Chapter 82
But everyone’s attention was not on him, but on the large ship in front of them, which was 95 meters long, 55 meters high and 30 meters wide.
This is a three-masted, steam-powered sailing ship. The whole body is dark in color and full of solemnity. What is more valuable is that there is a five-clawed golden dragon that almost runs through the entire ship. Most of it is attached to the hull on both sides of the ship, completely symmetrically distributed, winding and majestic, and the dragon scales on it are clearly visible.
This is actually an energy transmission channel.
It can transmit steam as the power of the ship, and it can also change the tube-layer structure in it, and shoot a large number of projectiles from these dragon scales, or water bombs with destructive explosions like Xia Chen’s water stream bullets.
It is very practical. It must be said that in some aspects, the development of technology in the One Piece world has surpassed the ironclad technology in Xia Chen’s previous life world.
Of course, this golden dragon is gold-plated, and the main material is steel. There is not so much gold in the group.
It didn’t cost much to build the ship, so the gold in reserve was used here.
The name was thus determined: Golden Dragon!
It was very vulgar, but it was voted in favor of by everyone, even Usopp and Luffy couldn’t find fault with it. The Thousand Sunny in the original work was named after the sound of “Sunny”, which was a foreshadowing, intended to show that Luffy’s rubber fruit was actually the mythical beast species, Nika form.
But here, it’s completely unnecessary.
Trench, that’s it!
“Captain!” Xia Chen said softly.
Luffy, who was jumping up and down excitedly, immediately calmed down, pressed his straw hat with one hand, and jumped onto the bow of the Golden Dragon.
“Little guys!”
“Let’s go!”
“Yes, Captain!”
The group either boarded the ship by themselves or came to the deck with the help of Xia Chen. They had already figured out the specific structure inside these days and had made good material reserves.
Xia Chen and Nami came to the rudder, which was still on the open deck on the second floor.
He put his hand on a metal pipe in front of him, and a large amount of water vapor gathered from the surroundings and poured into the pipe.
With a low hum, a large amount of water mist sprayed out from the scales of the dragons surrounding the entire ship, adding a sense of sacredness to the Golden Dragon, which was like a cloud and mist, and illusory and ethereal.
Finally, all the holes were closed under Xia Chen’s control, and the power was transmitted to the tail end of the golden dragon pipe, which was the position of the propeller.
Under the control of Nami and others, the ship began to leave the port and set sail.
Follow the river that Xia Chen spent a lot of effort to dredge and connect a few days ago and enter the Saint Dora River. We will follow the river directly to the east, enter the rain land, and enter the sea from here.
Originally, the river in Asurabastan could not lead to the rain land, but later Cobra found him and knelt down to ask Xia Chen to help several major cities in Alabasta to have some rain. Although there is no dancing powder, this place is dry and rainless, and most of the terrain is desert.
When the rainy season comes, I don’t know how many people will die.
Xia Chen thought, it doesn’t matter.
Not only can he master the control of water control ability, but also let Cobra owe more favors.
He can also look for mice in the dark, because recently, except for Kaku, he has not found any other CP9 shadows, and even Bruno, the spokesperson of the bull head hairstyle that he has been thinking about, has not seen a fart.
He used his ability to fly around Alabasta. Although he has not yet upgraded his water control ability to level 3, Xia Chen feels that he is very close to that level, just a very thin membrane.
Of course, the difficulty of upgrading from level 2 to level 3 is beyond Xia Chen’s imagination.
But Xia Chen, like a savior, made clouds and rain in Alabasta and also won the title of “Dragon King”.
He had an idea and wanted to study the specific cause of the devil fruit. He spent a little more effort to dredge Alabasta and created three vertical and three horizontal main rivers.
Although Alabasta is still mainly a desert landform, with these three vertical and three horizontal rivers, they will develop more and more oases, feed more people, and clear most of the desert.
Of course, this is destined to be a very long process, but whether it is Cobra, Vivi or the citizens of Alabasta, they are already grateful.
Some places even spontaneously built temples for Xia Chen.
Unfortunately, Xia Chen did not sense anything. He just told Vivi the relevant news and asked her to pay attention to the changes in Alabasta. Will there be new devil fruits?
Of course, he also paid a little insignificant reward.
Cobra looked at Wei Wei who was absent-minded.
Sighed lightly and said: “Dad knows you like Xia Chen, but a man like that will never stay in one place. His goal is the new world. Dad is sorry that I can only let you stay here and can’t pursue your dreams freely.”
Vivi came back to her senses, quite moved, and couldn’t hold back her tears.
She held Cobra’s arm tightly with one hand, and gently stroked her abdomen with the other hand, saying: “Father, I am already very satisfied. Now I should be sensible. I want to take on the responsibility of a princess.”
“Good child!” Cobra gently pulled Vivi into his arms.
On the other side, Ikalem also completed the delivery of the mission reward with Franky and others, mainly Adam Baomu.
Although the Golden Dragon has used Adam Baomu to build the structure of the hull as much as possible, even the material of a small bench used on it is made of Adam Baomu, which makes those shipbuilders bleed with heartache.
But in the end, there are still a lot left.
Of course, it is impossible to give all of them to the Seven Water City.
So the materials they took away were worth about 300 million Baileys, which was already a high reward. Franky and the others were also very excited.
Especially Franky, he felt that he was getting closer and closer to the day of restoring the legendary battleship that Teacher Tom passed on to him and his senior brother.
After the ship entered the main channel, Xia Chen did not continue to push the ability.
Instead, he returned to his room and prepared to rest.
It is foreseeable that there will be a big battle next.
These days he was busy making clouds and rain in Alabasta, and it was easy to open up the river, but he turned on the observation Haki wherever he went, and found a few familiar guys, especially Aokiji.
He even passed by him on a street, but he pretended not to know him.
So Xia Chen expected that the next opponents would be at least Aokiji, Navy Colonel T. Penn, and Bogart.
Back to his vice-captain’s room, this area of more than 300 square meters is divided into a multi-layer suite structure, and it is also equipped with a special treasure room. It is decorated with exquisite gems everywhere, and the purple and brown lion skin carpet is laid at the door.
Came to the brown-red desk made entirely of Adam Baomu and reviewed the plan made before. There is no problem.
Stretched and prepared to take a break. According to the current speed, they will reach the rainy land in the afternoon.
Looked at the sheep head logo of the Golden Merry hanging on the wall.
This logo was made by disassembling the bow of the original Merry. There is one in every crew room. This is a commemoration of the Merry. Although it sounds cruel, it is better than burning it and pouring the “soul juice” to the innate sheep head controller~~!
“Merry, you may not be able to be born in this life, but it’s good this way. It’s really unacceptable to think about saying goodbye to you!” Xia Chen said to himself.
There are not many scenes in the original book that can move me, but the scene that impressed me the most is always the scene where the Golden Merry was burned and buried at sea.
But what Xia Chen didn’t expect was that the sheep-headed statue that Xia Chen was stroking suddenly trembled.
Xia Chen’s pupils slightly dilated, and he subconsciously activated the collection technique.
“Collection successful, congratulations to the host for obtaining the ship spirit Merry.”