Pirate: I broke Akainu's defense with a bucket of water.

Nami turned her head and saw Cheng Lang looking calm and composed.

"Why did you become a pirate?"

"?"

Cheng Lang was a little confused by the question.

"Why do you ask?"

"You must be the son of a wealthy or noble family."

"???"

Cheng Lang was confused. He was a low-class person both in this world and in the world before he crossed over. Why did both Alrita and Nami ask this question?

Nami saw Cheng Lang's confused look as if he was "seen through".

"I've seen too many wealthy and noble men in my years at sea. Your poor concealment will never escape my sight."

"???"

Cheng Lang scratched his face: "How do you judge that I am a rich man or a noble young man?"

"Whether it's your behavior, your speech, or your habit of taking a shower every day, you're even cleaner than a woman."

"what?"

Seeing Cheng Lang so confused, Nami pointed at Luffy who was still doing odd jobs in Barati.

"Whether it's Luffy, Usopp, or Zoro, unless they smell too bad or encounter something dirty, they basically won't take a bath. And the most important thing is that you actually use chopsticks except when eating noodles. There are many small details afterwards.

For example, even if your hands are clean, you will wash them before eating, and you must wash them with water before eating fruit. You have to know that these small habits cannot be developed overnight. They require living in a wealthy or aristocratic family since childhood.

Nami counted Cheng Lang's various little habits to prove that he was a rich man or a noble.

Cheng Lang was scratching his head about this.

"These are just habits. Also, your language, knowledge, and literacy—you don't seem like an ordinary person."

Cheng Lang had no choice but to admit it.

Since he came to the world of One Piece, he found that the illiteracy rate was too high. For example, Luffy, if asked to recognize words, he could still recognize them, but only a small part, such as his own name or the names of food. He couldn't understand the content of an entire newspaper.

My math is even worse.

Addition and subtraction of numbers from one to ten are fine, but if you go higher, it becomes a problem.

It can be said that the only people on the ship who can read and do math are Cheng Lang, Nami, and Kuya Mi, just three of them.

Others can only say that there is nothing wrong with life.

Cheng Lang was not surprised by this. The knowledge popularization rate in the world of One Piece could not be high at all.

"You say I'm a rich man, I admit it, but I'm not a noble." Cheng Lang was forced to admit it. After all, to explain why he had these habits and an abnormal literacy rate, he had to start from another world.

"So I'm going to answer your previous question now. Why do I go to the sea? Because I'm short of money. Without money, I can't go back to my hometown, and I can't get rid of..." Nami sighed deeply at the end and didn't continue.

"You want money? I can give it to you. How much do you need?" Cheng Lang decided to take the initiative.

If it were before, Cheng Lang might have let the situation develop slowly, and then let Luffy solve it and successfully bring Nami on board.

But now, knowing that I need to change my destiny to gain experience, it’s a different matter.

Nami turned her head and looked at Cheng Lang strangely: "You..."

Chapter 42: Launching a Money Offensive

"you..."

Nami was surprised, but then waved her hand: "No, and the amount I need is a large sum."

"A large number? How big? Hundreds of millions?"

"Hundreds of millions... you know a box that can hold tens of millions..."

Before Nami could finish her words, she saw a gold ingot in Cheng Lang's hand.

"I don't know how much this thing can sell for, but it should be at least 60 or 70 million. If that's not enough, I still have more."

"hiss!"

Nami was stunned by the sudden behavior of the rich man, and her breathing became rapid.

Her body instinctively moved closer to the gold bar.

She had seen a lot of treasures, so she could naturally tell at the first moment that the gold ingot in Cheng Lang's hand was very pure.

And if it is really a standard gold ingot.

That price is extremely exaggerated.

Nami swallowed, her eyes already shaped like gold ingots.

"Are you really willing to give it to me? This...this would be worth over 100 million on the black market."

"I see that Buggy the Clown's treasure contains a lot of glittering jewels and gold coins. Am I already over 100 million?"

"This is different. Those are my treasures. Those jewels and gold coins are mostly just a layer of gold on the surface, mixed with a lot of other metals. In order to maintain hardness, you..."

As he said that, Cheng Lang threw the gold ingot directly to Nami.

He took the gold ingot in a hurry.

The moment she got it, Nami knew that the gold ingot was very pure. She bit it with her teeth, and her teeth marks were left on it.

It is a gold brick without any impurities!

Only this kind of gold can be so soft.

"The purity is so high! If that's the case, the price will be 200 million. You... have a mine at home, so why are you giving it to me so casually?" Nami said halfway with a strange expression.

