Chapter 892: Is a ship of this price and configuration worthy of my status?
When Barry appeared, he immediately set his sights on Erza. Seeing the thick armor on her, he was indescribably satisfied: "Not bad... Girls should dress like this!"
"Miss, you..."
Suddenly, as his eyes moved downward, Barry saw the less than 20 centimeters of skin exposed between Erza's black skirt and black boots.
"…Your clothes are too revealing!!"
Erza: “???”
Is this uncle mentally ill? I am also exposed? Look carefully, I only exposed less than 20 centimeters, Lucy's situation is exposed, right? ! Also, how can a guy who looks at the exposed parts of a girl as soon as he appears on stage have the qualifications to comment on other people's clothes like this? !
"Hey, Kira! Are the people here really okay?"
"Don't worry, isn't it normal for people with some abilities to have a bit of an odd personality? Think about Senior Volod and then think about the president, and you'll know that this is the norm for older people!"
"What's wrong, President?"
"What's wrong? You think it's normal for an old man to still want to take advantage of young girls every day?"
Just as the two were chatting intermittently, the shipwrights at Dock No. 1 finally showed up one by one, and were calculating the shipbuilding costs based on the requirements notes given by Kira.
A first-class shipyard, first-class shipbuilders, and the cost of buying a ship are naturally first-class as well.
If they wanted to build a ship the size of the Merry, only tens of millions would be enough here, but Kira required a large ship that could accommodate more than a hundred people, which would cost at least three or five hundred million, and this was without considering the use of building materials such as Adam's branches.
Fortunately, Kira now has the Golden Country in his hands and has no shortage of money.
Not long after, Barry and his men came to Kira, handed back the hard-to-understand "Customer Requirements", and said, "Sir, according to your request, we have made a preliminary calculation of the cost."
Kira raised his eyebrows. "So fast?! You've already finished the calculation in just 10 minutes? You're not cheating me, are you?"
This sentence made several foremen look uneasy: "Kid, watch your tone! Carrera is a world-class shipbuilding company. We are the best shipbuilders in the company and have professional ethics!"
What the hell is professional ethics!
Two out of five people are latecomers. How can this be considered professional ethics?
Barry glanced at Kira unhappily. He had been in the industry for decades and had heard this kind of talk countless times. So he would not argue with this layman. Instead, he talked about the cost they had just calculated: "If we use ordinary wood, it will cost about 500 million Baileys. The deposit is 20%, which is 100 million Baileys. It can be completed within a week! What do you think?"
"Huh?? 500 million Baileys? Are you kidding me?!"
Barry nodded, as if he had expected this: "Huh! Are you shocked by hearing 500 million Baileys? I knew that this little brat wouldn't have any money!"
Thinking of this, he blew out a smoke ring from his left hand proudly: "If you think the price is too expensive..."
However, before he could finish his words, Kira interrupted him loudly.
"Take a good look at me from head to toe. Do you think a ship worth 500 million berries is worthy of my status? Any pirate caught on the Grand Line would cost more than 500 million berries, right?"
Kira's tone was arrogant, his expression was haughty, and he looked like a rich second-generation man, which made the boatmen silent.
Wow, I have been in this business for more than ten or twenty years, and have received at least eight thousand guests. Some of them feel that the cost of the boat is too little and not worthy of them... I can't say it's the first time I've seen this, but it's definitely rare.
Besides, this is 500 million Baileys!
In the entire "paradise", there are probably less than a hundred pirates with bounties of more than 50 million berries, and those with bounties of over 100 million can be counted with a pair of hands. How can the 500 million berries you mentioned be obtained by catching just any pirate? Do you think this is the New World? ! !
At this moment, the five foremen, including Luchi and Kagu, secretly labeled Kira in their hearts: arrogant, foolish, rich, arrogant, delicate, beautiful, splendid on the outside, but rotten on the inside...
"Then how much do you think is appropriate? No matter how much you pay, our Carrera Company can build a boat worthy of that price and guarantee that you will get great value for your money!"
All the boatmen present secretly made a decision in their hearts that no matter how much money the red-haired kid in front of them offered to build a ship, they would use all their skills to build the most perfect ship, and then slap him hard in the face, making him surrender to the Carrera Company's superb shipbuilding technology!
At worst, ask the boss to do it himself!
Kira sensed the dissatisfaction of the people in front of him, and thought to himself with joy, "It's within my grasp." It was a rare opportunity to be the client's father, and he hadn't had enough fun yet.
"The key is not how much money I can pay. Am I the kind of person who is short of money? The key is whether your design and technology can satisfy me! Of course, Carrera has a good reputation and I still trust its technology. The problem lies in the design of the ship!"
