The Fall of Flevance, Trafalgar Law Appears!
For the next few days, Ortolan and Gion stayed at the headquarters, meeting with Kuzan and others several times. When the New Year arrived, they spent New Year's Eve with the people of the headquarters and arrived in 1504.
On the first day of the new year, Ortolan and Gion did not linger and quickly left headquarters for the Sabaody Archipelago to meet the Coater Old Ray, and the information broker, Boss Shakky.
As Ortolan boarded the ship bound for the Sabaody Archipelago, a major event occurred in the North Blue: the Great Flevance and its complete annihilation.
After several years of ups and downs, Flevance, the richest country in the North Blue, finally succumbed to Lead-Platinum Disease. Within two years of all the ruling class fleeing Flevance, the entire Flevance was in a state of chaos.
Meanwhile, because the World Government abandoned all aid to Flevance, and the three neighboring Three Kingdoms of Flevance blocked the entire border, the people of Flevance have been completely abandoned for the past two years. There is no orderly rule internally and no external aid. The people of Flevance are like wild beasts trapped in a cage, and in this last moment, they can only tear each other apart to survive.
This is nothing more than a last-ditch struggle.
In early 1504 of the Marine Era, on the second day of the new year, the World Government officially announced that the once most prosperous kingdom in the North Blue, Flevance, had perished!
Following the official announcement from the World Government, the Three Kingdoms surrounding Flevance began to militarily suppress the Flevance riots in order to avoid any unforeseen incidents, and large numbers of platinum Lead-Platinum Disease were eliminated one after another.
At this moment, in a Lead-Platinum Ore mine in Flevance, North Blue, unlike the chaos outside the mine, order was well maintained, with a large number of armed personnel guarding it. This was one of the Lead-Platinum Ore mines in Flevance that the Don Donquixote Family had now controlled.
Inside the mine, nearly six thousand pirate slaves (just one source of ore) were working hard in the dimly lit mine shafts, digging out the expensive Lead-Platinum Ore buried deep inside the mountain.
Wearing gas masks, the Don Donquixote Family overseers lashed out with whips at the pirate slaves who tried to slack off. Meanwhile, inside the mine, there existed an even more terrifying force: zombie miners.
The zombie miners are more efficient than the pirate slaves because they don't need to eat, drink, or rest; they can just dig in the mines day and night.
The pirate slaves were terrified of these 'comrades' because many of them had once been one of them. After they died from overwork, not only would their bodies be dismantled, but many of them could also be used. The officers would be recycled by the Donquixote Family, and these living shadows would be stuffed into these corpses to control them and continue working!
Inside the entire mine, all the pirate slaves are currently in a state of being invisible. If they leave this dimly lit mine during the day, they will immediately die!
There is absolutely no possibility of escape!
Powerless to resist this oppression and exploitation, they could only endure this suffering and continue to shine for the cause of justice, dedicating their last rays of light.
Inside the mine was a horrific hell of cannibalism and exploitation, but outside the mine, within the mining base, everything was in perfect order. Large numbers of the Donquixote Family members were sorting and packing the excavated platinum Lead-Platinum Ore, transporting it to the port, and loading it onto the Donquixote Family transport ships for unified transport to the New World for storage.
Donquixote Doflamingo, who had recently arrived from Dressrosa in the New World, was inspecting the progress of the work at Flevance with Moria.
Looking at the crates of Lead-Platinum being packed into the warehouse, Doflamingo smiled and said, "Fufufufufufu, right now, the price of Lead-Platinum and lead has reached its all-time high. This crate of Lead-Platinum and lead is almost equivalent to half the weight of gold..."
Moria's eyes also gleamed with excitement, and he said with a wicked smile, "I heard from Mr. Tesoro from G-5 that next year we will release a certain amount of Lead-Platinum into the market. Just this batch of Lead-Platinum, disregarding all costs, could potentially generate a net profit of trillions of Beli..."
"Yes, that means we can both get at least a hundred billion Beli from Flevance this year," Doflamingo laughed.
Moria listened to these words, his eyes filled with a longing for money. As long as he had money, he could rebuild his pirate crew, or even a large pirate fleet.
