Chapter 51: A Pirate Ship with a Changed Flag!
The West Sea is the most intricate sea area among the four seas.
If you want to say which sea area has the most pirates in the four seas, which sea area has the strongest pirates, and which sea area has the most rampant pirates, it is the West Sea.
In addition to the raging pirates, the West Sea also has other specialties that the three seas do not have - the mafia.
To put it simply, it is the underground underworld forces on land. Although there are also underground underworld forces on land in the other three seas, the mafia in the West Sea can even compete with the state for the right to speak. Or to put it simply, it's a complex version of Mexico.
In the West Sea, chaos and disorder have always been the norm here.
And in this chaotic and disorderly West Sea, there is a paradise that is out of the mud and unstained. That is the kingdom of Mia, which is under the jurisdiction of the 133rd branch of the navy - the town of Ange.
The Kingdom of Mia is the most common archipelago kingdom in the One Piece world.
The entire kingdom of Mia consisted of sixteen islands.
The islands range in size to size, and all of them are only 600 square kilometers in size, which is about the size of a single Seoul when compared to the current area.
It's just that the economic development of the Mia Kingdom is far inferior to that of the first city of the Great Universe Country, and the population of the entire country is only 150,000.
Among the thousands of countries in the One Piece world, the Kingdom of Mia is at the lower middle level in terms of land area and population. In the entire West Sea, it is also a low-to-medium country.
The 133 branch base of the navy is located in Ange Town, which is the easternmost island of the Mia Kingdom, with an area of only 45 square kilometers and a permanent population of less than 10,000.
After more than ten days of sailing, the warships of the 133rd branch finally docked at the military port of Ange Town on a sunny afternoon.
The long wooden ladder was lowered from the ship, and Colonel Kane led the sailors on board slowly down the ship. Kane, who was walking at the front of the team, was upright and looked at the front with a solemn face.
The sailors passing by seemed to admire and love Colonel Kane very much, and stopped to salute when Kane led the team to walk by.
This time he went to the Navy Headquarters to report on his work, Kane only brought more than 100 sailors, and the entire 133 branches, a total of nearly 2,000 sailors.
Therefore, when Kane led the team to disembark, there were many sailors coming and going on the harbor. When these sailors saw Kane saluting Kane together, they were really quite imposing, and at the same time, it could be seen that Kane was really prestigious in the branch.
At the back of the line, Ji Guoyuan looked at the scene in front of him and was surprised.
In fact, Ji Guoyuan's first impression of Kane is not very good, I can't say why, but I simply feel that Kane is a bit profound, unlike Karp and Zefa who can see it clearly at a glance, and Yuan Yiyi can not like this feeling very much, and I don't like such people.
And when he went up to Kane's warship and was assigned to work as a "boilermaker", this dislike was even stronger.
What should have been the responsibility of the servant was the responsibility of the third class. So the question is, what about the servants on board ?! Whether the establishment of the vacancy has really been eliminated or only eliminated on the books is a question worthy of in-depth study.
Don't look at it as an insignificant role in the navy, but you must know that the naval branch of 2,000 people often needs 100 people, and the annual salaries and food, housing and rations given to these people are not a small amount.
The funds given to the branch by the Navy Headquarters are given according to the establishment, and the awards for meritorious service are planned, and the branch funds are fixed every year.
If done properly, the empty salaries of hundreds of people can easily fill Kane's pockets.
It is precisely based on such suspicions that Yuan Yi did not dig out his heart and lungs when he contacted the sailors of the branch, so he naturally took precautions.
In Yuan's eyes, Kane is a naval captain who has the potential to eat empty salaries.
At this time, it was not surprising that Yuanyi, who followed the disembarkation of the ship, saw the admiration and respect of the sailors in the harbor for Kane.
"Did I think too much?" Yuan Yi said secretly in his heart, and his expression softened a lot.
After arriving at the branch, Jikokuyi and Cyrus were assigned to one of the sergeants of the branch.
"Following the first fate of the country, Cyrus, welcome you to join our 133rd branch."
"You've been assigned to my squad."
"My name is Santos and I'm your captain. Our squad, plus you, is a total of 21 people. ”
"Let's go, I'll take you to the dormitory, and after that, you'll live and act with the other sailors in the squad."
