Naruto Online: Hyuga Branch Family? Let's go all out!

Chapter 348 Warring States Rhapsody

"What?! Doflamingo knelt before his people?" Sengoku stared at the message on Zhixin's phone, his face filled with disbelief. "Is this for real? Could he really do something like this?"

"Of course it's true! I was there!" The Marine who went to invite Doflamingo also looked bewildered: "He not only knelt down, he also executed several family members!"

The Warring States period was bewildered. Why would they execute their own people?

Why do I suddenly feel like my comprehension is failing me now that I'm all grown up?

"Furthermore, he claimed that he used the Hobby-Hobby Fruit to turn many people into toys. The toy figures in Dressrosa aren't any special race at all; they're creations of Devil Fruits!"

Sengoku remained silent. He didn't know what Doflamingo was trying to do, so he naturally didn't understand Doflamingo's actions.

However, that's not important.

"Has the summons been sent to him? How did he respond?" Sengoku asked.

"I've already agreed, and we're getting ready to board the ship now!"

"Just agree; nothing else matters."

Sengoku switched to another chat window and asked, "Flying Squirrel, have you reached Kuja yet?"

"We've arrived!" the flying squirrel replied. "We're announcing our arrival!"

Zhan Guo breathed a sigh of relief and then rubbed his eyes.

It has to be said that this smart network is really useful, especially the Smart Trust Enterprise Edition, which is so friendly to the Navy. It can not only clearly see how many people are in the entire Navy and whose subordinates they are through the tree diagram, but it can also provide one-to-one contact for each subordinate.

Command being given directly to individual soldiers is considered correct.

However, while smart networks have advantages, they also have disadvantages.

Previously, he was unaware of these marines slacking off and cheating, but with the monitoring function of the Smart Network Enterprise Edition, he now knows exactly what his subordinates are doing.

For example, Kizaru spends his days chatting with people, Momousagi spends his days browsing the online store, and Aokiji spends his days sleeping.

This is infuriating!

In particular, when a task is assigned, even if the goddess of wisdom has clearly planned the route and time according to the ship's speed, the ship will always fail to arrive because some people slack off and take a break halfway.

The smart map also has a coast guard function, which allows merchant ships to contact the nearest navy unit. Of course, this function requires the cooperation of the navy.

Sengoku believed that this feature would improve the navy's efficiency in fighting pirates, so he approved it.

But the imagination was beautiful, while the reality was bleak.

Merchant ships do indeed raise the alarm, but after they do, the response from most naval bases is: no one answers, and the call is immediately disconnected.

Or perhaps they listened, but dawdled about going to sea, or deliberately changed course, just to avoid the scene of the crime.

By the time they finally arrived at the scene of the crime, the pirates had already finished their robbery and left!

This has happened countless times before, and even the goddess of wisdom's statistical function has given him a summary.

Upon receiving an emergency call, a staggering 84% of respondents hung up immediately as if they hadn't heard it, while 15% deliberately delayed their arrival. Only 1% of the navy personnel were able to set sail promptly after receiving an emergency call.

That's right, it was simply a matter of setting sail in time.

After all, the ocean is too vast. It takes pirates at most an hour to plunder a ship, so it's unrealistic to arrive at the scene before the pirates leave.

But if you can't even get out to sea within ten minutes of connecting to the phone, isn't that a bit excessive?

"The Navy really needs a overhaul!" Before the assistance of smart networks in office work, Sengoku had no idea that the Navy had so many problems. But now it's much better. Whenever there's a problem, the goddess of wisdom will point it out, and he can just follow the clues to make changes.

"Ding!" A red dot lit up on the flying squirrel's avatar.

Zhan Guo hurriedly clicked on it.

Flying Squirrel: Empress Boa Hancock has agreed to answer the call to arms, but she has requested to bring her yuri guard and boyfriend!

"How many people are in the guard?" Sengoku asked casually, but suddenly felt something was off!

Wait, boyfriend?

Sengoku hurriedly asked, "Does the Empress have a boyfriend?"

"They say he's a recent arrival, named Ning Yuan, the king of Alabasta!"

The Warring States period was speechless.

Of course he knew Ning Yuan; he was the one who developed the smart network!

Aside from his knowledge of the internet and his dissolute lifestyle, there seemed to be no other impression he had of this person.

Sengoku felt it was quite normal that he had been able to win over the princess of Alabasta, the Marine Colonel Hina, and Perona of the Moria Pirates.

After all, he saved Alabasta, so winning the princess's heart wouldn't be difficult for him.

As for the latter two, the former could be tempted by the position of marshal.

Perona was just a small-time pirate, so she certainly wouldn't refuse a king's offer.

But Hancock!!

This is the Pirate Empress!

Sengoku found it all rather unbelievable. Why would Hancock agree to this? What did she want from him?

Rich!? Handsome?

Sengoku scratched his head, all he could say was that he didn't quite understand the Pirate Empress's thought process.

"How many men does she have guarding her?" Sengoku asked.

"15!" said the flying squirrel.

"Bring her boyfriend along, that makes 16. Bring them all!" Zhan Guo said irritably. "Oh, and tell her beforehand that I called her here to fight, not to chat about love. The battlefield is dangerous; if anything happens to Ning Yuan, don't blame me!"

"Yes!" the flying squirrel replied, and after a moment he added, "Ning Yuan said he is the king of a member state of the World Government, and the Navy has the right to protect his safety!"

"Fuck you!" Sengoku felt a mouthful of blood rise to his throat. You came to the battlefield yourself, and you expect me to protect you?

