"Sir, what kind of fruit is this?" Hicks asked again.
"Haha, you'll know after you eat it." Zhou He smiled and did not tell him.
Although Hicks was very curious and wanted to know, after hearing what Zhou He said, he could only give up.
Not long after, Zhou He and the two came to the backstage.
Instead of being crowded with many buyers, I was directly invited to a room by the host.
"Sir, one hundred blood ores are in this box, please check it!" the host said with a flattering look.
This is a big customer.
The devil fruits plus these one hundred blood diamonds are only one billion.
The box of gold given by Zhou He was worth 1.2 billion, and it seemed that Zhou He had no intention of making up the difference. Isn't he a super wealthy man?
Zhou He swept his mind away, nodded immediately and said: "Well, by the way, do you still sell blood diamonds here?"
"I can pay a high price, one hundred thousand for each." Zhou He suddenly said to the host.
"One hundred thousand?" The host was obviously shocked by the price.
"Well, sir, I can't make the decision. I'll ask our boss to come over." The host said quickly.
"Okay, you go."
Immediately, the host left the place directly.
When Zhou He saw that there was no one else in the room, he immediately waved his hand and put the box of blood ore into the storage box.
The two of them didn't wait long. About five minutes later, they saw a fat old man walking in, followed by the host and two muscular bodyguards.
"Sir, are you the one who bid 100,000 beli for the blood ore? I am the owner of this auction, Edelman, and the count of the empire." Edelman said with a smile on his face.
"Hello, Earl Edelman, I want to buy blood ore, and I need at least 10,000 of them." Zhou He nodded.
"Ten thousand?" Edelman raised his eyebrows slightly and made a mental calculation.
One blood ore is five kilograms, and ten thousand is equivalent to fifty thousand kilograms of blood ore.
In the Marla Empire, the control of blood ore is extremely strict. With his status, he can only purchase one hundred kilograms per month.
Every month his fleet needs to use blood ore to attract sea beasts for capture.
By catching sea beasts with blood ore and throwing away the cost, he can earn at least five million beli every month.
However, that requires a lot of manpower, material resources, and a lot of time. If you are not careful, someone will die. Although he never gives compensation or anything, it is troublesome to recruit people again.
Selling blood ore is a completely useless business.
Therefore, Edelman immediately made up his mind and made this deal.
"Sir, you also know that blood ore is strictly controlled in the empire. It is really difficult to obtain 10,000 blood ores." Edelman did not agree directly, but he did not refuse either.
"Count Edelman, I think you should be able to find a way." Zhou He said with a slight smile.
When Edelman heard this, he immediately showed a troubled look on his face and said, "Sir, you really gave me a big problem."
"In this way, if you pay a price of 200,000 blood ores, I can collect 10,000 blood ores for you." Edelman said.
Zhou He pondered for a moment, then said immediately: "Okay, that's settled, where is the goods?"
"Are you sure?" Edelman was obviously stunned for a moment, confused in his heart: "Did he say his price was too low? Or is this guy really too rich?"
"Okay, it will take me a while to get the goods together. How about paying and delivering at No. 1 Warehouse in the east of the city at ten o'clock tomorrow morning?" Edelman reacted and said quickly.
"Okay!" Zhou He nodded and immediately left the auction with Hicks.
When the host reacted, he had an excited look on his face.
No matter how high the price is, it has nothing to do with him, but since his boss has made such a huge sum, the bonus will definitely be huge.
Sure enough, Edelman burst out laughing, looked at the host, and said, "Kerry, you did a great job. If the transaction is completed tomorrow, you can receive a bonus of one million."
"Thank you, Lord Earl, thank you, Lord Earl!" Host Cree suddenly burst into laughter.
Not long after, Count Edelman left here with his bodyguards.
"Hey wait a minute, when the guests left just now, they didn't seem to see the blood ore being taken away, nor in the room. What's going on?" Kerry suddenly realized this problem.
After thinking about it for a long time, I couldn't figure out the reason, so I didn't bother to think about it and went about my business happily.
…
As soon as the auction came out, Zhou He took Hicks and left the island.
And the moment they left, in the dark, several people who were following and monitoring Zhou He were dumbfounded.
After finally waiting for the person to come out, why did the person disappear in the blink of an eye?
Zhou He was naturally aware of the surveillance of these people, but he didn't care.
He took Hicks to the shore, took out the van, and then got in with Hicks.
It took more than ten minutes to reach the sea far away from the island at full speed.
Zhou He walked into the trunk without any ink, took out all the blood ore from a box, and then slapped it out with one palm, which instantly shattered into powder and fell into the box.
