Chapter 52
For Nami, making money is very difficult.
It took her 100 million berries to save them for 10 years, but they were robbed by those navy scums under the command of Arlong.
Although she later found a huge sum of hundreds of millions of berries from Colonel Mouse’s ship, it belonged to Xia Chen, not herself.
At most, she got a small reward of 100,000 berries for counting, carrying, loading and unloading.
And until tonight, the easiest way to make money she encountered was to compete with others in drinking, and the winner could get a prize of 1 million.
But now, just dealing with some criminals who are nominally pirate hunters can get nearly 20 million berries, which is too cost-effective.
Even when drafting the contract, Nami was more active than Vivi.
During the period, Luffy, who said that Nami should not take advantage of the fire, was banned by Nami.
As for the others, they had no objection. After all, it was Xia Chen who made the move before, and Xia Chen, as the vice captain, had no objection, so they naturally supported him.
But at this moment, Xia Chen fully realized a passage he had read in his previous life.
There was an unconcealable smell of poverty in the sudden wealth.
Alas, he didn’t know what Nami was thinking. She had traveled all over the world and was considered an experienced person, but she was easily moved by more than 10 million Baileys. You know, there are more than 700 million Baileys of treasure on their ship, not to mention the gems and gold!
Wait until they set out.
And set off for two hours along the route, but no trace of the Baroque Studio agents was found.
Even Nico Robin did not show up.
After that, he confirmed from Weiwei that there were only two groups with the strongest mobility, but only one group was sent to Whiskey Island. After that, Xia Chen returned to the room with peace of mind and prepared to integrate the things he had obtained before into his body.
First, the high temperature skill, after all, he already had it, and the familiar burning sensation came again. After integration, Xia Chen felt that this skill had reached the threshold of Lv2, although it had not been improved yet.
But when he adjusted his body temperature, his consumption was lower than before and his reaction speed was faster.
But he still frowned a little, because he found that the process of integrating the high temperature skill into the body had reached 10 minutes.
The last time this high temperature skill was integrated, it took 1 minute.
This made Xia Chen have some bad guesses, after all, the genes that the human body can carry are limited.
“Damn it, doesn’t your plug-in suppress my strength growth?”
“Or is it that my current physique can only bear these? Will it be better if the values of physique and spirit are higher in the future?”
“It should be. Physical fitness and spirit are the foundation of the body. If the foundation is solid, the floor can naturally be built higher.”
In order to avoid the coma of 10 days and 10 nights a few days ago, which made people outside worry. Xia Chen went to remind them twice, if he really didn’t wake up, let them not worry, he was practicing.
Luffy and Zoro both felt very magical, but Xia Chen said that this kind of practice method cannot be passed on, it is attached to the devil fruit.
It is a very special way of cultivation.
Now the two of them had no interest. It was undeniable that Xia Chen had indeed improved his strength after waking up after sleeping for 10 days. Although he was still overwhelmingly powerful in the face of the enemy, Zoro and Sanji, who were not weak, could feel it.
Fortunately, according to the route, they were going to the small garden, the ancient island.
The journey on the road would take at least 7 days. Xia Chen estimated that judging from the thickness of the golden light wrapped around this skill, it would not take so long for him to absorb this skill, so he had plenty of time.
With the genius navigator Nami, even if he ran into someone from Baroque Studio on the way.
Running would still be no problem.
However, Xia Chen had a hunch that these people might not continue to go to Whiskey Island. They must have a way to know that the island had been destroyed.
After making the arrangements, Xia Chen ate a lot of food, and his cells also accumulated a lot of energy, so he chose to absorb the explosion skill.
The process of merging into the body was still a short moment for him, but when he woke up, Nami was in his room drawing a sea chart. It was night before he absorbed it, but now it was daytime.
Nami heard the noise and turned around to see Xia Chen wake up, with a look of surprise on her face.
“Xia Chen, you woke up so soon!”
“So soon? How long has it been? When I practiced with this method, I had no concept of time.”
“5 hours and 26 minutes.” Nami glanced at the clock on the table.
“Only 5 hours?” Xia Chen was slightly surprised. Could it be that the gap between dark gold skills and ordinary gold skills was so big?
He carefully realizedAn explosive skill, ready to go, obviously absorbed successfully, although his body did not feel any strengthening.
But he just thought about it, and felt the blood in his body boiling, and quickly suppressed his mind, his physique is not a rubber man.
In fact, this skill is also quite compatible with Luffy’s rubber physique. After all, the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th gears developed later are essentially a deep extension and change of the breathing method.
Although he can’t figure it out now, how did Luffy convert the gas directly into mass after opening the third gear?
I can only say that the devil fruit is awesome!
Just thinking about it, Xia Chen suddenly felt Nami’s little hand touching his chest.
“What are you doing?”
“I, I… I’m fine.” Nami was a little shy. In fact, this was a habit she developed when taking care of Xia Chen a few days ago. She was afraid that Xia Chen would suddenly die, so she would always pay attention to Xia Chen’s heartbeat.
Just now it was completely instinctive, and he definitely didn’t have any dirty thoughts in his mind.
Xia Chen knocked Nami’s head in a bad mood. Without much force, the latter looked at Xia Chen with a wronged face.
“Okay, stop acting. I’m going out for a while.”
Xia Chen picked up the coat on the hanger and put it on, and walked out.
Nami looked at the sea chart on the table and followed him. Although the sea chart was important, it was more important to confirm Xia Chen’s current state.
Although he couldn’t find any problems, Xia Chen didn’t sleep as long as before.
But Xia Chen said that he slept for cultivation, so naturally he had to see how good the results of this cultivation were. She never thought that Xia Chen’s cultivation would fail.
Even though she would be uneasy and restless when Xia Chen was sleeping.
Everyone was very curious when they saw Xia Chen wake up. After all, Xia Chen explained so much last night, but he finished his cultivation in a few hours. What effect can you have?
Zoro, who was lifting weights desperately, also joined in the fun.
Xia Chen came to the left side of the open space in the middle of the deck, facing the empty sea, and could not release his observation Haki.
After searching for a suitable target for a long time, everyone saw that Xia Chen had not made any move and was about to ask. Xia Chen suddenly made a move. He flicked his finger and a drop of water the size of a thumb shot out.
Boom!
It exploded as soon as it touched the water surface.
It set off a wave tens of meters high. Although it was only a mere 10 meters in range, it was just a drop of water!
Xia Chen was always paying attention to Zoro’s progress, and he immediately tensed his body.
How could this guy’s strength improve so quickly?
As passengers, Weiwei and others were also dumbfounded. Is this a power that humans can master? !