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But this time it was a fruitful experience. Seeing that Major General Yak had not returned yet, everyone walked around and found a lot of new and rare foods.
For example, crocodile eggs, turtle eggs, grilled crocodile meat, etc. made everyone enjoy the food. This way of eating at street stalls reminded Dawn of the leisurely way of visiting street stalls in his previous life.
I often feel like I haven’t eaten much but I’m full after walking down a street. I think about how little time I have to relax since I came to this world. Although this trip was a bit unexpected, it’s nice to be able to enjoy this moment of leisure.
But soon, this peaceful and leisurely moment was broken.
"These damn sand bandits are here again! Run away!"
"Run! Run, run! Run!"
"Where are the guards! Damn it!"
Chapter 63 Sand Pirates
The bustling streets and the market suddenly became chaotic because of the arrival of the sand bandits.
Like a natural disaster, people cursed in the chaos and fled hastily in this originally lively and peaceful market. Some people even took advantage of the chaos to start looting.
"Hide first." Dawn immediately gave the order to hide. It was better to be cautious when not knowing where the enemy was coming. Dawn also believed that Major General Yak might have heard the noise and rushed over.
Although the combat power of a major general is nothing, that is relative to the Grand Line. For a place like the Four Seas where even the domineering power has not been mastered, a major general is enough to deal with most situations.
After a while, the dust in the desert subsided, and accompanied by strange cries and the sound of bells on the camel, Dawn finally saw the person coming.
There was a person sitting on the back of each of the dozens of camels. Each person wore a hat and a scarf of different colors. From the exposed corners of their eyes, it could be seen that the skin of the sand bandits was very dark and rough.
The various types of weapons held in each person's hands revealed their identities - sand bandits!
As the name suggests, these sand bandits are thieves in the desert, and they are also the enemies that Major General Yak had warned people to be careful of before they left.
Because these sand bandits are no different from sea pirates and mountain bandits, they just live in different regions, and they burn, kill and loot without caring about the consequences.
But when the two sides were only 200 meters apart, Dawn and his group were discovered unknowingly. The bandits sitting on camels took out guns from their waists and started shooting at everyone.
Not only Dawn and the others, but even the people around them suffered. This group of sand bandits were planning to kill a group of people first to scare everyone else. They just drew their guns and shot indiscriminately at anyone they saw.
The cruel look was as if he wanted to kill all the people he saw.
"Resist Aura." Dawn used the air to form a shield to protect against bullets fired at him.
Looking at the scene in front of him, a hint of coldness flashed in Dawn's eyes. Coincidentally, Dawn was also the type who would not talk too much if he could take action.
Kill him first, then try to reason with him.
As Dawn waved his hand, the bullets flew back one by one, accurately heading towards the bandits. They completely ignored the bandits' defenses, pierced through one person, and then went towards the bandits behind him.
This is because Dawn added a layer of nearly transparent bullet around the outside of the bullet, greatly increasing its power and penetration.
However, after several people died, the group of sand bandits lowered their upper bodies onto the camels and dodged the bullets that bounced back from Dawn.
"Hahaha, we're lucky. We met someone with special abilities again. We can sell it for a good price then." The sand bandit in the middle of the front row seemed to be their leader. He shouted excitedly at this moment.
"You are challenging the dignity of our navy again." Berrygood said angrily, and his body began to split into balls.
"Huh, there's more? Aren't these navy brats all people with special abilities? We'll make a fortune!" The leader's surprised voice came from afar.
"And what did this brat say? The dignity of the navy? Hahaha, that's hilarious. Once you become a slave, you're no longer a navy."
"Hahaha, kid, go home and drink your milk. When did the navy start recruiting kids?"
The laughter that erupted from the Sand Bandits made Berrygood furious.
"Damn it, I'm going to smash your mouth."
The leader of the sand bandits heard Berigud's angry shout and sneered, "If I didn't think you had any value, do you think you could still be talking nonsense here?"
Faced with Berrygood's provocation, the leader of the sand bandits looked very unhappy.
But then I thought, I have encountered two people with special abilities, plus the one I caught before, that makes three people in total. If those people are also people with special abilities...
