The next morning, a sharp hawk whistle sounded in the naval base.
Thousands of naval soldiers stood uniformly on the school grounds, wearing knives around their waists and holding muskets, waiting for orders from their superiors.
In fact, the firepower equipment of the naval base in Rogge Town is quite good.
Not only are there a large number of soldiers, but there are also corresponding artillery units specially equipped with artillery.
But this kind of firepower is still not enough for Rogue Town.
Because the issue of this island is too ambiguous.
It was pirates who created the islanders who lived a prosperous life. They relied on the pirate economy. Even if there were some disturbances, the overall environment was good.
For the islanders, the navy only needs to arrive when a "disaster" occurs, be on call, and have a force to deter pirates.
There is no need to meddle in other people's business and actively drive away pirates. Don't affect everyone's money making.
There was some haze and sweat on the colonel's face. He didn't want to deal with this troublesome matter in Rogge Town. It was something that everyone disliked. Why should he do it? It was thankless. Dealing with pirates would make people in the town hate him. There was no way. They have strong interests.
But Luffy is the superior, and after the announcement in the newspaper, he became the new "Navy Hero", part of the propaganda, and the grandson of the great naval hero Iron Fist Garp.
The colonel himself is in the force system of the navy, and he is not qualified to disobey Luffy. Luffy is his superior.
It's too troublesome. Why did I encounter this trouble during my term of office...
The colonel wiped the sweat from his forehead and thought of a way. I don't want to deal with the trouble after the pirates disappear.
Ah, yes, take this opportunity to report to your superiors and get promoted!
He thought with an idea.
Luffy's political identity is ambiguous. He is from the Navy, but he is not from the Navy. Because he has no official temporary position, the "Navy Hero" awarded by the Propaganda Department is more like an honorary title and a symbol.
Therefore, the pirates dealt with by Luffy are another kind of performance resource. All he needs to do is add one more name when reporting. Brigadier General Pudding Pudding was also praised internally for taking advantage of the situation. Gao Sheng was already properly promoted. Something happened.
All he had to do was write in the report that he assisted Luffy in destroying the pirates.
This is also what actually happened. Great, let's do it this way. As long as we are promoted, the subsequent conflicts in Rogge Town will be left to the people who come after us.
Thinking of this, the colonel's toilet suddenly opened, and a speech was prepared in his mind.
"Soldiers, today we will follow our naval heroes in doing a just deed,
We should have done so, but our indecision makes our justice uncertain,
Here, in Rogge Town, pirates walk freely in the sight of our navy. They hold their heads high and even point at us..."
"... colluding with pirates is not the island's fault, it is not the civilians' fault, it is our navy's fault, it is our navy's fault that it cannot handle the crime,
Today, under the leadership of heroes, we will return to the right path. We exist for justice! "
He raised his command knife high: "For justice!"
"For justice!"
The soldiers held the guns in their hands and shouted loudly, the anger in their hearts had been ignited by the colonel.
"Your Highness, please give instructions!"
The colonel gave up his command.
Ah... Although the label "justice" is boring, it is real and effective.
Luffy held the King Sword and thought without saying anything, "Destroy all the pirate ships at the dock."
"yes!"
The soldiers came out of the naval base with murderous looks on their faces. They held guns and surrounded the pirates on the street. The civilians were pushed back to their homes.
"What's going on with these marines?"
The merchants were forced to close their doors and cursed in confusion.
"Don't disturb my business. Damn it, I'll lose tens of thousands of Baileys if I close the door for a day..."
"Hey, are these sailors having a seizure?" A pirate smiled unkindly at the sailors.
The pirates with keen senses have realized that this group of navy is here to target them. The aura they exude is exactly the same as that of the navy that captured them before.
"Didn't you say that the navy in Rogge Town is a good dog?"
"Aren't they afraid of offending us pirates?"
"Captain, something bad has happened. The navy has blocked the dock. There are so many navy!"
"Our ships are impounded!"
"What? Hurry and take back the dock and seize the boat!"
"damn it!"
Pirates also swarmed the pier. For a moment, the civilians also shut their mouths and looked at the pirates in fear. They didn't even dare to ask for money. They waited until the pirates passed by, then closed the shop and looked through the window. Watching the ensuing battle.
"Your Highness, the dock has been completely blocked, and we will face a crazy counterattack by the pirates next!"
