Chapter 473: Liar Norland

Setting aside this guess that looks unreliable,

Zhang Jie still relatively accepts the hypothesis that "there are three souls/personalities in Blackbeard's body,"

because this can also explain why he can break common sense and simultaneously possess the Dark-Dark Fruit

and the Tremor-Tremor Fruit (and even potentially accommodate a third fruit in the future).

'Should I go visit the Whitebeard Pirates one day?'

Zhang Jie is extremely interested in Blackbeard, this ambitious hero who seems to be shrouded in mystery.

The secret of accommodating multiple Devil Fruits, in the entire sea,

there are probably not many people who know the power of Devil Fruits who are not interested.

It's just that Blackbeard Teach has accommodated the Dark-Dark Fruit and Tremor-Tremor Fruit in one body since this secret was exposed,

with the "most evil Devil Fruit" and the "strongest Paramecia Devil Fruit" on him,

leaping to become a Pirate Emperor, becoming a top powerhouse on the sea, not so easy to handle;

otherwise, whether it's the World Government or other pirates, they wouldn't mind skinning him,

slicing him piece by piece, and researching the secret of accommodating multiple Devil Fruits.

Even the Navy, which has always claimed to be justice, probably wouldn't let go of this opportunity: Blackbeard is a pirate after all,

as a justice force maintaining the order of the sea, striking the evil Blackbeard is simply duty-bound.

"Eh, why is it so quiet tonight?"

At this moment, the bar door was pushed open again, and a somewhat surprised, thick voice echoed in the bar.

The pirates, who had spontaneously quieted down since Zhang Jie came in and wished they could turn into a grain of dust,

so that Zhang Jie would forget them forever, turned their heads one after another to look at the door,

wanting to know which fellow (hot-headed youth) was so thick-headed.

"It's him, that fool? If so, it's not strange."

After seeing who it was, the group of pirates was surprisingly relieved, not feeling strange at all.

The person was very tall and burly, reaching over 2 meters in height, wearing a vest casually on his upper body,

wearing a pair of dark purple white-striped sweatpants on his lower body, with a rope tied around his waist.

The arm and chest muscles that the vest couldn't cover were well-developed, giving people a heavy sense of oppression;

there was a chestnut tattoo on his left arm, with the word "MAROON" engraved on it.

He had a dark beard at the corners of his mouth, making him look a bit more weathered.

However, what was most impressive was his unique face shape and head shape:

His face was angular, like an inverted triangle or diamond, with a very sharp chin;

there was a chestnut-like protrusion (hairstyle) growing in the center of the top of his head.

"My lord, this is Mont Blanc Cricket, the final captain of the Saruyama Alliance.

Of course, this is just an unknown small character in front of you.

However, he has an ancestor famous in the North Blue — 'Liar', 'Big Fraud' Norland."

The clever little pirate from before endured the fear in his heart and introduced him to Zhang Jie.

"Liar Norland?"

Zhang Jie tapped the bar counter lightly with his right index finger.

Liar Norland is a fairy tale known to every household in the North Blue.

Norland was an expedition admiral and botanist of the Lvneel Kingdom in the North Blue 400 years ago.

He once accidentally came to the undeveloped Gaya Island to avoid a storm.

After he went back, he told the King of the Lvneel Kingdom that in the deep jungle of Gaya Island,

he found a golden land full of gold, with streets, houses, walls, and building complexes made of gold,

and a huge golden bell standing in the center of the city.

Its name is Shandora.

The King of Lvneel, who started the Great Age of Pirates just to find wealth, couldn't resist such temptation,

and immediately ordered Norland to lead the way to Gaya Island to find the golden land of Shandora.

However, when Norland led the team to the location of the golden land he described again,

only barren jungle remained on the ground, and the gold was nowhere to be found.

Norland was therefore executed for the "crime of deceiving the king."

But even before his death, he insisted that the golden land existed,

and speculated that "the gold sank to the bottom of the sea," which was taken as his final lie.

He was publicly executed, his family Mont Blanc was therefore disgraced, and ridiculed for hundreds of years.

In short, in this fairy tale, Norland was a fool who liked to brag.

The story tells that in order to claim credit, he fabricated a lie about a "Golden Land" to deceive the king,

and was finally executed because he couldn't find the gold, becoming a laughingstock of the world.

And Cricket is Norland's descendant; in order to wash away his ancestor's shame,

he firmly believes that the golden land of Shandora sank to the bottom of the sea, and has been diving on Gaya Island all these years, looking for the golden land.

"How about it, for an illusory legend, just keep diving here,

even if ridiculed by others, not giving up, is it a big fool?"

Cricket, however, was not afraid of Zhang Jie like other pirates, sitting down next to Zhang Jie,

drinking the beer that Boss Terry had brought over at some point in one gulp, his tone quite self-deprecating.

"Ma ma, I don't think I have the qualifications to mock a man who fights for his dreams."

Zhang Jie answered very seriously, and as he spoke, he also disdainfully scanned the pirates around who didn't dare to make a sound.

These guys who mocked Cricket, one by one, were all greedy for life and afraid of death,

cowards who only dared to hide in Mocker Town and act like tyrants.

The atmosphere here is "spending money like water," and pirates live here

a life of getting drunk today, full of rudeness, violence, and contempt for dreams.

"Tha... thank you."

Cricket didn't expect Zhang Jie to answer like this, and his tone was a bit choked for a moment.

Zhang Jie asked with interest: "Diamond-faced uncle, did you not recognize me, or are you not afraid of me?

I am the legendary Warlord of the Sea who kills without blinking."

Given that Cricket's face shape was too distinctive, Zhang Jie couldn't help but use

the title Wang Lufei used when he first met him — directly calling him "Diamond-faced uncle."

Cricket was noncommittal about this, placing the beer glass on the bar counter:

"Lord Black Star, the most prominent person on the sea, of course I wouldn't not recognize you.

However, although your name is loud, there are no rumors that you are bloodthirsty,

or tyrannical, so I suppose you wouldn't care about an old man like me."

Suddenly, his eye sockets turned red: "What's more,

how could someone who admires dreams so much be a bad person?"

Although he had been insisting on the speculation left by his ancestor Norland that the golden land sank to the bottom of the sea,

and had been tirelessly diving and searching, but after so many years, he had almost turned over the sea area near Gaya Island,

yet he hadn't even found a shadow of the golden land, and the day-after-day,

year-after-year ridicule and mockery from people around him had put him under huge psychological pressure. ===== CHAPTER 474 =====