I Have Accomplished Nothing, So I Can Only Become the Pirate King

Chapter 370 The Deprived Flame

 After everyone settled down after eating, Sage had time to look at the town.

The buildings in the town are all made of stone, and the whole thing looks like a pointed mushroom.

It was obviously a stone, but the flames started to burn, blackening most of the houses.

and

Seeing the irregular charred black stones scattered on the street, Sage snorted: "It looks like it exploded."

Among those buildings, holes were blown through the mushroom roofs of some buildings, and some were completely blown up, but no casualties were seen for the time being.

It seemed like the entire town had gathered at the door.

"How could there be an explosion?"

The Xihai man named Becky was stunned for a moment, suddenly thought of something, clenched his fists and showed a fierce look: "Did Grace show up?!"

"It must be that bastard!"

Someone in the crowd shouted: "Only he has the power to control poisonous fire and explosions. We evacuated when the flames burned, and then there was an explosion. It must be him!"

"That guy."

Becky gritted her teeth: "Why? Why is he still doing this now? Haven't he made enough mistakes? That mediocre person who calls himself a chef, that big liar!"

"Excuse me."

At this moment, Marika walked out of the broken houses, holding strange roots and weed-like plants in her hands.

She opened her smiling eyes at this time, with rare solemnity and a bit of confusion in her eyes:

"I didn't see any utensils that use flames. The iron pots are no longer usable and have been left alone for a long time."

These guys don't seem like lazy people.

No matter how lazy you are, people will starve to death and they will still find ways to get food.

Even if there is such a thing as starving to death and not wanting to eat unpalatable food, it does not exist in these people.

Because the Bing Liang Pills tasted really bad, but they all ate them.

That's not the reason for being lazy and weird.

And what's in her hand

"Are you relying on this to satisfy your hunger?" Marika hesitated to speak.

As if she felt Sage's eyes looking over her, she thought for a while and said:

"What should I say? Every house has these things, and there are traces of gnawing and chewing on them. Did you eat them?"

She looked at those people, including Becky, and they all nodded.

"Ms. Marika, this is indeed what we used to satisfy our hunger before. We have no choice, we are so hungry that we can't bear it anymore," Becky said.

"Sarge, it's not that these things are inedible, they're just very difficult to eat."

Marika shook the rhizome filled with bite marks in her hand, "I just crushed a little bit and tasted it. It is difficult to swallow. It cannot be chewed by teeth. It is also extremely difficult to digest. The only advantage is that it can be eaten. Eat it. You will feel full afterwards.”

"This stuff will eventually be digested, but if you don't get nutrients for a long time, it will only make people weaker and weaker."

As she said that, she picked up the weed-like plant again, "It should be a vegetable, with some water and salt. It should be a plant unique to the islands in the deep sea. It is edible, but it contains Salt has killed its own nutrients and is toxic if consumed over a long period of time.”

Even for her, it would be difficult to cook with what she had, let alone these people.

"But there is one thing. If you boil it with water, you can boil the roots. The leaves can be roasted over fire to evaporate the toxic substances and turn them into food like dried kelp with a salty taste."

"In this case, although it is not nutritious, it can barely be eaten."

Marika said slowly to Becky: "But here's the problem. I didn't find any traces of fire, not even tinder. Can you tell me why you didn't use fire?"

"us."

Becky pursed her lips and said: "Mr. Sager, Master Marika, we know how to eat this thing, but people in the Yunshan Kingdom are no longer allowed to use any kind of fire, and there is no fire kindling."

The basin island where the Yunshan Kingdom is located is close to the windless zone and is itself a deep sea area.

The so-called ocean is just water covering the land. Because of the continental shelf, what is close to the continent is the offshore sea, and what is far away from the continent is the deep sea. As for how deep it is, no one knows so far.

As for the magical sea, in addition to these basic common sense, it also subverts common sense.

The Yunshan Kingdom is a large island with no land around it. It is more like a pillar from the bottom of the ocean, connecting to the bottomless ocean.

Islands in the deep sea area will inevitably bring about barren land, and there are no surrounding fish resources. It is difficult for deep sea fish to swim up. Only the ferocious sea kings that occasionally wander up can reach the sea surface.

But the barren land did not make these people give up. This is why they are called the country of chefs and gourmet food. They can find any edible food and usable spices here, coupled with the superb craftsmanship of the chefs, and they have gradually become famous.

But three years ago, the old king died and the new king Ferngard succeeded, and everything changed.

