Codex Pirates

Chapter 229 Poisonous Fruit

The real core technology of the sea train is not the steam engine, but its track.

Although the scientific and technological level in the East China Sea is generally still relatively backward, William can know from some limited news that even electricity has begun to spread in many places in other sea areas, and the technological level of the navy and the world government will only be higher than the average level in the East China Sea , it is impossible to be more backward, and judging from the news from Ajin who is on the great route, the steam engine is not a great technology for the navy and the world government.

The really amazing technology of the sea train is that it can make a special sound during driving, so that the track laid on the sea will not be harassed by sea kings, so it is safe and worry-free.

In fact, the long track laid by sea trains on the sea should have been more vulnerable to attacks by sea kings due to the span, and once damaged by an attack, the possibility of car crashes and fatalities may be higher than that of ordinary ships. Be bigger.

However, during the years when sea trains have been in operation, there has been no incident of sea kings attacking the track. This just shows how practical the technology invented by Tom the Murloc was.

This sonic technology, which relies on the collision of trains and rails to expel marine life, is no less effective than steam engines in this sea world full of dangerous creatures.

And unlike the steam engine, it is a unique technology for sea trains, and there is no similar application in other places.

William, who noticed this at the beginning, sometimes even suspected that it was this technology that led to the invention of sea trains for so many years, but the lines were still the same, and the world government had no intention of promoting them.

The world government itself has the technology to cross the windless belt and travel freely in various sea areas. According to Ajin, the navy has a special kind of warship. Drive safely in the wind.

But Sea Tower Stone is an extremely precious and rare mineral. Except for the world government, very few forces can learn from them to waste Sea Tower Stone extravagantly.

Monopolizing this kind of traffic technology makes it easier to control the connection between the four seas and the great route. The pirates of the four seas lead to the great route, basically they can only go upside down, and the great route that is already chaotic and difficult to control, because of the disorderly surge Pirates from all over the world have become more difficult.

William will definitely go to the great route, because this is the center of the world, the focus of the world's attention, where there are the most devil fruits, the most outstanding talents, and it is the highest stage where all the heroes in the era of the great pirates compete in the world, William How could it be missed.

However, the windless zone is the isolation zone that blocks the passage between the East China Sea and the great route. Although you can go to the great route from the East China Sea through the Reversing Mountain, but after entering, it becomes inconvenient to return. Contact can also become difficult.

William has worked hard in the East China Sea for many years, it is impossible to abandon the foundation here and go to the great sea route alone. In that case, what is the significance of what he did in the East China Sea?

So from a long time ago, he has been planning for this, how to maintain control over the East China Sea while entering the great route, prevent the windless zone from becoming an obstacle to communication, and turn the East China Sea into his own back garden.

William couldn't learn from the world government and navy to get so many sea towers for his ships, so in the end, abandoning wind power, using steam as the driving force, using sound waves to arm, and expel Neptune-like ships were included in his plan. middle.

Because of this, the sea train has become a means of transportation that William never forgets, because it has the key technologies he needs.

The design drawing that Bucky took a fancy to at the beginning and was amazed by it was actually this kind of special ship. Bucky quickly realized that this kind of ship can only solve the two problems in the windless zone. The big question is how practical it is.

As for Espagu, he quickly understood.

Before this, probably because of the blind spot of thinking, the masters and apprentices of Tom Studio had been thinking about how to build sea trains, including steam engines and train track technology, which were all invented and constructed for the smooth running of sea trains. The designer Murloc Tom, and the two young people Carter Flam and Espagu, no one has ever thought of applying the technology of driving away Neptunes with the sound waves generated by the collision of train tracks to other ships. .

Espagu never imagined that in the East China Sea, thousands of miles away, there would be someone who had never seen the sea train with his own eyes, and would be able to come up with ideas that even the designer could not think of.

However, this kind of idea is not without the possibility of operation. In fact, Espagu is also a little eager to try. As an excellent shipbuilder, he also wants to build a ship that can conquer the windless belt .

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When a group of people arrived at Tom's studio, Crowe and Espagu discussed a bunch of miscellaneous matters such as their daily residence and living place, but Edmund and Akin quietly stayed away from the crowd.

After arriving at a corner where there were no outsiders, Edmond took out some notebooks and a piece of fruit from his bulging arms and gave them to Ajin: "William asked me to give it to you. The notebooks are his personal experience on the Six Forms and the return of life. And the murloc karate training method he recently acquired, as for this fruit..."

"Devil Fruit!?" Ajin said in surprise.

The money William paid for this devil fruit was almost as much as the reward he paid for the steam engine.

But even with William's power and financial resources in the East China Sea, he has not been able to find more devil fruits in the East China Sea. So far, apart from the fluffy fruit that is still growing in the Destiny Square, William has only this one in his hand. He entrusted it to the trustworthy Edmond and gave it to Ajin to eat.

When William and Edmund talked about the candidates for the expedition team before, they mentioned giving something to Ajin. This thing mainly refers to the devil fruit.

"William thinks that you are in the Navy Headquarters, and you might need this to increase your strength," Edmund said, "but he doesn't know what kind of fruit this is. If you have concerns about poor abilities and will affect your own strength, You can choose not to eat it, William said, if you don’t eat it, let me eat it, but..."

"...I think this fruit is so weird, it seems to be poisonous," Edmond said jokingly, "you'd better eat it."

Hearing this, Ajin didn't shirk, took the Devil Fruit directly, and bit it down.

The bitter taste and weird taste made Ajin grin, and he said vaguely: "If I eat the devil fruit that is supposed to enhance the ability of the eater, but instead become weaker, it means that I can't adapt to this era, and I should be punished." Abandoned by this era, because there are no useless abilities, only useless users."