"Sir, use the blood you gave me." Hicks also knew what Zhou He was going to do, so he immediately stretched out his hand and said.
"Your blood? Even if your blood is drained, it won't be enough." Zhou He looked at the amount of powder in the wooden box and chuckled.
"Open the trunk!" Zhou He suddenly said.
The next second, a click was heard, and then the trunk door of the van opened directly.
Immediately, Zhou He raised his hand and slapped it toward the water.
A majestic mana burst out and submerged into the water.
But I saw that the water surface did not make any waves.
"Gulu gulu gulu"
After a while, a lot of air came up from the bottom of the water.
Immediately afterwards, a sea beast over ten meters in diameter was seen floating up with its belly turned over.
Immediately, Zhou He waved his hand gently and saw that a cut had been made in the blood vessel of the sea beast. A large amount of blood was drawn by a force and submerged into the wooden box. After a while, it was mixed with the blood mineral powder.
Zhou He wrapped the wooden box with magic power to prevent blood from flowing out, and then began to stir it with magic power.
Ten seconds later, the blood in the wooden box became extremely viscous and exuded a strange fragrance.
When Zhou He saw this, he threw the entire wooden box into the sea.
At the same time, he put the body of the sea beast into the storage box without any waste.
When the wooden box fell into the sea, the sea surface was dyed bright red in an instant, and the strange fragrance became even stronger.
The next moment, countless swimming fish were seen swarming in, and soon after, some fish with a length of four or five meters began to come.
Within a minute, sea monsters measuring more than ten or even tens of meters began to appear.
Five minutes later, a huge sea beast over 100 meters long appeared.
Ten minutes passed, and this huge sea beast devoured all the nearby fish and sea beasts.
The seawater, which was red due to the thick blood, gradually returned to its original color at this moment.
However, the peculiar fragrance not only did not fade away, but instead became stronger and stronger.
Moreover, that fragrance did not come from the sea, but from the body of the giant sea beast.
The sea beast was still unaware, floating on the sea, seemingly full, and enjoying the sun.
This is of course not the instinct of sea beasts. Sea beasts will not bask in the sun after eating.
The fact that they can bask in the sun so comfortably is naturally due to the blood ore. Otherwise, how could they attract the Neptune species?
"Sir, haven't the Neptunes come up yet? We've been waiting for more than ten minutes. Is this fake?" Hicks said with a frown.
"Haha, of course it's not false. The Neptune species have already arrived, and they are quite big." Zhou He said with a smile.
"Are you here?" Hicks has been using his Haki, but he didn't notice any movement on the bottom of the sea.
"It's still deep under the sea. It's normal that you can't notice it. Your domineering power of knowledge and color is not strong enough and you need to practice it well." Zhou He said.
"Yes, sir, I will work hard to practice." Hearing this, Hicks quickly said solemnly.
At this time, on the seabed thousands of meters deep in this area, a pair of huge eyes of a Neptune species that was over a thousand meters in size was staring at the hundred-meter-long sea beast above.
The upper body of this Neptune creature looks like a sea snake, but the lower body has octopus tentacles, which looks extremely weird and aversion to cold.
The sea beast above had a very strong fragrance exuding from its body, which made it a little greedy and wanted to eat it immediately.
However, there was a sense of crisis in my heart, but I couldn't put it into words.
It has been waiting here for a full three minutes, and it seems that there is no danger.
The Neptune species just didn't care, greed overcame everything else.
Immediately, the body suddenly swam upwards, and when it was close to the sea surface, it opened its big mouth, and in the next second, it could swallow the sea beast directly.
The next moment, the sea beast suddenly disappeared from its sight.
"Wow!"
Huge water splashed everywhere, and the Neptune species broke out of the water.
A pair of huge eyes searched, but did not find the sea beast.
Suddenly, it suddenly felt that there was a person standing on its head, but it obviously did not feel the breath of anyone on its head.
Immediately afterwards, I felt a huge force coming from my head, and then my vision went dark and I lost consciousness.
"Huh! It's a big guy again, the workload is a bit heavy."
"Thinking about it, my storage box and those storage bags should be able to fit it in."
Zhou He looked at the Neptune type whose head had been blown off by his punch, and without any ink, he started to move his hands to process the ingredients.
And high in the sky, Hicks, who was sitting in the van, shouted down: "Sir, I can also help."
When Zhou He heard this, he said without raising his head: "You are too slow, just wait in the car."
"Oh" Hicks in the car responded softly.
I felt a little disappointed and a little guilty.
She felt that she was so useless that she couldn't even help with the ingredients.
Half an hour later, Zhou He finally finished handling the thousand-meter giant Neptune.