The colonel said, standing next to Luffy.
The ship is the pirate's home. Blocking the dock means that the home is almost gone, and any pirate will be eager to counterattack.
The soldiers had already set up their firing array and were quietly watching the pirates coming from the distance.
The vibration frequency of the earth is also rising.
There are so many pirates, our navy alone can't do anything about it...the colonel thought to himself.
In addition to economic disputes, there is also a gap between the military strength of the base in Rogge Town and that of the pirates.
The artillery team is strong, but the pirates are stronger,
The pirates who can reach Rogge Town have all been screened, and there is no lack of strength or luck.
A large number of pirates among them will flow into the Upside Down Mountain, enter the new world, and complete a qualitative change. They will change their profession from pirates in the East China Sea to pirates in the Great Channel.
"Shoot." Luffy held the king's sword with blood dripping from it.
This is the blood of the pirates guarding the ship.
Intensive gunfire rang out.
"The Marines fired, and they meant it!"
The pirate camp became chaotic.
"Don't be afraid, charge!"
"Fight in!"
Da da da……
The pirates also fought back. They also had guns in their hands and exchanged fire with the navy.
Luffy slowly opened his eyes, and a storm swept across the world. The momentum of the pirates declined rapidly. Many pirates only felt that the world was spinning, and then the screen went black in front of them.
"It happened, what happened?!"
When the pirates saw their teammates suddenly disconnected, they started to commotion.
"There are people with abilities in the navy, there are people with legendary abilities!"
There were three levels of pirates who fainted and fell to the ground.
Those who were still standing didn't understand what had happened, and their momentum had dropped to freezing point.
Luffy raised his hand and the soldiers stopped shooting.
He stepped forward and disappeared in front of the navy.
The sword light and wind pressure blew across the earth with a delay, carrying the smell of gunpowder smoke to the sky.
There were marks of being slashed on the ground and on the pirate's body, and the sword was directly broken.
"Broken Steel Sword, huh, it's that little naval hero!"
The pirates clenched their weapons and gathered in their arms.
"Yesterday I heard that the little naval hero came to Rogge Town, but the navy did not take any action and didn't take it to heart..."
"I told you that I would leave Rogge Town a long time ago, but now I am leaving too late. The one who uses that broken steel sword is the legendary pirate executioner!"
Many pirates felt regretful.
There were rumors yesterday that the little naval hero appeared in the town. I thought he would abide by the tacit agreement between the island and the pirates and abide by the "unspoken rules".
The feel has returned a bit.
Luffy held the sword and walked among the pirates' camp, swinging the sword wide and wide, feeling the relief brought by the extreme violence.
The abnormal feeling in the hand caused by holding other swords returned to normal during the battle.
The wind howled.
His eyes moved slightly, and his body began to avoid it, but he took a step slower, and a faster slash fell on his body, tearing his clothes and leaving blood marks on his body.
"Flying Slash."
Luffy stopped and gently touched the blood marks on his body.
"Mr. Hero, I am not a pirate. Can you please let me get my own ship and leave?"
A man with purple hair curled into a tornado walked out from among the pirates.
He was wearing a gray suit and strange ring-shaped sunglasses that hung almost in a circle over his eyes.
"Hey, Eric, are you going to betray us?" someone among the pirates shouted.
"Don't get me wrong, stupid pirates, we just had a cooperative relationship from the beginning." Eric said with a sneer.
"You bastard!"
The pirate became furious upon hearing this and pointed his gun at Eric.
Luffy saw Eric's hand move, and an invisible slash cut off the pirate's arm.
He screamed in pain.
"No matter how many times I work with pirates, you guys are always so stupid that it makes me sick."
The user with the ability turns the wind into a slash. Therefore, the paper drawing that senses the flow of air is disturbed.
"Mr. Hero, please finish what you have not finished."
Eric made a please gesture.
Luffy used a flying slash to finish off the remaining pirates.
Eric walked slowly towards the dock.
"Where are you going? Pirate." Luffy looked at Wang Jian.
"Ah? I have already said that I am not a pirate, I am just a mercenary. I have a cooperative relationship with the pirates. I just borrowed their ship to come here."
Eric explained again.
He didn't want to be an enemy of a swordsman of Luffy's level.
"Really? I don't believe it."
Luffy looked at Eric with a smile:
"First, you are standing with the pirates, and the pirates obviously know you."
