novelraw Chapter 317 A Settlement Drowned by Lies
Chapter 317 A Settlement Drowned by Lies
Marianne's home was in a little house in a field.The place is indeed a bit far from the other houses in the settlement.It is a small white-paneled house with a well-tended garden and a barn.I don't know if the windmill not far away belongs to Marianne's house. In any case, if there is no horror speculation about cannibalism before, this place is actually quite good.
Marianne helped her father, who could hardly walk normally, and led everyone into the house. She asked him to sit in a chair and said, "Sorry, it's a bit deserted at home, so you can sit down wherever you want!"
"That..." As if no one could sit still... Youxiang quickly said, "Miss Marianne, actually, we want to get information quickly and get out of here. Sorry."
"Yes, that's right..." That's right.Nobody wants to be in a place like this.Marian lowered her eyes slightly, and she said, "Ordinary ships won't run aground near here, so everyone really thought of our island to find something from the beginning?"
No.My ship is really running aground!Shanks didn't say this, he was afraid that someone would ask: Why is the ship of the Four Emperors still running aground on the strange small island of the great route?This question is too sharp, Beckman is not here, he can't deal with such a sharp question alone.
"Does Miss Marianne know Ned White?" It's better to get straight to the point... You Xiang asked, "We got news that this is his hometown..."
"Ned..." At this moment, Marian's father who was sitting on the chair twitching involuntarily spoke suddenly, which shocked Youxiang.But she still held back and didn't make any big movements and reactions.Marianne heard her father speak. She turned and said, "Dad? What do you know? I've never heard of Ned White..."
"...dead...it should be..." After these few vague words came out of his mouth, Marian's father couldn't sit still anymore. His limbs swayed disobediently, making it almost impossible for him to sit properly. chair, but judging from his expression, he was indeed emotional.He saw Sabo Meow sticking out from Yuxiang's shoulder, and then let out a scream: "Ahhhh——Ned!!"
"Dad?! What's wrong with you?? Dad!!"
Accompanied by Marianne's voice, her father almost leaned back from the chair, and he seemed to be afraid of something and said, "It's... God's punishment... This is... ah... this is... retribution! !"
"father!"
Seems to be the right place.It's just that this man is already terminally ill, and interrogating such a patient is a bit low-level.Luo walked forward helplessly, and grabbed Marian's father's wrist: "I'm a doctor." After saying this, Marian was blocked, and then skillfully activated the ability of the devil fruit: " injection."
Green light appeared on the knife in his hand, and then penetrated into Marian's father's skin, which made the uncontrollable limbs immediately stop swinging, and froze in mid-air, and then the man fainted past.
"Miss Marianne, although Mr. Luo looks a bit scary, he is really a doctor." Youxiang comforted the slightly frightened Marianne, and she said, "Mr. Luo...that..."
"I just put him to sleep." Luo explained, he put Marian's father on the chair, let him lie in the chair and then returned to Youxiang, "I can't treat this disease Yes, but we can't get any useful information from what he did just now."
"Hmm..." Youxiang nodded, and she said, "Miss Marian—"
"It really is a disease..." Before Youxiang had time to say anything, Marianne muttered to herself, "So, God's punishment or something is a lie...Father and others are hiding something... ...It's not an illusion...?"
"..." Luo paused. Seeing that no one else spoke, he had no choice but to be the bad guy, "That's right. It's not some kind of divine punishment, but a kind of punishment that won't hurt you unless you have done something wrong before." A serious illness in the hospital. There are many people in this town who have the same disease, right? Judging from the age, they are all about the same age as your father."
"Mr. Mayor said... that was before I was born." Marianne lowered her head in frustration, and she said, "At that time, the people on the island did a wrong thing. So now, God's punishment comes down It's on them. Not only that, even their children are starting to show early symptoms... It's like we've been cursed..."
Could it be that Miss Marian also... Youxiang didn't know what to say, she grabbed Ace's sleeve sadly, and Ace reacted and held her hand.At this time, Luo continued: "It's a pity that this is not a punishment from God. It's just a hereditary disease. So you should understand. Is there no doctor on this island?"
"...the only doctor, Mr., also suffered from this... disease and died a few years ago."
"Really." There is no way.It has nothing to do with me... Luo changed the subject, "Your father seems to know something about the name Ned White. Have you never heard of it?"
"I just know... there is a Mr. White in town..." Marianne seemed to be still digesting the information she had just received, she whispered, "but Mr. White also passed away a few years ago. His old house has never been People take over... But I heard that Mr. White has a pair of children, but they left the island a long time ago."
Hmm... a little on the right track.Finally made some progress, Luo said, "Then do you know anything about the devil fruit that turns people into cats?"
"Eh...? A cat?" Marianne looked confused, as if she really didn't know anything.
