One Piece meme: Starting with eight extraordinary skills

Either I'm crazy, or the world is crazy!

"Yang Ming, what are you still daydreaming about?!"

At this moment, Tina's voice pulled Yang Ming back to reality from his reverie.

Tina waved her arms at Yang Ming, behind her were three Blues rented from a merchant. Blues were aquatic creatures as big as elephants, active in the rivers, and a unique mode of transportation in Water Seven.

Yang Ming smiled, said goodbye to flight attendant Coco, and then boarded a blue train with Tina.

The Blue resembles a seahorse in appearance, with a wide and open back and a mahogany seat, making it suitable for two people to ride together, with enough space to put luggage.

According to Foxy the Silver Fox, the Don Quixote family's important base for transporting slaves in Water Seven was disguised as a hardware store to conceal their true purpose.

Yang Ming and his group intended to reach the shop as quickly as possible, before the Don Quixote family received the news and fled.

Blue is very intelligent; Yang Ming and the others only need to provide an address, and it knows how to get there.

Seven Waters is a magical city with a crisscrossing network of waterways and a well-developed transportation network that allows people to travel to any part of the city via the waterways.

The river flows gently, its blue waves rippling.

A small bridge spans a flowing stream, and boats shuttle back and forth.

The riverbanks offer breathtaking scenery, with rows of houses belonging to the original inhabitants of Water City. Perhaps due to the humid climate, the windows of these buildings are connected by thin steel wires, from which residents hang their washed clothes, creating a picturesque scene.

The winding network of waterways is enough to make anyone dizzy.

Any newcomer to Water Seven would likely easily lose their way in this vast city and not be able to find their way back.

As they approached their destination, the three-headed Blue gradually slowed down and came to rest on the shore.

Yang Ming paused, then instructed the other five people:

"When we capture the person in charge of the base station, we must be careful that he may choose to commit suicide."

Upon hearing this, the crowd seemed somewhat dismissive.

Ascending the stone steps, Yang Ming and his six companions emerged from the low-lying area of ​​the riverbed onto the ground.

Surprisingly, this was not some remote, deserted place, but rather a densely populated residential area with various types of shops, restaurants, massage parlors, hardware stores, and timber shops along the riverbank...

Seven Waters is a well-known shipbuilding island. In addition to world-renowned shipbuilding companies, it has naturally driven the development of the upstream and downstream of the shipbuilding industry chain. More than half of the city's residents are engaged in shipbuilding-related industries.

Hardware stores and lumber shops are everywhere, most of which offer replacement parts for boats.

Following the search based on the shop's address, Yang Ming and his six companions finally found their target.

"Jingle Bell!"

The door was opened by six people, and the wind chimes hanging at the entrance echoed with a crisp sound.

The middle-aged man working at his desk suddenly stopped what he was doing and a professional smile appeared on his face.

"Welcome to Haba Hardware Store. I'm Haba, the owner. How can I help you?"

As soon as Yang Ming and his six companions entered, they quickly surveyed the hardware store.

Overall, this hardware store is fairly standard, roughly thirty square meters in size. Though small, it has everything you need, with a wide variety of goods displayed in the glass counters. It looks no different from any other hardware store.

If someone unaware of the situation came here, they might mistakenly think it was just an ordinary hardware store, rather than an important base for the Don Quixote family to transport human slaves.

The big hermit hides in the city, the small hermit hides in the wild.

Doflamingo truly lived up to his reputation as one of the most business-savvy pirates. He knew that the most dangerous place was precisely the safest place, and he placed such an important base in a densely populated area, something no one else could have imagined.

Smoker and his five men surrounded Haba. Yang Ming took out a naval ID from his pocket. This was a temporary ID provided to them by Chief Instructor Zephyr for convenience. It was enough to give them the authority to arrest and kill criminals without being blamed by the local government.

"We are the Navy. Your crimes have been exposed. Now you must confess to the Don Quixote family's human trafficking!"

Haba was already on guard when Yang Ming and his group entered the room.

Generally, those who come to hardware stores to buy goods are adult men; minors are rarely seen, and women are even rarer.

Because hardware stores mainly sell tools for repairing ships, and these are all dirty and tiring jobs, only male shipwrights in this City of Seven Waters would need these items.

So, Haba reached into the hidden compartment under the counter with his right hand and gripped a flintlock pistol, the latest product developed by the Don Quixote family. This new model solved the problem of overheating of the rifling caused by repeated firing of bullets in the past flintlock pistols, and could fire all the bullets at once.

Faced with Yang Ming's questioning, Haba gave a forced smile and said:

"Child, you can eat whatever you want, but you can't say whatever you want."

"I, Haba, have always been an honest and law-abiding businessman. How could I possibly be a human trafficker? You can't slander an innocent person!"

Seeing that Haba was being stubborn, Smoker spat and said:

"I knew it! Why follow Chief Instructor Zefa's method when dealing with these criminals? We shouldn't try to reason with them; we should just knock them unconscious and take them back for interrogation!"

After saying that, Smoker was about to handcuff Habak.

