In addition to the deep pits, various cracks are like scars, leaving traces in the desert area that will not disappear in a short time.
Apart from this devastated battlefield, Bell flew around for a long time and found no other living creatures left here. What kind of battle was this?
He hurried back to report to the king.
After hearing what Bell said, Cobra frowned deeply.
It's very difficult to deal with a master of this level coming to Alabasta and fighting with Crocodile.
This country no longer has the ability to defend itself against such people.
Chapter 245 Swordsman’s Nemesis?
In the rainy land, a space gate opened in Crocodile's base.
Noah came out carrying Crocodile. As soon as he came out, he saw a bald strong man in a black suit looking at this place with a shocked expression.
Um, Daz Bonis, right? Mr. 1 of the Baroque Works in the later period. Originally a killer from the West Sea, he had a lot of plots in the early stage, and he was a ruthless character. I didn't expect that he would be recruited by Crocodile so early.
Hey~ Why does this bald guy look so fierce? Oh, I'm holding his boss in my hand. This is embarrassing. Will it affect Lao Sha's majestic image in the eyes of his subordinates?
Imagine a gangster with a slicked-back hair and a cigar, with all kinds of names and powerful settings, and then being carried by someone...
Daz Bonis was very shocked at first, because he had seen his boss in action. He was the most powerful person he had ever seen in his life, a terrifying figure who could destroy an island with one move.
At this moment, he was being held in someone's hands like a dead dog, his body covered in blood and his clothes torn. Such a contrast was really hard to accept.
At the same time, he is loyal and will help his boss when he is in trouble, regardless of whether he is a rival or not.
"Well, could you please just stay aside?"
Daz Bonis ignored this sentence and activated the Quick-Slash Fruit directly. He crossed his hands and attacked directly.
"Destroying Slash"
For this kind of direct attack, Noah only needs to wrap a little bit of Armament Haki around his fingers and then wave them gently.
Daz Bonis didn't know this, he only saw that the opponent only used one finger to block the attack, which made him angry and a little relieved. He was angry that his opponent looked down on him, but also relieved that his opponent looked down on him.
Anyone who can beat the boss must be extremely powerful, and the opponent's contempt is his only chance. He once used this move to cut a huge rock into countless pieces, which is considered a killer move.
With mixed feelings, this move finally worked.
Daz Bonis was momentarily distracted. How could it be possible that the slashing blows from both hands could be blocked by just one finger, and it looked so easy.
"The Quick Cutting Fruit is meaningless to a swordsman like me. It's too weak to have a sword body without sword intent. Any swordsman at the Iron Cutting Realm can knock you down."
After saying this, I felt a sense of relief. Because in the original book, this bald guy was so arrogant, saying that swordsmen couldn't hurt him and that he was the nemesis of swordsmen. Only Hawkeye didn't hear this, otherwise he would have killed both the bald guy and the crocodile.
In order to respond to such an arrogant remark, Noah raised his form slightly. Then, with a swing, an invisible sword intent passed through Daz Bonis and went straight through his body, and the bald man stood there motionless.
"What did you do to him?"
Crocodile was quite concerned about this first general under his command.
"It's okay. I just want him to know what a swordsman is."
This sword intent does not cause any obvious harm to the body's exterior, but it will be very painful to the heart.
Sure enough, after a few breaths, Daz Bonis cried out in pain and fell to the ground, his whole body twitching. He now felt as if he had been split in half by a sword, but there were no wounds on his body, not even a drop of blood flowed out, but the pain was always with him.
Bringing Crocodile to the office and releasing the Crocodile, Noah sat in the boss chair casually as if he was in his own office and looked around the room.
As for Crocodile's injury, don't worry about it. This world is a world of strange systems. As long as he doesn't die on the spot, it will be fine after a short cut. Although Crocodile's system is not very strong, his blood recovery ability is still good. Now he is no longer as weak as he was at the beginning, and has recovered to a half-dead state.
While Noah was looking around, Lao Sha was looking at him impatiently.
"You defeated me and then let me go. Are you going to use me to do something?"
Just now, Crocodile roughly understood that Noah let him go and must be planning to use him for something.
"Yes, I want to use your fruit ability to find something in the desert. A piece of historical text."
This was beyond Crocodile's expectation. He had always thought that Noah was here to recruit him. Beat him up first and then recruit him. This is how all pirates do.
"Historical text? Okay, as a deal, can you tell me where Pluto is?"
I didn’t expect that Lao Sha hasn’t given up this idea yet. He is too persistent.
"You have to understand one thing. You are the defeated party, so the other side of the deal is your life. Use this to exchange for the historical text. Do you understand?"
"understood"
After getting over the initial desire to die, the will to survive slightly outweighed my face.
