Chapter 30: Luffy: This high-end game
Under Rossi's guidance, Luffy, Zoro, Nami, Sanji, Chopper · ·
Although they are not as ignorant as the original timeline, they fight all by luck and talent, but they continue to train systematically, but after all, their age is here, and their youth has infinite potential.
But being young also means immaturity, and it's going to be an uphill battle. ’
As the temperature rises sharply around us, a golden continent is in sight, and Alabastan has arrived.
Soon, a desert-like city came into view, with buildings with round spires, coconut trees dotted around the city, and a large number of people wrapped in robes.
"Come, put these robes on."
Vivi picked out a bunch of robes from Nami's clothes and draped them over the crowd.
"Huh? Wouldn't that be hotter? ”
Luffy looked reluctant, the temperature around him was high enough, and he actually wore this kind of thing.
"The midday temperature in Alabastan is 50 degrees, and in order to avoid skin burns, it is necessary to wear a robe."
Vivi patiently explained that this is why the desert country is wrapped tightly: compared to the sweltering heat, the skin is more deadly than the stuffiness.
"Don't, I can handle this temperature!"
Luffy decisively refused, and in his opinion, it was still his shirtless shoulders and five-point pants and slippers that were cool.
"I don't need to,"
Zoro waved his hand,
"This bit of heat is considered a workout. - Speaking of which, Mr. Rosie is hanging on the sun, and the temperature he faces should be more terrifying, right? ”
"Yes, I estimate it to be 6,000 degrees here. High temperature is secondary, and when the continuous bright light is turned into heat on the person, it is the real fatal injury. If it weren't for my special fruit ability, the whole person would have been evaporated in a few seconds. ”
Yin Mu's move is indeed disgusting, in the face of the endless sunlight, even the top powerhouses on the sea can only struggle for a few seconds at most.
Fortunately, this move seems to be Yin Mu's 'big move', at least in the past few years, Rossi has not met anyone to be his neighbor.
Of course, it's more likely that no one else will be able to force her to do this.
"So, what are you going to do next?"
In the face of Rosie's inquiry, Vivi looked at Luffy.
"I would like to ask you to send me to the city called 'Juba,' where one of mine is there... Friends,"
"Because of the strange drought of the last two years, many people who could not survive gathered in Juba, and many of them blamed the suffering that happened in this country... Royal family. ”
Speaking of this, Wei Wei couldn't help but grasp the clothes on her chest, and the torment in her heart was visible.
"The failure to allow the people to live and work in peace is indeed the fault of our Neferutari clan. But if the protests are allowed to continue and turn into armed conflict, there will be nothing left but death and hatred. ”
"But it is possible to create a 'space' that is enough for the rest of the people to live."
Luffy's left half of his face spoke, and Rosie spoke out about the tragedy that was about to happen in Alabastan.
"As long as the population is reduced by a few million, even if there is no rain, the people of this land can still live."
Use force to decide who is entitled to live!
?!
The Black Cat has docked in the port of this city called 'Eruma', and Rossi's words made Luffy and the others a rin, a population of millions... Such a huge number of them give people an unreal sense of unreality.
"Let's go,"
Luffy, who heard Rosie's words, jumped off the boat with a serious face and set off silently.
And Zoro, Sanji, Nami, Chopper and others also jumped off the boat to follow. They are all 'good people', and naturally they don't want millions of people to die, but—
"Wait, you're going in the wrong direction!"
As Vivi shouted to stop, a group of people stopped, and their eyes fell on Luffy.
"What do you want me to do?"
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On the other side,
In the middle of Alabastan's most prosperous city, called 'Rainland',
In the pyramid building, surrounded by a huge amount of water, Klockdahl put down several portraits in his hand.
"'Thunder Fist' Luffy, 'Pirate Hunter' Zoro · And a couple of nobodies. ”
"It's just that if you kill tens of millions of bounty criminals in the weakest East China Sea, you swell to the point that you think you can fight against me?"
