He didn't know why Li Zhong came, but this was a man who made him feel a little dangerous. If anything unexpected happened, Rayleigh couldn't guarantee that he could guarantee Xia Qi's safety 100%.
Since we don't know whether he is an enemy or a friend, it's better not to let Xia Qi get involved in this mess.
Xia Qi poured the warm milk into a cup and placed it on Li Zhong's table.
Li Zhong took off the black string tied around his wrist and handed it to Xia Qi.
Xia Qi shook her head, walked to the kitchen, and pushed out a huge cart from the back door.
The main way for people in this world to replenish energy is to eat. Given the appetite of the strong ones, each purchase has to be made by tons.
This cart, which is usually used for purchasing goods, has eight human heads placed horizontally and ten placed vertically, stacked nearly three meters high, which is enough to hold all the pirates' heads.
Her perception was not as sharp as Rayleigh's, but from Rayleigh's attitude and the tacit understanding between them, she could guess the approximate range of Li Zhong's strength.
The black string is Li Zhong's killing weapon. Even though Xia Qi is the former leader of the Nine Snakes Pirates and is very powerful, she dare not take on such a thing!
After Xia Qi left, Reilly brought a bottle of fine wine worth nearly 10 million Baileys and sat next to Li Zhong.
"Really?" Rayleigh said with a smile.
This kind of fine wine is usually kept at the bottom of the tavern's cabinet. If it weren't for the special occasion today, if Rayleigh took it out, he would definitely be beaten up by Xia Qi.
"No." Li Zhong raised the hot milk in his hand.
He motioned to Rayleigh to enjoy it himself.
"Then I'll take advantage of your kindness." Reilly unscrewed the cork on the wine bottle, without taking the glass, he raised the bottle to Li Zhong in salute, and then blew into the bottle mouth.
"To you for helping Fisher get the position of Shichibukai." Rayleigh said with a smile.
Li Zhong cast a puzzled look.
Rayleigh then explained: "There is an old friend of mine in Fisher's pirate group. He admires Fisher very much and is willing to follow him with his life. It is the freedom of a man on the sea to choose who to follow. I will not interfere."
"After hearing about Fisher's attack on the Holy Land, even though I admire Fisher's feat of liberating the slaves of the Celestial Dragons, I can't help but worry about the safety of my old friend."
"After all, it's not that easy to get away with offending the Celestial Dragons."
There is no such thing as killing nine clans in this world, but the anger of the Celestial Dragons is real!
As the apparent controllers of the world, it is not a fun thing to slap them in the face.
But after Li Zhong recommended Fisher to become one of the Seven Warlords of the Sea, this problem was solved.
With the approval of the Five Elders, no ordinary Celestial Dragons could attack Fisher and his entourage.
Although they are old friends, the fishman actually saved Rayleigh's life in his early years and is his savior.
That's why Xia Qi and Rayleigh are so friendly to Li Zhong, a sailor.
"I have my own reasons." Li Zhong glanced at the newspaper left by Xia Qi on the bar not far away. It said that Fisher was recommending the Seven Warlords of the Sea, and stated that the Five Elders had granted Li Zhong the right to select the Seven Warlords of the Sea.
In the large amount of reports below, there are hardly any sentences related to Fisher and the World Government. It's all about his own business.
In his words and deeds, he almost described himself as the spokesperson of pirates in the navy, and pirates became the only designated channel for the Seven Warlords of the Sea to wash their heads and go ashore.
...Those guys really take advantage of every opportunity and never miss any chance to disgust me.
"No matter what the reason is, the fact is that you have helped a lot." Precisely because of this relationship, Rayleigh is reluctant to come into conflict with Li Zhong.
Rayleigh's words were both a thank you and a sign of goodwill towards Li Zhong.
After saying this, Rayleigh turned and said, "By the way, you came here to talk to an old man like me about something?"
Li Zhong put down the cup in his hand.
"I'm just looking for someone to help me deliver the goods. Before I came in, I didn't expect to meet a retired old pirate here."
