Chapter 34: The Auction

  Hobodi pieced together Dias' upper and lower body, then knocked him out with one punch, dragging him to the ground.

  Looking back at the naval headquarters warship not far away, a hint of doubt flashed in Hobody's eyes, but he immediately turned to Luo and said: "Luo, since you're a doctor, shouldn't you have gloves? Give me three pairs."

  "What's wrong? What do you want with gloves?"

  "This guy reeks of booze, I have a phobia of germs. To avoid the smell of alcohol, I need to wear three pairs!"

  "This reason is unbelievable, although I don't know the secret, but for this rather speechless reason, Luo's face was full of helplessness, and he could only say to Beipo beside him: "Beipo, take a few pairs of gloves for Harald's family."

  Just like carrying a hundred treasure bags on his body, Hobodi saw the polar bear and took out something bigger than his own pouch from the orange work clothes, throwing it on the ground and searching back and forth.

  Hobadi casually took three pairs of medical white gloves and put them on layer by layer, then gazed at the warship behind him with some concern.

  "Keep leading the way!"

  ……

  Before long, Hobbit and Luo walked side by side in the small town of Minyong Island.

  Along the way, Luo also took out a fake mask and put it on his face. He then walked to a deserted alley where two people wearing acrobatic costumes suddenly appeared in front of them, pushing open a wall at the entrance of the alley. They entered a dark passageway and eventually arrived at a place similar to a transfer station.

  "Who are your recommenders?" The female waitress's fiery gaze stared at Beipo behind the two, and he immediately shyly turned his head away.

  Luo said a long name, Hobodi guessed it was probably a code or something, the female attendant registered and then asked: "Do you have any goods to auction?"

  "Look at this guy behind Luo Bo's back," the person pointing said, "He's a pirate captain, shouldn't he meet your standards?"

  The female servant didn't even glance at Dias, still staring straight at Bebo with a gaze that seemed to want to possess this cute guy.

  "Hey!" Luo said discontentedly.

  The female waitress smiled awkwardly and quickly said: "Wait a minute, let me check the wanted poster again."

  About thirty seconds later, the female waitress deftly flipped through the wanted posters with her fingers, finally stopping at Diaz's portrait.

  "The goods for auction are worth 60 million Berries, Captain Dias of the Demon Sea Pirates? But to be honest, if we were to put it up for auction at our store, it wouldn't fetch a price anywhere near what the Marines are offering." The female attendant said hesitantly.

  "No big deal, this scoundrel just wants to let the pirate captain taste the pain of being dominated. Right? Harald's household." Luo pointed at Hobodi.

  "Men are equal; he should also taste the fate of being dominated."

  The female attendant didn't wait for the two to speak, and with a strange expression in this mixed-up place she was already used to seeing strange things. She immediately took out cards numbered 30 and 02 and handed them to the two people, saying: "Please take these, if you want to bid on any items after entering the auction hall just raise your card. By the way, today's main recommendation in our store is the small people of New World 'Glinbeit'!"

  "Are there still dwarves?" Hobodi exclaimed in surprise: "Could it be that they were born to forge iron?"

  "Hmph..." The female waitress couldn't help but laugh.

  Lu's face turned black, thinking it was a complete shame to stand with Hobodi, and said in a low tone: "Which book did you see that dwarves are iron-forging?"

  "No, isn't that what they all say? Dwarves = Divine Craftsmen! What divine artifacts like "Thor's Fury - Mjolnir" and "Poseidon of the Sea God" were all forged by them. No wonder the weapon in my hand has such a function. Looking at it this way, since dwarves have appeared, perhaps this world really does have weapons that can destroy heaven and earth with just one grasp. In that case, what's the point of cultivating?"

  "That's enough, Harald! You'd better not speak. Luo was covered in black lines, he felt that Hoboldi had some kind of crazy obsession with dwarves, he didn't know what Hoboldi had seen, but apparently, if he let him continue speaking, Luo felt that his own IQ would also decline."

  " Luo, don't you want that kind of weapon? This kind of weapon that only exists in fantasy actually has a chance to exist in reality! As long as we get it, no matter if it's Whitebeard or the Shichibukai, one hit and they'll be dead."

  "Why did I form an alliance with a guy like you... Shut up! What you're talking about are dwarves, and halflings are fundamentally different races!"

  His frantic cry instantly extinguished the flames in Hobodi's heart. In an instant, Hobodi became expressionless and calmly said, "Oh, forget it then. Let's go inside!"

  Luó: “……”

  Next to him, Bebo silently hung his head in depression. He felt that he could understand the "weapon romance" of the masked man. Why could he only attack with his limbs? He also wanted to experience holding a gun on his paws and firing laser beams...