In the wide hall, Crocodall, who sat in a splendid chair, was qualified to say that he had once been at odds with Barrett, the 'heir of the devil', and dared to challenge the man with the white beard. Although he has not even set foot in the New World in addition to dealing with the dispatch of the world government in these years, his vision is still arrogant.
"But Mr.3 was planted in their hands, and after assessing the situation, I had to choose to retreat."
"Do you need to let Mr.1 deal with it? boss,”
Robin, dressed in a big white trench coat and wearing a white cowboy hat, asked, looking capable.
"No,"
Klockdahl picks up a portrait of Luffy smiling brightly.
"The others aren't to be afraid, but this guy—"
Thunder Fruit Ability!
You must know that the reason why Klockdahl established the 'Baroque Studio' is not to value the force of these people, but to value their intelligence gathering ability. Originally, these people were the tools he used to find the ancient soldier 'Hades', but unfortunately the Neferutari royal family hid too deeply, and even the sand crocodile wasted a lot of effort to lock on to a target.
"Those cadres in the studio will naturally have no problem dealing with ordinary pirates, but if you encounter someone with a natural Devil Fruit ability, hehehe..."
In the first half of the Great Route, nature is almost synonymous with 'invincible'!
As long as it doesn't provoke the Navy, it can almost go sideways.
Because if you want to deal with natural abilities that can be 'elementalized', you must have 'domineering' to hit the entity of the ability.
Of course, in fact, Luffy at this time has not yet mastered the 'elementalization' of the most reliant skin in the natural system.
"Then, I'll teach those imps a lesson."
I didn't see any movement from Crockdahl, who was sitting in the luxurious chair, and the whole person turned into a swirling wind and sand, rolling up Robin next to him.
"Let them see the cruelty of the world!"
"Okay, boss."
Robin, who was swept up by the wind and sand, held down the white cowboy hat with one hand, covering her face.
If she could, she didn't want those righteous teenagers and girls to be buried in this desert, but... She needs the sand crocodile for shelter herself, so what can she do?
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"Vivi, what are you doing?!"
After a rapid desert march, Luffy and his party successfully arrived at an oasis city in the desert.
It's just that now it's full of traces of war, with ruins everywhere and dried blood stains covering the yellow sand and buildings. At the entrance to the city, there is even a row of gallows: on it hangs the army of the king of Alabastan in white robes... of corpses.
When Kosha, the leader of the 'rebels' here, received the news and came outside the city, he saw Vivi who was putting the corpses down.
Kosha, the leader of the city's 'rebels', was once Weiwei's childhood sweetheart.
"This should be my problem!"
The angry blue-haired girl pointed to the corpse on the gallows and asked,
"These are the soldiers of the kingdom, right? Why are they hanging here, you... What the hell are you trying to do?! Kosha?! ”
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Facing the angry princess of the kingdom, the former childhood sweetheart, with blonde hair combed back to his head, a long knife on his back, brown sunglasses, and a scar on his forehead, the young man was silent for a few seconds, and then slowly spoke:
"Vivi, do you know your father, King Kobra, who uses 'dancing powder'?"
?!
"What is a dancing fan, you don't need me to give you popular science, right?"
The so-called dancing powder is a catalyst that can forcibly condense clouds and collide and increase into raindrops, achieving the function of artificial rainfall.
However, this kind of thing does not conjure up 'cumulonimbus clouds' out of thin air, so except for places where dancing powder is used for artificial rainfall, the surrounding area will be drought. - To put it simply, it is to plunder the rainfall of other regions.
In Vivi's stunned, the boy named Kosha sighed.
"We don't want to do that either, but in the past two years there has been a drought everywhere except the royal territory: and we have found a lot of 'dancing fans' in the royal vans."
"For this reason, we sent a large number of emissaries to the royal family, but the royal family's answer was 'no such thing'."
"To survive, we must take back our rain!"
"How could it be..."
Vivi only knew that Baroque Studios was behind the unrest in Alabastan, but she didn't know that the situation had reached this point.
The royal family is taking the rain of ordinary people, and they are taking their lives!