"Hmm... this is really difficult..." Shanks suddenly said while being difficult, "Why don't we go and kidnap the mayor?"
What are you talking about seriously, Mr. Shanks!It's really a pirate style! !Youxiang wanted to complain like this, but she looked at Miss Marianne again and felt that she couldn't stay here any longer.She also said, "Let's go to Mr. Mayor."
"You think so, Xiao Youxiang. Just find someone who knows everything and ask them!" Shanks laughed, and he said, "I don't think we have anything to be afraid of!"
That's amazingly believable coming out of your mouth!But if you think about it carefully, this lineup is really nothing to be afraid of!Youxiang suddenly looked away, and she said, "Miss Marianne, thank you for talking so much... Can you tell us where Mr. Mayor is?"
"Hey? Are you really going?" It seems that I heard about kidnapping just now... Marianne came back to her senses, and she said, "Mr. Mayor is not a bad person! You, you are really pirates or something, right? From the island is—"
"I remembered."
Suddenly, Yizhi, who had been silent and inactive, interrupted the tense Marianne. He seemed to wake up and said, "I finally remembered. About ten years ago, Germa came here. Been around here .So that's where we got Beskar Metal—that's where we made our deal with the World Government."
"Mr. Iji?" Suddenly... What are you talking about suddenly?
"Father refused... I remembered. At that time, my father was very angry and his eyes showed something I couldn't understand." Now it seems that it should be...fear?It is the instinct of fear.Yiji said, "He said he was tricked, and then he left here immediately with the soldiers who had already landed on the island."
So that man knew Germa?But at that time, I was still so young, and it was definitely impossible to appear in front of him in a battle suit, so did that man see Germa after that?Iji fell into deep thought again, he said: "At that time, my father exchanged some of our technology with the World Government for Beskar Metal, but in fact this is not a fair deal..."
"Beskar metal is difficult to process... So my father asked for another thing. A blueprint... No, should I say a research report? Or the results of the experiment... In short, it is a handle, a valuable result. It's just that Things then disappeared."
"Gone?"
"Disappeared. It was placed in a secret warehouse, where no one knew except father, but one day it disappeared." Yiji said, "We were led here. When we came here, we could 'come back' 'to the past' and then have to accomplish what 'should have been done'."
What Mr. Iji means... Youxiang gradually seemed to understand, and at the same time, Ace and Shanks looked at Iji with complicated expressions, and said almost at the same time:
"Are you talking human language, boy?"
"What the hell are you talking about, Germa's?"
"..." Yiji looked at the two of them, and was about to say, 'With your IQ, it's hard for me to explain to you', which can immediately start a fight, but Youxiang stopped him in time and said instead: "Anyway!! Let's find Mr. Mayor first!!"
What Mr. Iji means is that the important document that was supposed to be taken from this island in Germa was probably taken by everyone who took the time machine back to the past.So it will disappear inexplicably.
While it seems plausible... there isn't much evidence that this must be the case...
Every choice you make will lead you here.
Youxiang remembered this sentence again.Was it led here... In other words, there must be an answer here no matter what.But, who is the answer really about?Miss Shi's end?The fate of the white knight?Still... Youxiang raised her head and looked at Iji.Germa in the past... the people there and... the answer, maybe it's about the old enemy of the evil legion, right?
"?" Why staring at me... This look is too gentle.This is supposed to be tender?It's the kind of gaze that makes the whole body go limp after being seen.It should be gentle.Don't look at me like that, I can't be limp now.After all, this place is not normal.Yiji looked back at this gentle gaze, and because he couldn't stand it anymore, he forced himself to look away immediately.
"Mr. Mayor doesn't talk to outsiders..." At this moment, Marianne seemed to have decided something, she said, "I know where Mr. White's home is. I can take you there... But, you want Promise me one thing."
"We can't cure the disease of the people in the town." Luo took the lead to block the road, "Unfortunately, it is a truly incurable disease."
"...I already guessed it." Marianne was a little bit lost when she said this, but she recovered immediately, she said, "But the people on this island have been bound by this lie since their birth. I don't want to go on like this Yes. I clearly sensed that something was wrong, but I still prayed to God every day, begging for forgiveness like everyone else... But in fact, the God who was offended does not exist at all, right?"
"That's right. That's it." This god never existed.This is just a mistake made by human beings, and then suffered a backlash.No God involved, never has."From beginning to end, there are only people who make mistakes. That's all," Luo said.
"Then please promise me one thing." Marianne's eyes became firm, and she said, "finally... when you leave here, don't hide it from us anymore. Please tell us the truth, tell us, Free this island from God's punishment!"
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The author has something to say:
The old lies are always exposed when a new generation is born and awakens.People always build on the mistakes they make.