Chapter Twenty-Four: Hurry
The whole process of receiving the bounty was uneventful, there was no bloody incident, and after a trip to the procedure, the bounty of four million Bailey was accepted by Nami Xiaoxiao, and she was comfortably put into her wallet.
Jing Tian asked the staff about the situation on the island, and the staff of the navy did not hide it, took out a map of the town, and pointed out the location of several forges for Jing Tian.
After the two of them walked out of the naval base, Nami glanced back at the building, and then sighed to Jing Tian: "Unexpectedly, the navy here is quite good. β
"Didn't I say that most of the low-level navies are good." Jing Tian responded, and then asked, "Where are you going now?" Accompany you to the shopping for clothes? β
"Why don't you go to those forges?" Nami asked as she walked.
"No need, anyway, I know the location, and I'll just go and see for myself after that."
"Alright, let's go get some clothes." Nami waved forward with a little excitement......
After that, the two spent the whole day shopping, and by the time they returned to the boat in the evening, Nami had already bought two large bags of clothes, all for spring, summer, autumn and winter.
Nami didn't skimp this time, and planned to buy a few for Jing Tian, but Jing Tian refused with a smile, anyway, he was not afraid of the cold and heat, and the clothes on his body were easy to wash. Due to the material, as long as the clothes are washed and shaken hard, they will be dry, and there is no need to replace them with other clothes, at most the image looks monotonous, anyway, Jing Tian doesn't care about it.
The night passed.
The next day, Keitama accompanied Nami around the chart shop and helped Nami return the pile of paper to the ship, and then walked into the town alone and went to the several forges that the navy had pointed out to him to see which one best met his requirements.
The result was not ideal, and after checking it, Jing Tian found that the precision machinery of the 'One Piece' world was too lacking, and all the equipment was too rough.
In desperation, Jing Tian had to assemble it himself, relying on manual and starting from scratch to build the required equipment, of course, what he was going to assemble was just an ordinary lathe 'used to press metal', and Jing Tian was not ready to get the experimental equipment now, and he did not have that condition.
Jing Tian found that even wires in this world could not meet his requirements, and the whole world was still largely at the level of technology in the steam age, and there were only a few aspects where there was a trend of 'black technology', which seemed to be very contrary to the rules of physics.
However, Jing Tian has long been very accustomed to this, every world is different, and he has seen a lot of black technology.
In this way, in the next few days, Jing Tian always left early and returned late, most of the time staying in the forging factory, only when necessary, he would go out of the workshop, go to the material market to personally select materials, and occasionally receive Nami's 'phone bug' contact, Jing Tian quickly rushed to the designated place to capture the pirates before the navy......
A week has passed in the blink of an eye.
On this day, Jing Tian, who was standing on a pirate ship, put down the phone bug in his hand, turned his head to look at the pirates lying on the deck, then shook his head, walked into the cabin and began to look for the rope.
Soon after, Jing Tian dragged the pirate ship closer to the shore.
"You're coming here pretty fast today." Jing Tian said to Colonel Smoker, who looked unhappy.
"You bastard!" Smoker grinned, his teeth were about to break the cigar in his mouth, and he roared to Jing Tian in a very depressed tone: "This is the job of our navy!" Don't be nosy! β
"No more nonsense!" Nami next to her stretched out her hand and pointed to the pirate ship: "Go and calculate the bounty for me!" β
"And you woman!" Smoker turned to Nami and yelled, "I won't miss any of your Bailey!" We don't need you to remind us what the Navy should do! β
"No more nonsense! So many people are watching, hurry up and settle it for me! Nami raised her chin in confidence and urged Smoker with a teasing look in her eyes.
"You ......"
"That...... The colonel calmed down. A girl beside Smoker hurriedly spoke, and then smiled at Nami with an apologetic face: "I'm sorry Nami, pirates come to Rogue Town almost every two days, so the colonel is under a lot of pressure and has a short temper......"
"It's okay Dusty." Nami smiled and waved her hand, "I won't meet him in the same way. β
"You ......" Smoker was very depressed, and couldn't help but turn his head viciously and glared at Jing Tian, he couldn't make a move on Nami, and Smoker could only care about whether to be angry with Jing Tian.
It's a pity that Jing Tian didn't give Smoker a chance, and after throwing away the rope in his hand, he said to Nami: "You and them go to receive the reward, I have work on the workshop that is not completed, I will go first." β
"Go, go, go." Nami waved her hand casually: "Come back early in the evening, today Hachi has added a lot of ingredients and is going to cook a big meal." β
"Got it." Jing Tian responded with a smile, nodded to Dusty, who was still smiling, and then walked directly around Smoker towards the town.
