Chapter 36: Diverging Paths
Navy warship, wide deck.
Galen wore a white suit with a straight appearance and smooth lines, and the knotted and bulging muscles propped up the originally polite suit into a powerful three-dimensional edge.
Coupled with Galen's masculine and handsome face, it is very masculine.
This suit doesn't look much different from the suit worn by ordinary elites, and if you don't point it out, you can't see anything special at all, but it's actually a dress uniformly issued by the Navy to the generals and colonels of the headquarters.
Wear this white suit and pair it with a navy justice cape to a new level of handsomeness.
The original owner of this suit was none other than Colonel Smoker of the headquarters;
Smoker had always been a bold man who casually put on a biker jacket and went out shirtless half-shirted, and he never touched this kind of troublesome and obstructive dress, so he gave it to Galen when his soldiers asked.
Smoker is slightly taller than Galen, but has a roughly similar stature.
When Galen put on this suit that was already extraordinary, he immediately showed a completely different majesty from when he was wearing an armored sword, with both the masculinity of a warrior and the elegance of a gentleman.
There are too many strange humans on the sea, and the girl Nami is still a rare contact with a man of the same age, good looks, and good character like Galen.
Nami, who was standing next to Galen, was unconsciously fascinated. There wasn't much thought, just pure appreciation.
"Nami?"
Galen suddenly turned his head and called Nami's name.
"How?"
Nami suddenly came to her senses, but she didn't show the slightest fluster.
"How old are you?"
Galen asked the somewhat private question again without thinking.
"Sixteen."
Nami replied subconsciously, and after reacting, her face, which had been calm and waveless, was suddenly stained with a faint flush.
She pouted in some shame and asked, "Why are you asking this?" ”
"Just ask."
Galen casually prevaricated with Nami, and confided his feelings very straightforwardly:
"Sixteen has developed so well..."
"You!"
Miss Nami simply ignored Galen's harassment and turned her head away in a huff.
Galen secretly calculated the timeline --
He remembered that in the original book, when Rinami boarded the Luffy Thief ship, she was eighteen years old;
And Nami is only sixteen years old this year, which means that she should be two years before the start of the original plot, or less than two years in time.
No wonder Smoker has just been sent to Rogue to garrison now...
After clearing the timeline, Gai Cheng continued to watch a group of Navy logistics soldiers busy on the deck.
They're assembling some kind of machinery to help Galen and the others change boats and leave.
After a long wait, the sailors finally built a large device on the deck that resembled a pendant.
And the next scene made Galen a little surprised:
I saw that the rear deck of the giant warship suddenly cracked in the middle, and slowly opened under the action of some mechanism, finally revealing the wide cabin hidden below the deck.
The cabin was so large that it looked like a large armaments warehouse.
And in this warehouse, a seafaring ship that looks extremely small compared to the giant ships of the navy is quietly parked.
Hundreds of stout ropes hung down from the freshly assembled crane towers, and they were tied to the hull of the ship one by one under the manipulation of the naval soldiers.
"Get on board!"
Smoker said to his subordinates and the three Galens, holding a smoking cigar in his mouth.
The soldiers of the Navy Headquarters are all elites, and they are also the future talent reserve of the Navy, so naturally they will not send a lot of money to the weakest sea, which has nothing to do.
Therefore, the elite descendants brought by Colonel Smoker from the Navy Headquarters were actually only thirty people at full capacity.
As a colonel, he had to go to the Rogue Town Naval Base and then take over the garrison of the East China Sea Headquarters from the previous garrison officer.
This is also the reason why Smoker decided to go to Rogue Town to change the guard first, and then go to Cocoa West Village to suppress the bandits.
And after more than 30 people, including Galen and his party, boarded the small ship, it was actually crowded.
Before Galen could begin to express his thoughts, the pulley set began to rotate slowly, and the huge boom pulled hundreds of tow ropes, suspending the ship parked in the warehouse, and finally landing steadily on the surface of the sea like a dumpling.
Not long after, a small sea vessel was "proliferated" from Karp's giant warship.
Standing on this tiny sea ship, Galen looked up at the giant warship like a mountain peak next to him...
The comparison between the two is like a grandson meeting his grandfather.
"Smoker..."
Galen couldn't help but complain:
"Is there such a difference in treatment between admirals and colonels?"
"Your Colonel's ship doesn't feel as big as the anchor of Vice Admiral Karp's warship..."
Two green tendons instantly erupted in Smoker's forehead.
He didn't speak, but the light of the cigar on his mouth lit up a little.
"Galen Senpai..."
Dusty didn't notice the ugly face of his boss, and took the initiative to stand up.
What makes Galen a little strange is:
This beautiful swordsman, whom she had never met, treated him with great respect, and used the title of "senior" as soon as she spoke.
I saw Dusty seriously explain to Galen:
"In fact, we are not flying on a naval warship at all, but a conventional civilian armed ship..."
