One Piece: Blue Scale Admiral

"What? You bastard, don't you even know what you're talking about? That's a perfect solution that I've been researching for years!"

Franky was furious when he saw Rorschach's uninterested expression, and almost jumped up in anger.

"How much does a warship that's over a hundred meters long weigh? Are you sure you can make it fly or do anything with Coke?"

Forget it, I'll just ask you to help me disassemble the steam engine room from my warship and install it on this ship.

As for the ship's propulsion system, I'll figure out a better one later.

Rorschach waved his hand, dispelling the electric sparks emanating from his fingertips, and stood up.

"A better engine? Where are you going to get a better engine?"

Iceberg and Franky also stood up, very curious about what Rorschach had said.

"Don't forget, I'm from the Navy."

The world's most brilliant scientists are actually in the Navy's science unit.

Rorschach shrugged and walked outside.

He had another idea he didn't mention.

That's on the sky island above Magic Valley Town, where there's a kid who also knows how to play with electricity, and he has an electrically powered spaceship.

I definitely need to find some time to go there and take a look.

Putting everything else aside, the gold in that place is worth countless trillions of peggs.

Taking it over would definitely solve the problem of the navy's funding shortage.

Once the three locations are secured, the navy will no longer need to worry about military spending.

The Golden Emperor's Golden Ship, the Flower Kingdom's Iceberg Treasure Trove, and the Sky Island's Golden Land.

"Are you talking about Vegapunk, who claims to be 500 years ahead of the world in technology?"

Frankie's eyes lit up; he was eager to meet this legendary scientist.

The two caught up with Luo Xia and arrived at the timber storage room outside.

Luo Xia stared at the massive log, 110 meters long and over 3 meters in diameter, lying on the ground, and couldn't help but gasp in amazement.

"Is this the Adam Tree log you mentioned, Mr. Iceberg? It's enormous, at least a thousand cubic meters. Seriously, is it really only worth 300 million Berries? You're not kidding me, are you?"

"Why would I lie to you? Heh, don't worry, Brigadier General Rorschach. This piece of wood came from a timber merchant who bought a ship from me a few years ago. He didn't have enough money, so he used this to cover the cost. I didn't actually spend 300 million Berries. Come to think of it, I'm the one who benefited from you."

Iceberg said with a chuckle.

He was telling the truth, but the 200 million pegories he mentioned were from over a decade ago.

Rorschach was skeptical, but under the astonished gazes of Iceberg and Franky, he twisted his neck, loosened his wrists, and walked toward the huge log in front of him.

"What...what are you going to do?" Iceberg asked in astonishment.

"Of course we're moving it out. Aren't we going to use it as a keel?"

Luo Xia said matter-of-factly.

Franky's eyes widened: "Are you kidding me? This thing weighs at least several thousand tons."

Before he finished speaking, the ground beneath his feet began to tremble violently, as if an earthquake had occurred.

Luo Xia walked to the middle of the hundred-meter-long log that was suspended in the air. His body expanded rapidly, and he stretched out two thick arms covered with azure scales, lifting it up from below with a slight effort.

With a series of crackling and popping sounds of wood chips, he steadily lifted the hundred-meter-long log and began to walk step by step towards the No. 1 dock outside the warehouse.

"Boom!"

"Boom!"

With each step Rorschach took, a deep, resounding thud echoed across the shipyard's massive plaza.

The boatmen, who were busy working in the square, stared in astonishment as a strange man covered in azure scales carried out an enormous, cylindrical log.

The cigar Barry was holding slipped silently from his mouth.

He remembered that when that log was transported up, almost all the men in the entire Water City worked together, and it took three days to successfully deliver it to the warehouse.

But right now, it was carried steadily on someone's shoulder, and it only took a few minutes to move it to the plaza of Dock No. 1.

"That kid is a real monster."

Chapter 228 Treasure Hunter

"Damn Jonathan! I'll kill that old bastard one of these days!"

Lower city area, abandoned ship island.

The wreckage of abandoned ships is piled up like mountains, with broken, thick masts and tilted hulls visible everywhere.

At this moment, a three- or four-meter-long assault boat was wedged between several wrecked and broken ships.

On the assault boat, a burly man lay on his back, looking utterly disheveled.

This burly man was over two meters tall, with bulging muscles all over his body and a head of bright green hair that protruded on top of his head in a strange cactus shape.