"Two bastards!" Smoker was unhappy, bit the two cigars in his mouth 'creak' softly, stared at Jing Tian's back angrily, and complained in a low voice......
Jing Tian didn't bother to think about what was behind him, after all, Smoker and Dusty both had good character, and if Runami dealt with it alone, there would be no problem at all.
Jing Tian did not return to the forge directly, but went to the raw material market, after all, he just came out once, so he simply added some materials.
Half an hour later, Jing Tian was carrying a large pile of metal and scraps of materials and walking towards the rented forge, but just as he took a shortcut to a sparsely populated area, a conversation in his ears caught Jing Tian's attention.
"Don't worry, boss, I'm a professional." A female voice sounded from the back of a house, and was clearly heard by Jing Tian's enhanced hearing.
"Then I'm bothering you." A hoarse, gloomy male voice followed.
"Hehe, what's the trouble, it just so happens that I can't help you all at all, and the only thing I can do is this sailing technique." The female voice laughed happily.
"Be more careful in the future." The male voice was still gloomy: "You will have a lot of trouble in the future. β
"Don't worry, I'll be careful, I've been here for so many years." The female voice is a little more serious.
"Go, they'll be there in two days." The male voice said, "I'm going to ......"
The words stopped abruptly at this point, because Jing Tian had not stopped, and it happened that the location where the voice came out was the only way, so Jing Tian had already come to the front.
The next moment, a figure suddenly rushed out from the corner of the wall, and then suddenly froze.
Jing Tian was carrying a large pile of materials on his shoulders, as well as a large bundle of long steel plates, and after the girl rushed out, her face was about to hit the steel.
"Eh!" Seeing that it was a girl, Jing Tian hurriedly lifted the front end of the steel with his arm, which allowed the girl to avoid being disfigured.
"Ahh The girl only then screamed, clasped her hands to her chest in shock, and shouted, "Scared me to death!" β
"You woman is frizzy." Jing Tian pretended to be also frightened, and complained to the girl: "Suddenly rushed out to scare people?" Really, what if it hurts someone? β
"Uh, I'm sorry......" The girl was slightly embarrassed, and after a quick glance at Jing Tian, she quickly apologized.
"Are you alright?" The gloomy male voice spoke, and a figure stepped out of the corner.
Covered in a dark green cloak, his face is firmly covered by a hood, and his height exceeds that of Jing Tian, who is 1.9 meters tall.
"It's fine." The girl quickly shook her head.
"I'm sorry to scare you, my companion was a little reckless." The man spoke in a deep voice to Jing Tian.
"It's okay, don't do this next time, it's easy to get hurt." Jing Tian shook his head and admonished the girl.
"Yes, sorry again." The girl bowed slightly.
Jing Tian bowed, glanced at the man, and then walked past the two of them and continued to walk, and soon turned into another alley.
"Boss?" The girl looked at the mysterious man.
"It's okay, you can go." The man whispered.
"Okay." The girl answered, glanced around, and then picked a direction to leave.
On the other side, Jing Tian walked and suddenly raised the corners of his eyebrows, the corners of his mouth curled slightly, feeling the sight on his back, and continued to move forward without care.
It wasn't until Jing Tian arrived at the forge that the feeling of being stared at disappeared, and Jing Tian couldn't help but chuckle.
"Monchi D. Dragon...... ......" muttered, Jing Tian responded to the greetings around him, and walked quickly into the rented workshop, putting down all the materials on his shoulders.
"Interesting." Turning his head to look out the window, Jing Tian muttered again: "The green dragon fruit of the phantom beast species...... I'd love to get my hands on it...... And it's the best fruit for Nami......"
Jing Tian guessed the identity of the other party at the first sight of the man, although Jing Tian behaved naturally after that, but no one knew that he had to put some effort into suppressing his impulsive thoughts.
Monchi D. Dragon eats the green dragon fruit of the 'Phantom Beast Species', which the other party got when he was in the navy, and the ability of this fruit is very powerful, not to mention the strengthened physical fitness, and the fruit ability can also control the clouds.
The cloud is from the dragon, the wind is from the tiger, Jing Tian has never heard of the 'White Tiger Fruit', but he knows the ability of the 'Green Dragon Fruit'. All kinds of clouds in nature can be completely controlled by their eaters, whether they are white clouds or dark clouds, whether they are clouds full of positive and negative charges, or clouds full of hail or water droplets.
Moreover, the fruit ability can not only control the clouds in nature, but also generate the desired clouds out of thin air, so that as long as the fruit ability has some knowledge, they can indirectly control the weather through their ability.
If you want thunder, you can generate dark clouds, if you want strong winds, you can control clouds, cause hot and cold temperature differences, and even create huge hailstones to form natural disasters.
