Pirates: Your emperor has returned!

Cobra and Crocodile immediately went up to it and began to study the text carefully.

Luo Wen noticed Weiwei standing to the side.

At this moment, the little princess with light blue hair is standing on tiptoe, trying to read the words with the adults, but she can't see them because of her height.

"Me too, I want to see it too!"

Cobra was stunned by the words in front of him, so he casually waved his hand and said, "Vivi, don't be silly, children won't understand these things."

"Father!"

Weiwei pouted, clearly getting a little anxious.

A voice suddenly rang out from the side.

“Cobra, children know more than you think.”

It was Luo Wen who spoke. He picked up Weiwei and placed her on a chair, so that her line of sight was high enough to look down at the table.

"Moreover, she is the princess of Alabasta and a descendant of Nefertari."

Cobra is indeed a good listener and able to admit and correct his mistakes.

Upon hearing this, he glanced apologetically at his daughter. He had always taught Weiwei to care more about the people and things around her, but now he had fallen into his old habit as a father.

Vivi blinked, indicating that she had forgiven her father.

At the same time, Crocodile's voice came through; he had been carefully reading the words on the paper and had thus discovered many clues.

Why are all the handwritings on these different?

Everyone looked at the table and, sure enough, found the situation Crocodile had described.

Besides Nefertari's neat handwriting, there were many other completely different handwritings on those papers.

They were clearly not made by the same person.

Rowan picked up a piece of paper and couldn't help but grin.

"Hahaha, those guys know I'm too lazy to hold meetings, so they just discussed it on paper!"

Crocodile frowned slightly.

Such a jumble of information is enough to prove that this is indeed just a draft, and some parts even have visible contradictions and controversies.

He couldn't help but ask in surprise, "Will this information be useful?"

"Wouldn't it be clear if we just looked into it?"

Luo Wen smiled and beckoned with his finger, causing the gravel on the ground to float up and draw a gravel quadrilateral on the left side of the room, resembling a blackboard.

Then, Rowan carefully read the text on the table.

It must be said that Nefertari really understands Rowan; although the text is messy, it can be divided into two parts.

Firstly, it is an analysis of the world government system.

Secondly, there is Nefertari's explanation of the "Four Seas Alliance" system she proposed.

Many other people's opinions, or additions, or arguments, filled in.

Rowan flicked his finger, and conspicuous thin lines of sand extended from the floating square.

"First, there is the structure of a world government."

The gravel formed fragments, from which a thin line extended and converged on a huge platform.

Luo Wen, referring to the text on the table, slowly explained:

"These fragments represent member states of the world government, and the size of the fragments signifies the strength of the nation."

"And this huge platform represents the world government."

Several miniature sand dunes rise on the platform, connecting the lines and replenishing them with gravel to maintain their existence.

Luo Wen continued:

"Communications, military strength, resources, transportation... and other essential elements for a nation are all controlled by the World Government."

Several miniature gravel figures rose from the platform, some large and some small, occupying one sand dune after another.

"The Five Elders, the Celestial Dragons, and even beings we don't know about, firmly control these necessities."

A piece of gravel turned over.

"And if any country attempts to break free from the control of the World Government, then it means..."

A tiny sandman shrieked and swung his hand, severing the thin thread connecting the fragment to the shard.

Immediately, the fragments turned into a puddle of sand and drifted back to the ground.

"Then the country will lose its foothold in the world and will naturally perish."

"Such a world government structure is indeed unbreakable. Once you join and integrate into it, you cannot easily get out. The country then becomes part of the world government."

"It's good to work together to resist foreign enemies, to fight disasters together, and to move forward together, but..."

Rowan rotated his fingers, and the original appearance of the sand figurine changed again.

They became bloated, as if they had eaten themselves into a huge fat man.

"What if those in high positions are not virtuous enough to hold their positions?"

After saying this, the little sand people began to fight over the dunes on the platform. They would not allow the dunes to add more sand to the lines, and the connecting lines between the platform and the fragments became thinner and thinner, and more and more blurred.

With a "snap".

One of the lines broke.

Then—slap slap slap slap slap...

More and more lines broke, and eventually the fragments completely detached from the platform. The platform that held so many little people and sand dunes collapsed instantly, and everything was gone!

"This is the World Government."

Rowan snapped his fingers and started another square of gravel.

"As for the Four Seas Alliance envisioned by Nefertari..."

Those fragments representing the nation resurfaced, stretching out their lines as always.

This time, however, there was no platform as the endpoint; they began to connect arbitrarily.

At first, the lines were connected in a messy and disorderly manner, and some even got tangled up and twisted together.

But as time went on, these lines gradually found a pattern and began to cooperate in an orderly manner.

Without the platform, dunes rose up on the fragments, and through lines, they transported the sand that each fragment lacked to the others.

Cobra observed carefully for a moment, then suddenly shook his head.

"This doesn't make sense."

Although he didn't really want to question the ideas of his family's ancestor Nefertari, that was just Cobra's personality.

"The 'world connection' achieved without the platform of the World Government may seem superior, but it is actually not stable."

After much deliberation, Cobra shook his head and said, "It is too idealistic to rely solely on the self-awareness of each country to complete exchanges and resource swaps in order to form an alliance."

To Cobra's surprise, Rowan actually nodded.

"Indeed, what you said makes a lot of sense, because that's what I think too."

Then, he picked up one of the pages, which had many different handwritings than Nefertari's.

"Moreover, Neferutari and the others had also discussed this issue intensely, but ultimately came to no conclusion, so they could only write it down."

Cobra paused for a moment, "Ancestor, you mean...?"

Luo Wen slowly said, "The Four Seas Alliance is still just a 'prototype'."

"How to achieve it, how to complete it, how to build it, what the effect will be... everything is unknown."

He picked up the papers on the table and sighed helplessly.

"Nefertari has left us with a huge problem, hasn't she?"

Cobra nodded in agreement and began to observe the two different structures of the Four Seas Alliance and the World Government.

But just then, he suddenly noticed that his daughter had raised her hand.

"Ok?"

Cobra and Rowan were both curious and gestured for Vivi to speak.

Vivi pointed to the structural diagram of the Four Seas Alliance and said excitedly, "Ancestor, Father, if the world were like that, it would feel much smaller!"

The room fell silent immediately after he said that.

Weiwei thought she had said something wrong and couldn't help but lower her head.

But then she heard Rowan's hearty laughter.

"Hahahaha, Cobra, I knew it! Kids can understand just as much as we can!"

……

At dusk.

Cobra remained alone in the secret room, arranging Icarum and sorting through the items left behind by his ancestor Nefertari.

These are all valuable historical materials, which Kobra will organize and store in the Alabasta Library.

the other side.

Vivi and Crocodile stood on the city wall on one side of the palace, gazing at the distant desert.

Why are they standing together?

Because they are looking at one person.

Ryan Rowan.

After leaving the secret room, he said he wanted to go for a walk and left the palace alone.

Crocodile and Vivi were both curious about where Rowan was going.

They climbed the city wall and watched Rowan leave the palace gates and arrive in the desert outside Albana.