Chapter 45 Gion: Do you have such things as personality and credibility?
The Grand Line, the end point of the first half of the Red Continent, the Chambord Islands
After Wood docked the ship, he and Gion landed on Island No. 7 of the Shampoo Islands.
Because only Gion and Wood were involved in this mission, when they left the Navy headquarters, they did not take away the headquarters' warship, but bought a small sailboat.
Such a small sailboat can carry limited supplies, so it is obviously impossible to travel long distances across the ocean.
However, the Chambord Islands are actually not that far from the Navy Headquarters, so the small sailboat the two of them are traveling on will have no problem completing this short-distance voyage unless they are attacked by a sea king.
As for asking how a certain great swordsman managed to catch up from the New World to the East China Sea on a raft, Wood actually wants to know.
Doesn't the so-called great swordsman need to eat, drink and relieve himself along the way?
You have to know Hawkeye's boat... It's too much to call it a boat, it's basically just a broken raft with a seat installed.
Wood threw the ship's anchor into the sea, turned to look at the long-legged girl wearing casual clothes and hot pants and said: "As far as I know, the areas from No. 1 to No. 29 of the Shampoo Islands are all
illegal zone.
It is not impossible for people to be kidnapped suddenly while walking on the road. You can park the boat here and make sure there is no problem.
This ship does not belong to the Navy Headquarters, but is your private property, right?"
The Shampoo Islands are actually the largest mangrove in the world, the "Yalki Mangrove". Because the roots of the tree are always exposed on the water, the current archipelago is formed.
It is said to be an archipelago, but in fact the island itself is a tree root, so the recording pointer will not record this place, but only the Fishman Island 10,000 meters below the Chambord Islands.
The place where Wood and Gion landed belongs to the illegal zone of the archipelago. If it were a navy warship, no one would be bold enough to steal it if it stopped here. After all, the navy headquarters is not far from here.
However, the small sailboat that Wood and the others came on had a pink hull and even a pair of rabbit ears as decorations on the top of the ship. No matter how you looked at it, it was impossible for such a ship to belong to the Navy Headquarters.
"It doesn't matter. There is nothing valuable on the ship. If it's stolen, it's stolen. The mission is urgent now. It will waste a lot of time if we go around to the other side of the island.
Area 1 on the island is the largest slave auction, and our mission target should be there,"
Hearing what Gion said, Wood couldn't help but be surprised. He had grown up on Hongye Island since he was a child, and he knew the market of lumber fairly well.
The wood used in the Gion ship is better than the finest mahogany. Even if the craftsmanship of the ship is excluded, it costs 10 to 20 million beli at least. Gion actually said it was stolen!
Is the salary of a naval captain so high? Why is his monthly salary only a few hundred thousand beli?
"Gion, I would like to ask you, as a naval captain's salary, how much beli does it cost per month?"
The two people who landed on Island No. 7 moved quickly towards Island No. 1. During this period, although Gion didn't understand why Wood suddenly asked such a strange question, he still satisfied Wood's curiosity.
"The monthly salary of a naval captain is actually not much, probably close to 10 million beli."
Gion has no concept of money, and unlike other ordinary women, Gion doesn't like many things. She is either staying at the Navy headquarters on standby or performing missions, so she generally has no place to spend money.
"Nearly 10 million Baileys..., no, the salary of nearly 10 million Baileys is quite astonishing.
But the ship just now was equivalent to a few months’ salary, wouldn’t you feel sad if it just disappeared like this?”
"What are you talking about? Although the salary of a Navy captain is indeed only about 10 million Baileys.
But when you hunt down or kill bounty pirates, although you can't get the full bounty like a bounty hunter, you can still get a part of the commission."
Although what Gion said is not explicitly written in the navy's welfare regulations, there has always been such an unspoken rule.
The fact that the Navy Headquarters can offer bounties of hundreds of millions of beli to those pirates proves its wealth.
For highly favored naval generals, using a certain percentage of the pirate bounties as bonuses is more cost-effective than bounty hunters, and it can also motivate these navies to pursue pirates. Why not?
Wood doesn't know this rule simply because he has been staying in Impel Down for the past six months.
Not to mention participating in the hunt for pirates, he didn't even see a single pirate. Usually the pirates he met came to prison to eat.
Gion was able to be promoted so quickly in half a year. Naturally, there were many pirates who lost their lives in her hands. So in a sense, the Gion in front of Wood at this moment is actually a truly rich woman!
"Gion, you should have quite a lot of money now, right? I want to borrow 30 million from you..., oh no, I'll use the 50 million beli first.
Don't worry, I guarantee with my own personality that I will definitely pay you back in the future. We have known each other for such a long time, so you should also know my credibility."
As the end point of the first half of the Great Line, the Chambord Islands are also known as the starting point of the New World. Pirates from all over the world will gather here before entering the New World.
So this is also a huge trading center. Although the slave auction occupies a large part, it does not mean that there are no other things.
Rare information, famous swords, and even devil fruits, as long as you are lucky enough, you may not be able to encounter them here.
Wood borrowed money from Gion mainly because he wanted to try his luck and see if he could get something good here.
"According to what I learned from Tina, it seems that the money you owe Smoker has never been paid.
As for personality and reputation...do you really have these two qualities?"
"Besides, why did you borrow so much money? Do you want to imitate those scum and buy two beautiful slaves?
Don’t forget that we have a mission this time and don’t have time for you to wander around and shop.”
The slaves bought by the Tianlong people at the human auction have actually been released for several days. People in the slave market were worried that the "goods" were too valuable, so they never dared to serve as delivery services, so in the end the Tianlong people would cause trouble with the Navy.
Go over there.
Marijoa's Celestial Dragons have long been impatient with waiting for this new batch of slaves. Even if Gion had been prepared for two more days, Sengoku would have wanted other naval generals to take over the Celestial Dragons' duties.