Chapter 139: Who Dares to Fool Captain Buggy?

Finally,

Hawkeye selected two items, the 【Sword Seed】 and the 【Bimang Sword Art】, deciding to walk the path of a fantasy Swordsman.

Greed leads to poor digestion.

Even if two paths of Jiangdian are similar, the deeper one goes, the greater the differences become; in the end, one only wastes time.

"Thank you very much."

Hawkeye removed his feathered top hat, bowed slightly, and offered an elegant salute.

His arrogance was reserved only for weaklings like Krieg; for an existence like the Game Player, although he maintained his pride, he acknowledged and respected them from the bottom of his heart.

"A friendly reminder: if equipment and items are not soul-bound as soon as possible, they will be locked."

Hawkeye thought of a key point and asked, "Mr. Fang Yi, are there many more contracts like this?"

The contract, which had previously looked like a Devil Fruit, had drifted into his hands along the ocean currents.

To say there was only one contract in the entire ocean would be too much of a coincidence.

Fang Yi nodded and smiled, "Of course. There should be tens of thousands of contracts I've scattered across the East Blue. Although it's impossible for everyone to complete the tasks, there will soon be thousands of players in the game."

"Although you are the strongest Sword Master in reality, if you don't work hard, you might soon be surpassed by the youth."

Hearing Fang Yi's pointed remark, Hawkeye was not nervous; instead, he showed an expression of interest.

The corners of his mouth hooked up as he said, "That suits me perfectly."

"That is the downside of Jiangdian; the peak position is always narrow. If someone can surpass my Jiangdian, even if they climb up by stepping on my corpse, I will bless them!"

This was his true thought.

The appearance of the Samsara Game would bring vitality to the stagnant ocean, and surely countless Jiangdian experts would emerge.

When that time comes, no one will know who is the whetstone and who is the true Great Swordsman.

"Hahahahahaha..."

After a deep bow, Hawkeye turned and left.

Fang Yi watched his departing back, smiling as he placed the Debt Bond on the shelf.

"Master."

A Fu appeared out of thin air, hovering beside Fang Yi, and reported, "Two hundred contracts have already been activated. Half of those who found the contracts failed their tasks. Is the task difficulty a bit too high?"

If one ignored the Water Meat consumed to create her upon arriving in the Pirate World, A Fu, with her white hair, round eyes, and adorable demeanor, looked just like a fairy from a world of Magic.

"Is it high?"

Fang Yi snatched the Water Meat from her hands, tasted it, and found it indeed quite good. He said, "If they cannot even complete a Contract Task, such players are a waste of origin essence even if recruited into the Samsara Game."

The content of a Contract Task is related to the strength of the person who finds the contract.

However, the task difficulty has an upper and lower limit.

Just like the Contract Task issued to Koby, that is the lower limit; he must defeat Alvida to receive the reward.

It is absolutely impossible for the contract to issue stupid tasks like eating a meal, drinking water, or cleaning, just because Koby is a physically weak loser.

For example, the task issued after Hawkeye found the contract was merely to destroy the Keli Ke Pirate Fleet; this is the upper limit of a Contract Task.

It is impossible to directly issue a task for Hawkeye to challenge the Five Elders.

Fang Yi sneered, "In the ninja world, there is an unbridgeable chasm between commoners and ninjas; chakra dictates that commoners cannot resist ninjas."

"And in the Pirate World, there is Whitebeard, who can trigger tsunamis with his fists, and the Sand Crocodile, who can destroy countries."

"But there are also the Navy and Pirates who can bridge the gap in combat power between top experts and commoners, like the assassins of Baroque Works or some Navy soldiers who can't even master marksmanship."

As long as one has ambition and brains, even an ordinary person can find a way to complete a Contract Task.

Just like Koby, defeating a pirate who is slightly stronger than an ordinary person.

If one cannot even do that, it is a good thing not to become a Samsara Game Player.

"Oh."

A Fu nodded, half-understanding, feeling a bit dejected.

Even though she was a dignified World Consciousness, she couldn't play the slightest role; even if she disappeared, it wouldn't affect the Master's progress in hunting the Pollution Source. This sense of loss was truly hard to accept.

