Chapter 102: The Legendary Shipwright Tom
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Having failed to find the legendary shipwright Tom, Buggy didn't rush. Instead, he casually took Gobi and others to explore the Water City.
Although in recent years the City of Water has declined somewhat due to the issue of privateer ships, a historically rich city, even when its prosperity fades, has a profound historical heritage that is unparalleled.
After strolling on the streets of the Water City for a little day, the group of Preston soldiers also got a rough idea of what the Water City was like, and in the evening they finally made their way back to Dock Five.
When they returned to Dock Five, they happened to catch all the shipyard workers clocking out for the day. Bucky had a good memory and easily recognized the shipyard worker who had spoken to him at lunchtime among the group of laborers.
“Sir, should we ask him now?”
Hiding behind a wall, Gobi whispered. Bucky shook his head.
“Let's not rush. We'll follow him and find a chance to ask later.”
It's not easy to track a boatman when everyone is extraordinary. It didn't take long for us to follow the boatman into an alley.
"This is the right place to ask questions."
With an idea in mind, Bucky whispered a few words to Gobimo and the others, then swiftly moved to block the entrance of the alley in front of the boatman.
“？！”
When the boatman from Dock No. 5 approached the alley entrance, he looked up and was startled to see someone standing there. He was momentarily taken aback, and when he recognized Bucky's distinctive red nose as the person who had asked him about Tom at noon, he was alarmed and tried to turn around to take another route. However, when he turned back, he found Gobimo and the others blocking his way behind him.
"What are you all doing?"
The boatman was so scared that he leaned tightly against the wall, his lips trembling as he said to Barkley and the others.
“I’m just a poor boatman, I have no money on me. If you're looking to rob someone, you've found the wrong person.”
Ba Ji walked up to the boatman and, to ease his tension, smiled and said.
“Don’t be afraid, we are not robbers. I just want to calmly ask you a few questions.”
After listening to Bucky say this, the boatman's heart settled a little and then realized that Bucky wanted to ask him something.
"Are you asking about Tom?! Are you a pirate?!"
For the boatman’s question, Baki shook his head.
“You don’t need to know who I am. You just need to know that when you walk out of this alley, there will be three million Berries added to your person.”
Having said that, Baki took out three stacks of ten thousand "Yujitou" from his bag.
"Pa!"
He casually held the three stacks of money in his hand, playing with them, and the sound startled the boatman who was in a daze, staring at the money.
“The current situation in the Water City isn't great, right? In such a sluggish economic environment, your salary should be pretty low, huh?”
Ba Ji asked quietly. The boatman swallowed hard after his Adam’s apple moved up and down a couple of times, and finally, with some hesitation, said.
“So, tell me, what do you want to ask?”
Buggy chuckled, first reassuringly patting the boatman's shoulder, then personally tucking the three million berries into the boatman's clothing, and carefully smoothing out his collar. Noticing the boatman's anxious expression, he asked.
“You just need to tell me where Tom is right now, I’m not interested in anything else.”
The boatman glanced down, a bit embarrassed, before raising his eyes and replying.
“It's really shameful to say, but Tom was once the best craftsman here. However, after that great villain Gol D. Roger became infamous worldwide, the company sent Tom to the garbage dump under the bridge of the shipyard to avoid trouble. I've heard that he seems to be running his own little workshop now, so it shouldn't be hard to find.”
Staring into the eyes of the shipworker, Bucky laughed again.
"Very well, your honesty is worth another two million berries."
As he spoke, Wang Zhen once again took out two bundles of money from his body, and unlike before, this time it was handed over to the shipworker officially.
“I've finished asking my questions, you can go home now. After a long day, there should be someone waiting for you at home to have dinner, right?”
With a finger lightly pressing on the "Yuji Head," feeling the uneven texture of the skull print, the boatman’s stomach full of words finally turned into a single "Thank you." After saying this, he hurriedly ran out of the alley, disappearing into the streets outside.