Not to mention that there is a special kind of cloud in this world, that is, the kind of cloud of the Sky Island, Jing Tian even wonders if the Sky Island is made by the 'Green Dragon Fruit' ability of the past generations.
How could a fruit with such a comprehensive ability not make Jing Tian's heart move, that is, he hadn't started his research on the devil fruit yet, and he didn't know how to separate the fruit from the eater's body, otherwise Jing Tian would never let go of the other party with that opportunity just now.
Sighing slightly with some regret, Jing Tian once again suppressed the thoughts in his heart, gathered his mind, and began to devote himself to the manufacture of lathes......
The fact that he met Monchi D. Dragon didn't make Jing Tian struggle for long, and after a night of cultivation, he was left behind by the lazy Jing Tian the next morning.
At Nami's urging, she continued to work at the forge factory, and after two more days, the 'multi-functional metal pressing machine' that Keizene needed was finally completed.
A person carrying a machine tool weighing several tons swaggered through the market, and under the gaze of many curious eyes, Jing Tian transported the machine tool back to the 'Golden Adventure' and placed it in the equipment room.
Machine tools can only be operated manually now, after all, most of the world's energy depends on steam engines, and there is no electricity on the ship, so if you want to automate the machine tools, you can only wait until later, and then go to the 'shipbuilding island' to build a steel battleship, and then Jing Tian will arrange it in detail.
"What the hell is this thing for?"
Seeing that Jing Tian was busy, Nami was very curious and kept looking around the machine, and then asked Jing Tian.
"Weapons can be crafted, and other metal utensils can be crafted as well." Jing Tian replied.
"You can use this to make the sword you want?" Nami couldn't believe it.
"The sword is another story, but this machine is very easy to use to make firearms."
"Do you know how to shoot?" Nami was stunned.
"I'll have a lot of stuff." Jing Tian chuckled, then turned around and walked outside the room: "Let's go, don't look at it, there will be time to play with it in the future." β
"Oh." Nami followed, asking, "Do you have anything else going on the island?" β
"No, what?"
"Then tomorrow we'll make the final resupply, and then set off for the Great Voyage as soon as possible." Nami was eager to try, but before Jing Tian could speak, Nami said her true purpose: "Really, the pirates in the East China Sea are too wasteful, and none of the pirates these days have a bounty of more than five million." β
The corners of Jing Tian's mouth twitched, and he chose to remain silent.
Ever since Nami began to practice internal strength, her personality has been affected by the same 'demonic power' as Keitian's, but fortunately, her 'affected character' is only the greedy side of money.
Now Nami's greed for money is about to catch up with Bucky, and there is already a trend of 'second ideal', the first ideal is 'drawing a world chart' has not changed, and the second ideal, Keizane, is estimated to become 'I want the world's treasures' or something......
The other Hachi is not much better, and after practicing the basic internal skills like Nami, Hachi has become even more stupid.
Now, Xiao Hachi wields six scimitars all day long, and he is determined to become the world's number one swordsman, which makes Jing Tian very helpless......
The night passed.
The next day, it took the morning to replenish supplies, and by noon it was beginning to get gloomy.
Jing Tian and Nami are going to stay on the island for the last day, so they plan to say goodbye to Smoker and Dusty, after all, after nearly ten days of contact, although both sides have shown a bad attitude, but in fact, there is still a friendship, blame Smoker's arrogant, otherwise the friendship between the two sides will be better.
"You're finally going to get off this island?" In the colonel's office, Smoker was still biting two cigars, and after listening to Jing Tian's intentions, he squinted his eyes and said in a disgusted tone.
"What's your business, we're here to say goodbye to Dusty." Nami wasn't too tired, and she had to argue with Smoker every time, and this time it was the same, and she immediately replied with a-for-tat sarcasm.
"You're out of luck, Dusty is out." Smoker put his bipods on his desk and boasted angrily: "Our navy has received a tip that a group of pirates will land in Rogue Town today, so most of them have gone out to patrol and prepare to capture those pirates as soon as possible, and you have no chance this time!" β
"Hmph, we've been out of interest for a long time, we're all worthless pirates, and it's a lot of effort." Nami made a gesture of 'not caring at all', but Jing Tian, who was familiar with her, saw that Nami was distressed for a while.
"Hmph, if you have nothing to do, get out of the naval base, idlers are not welcome here." Smoker said viciously.
"Words......" Jing Tian stood in front of another desk by the window, looked down at the things on the table and asked, "What are you doing with so many stones here?" β
"It's for training." Although Smoker had just spoken ill words, he immediately answered in the face of Jing Tian's inquiry, and it was obvious that his actions just now were tsundere.
