Chapter 224: The First Voyage of the Sea Train
"Three, it's here."
On the other side of the Red Continent, in the 'Red Bay', the descending bubble cable car slowly stops.
"If you need to return to New World, please remember to contact us in advance to arrange a transfer. - Well, leave it at that. ”
Major General Tianzheng had just turned around and left, and he was going to regret his station on the other side of the Red Earth Continent. And here, there is already an 'old acquaintance' walking towards Rosie and Dover and the others.
"Lieutenant General Tsuru?"
Rosie and Dover were taken aback slightly, but they didn't feel anything.
It shouldn't be, although the status of the 'Seven Martial Seas' is not low, it is almost enough to send a major general to greet it. Tsuru is a real high-ranking officer who is a part-time naval chief of staff, why is he here?
"Don't get me wrong,"
Lieutenant General Tsuru, who has reached middle age, saw through Rosie's doubts at a glance, as well as Dover's jealousy.
"I'm just here for a normal personnel transfer, and I'm also interested in your 'sea train' plan, and I want to take a visit, aren't you welcome?"
"Well, that's fine."
"But we've only just made a sample, and it's still a question of whether we'll be able to succeed."
Rossi looked to the side, a large number of people in the coat of naval justice were lining up to go to the new world through the bubble cable car, this number-
It's more than normal personnel transfers, right?
"Come with me, and I'll send you to the capital of the seven waters."
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"Demon Slayer Order?"
"That's right, that's why Sister Crane will appear at the Navy Headquarters."
On the warship with the word "crane" written on the sail, Gion, who had not been seen for a long time, did not shy away from telling Rossi the reason for the large number of naval personnel transferred.
Anyway, the transfer of this level of the 'Demon Slaying Order' can't hide the many forces on the sea.
Maybe tomorrow, it will appear in the newspapers.
Demon Slayer Order?
Rosie frowned,
The so-called 'Demon Slayer Order' is a military operation of the Navy to carry out indiscriminate and devastating attacks on the area where the signal is given, and is used to completely eliminate things and people from an area that threatens the rule of the world government.
Under normal circumstances, the Demon Slaying Order is presided over by a general, dispatching five vice admirals, 10 warships, and tens of thousands of elite navies. This force is easy enough to sweep most of the countries and forces on the sea, and it is a sword of judgment that is feared by countless people!
And when you think of the Demon Slaying Order, the most impressive thing for Rossi is the 'O'Hara Incident'.
O'Hara, a famous archaeological mecca in the West Sea, is the hometown of Nicole Robin. It has the largest number of scholars and the largest collection of books in the world: the Tree of Omniscience.
However, the archaeologists there made a big death: trying to excavate the 'Blank Hundred Years' 800 years ago, and after being stopped by the World Government, the lead Dr. Clover uttered the name in a dead end:
Huge kingdom!
This is like Rossi's previous life, a group of civilian scholars researching nuclear weapons, and in the face of peacekeeping forces, they even claimed that they had increased the concentration of uranium-235 to more than 90%...
If you don't die, who will die?!
So O'Hara was wiped out, and only Robin escaped because of the pheasant.
By the way, it was Sengoku who presided over the O'Hara Demon Slaying Order.
As for the demon slaying order encountered by the 'Straw Hat Regiment' more than 20 years later: only a group of school officers went down to practice, and the five lieutenant generals watched the whole play, and the general was even more righteous and bright paddling, and the only result was to bombard Justice Island into slag.
It's hard not to suspect that this is the Navy 'banging' the CP agency, and that Spandam is the idiot behind it anyway.
Perhaps it is for this reason that many people in their previous lives looked down on the 'Demon Slaying Order'. However, how many people in the entire sea can resist the demon slaying order?
"Who has such a big face and needs the navy to dispatch the 'Demon Slaying Order'?"
Faced with Rossi's question, Gion directly spit out a name:
"Douglas Barrett."
It's him.
Barrett's words are also a tragedy.
He was an orphan of war and was taken by the state as a 'Boy Scout'. As consumables, they are nameless. It's all called: Bullet, or Barrett.
