Codex Pirates

Chapter 103: A Victim of the Era (Part 2)

Harden gasped heavily, and then let go of his hand. Darwell staggered after landing and almost fell down.

"Crow, you send Mayor Dawell off the boat." William ordered Crowe, who was calm from the beginning to the end.

After he finished his order, he said to Darwell, who was still in shock: "Mayor Darwell, as I said, my subordinates and I are different from other pirates, and we will park here for a while. We will rest on our own boat. You can let the residents of your town go back to their homes with peace of mind. If there is news of the remaining bandits, you can come to me. If you find that my crew has hurt the residents of the town, you can also You can come to me."

After William finished speaking, he ignored Darwell's response, and waved to Crowe to take Darwell off the boat.

After both of them left, William looked back at Harden, who was still aggrieved by Darwell's slander of One Piece.

"He is a fool brainwashed by the world government, full of prejudice and misunderstanding of One Piece!" Harden said angrily.

"His hometown has just been ransacked by pirates, and he is old enough to be our grandfather, but he still humbly begs for mercy from us pirates. In his opinion, it is the era of great pirates that caused all this. You said that One Piece, the instigator, of course he will be angry," William said calmly, "It is understandable for him to say these things, he is a commoner, and he is the target of being robbed by pirates. There are a bunch of pirates with different standpoints, it is understandable that he resents 'One Piece'. Otherwise, should he still love 'One Piece'?"

"He doesn't understand the greatness of One Piece and the era of the Great Pirate at all, and he doesn't understand the impact of the One Piece and the era of the Great Pirate on the Navy." Harden still said angrily.

At this time, Selkirk, who had been silent all this time, suddenly said: "Of course he, and those civilians don't understand this, do you know why?"

"No matter what the purpose of 'One Piece' is, the mayor of this town, this small town, and even the villages and towns in other sea areas that have experienced the same situation, and the common people living in these places are all groups that were sacrificed by 'One Piece'. Tormented by the era that One Piece started with his own hands, do you think they will recognize and understand this era and the people who started it, and think they are great? As a pirate, you will recognize and understand the greatness of the navy that is constantly chasing you ?"

Selkirk was born in the North Sea, and the pirates were far more rampant than the East China Sea where they are now. Later, he went to the great sea route where the thieves were rampant. How much damage the rampant pirates caused to the civilians, he saw better than Harden clearer.

Harden stopped talking, and William said to him when he saw this: "Go back to your room and be quiet."

After Harden left, Selkirk, who had been a little taciturn since watching the execution on the shore, also went back to his room alone.

Only William and Aramis were left on the deck.

William left the table, came to the bow, squinted against the sea wind and looked at the distant town, and Aramis stood silently behind him.

"When I got here, I remembered that innocent woman I killed back then." William said with some sighs.

Aramis grinned: "What's the matter? It's not that you don't know what kind of people Denton and the others are. If they fall into their hands, the woman will not escape death, and she will suffer a lot of torture before she dies."

"But I didn't expect that not long after I killed her, the navy would come. Maybe I should procrastinate."

"You can't predict the future, not to mention that Balmond led a group of people around us and dragged it around. To put it lightly, we didn't have the skills we have now, and we were able to protect a woman from them?" Aramis frowned. Frowning: "You are too soft-hearted, for those ordinary people who can only run away in the face of the strong."

"Do you have any doubts about my usual behavior?" William turned around and asked without being angry because of Aramis' tone.

Aramis nodded. If it was in the past, he might have been eager to ask questions, but since Valon's death, he has grown a lot since he became a cadre of a big pirate group. At least he can hold back his curiosity. Only when there are no outsiders now will they make a sound.

"I don't understand your attitude towards the mayor and those civilians. They are just a group of ordinary people. Do you need to wrong the people on the ship? You usually rely on them in the battle." Aramis asked.

"But the main body of this world is made up of these ordinary people." William silently lit a cigarette and asked after puffing out the smoke. "Do you know what is the scariest thing about the navy?"

"general?"

"No, even if the current general dies immediately due to unknown reasons, they can still promote the background of new candidates in the shortest possible time, and the reason why they have this background is because they are rooted in these ordinary people you despise In reality, countless 'ordinary people' have joined the navy in the name of 'justice', and some of them are not so ordinary."

William said calmly: "If you want the spire of the pyramid, you first need a huge base."

Aramis frowned and said nothing.

"It's just the navy," William said with emotion, "What about the world government?"

Aramis seemed to understand, and asked, "Do you want to learn from the world government or the navy? How do you learn? We are just pirates!"

"Yes, if we are a group of thieves who only know how to burn, kill, loot, destroy everywhere and don't know how to build, we will never be able to compare with a world government and navy with a program and aspirations," William said softly, and then asked Aramis: "You What do you think of the world government?"

Aramis sneered disdainfully.

Seeing this, William laughed too.

How much evil has the world government in this world done?

For example, many slave workers in the bridge kingdom "Tecchila Wolf" in the East China Sea are simply nationals of countries that do not agree to join the world government.

The descendants of the 20 kings who founded the world government regard themselves as creators and have various privileges. They are called the nobles of the world, "Dragon People".

In normal times, the world government does not hesitate to reprimand the navy's most powerful "admiral" to maintain the dignity of these nobles, which makes them arrogant and domineering to a certain extent, and even disdains to breathe the same air as other humans, so they usually bring astronauts Same special mask.

And the Tianlong people themselves still retain the slave culture. They will capture people of all races as slaves, regardless of whether you are a national of a country joined by the world government.

As for the government, corruption is rampant, the system is backward, and even the face of the world government is not much better. The evil deeds of this regime are too numerous to record, and many of its policies and behaviors are simply not things that a normal regime can do.

But it is such a bastard regime that can still gain the support of the common people.

"The world government is such a bastard, but ordinary people still support it. What do you think is the reason?" William asked.

"They are stupid!" Aramis said disdainfully.

"Wrong, it's because they have no choice." William shook his finger, his eyes flickering, "People living in troubled times look forward to the coming of peace. Most people in the world hope that someone can restrain this chaotic world. To end this cruel era, no matter how bastard and incompetent the world government is, they are indeed persevering in pursuing pirates."

No matter what the purpose is, the world government and navy are indeed making efforts to end the era of great pirates in the name of "justice".

William's eyes were sharp, "Peace the troubled times, this is what the people want, the world government and the navy have this intention, and they are the most capable, so those who yearn for peace hold their noses and support this regime, what if they have a better choice? They may not really support the regime!"

Aramis finally understood what William meant. He shuddered, looked around, saw that there was no one else around except them, and then persuaded him in a low voice: "You, you must not say that to the outside world. gone."

"I'll only tell people I trust." William smiled indifferently when he saw his appearance, "Go and take a rest too."

Aramis responded, and walked to the back of the boat. He glanced back halfway and found that William was still standing on the bow of the boat, looking at the town motionless like a statue, not knowing what he was thinking.