How can I become the Pirate King if you don’t work hard?.

Chapter 246 Demon-Slaying Order

a few days later.

Carrera Shipyard.

peripheral.

Countless refugees gathered here, staring at everything around them with numb expressions.

For them, the experience of more than a month was like a nightmare.

The peaceful life was broken by the pirates' gunfire, followed by continuous attacks, attacks, and attacks...

Today, there is hardly a single intact building left in the Seven Water Capital.

Even the Carrera Shipyard, which was set up by Mayor Bingberg and was now used as a refugee camp, had black marks all over its walls.

Members of the French family and craftsmen from the Cabrera shipyard walked among the crowd, delivering loaves of bread and fresh water to the refugees.

"Mr. Mayor, do we... do we really still have hope..."

A young girl looked at the bread in her hand. Her stomach rumbled, but she did not eat it immediately.

Instead, he held back the tears in his eyes, stood up and looked at the iceberg in the distance.

"We have been holding on for more than a month, but the navy's support has not arrived yet. I... I am very scared!"

The sound fell to the ground.

Everyone looked up at the iceberg covered in bandages in the distance, with clear hope in their eyes.

Babaluya
Bingshan looked at the eyes of the crowd, choked up a bit, and said firmly:
"There will be."

"I have sent a letter to the navy for help. Just wait a few days and they will arrive. Then everything will be fine."

"The pirates will leave, our homes will be rebuilt, and we can start a new life."

"Hold on, hold on and we will have hope!"

"it is good!"

The girl nodded heavily, and the tears in her eyes slowly fell at this moment. She picked up the bread in her hand and ate it in big mouthfuls with tears in her eyes.

"persist in!"

"Persistence brings hope!"

The girl murmured softly, and the bread, which originally had no taste, now had a bit of saltiness.

When the people around saw the girl like this, their eyes were no longer as numb as before. They all tried to perk up, and even laughter could be heard from the crowd.

"Hahahaha~"

"I'm so glad I'm still alive!"

"The mayor is right. Keep living. Only as long as you live there is hope."

……

This laughter becomes louder and more powerful as time passes, carrying everyone's hope.

But the iceberg standing in the distance couldn't laugh at all.

"Boss, drink some water."

Lu Qi placed a bottle of fresh water in Bingshan's hand, then turned to look at the refugees in the distance, muttering:
"They are just ordinary people who want to survive... That man would probably say so."

"You actually said something like that?"

Bingshan looked at Lu Qi in surprise, then nodded and said:

"However, although I don't know who you are talking about, the person who can say such a thing should not be a bad person."

A smile appeared on Lu Qi's lips:
"Ah, the man I respect the most."

"Do you have such a thing in your heart?!"

Bingshan smiled and shook his head, but his breathing stopped the next moment because of Lucci's question.

"President, do we really have reinforcements?!"

The iceberg can only remain silent.

In fact, he had sent the letter for help to the navy more than half a month ago.

But no response has been received until now.

This only means that the Seven Water City has most likely been abandoned by the World Government.

No matter how unwilling he was, he had to accept the result.

This is destined to be a fearless persistence, but Bingberg can find no other way except to persist and wait.

Seeing this, Lu Qi understood instantly and asked tentatively:

"That rumor..."

"Fake!"

Bingshan shook his head in denial.

Hand over the Pluto design drawings?
It's not that he had not thought about this possibility, even though he had handed the thing over to Franky for safekeeping a few years ago.

Moreover, according to his understanding, even if his teacher Tom was still alive, between the lives of civilians in a city and a dead object, Tom would undoubtedly choose the former.

But he has been dealing with the World Government for many years and knows its style very well.

The World Government will not tolerate any possible threats.

Once it is confirmed that the Pluto blueprints are really in his hands, in order to prevent the information of Pluto blueprints from being leaked, he will most likely take direct action to erase all traces of the existence of the Seven Water City.

O'Hara is the best example!

Therefore, what the Seven Water Cities are facing now is a problem where no matter which choice they make, they will die!
After the completion of the sea train, Iceberg has managed the Seven Water City to its current scale over the years, and even has a lot of cooperation with the World Government.

He once thought he was safe, but reality gave him a hard slap in the face.

