Chapter 501: The Pursuer [I]
Sea voyages are dangerous and boring.
This is the same whether it is the Caribbean world or the world in which Tang Bai is located at the moment. The difference is that the sea and the environment in this world are far more dangerous than the former. Fortunately, there was a passable navigator at the helm, so that Tang Bai did not need to be distracted, and he could focus more on his many studies, so that he could weaken, and even avoid facing that kind of danger and boredom.
Galia, one of the ship's two cooks, was hesitating to stand in front of a door. If someone were to face him, it was easy to see the panic and paleness mixed with fear on his face. Every time he came to the door of this room, Galia would involuntarily feel an indescribable coldness and fear.
Yes!
A hoarse, painful roar burst out of the door like a thunderbolt and exploded through the dimly lit corridor.
Gallia, who was in a trance, trembled all over, as if his head had been splashed with cold water, and he trembled and struggled to wake up from fear and trance. It's not the first time he's heard this kind of voice, but every time he hears it, he always has a feeling of chill in his heart.
As a pirate in a group of pirates known for his evil deeds, even if Galia was not a combatant, he had seen a lot of human pain when they were hurt and tortured, but even the bloody scene he saw for the first time in his memory, and the cries of pain from the wounded, were not as profound as the impression and feelings brought to him by the person who was howling miserably in the door.
Squeak.
The door was opened from the inside, and Tang Bai wiped his hands with a handkerchief and walked out inside. Under the blazing white light that came out of the door. Galia felt in a trance that he saw a trace of crimson blood on the handkerchief that Tang Bai used to wipe his hands.
"Is lunch ready?" Tang Bai's voice was gentle.
His heart skipped a beat, and Galia, who had collected his thoughts, bowed his head with his hands down. His eyes were only staring at Tang Bai's feet, and he said respectfully: "Yes, the lunch prepared for you is ready." ”
"Then, let's go." Tang Bai stepped out, and the door behind him was windless and automatic, slamming behind Tang Bai's back.
Looking at Tang Bai, who was moving forward, Galia hurriedly chased after him. They followed him step by step.
After getting along these days, Galia, who were selected by Tang Bai to stay, have greatly improved their impression of Tang Bai. Although there was still awe and fear of Tang Bai in his heart. But it's nowhere near as pure and intense as it was at the beginning.
Compared to Barbarossa, who has all the characteristics of most pirates, such as cunning, insidious, violent, and unscrupulous, Tang Bai feels like two polar opposites. In other words, Barbarossa can be regarded as a pirate, and Tang Bai. More like a simple adventurer.
No. Maybe even the adventurers are just barely there.
Because since sailing all the way to the sea, Tang Bai has never shown any interest in adventure. Even the destination, which is only a general sentence of the great voyage, comes to an end. Regardless of it, let the navigator sail autonomously.
There was no intention of robbing the lone merchant ships that passed by, which was almost unimaginable for them to Galia. In the Western Sea, which pirate would let go of such a lone merchant ship? Pirates who don't aim to rob, and ocean adventurers who also don't aim to take risks. Can you still be considered a pirate and an adventurer?
The only thing that made Galia feel a little reassuring was that he had taken in all of Barbarossa's wealth. The net worth seems to be even more abundant than expected. At least for a long time to come, there is no need to worry too much about the lack of Pele or anything like that.
Of course, that doesn't mean they can rest easy. Judging from the new bounty orders and newspapers dropped by the newspaper bird in recent times, the bounty of his new boss has skyrocketed to 69 million Bailey.
Garya doesn't know how many pirates with this bounty price there are in the Great Voyage, but in the Western Sea, the bounty at this price is definitely terrifying.
Unlike the era of large-scale out-of-control more than ten years later in Tang Bai's memory, the power of the world government has been weakened to an extreme by the four emperors, pirates, and the increasingly threatening revolutionary army that has stabilized its territory and expanded vigorously.
In order to maintain the stability of the world to the greatest extent and the order of the world government, a new pirate is often crowned with a high bounty at that time, and this benefit is used to gain the support of neutral people, such as bounty hunters.
Although the situation is now collapsing and there are more and more pirates going to sea, the navy, which is still faintly in the palm of its hand, still has a certain amount of strength for the time being, and can still arrest and pursue pirates on a large scale. Most of the time, the new generation of naval elites in the mature stage does not need and is ashamed to use too many external forces to be able to track down most of the pirates.