That is a tyrant. Since he took office, he has begun to collect well-known chefs in the kingdom to fill his palace. To this end, he has not hesitated to start a chef conference, allowing famous chefs from all over the country to participate, and select the top 100 to enter the palace. Serve him.

Then he issued a decree that no chefs were allowed in the Yunshan Kingdom from now on, and other chefs were expelled. Those who were unwilling to leave would be killed. The country of chefs began to decline from this moment on.

People at that time were very angry and believed that the king had corrupted the Yunshan Kingdom and caused the country to decline.

Then they discovered that they were still conservative.

Two years ago, Ferngard issued an order that even civilians were not allowed to cook privately. Otherwise, they would be treated as illegal chefs. If they wanted to cook, they would have to pay a high cooking tax in order to be qualified to cook.

Although this is a high burden, in order to eat, everyone can only hold their noses and teach, secretly cursing Ferngard for not being a human being.

Then they realized that it was still too early to say this.

A year ago, Ferngard announced that fire was not allowed and confiscated the right to make fire for everyone under his rule!

Fire, flint, wood, anything that can burn is not allowed. If you want to use flames, you have to pay a burning tax. In addition, you have to buy high-priced wood from him.

As an island in a deep sea basin, Yunshan Kingdom is so barren that there are no trees. The wood used in the past was brought by foreign traders before the kingdom declined.

Now it is in decline, no one comes, and rare wood will only appear in the palace.

Flint, fire, and wood all cost money, and using flames costs money, and cooking costs money. And buying ingredients, even if you grow them yourself, requires paying a sum of money.

In the end, Ferngard waved his hand and took the flames for himself. From then on, in this kingdom, no fire-making tools were allowed, and no flint or fire was allowed to appear!

The original greatness of human beings, of course, started from making fire. Without the flame, we would have to live a life of eating hair and drinking blood.

So those who went to sea and those who starved were all trying to find a way to survive.

In the midst of this disaster, another terrifying legend emerged in the kingdom.

In the name of using unnatural fire, some people tricked people into making fire for cooking. At first, people were very happy. Finally, someone could avoid the king's decree and everyone could make fire again.

But they immediately discovered something was wrong. The flame was indeed a flame, but the gas emitted by the flame was poisonous. In addition to bringing toxins to the food, the gas also allowed people who cooked near the flame to inhale it, which caused It caused a big disaster and many people were poisoned.

The culprit, Grace, escaped, and began to continue to practice this kind of flame in other places, and then became more exaggerated, from poisoning to poisoning and explosion, making people in the kingdom regard it as a horror legend.

Throughout the country, only Grace can use fire, so wherever there are flames and explosions, Grace must be here!

"That fellow is as hateful as the King!"

Becky clenched his fists tightly: "We are already in a very difficult situation, and he is going to deceive us there and use poisonous flames to make us suffer miserably. We are all civilians, but he takes pleasure in deceiving us!"

"Becky."

An acquaintance next to him patted him on the shoulder, shook his head and said, "Forget it, it's over. No one blames you."

"No! I will not forgive myself! Now that I have become a pirate, I have the ability to take revenge! I must make that guy pay the price!" Becky shouted.

As soon as he finished speaking, he suddenly felt a little cold. When he turned around, he saw Sagar looking at him like this, and then waved, "Come here."

"master"

Becky moved closer, and Sager realized that this guy was much taller than he thought. He was actually 2.34 meters tall, surpassing his height of 1.9 meters.

As usual, he bowed his head and was submissive, making people ignore him subconsciously.

If you look carefully.

"How old are you?" Sage asked.

"Sir, I'm fourteen years old," Becky said.

"I didn't expect that."

Sage smiled and said, "You seem to be doing well, um. Come on."

He didn't pay much attention to it before, but after seeing the situation here, he suddenly discovered that the guys who can go to sea and become pirates here are also very courageous and have a commendable will.

And this guy named Becky is vaguely the leader of this group of Xihai people who joined.

It seems that with practice, he can become a good subordinate.

"But I don't want to stand and listen to you talk about things now. I'll leave it to you to settle the people here. Once you've settled in, you'll lead the way. I want to go to the palace."

Sag has no interest in any conflicts and entanglements. He just wants to take away all the people in this country.

Aristocrats, as a piss-poor, possess the legal right to rule, and people don't have the concept of resistance, they just accept everything.

If you want to solve such a thing, Sager is very familiar with it.

Just get rid of it.

Beat people to death first, then the country will be ownerless, and so will the people living here.

But before that, he really wanted to meet the king.

Such a ruling law should be very rich, right?

(End of chapter)