Chapter 478 Mouth [Triple in One]

Alabasta Rainland, inside an office of the Rainfeast Casino.

Crocodile had a cigar in his mouth and a cigar in his hand. There was also a cigar on the edge of the ashtray on the table, and they were all lit, but the ashtray hadn't been smoked for too long. It's about to go out.

He frowned, looking at the newspaper in his hand, which read the news that the two admirals Aokiji and Akainu joined forces to effectively solve the disasters of the countries that joined the world government.

This is not the most painful thing for Crocodile. What is even more painful is that he will have to be interviewed later, and he will inevitably sing the praises of Ace, Yamato, and Bonnie, the iron triangle of the Navy's super-generation.

Moreover, King Cobra even booked his Rain Banquet Casino, intending to celebrate the success of the three people who solved the drought problem in Alabasta and other members of the Red Dog Detachment.

In the corner of the office, Nicole Robin's expression was not very good either, partly because of the news, and partly because she was almost intoxicated by the smell of the cigar.

"Is there any solution?"

Crocodile asked in an extremely hoarse voice. Robin frowned when he heard the words, thought for a while and said, "If there is, it depends on whether you dare to use it."

"Find someone to dress up as Cobra, condemn the Navy's meddling in other countries' affairs, and demand that the Navy never set foot in Alabasta, or...

Don't care about the so-called reputation, just use your ability to let the water resources they transfer dry up quickly, they can't stay here all year round. "

Hearing Robin's "suggestion", Crocodile's eyes were also very dissatisfied. He knew that Robin was really mocking his cowardice and wanted to steal the country, but he cherished this reputation very much.

However, it's different if you can't do it yourself, and others explain it clearly.

"Don't forget! Only if I succeed can you study the so-called historical text!"

Crocodile said in a low voice, fine sand also flowed out from the cracks in the floor tiles of the office, and crawled towards Robin. Facing Crocodile's naked threat, Robin's expression remained unchanged, and he said relaxedly:

"But at the same time, you can't do without my ability to interpret the historical text. If what you want is really recorded in the historical text, even if you can steal the country by killing me, what can you do?"

"snort!"

Crocodile snorted angrily, but had to admit that Robin was right, after all, both sides got what they needed.

There was no trust between the two of them. The so-called cooperation was more like a transaction. Robin exchanged his knowledge for the shelter given by Crocodile.

For now, Robin is already profitable, because Robin has been living steadily on the Great Channel for a year, and this is all given by him Crocodile!

But Crocodile is not a kind person. Robin's knowledge is exactly what he values, but in order to realize this knowledge, Crocodile must find the historical text.

And the way he chose was to become the master of Alabasta as a matter of course, and he had to become the master of Alabasta as a matter of course, instead of plundering like a pirate.

It doesn’t mean that Alabasta cannot be plundered in the way of pirates, and it doesn’t mean that the text of history cannot be found in the way of pirates, but Crocodile doesn’t want to do it.

He has enjoyed the glory and applause here for more than ten years, and naturally he doesn't want to lose what he has gained.

But if he has been unable to find the hidden historical text of this country, then his deal with Robin can only benefit Robin unilaterally, unless he directly tore up the cooperation regulations between the two.

But in this case, it seems that there is no one in this world who can interpret the historical text. In this case, even if he finds the historical text in the future, he can only be caught blind.

Therefore, even if it is a loss to support Robin now, and even be ridiculed by Robin from time to time, Crocodile has to hold his nose to maintain the status quo and continue to "raise" Robin.

Seeing Crocodile take back the sand, Robin's face flashed with disdain, but after thinking about it, he still said: "Actually, the original plan can still be carried forward now.

It's just that instead of using drought, we use another opposite method, such as floods.

There is no anti-flood construction in Alabasta, just use dancing powder a few more times in Albana to make Albana show signs of flooding",

"But like this, how could those people hate Cobra! He is the king who is suffering!"

Crocodile looked at Robin dissatisfied, he didn't expect Robin's level to be so good!

Robin sighed, feeling that she had found the wrong cooperation target, at least. There are many better cooperation targets than Crocodile, it seems that she has to start looking for the next one, but at present, she continued:

"Who said Cobra was going to suffer? We just need signs of flooding in Albana.

At that time, in the surrounding cities of Albana, dancing powder will be used on a large scale to draw water away from Albana, and the water sources of other cities around that city will also be pumped there.

In this way, that city will replace their king Cobra and suffer the flood.

However, Alabasta does not have any flood-fighting construction, nor does it have any flood-fighting experience and talents. Once the flood arrives, the family will be destroyed!