And the captain of his squad is called Douglas, so actually Barrett's name is 'Douglas Squad's first 9 bullets'. It's not even human, it's both realistic and cruel!
In the rigors of the battlefield, the slightest slack can turn to death; The only way to survive is to seize all chances of survival: poisoning, assassination, betrayal... Using the flesh of other 'Barrett' to block bullets is their daily routine.
Countless 'Barrett's falls, but only one person survives to the end, killing all opponents, all colleagues, and their captain, becoming the only 'Douglas Barrett'.
So Barrett only believed in his own power, and for as long as he could remember, he was bent on only seeking strength.
Later, he met Roger, and after being defeated at Roger's hands, he accepted Roger's invitation to board his ship, and along with Reilly, he claimed to be Roger's right-hand man.
As a man who has come out of the battlefield, Barrett's three views have long been distorted: he will only obey more powerful men. Upon learning of Roger's illness, Barrett challenged Roger again, and disembarked after failing.
So Barrett didn't go to 'Ralph Drew', but even when he got off the boat, Roger still held an important place in his heart.
After learning that Roger had been executed, Barrett, who had lost his goal, went on a complete rampage!
For a person like him, what he needs is a man who is stronger than him to give him orders and be able to go on unswervingly. It's a pity that Roger is dead, Whitebeard only wants to take his son, and there is no place for him above the sea.
"Barrett attacked the G6 base in the New World, threatening to resist the 'Demon Slaying Order'."
Gion frowned, she didn't quite understand Barrett's character of not wanting fame and fortune, not wanting wealth, just simply pursuing power, and not hesitating to confront the navy head-on.
In the face of this former 'No. 3 man' of the Roger Pirates, the Navy will naturally not be polite:
Want to fight the 'Demon Slayer Order'? Satisfying you –
Admiral Sengoku personally went out!
Not to mention Barrett, even if Roger is resurrected, he can't please the demon slayer order alone.
"One person resists the Demon Slayer Order, this is really..."
Should I say that he is worthy of being the right and left hand of the former One Piece, or is it said that he can't become a Buddha if he is not crazy?
"Well, this operation has nothing to do with us."
"Yes,"
Gion shrugged his shoulders easily,
"This kind of thing, as long as your 'Seven Martial Seas' are safe and secure and don't make trouble, it is the greatest support for the navy."
This is not like the previous defense of the naval headquarters, the Seven Martial Seas can come in handy; The Demon Slayer Order is the Navy's greatest deterrent, and it never misses (at least that's how it is advertised) and doesn't need the help of other forces.
Otherwise, how can the Navy maintain deterrence across the world?
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A day later,
The City of Seven Waters,
It was not far from Justice Island, and it naturally didn't take long to come from the naval headquarters, and Vice Admiral Tsuru's warship appeared in the waters of the Seven Waters Capital.
"Hey, hey, hey, when I saw Vice Admiral Crane's warship, I wondered if it was you."
A battleship came up, and Torrebol on board saw Rossi and the others on the warship at a glance. Waving happily, he directed the battleship under his feet to turn parallel to the warship, and did not forget to wink at Rossi, who was standing side by side with Gion.
"Since we're all so close, wouldn't it be better for everyone to 'go further'?"
Torrebol's words were automatically filtered by Rossi, and now he cares:
"How is the sea train project progressing?"
"See for yourselves—"
As the two boats docked in the City of Seven Waters, a group of people arrived at Tom's Studio, located in the 'scrapyard'.
On the shore, which has become an open-air shipyard, a unique 'ship' is docked.
sea train,
The cylindrical nose, the towering chimney, the carriages, and the moving wheels pulled by the connecting levers below... This thing can't be said to be similar to the 'steam train' in Rossi's previous life, it can only be said to be exactly the same!
But it was indeed a 'boat', and now this thing is literally 'floating' on the sea.
Since it is a freshly made test product, the 'sea track' has not yet been laid. Now the sea train is quietly suspended in the sea, and as long as the steam engine at the front of the locomotive is started, it can start to speed over the sea.
