One Piece: Blue Scale Admiral

Luo Xia ignored his angry question, leaned back in his chair, crossed his legs, and looked at him indifferently.

"What do you mean by abundant mines, Jhin? Can't you think before you speak?"

"Oven Island, Juice Island, Puff Island, several islands are deserted, rich in minerals, and populated? I want these islands not like you pirates, thinking of collecting protection money. It's just because these islands are adjacent to my G5. What? You want Oven Island? Fine! I'll give it to you! Do you dare to take it? You can send people to garrison here."

"What about the islands in Dressrosa? Are they also adjacent to your G5?"

Jin pointed at the small islands in front of Dressrosa and sneered.

Luo Xia said slowly and deliberately, "Dresrossa is now also under the protection of my G5."

"Lan Lin! This is nonsense! Brother Kaido will not agree to this!"

Jin slammed his fist on the table in anger.

"Then call him over! I, the dignified G5 branch base commander, have come in person. My reputation alone is worth two islands. I only want ten islands now, as a favor to Kaido. If you don't agree, then let's continue fighting. I don't care anyway."

Rorschach's words enraged Jin, but he also felt somewhat helpless.

There was nothing he could do; since Kaido wasn't present in person, he really didn't have much confidence to challenge Rorschach.

It's not that I'm afraid, it's just that it's not worth it.

Smoker became increasingly confused as he listened.

What does it mean to be the dignified G5 branch base leader?

When did a naval branch base commander get so much influence?

There are at least eight hundred, if not a thousand, naval branches worldwide.

If a base commander's influence is only worth two islands, then the Navy doesn't need the World Government at all; they could just get rich.

Of course, Smoker also knew that only a special person like Rorschach could have this kind of face.

Jin argued with Luo Xia for another ten minutes or so, but still couldn't do anything about it, so he could only look to Xiu Zuo, the representative of the Neo Navy.

As he looked at it, Xiu Zuo circled eight islands on the map in a deep voice, all of which were centered around the Neo Navy Headquarters.

"Since our Commander-in-Chief Z isn't here, let's compromise. We'll take these eight islands and give the rest to your Beast Pirates."

Jin looked at the eight islands he had encircled and almost drew his sword on the spot in anger.

"Why have they even fenced off the ice island within my Beasts Pirates' territory? Am I crazy, or has your old man Zephyr gone mad?"

"Ice Island is too close to our Neo Navy headquarters, we are definitely going to take it. Even if you disagree, we will fight to take it. We will give up the island and give up the territory on Rice Cake Island."

Xiu Zuo said in a very formal and methodical manner.

"Mochi Island is territory that Katakuri and his men have long since occupied. What do you mean you don't want it? Do you think I'm stupid?" Jin roared in anger.

"If you don't want to talk, then let's keep fighting," Luo Xia said lazily, eating fruit.

“Alright, our Commander-in-Chief Z has acquired a new batch of explosive rocks. Let’s test their power.” Xiu Zuo said expressionlessly.

The argument in the meeting room lasted for more than an hour before ending with Jin storming off in anger.

As Rorschach had predicted, the division of territory within Totland ended with his insistence.

Kaido doesn't care about that at all; all he likes is fighting and drinking.

Managing territory and power is Jin's job.

Perhaps to avoid suspicion and prevent the World Government from finding evidence of Rorschach's collusion with the Neo Navy, Zephyr did not come in person, but only sent Shuzo to negotiate.

Without Zephyr in charge, King wasn't afraid of the Neo Navy's explosive rock threat. After some back and forth, he eventually divided up six islands to Zephyr's new naval force.

Thus, the temporary division of the thirty-four—no, now thirty-three—isles of Tottoland has been temporarily resolved.

Of course, this was just a plan among the three parties, and the opinions of other factions operating within Totland were not taken into account.

The islands you are assigned to are your own responsibility to reclaim, garrison, and manage; the other two parties will not provide any assistance.

While the Beasts Pirates may seem to have acquired the most territory, it was actually the most chaotic and disorderly areas that Rorschach and Zephyr excluded.

It's too messy; it's useless to have it in my hands.

In fact, Rorschach didn't want to have any peace talks with the Beasts Pirates.

He longed to establish naval branches on every island in the Totland Sea, like bamboo shoots after a spring rain.

However, the development and management of a large power is not as simple as the growth of an individual's strength.

There are just too many factors to consider, it's all too complicated.

The New World's navy also lacks the manpower to venture deep into the New World and suppress its vast oceans.

Most importantly, there aren't enough truly strong individuals to stand firm.

Therefore, Rorschach can only proceed steadily and gradually expand the influence of G5.

You have to eat your food one bite at a time.

There are still too few strong players in G5; they need time to grow.

Chapter 600 Be My Son

"Pamel and Bepo have been captured by the Whitebeard Pirates!"

