Chapter 143 The Angle of Throwing Shuriken From 800 Meters Away!
Naval Headquarters, Marinevando.
In the No. A conference room in the fortress building, high-level officials with the rank of lieutenant general and above are having a meeting. Ever since Roger conquered the Grand Line and the Golden Lion escaped from prison and pushed forward the city, they have been meeting for an average of nearly three hours a day. s meeting.
Porusalino and Sakaski also participated in these meetings as special participants. Although their military ranks were only rear admirals at the Navy Headquarters, no one in the entire Navy Headquarters really regarded them as just Navy Headquarters. The major general will take a look at it. Just like Lieutenant General He only has the rank of Lieutenant General at the Navy Headquarters, but in terms of her actual position as chief staff officer, she can be regarded as the number two person in the entire Navy, with a higher status than the general.
And everyone with a discerning eye knows that Porusalino and Sakaski were about to be promoted to Vice Admirals of the Navy Headquarters recently, but they were not very lucky and suddenly encountered these two major events that happened one after another. So the promotion was delayed.
However, once these two matters are almost resolved, Porusalino and Sakaski will be quickly awarded the title and become part of the senior navy in the true sense.
Kuzan, who is also a natural devil fruit user, receives similar treatment, but compared to the two "old fritters" Porusalino and Sakaski, his qualifications are still slightly lower. I can't participate in such high-level meetings yet. But the entire Navy Headquarters knew that as long as nothing unexpected happened, after he completed some tasks and accumulated some qualifications, he would continue to be promoted and eventually become the Admiral of the Navy Headquarters.
Closer to home, because Porusalino assisted Magellan in suppressing the prisoner riot in Impelton three days ago, the content of today’s meeting no longer involves Impel Down, but is about “preparing for and pursuing the history of the Golden Lion.” "Basic" and "Go all out to capture the Roger Pirates" as the main content.
Marshal Sengoku stood at the front of the conference room, pointing at the projection screen on the side with a small metal stick similar to a teaching staff as he spoke. The content presented on this curtain was discussed by the Navy Headquarters Staff Department, regarding the possible movements of the Golden Lion after escaping from the Impel City.
"...Do you have any ideas about where the remnants of the Golden Lion might be hiding?"
Marshal Warring States said, "Our navy's intelligence personnel and CP agents have spent a lot of manpower and material resources, but still have found nothing... Therefore, we can only increase the search intensity again on the one hand, and rely on luck and luck on the other hand. Everyone has experience in chasing pirates..."
No one answered the question of Marshal Warring States - although none of these senior naval generals here are pure reckless men, most of them are not generals outstanding in intelligence. Their so-called experience in chasing pirates usually relies on the navy's information network and the maneuverability advantages of warships to pursue them head-on.
No matter how arrogant or ferocious the pirate group is, they were chased non-stop by the navy with powerful ships and guns for ten days and a half, and they basically gave up...
Looking at these generals, they either pretended to lower their heads and thought (represented by General Zefa), or openly picked their noses with a "what are you talking about" expression on their faces (Lieutenant General Garp), or stared straight ahead without looking at anything. Knowing what to answer (led by Sakaski)... Marshal Warring States felt helpless and bitter.
At this moment, he was extremely envious of his old leader Kong. When Marshal Kong was the marshal of the navy, he and Zefa were both civil and military. Lieutenant General He, the great staff officer, was in charge of the rear, and below were a group of lieutenant generals and major generals who were capable of doing practical things. It can be said to be relaxed and enjoyable, just give orders.
And it's his turn to be the marshal... What a team this is!
Even Garp is trying to be a think tank, can he be one? I can’t be that! Do you know that a pure muscle brain doesn't have this ability?
Porusalino didn't know what Marshal Sengoku was thinking at this time. If he knew, he would definitely have a sense of déjà vu that "Marshal Sengoku will curse Niang Xipi in the next second, and then make a sharp comment on the current situation of the navy"...
After sizing up these silent generals, Marshal Sengoku's eyes were suddenly attracted by Porusalino, who was sitting in the second row on the right side of the conference room.
(He stares at the video phone bug without blinking, but he is definitely not in a daze. From time to time, the corners of his mouth slightly raise... That's okay! You kid, Porusalino! You must have thought of something crucial! )
"Porusalino, do you have any ideas?"
The Warring States Marshal immediately asked expectantly, "I see from your appearance that you seem to have some thoughts..."
(??? I had an idea??? When??? No... I stared at the phone bugs, because I want to get in when I see the phone bugs now! In my eyes, they are all waiting for me The router that the plug is plugged into! I was just greedy for the phone, so I didn’t think about the Golden Lion...)
Faced with Marshal Warring States' sudden question, Porusalino wanted to complain, but he couldn't express it - everyone in the conference room turned their attention to him. No matter how careless he usually was, he still had to go his own way at this time. Just pay a little attention.
"I think what the Warring States Marshal said before was right..."
(No matter what happens, let’s first agree with the leader to set the correct tone for the speech...)
Porusalino paused, as if thinking, and then continued:
"If you think about it carefully, since no clues about the remnants of the Golden Lion have been found under the joint search of our navy and CP sequence, it means that they are not hiding in ordinary places. Reminiscent of the fact that the Golden Lion used to be Feitianhai Thief, could it be that his remaining men are hiding on some empty island in the new world? The reason why we didn't find any clues is because we searched in the wrong area from the beginning."
