Chapter 62: Chapter 62 Green City Elmar
Nami and Vivi also changed from dancer costumes to normal costumes.
Vivi gave a reasonable explanation for this.
"Exposing too much skin in the desert will be eroded by the strong sunlight."
Sanji was very unwilling and started rolling on the ground.
Everyone had changed into serious clothing for hiking in the desert, while Xu Cang directly used the devil suit to wrap himself up perfectly, basically not afraid of the erosion of the sun.
The devil suit can only be worn by himself, otherwise Xu Cang would give it to the ladies on the ship.
After all, you have to be a gentleman, and as a captain, you have the obligation to take care of the crew.
Not like Luffy.
Everyone just landed, but they saw small creatures suddenly emerging from the sea water.
"What is that?!" Zoro was also very curious.
"Roar~" The creature in front of him raised his arms aggressively, but it didn't look like he was actively attacking.
"Is it a turtle?"
"Is it a seal?"
Finally it was Vivi who recognized the creature's identity.
"It's Kung Fu Manatee!"
Chopper Grandmaster's animal language, translated: "If you want to go ashore, try to defeat me. If you don't dare, go back to the other side, coward."
"That's what it says," Chopper said.
"I've been taught to be a coward, I can't be silent anymore! I'm on!" Usopp rushed forward, but was KO'd in less than three seconds.
"Usopp!" Vivi hurriedly hurriedly rushed but still didn't stop Usopp.
"Kung Fu Manatee is very strong!"
Luffy had defeated Kung Fu Manatee. Kung Fu Manatee immediately bowed and his eyes began to shine.
"If you lose the fight, you have to become a disciple of that person. This is the rule of Kung Fu Manatee." Vivi explained.
"What a fighting sect!" Zoro complained.
Immediately afterwards, a group of Kung Fu Manatees surrounded Luffy, and Luffy immediately started training the Kung Fu Manatees.
"come on!"
"Yes! That's it! Yes! That's it!"
"That's right! And then do this again!"
The Kung Fu manatees started punching aggressively, not knowing whether the training was really effective.
Luffy saw that it was almost done, so he said: "Okay! Let's set off towards Yuba!"
"Wait a minute!" Zoro said speechlessly: "Are you going to take them there too?"
It turned out that Luffy was followed neatly by countless Kung Fu Manatees.
"This won't work, Luffy!" Nami said.
"Yeah, it's impossible for a manatee to cross the desert." Vivi also said.
"Yes, they are manatees. They must rely on the sea to survive. If they enter the desert, they will die." Xu Cang also reminded them.
Chopper then took out the meat and gave it to the manatees. Finally, the manatees bid farewell to the Straw Hats with tears.
"Really, a kung fu manatee can be so sensational." Xu Cang was too lazy to complain at this time. Some weird things would happen if he became a member of the Straw Hats, and there was nothing he could do about it.
"Goodbye!" Luffy waved, and everyone headed towards Yuba.
"I said, Luffy, do you understand the current situation?" Nami asked.
"Since they want to follow them, wouldn't it be enough to take them with them?" Luffy thought it was perfectly normal.
"There are so many people, they can't enter any city at all, okay?! It's really stupid. If Chopper hadn't convinced them, the consequences would have been unimaginable." Nami said.
"Yeah! They kept saying they wanted to come! If I hadn't given them food, they would have really come." Chopper also agreed.
"It's all your fault, more than half of the food is missing." As a chef, Sanji naturally keeps food reserves in mind at all times, and now he is complaining.
Everyone walked like this for a while, and soon, everyone had arrived at a new location.
In addition to the long stretches of yellow sand in front of us, there is also an abandoned city. This city seems to have been buried by the yellow sand, with ruins everywhere.
"Is this Yuba?" Luffy and others asked.
"No, this is Elmar." Vivi said.
"It was a place that was once called the Green City."
"Green City?"
"After seeing this city, you will understand what the Baroque Society has done to this country, and what suffering the people of Alabasta have suffered." After Vivi finished speaking, everyone set off again, with the goal of Yuba. Elmar is just an abandoned town west of Alabasta.
The surroundings basically look the same, there is desert everywhere, and countless buildings have collapsed under the yellow sand.
"There's nothing here." Luffy said as he walked.
"Yes, although it is a ruined city now, not long ago, this was a lush and vibrant city." Vivi said.
"It doesn't look like it. This place looks like a desert monument that has been abandoned for thousands of years." Xu Cang couldn't help but said while looking at the surrounding buildings.
"It wasn't like this before. Although it didn't rain much here before, the city was barely able to survive by storing the scarce water. However, in the past three years, not a drop of rain has fallen on all the land in this country. Yes." Vivi said.
"What? It hasn't rained in three years?"
"So long?"
Everyone was very surprised. Three years without rain would naturally be a devastating blow to a desert country.
"Even if it doesn't rain, can't we divert the water from the big river?" Usopp and Zoro asked one after another.
"The answer lies ahead." After Vivi finished speaking, she continued walking forward.
"Not even a drop of rain fell. Even in Alabasta's thousands-year history, this is an unprecedented event. However, there is only one place that has received more rain than before, and that is the capital, Alabaana." Vivi was worried. said.
"That was the city where the king's palace was located. Everyone thought it was the king's miracle, until one day that happened." Vivi said: "When we were unloading the goods, we discovered a huge amount of dancing powder."
"What is that?" everyone asked.
"The powder that calls for rain is called dancing powder because it can call for rain and the rain will make everyone dance happily, so it is called dancing powder.
However, dancing powder will cause drought in neighboring countries.
In other words, dancing powder means that when it floats in the wind, it will The small clouds, originally renamed rain clouds, are derived from the principle of artificially growing rapidly and forming rainfall."
"That's it, it means that the natural rain of the neighboring country is snatched away." Everyone finally understood, except of course Luffy.
"The World Government banned the production and possession of dancing powder worldwide. When the dancing powder was transported to the port in large quantities, it stopped raining everywhere in Alabasta except for the city where the king lives." Vivi said with a somewhat disappointed expression.