Chapter 66: Terrifying Sea Beast(1/2)
The Naval Branches in the East China Sea each have clearly classified jurisdictions, and the responsibilities assigned by the Navy headquarters are limited to ensuring the safety of one side of the sea.
Therefore, as long as it is a case that occurs outside its jurisdiction, the branch navy can surrender the blame to friendly forces with confidence.
Without instructions from superior officers or driven by huge interests, these branch navies without justice will easily enforce the law across jurisdictions.
However, due to the insufficient armed forces of local naval forces and the political influence must be taken into account, the naval bases in the East China Sea are all set up around the territory of those franchisees of the world government.
In the end, it led to a result:
Outside the territory of the world government franchisees, the branch naval jurisdiction has not been covered. The three-regardless areas that the main navy does not take seriously will always be countless pirates who take root here, and even directly occupy land to become kings.
The territory of the Cliff Pirates is such a lawless place. It has been a famous pirate nest in the East China Sea since many years ago.
But there was no navy here to suppress the bandits, because the Cliff Pirates were not as weak as Garen thought:
Such a large pirate group with more than 10,000 people has no way to survive by robbery alone. The biggest income is to operate the territory and rule the people.
For a normal country, the military population accounts for 5% of the total population is considered a military force.
However, the Clik Pirates have more than 5,000 full-time professional combatants, which means that Clik has a population resource of 100,000.
In addition, in those three areas with dozens of islands and a sea boundary that stretches for hundreds of miles, the power and status of the pirate admiral Clich is no less than that of the kings of ordinary small countries.
The navy and the pirates who ruled the side like this maintained a tacit understanding that they could not be put on the table and had been "settled" for many years.
But at this time, an uninvited guest came to this Pirate Kingdom in the East China Sea.
Nami carefully operated the sextant for positioning to measure the angles of solar celestial bodies and sea level, and carefully recorded the measured parameters.
After careful calculations, Nami compared the astronomical calendar and regional charts in her hand to draw a conclusion:
"Galen, look out!"
"We have already broken into the territory of the Cliff Pirates."
"Finally arrived!"
Galen, who was tired of seeing the sea scenery, shouted out a little exaggeratedly.
Sea adventures are not as colorful as Garen imagined. Most of the time is spent on long and boring sailings on the sea. Especially in the space where Garen rides, time becomes even more difficult.
“Where?”
Garen stood at the head of the ship and looked far away, and said strangely: "I didn't see the land?"
"This sea is already Cliff's sphere of influence."
Nami patted the table lightly, and reiterated Clike's strength in front of Garen with a serious expression:
"He ruled dozens of islands and controlled the great pirates in the seas hundreds of miles!"
"oh."
Garen didn't understand Nami's words full of warnings at all, but said with some disappointment:
"There is still such a long way..."
"well..."
Nami had no choice but to hold her forehead and sighed softly:
"I hope you are as powerful as you think, otherwise we will die this time."
"Mr. Galen can definitely do it."
Wallace, who was sitting aside and reading the newspaper quietly, answered for Garen with confidence.
"A boat is here!"
Standing at the bow of the ship, Galen looked at the sea in the distance and suddenly exclaimed.
"What?"
Nami also stood up in surprise and rushed to Garen's side with another step:
"Is it the Clike Pirates' patrol ship?"
Nami followed Garen's gaze, but immediately felt relieved—
The small ship did not fly any pirate flags.
Nami could still see a few strange pulley wooden arms erected on the deck of the ship, and many strong mesh ropes were hanging on it.
Nami, who was born in a fishing village, certainly knew that this was a twisting machine for fishing and netting, so the sailboat in front of her should be a fishing boat.
What makes this ship even less threatening is:
Its hull was seriously damaged in half of its concave, and its mast and sail were completely destroyed, and it could only be sprinted by manpower.
"Is it a ship that was killed?"
Nami looked at the ship in front of her and said strangely: "There is no storm weather around..."
The people on the fishing boat that died seemed to have noticed Garen and his group, and suddenly accelerated the speed of the oars and drove the boat to the front of the Garen sea ship.
There were about a dozen men on the fishing boat, with more or less terrified faces on their faces.
When they came to Galen, they had to ask for help directly: "Help!
Garen asked calmly:
"what happens?"
An old man with gray temples and wrinkles on his face, but with dark and tangled muscles stood up.
Unlike other fishermen, the old man was not so panicked.
But his slightly trembling voice still exposed his inner fear:
"We just encountered an attack from the terrifying sea beast!"
"Terrifying sea beast?"
Nami retorted in disbelief:
"How could there be such a large sea beast in the waters nearby that can attack sailboats?"
With Aaron's forced force and the cooperation of a group of fishmen, Nami almost drew a chart of the entire East China Sea.
In order to ensure the safety of navigation as much as possible, the settlement of marine creatures in the navy chart drawn by Nami is also an extremely important information. With her professional rigor, she will never record mistakes.
"We haven't seen it before!"
The old man said with lingering fear:
"But it really appeared just now! And it also attacked our fishing boat!"
"Just appeared?"
Galen looked around, but could only see a sea that was too calm: "There is no trace!"
But the fishermen in the victims all looked panicked and did not look like they were fake.
According to these fishermen, they made mistakes in their fishing operations and used harpoons to provoke the ship-swalking beast they had never seen in their entire lives.
Fortunately, the giant beast did not seem to take them seriously. It just attacked the fishing boat and sank into the sea and disappeared.
But of course the fishermen did not dare to place their lives on the mood of the ferocious beast, so they had to row a boat to escape from the sea.
"Please give me a try!"
The leading old man bowed slightly to Garen politely and asked:
"Our ship's mast is broken, and it's really hard to return with manpower."
"I hope you can help us tug our boat back to harbor."
"no problem."
Galen agreed to the other party's request readily and asked again:
"Who are you? Which island are you going to return to?"
The old man said in a deep voice:
"I am the captain of this fishing boat, Dicos."
"We are all fishermen under Lord Clicker."
"Under Click?"
Garen said in amazement: "Are you from the Clicker Pirates?"
"No, we are just laborers under the Pirates."
The captain of the fishing boat, Dicos, quickly explained:
"Please rest assured!"
"Although this is the territory of the Cliff Pirates, they will only charge protection fees for passing merchant ships."
"As long as you don't break into the base camp of the Clicker Pirates, they won't make things difficult for ordinary ships like you."
He bowed deeply again, his voice full of helplessness and a different kind of humility:
To be continued...