Seeing that the scholar was unable to reason with the soldiers, Haba knew that he absolutely could not fall into the hands of the navy. A ruthless glint flashed in his eyes, and he pulled out a flintlock pistol from the counter and pulled the trigger one after another at the six people present.

"Bang bang bang! Bang bang bang!"

Smoke billowed from the gun barrels as six orange-yellow bullets shot straight into the foreheads of six men.

Judging from his superb marksmanship, Haba is definitely not an honest and simple businessman.

Yang Ming and his six companions had already anticipated that the other party would resort to desperate measures. Smoker immediately transformed into several wisps of smoke, binding Haba's hands and feet. The other five, having anticipated this, easily dodged the enemy's bullets.

The instant he saw Smoker turn into smoke, his pupils contracted sharply, and he exclaimed in shock:

"A devil fruit user?"

"Is it a Logia-type Devil Fruit?"

Haba was almost crying.

As a base station manager, what makes him worthy of being approached by a Logia-type Devil Fruit user?

Smoker tackled Haba to the ground, having already reverted to human form, and placed heavy shackles on Haba's hands and feet.

Smoker, also short-tempered, stomped his hard leather boots on Haba's foot and said:

"Where did you hide all the slaves and people captured by the Don Quixote family?"

Haba knew he was probably doomed this time, and a ruthless glint flashed in his eyes as he tried to bite the poison hidden in his dentures.

Yang Ming had reminded Smoker of this point long before the operation began.

At first, Smoker didn't believe it.

But upon seeing the ruthlessness in Haba's eyes, Smoker reacted swiftly, grabbing Haba's chin and forcefully twisting it, dislocating Haba's jaw on the spot with a snap.

"Yang Ming was almost right, you actually wanted to commit suicide?"

Smoker was secretly alarmed as he pulled a false tooth from Haba's mouth and saw the poison hidden inside.

Smoker simply couldn't believe that Habakkuk was a die-hard member of the Don Quixote family.

But does this mean that the Donquixote Family has some kind of powerful means of controlling its subordinates, which is why they would rather commit suicide than fall into the hands of the Navy?

The rest of the people gathered clues at the hardware store, investigating whether there was a secret room or basement there.

Yang Ming led Haba into the cramped bathroom alone, slammed the door shut behind him, and cracked his fingers, revealing a devilish smile in Haba's eyes.

“I know you won’t easily reveal information about the Don Quixote family.”

"So, let's play a simple game. If you answer correctly, I'll let you go."

What is 1000 - 7?

Chapter 22: Is Tom Shipbuilding Company the culprit?

"..."

Haba's jaw was dislocated, making it impossible for him to open his mouth and speak; he could only stare helplessly with wide eyes.

"You can't even answer such a simple question. It seems I'm going to have to torture you!"

Yang Ming stuffed a wad of toilet paper into Haba's mouth, covered his eyes with a towel, laid him horizontally on the ground, and slightly turned on the tap so that water dripped continuously onto Haba's forehead.

In ancient times, the water-dripping torture was comparable to the branding torture. Although it may not seem very harmful, when a person's eyes are blindfolded, all their senses about the outside world are amplified. Over time, it can even create a terrifying feeling that the dripping water is penetrating the skull.

While Haba was enduring the torture of being dripped with water, Yang Ming checked the system messages.

"Ding!"

"Congratulations, host, for reciting a classic line from Tokyo Ghoul. You have been awarded one chance to draw a prize. Would you like to activate the prize wheel?"

A prize wheel appeared, but there were very few prizes on it.

Prizes: RC cells, Hercules pods...

[rc cells]: ...

Before Yang Ming could even check the prize he had won in the lottery, the food cells in his body, like great white sharks smelling fish, opened their mouths and devoured all the rc cells that had merged into his body.

The gourmet cells provided excellent feedback, strengthening Yang Ming's body at the cellular level.

Yang Ming could feel that his physical fitness had improved significantly.

Clenching his fist and feeling the power in his hand, Yang Ming secretly speculated that the enhancement brought by the Gourmet Cells had at least saved him a year of arduous training.

Yang Ming frowned as he smelled a foul odor permeating the air.

He turned his head sharply and glanced at Haba.

Haba's pants were soaked, and his legs were cramping slightly.

Judging that the other party had reached his limit, and if the dripping torture continued, he would probably be tortured into a fool, so Yang Ming turned off the tap and removed the towel covering Haba's eyes.

Upon regaining his sight, Habah burst into tears.

Haba has never felt the beauty of life as much as he does now!

If he could do it all over again, he definitely wouldn't have been so tough on these navy men!

Yang Ming took paper and a pen from the hardware store, threw them in front of Haba, and said:

"You should be able to write, right? Tell me the truth."

Haba looked at Yang Ming with awe. He had really misjudged him. He never expected that this seemingly harmless child would actually be the most terrifying one among the navy.

To avoid being subjected to the same water-dripping torture again, Haba gripped the pen and shakily wrote crooked words on the paper.

The level of knowledge penetration in this world is not high.