People who can't survive will naturally rise up-
"Ladies and gentlemen,"
Just when Weiwei's brain was blank and she didn't know what to say, Luffy's left face suddenly became serious, and then she spoke:
"There's good news and bad news, what do you want to hear?"
?!
"Teacher Rosie, now is not the time to choose, is it?"
Sanji, who was shocked and painful seeing Vivi, couldn't help but speak, letting Rosie control Luffy and shrug his left shoulder.
"Okay,"
"The good news is that I know who is behind all this, and I can clear up your misunderstandings."
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"The bad news is that the culprit has arrived."
??
It was the afternoon and the sun was shining brightly on the land in the west.
But as soon as Rossi's words fell, the light of the scorching sun was obscured by a golden yellow that came from the west, like a long rainbow across the sun, and appeared to be vast and boundless. The whole sky was yellow, and the scorching sun had turned into a circle of uncertain sunset.
"What,"
"That's... Dust storm? ”
"No, it's not a natural disaster, it's a man-made disaster."
By the time Rosie calmly denied Nami's words, the entire western side was covered in a rolling sandstorm!
A huge tawny tornado roared into the sky, and in an instant, a rumbling sound resounded through half of the sky, and even the distant desert seemed to be swallowed by this tawny tornado, surging wildly, and rushing towards the ruined city called 'Juba'.
Heaven after day, like the end of the world!
Whether it was a natural or man-made disaster, the entire inhabitants of Juba, as well as the armed 'rebels', trembled in the face of such a horrific attack, and it would have been almost impossible to stand without the support of their weapons on the ground.
"This?"
"That's right, 'Sand Crocodile' Klockdahl is here."
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"The poor princess and the bounty hunters he recruited arrived at the rebels' base camp with the intention of stopping the ensuing conflict."
"I'm sorry, this script isn't what I want to see."
An arrogant and domineering voice sounded in the sky, and a giant tawny tornado roared and surrounded the entire city. Immediately after that, the whistling wind and sand light in the sky parted, and Klockdahl, who was dancing fiercely in a black fur coat behind him, 'climbed the stairs down'!
As he landed, patches of flying yellow sand gathered out of thin air to form a staircase, as if to welcome their king.
Behind Klockdahl is Nicole Robin, dressed in a white trench coat.
Looking at her shocked look, she probably didn't expect her 'boss' to be like a god and a demon once she was in full swing.
As the two of them walked down the golden staircase, the faces of the people outside the city of 'Juba' were full of terror, vigilance, and despair... Who wouldn't feel pressure in the face of a man who has his own natural disasters in front of him?
"Sand crocodile,"
In this situation, Luffy stepped forward to block the front, and thunder and lightning began to shine all over his body.
"You're behind it all?"
"That's right,"
Facing Crocodall who proudly admitted, Vivi's eyes instantly turned red.
"Why?!"
"Why provoke wars, why kill thousands of people? Who gave you this power-"
Glanced at
Opposite Klockdahl rolled his eyes, and a cold look came into Vivi's eyes. In an instant, Wei Wei's eyes seemed to see the roar of the sand whistling and burying everything crushing towards her, as if she was going to devour her spirit in the next second.
Brush –
A figure wearing a red shoulder moved horizontally in front of Wei Wei, cutting off the other party's momentum and causing Wei Wei to fall into the yellow sand with a limp.
"Innocent princess,"
Klockdahl tilted his head in mockery.
"I'm just completing my own plan, and I haven't paid attention to anyone in this country."
As the saying goes: what does it have to do with you to destroy you?
Elephants don't care about ants trampled to death by themselves, and strong people don't care about ordinary people who die in large numbers because of their own plans and battles, this is the reality!
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"Damn, I will not allow—"
Biting her lip desperately, the blood running down the corner of her mouth, Vivi struggled to her feet, trying to take a step.
"Vivi, step aside."
Zoro pulled out the two knives at his waist, Nami who carried the giant axe on her shoulder, Sanji who put on a battle suit, and Chopper who turned into a 'human form' stepped forward one after another.
"Now that we've accepted your 'hiring', it's our turn to fight."
Evil is at hand, and justice cannot be retreated.