“Sir, are you?”
Gobi Mo was somewhat puzzled. After all, he knew that Buggy was a pirate, and pirates typically stole money from others; he had never heard of a pirate giving money to someone. Previously, Gobi Mo had prepared to witness Buggy resorting to torture, but to his surprise, Buggy chose to be amicable and generously decided to bribe the person, and his outlay was nothing short of extravagant.
“Surprised? It seems you don't read the newspaper often. Of course, I guess the newspaper doesn't report much about my good deeds. I'm not just a pirate; I'm actually a philanthropist.”
Indeed, Brother Guo and the others don't read the newspaper much. Their understanding of Buggy's past is mostly limited to his massacre of the Celestial Dragons. Hearing Buggy say this now, they all took it as if he was joking.
Looking at the dazed expressions of the soldiers, Bucky had no choice but to raise his hands in surrender.
“Alright, alright, let me provide a more reasonable explanation. I am a pirate, but I am not a pervert. I won't stoop to bullying an ordinary shipwright. What's more, he provided me with information, and I paid him; that’s a fair transaction. He might not understand, but to me, that information is worth this much.”
Although the reason that Baki changed is still not entirely convincing to Gobi and Mo, there is no need to dwell too much on these details. After all, having gathered the information, it's unnecessary to focus on some trifling matters.
It’s already quite late, and this doesn’t seem like a good time for visiting. Everyone decided to head back to the boat to rest for the night and plan to bring gifts to visit the family early tomorrow morning.
……
Night falls on the city of water, but for the upper-class officials, their lives have only just begun.
The economic downturn affects them far less than ordinary families; in fact, to relieve their stress, their indulgence is even greater.
Of course, these matters have little to do with ordinary families like that of the boatman Leo.
Even though the surrounding environment has led to a continuous rise in the price of white bread, Leo resolutely bought a large bag to take home today. Thinking of his children, who have slimmed down a bit, he knew that today he would bring joy to his family.
“Hey, sweetheart, hasn’t everyone eaten yet? Hurry up and take this.”
It seemed to carry a bit of bragging as Leo exaggeratedly lifted the brown paper bag in his hand. His wife took the bag and opened it, revealing a bounty of delicious-smelling bread, making her eyes widen. As a housewife, she naturally understood the changes in bread prices better than her husband.
"Where did all this come from, Daddy?"
Seeing his wife's nervousness, Leo decided to tell a little white lie to his honest wife.
"Today, the shipyard made a big deal, and the manager gave us a substantial bonus. This is what we bought with the bonus."
Just then, his wife felt relieved, but immediately started blaming her husband for spending money recklessly.
"How much money is this? With this much money, we could have bought a lot of wheat flour."
Leo thought to himself that he could only let his wife know about the rest of the money little by little in the future, but he just smiled and said, "Haha."
"Well, never mind, we still have some bonus left. We've bought the bread already, so let's just throw away those dry black bread today and have a good meal of buttered bread."
The wife could only accept this reality and turned to call her two older sons who were playing at the back of the house. Leo, on the other hand, happily picked up his little daughter who was playing at his feet. She was not yet five years old, the age when children get into everything messy, and was currently wiping her nose on a piece of newspaper. She even pressed the newspaper, smeared with snot, onto Leo's face.
Leo was in a great mood as he coaxed his daughter, and he casually took the newspaper and set it aside.
"Huh?"
But the fleeting front-page news caught Leo's eye, and he started reading it. The section, covered in snot, could still be deciphered: "Criminal Bucky spotted in the Bubble Islands, most evil pirate crew confirmed disbanded?"
The eye-catching title caught Leo's attention, with the left half of the section featuring rehashed news about Buggy causing a scene in Bubble Island. Further back, there are the usual discussions regarding the Roger Pirates. The right half of the section displays a large photo, which is none other than Buggy's menacing wanted poster.