"Continuing with the previous topic, Roger announced the existence of the great treasure before his death, which attracted many people to it. They all thought that if they got the One Piece from Raftel, they would be able to succeed the Pirate King.
In fact, he had told Whitebeard about this great secret treasure, but Whitebeard was not interested and directly rejected it. Do you still think the title of Pirate King is attractive now?"
This is how One Piece came about, and Whitebeard wasn't even interested in it. This made Old Sand, who was only pursuing his dream, a little uncomfortable.
"You're such a bastard."
"I can't say that. I haven't offended many people since I went to sea. I am still a good person. Only the World Government, the Navy, the pirates, and the nobles have some prejudice against me."
Lao Sha sneered in his heart, you have offended almost everyone in this world, how many people are left who have no prejudice against you?
"By the way, Old Sand, since Hades is not here, what are you going to do? Continue to be one of the Seven Warlords of the Sea? Is it too boring? Don't you want to go to the New World to take Whitebeard's head?"
"That's my business."
From such a harsh tone, it is obvious that this guy will get angry whenever Whitebeard is mentioned.
"How about we do something big together when we have the chance in the future? Only by finding a strong opponent can we show our skills. It would be so exciting to kill a pirate king. Let's do it."
"No, I refuse."
Oh, it's hard to fool people with brains. In order to get people to deal with Kaido in the future, Noah has been organizing a plan so early, but this Crocodile doesn't know what's good for him.
"It's okay to refuse. Once you find the historical text, help me arrange a private meeting with Nefertari Cobra. I want to discuss some things with him."
"Well, yes."
The sand crocodile didn't know why Noah did this, but since the winner takes all, he could only obey his orders.
Noah thought that he would not take away the original historical text in the funeral hall, but he could make a copy for Robin to take back.
Chapter 246 Enterprise-level Management of Pirates
After a week of recuperating in the rain, Crocodile finally recovered a lot.
The physiques of the pirates in One Piece are all weird, but unfortunately, Crocodile is not among them. I hope he can learn from this lesson and practice his physical skills well.
The hook is really unbearable to watch. The scorpion needle is a bit useful, but it is not very effective. If you encounter someone like Kaido, he will just complain that the poison is not strong enough.
Daz Bonis has been very well behaved these past few days. The pain and tearing sensation in his body reminds him how terrifying swordsmen are. Now he is training crazily despite the pain. He is a real man who knows shame and then becomes brave.
If this tough guy can cultivate his domineering aura well, combined with his own fast-cut fruit, he can still create a new world.
There was a small episode during this period. Cobra asked his captain of the guard to come to the rainy land and ask Crocodile what had happened in the desert before.
The new version is that there is a big pirate from the new world coming. In order to protect the people, Crocodile intercepted the opponent in advance and resolutely led the pirate into the desert for a life-and-death battle. In the end, he buried his opponent in the desert at the cost of serious injuries. inside.
I acted like I didn't want to tell you, but since you asked, I had to tell you.
Crocodile, who knows the essence of hype, knows that it is better to leave more blanks and let people imagine than to say too much. Alabasta will definitely send people to check the battlefield. When the two are combined, it will be incredible.
The captain of the guard looked at Crocodile's wounds and believed it. He saluted with respect and returned to report with a feeling of self-importance. I don't know how many heart-wrenching stories he imagined. Anyway, Crocodile's reputation soared again.
"Fortunately, we have Crocodile-sama protecting us here. He is truly a hero."
There were more and more rumors like this among the people, and Noah didn't believe that there was no sand crocodile secretly fanning the flames.
Noah was very impressed with Crocodile's operation, he was really talented. The newly established Baroque Works was not yet a killer group, Crocodile also managed it as a business, this instinct to follow the behavior model of management science made him very different from ordinary pirates.
First of all, before taking action, he conducted research on the project of stealing the country and searching for Pluto, and only started to act after he was sure that there was indeed information about Pluto here.
Then, a comprehensive design was carried out for this project, from the first contact, coming to this country to hunt pirates, to the later maintenance of relations with the royal family and the establishment of relations with civilians, all of which were designed very fully and naturally.
Then there is project construction and production. The product is a hero who protects the country, which can be regarded as a business service industry and a self-media promotion industry. The transition from Internet celebrity to star is very smooth.
Finally, the project operation and update are also done diligently. Each group of pirates in the future will be a small project one after another, and the secondary operation is done very well.
After the pirates have landed, caused some damage to the port, and harmed ordinary people, they always look for a very conspicuous place to appear, say some very domineering words to consolidate their image of being cold on the outside but warm on the inside, kill the enemies with ease, and give people confidence.