Not long ago, he contacted Ortolan said he had planned to take action against the Wang Zhi of Hachinosu Island. He said that the Wang Zhi would most likely be wiped out from Hachinosu Island by the end of the year, at which point Hachinosu Island would be handed over to him Moria.
That place will be his foundation. Moria has even begun to think about how to make Hachinosu Island bigger and stronger!
And that bastard Kaido! Thinking of this, Moria gritted his teeth. After he finished cleaning up Hachinosu Island, he would put a red bounty on Kaido in the Underworld!
Currently, the Marine Headquarters has a bounty of over two billion Belly on Kaido the Beast. Moria thinks that's not enough at all. Two billion Belly is nothing. Once I've established myself on Hachinosu Island, I'll put two billion Belly on Kaido's head in the Underworld to test the waters.
If that's not enough, we'll give you an extra five billion Belly every year!
Sooner or later, someone will send your bastard brains to Hachinosu Island!
Just as Moria was daydreaming about these futures, Senor, one of the Donquixote Family's top lieutenants, approached Doflamingo from a short distance away and said, "Young Master, two brats have arrived outside the mine base. They want to see you, and they seem quite interesting..."
That's quite interesting; it means that Senor didn't let the outside security forces shoot those two brats directly.
Just kidding, this is one of Doflamingo's main sources of income, and the defenses are very strong. How could two brats possibly get close without someone giving them permission?
"Hmm?" Doflamingo glanced at Senor with slight surprise, then nodded and said, "A promising talent? Looks like there's been an unexpected gain..."
The Donquixote Family has a tradition of taking in orphans from all over the world, so Doflamingo was not surprised by this practice. Senor just didn't expect to meet such an interesting kid here.
After exchanging a few words with Moria, Doflamingo quickly left with Senor and headed towards the vicinity of the base gate.
Before long, Doflamingo saw two kids surrounded by the Donquixote Family members near the base gate. The two kids looked quite young, a boy and a girl, like siblings. The slightly older boy looked to be about eight or nine years old, while the younger girl looked to be about five or six years old and was hiding behind her older brother in fear.
Both of them had whitish spots on their skin, which is a sign of Lead-Platinum Disease!
The boy held several small bombs in his hand, seemingly having picked them up from somewhere. He stood indifferently with the Donquixote Family's security forces as he confronted them.
Upon witnessing this scene, Doflamingo broke into a wicked grin. "Interesting..."
That courage alone surpasses that of many kids, especially that kid's cold expression and the madness and hatred hidden in his eyes. That feeling is all too familiar to Doflamingo!
"It looks very similar, doesn't it?" Senor asked softly, a slight smile playing on his lips.
Doflamingo, upon hearing the meaning of the question, nodded slightly and said, "So similar... exactly like me back then. I was just like him, leading Rosinante and fighting those bastards for food on the island..."
After saying this, Doflamingo pushed through the crowd of guards, completely ignoring the threat of the bomb, and strode up to the two children with an evil gait. He first looked at the frail little girl, then fixed his gaze on the little boy, a hopeful smile on his lips, and asked, "Kid, give me your name..."
"Trafalgar... Ro!" The kid holding the bomb looked up at Doflamingo and said without hesitation.
"Lo?" Doflamingo nodded in satisfaction, then asked, "What brings you here?"
"I have Lead-Platinum Disease, and I don't have many years left to live. I've heard that you are the most evil and cruel man in the North Blue, so I want to join the Donquixote Family. I want to make more people experience my despair and pain in the last few days of my life. I want to take revenge on this world!!!" Trafalgar Law said in a fierce tone.
"Fufufufufufu... fufufu..." Doflamingo laughed uncontrollably at the answer, but he was even more satisfied with the look in his eyes as he looked at Trafalgar Law.
Meanwhile, from a window of a building in the base, Donquixote Rosinante, with a cigarette dangling from his lips, was also silently watching the scene unfold in front of the gate.
Inadvertently, his eyes met Trafalgar Rosindi's. After a long while, Rosinante gently knocked off his cigarette ash, his eyes seeming to have made up his mind.