Chapter 220: The Names of the Water Gods Sound Familiar
Not long after, Tom and Perona came out of the cabin carrying a treasure chest. The treasure chest looked very heavy, and their legs were shaking when they walked. By the way, Perona walked with her feet turned inward.
With a thud, the treasure chest was placed in front of Zhang Daye. Perona wiped the sweat from her forehead, and Tom followed suit. Zhang Daye suspected that Tom's strength and physical strength might be maintained at the same level as his partners.
The treasure chest was not full. There was some gold in it, but more banknotes of various denominations. Tom and Perona were really responsible and even searched out the coins and put them in the box.
Zhang Da also took out a few large bills and handed them to Perona: "Here is your pocket money. I will take you shopping when we get to the Seven Waters City."
Perona felt a little embarrassed holding the money. In fact, she was afraid that Zhang Da would change his mind and secretly hide some of it. Why not put it back secretly later?
Then Zhang Da also looked at Tom, closed the box and touched his head in his expectant eyes: "I'll give you a loving pat on the head. Do you feel a warm current in your heart?"
A question mark popped up over Tom's head. He covered his heart with his hands, but didn't feel any warmth, only heartache.
Faced with such an unscrupulous master, Tom chose to act like a spoiled child.
"Okay, okay, stop hugging my thighs. Here you go. Why did you suddenly become so heavy? Get off quickly..."
After playing with Tom for a while, everyone saw a large ship coming from the distance with the flag of the World Government hanging on its mast. It should be the judicial ship they were waiting for.
The judicial ship did not come directly over, but lowered several small boats. A group of navy soldiers rowed over in small boats to confirm their identities: "Excuse me, are you Mr. Zhang Daye?"
"It's me, the navy we contacted." Zhang Da also pointed at the pirate ship and threw the pirate flag to him, "That is the entire Foxy Pirates and their ship that we defeated. Their pirate flag is here, please accept it."
The navy man who asked the question took the pirate flag and scanned the people on the Amber one by one, especially staying on Brook and Chili Pepper for a few seconds - the looks of these two were the most eye-catching.
However, there were so many strange people on the sea, so he didn't say anything and waved to others to go to Foxy's ship to confirm the situation.
After a while, the navy confirmed that everything was correct, picked up the Den Den Mushi and reported a few words, and then the judicial ship came over.
An old man with a white beard and a black hat stood by the boat. After receiving the bounty order and a statistical report from a soldier, he said:
"Silver Fox Foxy, bounty of 14 million. None of the 56 members under his command have been rewarded. Several weapons have been seized, plus a medium-to-large pirate ship with minor damage. The total bounty is 70 million Baileys. Do you have any objections?"
This man was a judge. He looked quite old, but he spoke with great vigor. His words sounded a bit like he was reading out a verdict.
"No objection." Zhang Da didn't expect Foxy's bounty to be so low now, but the other things were similar to what he expected.
The old judge nodded, signaled the marines to deliver the money and then accept the pirates.
When the two-meter-tall marines carried Foxy away, Zhang Da also shouted, "Wait a minute, please return the seastone handcuffs on his hands to us."
"Hmm?" The old judge, who was about to return to the cabin, turned back and asked, "I heard that you are from a tavern in Chambord. Why do you have seastone handcuffs?"
Zhang Da also said: "Because we made outstanding contributions in assisting the navy to capture a big pirate, Vice Admiral Gion gave us two pairs of seastone handcuffs. You can ask her for the specific details."
"So he has worked with Vice Admiral Gion. No wonder he was able to defeat a pirate group of this size." The old judge stroked his beard. Although he was not a systematic person, he had heard of several famous vice admirals in the navy.
Soon, naval soldiers took out seastone handcuffs from the judicial ship and replaced them with those used by Zhang Daye and his men.
This old judge is a very easy-going person. Ten years ago, because the sea train plan proposed by Master Tom had the hope of saving the Seven Water City, he sentenced Tom's death sentence to a ten-year reprieve. Generally speaking, he is a person who cares about civilians.
Today is the day when the ten-year period has expired, and he has led his team here for a retrial.
Because Zhang Daye and his men had assisted the navy and did not look like bad people, the old judge had a good impression of them. While chatting, he took a few people on board the Amber and went into the small bar on the ship.
"Although the area is small, the decoration inside is very exquisite." The old judge looked at the small bar, "The pianist's level is very high, but the appearance..."
A naval captain and several men in black suits who came with the judge nodded. A skeleton was playing the piano, but they didn't dare to enter the house at night.
"He ate a devil fruit before and became like this after some accidents. Please don't mention such sad things in front of him." After all, Brook is one of his own now, so Zhang Da still has to protect him.
The old judge said apologetically: "We are rude."
Brooke finished playing a song and said with a smile: "It doesn't matter, I'm not sad, because I don't have a heart anymore, yo-ho-ho~"
The old judge smiled politely, and he admired the man who could maintain an optimistic attitude even after experiencing misfortune.
After Rui Mengmeng served drinks and snacks to the guests, she sat down with Altria to eat something.
Tom and Perona were lying on the sofa playing flying chess, and occasionally Perona's voice could be heard expressing her frustration at not being able to roll the number she wanted.
Shark Chili and Ye Yan were chatting with the navy soldiers outside. One of them was a social expert, and the other was a ruthless person who could trick the Demon King into a cosplay performance on their first meeting. They obtained a lot of information during the chat intentionally or unintentionally.
In the cabin, Zhang Da also told the old judge how he caught criminals in Champagne and how he went out to sea. He naturally demonstrated his legitimacy and gained a lot of favor from the old judge.
The old judge also talked about the purpose of his visit and how he sentenced Tom to probation ten years ago. He said that he was proud of resisting the pressure and changing the verdict for the people of Water Seven.
"So you're going to the Seven Waters City this time to re-try the world's number one shipbuilder?"
"Yes, originally it wouldn't be a crime for a shipbuilder to sell his ship to someone, even if that person was a pirate. But because it involves the Pirate King Goldo Roger, things are different."
Because of the intentional concealment of the secrets of the D Clan, the name of the Pirate King currently revealed to the public is still Goldo Roger.
"If the Sea Train can really do what he said, and bring the Seven Water Cities back to life without fear of the 'Water Gods' Aqualagna, then his crimes should be enough to offset it ."
"What did you call the water gods?"
"Aqualagna is a tsunami that often occurs near the Seven Water Cities. Because it causes great damage every time, people call it the 'Water Gods'. It is precisely because of this that the transportation of various raw materials in the Seven Water Cities has become very difficult. Even the once famous shipbuilding industry has suffered a huge blow."
Zhang Da didn't really listen to the long string of words. His attention was all on the names of the water gods. He wondered if the people of the Seven Water Cities would curse "MD Aqua" when they were angry?