"How about this, you guys discuss it first and come up with a few plans for me. Remember to make corresponding functional designs based on the demand analysis, as well as various cost statistics, and note the advantages, disadvantages and precautions. It would be best if you can organize it in the form of a paper for me to see! If I think there is no problem after reading it, you can start construction according to the drawings."
Several boatmen were stunned: Where did this weirdo come from?
Carrera is the leading company in the industry and has a rule that 'customers can ask the shipyard for design plans and start construction after screening'. However, since selecting plans will seriously delay the shipbuilding time, and the ships built by Carrera are always very good, most customers will not do this.
Even if there are a few guys with nothing to do occasionally, there will not be such outrageous requirements as "note the advantages, disadvantages and precautions, and then organize them into the form of a paper"!
Isn't this guy just rich?
The group felt that Kira's request was too cumbersome, but in Kira's opinion, he was very considerate by not asking them to write a "reference vessel" or conduct a "vessel duplication check".
"What? Can't you do it?" Kira's voice was extremely provocative.
As expected, the moment he finished speaking, a loud shout came from the man in front of him : "Are you kidding?! Of course we can do this!! Who do you think you are talking to? We are the boatmen of the Carrera Company!!"
Huh?! Why does this way of speaking sound so familiar? ?
"Very good! This is exactly the kind of momentum we need!" Kira clapped his hands in satisfaction. "Since there are five of you here, please come up with five plans for me, one for each of you. I will come to inspect them at this time tomorrow, okay?"
Barry was filled with a spirit of not admitting defeat: "Of course!! Just wait and see, little brat, I promise to surprise you tomorrow! You'd better not cry here because of the dilemma of which one to choose!!!"
"If this happens, doesn't it mean that the five designs you proposed are equally good, and none of them can clearly surpass the other four?"
"That's because the five of us have excellent shipbuilding skills!"
…
In the evening, in the staff restaurant of Carrera No. 1 Shipyard, the sailors who had finished a day's work were gathering together to eat a big pot meal.
"What?! You guys aren't going to do it??"
When Barry learned that, except for himself, none of his colleagues stayed up late to design a plan, he was completely stunned. "But...but the other party specifically asked each of us to provide a design drawing!!"
Kagu pressed down the hat on his head, looking like he didn't want to pay attention to Barry: "It was you who promised him, not us!"
Biple Lulu raised her head from her bowl and said, "Kago is right. He didn't pay us to work overtime! We can just show him the old shipbuilding drawings. Those are our painstaking works! He is just a kid of that age, a layman who doesn't know anything about shipbuilding design. He seems to be stupid and rich. As long as it meets his requirements, how can he tell whether our plan is a rush job or not?"
Talston said in a deep voice, "Let's take a step back. Don't we have any work to do? Should we stop our work for a customer who hasn't even paid a deposit? That's not the way Carrera's boatmen work, right?"
Barry was speechless. He suddenly realized that compared with his colleagues, he was too honest! He was obviously the most experienced boatman in Carrera Company, why did he feel that they were the experienced ones? !
Barry turned his gaze towards the last person: "Hey, Lucci! Are you the same as them?"
Lucci did not speak, but let Hadley, the pigeon standing on his shoulder, wave his wings and speak for him: "Of course! After all, designing a shipbuilding plan for a 'hundred-man sailing ship' from scratch and meeting so many requirements is not something that can be done in one night! You were completely irritated by the other party at that time, right?"
"This... I admit that I was a little excited at the time..."
Kagu took a mouthful of rice, puffed up his cheeks and complained: "A bit excited? No way? I saw you almost got into a fight with that guy..."
"Stop... stop talking nonsense!" Barry blushed. He, an old man, was fighting with a little kid in the street. Even if he didn't care about his face, the company still needed it!
"If you don't do it, I will!"
As he said that, he took two quick bites and then returned to the room to start designing.
…
Late at night, in the back alley of Bruno Bar, several figures suddenly appeared here with a "whoosh".
"The intelligence has been confirmed. The red-haired brat you were talking about is the 'Rain God' that appeared in Alabasta not long ago. The wizards who call themselves 'Fairy Tail' are the same group that is causing chaos in the New World now!"
The person who spoke was the tall bar owner Bruno, who was also a member of CP9 who was undercover in the Seven Waters City in search of the "Pluto" drawings.
“What is their personnel composition?”
"There are 18 people in total, all of them are quite powerful, and there are three cats that can talk and fly, which are suspected to be a new species. They all appeared on this island today. But the most important thing is that I found that there is a very important person among them..."
"The criminal that the World Government has been searching for for 20 years, the legendary 'Orphan of Ohara', 'Devil's Son'..."
"Nico Robin!!"