Sergeant Santos is a young man in his early twenties, around 180cm tall, with a strong figure and an honest appearance, who warmly welcomes the new members of the team, Jikokuyi and Cyrus.
Yuan Yi greeted Santos politely, showing neither distance nor closeness, just like treating ordinary colleagues. Cyrus, on the other hand, was a little more enthusiastic, and greeted him with a smile.
"Haha, it's okay, I'll get familiar with it later." Santos thought that Yuanyi was because of the relationship he had just arrived, and he didn't care, so he enthusiastically led Yuanyi and Cyrus to the dormitory.
Yuan Yi and Cyrus were assigned to an eight-person dormitory, and when they came to the dormitory, the sailors who shared the dormitory with Yuan Yi and them were training, and the dormitory was empty.
And near the toilet, there is an empty double bed with bunk beds.
Santos took Enichi and Cyrus to the dormitory, pointed to the empty bed, and said to Enichi and Cyrus, "That's where you sleep in the future." ”
"The top bunk or the bottom bunk, you choose."
"Don't be too close to the toilet, because the other sailors have already picked a bed, and this is the only one that is vacant."
"We are in the navy, and we still have to overcome this difficulty."
As Santos spoke, he helped Yuanyi and Cyrus dust off their beds.
Since entering the house, Yuan Yi has been looking at the bedroom, and neither he nor Cyrus have said much about Santos's arrangement. After a brief look at the bedroom, Yuan Yi and Cyrus didn't leave Santos alone, cleaned their beds, and dropped their bags on the bed.
After cleaning, the two followed Santos to receive sheets, bedding and other daily necessities, and quickly settled down.
Santos didn't leave immediately after helping the two settle down, but talked to Yuanyi and Cyrus about what their team had to do every day.
The 133 branch is stationed in Ange Town, but the sea area under the jurisdiction of the branch is not only the sea around Ange Town, but also the sea area with the Mia Kingdom as the center and radiating a hundred kilometers outward, which is the area for which the 133 branch is responsible.
And Santos's team, in addition to training, usually goes out to sea with other teams to patrol, and when they encounter pirates, they will quickly retreat and notify the branch. It belongs to that kind of information force, not that kind of combat unit.
Knowing what the team was going to do, Yuanyi and Cyrus nodded their heads one after another, indicating that they were clear. Then Santos took Yuanyi and Cyrus for a brief tour of the branch, and roughly familiarized the two with the environment.
In the evening, Santos led Yuanyi and Cyrus to have dinner in the cafeteria with the other team members, and after a brief familiarization with the team members, Yuanyi and Cyrus officially joined the team.
The next day, Ji Guoyuanyi and Cyrus were given their first patrol mission to the sea in the branch.
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At sunrise, the patrol boats of the 133rd branch were on the sea.
Ji Guoyuan stood on the deck, holding a telescope in his hand, looking at the sea through the telescope, observing the situation on the sea.
The sky is high and the sea is wide, and there is no abnormality.
Just as Yuanyi was about to change direction, a black dot suddenly appeared on the sea level and appeared in Jiguo Yuanyi's line of sight.
"Huh?"
Ji Guoyuan sighed lightly, cheered up some spirits, and aimed the telescope at the black spot in the distance.
It was a flagless ship, and it was speeding in the direction of the patrol ship.
"Straight for the patrol ship, what does this ship do?"
Yuan Yi felt strange in his heart, and called the captain Santos, who took the binoculars and looked at it for a while and said with a smile: "Don't care, Yuan Yi." ”
"That's the merchant ship of the Luoluo Chamber of Commerce, I guess it's back to the Mia Kingdom."
Santos gave the telescope to Yuanyi and was about to leave, when Yuanyi suddenly asked:
"Captain Santos, it's really.... Merchant Marine? ”
Yuanyi, who took the binoculars, was looking at the ship in the distance at this time, and in his perspective, the "merchant ship" that had sailed quickly towards the patrol ship for a distance had already hoisted the flag at this moment, it was a pink skeleton pattern, no matter how Yuan Yi looked at it, he didn't see the appearance of the merchant ship.
“ju~~~~”
Not long after Yuanyi's words fell, a sharp sound exploded from the air.
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