"Lucci, I am not a qualified mayor, nor a qualified teacher. I have not protected this city, Kaku, Bruno... any of them."

Bingshan put down his hands and covered his eyes, his palms becoming wet in an instant.

"After all, the opponent is the Big Mom Pirates. Kaku and Bruno won't blame you. Besides, they were just captured, which doesn't mean their lives are in danger."

Lucci raised his hand and patted Bingshan's shoulder, trying to comfort him, but he himself didn't even believe what he said.

But what can we do? !
After all, the opponent is the Four Emperors!

The Four Emperors who rule the New World, and even the World Government and the Navy dare not take action against them at will!
In this era when Pirate King Roger has long passed away and the new generation of king has not yet been decided, the title of Four Emperors represents the pinnacle of this era.

Do you expect the World Government to rashly go to war with the Four Emperors just for a tool that can be discarded at any time?
If it were in the past, Lucci might have believed this possibility, but after experiencing everything on Gawain's ship, he finally understood that people like him were nothing to the World Government.

Besides, by the time Lucci rushed back to the Seven Waters, the other party had already disappeared. The sea was so vast, where could he go to find the pirate ship of the Ten Thousand Nations? !
A new world?!
Even if Lucci was unwilling, he had to put aside the matters of Kaku and Bruno for the time being and focus on Pluto's design drawings.

For a while.

The two fell silent and stared at the sunset in the distance until the last ray of light disappeared.

"Bulu-Bulu——!"

The Den Den Mushi in Bingshan's arms suddenly rang.

After being connected.

The information transmitted in the Den Den Mushi receiver shocked Bingshan, and his originally desperate eyes now emitted a dazzling light.

"support!"

"Navy support is coming!"

The iceberg rushed into the crowd in the distance like a madman.

Facing the hopeful eyes of the crowd, he said with a sense of relief:
"We have received news of our request for help. In half a month, as long as we hold on for another half a month, the navy's fleet will reach the Seven Water City!"

"But then all the pirates will retreat!"

The sound fell to the ground.

There was silence all around at first, and then what was heard was not the cheers of the crowd, but a series of howling sounds that gradually became louder and louder.

“Aaaaaah…”

"The World Government and the Navy haven't given up on us yet!"

"That's great! That's great!"

After a few breaths.

The crowd was in an uproar, and everyone's face was filled with surprise at having survived a catastrophe, as if the time for their own prosperity was just around the corner. Compared to the persistence without any hope, in the eyes of the people who saw hope at this moment, half a month was not a long time.

The girl just now tightly grasped the bread that she had not finished eating in her hand, her eyes sparkling, reflecting the light of the setting sun.

Lucci stood aside, looking at the scene in front of him, but he inexplicably felt a sense of uneasiness in his heart.

His CP organization has not carried out any missions for more than ten years, and has encountered situations similar to the Seven Water City several times.

But never before has the world government been willing to lend a helping hand like it is now.

"I hope I'm worrying too much."

……

The night deepens.

There was a sharp whistle near the Cabrera shipyard, and the flying artillery fire exploded a series of flames around the refugee camp...

boom!
boom!
boom!
Red flowers bloom under the night sky.

Franky, who was in charge of the night watch, let out a strange cry of "super!" and then organized the members of the Franky Family to fight against the attacking pirates.

In the basement.

Lucci slowly opened his eyes, but before he could move, the Den Den Mushi beside him rang rapidly.

Just got connected.

Hissing, Pandam's hurried voice came out from the receiver.

"Lucci!"

"The mission in the Seven Waters City needs to be accelerated."

"The Demon Slayer Order has been activated. The fleet led by Admiral Akainu of the Navy Headquarters will directly wipe out everything in the Seven Water City in half a month."

"Before that, you must complete the mission, otherwise I can't protect you!"

Lu Qi's pupils shrank. The image of Bingshan jumping for joy after learning that he was rescued appeared in front of him. He felt very upset.

"I see!"

……

……

……

at the same time.

Navy Headquarters.

A group of senior naval officials were sitting around the conference table.

Except for Aokiji and Zephyr who are still on the way, most of the officers above the rank of lieutenant general in the headquarters are gathered here.

