"Stop! What are you doing here?" As soon as Barrett escorted Fang Yi into the slaves' quarters, a guard immediately blocked their way and questioned them.
"This is a slave sent by Saint Charmarko. You guys better take good care of him. Don't let him die!" Barrett deliberately said in a gruff voice.
This time, they changed their story and no longer mentioned Rozward Saint. The so - called slaves Rozward Saint wanted were just a lie they made up. In case these guards checked with Rozward Saint, the lie would be exposed, although the possibility was extremely low.
Rozward Saint was the father of that idiotic Celestial Dragon who wanted to buy the mermaid Camie at the auction on the Sabaody Archipelago in the original story. He was the very unfortunate one who was sat on and fainted by Usopp.
So Barrett replaced this never - met Celestial Dragon with Saint Charmarko, whom they had just seen. After all, they had at least met once, and it would sound more convincing.
"Saint Charmarko?" The two guards glanced at each other, and it seemed they both saw confusion in each other's eyes.
Seeing this, Barrett knew something might go wrong and was already prepared to fight. However, Fang Yi kept gesturing to him from behind.
"Yeah, originally this kid was for Rozward Saint. But on the way here, Saint Charmarko saw him. Charmarko liked the guard and took him away. Then he told me to leave this kid with you. He said not to kill him or let him go." Maybe it was a sudden inspiration. Seeing Fang Yi's gestures, Barrett immediately blurted out this explanation.
"I see!" The two guards looked as if they suddenly understood. They said with a light laugh, "I was like, 'What the heck?' Saint Charmarko usually doesn't dig this kind of slave. I thought he was switching things up. So it's related to Rozward Saint! But... if Rozward Saint comes here looking for this guy..."
"Don't worry. Only we know about this. If I don't say and you don't say, Rozward Saint won't know! If anything happens, Saint Charmarko will take the blame. If someone really comes here looking for this guy, just let him be taken away. Because if that happens, it means..." Barrett didn't finish his sentence, leaving enough room for imagination.
Hearing this, the two guards immediately nodded and praised Barrett for his good idea.
So Barrett pretended to leave after giving the instructions. After one of the guards took Fang Yi away, Barrett immediately returned, killed the remaining guard, and then put on his armor.
When the guard who escorted Fang Yi came back, Barrett neatly subdued him with one move.
"Where did you take the guy you escorted just now?" Facing Barrett's question, the guard had no backbone and immediately confessed. He also voluntarily handed over the keys.
"Is there a special slave here, the kind who can treat the Celestial Dragons' illnesses?" After putting away the keys, Barrett asked again.
"No... there isn't!" The guard's face changed, and he replied tremblingly.
"If you're lying to me... your fate might be quite miserable!" Barrett threatened again.
"I... I really don't know!" The guard was on the verge of crying and said tremblingly, "This kind of thing isn't something a mere guard like me can know!"
After some thought, Barrett knocked out the guard and hid him. Then he needed to find Fang Yi to discuss what to do. In this regard, he felt he was no match for Fang Yi.
Although he clearly felt that the guard had just lied, he didn't have a good way to make the guard talk, so he had no choice but to knock him out first.
"Hurry up, you guy, come out!" After finding Fang Yi, Barrett opened the cell for him and said irritably.
"Not bad! Your on - the - spot response just now was amazing. Especially that last pause, it gave those two idiots endless room for imagination and immediately fooled them. How did you come up with it?" Fang Yi walked out of the cell smiling and asked Barrett.
"I'm not as amazing as you said. I just didn't know what to say at that point, so I just stopped talking." Barrett left without looking back, which left Fang Yi stunned.
When the two returned to the previous entrance, Barrett told Fang Yi about interrogating the guard.
"So... he must know something?" Fang Yi frowned and said.
"That's right. Instead of asking the slaves here, it's better to get some information from him. Although their status is low, they might really know something!" Barrett nodded and said.
"Leave it to me. You stay here and watch!" Fang Yi nodded, picked up the unconscious guard, and walked into a nearby cell. Shortly after, he walked out smiling broadly.
"What's going on?" Seeing Fang Yi come out alone, Barrett frowned and asked.
"It's done. There is indeed a slave here who is a doctor. After being taken away by the Celestial Dragons, it is said that his status is even higher than theirs now. A lot of people know about this, so he didn't really try to hide it!" Fang Yi replied with a smile.
Barrett's face darkened. Didn't really try to hide it? Then why didn't he tell him? Did he look down on him?
"What else did you find out?" Barrett asked in a deep voice.
"What do you want to know? The color of his underwear? Or what he had for breakfast?" Fang Yi asked with a playful smile.