Thinking of this, he licked his lips, and his eyes flashed with greed when he thought of the price of each ability user.
In his opinion, they were just a bunch of little kids. Even if they were navy users, how strong could they be?
Use the lives of your subordinates to exhaust their energy, and then soak them in the sea water and the huge sum of money will be in your pocket.
As for the Navy’s retaliation?
He was ready to quit. After finishing this big deal, he would find a comfortable city, buy a piece of land, find a woman, go home to farm and retire, and let his men be cannon fodder to bear the wrath of the navy.
Thinking of the beautiful female slaves that the slave had sold before, he couldn't help but feel that his tongue was lacking moisture.
But suddenly, the sand bandit leader who was in a sweet dream suddenly felt a soft and fragrant body throwing himself into his arms, but before he could think about which beauty was throwing herself into his arms, he felt severe pain all over his body.
The sand bandit leader then let out a scream and fell into eternal sleep with the flag he had set.
As the sound of bones breaking rang out on the "boneless" body of the Sand Bandit leader, Sora clapped his hands while sitting on the camel, and excitedly waved to Dawn beside him and shouted:
"Dawn, does this sound like what you said about killing a girl by holding her in your arms~~Ah, no, this is killing a man by holding his arms." While speaking, he walked to the next enemy and punched him, sending him flying.
Dawn couldn't help but twitch his lips when he heard Sora's words, regretting that he had mentioned it as a joke.
But the sand bandits coming towards Dawn didn't care whether you were in a daze or not. The first two sand bandits riding camels rushed up with strange screams, waving their weapons in their hands, and chopped down Dawn and the others.
With the momentum of the camel's reunion, this attack was fierce and cruel, but to the sandbag it was as common as a common thing. It can be seen that killing people is commonplace for it.
Dawn looked coldly at the two weapons coming towards him, and his figure suddenly disappeared. The next moment, he crossed a distance of several meters and appeared behind the two sand bandits.
When the two sand bandits were confident that they had succeeded, they did not expect that the enemy disappeared. Instead, they suddenly felt as if they were flying and then fell into endless darkness.
"Stop playing around, let's call it a day." After taking a quick look around and not finding any strong men, Dawn suddenly felt that the chaos in the city just now might have caused them to misjudge the opponent's strength.
But Dawn would do it again if it happened again, because in that situation, it would be wise to be cautious and find out the enemy first.
As for standing there and pretending to be domineering and saying "give me some face", that will happen in the future. At least, it is not something I can do now as a little kid.
Confidence and belief are based on strength. Dawn is not blindly confident. Always reminding himself of his weakness will give him more motivation to move forward.
Chapter 64 Call it a day
After easily defeating this group of sand bandits, Dawn finally understood why people in the city were so afraid of these sand bandits.
Compared to ordinary people, the combat effectiveness of these sand bandits is quite good for ordinary people. It is no problem for one person to beat seven or eight normal people.
In addition, they come in groups and don't discuss conditions when they meet. They just kill a wave of enemies first to serve as a warning to others. Such ferocious sandbags are naturally as frightening as snakes and scorpions to ordinary people.
What about the guards at the market? When I entered the market before, I found that they were all a bunch of lazy idiots, and they seemed useless.
Up to now, I haven't even seen its shadow, and I don't know if it has run away. You don't even need to use your brain to know the difference between the two sides just by comparing. No wonder this sand bandit has been able to run rampant for so long.
But to Dawn and the others, this kind of strength is just a gift.
Come to think of it, if there really was a strong man, he would have ruled this country by force long ago.
"Damn them, how can they be so strong? Retreat quickly?" A group of sand bandits who were defeated by Sora and others before they could even charge were in chaos at this moment.
In addition, when they saw a little girl suddenly appear on the leader's camel and "gently" hug the leader, she killed the leader easily. The pirates didn't realize that they had provoked a tough guy.
Looking at the leader's "boneless" body, he couldn't help but shudder and instantly wanted to turn the camel around and run away.
But unfortunately, they were unlucky to have offended Dawn and the others, especially Berigudd, who was ridiculed by the sand bandits, who "rolled a ball" into each of them and smeared it on their faces.
