Traveler in the Pirate World

Looking at the huge yellow island in the distance, Lily could feel that the moisture in the air was significantly lower and the temperature had risen a lot.

"This is the Kingdom of Alabasta, one of the twenty kingdoms. Its royal family, the Nefertari clan, is also the only royal family that refused to live in the holy land of Marijoa." Tina's voice sounded in Lily's ears.

"Celestial Dragons?" Lily, who didn't know much about the secret information of the high-level officials, couldn't help but ask in confusion.

“No!” As a former colonel stationed at the Alabasta Kingdom Navy Headquarters, Tina had some understanding of the general situation here. “Eight hundred years ago, the Nefertari family not only refused to live in the holy land of Marijoa, but also refused the right to become a world noble. The reason has long been buried in history, and I don’t know it.

Today, due to the indiscriminate use of dancing powder, the Kingdom of Alabasta has fallen into a drought that has not been seen in a century, and is now in a period of extremely chaotic civil unrest.

The person who is rumored to have used dancing powder, a banned item by the World Government, is King Nefertari Cobra. Tina, who has had many contacts with him, feels that the truth of this is yet to be determined.

"What is dancing powder?" Lily couldn't help but ask.

"The smell produced by the burning of dancing powder can directly react with the clouds in the sky when it rises to form local rainfall." Tina pointed at the clouds in the sky and said, "The person who originally developed this item came from a country with water shortage. The original purpose of the existence of dancing powder was to bring rain to save his country.

However, this item itself has an unavoidable disadvantage, which is that the premature rainfall will cause the cloud layer to be consumed prematurely, disrupting the laws of nature to a certain extent.

In the first few years of the development of dancing powder, everyone was cheering the greatness of the scientist, she saved their country, she was a hero.

However, as dancing powder was used indiscriminately, rainfall began to be intercepted in one or more places, causing neighboring countries to fall into a terrible drought, and war broke out.

However, the final result of this war was the destruction of the two kingdoms, and the island was completely turned into a wasteland because the two countries had long used dancing powder to induce rainfall, which led to permanent deterioration of the natural environment.

Tina remembered that the island seemed to be called White Earth Island, but now it has become an uninhabited island that cannot guarantee the survival of a large population. And because of its own environment, without a record pointer, it has become an island that is almost impossible to find. Because of such terrible consequences, the World Government has listed dancing powder as a banned item. "

While chatting with Tina, Guanhai arrived at the port. Lily put down the ladder that was rarely used on weekdays, carried Lab and Tina off the boat, and then put away Guanhai behind her.

Two slim and beautiful girls walking on the busy streets inevitably attracted the attention of some people, but no one dared to have any bad thoughts recently. Of course, this was not entirely because of Tina's uniform of a captain of the Navy Headquarters and her title of Blackie.

The world has been very turbulent recently. First, there was the battle between the great pirate Monkey D. Luffy and the navy captain Smoker, and then a madman who was killing people everywhere came - Actophie Caesar, a celestial dragon slave wanted by the World Government and the Navy, with a bounty of 180 million berries.

That guy is still wandering in Rapeseed City. As a port city of this era, Rapeseed City has inevitably become one of the important strongholds for some evil forces to engage in smuggling, slave trade, etc.

The existence of Actofi Caesar not only caused severe damage to the Baroque Studio, which had always been at odds with him, but also other gangster forces in Rapeseed Flower, including the fleet of Umit, the second of the six kings of the dark world, and the warehouse of Kiboson. In just a few days, they all suffered heavy losses because of Caesar.

Walking on the busy streets, Tina kindly introduced the city to Lily. The terrain of the city is flat, and the roads are interconnected, mostly straight roads.

Most of the houses are low square earthen or stone houses, and the building height generally does not exceed two floors. This unique architectural style is not beautiful, but it is practical.

Thick earth or stone walls can ensure the temperature in the room is high enough to prevent residents from getting sick due to the large temperature difference between day and night.

Like other port cities in the Kingdom of Alabasta, Rapeseed is not short of fresh water and is not completely dependent on natural precipitation.

That’s because there is a special building on the edge of the city - the seawater conversion base. As one of the most important areas in the entire Rapeseed Flower, it is a recognized inviolable place in the entire Rapeseed Flower.

Probably, there were some ignorant pirates who were unwilling to pay for the fresh water and attacked there, and their final fate was to be besieged by all the forces of Rapeseed Flower.

Who is the man behind the seawater conversion base has always been a mystery to local forces at first. Its construction scope covers almost most of the world's water-scarce coastal areas. The fresh water generated by daily operation is enough to supply the basic operation of a large city, and the charges are extremely low, which can almost guarantee the daily water use of ordinary civilians.

It's not that no one has coveted the benefits behind this. After all, if one can achieve a monopoly on fresh water in areas with water shortages, then fresh water will be as valuable as gold, and the cost will be terribly low.

However, in the end, all the forces that had evil intentions in this regard inexplicably stopped their actions, which made people realize that there might be a powerful group behind this that was beyond people's imagination.

The existence of the seawater conversion base has become the main source of fresh water for the Kingdom of Alabasta. Cobra has also met with the leader of the local garrison at the seawater conversion base, a man who claimed to be an employee of the Avisus Group.

The final result was disappointing. The existing seawater conversion base had high requirements for terrain and environment. Before the new base was designed, the Aviss Group did not find a suitable construction site within the Kingdom of Alabasta.

For this reason, Tina had specifically investigated the Avisus Group, which she knew little about. Even the Navy and the World Government did not know the other party's origins. They only knew that the other party was a group dedicated to using technology to make the world a better place, and the Navy had cooperated with the other party in this regard.

The Aviss Group is not very noticeable in the eyes of the public or even many forces. Its style of doing things has always been low-key, and it gets along very harmoniously with all forces. To use the declaration of the other group, water benefits all things without competing.

This also caused the Avisus Group to become almost invisible to all major forces, but the forces that had actually come into contact with it did not have any intention of despising the other party.

According to information from the navy, the Avisus Group is a technology group that deals with people's livelihood and nature. Its seawater conversion bases, green plant cultivation bases, astronomical observation centers, etc. do not involve any combat areas.

But this does not mean that this force, which is able to possess absolute autonomy despite being coveted by countless forces, is weak. On the contrary, the other party is extremely powerful and is just easy to talk to.

Its new group leader, Sabo, is just a young boy, but his strength is rare among his peers.

What really made the Avisus Group stand out among countless major forces was its former leader, White Hand. People did not know White Hand's specific name, but they only knew that he was always a tall man wearing a half-black and half-white mask and a cloak and soft armor.

Bai Shou's physical skills are extremely terrifying. He once fought BIG.MOM for a short time without losing, and even suppressed and repelled her. Because the opponent always wears a pair of snow-white gloves, he is named Bai Shou. Of course, because of the mask, some people also call him Black and White!

Lily listened to Tina's story about the Avisus Group with great interest at first. After all, in such an extraordinary world, forces that are willing to use resources and technological research and development to explore and serve the people's livelihood are undoubtedly an existence that transcends the existing civilization system.

However, after hearing the word "Sabo", the expression under the mask became a little strange. Is Uncle Long really not worried at all that the old man would ruin his plans?