The more Leo looked at this photo, the more familiar it felt. In the photo, there was a pirate dressed as a clown, wearing a striped hat and painted with face paint.
“Pff... a clown.”
The little daughter wrinkled her small nose and stuck out her tongue, annoyed that her dad ignored her and instead stared at the scary clown.
Leo couldn’t bother dealing with his daughter's mischievousness; instead, he was quietly making comparisons in his mind, picturing the person in the photo without their face paint, adding a coin-sized scar to their cheek... that striking red nose became even more prominent.
“It's him! How could I not think of it!”
Leo was so startled that he jumped in his chair. His wife was just returning home with their two sons and casually asked when she heard her husband speak.
“Who is it? Who did you remember?”
利奥吓得汗都快下来了，连连打岔的说。
“啊，我是说今天订船的大客户，刚想起来他是一个西海的大富商，之前也订过我们公司的船。”
The wife didn't know much about Leo's company and wasn't particularly interested, so she didn't ask any more questions. Leo kept looking at the photo of Bucky, becoming more and more certain.
"Tom built the ship for Roger, and this clown Bucky is also a member of Roger's pirate crew. How did I not think of this before..."
He is a man with a lot of lawsuits, while the children are more concerned with the fragrant bread. Watching the kids enjoy their meal, Leo's heart sank; who could have thought that this meal of bread would be given by the so-called heinous criminal mentioned in the newspapers.
What is the truth of this world really like? This question has planted a seed in Leo's heart.
……
In the early morning, listening to the cries of seagulls, he jumped up from the hammock.
Holding clear water while washing, he also scrubbed his neck clean, and specially broke an egg to use the egg white to comb his hair neatly. After looking in the mirror, Baki couldn't help but admire himself a few times. If it weren't for the scar from being burned by the golden lion, he could be considered a handsome guy.
Jim wiped the non-existent dust off his clothes with a handkerchief, and then confidently led a group of Preston soldiers off the ship, carrying gifts and heading towards the abandoned shipyard as the dockworker had directed.
Finally going to meet the legendary shipwright Tom.
……
Although in recent years the City of Water has declined somewhat due to the issue of privateer ships, a historically rich city, even when its prosperity fades, has a profound historical heritage that is unparalleled.
After strolling on the streets of the Water City for a little day, the group of Preston soldiers also got a rough idea of what the Water City was like, and in the evening they finally made their way back to Dock Five.
When they returned to Dock Five, they happened to catch all the shipyard workers clocking out for the day. Bucky had a good memory and easily recognized the shipyard worker who had spoken to him at lunchtime among the group of laborers.
“Sir, should we ask him now?”
Hiding behind a wall, Gobi whispered. Bucky shook his head.
“Let's not rush. We'll follow him and find a chance to ask later.”
It's not easy to track a boatman when everyone is extraordinary. It didn't take long for us to follow the boatman into an alley.
"This is the right place to ask questions."
With an idea in mind, Bucky whispered a few words to Gobimo and the others, then swiftly moved to block the entrance of the alley in front of the boatman.
“？！”
When the boatman from Dock No. 5 approached the alley entrance, he looked up and was startled to see someone standing there. He was momentarily taken aback, and when he recognized Bucky's distinctive red nose as the person who had asked him about Tom at noon, he was alarmed and tried to turn around to take another route. However, when he turned back, he found Gobimo and the others blocking his way behind him.
"What are you all doing?"
The boatman was so scared that he leaned tightly against the wall, his lips trembling as he said to Barkley and the others.
“I’m just a poor boatman, I have no money on me. If you're looking to rob someone, you've found the wrong person.”
Ba Ji walked up to the boatman and, to ease his tension, smiled and said.
“Don’t be afraid, we are not robbers. I just want to calmly ask you a few questions.”
After listening to Bucky say this, the boatman's heart settled a little and then realized that Bucky wanted to ask him something.
"Are you asking about Tom?! Are you a pirate?!"