In times when order is still in place and stable, the value of money is always higher than in times when chaos sprouts and makes people feel precarious. In other words, the bounty in this era is more valuable than that in more than a decade later.
Tang Bai was able to skyrocket the bounty to 69 million Bailey in a short period of time, and I am afraid that it was still due to his attack on the naval branch station in the West Sea trading town, which single-handedly led to the death of the commander of that station, Scott, and made the navy feel ashamed and provocative for this sensitive event.
If he had single-handedly led to the demise of two pirates, the Kallis Pirates and the Barbarossa Lasso Pirates, and had killed an elite colonel of the Navy Branch on another battlefield, the bounty would never have skyrocketed so much in a short period of time.
When the bounty amount reaches a certain level, the bounty is just a symbolic number. There is no other use than to indicate the strength and danger of the owner of the bounty.
Indeed, bounty does not equate to strength. But excluding the lucky Bucky in the future, most of the pirates with a bounty of hundreds of millions have two hits. And those with bounties ranging from three to five hundred million have 100% strong ability and strength. Because of the lack of strength, it has long been solved by the navy and pirate hunters. Bucky didn't catch the hero's straw hat car, and he couldn't escape from the deep sea prison.
For those One Piece Emperors with bounties of more than 500 million, even the navy that issued a bounty, I don't expect that one day, someone will be able to capture and send to the navy those who have almost stopped the increase in these bounties. It's like chaos at the moment, the various pirates are fighting for territory everywhere in the new world, who dares to harvest pirate emperors such as Whitebeard for those bounties? Even if someone does do it, what are the chances of success?
For example, Whitebeard, as the world government organized by the alliance of nearly 200 countries in the world, can't he really offer billions to reward such a head? If it were possible, I believe that the admiral at this time would definitely be willing to pay the price of billions or even tens of billions of Baileys to kill most of the One Piece Emperors who were active in the new world one by one. Even if it would put the Navy into a state of economic strain.
It is also because the navy knows very well that simply raising the bounty will have little effect on those top One Piece Emperors who have become a climate, and the benefits will not be great, and they will not pose any major threat, so the bounties of those top One Piece Masters and dangerous people will be fixed at this moment. Unless one of them does something that shakes the world, the bounty that will make its rise stagnant rise rise again.
Roger's era, the era when the navy desperately chased Gore Roger, the golden lion, Whitebeard, and many dangerous pirates on the sea, was also the era of the peak of the navy. After the death of Gore Roger, the navy inevitably went from peak to loneliness.
In the heyday of Sengoku and Karp, they could almost cornered characters like One Piece Gore D Roger. But at this moment, in the face of the surging pirate frenzy, all they could do was to try their best to maintain it, gradually retreating, and finally had to set up a position like the Seven Martial Seas, which meant that the navy was incompetent and humiliating, to maintain a balance with the One Piece Emperor.
As for the One Piece King who is chasing the new world like chasing Gord D Roger and the Golden Lion, that heyday has passed. The current navy can still compete with those One Piece Emperors in the New World. But as the number of pirates skyrockets, there are more and more pirate groups in the New World, and the navy has to make some kind of choice.
Galia and others, who already had an in-depth understanding of what their new boss was doing, could not escape a sense of anxiety about the movements of the navy.
Sixty-nine million Baileys can't be compared to those One Piece Emperors who are tossing around in the New World. This bounty is unlikely to make the pirates in the Great Voyage, or even the bounty hunters and navies, have any intention of backing down.
Garya didn't believe that his new boss would not think of this, but the strange thing was that Tang Baiyi didn't let him hurry up, and he didn't give any instructions to hide his whereabouts. Garya even thought in his head, maybe the new head of his family thought that he didn't need to say this, he had to understand it himself?
Well, forget it, I'm just one cook on the ship anyway, or one of the two. None of these things were for him to think about. If you really need to face that kind of danger, you just have to act again.
The footsteps stopped, and Tang Bai and Galia had already arrived at the ship's restaurant.
As a pirate ship converted from a warship, the dining room on board is naturally huge. There were only a dozen people sitting here on the boat, and it seemed very empty.
A warship was chasing Tang Bai and them. (To be continued......)