"This ship... Quite chic. ”
Even Vice Admiral Tsuru, who has seen a lot of things and has been fighting on the sea for half his life, is amazed by the "unique" ship in front of him.
"Since it's a boat, let's see if we can ride the wind and waves."
"It's more like a rail transporter for a mine,"
Gion also expressed his opinion, which made Rosie nod his head.
"Well, Mr. Rosinandi, the sea train has just been manufactured, can it sail normally, I'm also..."
"Don't panic,"
To the apprehensive fish-man Tom, Rosie waved his hand.
"You see so many masters, even if you run with a sea train, it's no problem."
"Whether it's a machine failure, extreme weather, or a Sea King attack, we can handle it with ease! You can rest assured and boldly open it. ”
Rossi, Dover, Jinping, Torrepol, Jorah · ·
There are also Vice Admiral Tsuru, Gion, and a group of naval officers...
With such a lineup, it is enough to launch the 'Demon Slaying Order'. As the first batch of passengers of the 'Sea Train', it is simply not too luxurious, that is, any sea pirates and super giant sea kings will be turned into corpses on the spot!
As for tsunamis, hurricane, thunder, lightning and snow... It's not enough to see.
"Uh, okay."
Tom, the world's No. 1 fish-man shipwright, wiped a cold sweat, of course he wasn't worried about these masters on the ship, but he was worried that the first sea train couldn't carry the toss of so many strong people.
This thing was made to make it easier for ordinary people to travel to and from the island. It's not to provide a place for the strong to fight. If anyone can't think of 'stretching their muscles', the sea train will be scrapped on the spot immediately.
"Ferverford, this thing feels like an oversized carriage."
"Be careful, everyone, don't damage the hull—"
"It's time to go, please sit tight... Forget it, whatever you want. ”
Cocoro, who was a part-time 'conductor', glanced at the masters in the carriage with the rank of lieutenant colonel, and felt that even if the sea train was broken into slag, they would be unscathed.
"Let's go!
”
Woo woo ~ ~~~
With the sound of a long whistle, the chimney above the head of the sea train spit out a puff of white smoke, and the wheels below slowly began to move on the sea.
"Oh? You don't need sails and oars to move forward. ”
Vice Admiral Tsuru, who was sitting in the carriage, flashed his eyes, and as the 'chief staff officer' of the navy, she immediately noticed the strategic value of this!
You must know that this is not a 'Devil Fruit Ability' creation, but a technological product that ordinary people can use.
Can we usher in a new era?
"The idea is good, but the technology content is too low."
In the carriage ahead, from the cyborg in the shape of an armored knight, the electronic voice of Dr. Tie Deno was heard.
Although he had never dealt with Vice Admiral Tsuru, and as a 'helpless' scientist, he should not be overly concerned by the Navy, but there was nothing wrong with being careful.
Dr. Tisdeno himself hid in the City of the Seven Waters, remotely controlling the mechanical armor knight to participate in the maiden voyage of the 'Sea Train', while constantly complaining to Rossi.
"If you use the 'supercritical carbon dioxide heat engine' that I proposed, you can immediately increase the power by a factor of 100!"
"However, this can change the creativity of the sea, and the use of the frighteningly low-tech 'pot camel machine'?!"
The so-called pot camel engine is a power machine with a boiler and a steam engine connected together. It is a model of true 'boiling water', which can be fueled by coal, firewood, heavy oil, etc.; It really doesn't work, even oranges, dead grass, and dung can do.
This kind of 'stupid and coarse' power source made Dr. Tisdano despise it.
"But that's the tool that ordinary people can use,"
At this, Rosie, who knew about it, shook his head.
"Your 'supercritical carbon dioxide heat engine' is unaffordable for ordinary people, but this kind of 'pot camel engine' can bring power to any country, any ordinary person who can't read big words."
"And as long as such sea trains become widespread, they will change the world—"
The era of pirates with sailing oars?
Sorry, under Rossi's influence, it is more likely to become the 'era of the Great Railroad'.
As for Luffy, who has not yet been born, whether he will shout 'I want to be the man of the train king' in the future, Rosie doesn't care.