reached a critical moment in my research. You asked

me to develop a drug that can stimulate the potential of the human body, and I have already

made some progress."

Lazili knew she was in the wrong and looked pitiful as if she had admitted her mistake. "Well, I know you're doing this research, so I found some samples for you."

"The stuff in here is a drug that can temporarily increase a person's combat power, but the

side effects are quite severe."

Li Yuan handed the deadly drug in the jade box to La Zili.

In the original book, this deadly drug greatly increased the strength of Hodi and his gang, but

the side effects were also very severe. Not only did it reduce their lifespan, it also caused muscle atrophy all over their bodies. According to Li Yuan's understanding, this side effect may be very serious for the weak, but

for some strong people who have life return, they only need to replenish energy in time to

reduce the loss of their body. As for their lifespan, he doesn't know. "That's great, thank you husband, I will go and study it now!"

Hearing Li Yuan's words, Lazili's eyes lit up, and she picked up the jade box and wanted to

continue studying it.

"Lazili, have you forgotten what I just said? Do you still want to study it?"

Seeing Lazili's appearance, before she could run out, Li Yuan pulled her into his arms and

kissed her.

"Husband, I was wrong, please forgive me!"

When Lazili saw Li Yuan's eyes, she immediately knew that Li Yuan was a little angry. Her tone softened immediately, and she became as lovable as a well-behaved little kitten. "Wrong? Since you know you're wrong, why don't you make amends as soon as possible?" Li Yuan lifted Lazili's beautiful little chin and chuckled. Hearing this, Lazili blushed, took off her white coat, then reached down with her jade hands, bent her jade feet and squatted, raised her red lips and swallowed it in one gulp. "Sir, we have disassembled the power system of the ship that can sail without sails sold by Thomas Dock of the Wuji Pirate Group, and we can also start to manufacture it ourselves!"

"We can even equip our existing sailing vessels with this power system, without having to purchase additional vessels."

A shipwright excitedly said to the big-bellied man wearing sunglasses next to him.

This big-bellied man wearing glasses is none other than Du Field, a loan shark king in one of

the dark web underworld.

"The power of technology really does bring huge benefits!"

Ever since the emergence of the new weapons and ships of the Promise Pirates, he has seen

business opportunities in technology.

This year, the MADS Peace Research Institute was established in the name of world peace, and world-renowned scientists were recruited to join the MADS research organization. MADS's expertise in dismantling and replicating the ships of the Promise Pirates is a

masterpiece. Not only the loan shark du Field was analyzing the technology of the Promise Pirates' ships, other forces were also doing it, and they were all successful.

In the first few years, they continued to place orders for ships from the Thomas Dockyard, but

in recent years they have placed very few orders, and if they do place orders, they are for steel battleships.

Li Yuan had already thought of this situation, because the technology in the ships he sold was

very little and simple, and he used very little technology and was not afraid of others

analyzing it. Only the technology used on the Promise Pirates' own ship is more advanced. "Unfortunately, there is no substitute for the material used in the gun barrels of the Wuji Pirates' weapons, otherwise it could have been copied."

Du Field sighed.

"However, with scientists like Vegapunk here, we may have a chance to have our own unique technology in the future!"

Du Field quickly became excited. He found that the scientists in Bergapunk were really powerful. As long as he could capture them, what technological means would he not have in

the future?

Unfortunately, what Du Field didn't know was that his actions had been noticed by certain forces. Once the importance of scientists like Bergapunk became known, he would not be able to protect them.