Chapter 232 Navy: I'm afraid it's him
Of course, all the headquarters officers attending the meeting knew the name of the Nine Snakes Pirate Group.
However, precisely because they know this, they understand how difficult this pirate force is.
Jiushe Island is located in a special sea area called the Calm Belt, which makes it naturally easy to defend and difficult to attack.
Before Dr. Vegapunk's research on new warships yielded results, the navy had no way to deal with this pirate nation hiding in the doldrums.
Even with new warships in hand, a large-scale attack on a country in the doldrums would be a very risky approach.
Everyone on Nine Snake Island is a warrior, with a very strong martial spirit. Most of the warriors possess domineering power, and the navy soldiers have no advantage against them.
And sending a general-level force to fight alone and directly capture the Nine Snake Island? That's also unrealistic.
First of all, not every generation of generals has the ability to cross the doldrums.
For example, the Warring States generals of this generation did not have the ability to safely pass through the Calm Belt.
After all, it is rare to have a devil fruit ability like Vice Admiral Borsalino can easily fly between two places. Even though they are both natural ability users, Vice Admiral Sakaski is not good at crossing the sea, while Vice Admiral Kuzan can walk on the frozen sea surface... But that is the Calm Belt, the nest of giant sea kings, and walking on the sea surface with swagger is extremely dangerous.
In the environment of survival of the fittest among women in the country, the "Snake Princess" elected as emperors of each generation can basically be regarded as the world's top combat power.
The general of the Warring States period might be able to travel a long distance to the Nine Snake Island by Moon Step, but he was not very good at Moon Step, and his physical strength would definitely not be at its best when he arrived at the Nine Snake Island. He would be alone in danger, facing the Snake Princess and the Nine Snake Warriors of a country, and the result was predictable...
Send multiple generals to capture Nine Snake Island together?
The navy also has to save face! Even if they succeed, it won't be glorious; if they fail, they can't afford the consequences. Besides, there are only three admirals in total. The navy headquarters in Marinford needs an admiral to guard it, right? One should be left to serve the Celestial Dragons at any time, right? With this calculation, under normal circumstances, there is only one admiral who can be dispatched to deal with pirates at any time.
This is also the reason why people like Kuzan, Borsalino, and Sakaski, who are obviously backbone forces with strength not inferior to that of admirals, have always been kept at the position of lieutenant general.
all in all……
The Nine Snakes Pirates were a special force that caused great headaches for the Navy. Compared to the uncontrollable price they had to pay, the damage they could cause was within the tolerable range.
“There are two points worth noting.”
"Meeting King" Colonel Brannew said, "According to the intelligence sent by the Grand Line Branch four years ago, the leader of the Nine Snakes Pirates at that time was a woman with long golden hair, their Snake Princess. But today, four years later, when they appeared in the South China Sea, the blonde Snake Princess did not appear... Instead, it was this young woman with long black hair."
Brannew paused. Even though it was just a blurry silhouette in the corner of the photo, it was breathtakingly beautiful.
"From the information gathered from the people, this black-haired woman is the new generation leader of the Nine Snakes Pirates... There is reason to suspect that the blonde Snake Princess has abdicated."
At the conference table, a major general frowned and said, "Their Snake Princess is still very young, right? She abdicated already?"
At the side, the older middle-aged navy officer pondered, "If I remember correctly... the previous generation of Snake Princess of the Nine Snakes, well, now it's probably the previous generation of Snake Princess. That woman also disappeared suddenly when she was in her prime, and the blonde Snake Princess succeeded the throne..."
Is there a tradition of internal strife in the Nine Snakes? Or is there something hidden about the Snake Princess? Could it be that the strength of the Snake Princess was gained by exchanging her lifespan? The naval officers present at the meeting discussed this for a while.
"Another point is this person." Brannew pointed his finger at the edge of the photo on the tactical board, firmly tapping the side of the face of the tall man with black hair next to the beautiful back of the long black hair, "This man. According to the information sent by the various branches in the South Sea, this man... is a member of the Nine Snakes Pirates."
The officers present were surprised. Did they hear it right? A man, a member of the Nine Snakes Pirates? "No one knows how he did it. The General Staff believes that the most unlikely possibility, and also the biggest possibility, is that this man is the lover of the new generation of Snake Princess." Brannew said seriously, "In short, he is a member of the Nine Snakes, and has a close relationship with the black-haired woman who is suspected to be the Snake Princess. More importantly, he is very powerful! Colonel Ogate, who was transferred to the South Sea Branch a year ago, had both arms broken by him! Although Colonel Ogate claimed that he was defeated because of carelessness and was ambushed by this man... But according to my guess, Colonel Ogate's defeat was probably not very decent."
Among the officers present, some who knew Colonel Oget could not help but nod their heads.
Everyone knows what kind of person Oget is.
It's clearer... He possesses the wolf form of the Inu-Inu Fruit and is cautious and cunning. It's hard to believe that he would be careless and allowed to be ambushed and have his arms broken... It's almost the same for him to sneak attack others!
"He must be an extraordinary person to be able to defeat Oget so easily!" said a rear admiral with a solemn expression.
"Colonel Ogate's Werewolf Fruit is very powerful!" A naval colonel had a worried look on his face. "Although those with animal-type abilities are often looked down upon...but with the animal-type's strong physical strength and powerful recovery ability, it's hard to believe that he would be defeated so easily!" He lowered his head and flipped through the report text in the materials and shook his head.
There is no mistake in the poem, post, content, and read the book on 6, 9, and bar!
Everyone agreed that the man who had mysteriously appeared in this female pirate group was a rare and powerful man.
Then the question is, such a strong man can't just appear out of nowhere, right? It is said that the women of Nine Snake Island only give birth to girls and not boys, which means that this man can't be a native of Nine Snake Island in the Calm Belt - so who is he? Such a strong man would probably not have been unknown!
"It seems that you all have thought of this... We have looked up a lot of information on male pirates under the age of 30. Considering that the man in the photo is very likely to have lived in the Calm Belt Nine Snake Island for a period of time, we have specially selected targets who have been active near the Calm Belt and have disappeared in recent years... We found these two people."
"Meeting King" Brannew took out another document and pinned it to the tactical board with two thumbtacks.
The heads of the naval officers sitting around the packed conference table all looked over there.
What Brannew took out were two wanted posters, which were nailed under two of the three portrait sketches.
Kujo Jolyne, bounty of 120 million berries!
Giovanna Giorno, bounty of 150 million Baileys!
The second update will be a little later.
(End of this chapter)