Chapter 93 What is coming will eventually come (5-star review required)
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Hilton walked straight to the place where Wapol had just been. He first opened several large boxes and checked the amount of gold, silver and treasures inside. After finding that there was no problem, he opened an exquisite small box on top.
"Squeak!"
When the box was opened, Hilton's heart skipped a beat.
"Wait a moment!!"
Upon hearing the captain of the guards' order, everyone paused. Valpo shrank his neck, knowing that his plan must have been exposed. However, he was not panicked at all. How could taking things from one's own home be considered stealing?
"Your Highness, Valpo! Please take out what you took from here! Did you eat it?"
Hilton was very nervous and asked in an anxious tone, fearing that the little ancestor would turn his head and say in the next second: I have eaten it, you can kill me or chop me up as you please.
"I didn't take anything! I didn't eat anything! Don't slander me! Besides, even if I did take something, so what? This is my home, and the things in this treasure house belong to my family. You are just hired by my father to help guard it. What right do you have to control what I, your master, took!"
"Humph! I'm going to tell my father that you bullied me!"
After saying this, little Wapol pretended to be wronged and angry. Unfortunately, Hilton knew the character of this young prince very well. He was not moved at all and continued to persuade him:
"Your Highness! This is the Heavenly Gold that is to be handed over to the Celestial Dragons! Nothing can happen to it, or else there will be big trouble!"
"If you continue to refuse to cooperate, I will have no choice but to have someone invite His Majesty the King! You may not understand the seriousness of this matter, but I can assure you that even if His Majesty the King himself comes, he will not protect you in the slightest. Instead, you will suffer in vain. So you'd better return the things quickly. All of us present here will pretend that we saw nothing during our patrol tonight and that nothing happened!"
Wapol had a drop of cold sweat on his forehead. Although his father doted on him, if he really got into trouble, he would be locked up. He couldn't stand being locked up at home and not being able to go out and make trouble, even for a day! But until the last moment, he chose to continue to hold on.
"Humph! If I say no, then I mean no! How dare you question me!"
"Dalton, go and inform His Majesty of the matter. Just say that there is a problem with Tianshangjin and he needs to deal with it."
"Yes, sir!"
Just as Dalton was about to leave the team to inform His Majesty the King, Wapol finally gave in.
"Huh? What is this thing? How did it get into my pocket by itself?"
Then he pulled out a strangely shaped fruit from his pocket, with a look of surprise on his face, as if he really had no idea what was going on.
All the guards present were speechless.
Hilton quickly took the thing from Wapol's hand and carefully examined the purple spherical shape in his hand. There was a winding dividing line in the middle like a fang. The whole thing looked a bit like a strange fruit in a closed trap.
Great! In mint condition!
Hilton finally breathed a sigh of relief.
Carefully put the devil fruit back into the treasure box and placed it together with another strange-looking fruit.
After replacing the lid, Hilton still felt uneasy, so he ordered his men to bring a large steel padlock to lock the treasure box tightly. Only then did he wipe the cold sweat from his forehead with satisfaction.
Fortunately, I found it in time! If it were a little bit late at night, this devil fruit would be useless if it was bitten!
What a close call! It's really worrying!
This strange fruit called Devil Fruit is said to give you all kinds of magical powers after eating it.
But this is not what Hilton cares about. He only knows that when handing over the gold to the sky, such a small piece of fruit can actually offset 1 million Baileys of tax!
It's great to be lucky enough to find two devil fruits on Drum Island! The country and its citizens can reduce the tax burden of 2 million berries.
I think everyone should be able to live a more prosperous life this year!
Hilton felt emotional, but when he thought of the long winter on Magnetic Drum Island, he sighed helplessly.
Except for the families of doctors who may have a slightly better life, it is impossible for ordinary citizens to live a rich life. I just hope that fewer people will starve to death in this cold winter.
"Tsk! It's ok now! I've returned all your things to you. Can you leave now?"
Wapol was very unhappy that his little secret was exposed on the spot, and he was already quite angry at such a young age.
"Please take care, Your Highness Wapol! Enjoy your meal!"
"Humph!"
Wapol turned around and left without even eating supper! He had completely hated this nosy captain of the guard, but he didn't know that it was Hilton's nosyness that accidentally saved his life!
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Back to the ship.
"Crash!"
Just as Gel was about to lie down to catch up on some sleep, he suddenly heard a noisy sound coming from outside, accompanied by a violent shaking of the ship.
The rushing water is like a waterfall, and the water rushing down from a great height makes a deafening sound.
"Wow! What the hell is that? It's such a huge monster!"
Bi Ya raised her head and widened her eyes, feeling that the monster in front of her was so big that it was almost beyond her sight!
The others were also stunned, and Bi Ya's loud voice spoke for everyone.
It's not like they had never seen goldfish before, but this goldfish, which was bigger than a mountain, was something they had never seen before.
Except for Gel and Kurokas, everyone on the deck saw this island-eating monster for the first time, and they were all shocked by its size that blocked out the sun and the sky.
A Da and A Er were even more dumbfounded. They were almost scared to death when they encountered Labu for the first time. The strange fish in front of them was dozens or hundreds of times bigger than Labu. They really couldn't blame them. They really couldn't hold their urine this time.
The monster slowly opened its big mouth and sucked in all the surrounding sea water like a black hole. Without Gel's order, A Da and A Er were already swimming desperately in the opposite direction, but they were still unable to resist the turbulent current, and the boat was still moving backwards towards the mouth of the island-eating monster.
It still showed up.
Gel shook his head helplessly and walked towards the stern.
"Hehehe! What a perfect target! The stage is set, Weibull! Hurry up and perform a combo! Let everyone see the results of our training during this period!"
Moria jumped onto the side of the ship excitedly, looking at the huge monster in front of him with a crazy look on his face, having completely forgotten that he was a patient recuperating from injury.
"No! I can do it myself. Go away. You're blocking me."
Weevil calmly stood in front of everyone with a big knife in hand, and pushed Moria next to him with a look of disgust.
Moriah couldn't stand this, and he and Weevil started pushing each other.
"Ahhh, you bastard, you actually dare to look down on me, damn it! If you don't want to cooperate, then don't cooperate. You're just a sea king, I can do it myself! Get out of my way!"
"Hey, hey, hey, big brothers! Please stop fighting! If you don't take action, we will be swallowed up!"
“Ahhh! This is so scary! I’m going to be eaten!”
The rest of the people on the ship had already calmed down after seeing Weeble and Moria appear, but they did not expect that the two of them would actually wrestle with each other for the right to attack. Seeing that the ship was getting closer and closer to the monster's huge mouth, everyone began to panic again.
"Ahhh! It's over, it's over. We're going to be eaten!"
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