Pirate's Nest Order

Great Waterway, Albana, the capital of Alabasta.

In the windy city, the passing streets were crowded with people wrapped in scarves and holding signs to demonstrate. All the signs were pasted with various slogans against the king, and angry abuse was everywhere.

This arid desert country has not had a drop of rain for a whole year and a half except for the capital, and the source of all this seems to be the result of His Majesty's use of dancing powder.

Dancing powder, also known as "rain-calling powder", can be used for rainfall, but once this powder is used, the cities living below will suffer from drought. And moisture has taken its place.

Otherwise, it would be impossible to explain why only the capital of Alabasta has been raining year after year, and other cities are about to be swallowed up by the desert, such an extreme natural phenomenon that is completely opposite.

These demonstrators basically poured into the capital from all over the country. They gather here like a powder keg that is constantly accumulating strength. The scorching heat wave seems to dry up the air and scorch the ground. chapped.

"Make the king stop using dancing powder!"

"Give us the rainwater!"

Waving slogans vigorously, shouting and cursing, more and more people crowded the streets, and the shops on both sides of the streets were tightly closed, creating a bleak scene.

bang bang bang...

The parade team approached towards the palace, and at several intersections, garrison troops began to pour out, quickly blocking the advancing road, holding shields and sticks in their hands, shouting loudly at the parade crowd.

The sounds of yelling, cursing, and even crying intertwined into a chaotic song that filled every corner of the country.

On the top floor of a tall building not far from the main street, the closed window was pushed open to reveal a face with a transverse scar. The dazzling light illuminated his big back and shiny hair, and he looked down. In the scene below, there are some fine powders in the five fingers falling silently into the air, and are swept into the clouds in the sky by the wind.

"President, we have noticed that someone is investigating the dancing fans, and the navy seems to have begun to notice." The voice came from behind Crocodile, it was a senior agent of Baroque Studio.

"Have you finally begun to notice it?" Crocodile stared at the hot air in front of him, and his hoarse throat spit out murderous intent: "How many raw materials have been collected?"

"Enough ore has been reserved to refine and produce at least 300 tons of dancing powder. Considering the current situation of this country, 300 tons of dancing powder is enough to push this country into the abyss. Except for the capital Albana, other cities will Completely swallowed up by the wind and sand." The guy who spoke showed his appearance, with a candle-like hair styled into a "3" on top of his head. He held a coffee cup in his hand and took a sip as he answered.

"how long will it take?"

"1 to 2 years!"

Crocodile closed the window, and the sunlight in the entire room was blocked. He turned around, and the outline of the whole person seemed to melt into the darkness. "The fewer people who know the secret, the safer. Every link must be cleaned up."

"Understood!" .3 drank the coffee and placed it gently on the table, "Other links are easy to deal with, and the traces can be cleaned up without leaving the area of ​​Alabasta; but the Longshi transport of mineral materials The other side of the trading company is in the East China Sea, do you need to follow it?"

"I said clean."

"Ok!"

That's the end of the conversation.

On the other side, just sailing out of the East China Sea and passing the entrance of the Great Channel, it is expected to arrive in Alabasta in seven days. On a group of sea ships with the logo of the Longshi Trading Company, Lombard stood on the main ship and looked back to line up The seven huge sea ships lined up on the sea couldn't help but show vigorous smiles on their faces.

"After the colored stone mine transaction is completed this time, we will be able to lick two more big ships, and there will even be enough left in the Great Channel to recruit some really good sailors to escort them."

Kaba held the rudder with one hand, and the whistling sea breeze made a sound of "hunting" on the flag. He saw Lombardy's slanted eyebrows, and felt uneasy in his heart.

These few smooth transactions and the sudden expansion of capital seemed to make him feel complacent and inflated, and he lost the care and prudence of the past.

He felt that Longbaret's state was quite dangerous. Different from Longbaret's unruly nature, the more contact he had with Marine Branch 153, the more he could feel the unfathomable depth of Yaerlin, that man's His scheming and skills are superior to Longbarre's.

"I have to find a time to persuade Longbaret and ask him to give up as soon as possible the dangerous idea of ​​trying to completely escape from the control of Branch 153." Kaba thought in his heart, but he never expected that this time the enemy was quietly approaching. The ferocious murderous intent has already spread its bloody fangs at their destination.

Time at sea always passes extremely fast. In the blink of an eye, the seven-day voyage is heading towards the end.

At the port off the coast of Alabasta, Longshi Trading Company's ships sailed into the port one by one and docked. Longbarre stretched and watched the boatmen unloading boxes of ore into the warehouse at the dock. He breathed dampness and dryness. The mixed sand and air said to Kaba: "The wind and sand in this place are really getting bigger and bigger. It feels like the entire port has been submerged by sand again."

"Maybe the next time I come, the whole port will really be buried in sand." A parasol fell quickly above the head, and SS. Valentine appeared behind Longbarre with exaggerated and sharp laughter. He stared at Longbaret's stern profile with his mouth closed, the pity in his eyes flashing away.

"Beautiful lady, what kind of wind is blowing here." Lombarie turned his head with a look of suspicion on his face. Except for the first joint, the people sent by the buyers in the next few transactions were not so important. character of.

The buyer of the colored stone mine was still very mysterious in Longbaret's eyes. From his careful inquiries, he only knew that SS. Valentine and .5 were very high-ranking figures in the other party's organization.

"The higher ups take this transaction very seriously and cannot make any mistakes." Ss. Valentine still wanted to speak, but the smell of gunpowder smoke poured into Longbarre's mouth and nose, and his whole body was filled with the smell of gunpowder. 5 Words.

Longbaret looked at the .5 with a cool expression, and instinctively sensed something was wrong. The expression of Kaba who was standing behind him suddenly changed. He stared at the desolate port, and suddenly realized that it seemed that they were the only ones loading and unloading in the entire port. The shipmen of the goods, the warehouses behind them seemed to be empty and quiet, and the people seemed to have been cleared away...