The bandage spirit becomes a spirit! Luffy and the others are surprised!

Nami sewed the white paper inside Luffy's hat, and Luffy put it on carefully.

"Thank you, Nami! I feel relieved knowing you're hiding here!" Luffy said happily, grabbing the edge of his straw hat, "I won't lose it!"

"Luffy, put this on!" Vivi took out a thick coat and handed it to Luffy.

"Ah? Why are you wearing this? It's so hot!" Luffy had a question mark on his face. He always wore cool clothes and was not used to wearing so much.

"We need to wear it because it's hot! The daytime temperature in the desert is over 50 degrees, and your skin will be burned by the sun!" Weiwei explained.

"Then why are you so cool!" Luffy turned his head and looked at Vivina and the other two dressed coolly, and asked questioningly.

"We will also add clothes!" Nami waved her hands helplessly and said that everyone had to wear clothes.

"W-what!!! I have to put on clothes outside!!!" It was really shocking, Sanji shouted in disbelief.

"The limited-time dancer skin is gone~" Dazai Osamu added insult to injury, leaned over to Sanji's ear to emphasize, and quickly ran to the other side, covering his mouth and laughing.

Sanji clicked and turned into a stone statue, fell down and cracked.

"Hey - are we at the island?" Chopper said, with his hands on the railing and his feet in the air, looking at the island that appeared in front of him.

Weiwei was a little confused, thinking that they shouldn't have arrived so soon, so she walked over to check.

"No! This is not an island, but the bank of the Saint Dora River. We should be able to vaguely see the other side from here, right?" Weiwei took out a map and stopped at one place. "This is our destination! We are going to cross the Saint Dora River and head to the city of Yoba!"

"The leader of the rebel army must be in Yoba!" said Zoro.

Weiwei had said before that we should go find the rebels first and then deal with the Baroque Studio.

"Just beat that guy away!" Luffy waved his fists vigorously, turned his head and asked Vivi.

"No!" Weiwei screamed.

"We need to convince the rebels. We don't want any more bloodshed!" Weiwei said naively.

"But there are 70 rebels. Can they be stopped?" Zoro calmly pointed out the reality.

"Can they be stopped--" Vivi repeated Zoro's words, her face darkened, and she said sadly, "On the way from here to [Yoba], you will understand everything. What did that BW organization do to this country! What kind of life do the people of Alabasta live!"

"I will stop this meaningless riot!!" Weiwei clutched her skirt tightly with both hands, suppressed her anger and said loudly, "We can't let BW do whatever it wants in this country!!"

"Vivi!" Nami looked at Vivi worriedly. Vivi had too many things on her shoulders and Nami was worried that Vivi would collapse one day.

"Vivi, I'll take care of the food we need to cross the desert!" Sanji said with a smile, supporting Vivi with practical actions.

"Sorry!" Zoro looked at Vivi who had made up her mind, pressed his head with his hand, and said apologetically.

Dazai Osamu looked at Weiwei calmly, with the corners of his lips slightly raised.

"Okay! Got it! Vivi! Let's go!" Luffy said with a smile, clenching his fists.

"Go to Yoba!"

"Oh!!!"

After a day of sailing, Luffy and his companions finally reached the shore at noon the next day.

Luffy excitedly rushed to the front and looked around.

"Is this Yoba? Why is there nothing here?" Luffy squinted his eyes and looked at the city in front of him. This was different from what Vivi described.

In front of Luffy, most of the buildings were covered by the desert, the wall bricks had fallen off, revealing the internal structures, and it was deserted. Luffy walked along the way and didn't see many people. It was not as prosperous as Vivi said.

"No, Luffy, this is not Yoba. We have to walk towards the northwest of the desert for about half a day to get there." Vivi said to the excited Luffy, not knowing whether to laugh or cry.

"Half a day?" Usopp shouted. So far!

"We just crossed the Saint Dora River and landed here." Weiwei took out the map again to explain, pointing her finger at the place where she just landed on the map, "This is the [Eluma Oasis]."

"Oasis? Where is the green?" Luffy curled his lips and said with a question mark on his face.

"There really isn't one now." Weiwei nodded, hesitating to speak. This place used to be an oasis, but -

"Puff——" Some creature crawled out from the sand.

It looks like a seal, dragging its fish tail and waving hello to everyone.

"What is that! A turtle? A seal?" Usopp was shocked and started to complain, and he couldn't help but reach out his hand out of curiosity.

"That's a Kung Fu Manatee!" Vivi's face changed, and she quickly called out to the curious Usopp, "Liar, don't get close to it!"

"Snapped--"

"Wow--" Usopp narrowly dodged the Kung Fu Manatee's fist, and looked angrily at the guy who rolled up his sleeves and had a ferocious face, ready to teach the little guy who attacked him a lesson.

Kung Fu Manatee fell to the ground.