Internal organs, bones, blood, etc. were all dumped on the sea.
All the remaining usable meat was cut up by Zhou He and stuffed into his storage box and storage bags.
It's full, everything is full, and even a small part can't be filled.
Zhou He directly grilled the meat on the spot and ate all the meat that could not be loaded.
…
In a blink of an eye, one day passed.
Dockwei Town, Warehouse No. 1 in the east of the city.
A van fell from the sky and landed at the door of the warehouse. Immediately afterwards, a man and a woman got out of the van.
The woman was carrying two boxes in her hands.
However, the sudden change of the van falling from the sky suddenly changed the faces of the strong men with guns standing outside the warehouse.
Tap tap tap
In an instant, they surrounded Zhou He and the two of them.
"Who are you?"
"Hands up!"
A group of strong men holding what Zhou He thought were old-fashioned rifles shouted at Zhou He and others.
"Oh? Earl Edward, is this how you treat your guests?" Zhou He said calmly.
At this moment, a voice was heard coming from the warehouse: "Idiots, they are all a group of idiots, put down the gun, this is our big customer!"
After a while, the fat Earl Edward was seen walking out surrounded by several burly men.
"Sir, these guys are so unruly. I hope you won't be offended. The ore is already inside. Let's go in and take a look at the goods first." Earl Edward said with a smile, but his eyes fell on the bag in Hicks' hand.
On two boxes.
"good."
Immediately, Edward led Zhou He and the two inside.
After twisting and turning, I walked to the innermost part and came to a tarpaulin.
Earl Edward winked, and immediately, a strong man guarding the tarpaulin suddenly lifted it open.
Suddenly, a large number of wooden boxes were revealed.
"Sir, each box here contains a hundred blood ores, a total of one hundred boxes, a total of ten thousand." Earl Edward said.
"Okay, very good, the efficiency is really fast enough." Zhou He looked at the blood ore and nodded with satisfaction.
"Sir, I've seen the goods, but I don't know the money." Earl Edward rubbed his hands and said with a smile on his face.
"Hicks." Zhou He shouted.
When the latter heard this, he dropped the two boxes in his hands on the ground and pulled them open with both hands. Suddenly, he saw that the boxes were scratched, revealing the gold inside.
"Here are two boxes of gold. Each box contains 200 kilograms of gold. The two boxes contain a total of 400 kilograms of gold. Converted to Baileys, this is 2.4 billion."
"The remaining 400 million Baileys will be used as a deposit for my master to help him collect Devil Fruits. As long as he collects them, he can contact me using the phone bug, and the price is not a problem," Hicks said.
Edward didn't say anything, but came forward to inspect the gold, and a strong man brought a scale.
After the weighing, Edward burst out laughing: "Haha, yes, it really is four hundred kilograms of gold."
"Don't worry, I will help you keep an eye on devil fruits. This gentleman seems to be a very wealthy person."
"By the way, I still don't know your name. Where do you come from?" Earl Edward asked with a smile.
"You don't need to know this. I'll give you this phone bug. If you have any bad news about the Devil Fruit, just use it to contact me." Zhou He said with a smile, took out a phone bug and handed it to Earl Edward.
However, Earl Edward had no intention of picking it up.
Earl Edward made a gesture, and in an instant, more than 20 strong men pointed guns at Zhou He and Hicks.
The guards outside also came in one after another, some with guns in their hands, some with knives in their hands, and they all looked at them fiercely.
"Earl Edward, what do you mean?" Zhou He said calmly without changing his expression.
Hicks on the side looked a little stunned. Then, when he realized what he was doing, his face turned very cold.
It seems that she is still too young and does not know the dangers of society.
"It's not interesting. It's just that the empire's control is too strict. I really can't sell blood ore to you. However, I also want your gold. What do you think I should do?" Earl Edward said with a smile.
"It means, do you want to rob it by force?" Zhou He said.
"Sir, don't worry, I won't kill you. You are so fair, tall, and handsome. You are very popular among ladies."
"As for the young lady next to you, although she looks ordinary, she has a good figure and can be sold for a good price." Earl Edward's words can be regarded as determining the future fate of Zhou He and Hicks.
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"Master, can you let me kill them?" Hicks looked cold and said through gritted teeth.
Zhou He did not answer Hicks' question. Instead, he sighed and said, "Well, if you make a deal with me, you will definitely need money, but why do you want to commit suicide?"
"Don't you know that this will kill you?"
Earl Edward didn't understand Zhou He's words, so he thought Zhou He was talking nonsense. He straightened his face and gave an order directly to his men: "Come on, arrest them."
