Traveling through the heavens from swallowing

Chapter 127 Yalu

The effect of the sea king meat was surprisingly good. In just half a month, the improvement was much greater than the previous month. Liu Mang's strength increased to 100 tons. I don't know if Lu Jiu's talent was gradually revealed or what, but she actually surpassed Da Huang and reached a strength of 20 tons. Da Huang only had 18 tons, and she was still a toddler!

But the biggest changes are among the pirate brothers. Each of the 207 brothers has a strength of 10 tons, but their potential has been more or less lost. The specialized body-building techniques are more effective, but they also cause greater damage.

These pirates train hard whenever they get the chance, and don't care about damaging their potential. They didn't have the opportunity before, but now the way to gain power is clear before them. They are very motivated and seize every opportunity to strengthen themselves and strive to become superior people in the future.

Besides, potential is nothing. Anyway, the power bestowed by Liu Mang is far stronger than their own. When their potential is exhausted, one tenth of Liu Mang's power may be enough for them to travel the Grand Route. It doesn't matter.

Liu Mang never expected these people to be able to cultivate themselves to the ranks of top powerhouses. It was enough for him to have a relatively strong physique and be able to cultivate domineering power, and he would take care of the rest.

The result of the substantial strengthening was that all the sea kings were eaten. It was hard to imagine that these two hundred people consumed more than a thousand tons of meat every day. After 15 days, both sea kings were eaten.

In this regard, Dahuang is very happy because all the bones belong to him, and he has not eaten even one-tenth of them yet. In the future, his food reserves will increase until he vomits them out.

Liu Mang has not only been practicing for the past half month. The last time he hunted sea kings, it was quite time-consuming because the boat was not big enough or fast enough. He could not just rob and run away. He did not dare to take action in many battles that were decided or where there was a huge gap in strength. He could only spend time looking for those who were evenly matched.

For the sake of convenience and to save time and effort, Liu Mang decided to sharpen the knife before chopping wood and build a big, strong and fast ship!

He has a lot of experience in this regard. In the world of Smiling Proud Wanderer, he supervised the construction of an ocean-going treasure ship that was 180 meters long. Later, when he was the emperor in the world of Akame ga Kill, he once again developed ocean-going warships to expand the territory. He has both traditional technology and black technology, and by combining them, he designed a large wooden hybrid sailboat that is 220 meters long and 50 meters wide.

The design alone took Liu Mang one day, and the construction was basically completed after 15 days. However, only the main frame was completed. There were many places where metal was needed and could not be replaced by wood. At least there was no wood on this island that could replace metal.

Fortunately, according to Pike and his team, there is a heavy industry and trade island dozens of kilometers away, where they can purchase all kinds of missing raw materials and supplies. They even have ways to purchase artillery.

Looking at the 128 artillery positions reserved on the ship, Liu Mang immediately decided to sail to the island for purchases.

The Dahuangpai power system can be used on medium-sized sailboats more than ten meters long and can use wood for transmission, but this 220-meter behemoth can only use special metals.

If you think about it this way, it's not just about purchasing, you have to build it too. Artillery also needs to be improved using modern technology, including ammunition. The more you do, the more work there is.

However, why didn't he know that there would be trading islands on the way?

After some comparison, Liu Mang suddenly discovered that there was a route that missed all the islands by sailing from Lika Island all the way northwest. His luck was so bad that he sailed on this route for ten days without encountering a single island!
Pike and his companions had nautical charts and navigators, and they set out from the northeast of Lika Island. They passed many islands along the way, with an island every 500 kilometers at most to replenish supplies. It took them more than days to reach this island.

Although they took a detour, they ate and drank well along the way and never suffered from water shortage or lack of heat. It was simply too much!

Relying on a few sails that were pieced together, Liu Mang and his men took nearly three hours to reach the trading island - Kunsa Island. This island is the largest island Liu Mang has seen since his time traveling. An island is a country with millions of people living here. As one of the member states of the World Government, Kunsa controls the East China Sea's leading heavy industry and is far more powerful than the Feijin Kingdom.

But no matter how powerful it is, it still has to rely on the navy. There is a large naval branch less than 100 kilometers away from Kunsa Island, with thousands of navy stationed there all year round. The branch chief is even a colonel transferred from the navy headquarters. He is so powerful that one person can break through Kunsa’s defense and behead the king.

At the West Port of Kunsa Island, Liu Mang drove his big ship here.

Although this port handles more than a thousand ships a day and carries hundreds of thousands of tons of cargo, making it a truly large port in the pirate world, it is still rare to see ships this big. In the pirate world, the standard for a large ship is about 50 meters long. There are larger ships than this, but only the navy can mass-produce them. For other forces, having one or two ships is a symbol of status. They are exclusive to large forces and pirates, and such people are not common in the East China Sea.

So, there is not even a suitable place for the ship to dock in this port.

After much effort by the staff, a space with five spots in a row was cleared for docking, but mooring the ship became a problem again. The ship had neither an anchor nor a rope, so it could not dock at the designated location.

The staff member did not struggle. It didn't matter if the car could not be parked properly, but they couldn't chase him away. It was obvious that he was a big customer. Even the king would be heartbroken if they really chased him away.