Barrett wished he could kick Fang Yi in the face; it wasn't the time for jokes.
"Alright, don't sweat the small stuff. Anyway, let's temporarily disguise ourselves as the guards here! I've asked everything I needed to. It should be no problem for us to pretend to be guards!" Fang Yi waved his hand, put away his smile, and said, "According to the guard, although that doctor has a high status, he still lives here. The Celestial Dragons will only summon him when they have a need for him."
"Are you so sure? If he deliberately left out some important information, we might be exposed right away!" Barrett said uneasily.
Mainly, the fact that Fang Yi obtained the intelligence so easily made Barrett feel something was off. Although there were only the two of them guarding the entrance; however, there would be a considerable number of guards as they went deeper inside.
"Don't worry. I'm an expert in this!" Fang Yi said confidently.
Whether it was the well - known ten tortures in the Qing Dynasty or a hundred little tips on torturing people, he could easily deal with these ordinary guards.
Barrett gave Fang Yi a sidelong glance. He had no idea where Fang Yi's unfounded confidence came from, but it didn't matter now. At least they had Clues about the user of the Ope Ope no Mi. They just needed to follow the Clues and keep looking.
"So what should we do now? Don't we already know the whereabouts of the user of the Ope Ope no Mi? Can't we just go straight there?" Barrett was a bit worried about continuing to work as guards here.
Fang Yi shook his head and said, "Although it's true that he lives here, the Celestial Dragons often summon him. So he's not here right now. What we need to do is wait for him to come back!"
"What about Shanks and Buggy? How can we inform them?" Barrett asked after thinking for a while.
"It's not a good time to act now. I'll try to slip out tonight and see if I can track down Shanks and the others!" Fang Yi hesitated for a moment and said.
When night fell, Fang Yi left the slaves' dwelling alone, leaving Barrett behind.
He had obtained a rough map of Mariejois from the previous guard. However, since the guard's knowledge was limited, he couldn't provide effective intelligence about the interiors of many buildings. He could only tell Fang Yi what these buildings were used for.
But this was still much better than knowing nothing. So Fang Yi, who was on his own, directly targeted the area of the buildings where Saint Charmarko lived, trying to find the whereabouts of Shanks and Buggy.
But he searched for a long time. Several times on the way, he almost got discovered by the patrolling guards, and he still couldn't find where the guards lived.
"Damn it! Why is this place so big? There aren't even any map markings. Where the hell is this?" Inside a building, Fang Yi was moving forward carefully. In order to avoid the patrolling guards, he didn't even know where he had run to.
"Tap~Tap~Tap..." The sound of the guards' footsteps came from ahead again. Helplessly, Fang Yi had to open the door of a nearby room and hide inside.
"Hmm?" After entering the room, Fang Yi found that this room was filled with the color pink. Even the floor carpet was pink. Looking up, there were fluffy dolls and some cute toys everywhere. It was obvious that this should be a little girl's room.
In the center of the room was a princess - style bed, and there seemed to be a figure sleeping on it. By the moonlight, Fang Yi quietly crept over.
"Sure enough, it's a little girl from the Celestial Dragons!"
Looking at the clothes placed on the bedside and the appearance of the person in front of him, Fang Yi immediately judged that the other person was a Celestial Dragons. Although this person seemed to be even younger than him, only the Celestial Dragons could enjoy the treatment of such a room in this place.
"Who are you?" Just as Fang Yi confirmed that there was no sound outside and was about to leave, suddenly a delicate and crisp voice rang out behind him, scaring Fang Yi so much that his hair stood on end.
"Um... I'm just a passerby who got into the wrong room! Sorry, I'll leave right now!" Fang Yi, holding a dagger in his hand, had already prepared to take out this little girl.
Although the other person was just a little girl, as a Celestial Dragons, there shouldn't be any good people, right?
Rather than waiting for the other person to shout and attract the guards, it was the best choice to directly take out this little girl or make her lose consciousness right now.
"Ah~ So you just went the wrong way!" The little girl nodded innocently, looked at Fang Yi and said, "But are you here to steal things? The treasure room isn't here. This is the living area! The treasure room... should be over there!"
Fang Yi was stunned and didn't understand what the little girl meant. However, since the other person didn't shout, Fang Yi was also reluctant to hurt such a young girl.
"Hehe... Well... I don't steal. I really just went to the wrong room!" Fang Yi replied with an awkward smile.
"Really? But you don't look like a good person at all!" The little girl said cutely, blinking her big, shiny eyes. "If you're really not a bad guy, then I'll call the guards!"