Immediately, two strong men walked towards Zhou He and Hicks with shackles in hand.
At this time, Zhou He said: "Kill them all."
Upon hearing this, Hicks nodded immediately with a sneer on his face. Immediately, his body suddenly rushed forward, and then he punched the strong man in front.
The strong man didn't react at all, didn't even let out a scream, and was punched in the chest by Hicks, killing him on the spot.
His body was knocked backwards by this force, knocking four or five strong men behind him away, causing him to faint to death.
When Earl Edward saw this, he raised his brows and was about to give the order to shoot, but saw that his frightened men had already subconsciously pulled the trigger.
“Bang bang bang”
A series of intensive gunfire sounded.
But I saw Hicks' graceful body swimming among the bullets, and every dodge was able to perfectly avoid the flying bullets.
At the same time, every punch will definitely kill someone.
And those bullets fired towards Zhou He were blocked by an invisible force before they even got close to Zhou He.
The bullets fell to the ground and made a clanging sound.
In just one minute, all Earl Edward's men were killed by Hicks.
Only Earl Edward was left slumped on the ground, looking at Zhou He with a horrified expression.
Earl Edward also had a more powerful bodyguard, but his level of power was really limited, and he could only be killed by Hicks in a few moves.
Of course, they were physically stronger and could only be seriously injured with their fists. Hicks still managed to kill them by cutting their throats with a dagger.
"You said, wouldn't it be good to do business with me? Now that it's like this, are you satisfied?" Zhou He lowered his head and looked at Earl Edward and said calmly.
Hicks has returned to Zhou He's side, and his ferocious murderous intent has firmly locked onto him.
As long as Zhou He gives the order, his head will be cut off instantly.
"Spare your life, spare your life, I am too blind to see Mount Tai, you just want to save my life."
"I can give you money, women, hard work, and blood ore. I will give you as much as you want. Don't kill me, don't kill me..."
Edward screamed with fear on his face and begged Zhou He for mercy.
Zhou He didn't say anything and waved his hand towards Hicks.
The latter understood immediately and walked towards Earl Edward.
Ten thousand blood ores are enough to attract the Neptune type, even if it is enough space for him to upgrade the storage box again.
Zhou He, looking at the blood ores, was about to put the hundred boxes of blood ores into the storage box. Suddenly, he discovered that his storage box had been filled with Neptune-like meat.
The same goes for those storage bags.
Zhou He touched his belly. He was still very full now.
Previously, there was still a small amount of Neptune meat that could not be put in, so Zhou He grilled it and ate it directly.
That small portion is enough to contain thousands of kilograms of meat. In addition, the Neptune meat also contains special energy substances, which is of great help in improving the body.
Zhou He ran the Black Mountain Body Refining Technique frantically, and then he finished eating the thousands of kilograms of meat. However, it was not completely digested, but instead turned into a stream of energy entrenched in Zhou He's body.
Now the Black Mountain Body Refining Art is still running all the time, consuming that torrent of energy. It can be said that within ten days, Zhou He will not be hungry at all.
Therefore, there was nothing he could do to free up space by eating meat, and he was asked to throw away some meat to make room. Zhou He couldn't bear it, so he packed it in a van. One hundred boxes couldn't fit in it.
Suddenly, Zhou He was in trouble.
After thinking about it, Zhou He could only get one boat.
Immediately, Zhou He waved his hand, used magic power to lift up the blood ore, and then brought Hicks, who had killed Earl Edward, to the outside of the warehouse.
Then we took a van to the shore.
After a quick glance, Zhou He's eyes fell on a merchant ship.
At this moment, many slaves with shackled hands and feet were being driven up by some people.
Come to think of it, this was a merchant ship transporting slaves.
Zhou He had always hated the slave trade.
Zhou He immediately waved his hand and moved everyone on the merchant ship to the shore. At the same time, he cut off all the shackles of the slaves.
The bodies of those slave traders also exploded and died at this moment.
Then, under the horrified gaze of countless people at the port, the merchant ship quickly sailed towards the outer sea.
Some people wanted to launch a boat to chase him, but found that he couldn't catch up anyway, so he had to give up.
…
Zhou He's van landed on the merchant ship, and the two got out of the van.
Zhou He then put the blood ore into the cabin.
Immediately, he took out an iron chain and locked the van and the merchant ship.
Then, Zhou He gave instructions to the van's intelligent system, telling it to drive toward the holy land of Mariegioa at a steady speed, neither too fast nor too slow.
Immediately, the chain collapsed, and the van trespassed and drove quickly forward.
The speed is not too slow, reaching two hundred kilometers per hour.