"Second, you attacked me."
"Hey, don't be like this. Attacking you is just a last resort for me to protect myself."
Eric explained.
"If I don't take action, your attack will hit my head."
"Because you are walking with pirates. You obviously have the ability to reject pirates, but you don't."
"So the relationship between you and the pirates is complicated. You'd better come with me and accept the investigation."
Luffy spread his hands.
"I don't have time to waste investigating with the Navy. Stupid Navy, listen up. I, Eric, am not a pirate. You don't even have a wanted order for me. Why do you attack me?"
"Now there's another one, insulting the navy."
Luffy slashed with his sword, his strength was heavy, and his sword energy turned into a sword and swept away.
There was an extra scratch on the hard ground.
Eric jumped away quickly. He could jump more than four meters high just by jumping back. He immediately waved his arm towards Luffy. Luffy could clearly sense the chaos in the air. The invisible divine wind turned into slashes and cut his body. In an instant, he Luffy's body was cut with several scars.
Another strange Devil Fruit user.
The attack is fast but lacks power.
"Do you have to compete with me?" Eric said with an elegant posture as he landed.
"I am the type who will fight back when attacked. From the moment you attacked me, I decided to kill you!"
Luffy pointed at Eric.
Using his right foot, he smashed the floor tiles. Luffy rushed in front of Eric and slashed with his big sword. Eric flicked his fingers, and strong winds howled, disrupting Luffy's slashing and leaving several wounds on his hands. The wounds were not deep, but they were numerous.
He jumped up using the wind, stepped on the King's Sword that was slashing horizontally, tapped his toes to gain strength, turned around in the air, and slashed from top to bottom with one kick.
Eric is a dexterous opponent, focusing on agility and lightness. Because of his ability, Eric has a sensitivity close to that of a paper drawing and can change directions in advance.
As soon as Luffy's hand loosened, he dropped the Wang Sword, pulled up his left hand, and grabbed Eric's lower leg.
"What!"
A huge force came.
Eric never thought that the swordsman would abandon his sword. In a hurry, he could no longer use the force to change direction. He wanted to swing the wind blade with both hands, but his body tilted and the slash was in vain. Luffy was thrown to the ground.
"Although it is windy, the path of the slash is straight. You only need to judge the movement of your hands to see through the movement. I have seen through it!"
Luffy threw Eric to the ground, changed his slashing path, and stepped hard on his knee with his right foot.
There was a cracking sound of bones cracking.
"ah--"
Eric screamed sharply, and unbearable pain swept through his body.
"You show off too many skills in front of me!"
Luffy then kneeled down and hit Eric's abdomen, pubic area, and a look of shock and pain suddenly appeared on his face.
The ground behind Eric was covered with spider web-like cracks. Eric was suffocated for a while. The arm he was about to wave instead pressed down on his pubic bone, feeling that the soft foot there had been broken.
Luffy actually wanted to hit him in the abdomen, but due to height issues, there was a deviation in the combo.
Not a big problem.
"It's really troublesome. I have tiny wounds all over my body."
Luffy looked at the detailed slashes on his body.
The wounds were very shallow, breaking into the skin and not reaching the bones, but the visual effect was so shocking, as if they were tied up and whipped with knives.
After being hit hard by Luffy two times in a row, Eric lost his fighting power. Luffy stood up from Eric and picked up the King Sword.
The blood on his body fell down his arm and onto Wang Jian.
"No, don't kill me, I know the secret of immortality, I can tell you!" Eric bowed like a shrimp and shouted to Luffy breathlessly.
"Immortal?" Luffy glanced at him.
Is there such a thing in the pirate world?
Luffy glanced at the remaining memory of the plot, was it the fruit of the operation?
Has that thing been eaten by Luo?
"Elixir of Immortality, I heard that the Millennium Dragon is in this sea area, but I don't know where it is. You also want to make Garp immortal. How about, we...can...ahem...cooperate... "
Eric struggled to say so many words, and coughed while covering his abdomen, secretly horrified by Luffy's strength.
I thought it was just the strength of the sword, but I didn't expect that his physical skills were also amazing, and he had such fighting experience beyond his age.
His status as a naval hero does not contain water!
I was careless!
With such a deceptive height and age...he is indeed Garp's grandson!
"Explain it?"
Luffy was very happy to hear it and asked for details.
(End of chapter)