"Facts prove that whether it is the frail Koby or Hawkeye, who stands at the pinnacle of pirates, neither can resist the charm of the Samsara Game."

Fang Yi was very satisfied with this result.

Upon seeing the power to change one's destiny, one should rush forward without hesitation.

Unlike the ninjas in the neighboring server, who actually thought of gathering intelligence first and waiting for orders from the Ninja Village, wasting a great deal of time to grow stronger.

Next,

It is to wait for the contracts to continue spreading; once it ferments to a certain degree, major powers will soon be unable to sit still.

Suddenly,

Fang Yi sensed the presence of beings carrying rich origin essence near several contracts.

With a light wave of his hand, a dynamic map of the East Blue appeared on the desktop.

Countless green dots were the scattered contracts, acting like radar devices, feeding back the nearby life forms onto the map.

"Orange Town?"

Fang Yi's gaze fell on a corner of the East Blue map.

Several contracts had collided with life forms containing origin essence; something very interesting should happen.

East Blue, Orange Town.

"Fire the cannons!"

The clown with the bright red nose, Captain of the Buggy Pirates, let out an angry roar.

Beside him, the pirate underlings were sweating profusely, hurriedly stuffing the Buggy Ball—a cannonball capable of blowing up a town—into the cannon barrel.

Boom.

Accompanied by a violent explosion, a wide chasm was blasted into the center of the entire Orange Town by a cannonball.

The smoke and dust gradually dissipated.

Amidst the broken walls and ruined pillars, four strange-looking fruits lay in the trench blasted out by the Buggy Ball.

"Quick!"

"Hurry up and bring them to me!"

After seeing the fruits in the trench clearly, Buggy rubbed his eyes in disbelief; while he shouted, one of his arms had already split apart and was flying rapidly toward the four fruits.

There was absolutely no mistake.

Devil Fruits, four of them in total!

Buggy felt like he was dreaming; he had originally intended to ransack this Orange Town, but he had not expected that the villagers would have learned the news early and fled completely.

All that remained was a lonely, dilapidated town.

Having prepared himself to return empty-handed, he had unexpectedly discovered four Devil Fruits.

In fact,

the four Devil Fruits had drifted to the shore along with the ocean currents, and had been brought home by the villagers along with sea fish and fishing nets; before they could even untie the nets, they were frightened away by the news of the Pirate attack.

The sea fish were blasted into mincemeat, leaving only the fruits, which were protected by the rules of the Samsara Game, completely unscathed.

"One Devil Fruit can sell for at least one hundred million; I've picked up four hundred million for nothing!"

The floating arm grabbed all four fruits at once and drifted back to the rooftop terrace where Buggy was standing, where it was reattached to his body seamlessly.

"Eh..."

Buggy's expression suddenly stiffened.

One of the fruits in his hand suddenly split open from the middle, revealing the Contract text inside.

He threw that one away,

and of the remaining three Devil Fruits, another one split open, revealing Contract text.

Repeating this process, Buggy's face turned gloomy, and he stomped his feet, shouting, "Damn it, who dares to play tricks on Lord Buggy the Clown!?"

They were not Devil Fruits; they were fakes!

He scanned the area with a sinister gaze, scaring the lackey Pirates into lowering their heads one after another.

"Nami, since you want to become a member of the Buggy Pirates, you must kill your former Captain!"

As if having found an outlet for his anger,

Buggy said viciously, while simultaneously reaching out a hand to point at the person locked in the cage.

Wearing a straw hat, dressed in a red vest, and with sandals on his feet, he looked just like a farmer who had run out from some village.

The top and bottom of the cage were made of hard rock, and thick iron bars surrounded it; an ordinary person could not escape at all.

At this moment,

Caomao Lufei was squeezed tightly against the gaps in the iron cage, his cheeks deformed from the pressure, his arm reaching out through the gap in the cage and stretching forward continuously.

He grabbed the fake Devil Fruit that Buggy had thrown away and put it into his mouth without even looking at it.

(End of this chapter)