Chapter 74: The Reality You Have to Accept as a Navy
"Hachi, I'll confirm it again." David Jones got up from the barrel and walked to the bow step by step, "To the bottom of the sea, do you know how to get to Fish-Man Island?" ”
"I really know, Captain." Hachi blinked and said straightly, "The bottom of the sea is our fishman's home, and the fish will tell us how to go, and Moo Moo knows the way home." ”
On the contrary, he thought it was strange, the captain seemed to be a fish-man clan, how could he not know about such a thing?
The merfolk and a very small number of the fish-people can communicate with ordinary fish, and Hachi is one of these very few fish-people.
Not only can he communicate with fish, but he also knows what sea beasts like Moo Moo want to express.
"That's fine." David Jones grabbed the side of the ship, turned his head, and looked at the crew with a smile, "It may be a little bumpy at first, but you guys have stabilized yourself." ”
"Bumps"?
What do you mean?
The crew was confused.
As soon as the captain finished speaking, the Terror Ghost sank suddenly, as if it had been dragged by something.
Quack Quack –
Then the crowd saw that the deck was tilting and the sea level was rising, and they soon realized that it was because of the horror ghost's stern cocked and its bow downward.
Most of the crew turned pale with shock, each clutching at whatever he could get his hands on.
They never thought that the captain would come as soon as he said he would, and he would leave as soon as he said he would.
Hachi was also holding the mast, but when he saw that the bow of the Horror Ghost was breaking through the sea like a sharp knife and gradually diving into the water, he let go of his hand.
He even felt a little cheerful as he stretched out his six arms and shouted excitedly, in stark contrast to the cowering crew around him.
The joys and sorrows of human beings are not the same.
David Jones stood at the bow of the ship, and the sea rushed in like a pack of wolves, engulfing him in an instant, then half of the hull, and finally the entire horror ghost was enveloped in the sea.
In the seawater, the three Devil Fruit Abilities, Bucky, Arrita, and Mikita, quickly couldn't hold their breath, rolled their eyes, spat bubbles, and rose upwards like three flags.
Still Chloe held her breath, swam over, grabbed the three of them one by one, and pulled them back.
Then, a rumbling sound came from the bow of the ship, and the sea water that swallowed the entire ship suddenly spread out in both directions.
A faint green glow enveloped the hull of the ship in the next moment, keeping the suffocating waters out, but still delivering plenty of oxygen.
That's what the Horror Ghost earns this time.
Hachi had just soaked in the sea for a while, and he was a little unsatisfied.
He remembered moo again, and hurriedly walked to the side of the boat, and looked down, where the bottom of the boat could still contact the sea, there was still an abyssal whirlpool with no bottom in sight.
He shouted "moo" a few times, and the manatee poked its head out of the whirlpool, and he happily beckoned it to go back.
Poor Arrita, Bucky, and Mikita lay flat on the deck, coughing a few times, spitting out all the water they had swallowed, and gasping for air.
Chloe rearranged his hair before looking at the calm captain at the bow of the boat.
David Jones looked ahead, sailing at the bottom of the sea, and he was at ease, because the Flying Dutchman could also sail in the water.
The Terror Ghost was getting farther and farther out from the sea, and the light was starting to run low.
However, when it sinks to a certain depth, it cannot sink any further, and can only drive forward at its current depth.
Most of the fish seen in this area are ordinary fish, and occasionally a sea beast is seen, but they rarely come to attack this strange "prey".
The Dreadful Ghost melted into the gloom and cold.
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A seaport city in the Kingdom of Alabastan.
"Caught them all."
Sitting on a motorcycle, chewing a cigar in his mouth, Smoker said to the phoneworm that mimicked the long beard: "As long as the members of the Baroque work club are still alive, they have been caught, even if they are small fish and shrimp, they have not run away." ”
"That's good." The voice of Admiral Sengoku came from the mouth of the phone bug, "Your merits this time are offset by your previous disobedience, no problem, right?" ”
"Tsk." Smoker was about to speak, but Tina next to her pressed her shoulder, and she held out her hand to Smoker.
Smoker snorted and reluctantly handed the phone bug to her.
"Marshal Sengoku, Tina and Colonel Smoker both feel that there is no problem."