For the boatman’s question, Baki shook his head.
“You don’t need to know who I am. You just need to know that when you walk out of this alley, there will be three million Berries added to your person.”
Having said that, Baki took out three stacks of ten thousand "Yujitou" from his bag.
"Pa!"
He casually held the three stacks of money in his hand, playing with them, and the sound startled the boatman who was in a daze, staring at the money.
“The current situation in the Water City isn't great, right? In such a sluggish economic environment, your salary should be pretty low, huh?”
Ba Ji asked quietly. The boatman swallowed hard after his Adam’s apple moved up and down a couple of times, and finally, with some hesitation, said.
“So, tell me, what do you want to ask?”
Buggy chuckled, first reassuringly patting the boatman's shoulder, then personally tucking the three million berries into the boatman's clothing, and carefully smoothing out his collar. Noticing the boatman's anxious expression, he asked.
“You just need to tell me where Tom is right now, I’m not interested in anything else.”
The boatman glanced down, a bit embarrassed, before raising his eyes and replying.
“It's really shameful to say, but Tom was once the best craftsman here. However, after that great villain Gol D. Roger became infamous worldwide, the company sent Tom to the garbage dump under the bridge of the shipyard to avoid trouble. I've heard that he seems to be running his own little workshop now, so it shouldn't be hard to find.”
Staring into the eyes of the shipworker, Bucky laughed again.
"Very well, your honesty is worth another two million berries."
As he spoke, Wang Zhen once again took out two bundles of money from his body, and unlike before, this time it was handed over to the shipworker officially.
“I've finished asking my questions, you can go home now. After a long day, there should be someone waiting for you at home to have dinner, right?”
With a finger lightly pressing on the "Yuji Head," feeling the uneven texture of the skull print, the boatman’s stomach full of words finally turned into a single "Thank you." After saying this, he hurriedly ran out of the alley, disappearing into the streets outside.
“Sir, are you?”
Gobi Mo was somewhat puzzled. After all, he knew that Buggy was a pirate, and pirates typically stole money from others; he had never heard of a pirate giving money to someone. Previously, Gobi Mo had prepared to witness Buggy resorting to torture, but to his surprise, Buggy chose to be amicable and generously decided to bribe the person, and his outlay was nothing short of extravagant.
“Surprised? It seems you don't read the newspaper often. Of course, I guess the newspaper doesn't report much about my good deeds. I'm not just a pirate; I'm actually a philanthropist.”
Indeed, Brother Guo and the others don't read the newspaper much. Their understanding of Buggy's past is mostly limited to his massacre of the Celestial Dragons. Hearing Buggy say this now, they all took it as if he was joking.
Looking at the dazed expressions of the soldiers, Bucky had no choice but to raise his hands in surrender.
“Alright, alright, let me provide a more reasonable explanation. I am a pirate, but I am not a pervert. I won't stoop to bullying an ordinary shipwright. What's more, he provided me with information, and I paid him; that’s a fair transaction. He might not understand, but to me, that information is worth this much.”
Although the reason that Baki changed is still not entirely convincing to Gobi and Mo, there is no need to dwell too much on these details. After all, having gathered the information, it's unnecessary to focus on some trifling matters.
It’s already quite late, and this doesn’t seem like a good time for visiting. Everyone decided to head back to the boat to rest for the night and plan to bring gifts to visit the family early tomorrow morning.
……
Night falls on the city of water, but for the upper-class officials, their lives have only just begun.
The economic downturn affects them far less than ordinary families; in fact, to relieve their stress, their indulgence is even greater.
Of course, these matters have little to do with ordinary families like that of the boatman Leo.
Even though the surrounding environment has led to a continuous rise in the price of white bread, Leo resolutely bought a large bag to take home today. Thinking of his children, who have slimmed down a bit, he knew that today he would bring joy to his family.
“Hey, sweetheart, hasn’t everyone eaten yet? Hurry up and take this.”