An invisible sense of oppression fell on everyone's shoulders, but no one dared to speak out.

until……

"Is that bastard in Mary Joa really a pig's brain?"

Karp slammed his fist on the conference table, the anger in his eyes almost condensed into substance, because the news that reached his ears at this moment was too ridiculous.

"They are actually going to use the Demon Slaying Order against the Seven Water Capital? How many more innocent people are they going to kill because of their willfulness?"

"Are you so afraid of Hades?"

The sound fell to the ground.

Everyone's breathing seemed to stop at this moment, and many people showed the same anger as Garp.

This is because this almost massacre-like act runs counter to the justice that the Navy has always believed in.

"I'm afraid that's not the case."

Zhan Guo rubbed his brows with his hand, and rarely spoke to correct Garp's attitude. He took a deep breath and continued:

"The purpose of those people is not to obtain the Pluto design, but to end this possible war as quickly as possible."

"What's the meaning?!"

Garp sat down, crossed his arms over his chest, and spoke in a cold and hard tone.

Zhan Guo glanced at him and continued:

"It means that even if those pirates get the design of Pluto, it is impossible to create Pluto with current technology."

“Whether it’s the materials needed for construction or the energy to drive Pluto, these are problems that cannot be solved in this era.”

"But if this war over Pluto's blueprints causes the collapse of the existing world order and triggers a new round of war for hegemony, that would be a real threat to the world government."

"And to end this war as quickly as possible, there is no better way than to launch the Demon Slayer Order to destroy the Seven Water Cities."

"Warring States!"

Garp stood up suddenly and looked at Zhan Guo as if he was meeting this man for the first time:
"Do you know what you're talking about?!"

"The Seven Waters City has a permanent population of over 300,000 people, and they also have their own families and children!"

"Those are human lives!"

"I know that's a human life...but I can't stop this."

Zhan Guo lowered his eyes, put one hand on the conference table, his palm almost embedded in the desktop, and his face was as red as pig liver.

He believed that he was definitely not a cold-blooded animal, and he would never do something like ignoring the lives of hundreds of thousands of people in the Seven Water City and directly issuing a demon-slaying order.

The current situation is beyond his control.

"This is the order from those five. They even bypassed me and gave orders directly to Sakaski. Do you understand what this means?!"

"Zeffer's previous disturbances have already made those people suspicious of the navy. If we continue like this, we will all become decorations."

"If we really let them take full control of the navy, do you know the consequences?!"

Garp calmed down for a moment and sat down slowly, no longer showing the emotion that was close to exploding just now.

Seeing this, Zhan Guo skipped the previous topic and continued to make arrangements:

"Our mission is to contain the monsters in the new world that are eager to attack until the Demon Slayer Order is completed."

"In the New World, Whitebeard and Red Hair haven't made any unusual moves for the time being. As for Kaido, I've already asked Borsalino to leave in advance."

"With his strength, it's difficult to defeat Kaido head-on, but it's not a problem to hold him back for a short period of time."

"What's really giving us a headache right now is what's happening in the Ten Thousand Nations. We know nothing about it..."

……

Half an hour later.

End of the meeting.

Zhan Guo sat dejectedly on the chair, next to him were He and Garp who were equally silent. The three of them said nothing and fell into a depressing silence.

Zhan Guo turned his head and looked out the window.

I saw a naval flag fluttering in the sea breeze at the highest point of Marinford.

Suddenly

The several arguments he had with Zefa before appeared before Zhan Guo's eyes again.

Although every dispute ended in nothing, when Zhan Guo looked back at it at this moment, he had a different feeling.

"If we want to build a stable structure, should there be rights that are not subject to any regulation or restriction? Should there be someone who is above everything?!"

He was startled for a moment, then his pupils shrank:

"Zhan Guo, what do you want to do?"

Zhan Guo did not answer, but continued to speak:

"I always felt that the power of the navy needed to be combined, and there didn't need to be two voices."

"But now I suddenly feel that the Navy may really need two voices, at least two voices in the open."

"Let Zefa come back soon. I think this time, he and I should have a lot to talk about."

"Since he has the idea, I will give him this opportunity!"

(End of this chapter)