Chapter 438: Preparation and Currents
Just like Tezzolo said, now the war with the Whitebeard Pirates is really a hundred harms for the navy and the government, and it is completely an act that outweighs the losses.
Unlike what many people think, the government and the Four Emperors are not incompatible as they imagined, and it is the navy, not the government, that is incompatible with the pirates.
The Four Emperors are not just simple enemies for the government, as the de facto rulers of the world, the government has been far away from the level of simple good and evil, camp antagonism, and they will not give up all the forces that can be used.
What do the Four Emperors mean to the government? The Four Emperors are the four largest pirate groups, the four mountains that stand on the heads of all the pirates, and I don't know how many powerful pirate newcomers are destroyed in their hands, in a sense, they are still the government's helpers.
It's no joke that the Four Emperors are one of the three major forces that maintain the balance of the world, and even the strongest navy is a little powerless in the face of these four Sea Emperors. So the government recruited the Seven Martial Seas, and the Navy Headquarters added the Seven Martial Seas to balance the four emperors of the New World, which was the balance of the three major forces.
This balance is solid, but it is also fragile, and once one of the four emperors falls, the hyenas of the sea will inevitably rush into the sea like madness, vying for the vacant throne, and the chaos will be more difficult to stop.
Similarly, the weakening of the Four Emperors means the relative strengthening of the navy, which is not something the government wants to see, and it is better to have a strong enemy in the case of the navy.
So Tezzolo said that the government is crazy, even if it defeats the Whitebeard Pirates, what can it gain?
Reclaiming the New World? Don't be stupid, the other Three Emperors are not vegetarians.
Deterring the sea? It is true that this can go a long way, to defeat the Whitebeard who has been in the Megatron Sea for decades, and the world is bound to boil over such things, but how effective can a false deterrent based on weakening naval power be?
Tezzolo really couldn't understand what the government was thinking.
Tezzolo didn't understand, but Vlad knew it clearly, the government didn't want to go to war with Whitebeard, they just wanted to publicly execute Fire Fist Ace, they just wanted to execute the descendants of One Piece in front of the whole world, and going to war with the Whitebeard Pirates was something they didn't want to but had to do.
"Understood, Tezzolo,"
Vlad took a deep breath and relieved his fluctuating emotions, "The situation is indeed developing in a direction that we can't control, we originally wanted to pull the aunt off the horse first, but now it seems that the Whitebeard Pirates are going to finish first, we have to prepare well,"
"Prepare for what we can do and what we can get in this coming storm!"
Completely contrary to Vlad's expectations, after he killed Titch and took away the Dark Fruit, he originally thought that Ace would stay in the New World honestly, and the war on top would disappear, and Whitebeard would continue to suppress everything as the apex of the pirates, and he could step on the cusp before the bigger wave set off by Whitebeard.
But under various coincidences, Ace was actually arrested again, and the war on the top was unstoppable, and his previous plan could only be put on hold for the time being, what he should do now was to meet this battle and prepare for the arrival of a huge storm.
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At the same time, under the empty island, the island called Gaya Island, the Straw Hat did not know that his relatives had already walked on the guillotine halfway, and he was still immersed in his own emotion.
"Si, Si, Si country a !!"
The man with a straw hat on his head danced with his hands, his eyes seemed to be shining, and his mouth completely ignored the laws of the human body.
"Super handsome!!"
"Haha, ahaha, Flying Merry!!"
Suddenly, tears welled up in the man's eyes, and the tears were wiped away with his arm over his eyes, but the snot under his nose was just as eye-catching.
"Woo, thank you, Uncle Rhomboid, thank you for making the Merry so handsome!"
"This kind of thing is a trivial matterββ, who is Uncle Diamond!!"
The man who was still proud was instantly furious, although his face was similar to a diamond, but the truth and psychological cognition were completely different from two concepts, of course he himself would not think so.
"Give me less nicknames! Monkey imp! β
"Who's a monkey!!"
On the sea in front of the two of them, the original Straw Hat Pirates' ship, the Golden Merry, has been carefully modified by the Saruyama United Army, with steel bars on the hull to reinforce the hull to prevent the ship from disintegrating under the impact of the storming current, with wing-like protrusions on both sides, which can be used to take advantage of the strong wind brought by the current, and the position of the stern also has something like a tail, which is to be able to change direction in the air through the regulation of the air current.
"Little ghost, according to my experience, in another half an hour or so, the current will come,"
Uncle Diamond, the descendant of Wenbran Rowlando four hundred years ago, the man with a cigarette in his mouth said, "Are you ready?" β
"Eh, hee-hee,"
With his hand pressed on the straw hat on his head, the straw hat replied, "Of course! The best navigator in the world is on my boat! β
"Hey, that's it!"
Kulik smiled.
"There is also the world's No. 1 swordsman, the world's No. 1 chef, the world's No. 1 doctor, the world's No. 1 musician, the world's No. 1 archaeologist, and the world's No. 1 lying king!"
With a smile on his face, the Straw Hat counted them one by one on his fingers.
"Who cares about you! Does these guys have anything to do with whether or not you can fly to the Sky Island? β
Kulik threw the cigarette butt in his mouth to the ground and kicked it over, "And what the hell is that last one!" β
"Alright, alright, little ghost,"
It was a change of face, and a smile instantly appeared on Kulik's face, "It's almost time, go ahead, you guy, maybe-"
"Hee-hee, I'll rush to the Sky Island!"
The Straw Hat strode towards his own boat.
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"Ahh Do so many people want to go to the island? β
Above the sea, the man with the long nose looked at the many pirate ships on the sea around him and exclaimed.
Of course, it's not just the Straw Hat Pirates who want to rush to the Sky Island, since the existence of the Sky Island has been proven, the news that the Golden Country exists in the sky has spread, and there are as many people who want to go to the sky to find gold.
"Whew-"
Slowly spitting out a smoke ring, the man with peculiar curly eyebrows said, "The temptation of treasure is completely irresistible for pirates!" β
"How, treasure or somethingβ"
The orange-haired woman waved her hand.
"Your eyes are completely unconvincing."
The green-haired man leaned against the side of the boat and looked at the woman with a little speechless in her eyes.
"It's coming!"
Suddenly, the Straw Hat said.
"Huh? What's coming? β
The long nose has a curious look.
"Whoa!"
There was no wind, but the sea began to be rough.
"Ocean Current,"
Luffy raised his head, his eyes extremely determined, "It's here!" β
"Nami!"
The Straw Hat turned his head, "Over to you!" β
"Look at me!"
The woman had a confident smile on her lips.
"Whew-"
In the blink of an eye, the sea was already swelling, and huge whirlpools had appeared above the surface of the sea without warning.
"Wow!!"
"Damn!!"
Such screams came from all around from time to time, and before the current appeared directly, there were already quite a few pirate ships that sank in the whirlpool and lost their flying qualifications.
"It's coming!!"
Nami, who was carefully observing the direction of the current on the surface of the sea, suddenly said in such a loud voice, "Zoro, turn the rudder right!" The ocean current is coming!! β
"Oh!!"
A man with green hair trusts his partner 100 percent.
"Boom !!"
The whirlpool stopped suddenly, and then, in an instant, a huge current rose into the sky, like a divine pillar connecting the sky and the sea, and rushed into the sky with a large number of pirate ships!
"Boy,"
On the boat in the distance, Wenbulan Kulik, who had a cigarette in his mouth, smiled,
"If we have the opportunity to meet again, tell me the story of Sky Island!"