Chapter 246 Human Trafficking
“Okay!”

After receiving the “invitation” from the gangsters, baby-5 nodded happily and replied.

Gangster: “?”

Obviously, they did not expect that baby-5 would agree so readily.

“Then… let’s go now?” Some of the gang leaders who were so frustrated that they even started to stutter when they spoke.

“go!”

Baby-5 said that she was going to go to the bar with the other person to drink.

However, Luo, who was standing behind her, grabbed her in time and said, “Baby-5, have you forgotten that there is a family rule that minors are not allowed to drink?”

“Ah? It seems so!” Baby-5 reacted suddenly and immediately apologized to the gangsters: “Sorry, it seems I can’t go drinking with you guys.”

“Don’t want to drink? Then drink milk. Come on, I’ll feed you some milk.”

One of the blue-haired thugs was about to step forward and put his arm around Baby-5’s shoulders.

Luo frowned slightly when he saw this, and immediately drew out the sword on his back and put it across the blue-haired man’s neck. “I advise you to get out of here quickly, or you will die without knowing how.”

Perhaps it’s because he has been with the Donquixote Pirates and has been with the family’s cadres for too long.

At this moment, there was actually a hint of murderous intent in his slightly narrowed eyes.

The blue-haired gangster was frightened by this sudden scene, but after a while, the fear turned into anger.

“Damn little devil, you actually dared to scare me…”

“Damn it, kill him!”

At the command, several other thugs behind Lanmao took out the flintlock pistols hidden in their arms.

At the same time, before Baby-5, who had transformed his arm into a machine gun barrel, could fire a bullet, a huge tree suddenly fell from the sky and knocked all four thugs with guns unconscious.

“what’s the situation?”

Blue Hair glanced back in surprise.

Xia He, who had transformed the wood, had already walked out of the crowd with Buffalo, looked at him and said, “Sorry, I missed it.”

“Mistake…?”

The blue-haired thug swallowed and wondered how come a devil fruit user suddenly appeared?
You know, in the four seas, any fruit ability user and any pirate with a bounty of over 10 million are considered extremely rare, and most likely they are not something that local thugs like them can afford to offend.

So he thought about it and said, “I think there must be some misunderstanding between us.”

“Misunderstanding?” Xia He raised his eyebrows.

“Yes.” The blue-haired thug nodded repeatedly, “I just thought this little sister was very cute and wanted to treat her to something. I didn’t mean any harm.”

“Really?” Baby-5 raised one of her feet as usual and blushed as she heard that. “You said I’m cute… Are you proposing to me?”

Blue-haired thug: “?”

Xia He: “?”

Luo: “.”

Half Moon looked at Baby-5 with a sidelong glance. Xia He helplessly reached out and pressed Baby-5’s forehead, pushing her aside. Then he directly told the thug their identities: “We are from the Don Quixote Pirates. We happened to pass by here today and came here to purchase supplies.”

“Don Quixote?!” The blue-haired thug’s eyes widened as he heard this. “You should have told me earlier that you were from the Don Quixote Pirates. How could I dare to provoke you… Uh, no, if you had told me earlier that you were from the Don Quixote Pirates, I would have immediately notified our boss to come and receive you.”

He reached out and gently pushed away the sword that Luo had placed on his neck, and bowed to Xia He in a very flattering manner, “I wonder where your master… well, I mean, where the person in charge is?”

“If you have something to say, just say it.” Xia He blinked.

“Oh, okay. I heard that you are in the human trafficking business? My boss has kidnapped a lot of children from all over the place recently…not only children, but also many beautiful women. I wonder…will you be willing to take them in?” Lanmao lowered his voice and whispered in Xia He’s ear.

Xia He frowned when he heard this.

But soon, he hid his unhappy mood, turned to look at Buffalo and said, “Hey, does our family do this kind of business?”

“It seems so.” Buffalo nodded.

At the same time, Luo interrupted: “It just started some time ago. Master Dover said that the profits from human trafficking are even greater than those from arms trafficking. After all, not every country is in the midst of war, but every town has nobles who need slaves…”

These words indeed came from Doflamingo’s mouth.

Therefore, whenever they encountered homeless children, the cadres of the Don Quixote family would first take them back to Spedalmaltz. After a period of trials, those who failed would be sent by Corazon to be sold.

In fact, Corazon would send these children back to their hometown or to the Navy Headquarters to protect them.

As for the money to be given back to Doflamingo…

These were all the savings he had accumulated during his more than ten years as a sailor, as well as the funds approved by his adoptive father, Zhan Guo.

Corazon knew very well that if this continued, the money he had would definitely not be enough.

But what can we do?

As a naval soldier with a strong sense of justice, how could Corazon sit idly by and watch those lovely children being sent to “Purgatory”?

“Is that so?” Xia He raised his eyebrows.

Human traffickers…

Apart from murderers with extremely cruel methods of committing crimes, the type of criminals he hated most in his previous life were human traffickers.

Perhaps because he has so many children, Xia He, who has raised several children himself, really can’t bear to see such a tragedy happen.

So he asked: “Why did you think of cooperating with us?”

“We don’t have a channel for auctions.” The blue-haired thug chuckled, “If we can reach a cooperation in the future, we promise that we can deliver a batch of goods to you every six months. When the time comes, you can take them and auction them at a high price… Everyone can make money, how great, don’t you think?”

Xia He raised his eyebrows again when he heard this.

His opinion of this gangster has changed slightly.

I originally thought that these guys were just a bunch of useless people who were just waiting to die, but I didn’t expect that they actually had some wisdom?

Even though this wisdom is not used in the right way.

And at the moment when they were talking, Pique, who had purchased most of the supplies, finally arrived here.

“What’s wrong, Xia He, did something happen?” He pushed the sunglasses on his nose and asked Xia He.

“Is such that……”

After thinking about it for about two seconds, Xia He chose to step forward and tell Pique what had happened without hiding anything.

(End of this chapter)