No sooner had Luo Xia returned to G5 than he received this troublesome bad news.

"What exactly happened?"

Luo Xia looked at Ban, whose face was bruised and swollen and whose bones were broken.

Ban now spends his days with Bepo, Parmel, and others on routine maritime patrol missions.

This time, he was sent to Puff Island, which had been recaptured by G5, to be stationed there.

However, the incident occurred less than two days later, and neither Rorschach nor G5 received any distress signals from them.

Ban lowered his head in shame, not daring to look at Luo Xia and the others around him, and said through gritted teeth:

"It's the Whitebeard Pirates' captains, Diamond Jozu and Vista, and Fire Fist Ace and the others. They ambushed us, defeated Commodore Bepo and Commodore Pamel, and took them away, saying that Vice Admiral Bepo and Squard will personally take them to the Whitebeard Pirates to exchange them."

"Why can't I even send out a distress signal?" Enel frowned.

"Their attack was incredibly fast; they emerged from the sea in a coated ship and immediately cut and destroyed our warship."

Ban looked ashamed.

"So, you were defeated without putting up much resistance?" Enel's face darkened.

"They were too strong. After the warships were destroyed, we lost our foothold. Brigadier General Bepo and Brigadier General Palmer were knocked into the sea..."

"waste!"

"You guys call yourselves the pillars of G5, yet you can't even put up a fight or call for help. You're utterly useless!"

Enel was furious and was about to unleash a bolt of lightning, but Smoker stopped him.

Smoker said in a deep voice, "The other side is the captain of the Whitebeard Pirates, and they are all seasoned veterans of the New World. Moreover, it was a sudden sneak attack, taking advantage of the fact that they were caught off guard. It is normal that Pamel and Bepo were no match for them. Now is not the time to take our anger out on them. The most urgent thing is to think about how to rescue them."

Luo sighed and said, "Actually, we had already anticipated this situation when we captured the Great Whirlpool Spider and the Ice Witch, didn't we? Given the Whitebeard Pirates' attitude towards their subordinate pirate crews, he definitely wouldn't sit idly by while his men were captured. We just didn't expect that so much time would pass before they finally made their move."

Although he was anxious, he knew that being anxious was useless.

As Smoker said, now it's time to think about how to save them.

But the other side is the Whitebeard Pirates.

The difficulty of rescuing people here is no less than the difficulty of breaking into Impel Down to rescue them.

“I suggest we contact headquarters first and have them put pressure on the Whitebeard Pirates,” Smoker proposed.

Hibari took out a Den Den Mushi and looked at Rorschach. "I'll contact G1 right now and ask them to provide support at any time?"

Luo Xia did not answer, but looked at Ban and asked in a deep voice, "What are our casualties?"

"Two warships were destroyed, more than 200 soldiers died, more than 400 were seriously injured, and the rest were slightly injured."

Ban's answer made everyone's faces turn ugly.

Although marine casualties are common in the New World, such large-scale casualties are rare except in large-scale wars.

However, Luo Xia was well aware that this casualty ratio was actually quite low under the circumstances at the time.

According to Ban's account, the unexpected situation that Palmer, Bepo, and others encountered was as follows:

The sea was sliced ​​open by Vista's sword energy, and two warships were cut in half.

Then came Fire Fist Ace's fiery punch, which destroyed most of the ship's hull and detonated the gunpowder on board, causing a series of explosions.

Because of his large size, Parmel was immediately knocked into the water by Diamond Joz and lost his strength.

Bepo ascended into the air using Moonwalk, but was shot down by Ace.

The entire raid, from start to finish, took only a few minutes.

The thousands of sailors on the two warships suffered heavy casualties.

The lives of ordinary marines are so fragile.

After listening to Ban's account, Luo Xia pondered for a moment and looked at Luo.

"Luo, what about those people from Waidibe that you captured?"

"In a prison cell on the island."

Luo replied.

"Bring everyone out and prepare a small warship for me."

Rorschach's words greatly surprised Smoker, Lark, and the others.

"You really want to go to the Whitebeard Pirates to exchange people? No way! It's too dangerous!" Smoker said urgently, "That's the Whitebeard Pirates, what if they don't keep their promise?"

Hibari chimed in, "Yes, Brother Rorschach, it's too dangerous. Whitebeard is the strongest man in the world, even stronger than Kaido. We can think of another way. I'll contact my dad right now!"

"It's precisely because the other party is the Whitebeard Pirates that there's a possibility of exchanging hostages. Contacting headquarters and G1 won't help. Would Whitebeard be afraid of threats of force? You don't need to say anything more. I'll take them there and exchange Bepo and Pamel for them."

Seeing that Rorschach insisted, Smoker could no longer persuade him, after all, Rorschach was the highest-ranking officer of G5.

However, all of them said they wanted to go with Rorschach.

"Where are you going? Aren't you just making things worse?"