The bounty amount is a very interesting thing in this world.

Although the amount of money does not necessarily represent the real strength, but to a certain extent, it represents the ferocity and danger of the pirates, and the comparison between the pirates is almost always based on the amount of the bounty, so generally for the pirates, they tend to be complacent about their bounty increase.

Pirates with low bounties usually have a sense of awe in front of pirates with high bounties, and pirates with high bounties will also have a sense of superiority because of this, which can be regarded as a class division between pirates.

It is precisely because of this interesting phenomenon that Ian actually wants to know what kind of situation he can reach if he is rewarded.

After hearing Ian's inquiry, Tina put on her sunglasses and sat down on the deck chair, and then said unhurriedly, "Oh? Do you want to be bounty too? ”

"Isn't that curiosity?" Ian smiled and said, "Beauty, you can help me calculate!" ”

"Put away your word!" Tina took a puff of cigarette and said with a cold face: "Little brother, I am much older than you, even if you want to call it, you should call it sister!" ”

After finishing speaking, she also said with a straight face: "Judging from the pirates you captured in the East China Sea, your bounty is at least higher than 20 million Bailey, but since you have not posed any threat, it is difficult to assess your danger at this point, so I can only say that if you are rewarded, the current bounty should not exceed 40 million!" ”

"So little!" Ian was a little disappointed.

Compared with Ace's 90 million, it is more than twice as bad, and sure enough, it is still the natural Devil Fruit ability that is more valued.

In fact, Ian also thought about it, Ian's strength was not too well understood, the two had only fought once before, that is, the collision between Lan's feet and sword qi, but it was such a fight, but Ian's bounty was raised by 20 million at once in her heart, which shows that she still attaches great importance to Ian.

And there are some things, Iana didn't say it, when she contacted the Navy Headquarters to inquire about Ian's information, she naturally also learned about Smoker's evaluation report on Ian, Smoker's sentence of "not revering authority" made Niana think a lot, and for letting Ian rub the boat, it was also based on this consideration, in Nian's opinion, for people like Ian, there is no need to force him to the road of pirates, and the Navy does not need to erect more opponents for itself.

So as for Ian's bounty judgment, she still tried to say as little as possible, she didn't want Ian to be ambitious because of the estimated bounty.

Ian didn't know about this mental activity, and just as he was about to put this matter down and chat with Tina to learn about the situation on Chambord Island, the lookout on the mast of the warship suddenly shouted.

"Colonel Tina! There is a case ahead! ”

Tina stood up and asked, "What's the situation?" Is it a pirate? ”

"No...... It doesn't look like it's! The lookout held the binoculars and said, "It looks like a shipwreck!" ”

Tina came to the bow of the ship in confusion, and Ian and a group of naval soldiers followed, and as the warship continued to advance, the situation that the lookout had said gradually revealed to everyone.

First of all, a corpse floated in with the sea!

The body was still lying on a shattered plank, but he had a long wound on his back, white from the sea.

"It's a pirate!" When she saw the tattoo on the corpse's arm, she was shocked, and said, "And it's a member of the Iron Bone Pirates!" ”

Tina was originally ordered to come out to hunt down the Iron Bone Pirates this time, although the encirclement and suppression failed, but she remembered the symbol of the Iron Bone Pirates firmly, so she recognized it at a glance.

The naval soldiers on the ship were also surprised, they never expected that the Iron Bone Pirates, who had been pursuing, would suddenly appear here.

The warship continued to move forward, and more and more corpses appeared, and without exception, they were all members of the Iron Bone Pirates, and when they came to the place of the incident, everyone also saw a dilapidated ship, the bottom of this ship was fine, so it could float on the sea, but the entire hull of the ship seemed to have been blown away by a violent explosion, and disappeared completely.

The people of the Iron Bone Pirates were scattered around, drifting slowly with the sea.

"Investigate now!" Tina immediately commanded: "See if there are any survivors, if there are survivors, rescue them and ask to see what happened!" Also, look for Iron Bone Ewing and see if he's here! ”

The sailors immediately got up to motion, lowered their skiffs and rowed forward.