In terms of human resources, he personally took charge of the early stage and recruited several core figures. Although they were not great masters in the later stage, they could be considered small bosses in the early stage. You know, all the cadres are fruit ability users, which is also a great achievement. If many fruits are well developed, they can also be considered strong in the sea.
Of course most of them were disappointing, but there were also a few bright moments. I won't mention Xiao Feng, the hot-blooded shemale made me cry so many times.
Gal Dino is even more amazing. He followed Buggy out of Impel Down and participated in the Battle of Marineford. He grabbed a lot of shots in the Admiral-level battlefield and escaped from Sengoku. In the end, he became a deputy captain of the Four Emperors, standing shoulder to shoulder with Ben Beckman, Marco, and Katakuri.
A funny character fights back and shocks the world together with Bucky.
Unfortunately, as someone who controls the company's core means of production, Miss. All Sunday has absolutely no spirit of dedication to the company, making everything that Lao Sha has done a joke.
Eventually the company collapsed, and the owner and key management were arrested and jailed.
Be cautious when starting a business. This is a message for every entrepreneur.
Then the two returned to the desert. Crocodile was forced to agree to help Noah find things.
Looking at the endless desert, Crocodile felt a little regretful. He did not ask clearly before and thought that Noah knew the general direction, so he agreed to help him find things.
As a result... he said that somewhere in this desert, there is an underground space. This desert refers to the entire desert.
If he couldn't beat him, the Sand Crocodile would be so angry that he would die here. The Sand-Sand Fruit has a great bonus in the desert, but it is not to the extent of being against the sky. Human physical strength is limited, and the range of the fruit is also limited.
Noah didn't want this to happen either. It was all the animation team's fault. Why did they design a terrain with no special features to place the stone tablet? Now looking at Crocodile's resentful expression, he felt embarrassed.
I used my Observation Haki and the Door-to-Door Fruit before, but didn't find anything, so I put my hope in Lao Sha. It's also his fault that he came to ask for a fight, and now he has trapped him.
Life is not easy, Lao Sha held back his anger and worked in the desert, feeling the space under the sand piece by I feel irritable to the point of exploding, I will go forward and magnify the move. Anyway, I didn't say how to find it, so I can vent my mood.
In the distant palace of Albana, Cobra was playing with learning the report from the captain of the guard, he has let go of his worries. This country still has its own guardians.
However, some ministers were still worried and advised Cobra that Crocodile was a pirate after all, and he had only been in Alabasta for a few years, but he already had a high reputation among the people. Was there something wrong?
Cobra said very frankly that it is enough for a person to be good to the people. We should not look at what he says, but what he does. You see, he risked his life to protect everyone this time, and he is a good person. We had some prejudice against him before.
The ministers still had some complaints, but they were all suppressed by Cobra. He believed that the World Government would not ignore Alabasta. After all, they were also descendants of the 20th King. They should be more special in the eyes of the high-ranking officials.
But in fact, the Five Elders didn’t care that much about the royal family leaving Marijoa.
Chapter 247: Tricking the Sand Crocodile into Joining Forces
"found it"
Lao Sha's calm tone was not excited at all.
"Um"
Noah replied calmly.
They have been eating the sand here for a week.
On the first day, Lao Sha discovered an underground space through his perception of the deep sand. He was so happy. After all, being forced to work was not a pleasant feeling. He wanted to finish the work early and return to the rainy land to be his own boss.
But when he excitedly opened the space, he found that it was just a mausoleum of an unknown person. In addition to the corpse, there were some jewelry. The other burial objects had been buried by time.
The next day was basically the same. There were a lot of treasure rooms. The historical texts were not found, but a lot of gold, silver and jewelry were found. Looking at the traces inside, there were many different styles. Logically, Alabasta has always been like this since the Nefertari royal family came here. How come there are so many mysterious cultural remnants?
If you think about it, you can understand that the history of this world is far more than 800 years, and there is a long history before that. It is even possible that this desert was once a primitive jungle, and the vicissitudes of life have changed over thousands of years.
After ruling out these relics from other times, they continued their search for the historical text. A week later, from a personal point of view, this search was very fruitful.
In addition to a large number of precious metals that are not easily oxidized, they did not expect that there were so many minerals in the desert, and they discovered various non-ferrous metal mines.
This also proves that the predecessor of this desert had a large number of plants and changes in the magma layer.
Also, no one in history who has the ability of the Sand-Sand Fruit has really come here to make a fortune, so Noah was not shy about marking the locations of these unmined minerals, leaving them for the Revolutionary Army to develop in the future, or to establish trade relations with Alabasta to make good use of these natural resources.
When the sand crocodile said he had found it again, the two of them opened the passage and jumped down in a normal manner.
Ok?
This time it seemed different, tall stone pillars supported this huge space, and an ancient feeling lingered here. A much collapsed underground palace appeared in sight.