"However, now that I have met you, I do have some things I want to ask you." Li Zhong said with a faint smile.
"What's the matter? I won't tell you anything related to One Piece." Rayleigh took another sip.
Since I retired, I don't have many opportunities to drink such good wine.
"It has nothing to do with One Piece. I just wanted to ask if you're interested in returning to the entertainment industry."
"Huh?" Pluto Rayleigh was a little puzzled. A navy man asked a big pirate if he wanted to go out to sea again?
What kind of weird question is this?
Li Zhong went straight to the point and stated his intentions directly without beating around the bush with Rayleigh.
"I'm still short of people from the Shichibukai. Are you interested?"
……ah? !
After hearing Li Zhong's second sentence, Rayleigh was completely stunned.
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Chapter 372 Rayleigh's Answer
The so-called Seven Warlords of the Sea are essentially a group of people who kill and burn to be recruited. In this situation where pirates are becoming more and more rampant and the world government is unable to check and control them, they adopt a policy of "fighting pirates with pirates".
On the one hand, it gives the pirates hope, telling them that killing and arson are okay, as long as they don't go against the World Government, there is still hope of getting a clean slate.
On the other hand, he also wanted to issue an imperial decree to pacify Liangshanpo, let Liangshan fight Fang La, and after the fight, he would be killed and given a cup of "poisoned wine" by the emperor.
Although Li Zhong doesn't know about the World Government's "Seraph" plan to clone the Seven Warlords of the Sea, he can imagine that the World Government must have some means to deal with these people after "using" them.
But it doesn't matter.
As for the Seven Warlords of the Sea system, the selection of candidates is not very important. What is important is whether or not there is such a system. When this system appears, the World Government's political mission of sending a signal to the pirates has been completed.
Now the main role of the Seven Warlords of the Sea has deviated from its original purpose of sending political signals and recruiting thugs with high salaries. It has become a means for the World Government and Li Zhong to disgust each other.
The World Government asked Li Zhong to select one of the Seven Warlords of the Sea to destroy his prestige. Li Zhong chose a fishman who had attacked the holy land and burned the Celestial Dragons. After Li Zhong made his selection, the World Government continued to intensify its efforts to discredit him.
...Since your World Government has come up with a new trick and described me as the spokesperson for pirates in the newspaper, then I will be the spokesperson for you!
I will directly recruit the vice-captain of One Piece to be one of the Seven Warlords of the Sea for you!
After hearing Li Zhong's words, Pluto Rayleigh was stunned for a few seconds before reacting.
After laughing twice, he said, "Young man, your joke is really funny."
"If you choose me, the Five Elders will probably be furious."
Rayleigh thought Li Zhong was just joking with him.
After all, this is simply impossible.
Facing Rayleigh's laughter, Li Zhong said calmly: "I can find a way to deal with the Five Elders. As long as you nod, you can play as a Shichibukai soon."
For a pirate of Rayleigh's level, the position of Shichibukai is really just a "toy" for him.
Seeing Li Zhong's calm expression that showed no emotion, Rayleigh realized something.
"...Are you serious?"
The smile disappeared from Rayleigh's face.
"Yeah." Li Zhong nodded.
He was serious from beginning to end.
Pluto Rayleigh was silent for a few seconds, then he spoke in a formal tone: "I am already a retired old pirate. My era is over. The new era is your era. An old man like me will not get involved."
"Now, I am just a coating ship maker in the Sabaody Archipelago, nothing more."
During these few seconds of thinking, Rayleigh roughly figured out that the current Seven Warlords of the Sea might have some deviations from what many people on the sea thought of the Seven Warlords of the Sea, and Li Zhong's identity or ability should be more complicated than what everyone on the sea thought!
Judging from the tone of Li Zhong's words just now, he didn't take the Five Elders seriously at all!
If it is just an idea, then it is nothing. There are people on the sea who are lawless and do not take the World Government seriously at all.
What is truly noteworthy is that Li Zhong actually has a way to force the Five Elders to pass on what he wants!
