Chapter 123 Is This Thing Called Human?

Crocodile, nicknamed [Sand Crocodile], is the current King Shichibukai.

Currently, he is forming a temporary alliance with [BOSS] Lynn Barek to sneak into the capital of seven waters and investigate the whereabouts of Pluto's design.

Crocodile has traced the whereabouts of Pluto for many years, and even dug up the world-class secret that "the information about Pluto's literature is in Alabasta".

Because of this, unlike Lynn, who is more casual, Crocodile's investigation has a very clear purpose.

It is rumored that Pluto was built by the shipwrights of Seven Waters 800 years ago, so the people who are most likely to master the design of Pluto are undoubtedly the shipwrights of Seven Waters.

Therefore, after parting with Lynn, Crocodile went to various shipbuilding ports in the capital of seven waters to investigate.

Usually, the shipyard is the domain of shipbuilders, and ordinary people cannot sneak in, but at this time, it is the mask carnival, and the shipyard has become one of the attractions of the capital of seven waters, open to the public.

In the capital of seven waters, the boatman is the idol of the children, and now Tom the boatman has invented a sea train that can save the capital of the seven waters, so the children of the capital of the seven waters also worship the boatbuilder even more.

Taking advantage of the mask carnival, parents also took their children to the shipyard to see the boatman's demeanor.

Crocodile was wearing a black fur coat, lined with a suit, with a cigar in his mouth, and a black half-covered mask on his face, looking like a gentleman.

He walked through several shipyards, and only got some trivial information, for example, there are many nobles in the capital of seven waters, and the guards of the nobles are scattered all over the capital of seven waters, etc., but there is not much critical information.

noon.

Crocodile found an open-air coffee shop, sat down and ordered a cup of coffee, while sipping the coffee, he said with emotion:

"Hehehehe, Pluto's hometown is much more peaceful than I imagined."

After a cup of coffee, Crocodile looked at the two people sitting on the table next to him from the corner of his eye.

Those two people were wearing gray robes, hoods, and masks tightly, and the whole person was wrapped airtight.

"Ah, I retract my preface."

Crocodile sneered slightly, then got up and left.

Seeing this, the two gray-robed men immediately got up and followed without a trace, keeping a safe distance from Crocodile to ensure that they would not be discovered by him.

They followed Crocodile around a few turns and finally entered an alley.

This alley is a dead end, seems to be under construction, and there is a lot of sand scattered on the ground.

The two looked around, but they didn't see Crocodile at all.

What about people?

The two men in gray robes looked at each other, feeling something was wrong, and just about to turn around and run away, the sand on the ground began to gather, and finally swallowed their ankles, trapping them there.

The yellow sand floated, and Crocodile's figure slowly appeared in front of the two people. He stretched out his right hand, intending to take off the mask of one of them.

"Let me see who dares to follow me."

But when Crocodile saw the man's true face, he was taken aback for a moment, and then he couldn't help laughing in a low voice, with a stern look in his eyes.

"Hehehehe, things are getting more and more interesting."

...

The day passed quickly.

In the evening, Crocodile returned to the bench in the square as scheduled.

But before he got closer, he found that there was something more on the bench than in the daytime.

I saw a huge three-headed pink cat-shaped plush doll sitting at one end of the bench, with its hands folded in front of its chest, its head drooping, as if it was sleeping.

"How could a toy be placed here?"

Crocodile frowned and sat on the other side of the bench.

It doesn't matter, let's wait for Lynn Barek to come over and see what information he got from him. I discovered something quite interesting!

The lunatic who can only shake his fist must be extremely bad at collecting intelligence, so there is a reason to choke him at this time.

Crocodile lit a cigar for himself, raised his legs, and while admiring the smell of the cigar, sorted out the information in his mind.

Speaking of which, Lynn Barek is really slow. Why hasn't he come back yet? Could it be that he was killed by "that group of people"?

After a long time, just when Crocodile lost his patience and considered getting up to find Lynn.

The cat-shaped doll on the other side of the bench suddenly turned its head, stared at Crocodile with a big face, and made a deep voice:

"Yachiichi, are you pretending to be deep?"

At that moment, Crocodile was taken aback, and almost used elementalization to distance himself.

What the hell, is this thing alive? !

Isn't it a toy?

But after he came back to his senses, he found that the voice made by the pink cat-shaped doll was somewhat familiar.

"Lynn Barek?"

The doll cat nodded.

Crocodile: "..."

It really is him!

Crocodile took a deep breath and asked, "What is this?"

Lynn replied solemnly: "This is a barbecue cat."

Crocodile: "..."

He suppressed his messy mood, rubbed his temples, and sighed: "I understand that you want to hide your identity, but is it necessary to wear this thing?"

Lynn looked at the sky helplessly, "This matter is a bit complicated."

"Is it related to intelligence?"

"No."

"Then stop talking."

Crocodile didn't intend to give Lynn a chance to mess around, and asked in a low voice, "What information did you find?"

Lin En replied: "The plan sketch of the capital of seven waters, the approximate deployment positions of the noble guards, and the news of the Tianlong people."

Hearing this, Crocodile couldn't help being taken aback, the quality of the information Lynn got was far beyond his imagination.

Lynn then asked back, "What about you?"

"Hehehehe, I knew you would ask that."

Crocodile stood up, waved his hand, and said to Lynn: "Come with me, there are far more interesting things on this island than you can imagine."

Lynn was a little puzzled, but followed him anyway.

Ever since, there was a pink three-headed barbecue cat by his side.

Crocodile, who was in a complicated mood, selectively ignored the situation and searched the street.

"Aha, I found it."

He walked towards an ordinary passer-by in a gray robe and mask on the street, suddenly stretched out his right hand, and strangled him by the throat with a close-fitting posture.

The ability to dry up was activated, and the water in the passer-by was instantly sucked dry, and he had no ability to resist.

Afterwards, Crocodile escorted the passerby with his right hand, and walked into an alley with Lynn.

Deep in the alley.

Lin En noticed that Crocodile's move did not hold back at all, and ordinary people would surely die if they were hit, so he frowned slightly and said, "Who is he? Even if he is an enemy, he should stay alive and ask for information."

Crocodile turned his head and whispered, "Enemies?"

Afterwards, he grabbed the man's neck with his right hand, lifted the man's mask off with the golden hook of his left hand, grinned sinisterly and said:

"You call this a 'human'?"

Lin En took a closer look and found that the man's face was extremely terrifying. It was full of stitches and stitches. There was no trace of blood on the whole face. A pair of eyeballs were rolling around, as if they were about to fall off.

"This is..." Lynn frowned.

Crocodile took a puff of cigar smoke, and slowly uttered two words:

"Zombie."

It was getting dark and the fight was on.