"The battlefield is so dangerous, who has time to protect him?" he retorted irritably. "Tell him no one's protecting him, he can come or not, it's up to him!"

Flying Squirrel: "Ning Yuan said that if we don't protect him, Hancock will answer the call to arms!"

Sengoku: "If she doesn't respond to the summons, remove her from her position as one of the Seven Warlords of the Sea!"

Since we've already removed many, one more won't make a difference.

Momonga: "Ningyuan said that since you removed her from the Seven Warlords of the Sea, Hancock has moved her people to Alabasta!"

Sengoku was utterly speechless. He probably now understood why Hancock wanted Ningyuan as her boyfriend.

Previously, she could only protect her people by relying on her own name, but now that she has a king boyfriend, she can simply move all the people away if she is unable to protect them!

"Really!" Sengoku frowned and thought for a long time, but couldn't come up with any solution.

He could only nod helplessly: "Let him come. I'll arrange for people to protect him, but on the condition that he follows our instructions and stands in a position we can protect!"

Don't stand in the center of the battlefield; even if the three great generals were here, it wouldn't make a difference.

He closed the chat interface and leaned back in his chair.

His office is now empty; the three generals who used to come to meetings—Tsuru, Garp, and others—are no longer there.

Thanks to Zhixin, everyone can chat online.

Even the sheep that ate the documents behind him disappeared, because there was no paper in the online office.

It's certainly convenient and fast, but during the Warring States period, he felt that even though the way of working was more convenient, his workload had actually increased.

After all, there were only a few people who could come to him in the past, and he wouldn't even notice anything important unless it was something major.

But now, he can see everything and interfere in everything.

He even wanted to take charge of a pirate-suppressing operation in the far-off Western Sea.

At least before, we had a break time where we could argue with our old comrades.

But now?

We're too busy, we simply can't keep up!

"Let's take a break and browse some military news!" Sengoku lowered his chair and lay down.

Smart Headlines initially reported on everything, but later it was redesigned and divided into sections.

It is now divided into six major sections: government affairs, people's livelihood, law, military, piracy, and entertainment. I have never paid attention to anything else except military and piracy, and recently I have been particularly focused on military affairs.

"According to Guining News, the protests in Baikou Town of the Kingdom of Flaus have spread to Xinyi Town, with nearly 100,000 citizens taking to the streets to protest the Kingdom of Flaus's foreign wars!"

"A rebellion has broken out within the Kingdom of Short Intestines. Hundreds of soldiers stormed the king's castle. After two hours of fighting, the rebels withdrew. The total death toll in the war reached 140. Although the king is still safe, the routes connecting the king to other towns have been blocked, and the current situation remains grim!"

"Loguetown"

The Warring States period was in chaos.

The chaos in the East Blue is naturally due to the war waged by the World Government against the Goa Kingdom.

The war has not spread beyond the island of Toon, where the Goa Kingdom is located, but its effects have already begun to manifest in other countries.

After all, the World Government lost more than 90,000 soldiers in the two wars!

Although Ning Yuan thought these soldiers were just so-so in terms of quality, they were indeed elite soldiers from member states under the World Government!

What does it mean to lose 9 elite troops in World War I?

Even the Ming Dynasty would be ruined if things were done this way.

Not to mention small regimes that were confined to a corner of the country, such as Shu Han, which lost 50,000 men in a single battle. They didn't even need to fight anymore; they could just entrust their sons to others.

Although these 9 soldiers did not belong to one country, the country in the East China Sea was not as big as the Ming Dynasty or the Shu Han Dynasty!

Therefore, even if the damage is distributed equally among all countries, the resulting suffering will still be severe and devastating!

Not to mention the fact that every household was dressed in mourning, nearly 9 families suddenly lost their main breadwinners, directly bringing 9 elderly, weak, sick and disabled people to these countries.

Moreover, soldiers who die must receive compensation!

These member states are certainly unwilling to pay, after all, such a good system as pensions must have been established at the beginning of the nation's founding. But what era are we living in now? There are so many vested interests from top to bottom that they can't even feed themselves, let alone pay pensions for soldiers.

Furthermore, they felt that since we were fighting for the World Government, shouldn't the World Government be responsible for the compensation?

But if they are greedy, why isn't the world government greedy?

Anyway, more than a month has passed since the war ended, and these families have not received a single penny. In fact, if it weren't for the widespread adoption of smart networks, they wouldn't even know that the front lines had been defeated.

Besides the issue of compensation and the problem of 9 women and children, there is another problem: if you lack these 9 soldiers, your control over the local area will be weaker!

Everyone knows that the tax on the heavenly palace is high, but it cannot be ignored.

Why? Because the king has an army!

But now, the king's army is all dead!

What are we waiting for? Let's rebel against them!

As a result, one revolutionary army was not wiped out, but more rebels rose up.

"We must end the war with Whitebeard as soon as possible and then deploy our forces to the East Sea!" Sengoku said with a sense of relief as he looked at the news.

The reason we couldn't take down a revolutionary army wasn't because they were particularly strong, but because our navy wasn't up to par.

After this battle, 100,000 elite troops will be deployed to the East China Sea to completely surround the Kingdom of Goa.

At that time, not only will we be able to wipe out one revolutionary army, but we can also wipe out all the rebels in the East China Sea!

"Whitebeard, one of the Four Emperors, and the Revolutionary Army—two major scourges under the World Government's rule—will both be ended by my hand!" Sengoku clenched his fist with a maniacal expression. "What Age of Exploration? This generation is clearly the Age of the Great Navy!"

(End of this chapter)