If this happened three or five times, people would discover that it was their king Cobra who, in order to divert the flood in the capital, grafted the disaster onto other cities and other citizens.

Now the people are only grateful to the Navy, and still have a lot of dissatisfaction with Cobra. If you do all this before the people's attitude towards Cobra warms up, then isn't Alabasta still yours? "

After listening to Robin's explanation, Crocodile's eyes brightened a little. Yes, why have he been immersed in the destruction of his drought plan, which can be directly converted into a flood!

In fact, the people of Alabasta are still very resistant to drought. After all, Alabasta has always been a country short of water, and it has survived for so many years.

They know how to face the drought. This year, almost a whole year of drought, did not completely hit the country. Even if the water source was cut off, they still insisted on surviving.

The capital, Albana, wasn't completely thankful that it had rain. Cobra would often stop the people in the capital to collect fresh water, then keep some of it and ship it out.

In the coastal cities, some people also collected some fresh water by heating seawater and using distillation technology. In the west, many people actually dig wells to find underground water sources.

Although these measures cannot solve the drought problem, they ensure that everyone can have a sip of water to drink, so that they will not die of thirst directly.

The key point is that Crocodile himself is such a "traitor" who provides food for the people of Alabasta and allows them to survive the situation of no food output in the first year.

This struggle to survive, over time, will also turn into disappointment with the Alabasta royal family, especially when, according to the plan, the public is supposed to find out next year that the capital used dancing powder to deprive them of water.

Although slower, it is very stable and very controllable.

But "slowness" has become the key point for the Navy to free up its hands to solve this problem this year, so Crocodile has also reacted, and Robin's plan is to prevent other forces from reacting.

Alabasta has rich experience in drought resistance, but there is no way to deal with floods. There is no large area of ​​vegetation, no basins and lakes.

The most important thing is that compared with drought, floods may only take a day or two to push people's dissatisfaction to the peak.

The main reason why they didn't do this before is because Alabasta doesn't have that much water at all, but the three of Ace, plus Aokiji, solved this missing prerequisite.

But floods are not only good, there are also disadvantages.

That is too fast. Once the floods start, the damage caused will be uncontrollable. Perhaps a city will be completely paralyzed in just two days.

It was so paralyzed that there were no people who could organize the people and resist the royal family, and Crocodile did not have so many people who could control and guide the situation.

Seeing that Crocodile actually started to frown and think, Robin guessed that Crocodile was weighing the pros and cons, and was considering how to get rid of the disadvantages.

Robin was completely speechless, she felt that Crocodile was really over-the-top, the simplest

"Can't you build drains yourself? As long as you get emotional, can't you just drain the water?"

Hearing Robin's completion of the last sentence, Crocodile woke up like a dream, yes, he is a person with the ability of rustling fruit! Almost forgot about it!

Crocodile blushed a little, but the office was filled with thick fog from three burning cigars, but Robin did not notice Crocodile's abnormality.

"Tuk Tuk Tuk ~"

"Boss, King Cobra, and Colonel Ace are here."

The sudden knock on the door made Crocodile heave a sigh of relief. He stood up, ignored Robin in the corner, walked to the door and opened it, and said to the staff of Yuyan:

"I'm going now, thanks for your hard work."

Although the smell of smoke in the boss's office was several times stronger than usual, the employee didn't bother. Perhaps the boss was concerned about the country and the people, so he was too happy about this good news.

Leaving the office, Crocodile immediately rushed to the gate of the Rain Banquet. Unlike before, his face was no longer sad, but rather happy.

After all, according to what Robin said, as long as the plan is carried out properly, not only does he not need to pay anything, but he only needs to use his own ability on the original basis to achieve his goal and even gain a wave of prestige.

If his prestige is not as good now, then once this plan goes smoothly, his prestige may be able to push him to the position of Alabasta's ruler.

What is a national idol? !

Therefore, his mood is very light at this time, which complements the sincere smiles on the faces of other employees because the national drought problem has been resolved.

It seems that Crocodile is like a noble man who is really worried about people's worries and happy about people's happiness.

Just a moment later, surrounded by countless people, the red dog detachment led by Ace, and members of the royal family headed by Cobra, appeared at the gate of the rain banquet.

Crocodile hurried up to greet him, first greeted Cobra, then looked at the frowning Ace, and said kindly: "This is Colonel Ace, right? Thank you."

Before he finished speaking, he suddenly noticed that Ace, Yamato, and Bonnie took half a step back in a very tacit understanding, and there were expressions of disgust on their faces.

Crocodile didn't even know what happened, which made him very embarrassed. He didn't know, and the three subconsciously wanted to report to Skyler that someone was smoking.

