The Great Swordsman of One Piece

Chapter 15 A Country Without Fresh Water

Roger's ship docked.Schalke originally planned to go ashore first, but Roger, who couldn't wait for the new adventure, drove the boat directly.

The man on the shore has been busy with the things in his hands. There are some strange bottles and jars and some strange materials beside him.He turned a blind eye to the group of people who docked with the pirate flag.

"We are pirates, look! That's our pirate flag!" Nusi walked over and pointed to the flag on her pirate ship and said to the strange man on the shore.

"I know." The man stared at some small white particles on the beach, with a thoughtful expression on his face.He didn't pay attention to the group of pirates in front of him at all.

"Since you know that we are pirates, why don't you run away?" Ajin jumped to Nusi's side and asked, looking at the strange person in front of him.

"The people in this country are already overwhelmed. There is no extra money for you to plunder. It may be a good destination to die in your hands." The weird man's hand suddenly turned into tweezers, picking up a small white particle .Put it in your mouth.Really salty!
"My name is Roger, we are passing pirates. What are you doing here? How could your hands become like this?" Roger walked over and asked.

"This is the desert country of Alabasta. I am the robot Carpenter who ate the mechanical fruit, and I am doing research." The weirdo Carpenter stood up while speaking.With his hands turned into shovels, he dug a hole in the bank and drew some seawater into it.

"Can I know what research you are doing? Carpenter." Bit also walked up and asked curiously.His action is obviously to dry the salt.

"Sea water is salty, and the salt in sea water is also salty, so as long as the salt is removed, the remaining sea water will become fresh water." Carpenter briefly explained his research-making fresh water.

"Even if it is a desert country, it is impossible to lack water to such an extent. Don't you have a freshwater river in your country? Even if there is no freshwater river, it is enough to drill a well." Raleigh raised his own doubts.

"Someone is coming." Before Carpenter could answer, Van Pica warned behind everyone.

Hearing Van Picka's warning, Carpenter's frown because of Raleigh's group deepened. "Why are these bastards here again?" He muttered to himself.But everyone heard it.

At this moment Schalke jumped out of the water.He went to hide the boat in a more secluded place on the shore.Just came back now. "What's going on? He's..."

Next to Schalke, Nusi explained to him the conversation between them and Carpenter in a low voice.But Carpenter collected his thoughts and continued to stare at the seawater in front of him.

Not long after, a man in a black suit appeared in everyone's field of vision with two teams of guards, and they walked straight to Carpenter.

Only then did Carpenter stand up, and he passed Roger and the others and walked in front of the visitor. "Carter, what are you doing here?" Carpenter's tone was not polite.

"Let me take a look at your research." Carter had an evil smile on his face. "By the way, clean up the sanitation of the coast. I heard from the nearby garrison that there are always some shameless guys littering on the coast recently!"

After Carter finished speaking, the guards behind him rushed forward, passing Carter and Carpenter who were looking at each other, and Roger and others behind Carpenter.

They walked to the place where Carpenter was just now, beat all kinds of weird objects on the ground, and destroyed Carpenter's test site.

Carpenter just gritted his teeth and looked at Carter in front of him, without doing anything.The other party occupies the name of the country, and now maybe they are waiting for him to do something and then take him away.

"Hey, what are you doing? Why smash his stuff!" Carpenter could keep his cool, but Roger couldn't.He can't just watch this Carter bullying people!

"I can smash anyone's stuff if I want, but you, who are you? What are you doing here!" Carter yelled back without guilt.

"we are……"

"They are merchants on the great voyage, and they drifted here after being shipwrecked." Carpenter suddenly interrupted Roger's words.He figured it out, the idiot didn't speak his head at all.

"It turned out to be a victim whose clothes weren't even wet." Carter saw the flaw in Carpenter's words at a glance.But he didn't intend to delve into it.

"Since you said they were victims, if they break the law, you will be out of luck together." Carter turned around while talking, and led the people away. "Good luck, Carpenter. Hahahahaha!"

After watching that arrogant guy leave, Roger became angry. "Why don't you stop him from destroying your stuff, Carpenter!"

Carpenter shook his head.He was helpless with Roger's IQ. "He wished I could stop it, so that he could justifiably send me to prison."

"I didn't expect there to be such a master in your country. Who is he?" Bit's eyes flashed with excitement.

This was the only person he encountered on the great voyage other than the giant in the small garden that made him feel dangerous, and he sensed the taste of a swordsman from this person.His swordsman's soul was burning fiercely.

"His name is Carter, and he is the captain of the kingdom's guard. He usually stays in Albana, the capital of the kingdom, but yesterday he came to my experiment site out of nowhere and messed up. He came again today." Carpenter He shook his head and said.

"Where is this place? How long does it take to get here from the capital Albana?" Raleigh asked two questions.

"This is Elmaru. It takes about two and a half days to get here from the capital." Although it is not clear why Raleigh asked this, Carpenter still answered him.

"In other words, he knew that you were doing research here almost five days ago. Aren't you researching the production of fresh water? Why did he destroy it?" Raleigh continued to ask.He seemed to have found the reason for Carpenter's study of fresh water.

"Because the country's fresh water resources are controlled by the king. The fresh water sources everywhere are guarded by the army, and anyone who wants to get water will be charged a huge fresh water drinking tax." Carpenter was a little depressed.

"The citizens can't afford the heavy fresh water drinking tax at all, so I want to study the conversion of sea water to fresh water." Carpenter's eyes are full of determination. "No matter what, I will continue to study!"

"Why don't you try to dig the well yourself? It's much easier than that." Nusi was full of doubts.

Carpenter turned his head to look at Nusi, his face expressionless. "Do you think they will not consider this kind of problem? All those who dared to dig wells by themselves were all executed by the king for stealing state property."

"What! Execute!" Nusi cried out in shock.She really never imagined that such an evil guy could sit on the throne!
"Can you tell us more about it? Maybe I can help you." Nusi asked softly.

"Yes, we are very strong." Roger looked at Carpenter with a confident glow on his face.

(End of this chapter)