Farming in Pirate World

"Bato has been hiding in the cabin these days. What secret thing is he doing? Yes, seven!"

Li Ming glanced at Bartolomeo's door thoughtfully, shook his head, took out a pair of sevens from his hand, and threw it on the table.

"To K."

The trapper who was casually pulled over by Li Ming did not answer Li Ming's words and lowered his head to play the cards in his hand.

"If you don't know, then it's even less possible for me to know, Wang Zha."

Will didn't take it seriously and casually threw out a pair of big and small kings.

"It's just a pair of thirteen, and you drop bombs? Do you know how to play?"

"But boss, I've run out of cards."

Will spread his hands, indicating that he had no more cards in his hand.

Li Ming threw the bad cards in his hand on the table and scratched his head irritably.

"Hey, no more fun."

"This rubbish game has no technical content at all."

Glancing at the smiling Will with a strange look, Li Ming let out a long sigh, but had nothing to say.

"Your fortune is so good. I won't play cards with you in the future."

Shaking his head with a wry smile, he suddenly thought that the starting capital of the Dawn Chamber of Commerce was to "rob" the treasure that Will accidentally dug up.

"It's all luck, luck."

Will smiled sheepishly. At first glance, he still looked as childish as when he first met him, but upon closer inspection, one could see that Will's eyes were shining with a lust for money.

He didn't care about money before, but after confirming his dream, he really needed a lot of money.

Firstly, to repay the price of the Devil Fruit, and secondly, to buy a ship of his own.

"Gambling, it seems that money comes in very quickly..."

Poker exists in this world, but the gameplay is mostly limited to traditional gambling modes such as "Texas Hold'em" and "Big and Small".

Since I taught them "landlord fighting", "tractor", "fried gold flower", etc., this kind of thing has become the mainstream entertainment method on the ship.

The days of drifting on the sea are too boring, so pirates always hold parties to entertain themselves over trivial matters.

To put it nicely, they call it carpe diem.

To put it bluntly, a whole boatload of people are sick, so they have to find something to do for themselves.

"But you have to play within your ability when playing cards. If you play cards by yourself, it's not a big deal to add a bonus of one or two hundred Baileys..."

After saying this, Li Ming suddenly paused, suddenly thinking that Will had won hundreds of thousands of Baileys from him in one afternoon, he fell silent and stopped talking.

"How much money have you won from me so far?"

Because he usually just plays around casually, Li Ming, as a rich man, has not done any careful calculations.

Drifting on the sea, apart from buying newspapers, Bailey is just a pile of useless waste paper, and his sense of money will be erased by time.

"Probably...more than 10 million beli."

Will counted on his fingers and then gave a rough number:

"About 17 million beli."

"..."

"I have exported an East China Sea overlord?"

Li Ming fell into deep thought.

"Did you plan to win back the treasure that I "robbed" you from a long time ago?"

"What?"

"It's nothing, I will never play cards with you again."

Li Ming also said this before, but it was just a joke after losing a card, but this sentence is definitely serious.

"It seems like it's time to bring games like Three Kingdoms and Werewolf here."

Thinking about "revenge" with his superior IQ in the future, Li Ming stood up, stretched, and asked the navigator standing aside:

"Where are we now?"

The navigator glanced at the record pointer, pointed to the chart at hand, and confidently explained to Li Ming:

"It has been three days since we left the entrance to the Grand Route. According to normal voyage calculations, we should still be on land for some time."

"However, the speed of the Murloc is much faster than that of ordinary speedboats. According to the professional calculations I made this morning, we should not be far from the first island of the Grand Route."

"To be conservative, probably tomorrow..."

"Hey! Come out and see! It's land!"

"Sight of land!"

Looking at Li Ming's thoughtful gaze, the navigator gave him an awkward yet polite smile and silently wiped the sweat from his forehead.

"Astronomical positioning does sometimes have some errors, but these are within the normal error range and are actually harmless."

Li Ming shook his head, feeling that all his money was wasted.

Stepping out of the hatch, Li Ming looked in the direction pointed by the sailor, and the outline of an island appeared on the coastline.

The fragmented islands are spliced ​​together, and several huge "cactus" grow abruptly on the sea.

This is the beginning of this route, and it is also an island that Li Ming must pass - Whiskey Mountain

Calculating the time, Li Ming will go to sea three days later than Luffy and his group, but according to the plot, Luffy and his group may be delayed for a day at the starting point of Twin Cape.

In addition, Li Ming's Murloc is much faster than the Meili, so it's really not certain who arrived at the starting town first.

"But Luffy has the aura of being the protagonist, so he shouldn't be too late behind me."

There is no use thinking about it now, the Murloc is still driving towards Whiskey Mountain at an extremely fast speed.

Whiskey Peak is the first island that the Straw Hat Pirates landed on after entering the Grand Line. It is a town that welcomes pirates, but in reality it is a gathering place for bounty hunters. It is also a branch of the secret criminal organization Baroque Walker.

Finally, with a heavy heart, the Murloc gradually sailed into the port of Whiskey Mountain. On both sides of the deep harbor, sparse figures stared at the Murloc.

Some people waited for a while, shook their heads and left, but more people stayed.

"Don't worry, everyone, we are not pirates! We are merchants heading to the Capital of Seven Waters. We just come here to replenish supplies. We will pay for it!"

Before they could say anything, Li Ming explained loudly to the shore.

The words were just intended to convey two meanings.

One, we are not pirates, so don’t try to take my chances.

Second, I know that the City of Seven Waters is not the kind of newcomer who just came to the Grand Line, so don’t take my chances.

Sure enough, after hearing Li Ming's words, many people on the shore made a sound of disdain and turned away.

They had seen the flag of the Dawn Chamber of Commerce a long time ago, but the shape of the ship was too ferocious, and they still wanted to confirm whether they were pirates or not.

"We...ahem! Ma~ma~ma~ we have nothing to sell to you. When the record pointer is full of magnetism, you should leave as soon as possible!"

Even Baroque Studio was not so overbearing as to refuse to allow others to store magnetism, but in order to keep the secrets of the island, they still refused to allow Li Ming and others to go ashore.

In desperation, Li Ming could only respond repeatedly and quickly promised that he and others would never go ashore. However, he secretly looked at the person standing in the distance and narrowed his eyes slightly.

"You have to clear your throat before speaking. Why does this way of speaking feel inexplicably familiar..."

"Is this person the bodyguard of Princess Weiwei?"