Chapter 96 Daily Newspaper Reading (Seeking 5-star Review)

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“Ga, ga, ga~”

A news bird landed on the railing. Captain Gel, who was very wealthy, threw a 1000-dollar bill over without saying a word and bought 10 newspapers, including the latest issue and previous issues. He bought two copies of each issue to save others from having to wait for the people in front to finish reading.

The news bird took the money, happily took out a stack of newspapers from its bag, handed it to Gel respectfully, bowed, and then spread its wings and flew away. They still had to follow the proper etiquette when treating big customers.

"Quack quack~"

On the deck of the ship, there is a protruding circular ring design under the huge main mast, about one meter high, like a bench in the park. The mast and sails can also be used to provide shade, just like taking shelter under a tree. It is a good place for the crew to sit down and rest when they have nothing to do.

Gel thinks that this design is simple and beautiful, convenient and practical, and very user-friendly. He suggests that this design can be retained when buying a new boat in the future.

At this time, Geer was sitting on a circular bench, with his back against the mast, drinking tea, and comfortably took out the latest edition of the newspaper and began to read it.

As usual, there is a lot of spaghetti, and the largest part of the content is about how a certain pirate committed a certain heinous crime somewhere, and then the World Government and the Navy decided how much reward to offer for the pirate based on the serious harm he caused to society.

is that useful?

Gel believes that those pirates on the list might be celebrating when they see this newspaper?

The pirates who were satisfied with their bounties were celebrating with a big banquet, while some pirates who were not so satisfied with their bounties were probably already planning where to go next to create even more horrific killings to frighten the World Government, so as to increase their bounties and make a name for themselves!

Therefore, this bounty order, which has no deterrent effect, is just a piece of empty paper. Not only can it not make these villains restrain themselves, but it is like a kind of praise and affirmation from the authorities! It will only make them more aggressive.

"What nonsense! No nutrition at all!"

Throwing the newspaper casually on the table, Geer picked up the previous issues.

I thought it would be just some trivial stuff, with no interesting news. But as soon as I opened it, Geer's eyes were attracted by a photo in the middle:

The photo shows a man with an extremely arrogant expression. Even though he had been beaten black and blue, his face was still full of defiance. He looked as if the whole world owed him money.

The man had seastone shackles on his hands, and his signature blond hair was like the wild mane of an adult lion. There was even half a ship's rudder stuck on top of his head, which made him look a bit funny, very much like a unique cockscomb hairstyle.

The front page headline of this issue has a sensational headline: The two heroes of the navy, legendary marine Garp and wise admiral Sengoku teamed up to defeat the Flying Pirates and successfully captured the captain of the Flying Pirates alive.

The pirate admiral Shiki the Golden Lion was defeated and captured. Now the great pirate Golden Lion has been detained in the world's number one prison - Impel. This is another great victory for the navy after the arrest of the Pirate King Roger!

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Without continuing to read the wonderful story fabricated by the World Government, Gel, who knew the truth, couldn't help but curl up the corners of his mouth into a meaningful smile, and silently gave a thumbs up to the shamelessness of the World Government and the Navy in his heart.

It was obvious that it was Golden Lion who attacked the Navy Headquarters alone and caused chaos. The entire headquarters was smashed to pieces and countless ordinary soldiers were killed and injured. However, with a few words, it was instantly considered that the Navy defeated the entire Flying Sky Pirates and captured the leader in the midst of thousands of troops, successfully arresting the captain of the Flying Sky Pirates, Shiki, Golden Lion.

"You really know how to play it. It's important to control public opinion!"

Ger picked up the teacup and took a sip.

Putting aside other factors and speaking purely from the perspective of ability, Gel personally believes that the Golden Lion's Float-Float Fruit ability actually has the greatest chance of dominating this ocean.

While others are still playing sailing, the Floating Fruit is directly an aerial aircraft carrier battle group. Isn't this a dimensionality reduction attack?

Moreover, with air superiority, you can completely control the initiative of the attack. If they want to attack, they will descend to attack you. If they don't want to attack, they will float high in the sky. Except for a few strong people with the ability to fly, ordinary people have no way to deal with you at all.

As a result, this guy, Golden Lion, actually used such an incredible ability to move ships and islands to play free fall and smash people. Except for some miscellaneous soldiers, who could be killed by the smash? Even meteorites from outer space can't kill people, let alone a few broken ships and a few piles of earth. Maybe his brain was really stupid because of the half rudder.

In addition, the Float-Float Fruit has a huge advantage that no one else has when it comes to pirate territory.

Why did the separatist situation of the Four Emperors in the later period of time in the New World remain unchanged for more than ten years? Was it because they did not want to expand further?

Do not!

Perhaps Whitebeard and Shanks, one conservative and the other a peacekeeper, are not very aggressive, but what about the ambitious Kaido and Big Mom?

So it’s not that they don’t want to expand, but that they are no longer able to expand further.

As the territory occupied by the pirate group expands rapidly, the size of the team needed to maintain the stability of the territory must also expand.

So except for the Red Hair Pirates, the number of forces under the other Four Emperors' pirate groups has expanded to tens of thousands.

However, since this world is made up of countless islands scattered across the sea, and the islands are far apart, the territories occupied by the Four Emperors are not connected lands, but a group of very scattered islands.

Therefore, the number of people in the royal group is still far from enough compared to the territory they need to defend.

This is also the main reason why they are unable to station enough troops on every island within their sphere of influence to resist invasion, but need to rely on deterrence to protect these islands.

Just like the territorial behavior of animals such as lions and tigers, I urinated (planted a flag) to declare that this island is my territory and I will protect it from now on.

But if you want to attack, okay, it's embarrassing, I'm not here, I can't do anything to you, you can attack as much as you want.

However, the Imperial Group must kill the invaders afterwards, because they must make an example of them to scare the others away, and they must let everyone know that the Four Emperors' whiskers cannot be easily provoked!

Otherwise, everyone will come to mess with you from time to time, and play the game of "when the enemy advances, I retreat; when the enemy stays, I harass; when the enemy is tired, I attack; when the enemy retreats, I pursue" with you. Not to mention fighting, just traveling can make them tired to death.

This is also why the Four Emperors must be domineering in doing things. Often because of a trivial matter, they would rather start a war and cause some casualties than take a single step back. Are they really stupid for being competitive?

Geer doesn't think so.

In order to pave the way for the protagonist, the Four Emperors all have various flaws and they are constantly magnified, but even so, anyone who can sit in that position will never be a useless fool.

In fact, the reason for doing this is that they all know in their hearts that they must maintain the deterrent power of the Imperial Group itself. In this world where the strong prey on the weak, once you show weakness, you will be attacked by the evil wolves and mad dogs around you. Even the powerful Four Emperors are no exception, there are still many silver medal players waiting to take the top spot.

Fighting a war with this group of vicious wolves and mad dogs, even if they win, will not only cost them soldiers and generals, but also cost them money and food, and they will get nothing. What's the point? So after becoming a high-ranking pirate, they have long understood that there is more to the sea than just fighting and killing.

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