Chapter 003 Pirates who send experience
"Hmph, give him a long memory!" The fat foreman pointed viciously at Lin Mu and barked orders at the four thugs standing behind him.
This was his usual method of killing the chicken to warn the monkeys. If the person who smashed the goods was not punished harshly enough, then in the future there would definitely be more dockworkers who dared to damage his cargo without fear.
You smash one piece of my cargo, and I will smash your bones!
That was exactly what the foreman was thinking in his heart, a philosophy he had relied on to dominate this small pier in the East Blue for many years.
As soon as the foreman finished speaking, the four thugs behind him turned their gazes toward Lin Mu, cruel smiles appearing at the corners of their mouths as they walked over while cracking their knuckles.
Obviously, in their eyes, Lin Mu was nothing more than a piece of fish placed on a cutting board, waiting to be slaughtered. As long as he was not beaten to death, everything would be fine with the foreman backing them up!
Seeing the expressions on the faces of these four thugs, Lin Mu sneered inwardly. Unfortunately for them, these people still did not know who the real fish was!
Just as Lin Mu was about to calmly accept these walking experience points, a dockworker suddenly cried out in panic beside him.
"Sea... pirates! No, pirates are coming!"
As soon as this shout rang out, the expressions of everyone on the dock instantly changed, and all of them hurriedly turned their heads toward the sea.
In the next moment, they saw a pirate ship flying a skull-and-crossbones flag rapidly approaching the port. The Jolly Roger flapped violently in the sea breeze, clearly marking it as a pirate vessel roaming the East Blue.
Upon seeing the pirate flag, the arrogance on the faces of the fat foreman and his four thugs vanished instantly, replaced by pale faces and cold sweat pouring down their backs.
What a joke. Bullying ordinary civilians and dockworkers was one thing, but facing real pirates…
Those were people who killed without blinking an eye, criminals who dared to challenge the World Government and the Marines. They were absolutely not someone these dock bullies could compare to!
Run!
This was the first thought that appeared in everyone's mind. No one knew who shouted "Run!" first, but in the next second, everyone on the pier, except Lin Mu, turned around and tried to flee in a panic.
However, just as everyone took their first step, several dull cannon sounds rang out, followed by pitch-black cannonballs flying straight over. The people who ran the fastest were instantly torn apart, blood splattering across the wooden planks of the pier.
The bloody corpses lying on the ground immediately made the remaining people freeze in place, not daring to move another step.
Soon after, the pirate ship docked roughly at the pier, its hull scraping loudly against the wood. Then, more than twenty pirates wearing ragged clothes and carrying sabers, guns, and spears jumped down from the ship.
When Lin Mu saw this group of pirates clearly, his eyes instantly lit up, because the numbers floating above the heads of these twenty or so pirates were all 4, while the pirate wearing a hat at the front had a clear 10 above his head!
Lin Mu roughly calculated in his heart that if he could kill all of these pirates, the experience points he would gain would be almost enough to raise him directly to Level 2!
And once he reached Level 2, he would definitely obtain another treasure chest from the system!
"Money, food, fresh water, hand them all over!"
"And women, too!"
"Be honest and obedient, the blade in my hand hasn't tasted blood for a long time!"
The pirates shouted one sentence after another, their voices filled with arrogance and brutality. Although they were only a group of relatively weak pirates, and their captain's bounty was merely one million Berries, there was absolutely no pressure for them to sack such a small and defenseless village in the East Blue.
In a place like this, there were no Marine garrisons and not even a local police force. They could rampage here freely without worrying about consequences.
"Who is in charge here?" The pirate captain wearing a hat swept his gaze coldly over the trembling crowd and spoke in a deep voice. His eyes soon locked onto the fat foreman who was hiding behind everyone else: "You, come here!"
The fat foreman never expected that he was hiding so deeply among the crowd and would still be singled out. With no way to escape, he could only step forward toward the pirate captain with a bitter expression, forcing a flattering smile onto his face as cold sweat dripped down his temples: "Dad… what are your orders?"
"Money, women, food! Hand everything over to us, and I might spare your worthless dog life!" the pirate captain said arrogantly, his tone filled with the cruelty common among East Blue pirates. Then a vicious light flashed across his face as he paused deliberately: "Otherwise…"
Otherwise, what would happen? The pirate captain did not need to finish his sentence, because the fat foreman understood it very clearly. People who disobeyed pirates in this sea usually ended up thrown into the ocean as fish food, or butchered like livestock.
Almost instantly, the fat foreman nodded repeatedly and hurriedly smiled: "Sir, please come with me. I'll take you into the village and make sure you get everything you want!"
As he spoke, the fat foreman was already turning around, preparing to personally lead the pirate captain and his crew into the village.
Seeing how obedient and servile the foreman was, the pirate captain nodded in satisfaction, clearly pleased with this reaction.
However, the expressions of the dock workers immediately changed. Unlike the foreman, they were all natives of this island. Their parents, wives, children, and friends were all living in the village behind them.
If these pirates were really allowed to enter the village, then the outcome would be no different from what had happened to countless villages in the East Blue that were raided by pirates.
"No, we absolutely can't let them in!"
"Stop them!"
Even though the dock workers were trembling with fear in front of these pirates, when they thought about their families, they still summoned the courage to stand up and block the pirates' path.
The pirate captain glanced at these dock workers, and a trace of contempt appeared at the corner of his mouth. Then he casually gave a look to the pirate underlings behind him.
"What!"
"Puff!"
In the next moment, accompanied by a miserable scream, a dock worker was slashed down, blood splattering across the wooden planks of the pier.
And once the first scream rang out, the second and third screams followed immediately after.
In almost the blink of an eye, four or five dock workers were brutally killed by the pirates, their bodies falling lifelessly to the ground.
The fat foreman shrank his neck when he saw this scene, his heart secretly庆幸 that he had chosen the right path. Offending dock workers was one thing, but provoking a group of murderous pirates like this was absolutely courting death.
"Kill all these people who are in the way." The pirate captain gave the order indifferently. In his eyes, these ordinary villagers who had no power to resist were not even as valuable as pigs. At least pigs could still be eaten after being killed, but these people were nothing but useless trash.
"What!"
But at this moment, a scream suddenly rang out again. Logically speaking, screams were normal in such a scene, but the pirate captain's expression instantly changed, because he could clearly tell that the scream had come from his own crew!
"Ding, kill the pirates and obtain 4 experience points!"
Lin Mu calmly pulled the bone spur on his fist out of a pirate minion's body. There was no fear or discomfort on his face from killing someone for the first time, because to him, these pirates were nothing more than experience-providing monsters.
In his previous life, the number of monsters he had killed in games had probably already exceeded one million. Compared to that, killing a few real pirates did not cause him any psychological burden.
"Bastard! You dare hurt my people, all of you go together and kill him!" The pirate captain roared in rage when he saw his subordinate fall in front of Lin Mu, his eyes filled with killing intent.
At his command, more than twenty pirate minions under his control charged toward Lin Mu at once, brandishing sabers and machetes, clearly intending to chop Lin Mu into pieces on the spot!
However, after obtaining Wolverine's ability, Lin Mu's strength, speed, reaction, and even close-combat instincts had all been greatly enhanced. This was simply not something a group of low-level East Blue pirates could contend with!
"Ding, kill the pirates and obtain 4 experience points!"
"Ding, kill the pirates and obtain 4 experience points!"
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