Although Rayleigh was unsure whether Li Zhong could really get the position of Shichibukai he was trying to get, at least according to the minimum standards, Li Zhong also had the ability to put such a proposal in front of the Five Elders and ignore their anger.
Rayleigh knew how terrifying the power of the Five Elders was.
Thinking about it this way, Li Zhong is...
Li Zhong just smiled at what Rayleigh said.
"You don't want to go back to sea as a Shichibukai, I respect your opinion."
"But I don't think there is such a thing as the end of an era."
Raising his head, Li Zhong drank the hot milk in the cup.
"As long as a person lives, his era will never end!"
"Even if he dies, as long as he is strong enough, his era will continue into the future."
"Rayleigh, you should be one of the people in the world who knows this best! Tell me, what do people in the world call this era?!"
Rayleigh said nothing.
But the answer already appeared in his heart.
The Age of Great Pirates!
The era that his captain opened before his death!
On this sea, there are countless people at this moment, searching for everything the captain left behind!
"So, don't say things like the end of an era. Unprecedented changes are about to take place in this sea. Rayleigh, if you fall behind, maybe many years later, you will become so weak that you can't protect anything." Li Zhong took out a small glass bottle from his arms, which contained three capsules.
"Something that can restore youth... If you are interested in returning to the bustling center of the stage from the quiet audience seats, take one pill." Li Zhong flicked his fingers lightly, and the glass bottle slid from the bar on Li Zhong's side to the bar in front of Rayleigh.
In this world, there are many reasons why pirates become pirates, but in Li Zhong's eyes, pirates are mainly divided into two categories.
One kind is those who commit arson, murder, rape and looting and do all kinds of evil things, and the other kind is those who do not obey the discipline of the World Government or clash with the World Government, making the World Government feel threatened, so they are given the name of pirates.
When Li Zhong saw the former, he would usually just kill them for no reason.
The latter, in Li Zhong's opinion, is an object worth striving for.
After all, sooner or later, he would have to fight with the World Government. Strictly speaking, there was no core conflict between the two sides.
Li Zhong's goal is to become a god. The road to becoming a god is bumpy and rugged. He needs a large number of scientists to assist him in his research, and he also needs a large number of experimental subjects to test the path they deduce.
What Li Zhong gave to Pluto Rayleigh was a newly developed Beast Capsule.
Generally speaking, the aging of a person is a series of chain reactions, including the withering of the heart, the wear and tear of telomeres, the frequent expression errors due to the long service life of DNA, the number of cell divisions reaching a certain limit, the aging of organs, the brittleness of blood vessels and bones, etc.
All of these can be solved with the Baishou Capsule, a drug that can transform the basic structure of life and carry out high-level repairs at the level of blood factors!
I can’t say more, but at least this capsule can extend one’s life by 40 years!
Restore more than 80% of your youthful state!
Having said everything that needed to be said, Li Zhong stood up and prepared to leave.
Before leaving, he suddenly stopped and looked back at Pluto Rayleigh.
"Oh, by the way, there's one more thing."
"If you don't want to be a Shichibukai, do you know a pirate who is similar to you, who has no bad karma but is quite powerful?"
"My Shichibukai are really short of people."
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There is one today, but it will be a few hours later..._(:з」∠)_
Chapter 373: Red Hair becomes a Shichibukai?
Li Zhong's words interrupted Pluto Rayleigh's memories and thoughts about the past.
"Is there no pirate with bad karma?"
Those who become pirates include not only those who do evil, but also some adventurers who do not obey the government.
But there are relatively few such people, and even fewer who are worthy of Rayleigh's attention.
After this conversation, the two sides got along quite well and there were no violent conflicts.
Having already owed Li Zhong a favor and having received the valuable gift of the Hundred Beasts Capsules, Rayleigh really began to think carefully about who might meet Li Zhong's requirements.
Rayleigh thought about it and first eliminated those who would absolutely not accept Li Zhong's invitation.
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