After all, they are all people who have lived in the Zhanye Detachment for many years, and their aversion to cigarettes has been cultivated. In this world, only Garp can smoke unscrupulously in Skyler's territory.

After entering the training camp, many of the recruits knew that Mr. Zefa had asthma before. Even though he was healed by Colonel Trafalgar Rowe, no one dared to smoke in the recruit camp.

In addition, Zefa would really punish them. Lieutenant General Skyler gave them the Hailou stone pointer that Teacher Zefa gave them. After serving for more than ten years, it is still strong, and it hurts terribly when beaten.

When it came to the Akainu detachment, the three of them still continued the habit they had brought from the Zanya detachment, and offered advice and suggestions to Akainu. After hearing this, Akainu also directly prohibited the detachment members from smoking during the mission.

Therefore, the moment they smelled the smoke on Crocodile's body, the three of them immediately disliked Crocodile.

Ace kept his distance and said to Crocodile: "Mr. Crocodile, I also heard what you did for Alabasta during the drought.

I personally admire your actions very much. As for more words of thanks, I will not preempt King Cobra's words. "

‘One more thing, that is, I can’t stand it! '

Cobra looked at the three of them, thinking that the three of them knew what he and Skyler were talking about a few years ago, so they hurried out to smooth things over and said:

"Yes, Mr. Crocodile, I have to thank you very much. Without your selfless dedication, perhaps we would not be able to survive today."

'Yes Yes Yes! It's all my selfless dedication! '

Crocodile felt remorse in his heart, but he managed to smile again, nodded, and said, "Come to Alabasta, you are an Alabasta, and you should contribute to your family.

Everyone, don't stand here anymore. Although the rain banquet is simple, it is still no problem to entertain you. Please come in. Please come in. "

Crocodile himself didn't realize that he seemed to have forgotten the ferocity that pirates should have, and instead had the philistinism and tolerance of a merchant.

Everyone followed Crocodile and stepped into the rain banquet, because they had already received the news, so the rain banquet was also well prepared.

However, it may be rare that there is a lot of clean water, so many waitresses are dressed in simple clothes, and it is estimated that most of the clothes have been washed.

Today, the Rain Banquet is not open to the public. The hall on the first floor, which was originally filled with gambling tables, still retains half of its original appearance at this time, and the sexy dealers are also there.

The other half was converted into a party dining table, but due to the large number of people, it was directly transformed into several large rectangular tables, which were placed on a running water table, and the dishes were all rotating on it.

What's even more funny is that on one wall, since a podium for speeches is assumed, the bands on both sides may not be prepared for the press conference, but there is also a band singing session.

"absurd!"

Ace was talking to himself, and at the same time, his officer also called out the word at the Navy Headquarters, Marin Fando.

In the marshal's office, Akainu was so angry that even the baseball cap on his head was crooked. At this time, he walked around the Sengoku office with his hips on his hips.

Zhan Guo, on the other hand, sat firmly in his office chair. On his desk was a somewhat crumpled newspaper, which was the World Economic News' report on this incident.

In fact, Ace and the others stayed in Alabasta to help the local area solve the drought. Akainu knew about it three days ago, because Ace had already talked to him on the phone.

Starting from the bottom of my heart, Akainu doesn’t actually agree with Ace’s idea of ​​giving up the vacation in order to help a franchise country. After all, as a navy, it’s time to take a good rest after completing the mission and meet the next mission.

But Red Dog didn't want to discourage Ace's enthusiasm, not to mention that when Ace was talking to him, he also hinted at Red Dog by using Skyler to help the Dragon Palace Kingdom.

That's why Akainu agreed with them to stay in Alabasta to help Alabasta solve the drought. Besides, this is another piece of talk. At the next meeting of generals, he can praise Ace and himself .

Who said that the hawks can only fight and kill, isn't he Akainu the representative of the hawks? Is his detachment the Hawks detachment? It is also a good hand to help civilians.

To help Alabasta solve the drought problem, can you doves, a group of generals and detachments that can only cower, do it? ! Isn't it necessary for his detachment to go out?

These are all the lines that Akainu had thought up, but suddenly, when the news came out today, he suddenly discovered that it was not the people from his Akainu detachment who solved this matter, or in other words, not only his Akainu detachment of people.

There is actually a green pheasant as a guide! Although Aokiji only appeared in Alabasta for less than an hour, and then left directly.

But he taught the Red Dog Detachment how to solve the drought problem in Alabasta, although the newspaper said that the two admirals worked together and worked together to solve the problem for the joining countries.

