Brother's Dead, Brother's Alive Again!

"I haven't even swung my blade yet, what do you mean by kneeling down?" Wude was completely baffled by this pirate.

Shouldn't guys who were still weak while daring to head to the New World be those stubborn blockheads with thick skulls?

Since when did the 24K pure alloy foreheads of blockheads become so brittle?

Barlow glanced at the sea beast trailing behind Wude's ship. "I can follow you, as long as you don't kill me."

Wude clicked his tongue. Were transactions this easy to make these days?

"Then put down your weapons and accept surrender." Wude tried to deceive him.

The goons looked at him like he was a devil. Just how many times was he going to trick "pure and innocent" pirates?

He had just said he agreed to accept surrender, but the moment they disarmed, he immediately swung his blade. It was safe to say he had pushed shamelessness to a certain level.

The opposite pirates hesitated for a moment, but after looking at the dead giant sea beast and weighing the disparity in strength between them, they gave up resistance.

The pirates dropped their weapons, and Wude led his men onto the pirate ship, raising blades, swords, and guns.

Barlow felt the muzzle of a gun pressed against his forehead, tears welling up in his eyes as he didn't know whether to laugh or cry.

"We agreed that surrendering means you don't kill us!"

"Heh, I don't even believe the words I say."

Wude picked a few pirates with bounties, had his men bind them hand and foot, and then gave an order. "As for the rest of these guys without bounties, execute every last one of them right here!"

"Sir, shouldn't we pick a few who haven't killed civilians?" The goons asked.

"No need. Too many people will just be dead weight in the New World. Since they'd die going to the New World anyway, we might as well bury them here." Wude didn't even look at these pirates as he stepped off the pirate ship.

The goons raised their guns, aimed at the foreheads of those pirates, and pulled their triggers one after another. Bullets left the chambers.

A continuous succession of gunfire rang out, and dozens of pirates fell.

The pirate captain and two trusted pirate underlings were tied up like zongzi and carried toward Wude's ship.

There was a Marine branch in the New World, and they could exchange them for Berry there.

The mermaid young ladies swam toward Wude one after another, looking at him with gratitude.

A mermaid beauty with shoulder-length light blue hair said gratefully, "Thank you so much for your help."

"It's nothing. Mainly, they surrendered too fast." As soon as Wude finished speaking, the captured pirate captain being carried onto the ship trembled with rage, and the mermaid young ladies couldn't help but chuckle.

"You're visiting Fish-Man Island for the first time, right? Would you like us to show you around?" said an orange wavy-haired mermaid young lady who wore two yellow-patterned sea shells on her chest and a conch shell ear-cap on her head.

"Sure, I'll have to trouble you all then." Wude replied.

The goons stopped what they were doing and cast envious glances over. Playing around with mermaid beauties was the thing of their dreams!

Wude left with the mermaid young ladies, while the goons continued their grand enterprise of burying people.

Though it wasn't from Sister Bao'er's burial training camp, they were already obscenely skilled at the burial business.

Walking down the street, Wude listened as the mermaid young ladies introduced Fish-Man Island.

"Big brother, what is the outside world like?!"

A little blue shark mermaid girl with short black hair and pale skin reached out her small hand and tugged at Wude's trouser leg. She tilted her head up, blinking her eyes as she curiously looked at this gentle and handsome human brother.

"The outside world is very vast. It has an endless expanse of azure blue sky, and islands everywhere with different customs and unique features..." Wude said to this tiny mermaid.

"Wow, Shyarly longs for the outside world." Shyarly straightened her blue hood, then hugged the crystal ball in her arms with a look of dismay. "But the outside world is very dangerous, right?"

"Yeah, the Four Blues and the Grand Line are filled with slaughter everywhere. Pirates run wild, and the outside world isn't safe at all." Wude nodded in agreement.

"I really hope that one day in the future, we can also come openly to the surface and interact with friendly humans," a mermaid girl said, looking longingly at the world outside the bubble.

The mermaid girl's gaze pierced through the deep, dark ocean, yearning for the land ten thousand meters above.

Fish-Man Island moving to live on the sea surface felt as distant and lightless as this ten-thousand-meter deep sea.

"Protect your own homeland, and one day you will truly get to experience the ocean world above," Wude said.

"Ah, I'm sorry for bringing up such a heavy topic." The mermaid young ladies quickly apologized to him.

"It's nothing." Wude waved his hand.

Little Shyarly shook her head and looked around. With a circle of bubbles around her waist, she walked up to a stall and bought a few skewers of roasted kelp and roasted Chinese cabbage.

"Big brother, for you." Little Shyarly blocked Wude's path and handed over a skewer of roasted kelp. "Thank you for saving us, big brother."

"Oh." Wude took the roasted kelp. To be honest, he had never eaten kelp prepared this way before. He took a bite. "Really good."

With that, he ruffled little Shyarly's head. "I heard your fortune-telling is amazing. Can you tell my fortune for me, big brother?"

"Okay, what does big brother want to know?" Little Shyarly hugged her crystal ball, tilting her head up to blink at him.

"Let's just see what my future holds," Wude said.

"Okay." Little Shyarly sat with her mermaid tail coiled on a stone to the side. She placed both hands on the crystal ball, staring intently at its surface before letting out a gasp shortly after.

"What's wrong? What's my future like?" Wude asked curiously.

"Big brother dies." Little Shyarly looked up at Wude with a bitter expression.

Thinking of how her savior was going to die in the future, she couldn't stop feeling sad.

The other mermaid young ladies also looked at Wude with sadness, some looking expectantly at Shyarly in hopes there would be a solution.

"Hahaha!" Wude burst out laughing. The mermaid young ladies looked at him in incomprehension, thinking to themselves that their savior hadn't been scared out of his wits, had he?

"Your future is death, and you can still laugh!" A mermaid young lady watched Wude holding his stomach in laughter, and she couldn't help getting a little angry.

Why was this guy like this? They were all worried sick for him, yet this fellow was still laughing.

Little Shyarly quickly tugged and shook Wude's arm. "Don't laugh, big brother, I'm scared."

"Death, to me, is just closing and opening my eyes. What's there to be afraid of?" Wude didn't care at all, giving little Shyarly's head another rub.

He might not care, but the uninformed mermaids were even more terrified. Wasn't he going completely crazy?

"Little Shyarly, why don't you try telling my fortune for further down the road? There's a big surprise waiting." Wude smiled as he looked at the mermaids.

"Huh? Is there still a future after dying?" A mermaid child tilted her head in confusion.

Little Shyarly glared angrily at that fellow—the little shark loli was mad!

Be careful or I'll bite you!

"Okay! Big brother is so gentle and handsome, there's definitely going to be a turning point." Little Shyarly hugged her crystal ball and started a new divination.

Her cute little face turned solemn as she stared nervously at the crystal ball.

Then, an image appeared, startling her so much that her little hand shook, nearly flinging the crystal ball right into Wude's face. Wude reached out and pressed down on it.

What did she see? Her handsome big brother was having a corpse resurrection!