To most people in this world, things like Sky Island are just myths and legends. Only a small group of people—all of us in this room—know that they are real and exist around the world.
In fact, some air islands that specialize in climate research have a close relationship with the world government.
"An empty island? This possibility is indeed very high... But if his remnants are really hiding on an empty island, we will be completely unable to carry out the search..."
"In my opinion, there is no need to worry about this, Marshal Warring States Period,"
Porusalino said with a faint smile, as if he had eaten the "Human Fruit Fantasy Beast Zhuge Liang's form" and had a pearl of wisdom in his hand, "The reason why the remnants of the Golden Lion are still valued so much by us is entirely because of their The leader is the flying big pirate Golden Lion. But once they are separated from Golden Lion, they are just some second-rate pirates who cannot stand up to the stage."
"As for the Golden Lion, although this legendary pirate successfully escaped Impel Down City, he paid a huge price. And based on my knowledge of him, he will definitely not let go easily after paying a heavy price. In other words , I think it won’t be long before he will have a head-on conflict with our navy... We don’t have to take the initiative to find him, we just need to do a good job in dealing with him."
"The only thing I'm more worried about now is whether the Golden Lion will use his terrifying Piao Piao Fruit ability to throw islands or ships at our naval headquarters... If this is really the case, then the situation will be very serious. It’s quite serious. After all, although the soldiers in our Navy Headquarters are elites, most of them are ordinary people, and there are a large number of family members of soldiers in the residential area of Marinvando..."
"Golden Lion shouldn't have the guts to attack our naval headquarters proactively, right?"
An older lieutenant general in the conference room questioned, "No matter how rampant he is, no matter how reckless he is at this time, this kind of thing... is too exaggerated."
"I think Lieutenant General Yamamoto is right,"
Another lieutenant general in the conference room echoed, "I, Horikoshi, have also had several battles with the Golden Lion. In my opinion, he does not seem like someone who would take such a move... Major General Porusalino The idea is a bit irrational. You are going to be promoted to Vice Admiral of our Navy Headquarters, so you shouldn’t have such irrational thinking..."
——Not everyone is happy about the fact that Porusalino and Sakaski will be promoted to lieutenant generals at the Navy Headquarters. These two lieutenant generals are representatives of these unhappy people. In their opinion, although Porusalino and Sakaski were reasonably strong, this was only because they were lucky enough to eat powerful natural Devil Fruits. In terms of qualifications and other aspects, the two are still far apart.
Of course, they will not admit that they think this way because of jealousy and unwillingness.
Just like the system that Porusalino knew before crossing over, the number of rear admirals, lieutenant generals and admirals in the Navy Headquarters is strictly regulated. Normally you can only do less than specified, but not more.
On the one hand, this is due to the issue of internal cake distribution, and on the other hand, the five old stars representing the top leaders of the world government do not want the navy to become too strong and out of control.
Therefore, when the number of vice admirals in the navy is currently full, once Porusalino and Sakaski are promoted to lieutenant generals, among the original group of lieutenant generals, the one with the lowest strength and right to speak will Vice Admiral Yamamoto and Vice Admiral Horikoshi will retreat to the second line and hand over the command of the fleet.
That's why the two of them unanimously opposed and suppressed Porusalino - this was a pure conflict of interest, not a difference in ideas!
In response to the two lieutenant generals' attempts to make things difficult for them, Porusalino just smiled and had no other reaction. But Sakaski, the irritable old man, is different. He has long secretly regarded himself and Porusalino as a community of interests. Although he doesn't have much to say about the Golden Lion, he has a lot of respect for these two people and He still had a lot to say about the lieutenant generals whose positions were all wrong.
"Vice Admiral Horikoshi has fought against the Golden Lion several times. I admire him! He is indeed a veteran in the navy! Then I would like to ask if he issued orders to his subordinates to attack the Golden Lion's fleet from a long distance away. Is firing a cannon considered a fight with a golden lion? If this is the case, then I will apply to the Warring States Marshal next time, and I will fight Whitebeard, Hundred Beasts and Big Mom at the same time..."
"puff--!"
"Garp! Why are you laughing!!"
Lieutenant General Horikoshi looked at Garp angrily. The latter was the only person in the conference room who laughed out loud - everyone else was suppressing laughter.
"Sorry, sorry,"
Lieutenant General Garp smiled while continuing to pick his nose disapprovingly, "I just thought of something happy, and I wasn't laughing at you Lieutenant General Horikoshi..."
As a truly powerful man who had fought against the Golden Lion many times, Lieutenant General Garp was extremely disgusted and funny about Lieutenant General Horikoshi's behavior of putting gold in his face. Garp usually didn't bother to look at him, but this time he couldn't help it (on purpose).
Lieutenant General Horikoshi was extremely annoyed and was about to continue saying something when the door of the conference room was violently opened with a bang. A major rushed in, looking panicked.
"War, Marshal of the Warring States Period!"
"What's wrong?" Marshal Warring States asked with a frown.
"...Golden Lion attacked Saiken Island! He floated the entire Saiken Island into the sky!! Now he is moving in the direction of our navy headquarters!!!"
ps: Yamamoto and Horikoshi, these two names don’t need me to explain more, right? 100% on the street!
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