But anyone with a discerning eye can see that the plan was Aokiji's idea. Without Aokiji, the Akainu detachment might not be able to solve the drought problem in Alabasta.

What's more, Akainu didn't intend to praise Aokiji at the general meeting. After all, although there was no evidence, Aokiji suddenly asked for leave and suddenly appeared in Alabasta.

Before Akainu wanted to come, obviously before asking for leave, he inquired about the movements of the Akainu detachment, and used the authority of the general to ask Ace and others to obey his orders.

He can't even do this kind of meddling in other people's detachments, how dare you Aokiji do this? !

At this time, Zhan Guo raised his hand, smoothed the crumpled newspaper, looked at the news on it, and fell into deep thought. He knew that this matter must not be that simple.

It is impossible for Aokiji and the rest of the Akaken detachment to be such a coincidence, there must have been arrangements, but Sengoku doesn't think Aokiji has the leisure to deal with this matter, the probability is

Either it was Crane or Skyler, and the biggest suspect should be the latter, after all, Crane would not hide it from him.

"General Akainu is here too? It seems that I am not the first person to notice something is wrong."

As soon as Sengoku thought of Crane, Crane appeared at the door of the office, also holding a newspaper in his hand, but unlike the one brought by Akainu, the newspaper in Crane's hand was neatly folded.

The appearance of the crane confirmed the Warring States Period. Skyler was 100% responsible for this incident, and

Crane came in, put the newspaper and a document bag on the Sengoku table, then turned around, and said to Akainu: "Admiral Akainu, this incident, the wind direction inside our navy must be the same, you understand what I mean Bar?"

"Heh! Don't you want me to admit that all these arrogance things done by Aokiji have been authorized by me?!"

Akaken put on a straight face, while Crane shook his head and said, "I don't want you to admit it, but this is just how it is!"

At this time, Sengoku also briefly looked at the documents brought by Crane. At this time, he also stood up and said to Akaken: "Akaken, this time. I'm afraid it's true. Take a look at this."

As Sengoku said, he also handed the document to Akainu. Akainu took it, and was extremely unhappy at first, but seeing that it was a report submitted by the Zanya detachment, he patiently read it.

The document was submitted by the Zanya detachment. Regarding the speculation about the cause of the drought in Alabasta, the spearhead was pointed at Shichibukai Crocodile, saying that he was responsible for the drought in Alabasta.

And it is extremely exaggerated to introduce speculations such as "stealing the country", "historical text" and even "ancient weapons".

After reading the information, the red dog showed a fierce look, and one side of the nose and the corner of the eye were still twitching.

"So this is the arrangement of the headquarters?! Why didn't I receive any notice?! Also, why didn't you just arrest Crocodile?!"

Throwing three questions in a row, Akainu stared closely at Sengoku and Crane, and Crane took over the report that he was baked extremely dry without knowing it, and would shatter after repeated pinching, and said:

"The staff department did not report this matter to the old man, but put it on hold directly, so this matter is not an arrangement of the headquarters."

"It's not the arrangement of the headquarters, who else?"

Suddenly thought of something, Akazuki stopped his rage, took deep breaths, and waited until his emotions calmed down a little, then he said: "So is this a last resort for the Zhanye detachment?"

Seeing that the red dog changed his tone in an instant, both Tsuru and Sengoku were a little speechless, good guy, insisted that Aokiji did it, you got angry, you thought it was done by the headquarters, you also got angry, why did you arrive at the Zanye detachment, you Just calm down?

Moreover, what is "last resort" and "rights policy", do you understand what these words mean? Just copy it mechanically? !

Sighing helplessly, Crane said to the two of them: "On the way here, I have already talked to General Aokiji on the phone. He is currently conducting a secret investigation in Alabasta and will come back to report on his duties later.

Admiral Akainu, this matter is of great importance. Before the headquarters makes a final decision, I hope that this matter about the drought is the decision of the headquarters, and it is the decision of the headquarters that you have already agreed to. No problem, right? "

"Hmph! No problem, but if the headquarters decides to arrest Crocodile, I must be responsible!"

"I think it's okay, Marshal of the Warring States Period, what do you think?"

Zhan Guo squinted his eyes and thought for a while, nodded, and said, "I also think there is no problem, but... in the future, I hope to submit any reports from the Zhanye Detachment directly here, and let the old man judge!"

Crane knew that the Warring States Period was going to beat the staff department, but it happened that she was not particularly satisfied with the staff department now, especially when the group of people were discussing in private, saying that Nurkic was more suitable to be a senior staff officer than her!

"Marshal of the Warring States Period, I will inform you about this matter. At the same time, if there is any rectification plan, I will fully cooperate."