Chapter 7: Arriving at Upside Down Mountain
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Sea voyages are dangerous and boring.
This is the same whether it is the Earth world or the One Piece world. The difference is that the sea and environmental dangers in the One Piece world are far more dangerous than the former. Fortunately, the Raven Pirates also have a passable navigator at the helm, who is able to minimize the dangers encountered in sailing.
The Raven Pirates began their journey towards the Great Passage after the supply of the Dark Town was completed.
At this time, Carter, the first mate on the ship of the Raven Pirates, was hesitating to stand in front of a door. If someone were to meet him face to face, it was easy to see the hesitation mixed with excitement on his face.
Squeak.
The door was opened from the inside, and Xiao Bai walked out of it with a smile.
"Has it already arrived?" Xiao Bai's voice was still very gentle.
His heart jumped suddenly, Carter, who had collected his thoughts, bowed his head with his hands down, his eyes only staring at Xiao Bai's feet, and said respectfully: "Yes, I can already see the shadow of the upside-down mountain." ”
"Then, let's go." Xiao Bai smiled and stepped out.
Looking at Xiao Bai who was moving forward, Carter hurriedly chased after him and followed him step by step.
After getting along these days, Carter and the other members of the Crow Pirates who succumbed to Xiao Bai have greatly improved their impression of their captain. Although there was still awe and fear of Xiao Bai in his heart, it was far less pure and intense than it was at the beginning.
Compared with Judley, who is cunning, insidious, violent, and unscrupulous, and has the characteristics of most pirates, Xiao Bai gives people the impression that they are two polar opposites. In other words, Judley can be regarded as a pirate, while Xiao Bai is more like a simple adventurer.
There was no intention of robbing the lone merchant ships in the past, which was almost unimaginable for Carter. In the North Sea. What pirate would let go of such a lone merchant ship? Can a pirate who is not for the purpose of robbery still be considered a pirate?
The only thing that made Carter feel a little reassured was that the new boss who had accepted all the wealth of the Iron Hook Pirates and the Unicorn Pirates was even more rich than he imagined. 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 recent period, judging from the new bounty orders and newspapers dropped by the newspaper birds, the bounty of his new boss has skyrocketed to 40 million Baileys. Carter didn't know how many pirates at the price of this bounty were in the Great Voyage, but in the North Sea, the bounty at this price was definitely terrifying.
is different from the era of large-scale out-of-control more than ten years later. The power of the world government has been weakened to the extreme by the oppression of the Four Emperors, pirates, and the increasingly threatening revolutionary army, which has stabilized its territory and expanded wildly. 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.
When the bounty amount is as high as a certain amount, the bounty is just a symbolic number. There is no other use than to show 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 main character Straw Hat Luffy's 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 it's chaotic at the moment, the various pirates are fighting for territory everywhere in the new world, who would dare 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 is possible, I believe that the admiral at this time must be very willing to pay the price of billions or even tens of billions of Baileys to kill all the pirate emperors who are 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 Gord Roger, the golden lion, the 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 the peak to the lonely.
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 wave of pirates, all they could do was to try their best to maintain it, gradually retreat, and even finally have to set up a position like the Seven Martial Seas, which means the incompetence and shame of the navy, to maintain a balance with the One Piece Emperor.
As for the One Piece Monarch who is chasing the current New World like chasing Gord 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.