However, not long after they started walking, everyone's mood wasn't very good. After all, even though it was night, what in the world was this place?
If you called it a forest, it was still eerily dead even at night. If you called it an island, it was like a haunted house.
"Hulk doesn't like it here. I really want to smash this place," Hulk said with an angry expression as he walked.
"But this doesn't look like an uninhabited place. We should just get our supplies and leave as soon as possible," Azure Phoenix said calmly and immediately.
"Although I don't understand you humans, I want to ask, is this a place for humans to stay? I know you humans don't like such gloomy places."
Basha said with a mocking expression, but she also disliked it here very much, so she said with a look of disgust.
"I don't like it either, and why do I feel like this isn't an island?" Core Wolf said, frowning.
"Not an island x3." The other three all asked with confused expressions, and a little surprised.
"I'm not sure yet, but we'll know if we go a bit more to the center. If I'm not mistaken, um... wait, who?!"
Clearly, Core Wolf had already guessed something; after all, he was also a Scientist.
But suddenly, he noticed movement from the nearby woods. It seemed like there was a living presence coming from inside, so he immediately shouted.
At the same time, he immediately activated the Ultimate Chip to the first stage, ready to be randomly deployed.
The other three also immediately got ready for battle. Hulk clenched his fists, Basha extended her palm, ready to spray water jets, and Azure Phoenix also immediately placed her hands on his sword.
"Yohohohoha... Guests passing by, don't be nervous. I mean no harm."
Immediately, a strange and eerie laugh came from the woods, but it was clear from it that he indeed meant no harm, so the four immediately relaxed a little.
Then they were surprised to find that the one who came was a skeleton, wearing an afro. But it really seemed like a skeleton with such an afro, and it was a living skeleton, dressed in a black gentleman's suit, wearing a small black top hat, holding a cane. But everyone could see that this was clearly a sword, it should be a special cane-sword. Few people use this kind of weapon, because it's not as good as using a normal sword.
The identity of the newcomer was already obvious: Brook, the sole survivor of the Rumbar Pirates, who had miraculously survived after eating the Revive-Revive Devil Fruit. His true age was now 90. He remained here, driven by the desire to fulfill his promise to Laboon the whale, which was his motivation to live on. He was here to retrieve his shadow, otherwise, he would be unable to leave.
"Undead creature?" Hulk and Basha, one from a world with a death realm and having seen undead creatures, and Basha, as a demon, naturally understood such beings. So both of them regarded Brook as an undead creature, and a skeletal type at that.
But Core Wolf and Azure Phoenix were still startled, because in their original world, there was no such concept of undead creatures. There were some, but they were merely illusions and not truly existent.
"No, you've misunderstood, my friends who have inadvertently stumbled in here. I am Brook, a skeleton man who ate the Revive-Revive Devil Fruit."
It turned out to be a Devil Fruit. The four, who had already learned about them, immediately breathed a sigh of relief. After all, as long as it was a normal living being, even a demon, they didn't like undead creatures. But as long as it was a Devil Fruit User from this world, they could still accept it. Well, they could only grudgingly accept some.
But thinking about it, it made sense; even the Straw Hat Pirates later on were terrified when they first met Brook, only slowly adapting and eventually becoming comrades they could entrust their backs to.
"Are you a resident here? We truly stumbled in by accident and wish to purchase some supplies."
Azure Phoenix immediately said, getting to the point.
"No, I am not a resident here. This is Moria's territory. The living people who live here, even counting myself, do not exceed the number of fingers on one hand," Brook said, shaking his head, and was also very happy that the few people in front of him could accept him as he was now.
It's just a pity that there are no beautiful women here. Even the only female is from the Fish-Man Tribe, and he's not interested in the Fish-Man Tribe. He still prefers normal human ladies and wants to see their panties.
"Hmm?"
"What the hell?"
"This place is so big, but there are so few people?"
"Can you tell me more about it?"
Hulk, Basha, Azure Phoenix, and Core Wolf asked in confusion one after another. But at the same time, due to their concentrated attention, none of them noticed that some white, ghost-like things flew away from a distance, and they even looked at them before flying off.
"Yohohohoho... Here's what happened." Brook immediately explained the whole story.
After his explanation, Azure Phoenix and the others understood that this was the territory of Moria, one of the Warlord of the Sea. There were indeed not many living people on this island, because the others were all dead people, a group of patched-up zombies. However, they weren't traditional zombies without reason; these zombies still retained some memories from their former lives.
The living people were indeed only Brook in front of them, Moria himself, and his three captains. There should also be some other living people on the island, but Brook didn't know them and didn't know the exact number, as they usually hid very well.
At the same time, they also learned about Moria's hobby, or to put it unpleasantly, his fetish, which was collecting corpses, stealing corpses, and creating zombies, attempting to use these external means to defeat Kaido, one of the current Yonko.
And they also learned the zombies' weakness, but for them, even without a weakness, they could still defeat those zombies.
The four were stunned after hearing everything, but suddenly Core Wolf's eyes lit up. Then, after greeting Brook, he immediately pulled the other three aside and said,
"This is clearly a scoundrel, not a good person, but this is also a good opportunity. Don't forget, we just realized we're broke. Miss Luna doesn't allow us to harm civilians, but here, I dare say there isn't a single good person."
"So, why don't we just fight our way through, beat this Moria until he's begging for mercy, and make him hand over the supplies we want, and even some money? This guy has been around for so many years, even if he's a fat recluse now, he probably has a lot of goods."
"And causing trouble for someone like him doesn't violate Miss Luna's words either."
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