Chapter Forty-Eight: Crokas
The closer to the Red Earth Continent, the smaller the number of pirates, and not all pirates will enter the Great Passage, you must know that the weather in the Great Passage is very bad, and there are other pirates, most of the pirates in the four seas are reluctant to enter the Great Passage.
So there weren't too many pirates in front of the Great Passage, and Keane's voyage went smoothly, and they finally managed to reach the Red Earth Continent a month later, and their last supply depot was the Twin Capes standing at the gate of the Great Passage.
The location of the Twin Capes is very important, in fact, as long as the navy deploys forces here, it can stop those pirates who want to climb the Upside Down Mountain.
However, there is a downside to this, as hundreds of years ago, when pirates were rampant, the World Government issued an order for the Navy to build a naval fort at Twin Heads.
Although the pirates of the four seas could not enter the great route, the four seas became more chaotic.
After all, the area of the great sea route is not large, and the main material sources are dependent on the supply of the four seas, and once the foundation of the four seas is shaken, it is not conducive to the rule of the world government at all.
As a result, the fortress was also abandoned, leaving only the guards of the Twin Heads, and the pirates would not bother the guards who remained here, after all, those who entered the Great Voyage would receive some guidance and supplies.
The warship leaned against the shore, and Keane finally saw the person he wanted to see, the Twin Cape Warden of the same grade as them, Crocas, the ship's doctor under the future One Piece Gore Roger, a big man to be reckoned with.
It's just that now he is still a little fresh meat, he has not yet met the Rumba Pirates, it is estimated that the Rumba Pirates are almost coming to the great voyage, once the Rumba Pirates appear, it means that Roger, a newcomer, will also go to sea.
"Excuse me, Crocas, we need some fresh water, and three days' worth of food." Got out of the boat and said to Crokas.
Crocas nodded expressionlessly, he had more contact with pirates, so he didn't have a good impression of the navy, but after all, the twin capes were still subordinate to the navy, and he still had to do what he said to the air.
"Are you here alone?" Karp was very familiar with the conversation with Crokas.
"Well, I'm the only one here, and our family has been the caretaker of the Twin Capes for generations." Crocas nodded.
Karp asked, "Didn't you meet pirates, those pirates are not good people, didn't they do anything to you?" ”
Crokas shook his head and said: "Ordinary pirates won't do anything to me, unless they don't want to live, they can't get out of this place without me giving them record pointers and guidance, and sometimes they will meet adventurers and some conscious pirates, they are all good people." ”
"Will there be good people in pirates?" Karp was stunned for a moment, surprised.
"Not all pirates will plunder those innocent people, some pirates come to the Great Passage to pursue the dream of freedom, they are not the worst people." Crocas said.
"But they're pirates after all." Sengoku stood up and said at this time.
"What are pirates, they just wander around on the sea, people who plunder everywhere, although some pirates do not loot ordinary people, but they don't produce anything, and their materials are not exchanged for the treasure obtained by robbing other pirates."
"When you say that, don't you mean that the navy is the same as the pirates?" Crocas heard Sengoku's words and said with some sarcasm.
"Are you trying to say that the government collects taxes from ordinary people? But you don't want to think about it, will the pirates protect ordinary people after robbing the money, they are just a bunch of vampires, once they smell the blood, one day they will suck it all dry. When the government collects taxes, it has to protect ordinary people, can this be compared? Without the money of the world government, can the Navy afford to buy equipment and pay a starting salary? This salary is paid by the soldiers with their blood, do you think it is too much? "Sengoku faced Crokas's series of questions, and he also got out of the situation of the navy.
Sometimes pirates plunder an island, the navy can't rescue in time, at this time the people will complain about the navy, but they don't know that the navy's situation is very difficult, the lifeblood of the navy is in the hands of the world government, the government is responsible for making money, and the navy is a military organization, it needs to consume a lot of money every day, and every bounty can only be sent out with the consent of the world government, otherwise the money they come from there will pay the bounty.
The current Sengoku can already see very clearly that the Sengoku who will become a marshal in the future is definitely a very good leader, and under his leadership, the interference of the world government in the navy is minimized.
"Hehe, isn't the Navy evil? When you actually see the navy, you'll see that they're even more hateful than pirates. Crocas sneered, and turned around and walked away.
"What does he mean by that?" Zefa asked Sengoku next to him.
"I don't know." Sengoku shook his head and said.
Karp's face was gloomy, he obviously knew something, among all of them, Karp was the last to join the navy, and he was from the East China Sea, Zefa was in the Navy Headquarters when he was very young, and the navies he came into contact with were all the navies of the Headquarters, as the elite navy under the Headquarters, the navies he saw were all adhering to justice.
Sengoku is also rarely exposed to this aspect of things, and besides, the appearance of scum in the navy is not a glorious thing, once it is found that there are only two results, either ignore it or arrest it, and after the trial of Justice Island, it is up to Justice Island to decide whether to kill or imprison.
Keane, as a cross-ferrat, knew something, the four seas beyond the Great Voyage were very chaotic, and the reputation of the navy was not so good, but they were called pirates, the same name as pirates, they were all people who robbed them of their wealth.
Keane made up his mind that if he became a high-ranking Navy one day, then the first thing he would do was to investigate the internal affairs of the Navy, and he would uphold his own justice.
In the evening, Crocas had all the supplies ready, and Keane and the others were not in a hurry to go to the East China Sea immediately, but rested at the Twin Capes for the night, and the next day they arrived at a place under the Upside Down Mountain, where the weather was bad.
"Now that the currents are stable, we can go to the East China Sea from here, and you must listen to my command when the time comes, otherwise if you choose the wrong route, we may go to the wrong place, run to other seas or even fall upside down the mountain." Gabriel said to all the navies from the deck.
"It's finally getting started, and that's where it really starts, and I'm going to get ready to do that." Keane stood on the deck and muttered to himself.