The officials of Kunsa Kingdom received news of such a grand event and specially sent a senior official to entertain them, obviously treating them as distinguished guests.

Since he was given so much face, Liu Mang was too lazy to make any more trouble. He directly prepared a list and gave it to the official to purchase on his behalf, hinting that he should just give him the money directly and ask for a cheaper price. Liu Mang only asked for 90% of the market price, and the rest was up to the official to handle.

The official's eyes gleamed with a gleam of light, which was a hint that he could take kickbacks. If the transaction was completed at 90% of the price, he could earn a full 20%!
The accompanying secretary calculated furiously and figured out the price in 2 minutes and handed it to the official. The official took a look and it was 10 billion Baileys!
The officials' eyes almost popped out. This era was not like the inflation of later generations. The purchasing power of Bailey was very strong. The bounty of Rocks, the strongest man in the world, was only 12 billion Baileys, far less than Roger's 55 billion decades later. But the gold content was actually not much different. The only difference was that the battle in God Valley led to world inflation.

Therefore, these 50 billion Baileys would be equivalent to about billion in Luffy's era. You can imagine how much money that is given for the price of Whitebeard's head.

The market price is 10 billion, the transaction price is 9 million, and it only costs 7 million to pick up the goods myself, so, my net profit is 2 million?
The official's face was full of smiles, and he warmly invited Liu Mang and his group to have lunch. When they arrived at the port in the afternoon, everything had been loaded onto the ship.

The efficiency is very high. After all, the 2 million tip is not given for free. It doesn't matter to Kunsa whether he receives kickbacks or not. There is no such thing as a naked official in this world, and assets cannot be taken abroad at will. As long as this money flows into Kunsa, it will boost the country's economy and accumulate national wealth. It is a sure profit.

As for whether the money is in the hands of officials or citizens, it does not matter to the king. He can forcibly confiscate the country's property with just a single order. The Kingdom of Kunsa is a feudal kingdom. The king is the master of the country. All the people in the country are his slaves, and the slaves' money is naturally his money.

In a transaction, all parties are very satisfied and feel that they have made a profit. Doing business is really an art.

Liu Mang hurried back to the isolated island and immediately started the final construction work with more than 10 of his younger brothers. With the efforts of super workers with an average strength of tons per person, it took a day to finally build the ship completely and even paint it.

At Lu Jiu's strong request, the ship's original brown exterior paint was changed to light blue, and she also single-handedly named it "Ya Lu". In a simple and crude way, she took a character from each person's name. Liu Mang could only regretfully give up the name "Tian Mang" that he had named. From now on, this ship will be called Ya Lu!
The Yalu is 220 meters long and uses a hybrid power system of sails and rhubarb. The whole ship is made of extremely strong agarwood. The current maximum speed can reach 130 meters per second, which is pure black technology.

And this is only the current upper limit of Dahuang, not the upper limit of the Yalu. As long as Dahuang continues to become stronger, sooner or later he will be able to reach the upper limit of this ship's power system - 180 meters per second. In the previous life, this was a speed of 350 knots, and it is not an exaggeration to say that it is flying on the sea.

The ship is equipped with 128 Liumang improved heavy artillery with a strike range of 10 kilometers, which is much longer than the aiming distance. It is okay within 1 or 2 kilometers, but it is difficult to hit the target even with a high-power scope installed at a distance. But it doesn’t matter, as there is the invincible Sniper Fruit user Pico on board, equipped with a high-power scope. The god of death cannon can hit whatever he points at, and make a hole with every shot!
The effect of the Sniper Fruit is actually to add power and concealment to the flying weapons he launches, as well as to correct the accuracy. The range of the flintlock rifle he used before was less than two kilometers, so the range of the ability was also less than two kilometers. Now, he has directly replaced his shotgun with a cannon, which not only greatly increases the range, but also the power, and output. Now Liu Mang can't compare to him.

But without his Observation Haki, he could no longer hide his attack so that Liu Mang could not detect it. The physical enhancement brought about by the increase in strength was all-round, and his perception also increased dramatically. Pike could no longer launch a sneak attack on Liu Mang, so he dared to give him some black technology "sniper" to play with.

In addition to conventional cannons, the Yalu is also equipped with a ram. With its speed, it can smash any conventional ship into pieces on the sea.

Such a large ship can still be operated by Liu Mang alone, but the various equipment and facilities on the ship can only rely on the crew, and all one person can do is drive the boat.

The ship is divided into 5 floors. Due to its low level of intelligence, it needs about 350 crew members to fully operate the Yalu, and the suitable number of people it can carry reaches a full 1200. If you serve in the navy in the future, this ship will be a branch!
Obviously, the Yalu is not prepared for his younger brothers who will definitely become his achievements in the future. He is planning to bring money into the team and directly obtain a certain status in the navy, at least, start as a lieutenant!
Liu Mang's current body is only 15 years old, very young. The examination for entering the navy will not be too strict, and bringing money into the team will not arouse suspicion. There are many second-generation people in the navy who are cheating their fathers. They just build a ship to serve as a navy. Some are even sons of heroes who run away to join the revolutionary army in the future. So what if it's just a ship, even if it's a little bigger and has a stronger firepower?
Can't he, Arthur, have a rich father that he can't even talk about?
(End of this chapter)