She looked at Dusty, who was escorting the members of the Baroque Workshop to the ship not far away, and said, "It's just that Tina and Colonel Smoker are unwilling to take the credit for the pirates' legacy." ”
"Idiot!" Sengoku scolded, "Isn't it a credit to clean up the mess?" Besides, I don't mean to let you take any other credit. There were countless pairs of eyes witnessing that this was simply not realistic. ”
When they heard that the black ship of David Jones and his gang fell from the sky, smashed on the palace and palace, captured the "Seven Martial Seas" Klockdahl, and disappeared again, they were all stunned, not knowing whether to believe it or not.
However, as the investigation deepened and more and more soldiers confirmed that this was the real situation, they gradually became convinced.
Even Kobra or Kosha couldn't make everyone in the room lie.
Later, Klockdahl's plot to start a civil war in the kingdom of Alabastan was also uncovered by King Kobra and Princess Vivi.
When the truth was revealed, everyone was in an uproar.
Who would have thought that that "hero" was the real culprit of the three-year drought in the Kingdom of Alabastan?
However, in this way, the purpose of David Jones and his gang is even more confusing, they can't be here to claim justice, right?
Tina stopped talking at this point.
Sengoku sighed on the other end of the phone bug.
"What the World Government means is to let you find David Jones and his gang and see if we can reach a 'Seven Martial Seas Agreement' with them, and let David Jones replace Crocodall."
Hearing this, Smoker turned his head with a frown.
He couldn't sit still and reached out to grab the phone bug, but Tina pressed it with one hand, and then she walked away with the phone bug.
However, Smoker's scolding voice still reached the ears of Sengoku.
"Listen to me." "I know that they have killed many admirals, and I know that they have lost face to the navy in Upside Down Mountain, but the world government thinks things differently than we do," said the marshal. ”
"If they don't accept the title of 'Seven Martial Seas', then David Jones will become a sea thief with a bounty of more than 100 million, and this will have an even worse impact."
"If he can be incorporated into the world government and let him work for the government, then his previous stains can be erased."
"I said something unpleasant, but as long as the 'Seven Martial Seas', which one of them has not had the blood of the admiral on his hands?"
"I also know that they each have a ghost in their hearts, one thing on the surface and another thing behind their backs. But this is how the world government maintains the situation at sea, and we can only follow orders. ”
"Not to mention the civil war conspiracy of the Kingdom of Alabastan this time, our navy did not take action to stop it before or during the event, which is a very eye-catching ......"
"David Jones will not accept the title of 'Seven Martial Seas'." Tina interrupted firmly, saying, "He is in high spirits, unlike Klockdal or Moria who failed miserably at the hands of the 'Four Emperors', and will not be willing to be the 'Seven Martial Seas'." ”
"Let's give it a try." After being silent for a while, Sengoku said, "They are not willing to compromise, whether it is the 'Seven Martial Seas' or the 'Three Great Generals', they will let them compromise." ”
Tina hung up the phone bug and walked back to Smoker.
He had fallen silent, but the cigar he had dropped on the floor proved that he was definitely in a bad mood at this time.
"The system of 'the Seven Martial Seas under the King' should be abolished." After a long time, Smoker said, "Let them continue to do pirate business in the name of the government, and they can also enrich and strengthen their strength, in case they are Doflamingo again......"
"Don't make decisions from above." Tina reminded, "Although Tina and the soldiers around you are all old people, they may not be without the eyes and ears of the World Government. ”
"To hell with them." Smoker cursed, jumped off the motorcycle, and turned to leave.
Dusty supervises the soldiers to escort the criminals onto the ship, and then they will send the group of criminals to the nearest naval branch to handle them.
She walked over to the boat when she saw the last of the criminals also on board, but noticed that Smoker was standing alone on the edge of the dock, looking out to sea.
Dusty asked curiously, "Colonel Tina, what's wrong with Colonel Smoker?" ”
"He was a little uncomfortable, and for the sake of reality, he was forced to go against his principles." Tina smoked two cigarettes and handed one to Dusty.
"I don't smoke." Dusty leaned on his glasses and said awkwardly.
"It's better to be in the Navy and still smoke." Tina took the cigarette back, "You will become a colonel, a brigadier general, a major general, a lieutenant general...... The pressure will be stacked on top of each other, and a lot of things will not be what you want to do. ”
"Without the order of the Navy Headquarters, even if the 'Four Emperors' and the 'Seven Martial Seas' burn and loot in front of your eyes, you have to endure and not be able to do it, this is the reality."
Dusty was a little dazed.
However, Tina didn't go on, and that was the end of the conversation.