Tina turned around and asked Ian, "This can't be your friend Ace's doing, right?" ”

Ian shook his head and said, "Unlikely! Not to mention whether he took the same route as us after leaving, even if he was, he would not have done such a cruel thing. ”

The members of the Iron Bone Pirates who appeared here were almost all dead bodies, and most of them were mainly knife wounds, which could not have been done by Ace.

As the Navy soldiers investigated, more and more strange situations appeared, and among the corpses they recovered, several of them looked like children!

However, the strange place is here, although it looks like a child, but these corpses have tattoos on them!

Just as Tina and Ian looked at the corpses in confusion and wondered what was going on, the Navy soldiers finally reported that they had found the body of Ironbone Ewing!

As soon as Ewing's corpse appeared, it meant that the Iron Bone Pirates were really destroyed, and Tina carefully examined Ewing's injuries, and Ian also watched with disgust, because the appearance of this corpse was really terrifying, and a large hole was made in his chest, as if he had been pressed against the chest and fired a mortar.

"How is this possible? Tina is so confused! Tina frowned and said: "Iron Bone Ewing is a bone fruit ability, he can freely manipulate the bones of his body, exposing the bones to form a layer of bone armor, the degree is comparable to steel, not to mention the shells of mortars, even if it is the cannon of a warship, it won't hurt him much, how can he be pierced through the chest by a mortar fired at close range?" ”

There are too many suspicions, and the fatal wound of Iron Bone Ewing gives people the feeling that he is completely defenseless, and he has been directly pierced by someone.

Ace's suspicion was indeed ruled out at this time, but the question is, who is the person who attacked the Iron Bone Pirates?

Ian was also thinking deeply, this Iron Bone Pirates should be very cunning, Tina led the troops to the Labyrinth Island to encircle and suppress, but did not encounter them at all, but appeared in this position far away, it can be seen that the so-called activities near the Island of Vortex must be the fake news released by the Iron Bone Pirates, but people are not as good as the sky, although the Iron Bone Pirates escaped the encirclement and suppression of Tina, but unfortunately encountered another enemy here, resulting in the annihilation of the entire army.

But what if you think about it in a different direction, the Iron Bone Pirates are not accidentally encountered by the enemy, but are deliberately hunted down?

No wonder Ian thinks so, the battle between pirates and pirates is usually not wiped out like this, usually it is mainly about robbing the other party's money, and then killing the main cadres of the other party, and then absorbing the opponent's subordinates to strengthen themselves, so the tragic situation of the Iron Bone Pirates can only show that the Iron Bone Pirates and their enemies have a deep hatred.

And to hunt down the Iron Bone Pirates, it means that quite detailed intelligence is required, even comparable to the navy, after all, even Tina, the colonel of the headquarters, is confused.

However, what pirates can have intelligence capabilities comparable to those of the Navy? It's hard to say, maybe there really is, but pirates with such intelligence capabilities rarely appear in the first half of the Great Voyage, right?

Tina probably thinks about it similar to Ian, so she is very confused.

At this moment, a naval soldier suddenly ran over and said excitedly: "Colonel Tina, I have finally found a clue!" You see, we found this! ”

The naval soldier was holding a tattered black cloth towel in his hand, and he shook it open to show it to everyone, and said, "This was found by a member of the Iron Bone Pirates, and it seems that he ripped it off his opponent's clothes before he was killed!" ”

Both Tina and Ian looked up, and saw that the black cloth towel was unfolded, and there was a pattern on it, which was the appearance of a skull pierced by a sharp sword.

This looks a bit like the pirate flag of a certain pirate group, but if you understand it according to the meaning of the pattern, it is a little wrong, and it seems to mean killing pirates!

Tina looked at the pattern for a long time, and came to the same conclusion as Ian, thinking that it didn't seem like the symbol of a certain pirate group, and finally after thinking about it, she stood up and said, "This matter, Tina must report to the headquarters!" You guys continue to search the scene! ”

"Yes!" The Navy soldiers responded and got to work again.

Tina went back to the cabin, Ian looked left and right, and found that many naval soldiers were busy at this time, and no one paid attention to her, so she couldn't help but roll her eyes and quietly slipped into the cabin.

He was going to eavesdrop and see how Tina reported the matter to the headquarters.