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The Pirates Pirates and others walked out of the alleyway and headed towards the Mad Hatter Auction House on Wangjiao Street.
Wells, one of the cadres in the regiment, walked beside Kazite and said in a deep voice: "Only information obtained through torture has weight, and that rat is too cooperative. Should we believe the information he gave us?"
He is a cadre at the same level as Raglan, but unlike Raglan, he is proficient in swordsmanship and specializes in firearms.
Kazite looked forward and said indifferently: "The auction is coming soon. I don't want to cause trouble. These bad things will be dealt with after the auction is over."
"clear."
Wells said nothing more after hearing this.
The group of them rushed back to Mad Hatter Town almost on time.
When they came back, they heard that Raglan had been shot dead in the tavern, and they immediately realized that someone was targeting them.
Otherwise, they would not have killed their navigator first, and then killed Raglan who stayed behind to deal with the matter.
Although Katzite advocates safe development and not causing trouble, it does not mean that he is afraid of trouble.
However, he was interested in several items in the auction, and one of them was the fishman slave, which was one of the guarantees for successfully passing through the upside-down mountain and sea currents.
In order to compete for the goods he was interested in, he used the news of the sale as a bridge for cooperation, and united with two other pirate groups of similar strength to swallow up Platinum's fleet, so as to obtain sufficient funds for the auction.
After so much effort and effort in preparation, how could the plan be disrupted by other things.
Moreover, it was already a race against time to find the wolf rat after several rounds of understanding. If we delayed further, we might miss the auction.
The Sharp Ox Pirates walked very fast, and soon they arrived at the gate of the Mad Hatter Auction House.
At this time, there was still about half an hour before the auction started, but most potential buyers had already entered the venue early.
Despite this, there was a huge flow of people at the entrance of the auction house.
Due to the regulations of the auction house, Katzite only brought two cadres with him.
He did not choose to hand over the money he brought to the auction partner's concealment master, but walked directly into the venue with the money.
The so-called concealment master can be roughly understood as a profession that keeps something for others. The customer group he faces is naturally mainly pirates.
In this world, there are tens of millions of islands, large and small, including many uninhabited desert islands.
Many of these desert islands were used by pirates to hide treasures, spirits and other things that were extremely valuable to them.
On the other hand, the problem with doing this is that there is no guarantee of property safety. As soon as the hard-earned treasure is hidden in the front foot, it may be accidentally knocked away by other colleagues.
Under this normal situation, hiding masters emerged as the times require. By charging a certain level of reasonable handling fees, they provide paid custody services to pirates like banks.
The main job of the collector who cooperates with the auction at this time is to keep the funds for the buyer.
Once the buyer chooses to entrust the concealment master to temporarily keep the bidding funds, then after the buyer successfully bids for the goods, he does not need to go through some cumbersome handover procedures and can directly take away the goods on the spot.
If the purpose of the auction is a product like Devil Fruit...
Of course, it is safer to eat it on the spot.
All in all, according to the respective buyers' own considerations, some people choose to entrust a concealment master, while others choose to enter the auction house with funds.
Katzite is the latter.
Located in the tavern near the Mad Hatter Town auction house.
"Hidden Master, the professions here are really diverse."
Wearing a mask, Maude occupied a table alone, silently listening to the information provided by the "enthusiastic citizens" around her during the chat, and learned a lot about Mad Hatter Town.
As for his ability to monopolize a table, it was not achieved with fists like Kidd.
The root cause is his undertaker attire.
In the eyes of the pirates in Mad Hatter Town, the undertaker is a corpse collector at best, a scavenger at best, and a cleaner at worst.
With such an unlucky profession, naturally no pirate would be willing to sit at the same table as Mod.
Maude was happy with this phenomenon.
He ordered wine and food but did not move. Whenever he heard chatting content related to names, he would quickly look over it and then take it back without leaving a trace.
Every pirate who was quickly "scratched" by him would be inexplicably shocked.
Apart from being strange and confused, I had no idea what was going on.
Time passes bit by bit.
Occasionally a pirate would get up and leave, and occasionally a pirate would open the door and come in.
Every time the door of the tavern was pushed open, Maud would always glance at it without leaving any trace.
Crunch—
The door was pushed open again.
A blond boy with a black top hat walked into the pub.
He stood in front of the door and glanced at the seating situation in the tavern, and instantly located the relatively empty position of Maud.
Chapter 26 It’s fate
"It's so lively."
The blond boy who pushed open the door and walked into the tavern was the steel pipe boy who had just arrived in Mad Hatter Town during the day.
He raised his fingers and pressed the brim of his hat lightly, with a smile on his lips.
The tavern was almost full, but the table where Maud was sitting had two empty seats, which stood out.
The steel pipe didn't hesitate at all and headed straight towards the table where Maude was.
He didn't know much about the undertaker's profession, so he had no concerns about bad luck or disgust.
