Traveler in the Pirate World

Under the blue sky, there are undulating sand dunes and two slender figures, leaving a series of footprints of varying depths in the vast sea of ​​sand, which are then covered by the passing wind.

After walking for half a day, I finally saw traces of buildings in the distance. The pale stone walls stood on the golden earth, but they were in ruins. The ancient breath of time was retained, which was the vicissitudes of countless years.

Lily's green fingers stroked the rough high wall, looking at the blurred pattern above. It was unknown whether this was the old city of Alabasta or some ancient kingdom in the past. But as a trace left by human civilization countless years ago, even as it slowly returned to nature, it still retained information from the past.

"Tina, do you know that there is a group of people who can find shadows of the past from ancient relics. They will discover history from the relics of history. They guard the past of mankind so that we will not forget it." Lily looked at Tina, her beautiful blue pupils reflecting the girl's beautiful eyes.

Tina pursed her lips, with a rare look of loss in her eyes. She knew it, but that group of people were no longer there!

If Zefa's incident led to the transformation of the older generation of navy, then the O'Hara incident was the turning point for the previous generation of navy.

The rookie Monkey D. Dragon defected from the Navy, and Admiral Aokiji's temperament changed drastically. The originally mild-mannered Mr. Stoloberry also participated in many World Government operations and gradually became an iron-blooded member of the World Government.

History is an untouchable part of the world government. When O'Hara discovered history, he also met death, and along with it, everything they knew was destroyed.

The only survivor was branded the devil's child and was hunted down since childhood, but she could no longer attract the real attention of the world government. After all, she was just a little girl who was ignored and a weak person who could be ruined by just one sentence.

Smelling the scent of fireworks in the air, Lily walked around the high wall and saw a small town standing quietly behind the ancient ruins. White fireworks rose from people's houses and slowly floated into the sky like wisps of gauze ribbons.

"There are people here?" Tina said with a little surprise as she looked at the small town hidden in the ancient ruins in front of her.

It was a small town, built on the tall city walls left over from the ruins. Most of the building materials were white rocks left over from the ruins. Square houses were neatly arranged among them. At noon, there were vague figures walking on the street.

Walking on the stone pavement of the street, everything here is not lively at all, it can even be said to be deserted, even many pubs are not open to welcome customers.

After walking through the deserted streets, I finally saw an open restaurant. There were only two beams of sunlight shining through the narrow windows, which made the inside even darker.

Lily and Tina walked in. There was a short old woman with gray hair sitting in front of the bar. She was very old and had shrunk a lot. Her face was full of wrinkles like gullies in the dry earth. Most of her teeth had fallen out. Her hands and feet were as thin as dead wood. Only skin and bones were left. She looked a little scary.

"Ah, a guest is coming!" Her voice was shrill and hoarse, and her toothless lips moved up and down like some kind of mollusk.

Lily couldn't help but secretly grab the corner of Tina's clothes with her little hand, and her body slightly moved back. Lab in her arms looked up at Lily in confusion. It didn't understand why Lily was afraid. After all, Lily was a god.

Tina also looked at Lily in surprise. There was clearly a haunted house on this girl's boat, so why would she be scared? And the girl was so powerful.

She probably didn't know what it meant to be both a novice and a playful person. When Lily was decorating the haunted house, she always scared herself. She was obviously scared to death, but she always liked to play.

The old man hunched over and slowly climbed down from the high stool at the bar, panting heavily, like a snail dragging its hard shell.

With trembling hands, he took two ceramic bowls, placed them on the table beside him, and carefully poured two bowls of dim yellow water into them, fearing that a drop would be spilled.

"There haven't been many customers in the store for a long time, and we haven't prepared any food. Only this water can help you quench your thirst, but you have to pay for it, after all, I bought it too." The old woman spoke very slowly, word by word, and it was quite uncomfortable to listen to.

Tina stretched her head to look at the dusty water in the bowl and couldn't help but frowned, "We don't need that, right?!"

"Little girl, just let the water sit for a while. We've been relying on this water to survive since the drought took away our oasis." The old woman saw Tina's disdain but was not annoyed, and said with a smile.

"In fact, things have gotten a lot better in the past few months. In the past, we relied on the muddy water that had settled underground in the former oasis and the help of hunters who went to the coastal town to buy water. Now the mayor has water for sale. Although it is mixed with sand, each person can only buy so much, but fortunately there is water every day, so it's not like before, sometimes we couldn't have a drink for a long time..."

"What's good about it?" A boy's voice suddenly came, interrupting the old man's words, "That water was donated to Alabasta for free by the Avisus Group. It was requested by the king himself. It should be free and clean. But when it came here, it turned into muddy water mixed with sand. It's more than twice as expensive as ordinary water. How can this be considered a good thing!"

Lily looked behind her when she heard the voice, and saw a young man with a white headscarf, a bruised face, limping in with an angry look on his face.

"Are you causing trouble at the water vendor again?" The old woman slammed the table angrily. "How many times have I told you not to go there and stop anything, Daker!"

"So are we just going to watch them rely on other people's donations to exchange for a large amount of wealth in the disaster, grandma?" The young man named Daker said angrily. He was not angry with his grandma, but he just felt very upset.

The mayor was born into a small noble family, and was much richer than the average citizen, so he was not short of money. The clean water donated by the Avisus Group was privately occupied by them, and the muddy water was sold to the common people. What kind of logic was this?

"They obviously have everything they need, they obviously already have a lot, yet they want more things. Why?" The young man shouted angrily and limped up the stairs.

Looking at the young man's departing back, the old woman looked helpless. She looked at Lily and the other person apologetically and said, "I'm so sorry, I made you two laugh!"

"No, no!" Tina waved her hands repeatedly.

"That's good. That child has always been like this. He can't tolerate any grain of sand in his eyes. I don't know when he will grow up!" The old woman had a worried look in her eyes. Then she felt that it was a bit rude to the guests. She said to Lily and the others apologetically, "I'm really rude. Sorry!"

"Nothing, can you tell us about this town?" Seeing that the old man was not the scary guy she had imagined, Lily became much braver.

"Okay, but don't you two really want to drink some? You know, when walking in the desert, it is inevitable to run out of water!" Seeing Tina shaking her head, the old woman carefully poured the water back into the sealed container.