"Hello, I'm here. Where are your people?" Zhou Qi called Hu Minrou first.
"Oh, go to Leshan Street in the east of the city. There's a Leshan Internet Cafe..." Hu Minrou said. "Someone will come pick you up when you get there."
"Okay, okay..." After hanging up, he looked up Leshan Street. It was not far away, only a little over ten minutes on foot.
Da Shan's nonstop chatter along the way had given Tashigi an enormous shock, practically a spiritual baptism.
She had only been nervous during the first half. By the latter half, she had completely relaxed. After all, all the people he had described committing evil deeds were foreigners.
China had five thousand years of history, and the number of wars it had launched against other countries could be counted on one hand. It had mostly fought defensively.
And Zhou Qi was Chinese through and through: hardworking, kind, diligent, intelligent. One could say he embodied every traditional virtue of the Chinese Nation.
Nor was Zhou Qi the only one like that. The driver, Brother Bing whom she had met before, Yan Yun, the owner of the sporting goods store...
Or rather, everyone she had met was like that.
What reason did she have to feel uneasy in a country like this?
"By the way, why are we here?" Tashigi asked.
"To leave the country." Zhou Qi said, "Didn't I say I needed to find someone to test the Devil Fruit ability on? I can't just grab someone off the street. They'll have to be killed after the test, so naturally I need someone guilty of terrible crimes."
"Someone guilty of terrible crimes..." Tashigi looked around.
This city had no reputation at all in China, yet it was still far more prosperous than Loguetown.
In such a large