Pirate: The dark fruit at the beginning was hunted down by Blackbeard

"Hoo! Hoo!"

Not long after, Ivan fled into a desert.

The crowd chasing after him had long since disappeared.

Weiwei was on Ivan's back, still hugging Ivan tightly.

Holding Weiwei's legs and feeling the warmth of Weiwei's body against his, Ivan was even reluctant to put her down.

However, before long, Ivan had no strength left in this scorching desert.

"Hai... Pirate-sama. No one is chasing me now, please put me down."

"Yeah!" Ivan nodded.

"I'm so thirsty." He was just running away and didn't prepare to drink water.

Now Ivan's throat is almost dry.

Weiwei is slightly better than Ivan, but it seems that she also needs water very much.

"Weiwei, where should we go next?" Ivan asked.

Weiwei's expression became unusually cheerful, as if she had remembered something very beautiful.

"The next step, of course, is to expose Crocodile's conspiracy to the people of Alabasta. Not only the rebels, this news must be known to people across the country."

"As expected of Princess Weiwei!" Ivan thought to himself, "She is the only one who can come up with such an innocent plan."

However, if Weiwei still has enough influence in Alabasta, then this plan may work.

"Okay, let's do it!" Ivan said, "But we have to find a way to get out of this desert first."

"Hmph!" Weiwei snorted twice, looking very confident.

"What, Weiwei." Ivan was a little confused.

"There is no food, no water, no vehicles, no reference objects... Crossing the desert like this is definitely a feat. Even people from the desert nation do not dare to try it easily."

"So? So what?" Ivan said

"Hey, I've wanted to try this since I was a kid." Weiwei said with a smile.

Ivan was speechless.

This girl, I don’t know what happened today, but she has always been so confident and happy.

Her personality was almost completely different from the one she had a few days ago.

"Master Pirate..." Weiwei said.

"Didn't you tell me? Just call me Ivan."

"Ivan!" This time, Weiwei shouted naturally and smiled at Ivan.

"Thank you, Ivan." Weiwei said, "I have been very worried since the past few days! I don't know if I can convince Kousha. But now it seems that although the result is not the best, But... we finally have a good start."

"Yeah!" Ivan responded.

"Finally, I can finally do something for this country." Weiwei said excitedly, "So, it feels like the haze that was weighing on me has disappeared."

"Then keep working hard!" Ivan said.

"Yeah." Weiwei nodded and continued walking along the back of the dune.

"In the desert, just determine the direction, then face the wind and walk along the back of the dunes." Weiwei said, "Because the wind will cause the sand in front to flow, causing people to misjudge the direction and walk along the dunes. It saves a lot of energy on your back.”

"That's it!"

Weiwei introduced some common sense about desert survival, while Ivan followed her exhausted until night.

"Weiwei, how long do we have to go?" Ivan asked, looking at the stars at night.

"It should be less than two days away from the nearest city, 'Rape Flower'."

"Two days!" Ivan was a little disappointed.

Walking in the desert for two days without food and water will definitely kill you.

"But don't worry." Weiwei said, "The cacti in the desert are edible. These foods are given to lost travelers by the God of the Desert."

"Aren't these cacti poisonous?" Ivan said.

In the anime, Ivan remembers that Luffy was poisoned after eating a cactus.

"It doesn't matter. The amount of poison is very slight and will only cause hallucinations." Weiwei said, "Besides, as long as you break the cactus open and only suck the water inside, you will generally not be poisoned."

"That's it!" Ivan said, "You know so much."

"Hey, this is common sense in the desert."

The two of them chatted like this. On the way, Weiwei helped Ivan collect some cacti.

Ivan also followed Weiwei's example, breaking open the cactus and sucking the juice inside.

The night is getting colder and colder.

"Aren't you going to take a break?" Ivan asked.

"We have to find a sheltered place from the wind." Weiwei said, "The wind is very strong at night, and if the wind and sand blow the nearby terrain, we may even lose our way."

"Yeah!" Ivan nodded again.

In this desert, if there was no experienced driver like Weiwei to lead the way, then I might never be able to get out.

After walking for an unknown amount of time, the sky had completely darkened.

Finally, Ivan found several broken rock walls ahead.

"It's a shelter from the wind." Ivan said, "I finally found it and can rest."

"Yeah!" Weiwei also nodded.The two of them ran towards the rock wall.

These broken rock walls are made of stone bricks, and they appear to have obvious artificial traces.

"Is this man-made?" Ivan asked incredulously.

"This is an ancient ruin!" Weiwei puffed up her chest and said with some pride.

"Alabasta has a history of thousands of years. Here, maybe there are ruins of a kingdom from thousands of years ago."

As she spoke, Weiwei touched the broken rock walls with her hands.

Ivan also looked carefully.

There seem to be words and patterns on the rock wall.

"Can you understand these words? Weiwei." Ivan asked.

"I can't do it!" Weiwei said, "Ancient Alabasta had its own civilization, and even each dynasty had its own writing. It is completely different from the modern writing."

"Yes." Ivan nodded. Alabasta now seems to be using the same language used by the world government.

Ivan found a rock wall that looked pretty hard, leaned against it, and took a rest.

Weiwei, on the other hand, was still looking around happily, as if she had discovered some treasure.

......

After an unknown amount of time, Ivan opened his eyes.

The strong wind in front of him blew the sand and gravel and slapped Ivan's face.

Ivan's mouth and nostrils were full of sand.

"Bah! Bah!" Ivan couldn't help but vomited twice.

However, more sand got in.

"Weiwei, Weiwei!" Ivan stood up and looked around.

As soon as he screamed twice, his mouth was almost filled with sand.

In the shadows in front of her, Weiwei used her robe to block the sand and walked towards Ivan.

"It's a sandstorm!" Weiwei said, "Squatting in the corner and covering her body with her robe."

With that said, Weiwei squatted next to the wall near Ivan.

Ivan also followed Weiwei's example and squatted down.