"The ship at the rank of colonel of the Navy Headquarters should be a third-class battleship with a double battle deck and can carry 60 guns."
"It's just that Colonel Smoker was sent to the jurisdiction of the East China Sea, which has always been peaceful, and..."
Smoker's face became a little more gloomy, and the White Smoke Hunter suddenly turned into a Gray Haze Hunter.
"And what?"
Galen didn't care about Smoker's attitude, after all, he was a man with Karp.
Dusty paused, but still told the sword lord in front of her that she longed for her boss's brilliant achievements:
"When Colonel Smoker was in the Navy headquarters, he had a few fights with his boss in the logistics department."
The more Dusty spoke, the more engrossed he became, and he added a richer story to himself:
"Actually, the size of our garrison is not only thirty people, but..."
Before he could finish speaking, Smoker's big black face blocked Dusty's eyes.
"Hmm..."
It didn't take Dusty to finish speaking, Galen could guess what Smoker had done.
He probably understood why Smoker was assigned to the countryside of the East China Sea as the head of the security regiment:
This kind of guy with outstanding ability but short temper really has to be sent down to the grassroots level to sharpen and sharpen.
"Colonel Smoker, he should be the future commander of the Rog Town Naval Base, right?"
Listening to Galen and Dusty's discussion, Wallace suddenly asked a brainless question.
"That's right!"
It was Smoker himself who answered, who was already standing not far from Galen and the others, smoking a cigar in the wind.
"In that case, if Lord Galen wants to exchange the bounty..."
Wallace suddenly said with some meaning:
"Just get Colonel Smoker here to exchange it, right?"
"That's right!"
Galen's eyes lit up: Isn't the NPC who is going to receive the bounty for the mission standing next to him now?
Nami's eyes were shining with gold, she had long wanted to exchange the human head in that box for real cash.
"Wait..."
Smoker said in a deep voice:
"I don't have any cash on this ship."
"The Admiral has no money on him?"
Galen unceremoniously gave a look of disgust.
"Actually, the navy should have spare funds to accompany the ship when it sails, but..."
Dusty popped up again at the right time to explain Smoker's exploits to Galen.
Smoker was so angry that his head was full of smoke, the kind that could really smoke.
Dusty had no choice but to avoid the gloomy eyes of his boss and explained in a low voice:
"If you want to redeem the bounty, you can only wait until we arrive in Rogue Town and complete the handover with the previous garrison general."
"Okay."
Galen didn't have a problem either, anyway, there was only less than a day left before the flight to Rogue Town, so there was no need to rush too much.
"The garrison general of Rogue Town?"
Wallace, however, muttered to himself with a strange expression.
"How?"
Dusty asked, a little curiously.
"Nothing..."
Wallace shook his head again and said meaningfully, "Nothing should happen." ”
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The small boat full of troops stationed in Rogue finally unfurled its sails, and Smoker and other naval soldiers stood on the deck to salute Vice Admiral Karp above the giant ship.
Galen also waved goodbye to Karp, who was friendly to him, as they parted.
The two ships finally moved away from each other, and each headed for a very different course.
"That Bucky the Clown..."
"I actually became Karp's henchman..."
Galen thought back to Bucky the Clown he saw at his farewell not long ago, and he couldn't help but feel a strange feeling in his heart.
Nabaki wore a simple blue ponytail, and changed into a navy white shirt and justice cloak, and he really looked a little righteous and awe-inspiring.
"Haha... Whatever! ”
Nami smiled lightly and said indifferently:
"It's a good thing that the red nose has a bad brain, and he didn't ask us for his treasures in the end."
"Huh?"
Galen was slightly stunned, and then remembered that he had extorted a lot of money from a new naval non-commissioned officer...
"How much did we earn this time?"
Galen immediately approached Nami and had a heated discussion about the spoils.
"Make a lot of money!"
Nami's face was filled with happiness and satisfaction, and Bailey's golden light flew between her eyebrows:
"That big red nose is not the same as the poor egg steel knife, and there are eight million Bailey's treasures in that big box alone."
"And the jewels in that little box... I carefully appraised it, and if I sold it all, I could sell it for 30 million Baileys! ”
The excitement in Nami's voice grew stronger and stronger, and she snapped her fingers in front of Galen and counted the accounts:
"And then count the twenty-five million bounties we can get when we go to Rogue Town..."
"In just two days, we've made a full 63 million Bailey!"
This kind of speed of making money is something that Nami could not have imagined before.
Following behind Galen, a stupid big man, in two days she earned the assets that she would have worked hard for four or five years to possibly scrape.
"Wait..."
Galen noticed something wrong: "Where did you get the 25 million bounty?" ”
"Why not?"
Nami had calculated this number in her mind for a long time, and she had happily recalled it in her mind countless times:
"Ten million steel knives, clown...."
The smile on Nami's face suddenly stopped.
Nami, who was just happy that the fool Red Nose didn't ask her for money, instantly changed to a distressed expression:
"Fifteen million..."
"It's gone..."