Looking at the sand bandits flying out in a spiral, with their yellow teeth scattered everywhere, Dawn couldn't help but mourn for them for a second.
"Keeping these scum will only bring harm to others. Besides, we don't have the space to store so many prisoners, and it will be troublesome to waste food."
Dawn said as he snapped his fingers, and forced the air to solidify into a sharp weapon and fly over to finish off the enemy.
So the killer who had been clamoring before was now like a lamb to be slaughtered, unable to fight back.
Less than fifteen minutes had passed since the battle began, and this group of unfortunate sand bandits were wiped out by Dawn and his men.
But this is the reality in the world of pirates. To the strong, the miscellaneous soldiers are meaningless, just like how Luffy killed 50,000 fish-man miscellaneous soldiers with one domineering color. The level gap is too big, and it is useless unless the number accumulates to a certain level.
But unfortunately, the number of this group of sand bandits is not enough to cause a qualitative change.
At this moment, Dawn deployed the Ouroboros field to continuously finish off the enemies. Perhaps because there were still a large number of them, there must be someone with talent among the dozens of people. Dawn gained a slight increase in the attribute of "spirit".
With the awakening of his Observation Haki, Dawn could feel the increase of his Observation Haki more and more clearly.
Even though it's really just a little bit, telling others about it is enough to drive people crazy. Even if a criminal obtains this ability, it wouldn't be surprising if he becomes a murderer who kills people all over the world.
Dawn slandered himself that he was not a good person. In his previous life, he was just an ordinary nobody, but in this world, he was definitely one of the people with high morals. It was really impossible for Dawn to kill people like crazy.
If you were to let this world go, killing people like crazy would be nothing. The more powerful people would just destroy the country directly.
There is no way, this world is not about who has higher morals, but about who is worse...
So in this comparison, Dawn is in the "good and lawful" camp in this world.
Dawn looked at the periphery of the halo. The illusory Ouroboros became more and more obvious, and he could also see that some parts of its hazy scales gradually became clearer.
As Dawn reaped lives, a hint of black appeared on the illusory figure, which was invisible unless you looked carefully.
"Every time I see Dawn's halo, I feel it's very strange. He can actually develop a halo that can capture the air." Tina couldn't help but sigh as she watched Dawn slowly retract the strange halo.
Hearing this, Dawn smiled and said, "The so-called devil fruit development is completely out of this world, it's really confusing, isn't it?
The development of some abilities may seem outrageous to outsiders, or even completely irrelevant, like an antelope hanging horns. Therefore, when it comes to the development of Devil Fruit abilities, we cannot use common sense to look at it.
"That's right." After thinking about it, Tina couldn't help but laugh. It seemed to be true. Talking reason and common sense to the devil fruit was like talking nonsense.
If we could fully understand the effects of devil fruits, there would be no such thing as "devil fruits".
"Tina, come quickly, these sand bandits seem to be very rich." Sora on the side called Tina to come over to help clean up the spoils.
And Dawn couldn't help but feel that his previous disguise was wise.
You have to know that his apparent fruit ability is that of the Halo Fruit user, so a BUFF-type halo would be a reasonable expression.
But being able to manipulate and grab the air to form various moves doesn't seem like an ability that the Halo Fruit should have.
This feeling is not like a halo, but more like a field.
But just as Dawn said, devil fruits are the most magical items in the world. They are able to break common sense. There is no strongest or weakest one, only whether one is suitable or not.
It's like the most ridiculous Doflamingo's String-String Fruit, which allows him to tie the string to the clouds and use it as a swing to achieve the purpose of flying.
Although it sounds a bit ridiculous, this is the reality in this world. Although Dawn sometimes wondered in his previous life that if the sky was clear and cloudless, wouldn't Doflamingo be doomed?
So Dawn disguised his ability to snatch the fruit as the "Ouroboros" halo, limiting the skill by range to give it a sense of rationality.
However, after seeing Tina's question today, I felt that the cover-up before was a wise choice. The effect of the Snatch-Snatch Fruit to control the air is well combined with the Ouroboros.