"It's very strong!" Vivi's reminder came belatedly, but it was of no use, "You are not allowed to defeat it!" Before she finished speaking, another Kung Fu Manatee was knocked down, on Luffy's side.

The Kung Fu Manatee bowed politely to the strong man who defeated it.

"After losing, you will worship the winner as your master. This is the rule of Kung Fu Hainiu." Weiwei held her forehead and explained with a headache.

"That's quite martial arts-like!" Zoro admired this behavior and praised it.

"Oh, now you are Captain Usopp's 8001st little brother." Usopp held his head in embarrassment and smiled foolishly, looking at the Kung Fu Manatee in front of him who was asking for advice with shining eyes, patted its shoulder and said proudly.

Luffy was more friendly, and in less than a while, the entire tribe of Kung Fu Manatees gathered around him. As Luffy continued to explain like a teacher, the students also learned obediently.

Finally, with the Kung Fu Manatees reluctantly saying goodbye, Luffy and his crew set off on their journey.

"It's all your fault. The food has decreased so much in an instant!" Sanji complained to Luffy. Luffy gave a lot of the prepared supplies to the Kung Fu Manatees.

"If Chopper hadn't persuaded them, things would have gotten out of control." Vivi also looked at Luffy.

"Well, they kept saying they wanted to follow the master, and we had to use food to persuade them to come back." Chopper nodded. It took a lot of effort to convince them.

"Why not just take them away together?" Looking at the complaints of Sanji and others, Luffy sighed and said directly.

"With such a large group, we can't get into any city!" Weiwei said.

"But the manatees in this country are so strange. They actually live in the river." Sanji said curiously.

"No, it's the sea." Weiwei shook her head.

Several people:? ? ?

"The great river [Sante La River] has been irrigating this area since ancient times. In recent years, it has lost its former power, and its lower reaches have been continuously eroded by the sea," Weiwei explained.

"Then, the river water in the area where the manatee appeared just now is also..." Before Sanji could finish his words, Vivi added directly, "It is the sea, sea water that cannot be used for irrigation or drinking."

"So this city is deserted?" asked Zoro.

"It shouldn't be such a simple reason~" Dazai Osamu glanced at Vivi with deep eyes, "What evil deeds did BW commit? Can you tell me in detail now?" It has come to this.

Weiwei's eyes darkened, she lowered her head, clenched her hands tightly, and slowly narrated the tragedy that this country had encountered.

Alabasta encountered a major event that it had not seen in thousands of years - zero precipitation. In these three years, not a drop of water had fallen on all the land in the country. This was a great blow to the people of a country living in the desert. Water is the source of life. When people were tortured by drought, there was only one place with more precipitation than other places, that is, the capital [Arubana], the city where the palace where the king lived was located. People thought this was [the king's miracle], but this was a conspiracy of the crocodile. He deliberately created multiple rainfalls in the city where the king was located and smuggled [dancing powder] into the palace. When the time was right, he sent his men at the port. One of them cut open the king's cargo in full view of everyone, and inside was a large bag of [dancing powder]. Another person shouted the name of [dancing powder] in the crowd and took the blame for the king.

[Dancing Powder] is banned by the World Government. Although it can bring rain, it will cause drought in the downstream areas of the country where it is used.

Because of this characteristic, people began to suspect that for three years, only the city where the king lived had rain, while there was no rain anywhere else. This was an abnormal climate, and people's trust in the royal family collapsed.

This was a show written and directed by Crocodile himself. Poor Vivi and the others had never seen through Crocodile's wolfish ambitions before. The city was deserted, people were starving, and the angry rebels and the wronged King started a war.

The crocodile fooled the country for three years. It was not until a few months ago that Weiwei discovered the mastermind. Although Weiwei had asked Black Crow to deliver a letter to her father, but -

After hearing about what happened to this country and learning about Crocodile's atrocities, Luffy and his crew were silent for a moment.

"Why, does he have the right to do this!" Luffy questioned.

This question expressed the thoughts of everyone.

"He does, because he is stronger than you, more ambitious, capable, patient, and has the strength to achieve his goals. You are too ignorant and are fooled around; too naive and let the wolf enter the house without knowing it; too weak and facing the threat to the country, you can only pin your hopes on another group of pirates." Dazai Osamu said ruthlessly, his eyes cold.

Pirates are pirates after all, and not every pirate is like Luffy and his companions.

It is an indisputable fact that pirates are a symbol of evil.

Don't judge based on the actions of a few people.

Weiwei couldn't help but her eyes turned red, tears kept dripping out, she bit her lips hard, the corners of her lips were bleeding, we are too weak!

"You have to become stronger~ to protect your precious things." Dazai Osamu looked at the crying Vivi, his expression softened and he spoke gently, but there was unspeakable sadness in his eyes.

"Okay! Kill Crocodile!" Luffy announced loudly with tears in his eyes.

"Oh!!!!!"

Deafening cheers rang out.

We are companions, and we have the right to wipe away your tears.