Arriving at one of the empty seats at the table, the steel pipe glanced at Maud, who was wearing a mask and was silent, and sat down without saying a word.
This is a free and casual tavern. If you have a seat, you can sit or if there is no seat, you can stand. No matter where you sit or stand, you don't need anyone's consent.
After sitting down, the steel pipe kept paying attention to Maud's reaction from the corner of his eye. At the same time, he waved to the waitresses who were as busy as ants on a hot pot, indicating that they would order here.
Maud observed the young man who had just sat down. The darker sunglasses looked very out of place at this moment.
In order to hide her gaze, Maude ate for the first time the snack she had ordered for a long time.
Dozens of seconds later, a waitress holding a tray hurried to the table and asked softly what the steel pipe needed.
The steel pipe smiled and ordered a glass of draft beer and an appetizer.
"Please wait."
After taking the order, the waitress hurriedly left.
As time goes by, the pubs, restaurants, and casinos near the Mad Hatter Auction House that can be used for a short rest are full.
Because most potential buyers who participate in the auction basically bring a large group of people.
The auction house stipulates that a guest can only bring two followers at most, which means that other people who come with him can only wait outside, and resting places such as taverns are their place to go.
If the steel pipe does not sit down, others will definitely sit down later. If they encounter an overbearing pirate, they will most likely threaten Mod to give up the table.
On the other hand, a relatively kind-hearted young man occupied one of the seats, which helped Maud eliminate some hidden dangers.
After placing the order, the steel pipe lay back, but was placed on the water pipe behind him, so he simply untied the water pipe and placed it on the table.
Maude glanced at the plain-looking water pipe, and a strange color flashed in her eyes.
Using water pipes as weapons... It's quite unconventional.
"you do not mind?"
The steel pipe noticed Maud looking at the water pipe and smiled slightly.
Maud remained silent.
Do it first and then ask if you mind.
This guy is obviously the willful type.
Seeing that Maude was silent, the steel pipe took this opportunity to talk further:
"I saw several people wearing masks like you on the street today. I heard that they are a profession called undertakers, so are you also an undertaker?"
While talking to Mod, Steel Pipe was distractedly listening to the conversations of the surrounding pirates, trying to filter out some valuable information.
Before the auction officially started, he and Clara worked separately, using various methods to collect as much information as possible.
Maude did not speak, but nodded.
His focus is more on listening to information.
In this way, the steel pipe kept saying a word, while Maud sometimes nodded, sometimes shook his head, but in any case, he didn't speak.
The two look like this on the surface, but secretly they are doing the same thing.
It can only be said that fate is so wonderful that they sat at the same table.
After several contacts, both Maude and Gang Guan soon noticed something strange.
I don't know if it was a coincidence or not, but the two of them looked at each other in a tacit understanding, and immediately their eyes separated as soon as they touched each other, and they each looked away.
"This guy..." x2.
Maude narrowed her eyes.
Steel Pipe raised his eyebrows.
"What's the origin?" x2.
Maude and Steel Pipe were thinking separately.
The atmosphere on the table suddenly cooled to zero.
Crunch—
The tavern door was pushed open.
A man with a cane in his hand and an eerily fair complexion walked in.
Astonishingly, it was Lafayette, who was well-known in the West Sea and was known as the Devil Sheriff.
He was originally a peace officer somewhere in the West Sea, but he became notorious for his excessive use of violence and was even expelled from the country.
After that, he naturally became a pirate, but his previous nickname was retained. This shows how infamous he was at that time.
Lafayette glanced around and immediately saw the only empty seat in the tavern.
Immediately, he walked towards the empty seat.
And that empty seat is the table where Maude and the steel pipe are.
In the tavern, many pirates who were chatting and drinking looked at Lafayette, because the other party's indiscriminate killing behavior during this period made people unconsciously vigilant.
Lafayette's arrival, just because of his evil reputation and evil deeds, made the lively atmosphere at the scene slightly stagnant.
Maud also saw Lafayette, whose extremely strong style of dress and appearance made him recognize him immediately.
Isn't this Blackbeard's accomplice
Why are you here
Maude's eyes changed slightly.
Although Blackbeard's associates don't appear much in the original novel, almost everyone has a distinctive personal style.
Therefore, although Maude did not know Lafayette well enough, she could remember them and recognize Lafayette's identity from the dressing style.
Um
Seeing Lafayette walking in this direction, Maude subconsciously glanced at the empty seat next to her, and suddenly felt a little ache in her balls.
How about running away first
Thinking of this, Maud moved her eyes slightly and glanced at a table of guests five or six meters away.
That was the goal he chose after staying here for dozens of minutes.
The reason is that the other party uses his reward order as capital to brag about over the wine table.
And if a prey like this that comes with its own strategy is let go, how can it be tolerated by God
The original plan was to wait here until the other party left, and then follow him out to find an opportunity for a sneak attack.