Grand Line, Alabasta.
With Li Ruisike on the scene, the merchant ship naturally cannot stay, and the Tianlong tutor does not allow him to be in the same room with a ship of "lower race pariahs".
They are still a bunch of trash that he can easily kill.
The two of them boarded the warship brought by Liriske with the merchant ship captain respectfully sending them off, and then headed east, arriving in this desert kingdom half a month later.
It's brown and yellow to the eye, the desert yellow sand rises and falls with the wind, the scorching sun shines on the earth, and there is an annoying heat wave in the air. The environment is quite harsh.
But even so, Alabasta is still called the "Pearl on the Sea" by countless people.
There is only one reason.
In this ocean dominated by small islands, Alabasta’s land area is astonishingly large!
Far exceeding the minimum standard of "large island", it is a super-large country that countless people yearn for!
Exactly how big it is...
For example, from Albana, the capital, to Yuba and then to Canola Harbor, which is the original Straw Hats' route, they walked for nearly 10 days.
And this is just the shortest route.
In addition, Alabasta's standing garrison is as high as 600,000, spread across the country. The territory of the "Four Emperors" Big Mom is known as "All Nations", but it cannot support such a large army.
Places like the Seven Waters, Marineford, and Marigioa, which are one city and one island, cannot be compared to it.
But this also proves one thing... This sea is dominated by strength, and the strong control everything!
In the face of absolute strength advantage, numbers are meaningless.
How many people did the Baroque Working Group have? There are only three or two big and small cats.
As a result, he almost overthrew the royal power and replaced him.
"Are you sure there will be treasure here?"
Lirisk asked hesitantly. Alabasta is a country that all the Dracos disdain to travel to. If it weren't for Ron Lai... No, entrustment, he wouldn't bother to come.
"There can't be anyone who figured everything out 300 years ago and fooled us, right?"
Ron stood on the deck and looked into the distance: "And so what if I didn't find it? I told you that I asked for leave to relax!"
"..."
Lirisk remained silent, wondering whether he should break his promise and go home now.
But he didn't have that chance. As soon as the warship docked, a group of king's troops approached.
"Saint Liriske! Lieutenant General Canglong!"
The speaker was a middle-aged man with dark skin and a square face. Even though he used honorifics, he still seemed neither humble nor arrogant.
"Welcome to Alabasta!"
This person is Nafinutali Kobra, the father of Princess Vivi.
After receiving the notice that the Tianlong people were about to arrive, he led the king's army to wait here in person.
Ron glanced at Lirisk who was silent, grinned, and walked up.
"King Kobra, thank you for your hard work. Please forgive me for disturbing you so much these days!"
"Providing services to the Tianlong people is the obligation of every joining country. Lieutenant General Canglong said it forcefully."
Cobra glanced at Ron in surprise. He didn't expect him to be able to step in and answer the question. However, Lirisk didn't even express his opinion, so Cobra naturally wouldn't be stupid enough to accuse him.
"You don't have to worry so much. I'm passing by this time. You can ask him what you want to do."
Seeing Cobra's surprise, Lirisk raised his head slightly and interrupted, speaking in a condescending tone: "Besides, you don't have to think about how to serve me. I don't dare to ask for your family's things."
Kobra smiled bitterly upon hearing this: "Okay, I understand."
The Nafinutari family is also one of the twenty royal families in creation, and Kobra is also a Celestial Dragon in terms of relationship...but there is a problem of "bloodline concentration".
After all, you must know that in order to maintain the so-called "purity of blood", there are many incestuous marriages among those Tianlong families. Half of the descendants are brain-dead, and the other half are on the road to being brain-dead.
Kobra, who does not live in the Holy Land and is the offspring of an intermarriage with an "inferior race", will naturally not be recognized by the Celestial Dragons.
In addition, the entire Alabasta is not taken seriously by the Celestial Dragons.
"You two, please go this way. I have tidied up your room for you two."
Cobra said no more, nodded and led the way. A group of people left the port and headed deeper into the town.
This king can be said to be a model of benevolence. He is kind-hearted and puts his people first in everything. As long as it doesn't harm ordinary people, he doesn't mind being looked down upon.
The residence was a palace left by Kobra's ancestors. The CP0 agents took the lead and searched the residence inside and out before turning back.
"Sir, it's safe inside."
"nonsense!"
Lirisk snorted impatiently and pushed open the door.
"King Kobra just needs to help us find some workers who are good at digging. Remember not to overextend this trip."
Ron was not as proud as Lirisk, so he stopped outside the door to communicate with Kobra.
"Okay, Lieutenant General Canglong, please rest assured, just leave it to us."
... ...
Entering the residence, Liriske had already ordered someone to open a bottle of sobered red wine. In the wide hall, he rushed into Ron and asked.
"Cobra is gone?"
"Why don't you stay and get scolded?"
Ron asked in return, and then asked with a smile: "Do the Dracos in the Holy Land have this attitude towards the Nafinutari family?"
Li Ruisike doesn't have the stinky habit of ordinary Tianlong people looking down on everything, and his performance today was a bit abnormal.
"You know, they are a disgrace to the Celestial Dragons. In the eyes of those old men, they are more hateful than the Don Quixote family."
In response, Li Ruisi shrugged helplessly. At this moment, his face no longer had the same aura of eyes above his head.
"... 800 years ago, the ancestors of Nafinutari dismissed the decisions of our other families. They believed that a government that separated from ordinary people was a rootless life, and directly abandoned the government of the twenty royal families of creation. Status, come back to live in Alabasta.”
"In the first hundred years, they were still regarded by us as one of our own, but then they began to intermarry with ordinary people. This made the old men in the Holy Land very angry, thinking that they had soiled the blood of God and were no longer the descendants of God."
"Now that 800 years have passed, the former Creation Royal Family has been replaced by the title of Celestial Dragon. Naturally, our connection with the Neferutali family has been completely severed."
Different road non-phase plan.
In the eyes of others, to put it harshly, the Nafinutari family is a group of traitors!
And even more despicable than the recent betrayal of several members of Don Quixote's family, was the traitor who betrayed them from the beginning.
Living in the Holy Land, in order not to be regarded as an alien, it was naturally impossible for Lyrisk to get close to Kobra.
This was the first time that the Tianlong people revealed their attitude to the outside world. Ron silently kept the information in his heart, and then said: "Forget it, we won't have much interaction with them anyway. We will leave after digging up the treasure."
"It's best..."
Li Ruisike took a sip of red wine and suddenly rolled his eyes: "But Ron, are you sure we can leave neatly?"
Sizzling...
The blue current lit the cigar, and the corners of Ron's mouth curled up: "You didn't lose your vigilance because of your enjoyment. Should I praise you?"
The location where they landed was not in a remote area like Rape Blossom Town where even pirates could enter, but in an important hinterland port not far from Yudi.
However, here, Ron still found many disguised pirates.
That ferocious aura is something that no regular legion, even if it kills people, can develop it.