Chapter 359: The Radiance of Gold Coins

Entering the interior of the Judicial Tower, sounds of fighting came from above from time to time.

The Judicial Tower was very large, with more than a dozen floors, each with dozens of rooms of varying sizes.

Su Xiao looked around, found the stairs, and walked upward. Just as he reached the 3rd floor, he heard a burst of rapid gunfire.

He stopped his forward pace. In an open space to his left, there were three people, two men and one woman. One of the men was lying on the ground; it was CP9's Kumadori.

Su Xiao looked at the man and woman. The combination of these two was somewhat peculiar; it was actually Nami and Revolver Man.

This surprised Su Xiao. How did Revolver Man manage to infiltrate the enemy's ranks? If Su Xiao remembered correctly, Revolver Man had joined the World Government faction; he had received a notification earlier.

Crazy Milk was in the Straw Hat Pirates faction, the three members of the National Football Team were in the Galley-La Company faction, and Su Xiao and Revolver Man were in the World Government faction.

At this moment, Nami was chatting with Revolver Man. If he wasn't mistaken, Kumadori must have been defeated by Revolver Man.

Revolver Man was holding a purple treasure chest in his hand. He had defeated Kumadori independently, and the reward was very generous.

"No problem, I'll help later."

Revolver Man smiled and nodded at Nami, seemingly having achieved his goal, his expression relaxed.

"Really? Then thank you very much."

Nami looked happy; she had recruited a powerful ally.

*Tap, tap, tap. * Footsteps approached. Nami and Revolver Man turned their heads simultaneously.

The moment Revolver Man saw Su Xiao, he raised his hand and fired a shot, then turned and ran toward the window.

*Crash! * Glass shards flew everywhere, and Revolver Man jumped out the window and fled. He had just fought Kumadori, and his state was very poor, with only about 20% HP left. Once he fought Su Xiao, he would surely die.

Nami stood stunned in place. The strong reinforcement she had just recruited had actually fled. Seeing Su Xiao, Nami thought of the bloody scene on the roof.

"You... hello."

Nami smiled stiffly, her footsteps slowly retreating.

Su Xiao didn't draw his blade. Nami and Usopp of the Straw Hat Pirates were somewhat special. Killing these two would at most yield World Source. Without two years of training, their strength wasn't high.

At this time, Nami was slightly stronger than an ordinary person. She relied on small-scale weather control to fight, and her close-quarters combat ability was very weak, not even comparable to some elite pirates, though she was much stronger than ordinary pirates.

Seeing Nami's full-faced smile, Su Xiao rushed to her side in a few steps and grabbed Nami's arm with one hand.

Su Xiao grabbed empty air; Nami turned into a mist and dissipated.

Su Xiao was stunned. This was an illusion, and an illusion capable of deceiving perception. Nami had already escaped.

"A mirage, huh."

Tapping his finger on the ground, Su Xiao didn't go to perceive Nami herself; Nami's ability was likely to shield perception.

Unable to find Nami herself, he went to perceive the vibrations of the ground.

On the fifth floor of the Judicial Tower, rapid footsteps came. Nami's face was full of sweat. She ran quickly into an unoccupied room and gasped for breath.

"Almost got caught. If I got caught, I'd be dead for sure."

Nami looked out the door with lingering fear. No footsteps came, which made her breathe a sigh of relief.

A few minutes later, Nami confirmed that the fifth floor was safe. Apart from some ordinary agents running by, she didn't see anyone too strong.

*Ding! *

A slight crisp sound came. Nami was stunned, her ears pricking up.

"This familiar sound~."

Nami stood up, wanting to walk out of the room several times, but being on Judicial Island, she knew it was very dangerous here.

But that sound just now had a fatal temptation for Nami. After struggling internally for a long time, Nami poked her head out the door and scanned the surroundings.

A gold coin appeared on the ground not far away, and some gold and silver jewelry were scattered near the coin.

Nami's first thought was that it was a trap, but after careful observation, she found it wasn't right. This should be someone who was fleeing with money and had scattered the wealth because they were too hurried.

Nami wanted to turn and walk away several times, but the treasure was right there, and she couldn't control herself.

After hesitating for a while, Nami tentatively approached the gold coin. When she picked it up, she was overjoyed; this was a very rare gold coin.

Just as she picked up the gold coin, a flash of golden light flickered; there was another one not far away.

Nami walked up quickly and reached the doorway of a room. When she picked up the gold coin, she found a man standing at the doorway of the room, looking at her with a smile.

"That... is this the gold coin you dropped? I... I'm returning it to its owner."

Nami dropped the gold coin in her hand and ran, but it was too late.

At this moment, Nami was already in close quarters with Su Xiao. The outcome was predictable. Ten seconds later, Nami, with tears in her eyes, was dragged into the room.

"Don't! What is this thing? Don't stuff it into my mouth, *woo*..."

Cries for help came from the room. After a while, Su Xiao walked out of the room, tidying his wrinkled clothes, and stopped paying attention to Nami.

"*Ugh~. *"

Nami in the room retched repeatedly. She had been forced to swallow a "snake," a white snake.

From beginning to end, the man hadn't said a word, and she didn't know what his purpose was. More importantly, the gold coin she had managed to get was snatched away.

Nami was very sad. She had swallowed an unknown object and had her treasure snatched away.

Su Xiao walked toward the upper levels of Judicial Island. He had a preliminary understanding of the Straw Hat Pirates. He had used perception to search for Nami before, but after Nami hid, he couldn't find her at all.

So he took a different approach, taking out 【World Government Commemorative Coin (Green)】 as bait, and the effect was obvious.

Just now, because Nami struggled, when he grabbed her throat, a large row of blood-red warnings appeared from Reincarnation Paradise.

After seeing those warnings, Su Xiao knew why contractors didn't attack the Straw Hat Pirates. This was a high-martial world; the protagonist team wasn't that easy to kill.

Previously, Revolver Man was alone with Nami, but Revolver Man didn't have the slightest intention to kill. Presumably, Revolver Man had received the same prompt.

If a contractor killed a member of the protagonist team, Reincarnation Paradise wouldn't punish them, but the derived world would change, and the difficulty would climb rapidly.

Once Nami died, the difficulty of the Pirate World would climb to Lv. 36. This level of difficulty in a derived world wasn't something Su Xiao could handle.

The protagonist team wasn't unkillable, but it required strong strength.

Su Xiao suspected that if he killed a member of the protagonist team, even if that member was weak, he could obtain more than 30% World Source.

After consulting, Su Xiao learned that if Chopper, Nami, and others died, the difficulty of the derived world would rise to between Lv. 30 and Lv. 40. If Sanji and Zoro died, the difficulty would rise to between Lv. 40 and Lv. 60. If Luffy died, the difficulty would rise above Lv. 80. A derived world of Lv. 80, how terrifying would that be?

Su Xiao's face turned black. Not to mention a derived world above Lv. 80, he couldn't even survive in a derived world around Lv. 30.

However, his goal from beginning to end wasn't the Straw Hat Pirates. Without corresponding strength, he wouldn't have ideas about the protagonist team; that wasn't seeking wealth in danger, that was seeking death.

The Straw Hat Pirates weren't scary, and the people behind them weren't easy to provoke, such as the Navy's Garp, the Four Emperors' Shanks, the Revolutionary Army, the Vinsmoke family, and Yasopp of the Red-Haired Pirates. ===== CHAPTER 360 =====