One Piece: Shadow of the Navy

"Commodore Cohen, we can already see State Island." Corral put down the telescope in his hand on the observation deck, lowered his head and shouted to Cohen on the deck.

"Oh, we're finally here. I've been suffocating myself for the past ten days or so. Except for the first time I crossed the windless zone where I was able to see the Neptunes, I was almost bored to death along the way." Cohen Before he said anything, Shankos couldn't help but get excited.

I saw him stepping on his feet several times to rise into the air, then stepping on the air again, rising directly to the observation deck, and jumped into the observation tower.

"Where? Where is Stati Island? I'll take a look too." Shankos reached out and almost grabbed the telescope from Coral's hand, and looked into the distance.

"Directly ahead." Corral didn't pay attention to Shankos's movements. He stretched out his hand to hold his head and forcibly turned his sight in a different direction.

"Oh ho ho, it is indeed an island." Looking along the direction that Coral pointed out to him, Shankos indeed saw an island.

"You kid thinks I'm lying to you." Coral let go of Shankos' head and said angrily.

The island is covered with a lot of green vegetation, and in the direction they are facing, there is a port. There are many ships parked on the port, and a little inside the port island, almost immediately next to the port, is a small town. .

The town seemed quite prosperous, and Shankos could see some shadowy figures walking around in the telescope.

"Boss Cohen, there is a port and a town, there are ships in the port, and there seem to be people in the town," Shankos ignored Corral and shouted to Cohen on the deck, "Is that the 213th branch? In the town?"

Cohen stood up from the deck chair and looked in the direction of the island, but except for a little green outline of the island, he could not see with the naked eye what Shankos said.

"There are ships in the port and people in the town. This shows that the island has not been looted, and the possibility of the naval branch being destroyed is greatly reduced accordingly."

As soon as he finished speaking, Cohen rejected the idea, "No, not necessarily. It's possible that the pirates only destroyed the navy branch, but did not destroy the town."

"Although this is less likely."

Cohen looked at the green point that was getting closer and narrowed his eyes slightly as he thought.

"Keen, did you see something?" Mo Ying climbed out of Cohen's cloak of justice and wrapped it around his shoulders.

Although she was also looking in the direction where Cohen was looking, her eyesight was even worse than that of Cohen, and she could not see even a small dot.

Cohen shook his head, "I just saw a small dot."

"Oh, Mo Ying looked at you so absorbedly, I thought you saw something." Mo Ying retracted his head and put his head on Cohen's shoulder again.

At this time, Vio Common, who was practicing sword practice on the side, also walked to Cohen, and he was accompanied by Latifah, who was learning physical skills with him.

"Boss Cohen, do you mean that the commander of the 213th branch has rebelled?" Vio Common looked at Cohen and asked doubtfully.

"Well, why do you think that?"

"The occurrence of something is nothing more than internal and external reasons. What you just said is denying external reasons, which means that you are more inclined to internal reasons. There are only a few internal reasons, among which the most likely It’s because the person in charge rebelled, that’s why no news came out at all.”

Vio Common looked at Cohen and said his own analysis.

"That makes sense, but there is another doubt in it. If he really rebelled, he should know that if he doesn't report to the headquarters, he will easily be discovered by the headquarters." Cohen raised his head and looked at it. A cloudless sky, "But why didn't he go?"

"This..." Vio Common was stopped by Cohen's question. He really didn't think of this level.

"Could it be that someone held him hostage or controlled him, so he was unable to go to the headquarters to report on his work, and there was no way to tell the truth about the situation in the branch base?" Latifah also expressed her thoughts.

During the ten days on the warship, Latifah did not give up her practice. She practiced physical skills and swordsmanship. She learned physical skills from Vio Common and swordsmanship from Cohen. Cohen had already mastered the basics. She was taught the swift sword technique.

She has already mastered the Moon Step in the Six Styles, but she still has no clue about the iron block. As for swordsmanship, she is indeed very talented. She has learned the basic swift sword skills in a decent way, but she still needs to verify it in actual combat. .

"Maybe," Cohen withdrew his gaze and looked at the green dot that was getting closer and bigger in his field of vision. "Whether he rebelled or was held hostage, we will have an answer soon."

Corral stepped on the air and walked from the observation deck to the deck. "Commodore, State Island is almost here. I'm going to get the soldiers ready to land on the island."

Cohen nodded, "Okay."

Soon, under the organization of Clark Larsen and Corral, except for the personnel necessary for the navigation of the warship, other soldiers had gathered on the deck.

As they got closer to the island, the whole view of Stati Island gradually came into view of the group on the warship.

At this time, Coral walked up to Cohen holding a document.

"Brigadier General, as recorded in the files, Stati Island belongs to Spring Island. The island is not small, but there is only one relatively large town on the island, Lalan Town. The others are villages built around Lalan Town. , there is a port on the island, next to Lalan Town."

"Our target base this time is the 213th branch in Lalan Town. It is located behind Lalan Town and close to the edge. According to Major General Kebilo's last report, the 213th branch has a total of 327 formal naval soldiers. , and more than 100 handymen."

"In addition to the commander, Major General Kebilo, the branch leadership also includes branch colonel McCoy, branch major Rusimar, and five branch lieutenant-level officers. Apart from this, there are no other officers in the 213th branch."

Coral put the documents away and looked at Cohen.

"I didn't expect that in addition to a major general, the 213th branch here actually has a colonel and a major. But that's right. After all, this is the entrance to the Grand Route. If we are not strong enough, we won't even be able to go out for patrols." Cohen He took out a cigarette from his pocket, lit it and held it in his mouth.

Six people, Shankos, Vio Common, Aimon Fan, Clark Lason, Coral and Heywood Latifah, stood around Cohen. Hundreds of naval soldiers lined up behind the group. Quietly waiting for the warship to dock.