Cheng Lang spread his hands. The gold ingot could only be converted into an EMC value of 432 at most, which was equivalent to the value of two iron ingots.

Even if he needs to pay double to buy it back, it's only 864. Just based on the garbage Luffy and the others caught from fishing these days, he can exchange it for no less than ten dollars.

"Is it enough? If not, I have more." Cheng Lang threw out three gold ingots again.

For a moment, Nami couldn't withstand such a financial offensive and her legs went weak on the deck.

Seeing Cheng Lang wanted to continue.

Nami quickly stopped him: "Don't, I won't be able to catch you if you do that again."

She looked at Cheng Lang with a complicated expression.

Maybe your own problems are not problems in the eyes of someone else.

Nami took a few deep breaths to calm herself down. She took a gold ingot and said, "I only need one. I'll pay you back later."

Cheng Lang looked at Nami expectantly, but the other party did not gain any experience due to his financial offensive.

"Now, tell me what's going on. Do you have a seriously ill mother at home or a crying child? Do you need to go out to sea and fight alone?"

Nami hesitated for a moment, but when she thought about how she would have enough money with the gold bricks and could relieve herself of the heavy responsibility, she looked at Cheng Lang and said, "I can tell you..."

Nami briefly talked about the evil dragon.

But obviously something is being concealed.

And one can hear between the lines that Nami is still intending to shape the evil dragon into a fishman who keeps his promise.

Looking at the girl who tries to report good news instead of bad news.

After hearing this, Cheng Lang only gave one answer: "Are you sure they will abide by the agreement?"

"At least in the past eight years, it has never failed to keep its promise."

"Have you ever considered asking Luffy and the others for help? Don't be fooled by their laughter, but in terms of strength... you should know that Buggy and Kuro are both very strong guys."

"It's different. You are people with special abilities, but you are afraid of the sea. If these fishmen don't confront you head-on, and Luffy can't stay in Cocoyasi Village forever, then the only ones who will suffer in the future will be the ordinary people in my village, right? And now I just need to exchange this for money, and my village will be guaranteed. Then, I can still be your navigator, right?"

Nami said with a smile, now she was imagining her future after she was free.

Cheng Lang listened quietly.

Likewise, Zoro on the observation deck, and the other members at the bottom of the stairs.

I could hear everything very clearly.

But they were all silent.

As for Luffy, he was still wiping the table at this moment.

Only the hands wiping the table became slow.

The night at sea is very quiet.

As quiet as a volcano about to erupt.

The time came the next day.

Luffy found Zeff immediately.

He expressed his wish to invite Sanji on board very directly.

"So sudden? That brat won't go with you easily." Zeff naturally knew that Luffy was trying to win over Sanji. After all, the ship was so small, and Luffy didn't avoid people when he invited Sanji.

Yesterday, when Sanji was delivering food to Kin, they talked about the legendary sea ALL BLUE. The two talked a lot, and Zeff naturally heard it all.

I just felt that Sanji, this brat, has grown up.

As a result, the Straw Hat Boy came to tell him these things the next day.

You are so impatient.

But Zeff didn't dislike the other person's personality.

"I know, so I want to ask you for help."

"Oh? What are you busy with?"

"Don't let Sanji be kidnapped by other pirate groups before we come back!" Luffy said seriously.

And Zhepu was confused: "Where are you going?"

"Just to sort out some trouble." Luffy grinned.

Seeing the other party's sudden change, Zhepu was thinking.

But I haven't waited for him to agree yet.

There was a noisy sound coming from downstairs.

"It's Click!"

"The overlord of the East China Sea who commands 5,000 men and 50 pirate ships?!"

"Oh my god! Why is he here?! Isn't he heading to the Grand Line!?"

For a moment the restaurant was noisy.

At this moment, Sanji had already brought out a plate of seafood fried rice.

Cheng Lang and others on the boat naturally noticed this scene.

Cheng Lang nudged Zoro with his shoulder: "Can you cut off the weapons on him?"

"Black Gold Armor..." Zoro thought, "Maybe I can only know if it works after I've cut it."

The subsequent development is just like the original novel you have read.

Pick up the bowl to eat, put down the bowl and start drinking.

Cheng Lang, who witnessed all this, shook his head.

Ready to go.

Let it continue to develop? He didn't want to do that. As for Sanji's wish to have enough food, it wouldn't be impossible to defeat Creek and then deliver food to those half-dead pirates, right?

Cheng Lang moved, and naturally the others followed suit.

After all, Luffy invited Sanji on board, which means that he is a reserve member. Now that the reserve members are being beaten, how could they not take action?

It was just Luffy who made the first move.