Sins Of Pride On The Straw Hats

"That's right, can't you?" Luffy nodded affirmatively, these are all his disciples!

"No, manatees can't cross the desert." Vivi said speechlessly with cold sweat on his forehead.

The manatee hugged Luffy's thigh and begged.

"So cute!" Vivi and Nami couldn't bear to see it.

"Why do I feel like I have done something too much?" Vivi said close to Nami's ear, and Nami nodded in sympathy,

Because Nami was also the first to refute just now.

"Then what should we do now?"

"I don't know." The two women comforted each other together.

"Oh, that's right." Chopper suddenly took out a piece of bone-in meat to lure the Kung Fu manatees, and finally, under Chopper's kind words of persuasion.

The Kung Fu manatees were crying and waved goodbye to Luffy.

The group of them set off on the journey again.

"I said Luffy, do you understand what's going on?" Nami said earnestly.

"What's the matter? Since they want to follow, let them follow 813!" Luffy said indifferently.

"There are so many of them, they can't even enter any city, okay?"

"But....……"

"No but.

Watching Nami accuse Luffy, Reka's expression is somewhat unnatural, especially looking at his left shoulder, a place that is slightly raised.

It shouldn't be a problem if you bring one... Cough cough...

"Really, if Chopper hadn't convinced them, the consequences would have been unimaginable!"

"No, that Nami, actually I want to say..." Luffy glanced at Reka and wanted to tell Nami something, but before he finished speaking, Nami interrupted him.

"Okay, stop talking."

"Oh." Luffy immediately said dejectedly.

"That's..." After walking a few steps, they all stopped suddenly, staring at the city in front of them, they were all stunned.

This is a city that was almost buried by the desert, dilapidated and uninhabited, with only parts of the old buildings protruding from the yellow sand.

Everyone's originally relaxed mood suddenly sank.

"Is this Juba?" Luffy asked.

"No, this is Al Maar, the place once known as the Green City!" Vivi's heart was even more heavy.

"Green City?" Everyone couldn't connect the dilapidated city in front of them with the word Green City.

"Looking at this city, you will understand what Alabasta has done to this country, and what suffering the people of Alabasta have suffered!" Vivi mentioned this, with deep sadness in his eyes.

Everyone walked towards the city.

"There's nothing here!" Luffy looked around, but he didn't even see a single figure.

"Although it is a ruined city now, not long ago, it was still a lush and vibrant city." Vivi also had some difficulty accepting it for a while.

"Although there is little rain here, there is enough water to collect and store it through certain methods, but in the past three years, there has not been a drop of rain here." Vivi said to everyone.

"Three years?! Is this (cbdb) long?" Don't be in the desert, even in an ordinary place, three drops of rain are definitely not falling.

In the desert, such disasters are undoubtedly magnified many times.

"But even if it's not raining, isn't there still the river we passed by?" Zoro asked puzzled.

"Yeah, can't the water be brought in from that inland river?" Usopp also felt strange.

"The answer lies ahead..." Vivi continued to walk forward with the crowd.

"There has been no rain for three years. This is an unprecedented event in Alabasta, but there is only one exception. There is more rain than ever before, and that is Albana, the capital of the king! Everyone says it is a miracle of the king. , until one day that happened... The carriage to the king's palace overturned, and people found dancing powder in it!"

"Dancing fan?" Chopper and others didn't understand.

But Nami has long understood: "Dancing powder, also known as powder that calls rain, is something invented by a kingdom that does not rain in the past. By burning powder, rain clouds are generated to achieve the purpose of artificial rainfall."

"Oh, it's that incredible powder, I've eaten it before, it's unpalatable!" Luffy suddenly realized.

"That's not something to eat!"

"Wait, since artificial rainfall is possible, isn't that a good thing for this country?" In arid places, things that can rain, no matter how you think about it, are good things, so Usopp has doubts.

"In the beginning, it was indeed, so it was called dancing powder, because it was happy, but this thing has a fatal flaw, that is, other nearby places will become dry. To put it bluntly, dancing powder is when it is blown by the wind, it will originally become a rain cloud. The small clouds in the sky are artificially made to grow rapidly and form rainfall, and they are not created out of thin air."

"In other words, is this grabbing rainwater from nearby or neighboring countries?"

"That's right, so the country that invented this powder had a war with its neighbors, causing many casualties, and finally the World government expressly banned the use of this kind of thing!" Nami explained. .