It seemed to carry a bit of bragging as Leo exaggeratedly lifted the brown paper bag in his hand. His wife took the bag and opened it, revealing a bounty of delicious-smelling bread, making her eyes widen. As a housewife, she naturally understood the changes in bread prices better than her husband.
"Where did all this come from, Daddy?"
Seeing his wife's nervousness, Leo decided to tell a little white lie to his honest wife.
"Today, the shipyard made a big deal, and the manager gave us a substantial bonus. This is what we bought with the bonus."
Just then, his wife felt relieved, but immediately started blaming her husband for spending money recklessly.
"How much money is this? With this much money, we could have bought a lot of wheat flour."
Leo thought to himself that he could only let his wife know about the rest of the money little by little in the future, but he just smiled and said, "Haha."
"Well, never mind, we still have some bonus left. We've bought the bread already, so let's just throw away those dry black bread today and have a good meal of buttered bread."
The wife could only accept this reality and turned to call her two older sons who were playing at the back of the house. Leo, on the other hand, happily picked up his little daughter who was playing at his feet. She was not yet five years old, the age when children get into everything messy, and was currently wiping her nose on a piece of newspaper. She even pressed the newspaper, smeared with snot, onto Leo's face.
Leo was in a great mood as he coaxed his daughter, and he casually took the newspaper and set it aside.
"Huh?"
But the fleeting front-page news caught Leo's eye, and he started reading it. The section, covered in snot, could still be deciphered: "Criminal Bucky spotted in the Bubble Islands, most evil pirate crew confirmed disbanded?"
The eye-catching title caught Leo's attention, with the left half of the section featuring rehashed news about Buggy causing a scene in Bubble Island. Further back, there are the usual discussions regarding the Roger Pirates. The right half of the section displays a large photo, which is none other than Buggy's menacing wanted poster.
The more Leo looked at this photo, the more familiar it felt. In the photo, there was a pirate dressed as a clown, wearing a striped hat and painted with face paint.
“Pff... a clown.”
The little daughter wrinkled her small nose and stuck out her tongue, annoyed that her dad ignored her and instead stared at the scary clown.
Leo couldn’t bother dealing with his daughter's mischievousness; instead, he was quietly making comparisons in his mind, picturing the person in the photo without their face paint, adding a coin-sized scar to their cheek... that striking red nose became even more prominent.
“It's him! How could I not think of it!”
Leo was so startled that he jumped in his chair. His wife was just returning home with their two sons and casually asked when she heard her husband speak.
“Who is it? Who did you remember?”
利奥吓得汗都快下来了，连连打岔的说。
“啊，我是说今天订船的大客户，刚想起来他是一个西海的大富商，之前也订过我们公司的船。”
The wife didn't know much about Leo's company and wasn't particularly interested, so she didn't ask any more questions. Leo kept looking at the photo of Bucky, becoming more and more certain.
"Tom built the ship for Roger, and this clown Bucky is also a member of Roger's pirate crew. How did I not think of this before..."
He is a man with a lot of lawsuits, while the children are more concerned with the fragrant bread. Watching the kids enjoy their meal, Leo's heart sank; who could have thought that this meal of bread would be given by the so-called heinous criminal mentioned in the newspapers.
What is the truth of this world really like? This question has planted a seed in Leo's heart.
……
In the early morning, listening to the cries of seagulls, he jumped up from the hammock.
Holding clear water while washing, he also scrubbed his neck clean, and specially broke an egg to use the egg white to comb his hair neatly. After looking in the mirror, Baki couldn't help but admire himself a few times. If it weren't for the scar from being burned by the golden lion, he could be considered a handsome guy.
Jim wiped the non-existent dust off his clothes with a handkerchief, and then confidently led a group of Preston soldiers off the ship, carrying gifts and heading towards the abandoned shipyard as the dockworker had directed.
Finally going to meet the legendary shipwright Tom.
……