  ……

  Entering the auction hall, the structure here is similar to the opera house of Hobodi's previous life. A large curtain tightly covers the secrets on the other side of the stage, and in front of the stage are rows and rows of chairs, neatly arranged in a stepped manner all the way up, about two meters away from the entrance door.

  Luo's eyes swept back and forth before he said, "I've estimated the size of this auction hall, it can probably hold around two hundred guests."

  "What do you think this boring data is for?"

  "In order for Harald to take you home, you can find a good channel to leave after the auction is over and you don't have to pay..."

  The two people's eyes met, seemingly both wanting to see the other's purpose for coming to this gathering, but they absolutely wouldn't say it out loud.

  "Never mind, let's just find a seat and sit down! Looking at these empty seats, at least half of the people haven't arrived yet."

  "I agree with that. Since the auction hasn't started yet, I'll introduce you to some of Beihai's celebrities!" Luo revealed his signature playful smile.

  "It's as if you're saying I'm not from Beihai."

  "It's hard to say~" Luo Huo looked at Hoboldi suspiciously, then shifted his gaze to a man sitting in the front row of the meeting hall: "Do you see that chestnut-haired man on the special seat? He is a descendant of Rolando, the famous 'Big Talker' from Beihai, 400 years ago. His ancestors were ordered to be executed by the king of Lubeni Road Kingdom, and all of Rolando's descendants were expelled to Beihai. It's unknown why this man returned to his hometown with a large sum of wealth a few years ago, and now even the king is bribed by him. There are rumors that he obtained all the gold from the Golden Village that his ancestors had been searching for, possessing wealth that rivals a country."

  "If he participates in the auction later, he will definitely be your number one enemy!"

  "Luó, you seem to enjoy probing! You use this question to ask me, then observe my nonchalant expression and conclude that I don't take the unarmed auction guests seriously? If you want to keep going like this, I'll play along. But let's be clear, our goals aren't in conflict!"

  Luó smiled and said: "This is Harald's home, you're worrying too much!"

  "Your smile is obviously a muscular twitch that's off, generally very intelligent people, when they're guilty or seen through, will reveal this kind of smile."

  When he heard this, Luo's face suddenly stiffened and couldn't smile anymore. Afterwards, he immediately changed the subject, pointing to a few young people near their left side: "Those people are from the North Sea New Era Pirates, the blond youth with an arrogant smile is the captain, known as 'Hyena' Bellamy, a Superhuman-type Spring-Spring Fruit ability user."

  "Devil Fruit Ability?"

  "Hmm, look at him again, the blond-haired man above. That's Basil Hawkins, the pirate noble who rules over the waters around Rubek Island. You have a grudge against him too, don't you?!"

  Bazil Hawkins also caught Roe's introduction and passed his gaze over, to which Roe responded with a rude gesture of raising one middle finger.

  "Finally..." This time, Luo's gaze also couldn't help but heavily focus on the back of a woman with green wavy hair and a sleeveless vest standing at the very front of the stage.

  Luo lowered his voice: "That woman is the behind-the-scenes figure of this auction, and also a member of the Don Quixote family. No one knows her name, everyone only knows that she comes from the Great Navigation Route, and every time she kills someone, she leaves a large area of snow at the scene, so some people call her 'Snow Girl'!"

  "If you keep speaking in this deliberately grandiose tone, Luo, I'm afraid my impression of your cleverness will turn into annoyance." Hoboldi narrowed his eyes and gazed at his back...

  This is another familiar figure.

  The green-haired woman seemed to have noticed something, and immediately turned her head around. Her golden eyes, devoid of any emotional fluctuations, met Hopody's gaze. She licked her lips and revealed a 'seductive' smile.

  Luo saw the green-haired woman's true face and suddenly fell silent, only frowning and occasionally scanning the scene.

  Time ticked away, and people of all shapes and sizes walked into the auction hall, dressed as arms dealers, underwater salvage explorers, mafia members, but mostly nobles clad in expensive fabrics.

  Among these people with various characteristics, Hobodi noticed a man wearing a dinosaur mask and a "ㄨ" shaped scar on his chin.

  In an instant, Hobodi's pupils contracted and his complexion changed slightly.

  "What's wrong? Is Harald at home?"

  Hobadi didn't respond, his face just added a few more lines of solemnity and gloom.

  He was not unfamiliar with the man who had a "W" under his chin. Although they had never really met, when Hobopody appeared in Pongkhassad, this man was also on that island at the time.

  However, this man was among the first batch that escaped, and Hobart had already fainted when he boarded the rescue ship and never met him.

  It was a month after his return from the East Sea that he noticed it, in a naval newspaper with the headline "X. Drake Promoted to Lieutenant General..."

  "No, nothing."

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