"Stop crying! Keep crying and I'll sell you right away!"
A young man in work clothes, with a hideous face, brandished a wrist-thick iron rod and banged it against the iron cage.
At the sound, those who had been sobbing covered their mouths. Even though they were terrified, they dared not make a sound.
The hideous-faced staff member nodded in satisfaction.
Then he walked towards Charlotte.
Because Charlotte was the only one in the room softly snoring.
Even though the snore was faint, it could be clearly heard in the quiet space.
The hideous-faced staff member stopped in front of the iron cell where Charlotte was held. Seeing Charlotte sleeping so soundly, he cursed under his breath.
"Damn it, kid! Wake up! What the hell are you sleeping for? I'm still up, and you're dead asleep?"
Clang! Clang, clang!
The hideous-faced staff member banged the iron cage with the iron rod, trying to wake Charlotte up. But no matter how hard he banged, Charlotte didn't budge and continued to snore softly.
"Damn it! You dare to ignore me? You're asking for death, aren't you?"
The hideous-faced staff member stopped banging the cage. Instead, he poked the iron rod through the bars and prodded Charlotte hard.
He poked Charlotte in the face and belly without mercy, but Charlotte remained completely unaffected and continued to snore softly in the cage.
"Damn it! Wake up, you bastard! Stop sleeping!"
This staff member obviously had a grudge against Charlotte. He wildly lashed the iron rod at Charlotte's body.
But Charlotte still didn't show the slightest reaction.
"Damn it!"
The hideous-faced staff member's eyes turned red. He wildly lashed the iron rod at Charlotte's body.
Everyone in the warehouse was terrified. They feared that after failing to wake the man up, this angry man would vent his remaining anger on them.
"Cho! Manager Fei is here! Go and see him!"
A voice came from outside the warehouse, rousing the hideous-faced staff member who had been tormenting Charlotte.
Hearing the words, the staff member named Cho angrily dropped the iron rod in his hand and walked out of the warehouse.
Everyone in the warehouse heaved a sigh of relief.
Not long after Cho left, the crying started again.
As the crying continued and more people joined in, Charlotte, who was sleeping, frowned slightly, as if having a nightmare.
He let out a soft grunt.
This single grunt made everyone around look at Charlotte.
They were all shocked.
After being hit so many times by that hateful man, he seemed completely unharmed. How could they not be shocked?
But after grunting once, Charlotte just changed his sleeping position and continued to doze off.
Next door, The Red Count was also sound asleep. He emanated a strong aura of the nobles, with an elegant sleeping posture.
In the entire warehouse, only these two men seemed out of place with the rest.
"Manager Fei, you called me!"
Cho bowed and scraped as he entered Manager Fei's office, trying to curry favor.
"Here!"
These are the slaves to be auctioned tomorrow. Get everything ready. Everyone coming to the auction tomorrow is a noble, and even the mayor will show up. Don't mess things up for me."
Manager Fei handed Cho a list, which was the list of slaves to be auctioned tomorrow.
Among them were Charlotte and The Red Count.
However, it wasn't their names but their numbers.
They were number ninety-eight and ninety-nine respectively!
These numbers corresponded to the numbers of those iron cages.
Cho carefully took the list and glanced at it.
"No problem! Don't worry! I guarantee I'll get everything sorted out for you."
Cho said with a reassuring look on his face.
"Good, good, good! You can go now!"
Manager Fei said with a beaming smile and then waved his hand.
"Yes!"
Cho slowly backed out.
After walking out of the office and closing the door, Cho let out a sigh of relief.
He took the list and left.
He needed to check the slaves on the list to make sure they were all still alive.
From number one to number one hundred, there were a total of a hundred slaves to be auctioned.
These were all to be sent to the auction house, so there couldn't be any discrepancies.
When he checked number ninety-eight, Cho saw the person who had just made him very angry.
Charlotte was still sleeping in the iron cage.
"Humph! Just wait till tomorrow to be a slave!"
After Cho said that, he looked at the other person.
He didn't want to waste any more words on such a person.
After checking all the slaves, Cho walked out of the warehouse contentedly.
Then the warehouse fell silent again.
After that, those who were about to be auctioned began to cry softly one after another.
The atmosphere in the warehouse became extremely oppressive.
This made Charlotte frown deeply in his sleep, looking very unhappy.
If Charlotte were awake, he would know that it was his Observation Haki acting up again. He was easily influenced by the strong emotions nearby.
Charlotte thought he had already gained control over it, because as long as one person's emotion was extremely intense, it would affect Charlotte's mood.
But as he grew older, this problem of being easily influenced by emotions became weaker. He wouldn't be affected by an individual's emotions anymore.
However, the emotions of everyone in this warehouse had been suppressed for a long time, and the emotions they released were far beyond what one or two people could compare to.
Charlotte was affected again.
But since Charlotte was drunk and sleeping at the moment, this influence was transmitted into his dream.
Now Charlotte was feeling very uncomfortable in his dream, because his dream was filled with despair and wailing, which made him extremely uncomfortable.
Outside, Rear Admiral Wells finally waited for Brew to wake up and sent him back to the shore.
"Admiral Kong! I'm very sorry, but I lost track of Charlotte!"
Wells said to the Den Den Mushi with a look of shame on his face.
In the admiral's office at Navy Headquarters, Kong looked at the Den Den Mushi with a suddenly gloomy face after hearing that.
"It's okay! Keep looking, but make sure you stay safe. Don't get close to Charlotte. Just keep a far - off watch on him!"
Kong said while looking at the Den Den Mushi.
"Yes!"
Wells replied.
After Wells finished speaking, Kong hung up the phone.
The Den Den Mushi returned to its original state.
Wells carefully put the Den Den Mushi away and stuffed it into his chest.
Now he needed to find Charlotte's location. Otherwise, not to mention surveillance, he couldn't even find her.
Since it was a secret surveillance mission, Wells didn't dare to ask around.
He could only search street by street.
But he found nothing.
Wells even gathered his subordinates and asked if they had seen Charlotte.
All of them replied that they hadn't seen her.
Wells had no choice but to send them out to search together. As for the pirates following Charlotte, they were unimportant.
The most important thing was Charlotte.
Just like that, because Wells didn't dare to make a big deal of it, he and his more than thirty plain - clothes Navy searched for an afternoon.
It was already dark, but they still hadn't found her.
"Where should we go back to?"
Wells sat in front of a teahouse with his more than thirty subordinates, thinking.