"Training? What can these flat stones train? β
"Idiot, there are many things that can be trained, such as concentration, perception, perseverance." Smoker snorted.
"Oh?" Jing Tian looked at the pile of stones again.
"I'll leave as soon as I'm done, I'm about to start training, and I don't have time to deal with you." Smoker got up and walked behind the desk in front of Jing Tian.
Taking off the jacket on his body, Smoker **** his upper body, as if ignoring Keitama and Nami, began to fiddle with the stones, and kept stacking the flat stones one by one.
"I see." Jing Tian looked at it for a moment and understood, and suddenly said: "Your navy originally used this way to train 'domineering'. β
Crash......
The stones suddenly scattered, and Smoker raised his eyes to stare at Jing Tian, and said in a deep voice: "You really know!" β
"What's so strange." Jing Tian shrugged his shoulders.
"It depends on what ocean you're in!" Smoker took a deep breath on his cigar and exhaled a large amount of smoke.
"I didn't say I was born in the East China Sea." Jing Tian said with a smile as he raised his blackened left hand and grabbed the swirling white smoke in front of him.
"Humph!" Smoker snorted coldly, and suddenly, the smoke in front of Jing Tian's palm began to dissipate, and soon turned into normal smoke.
"How do you train for 'Armed Domineering'?" Jing Tian chuckled and didn't care, and asked Smoker instead.
"No comment." Smoker's tone was flat, and then he said in a vague voice: "No matter what the way, it's nothing more than the extreme exercise of physical fitness, and don't think about it, these stones are only suitable for my training method." β
Jing Tian pursed his lips and raised his eyebrows, and said: "I understand, after all, your personality is too irritable, and you are changeable, worthy of being a smoke man." β
"Those bastards!" Smoker grinned, apparently his nickname 'Smoke Man' had been passed on by the Navy soldiers.
"When are you leaving?" Smoker lowered his head again, fiddling with the stones again, and asked in a flat tone.
"Tomorrow morning, Nami said there was a storm today."
"This storm came quite suddenly." Nami interjected, "The change in air pressure is too sudden, and the dark clouds are also very strange, obviously they are rain showers, but the dark clouds are the speed at which the storm clouds move. β
"Oh?" Jing Tian was stunned for a moment, turned his head to look out the window with Smoker, and then chuckled and muttered, "What a coincidence." β
"Coincidentally?" Nami asked.
"Rogue Town is probably not going to have peace today, I guess those pirates will do something." Jing Tian muttered.
"Want to help?" Nami trusted Jing Tian's guess very much, and immediately stepped to the desk when she heard this, supported the table with her hands, stared at Smoker with burning eyes and said, "We don't charge much for it~"
"Think beautifully!" Smoker's face tended to 'pitch black', and he and Nami seemed to be born to be in a rut, and the two couldn't communicate 'good words' at all.
"Reportβ"
Suddenly, a shout rang out from outside the door, and the next moment, a soldier broke in, sweating profusely, without bothering to knock on the door.
Crash......
The pile of stones, which had just been piled up twenty centimeters high, suddenly scattered, causing the corners of Smoker's eyes to twitch.
"Colonel! Pirates make trouble in the execution square...... Opened ......"
The soldiers who rushed in shouted urgently, but when they saw Smoker's situation at this moment, they immediately put away their voices in fright.
"Whew......" Smoker withdrew his gloomy gaze from the soldier, exhaled slowly, and then slowly placed the stone in his hand on the table.
"What a problem!" Nami showed an inophsurable expression of excitement, slapped the table and said, "Don't you think about it?" Give the commission and help you solve the trouble~"
"Don't come, stay side." Smoker reached out and grabbed his jacket, and as he put it on, he ordered the soldier, "Go and inform the First Class troops to rush to the harbor to prevent the pirates from escaping, and by the way, give me control of the pirate ship." β
"Yes!"
"Let the second-class troops secretly approach from the alleys of the block, surround me with the execution square, and the rest of the people will find a suitable shooting distance for me to ambush."
"Yes!"
"Go, oh yes." Smoker stopped the soldier who was about to turn away: "Where is Dusty running now, find her for me quickly, inform him to rush to join me, really, uneasy guy......"
"Yes!" The soldier saluted, then turned and walked away quickly.
"Need help?" Keizam had to ask at Nami's suggestion.
"You guys!" Smoker leaned in slightly, staring at Jing Tian and warned: "Keep me away from those pirates!" This is the responsibility of our Navy! β
"Cut, it's been so idle lately that you're about to grow hair...... Nami muttered, making Smoker's head black...... (To be continued.) )
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