Chabu: Why do I feel like this eight-year-old is my teacher?
Garp: It's not just you, kid.
Fujitora: You're not alone.
Chabu's words resonated with many.
Facing someone like Roya, every word and action felt like a guiding hand from a scholar.
As if he were gently leading them towards a correct way of understanding the world.
Honestly, even when they were learning as children, they never had such an experience with their teachers, regarding the process of building knowledge about the world.
Whitebeard: Speaking of, what exactly does the Reverse Mountain look like?
Watching Roya and the others about to climb Reverse Mountain, Whitebeard couldn't help but feel curious.
Come to think of it, Whitebeard himself had never been to the Four Blues. He never went through Reverse Mountain.
Because his home, Sphinx, is an island in the New World.
Shiki: I definitely wouldn't know.
Roger: I don't know either. I never climbed Reverse Mountain on foot. Ask Garp, the Marines must frequently travel from the Grand Line to the Four Blues.
Garp: Before Vegapunk invented the Seastone warship, Marines at my level usually didn't return to the Four Blues very often.
Garp: If we had to go back, we'd use mechanical lifts that could reach Red Line, just like in Mariejois, then switch to warships on the other side.
However, the lifts here are nothing compared to Mariejois' bubble elevators. They're very slow at transporting people. That's why we established the Marine branch system.
It's just too difficult to travel from the Grand Line to the Four Blues. I'm not really sure how merchants cross Red Line.
Other high-ranking Marines were similar to Garp.
Everyone looked at the screen. Roya and the others were ready to depart.
【"Have the guests rested well?" When the caravan leader arrived before Roya, even Roya couldn't help but be stunned.】
【Because behind the leader was a group of giant snails, their size like small houses.】
【Seats were installed in front of the giant snails' extended shells, and the tops of their shells were broken off.】
【"What are these?" Roya looked at these creatures.】
【"Ah, these are special creatures from Red Line, called Giant Bivalve Snails. They are gentle and won't attack humans. They can also travel on steep cliffs."】
【"As long as you break the top part of the outer shell, you can fit a lot of cargo inside. It's how we can transport goods to other seas."】
【"Otherwise, it would be impossible for anyone to carry cargo over Reverse Mountain with just their strength." The leader explained.】
【"I see." Roya lightly leaped into the air, looking down from above. He saw the hard shell inside the snails, with two layers forming a large cargo bin that could hold a lot of goods.】
【This structure ensured that even on steep slopes, the cargo wouldn't fall out.】
【"The world is truly full of wonders." Roya couldn't help but marvel, taking out his notebook to record it.】
【Sometimes, the wisdom of merchants is truly remarkable. Their pursuit of profit makes their exploration and action much stronger than ordinary people.】
【These giant bivalve snails are clearly a well-established breeding and leasing system. It's no easy feat to discover, capture, train, and then raise them on a large scale.】
【Roya and Fujitora boarded the bivalve snails. Each shell was filled with goods, and they slowly climbed Reverse Mountain.】
【Climbing Reverse Mountain wasn't easy. Some areas had slopes they could climb, while others were completely impassable.】
【They followed the routes discovered by countless merchants, meandering forward. Even with the giant snails, it was difficult.】
【After half a month, Roya and his group finally crossed Reverse Mountain with the caravan and arrived at the East Blue. The foot of Reverse Mountain on the East Blue side also had a gathering place built by merchants.】
【Cross-sea trade is more of a league of merchants rather than a caravan affair.】
【For example, Roya learned that the ships belonging to the caravan were pledged at the Reverse Mountain corner of the South Blue, allowing them to rent ships from this location in the East Blue.】
【This involved a complex system of pledge calculations and insurance compensation, all of which Roya meticulously recorded in his notebook.】
【He also recorded some transaction records of the caravan, noting what prices South Blue specialties could fetch in the East Blue.】
【After the caravan's ship reached Loguetown, Roya and Fujitora officially bid farewell to the caravan.】
【Especially Roya. He had become close with many of the caravan members during this time, and most of them were reluctant to part ways.】
【At the port of Loguetown, Roya and Fujitora disembarked.】
【They didn't rush to leave but stayed there.】
【Roya took Fujitora and spent the next half day inquiring at the port of Loguetown, thoroughly understanding the countries and islands accessible from Loguetown.】
【The port of Loguetown was highly developed, with ten routes connecting almost all major countries and islands in the East Blue.】
【After recording the port routes and corresponding countries and islands, Roya specially purchased a concise East Blue nautical chart and marked it.】
【After recording everything, Roya and Fujitora stayed in Loguetown for the time being.】
【During his time in Loguetown, Roya went out every day to investigate and record.】
【He interacted with Marines, merchants, workers, farmers, children, even gangsters and pirates, and got along well with them.】
【His strong charisma and sincere and equal treatment made him irresistible. As for those pirates and gangsters he couldn't communicate with through words, Roya didn't hesitate to use his fists.】
【Through a combination of words and fists, Roya gathered a vast amount of information in just five days.】
【From the daily routines and approximate prices of food for Loguetown residents, to the situations of various countries in the East Blue and the overall situation of the East Blue.】
Everyone in the chat room watched Roya build his understanding of Loguetown from scratch.
In just five days, through simple communication and the use of paper and pen, Roya created incredibly detailed records.
This recording method was astonishing.
Even someone who had just arrived in Loguetown and knew nothing about it could understand every detail of Loguetown through these records.
They had never seen anyone use such a concise, clear, and systematic recording method to document the information of a place.