GeneAngo was furious.

All he did was steal the head of a fellow pirate and take it with him.

Damn Bounty Hunters Guild, why did they have to send people all the way to hunt me down?

We agreed that all bounty hunters in the world are one family.

As a family, what's wrong with exchanging some spoils for a bounty?

After catching his breath, Geneango climbed out of the small boat and frowned as he looked around at the wreckage of the ship.

"This is Water Seven? It's full of abandoned ships, it looks like a pirate graveyard, hahaha, interesting. Well, I'll rest here for a bit, get a better ship, and then make my escape."

Thinking this, GeneAngo's mood suddenly became cheerful.

He pulled a round object from the bottom of the boat, picked up a cloth bag from his waist, tossed it inside, and tied it to his waist.

Humming the old tune, Binks' Wine, he left Shipwrecked Island and walked along the steps of Water Seven toward the much more bustling Upper Town.

Not far to the left, thick ropes hang from the towering wall.

Men and women were repairing the city wall, which was full of holes.

"Huh? What happened to that big hole? Could Lakula have caused that kind of damage?"

GeneAngo looked at the pitch-black hole on the wall, five or six meters in diameter and seemingly bottomless, with a hint of confusion.

It didn't look like it was fired from a cannon.

He had never seen a cannon with such terrifying power.

Today is the fifth day since Lakulana subsided, and the residents of Water Seven have returned to their normal lives.

The city hall administrators also began to organize manpower to repair the city walls and buildings damaged by Lakula.

This is a huge workload and requires a lot of manpower and time to complete.

Especially the massive city wall that Rorschach had blasted down in front of the entrance to Dock No. 2, and the dozens of Lower City buildings that Rorschach had smashed.

Geneango strolled along, taking in the sights of this long-admired seaside city with great interest.

He wasn't in a hurry.

He risked his life to lure the two troublesome pursuers behind him into the giant waves of the Lakula tsunami.

They might have already perished at sea.

Although this might completely offend the Bounty Hunters Guild, there's nothing we can do. What can we do when that old bastard Jonathan is so petty?

Upon reaching the towering city walls of the upper district, Geneango's gaze was immediately drawn to a group of people busily engaged in their work.

Among the crowded throng, three enormous giants, each over ten meters tall, stood out like cranes among chickens.

Giants are extremely rare on the Grand Line, and it's very difficult to encounter them.

I never expected to run into three people in a place like Water City.

At this moment, the three burly giants, under the direction of the shipwrights at their feet, stretched out their large hands and erected a 20-meter-high stone statue, placing it on the ground of the city wall at the top of the entrance to Dock No. 2.

The statue was not sculpted in the likeness of any human being.

Instead, it was a majestic Qilin with long fangs and claws, flowing whiskers, and its body covered in scales.

The Qilin, a dragon-like creature, gazes at the distant sea, overlooking the vast waters of the Seven Waters City, exuding a majestic and awe-inspiring aura.

"Heh, this place seems quite wealthy, they actually have the money to put up such a flashy and impractical statue."

As Gene Ango thought this, he subconsciously scanned the busy crowd one by one.

GeneAngo has an innate talent.

He had a very keen intuition about all the valuable treasures on the sea.

It was this keen intuition that allowed him to accurately find treasures that others had hidden very well.

He was thus known as 'Gene the Raider' by the people of the sea.

However, Gene Angol prefers to call himself a 'treasure hunter'.

Right now, his keen intuition tells him that there seems to be a treasure that is particularly attractive to him among the busy crowd in front of him.

That was a very strong intuition.

It was much stronger than when I first found the Devil Fruit I had eaten.

This means...

"A small place like Water Seven actually has a treasure more valuable than a Devil Fruit? Really?"

GeneAngo's eyes lit up immediately, his gaze sweeping back and forth across the crowd.

Finally, on the back of a giant over ten meters tall with his upper body exposed, he saw a four-meter-long, jet-black halberd.

The moment he saw the halberd, Gene Ango held his breath, his eyes fixed on every detail of it.

"There's no mistake, it really is it, the Thunder Halberd that has been passed down in the Western Sea for hundreds of years, the supreme national treasure of the Flower Kingdom, the Heavenly Dragon Halberd that was once bathed in the blood of a giant dragon!"

GeneAngo could hardly believe his eyes.