Pirates: Beginning with the Patrolman

The vast majority of pirates do not have a fixed base; their pirate ships drift with the current, searching for all targets that can be plundered.

It is wishful thinking to expect to have accurate location information. Even the navy cannot grasp the movements of all pirate groups.

Remos could only continue his search with this inaccurate information.

He first came to the Kayasi Island mentioned in the intelligence. This island was very close to Kakayasi Island, less than a hundred nautical miles in a straight line.

However, this place is not under Aaron's jurisdiction. Although Aaron is arrogant, he cannot control multiple islands at the same time.

Especially the East China Sea, which is a high-pressure area managed by the navy. If you are too arrogant, you may be hit by the navy's iron fist at any time, in the physical sense.

By the way, the time now is 1519 in the Sea Circle Calendar, the year before Luffy set out to sea, and Nami is 17 years old.

In fact, Remos had thought about getting Nami to join him. After all, sooner or later he would go to the Grand Line to hunt stronger pirates, and he really needed a top navigator like Nami.

Unfortunately, Nami was not in the village when he went to Cocoyasi Village several times before, and he did not dare to break into the base of the Arlong Pirates. A pirate with 2000 million Beli was not something he could deal with.

So now Remos can only hope to find this little thieving cat outside. If he is really unlucky, he can only find a way to break into the Arlong Pirates.

But that is a story for later. The most important thing right now is to find the target of this bounty.

There are two villages on Cassi Island, one in the south and one in the north. The last time the target appeared was in the northern village. Remos drove his small boat slowly into the port.

Then he took the reward order and found the village sheriff, a burly middle-aged man.

His face was bandaged and his right hand was on a crutch.

"These wounds were left by the pirates at that time."

The sheriff smiled bitterly and said, "They are too powerful. I led the villagers to resist as hard as I could, but we still couldn't stop them. All the food and money in the village were looted. We don't know how to survive in the next few months."

There are many small boats fishing on the sea outside the village. Perhaps this is a temporary solution come up with by the villagers.

"Can you tell me the details? Including their numbers and strength."

Remos asked in a deep voice, sitting opposite the sheriff.

The sheriff nodded, then shook his head.

"I'm only telling you what I know. You can tell that, right? I'm just an ordinary person. I can only say that this group of pirates is very strong. I can't tell how strong they are..."

"Just say whatever you can."

Remus took out a notebook and began to take notes.

The sheriff told Remus everything he had seen and heard that day.

The intelligence from the navy is not even as detailed as that provided by the sheriff.

However, even the information provided by the sheriff, who had personally fought against the invading pirate group, had major problems.

He only knew that the other side had a large pirate ship with several cannons and more than a hundred pirates. The leader was a big man about three meters and five meters tall, and the weapon he used was a mace.

Other than that, the sheriff had no idea whether the other party had devil fruit abilities or other hidden abilities.

Because according to him, he only withstood two sticks from the opponent, and he fell unconscious after the third stick fell. The strength of the two sides was completely not on the same level.

"Okay, I roughly understand the situation. Thank you for your cooperation."

Remus tried his best to record all the information and stood up to say goodbye.

"No need to thank me, no need to thank me. I should be the one thanking you. You must catch him. All the money of our village is in his hands..."

The sheriff held on to Remos, hoping that he could help the islanders recover their property losses.

Remos smiled and made no promise.

Just kidding, with the nature of pirates, it's impossible to save the money they robbed. Who knows if they will exchange all the money for alcohol as soon as they leave here? And whether I can find them is still a question.

He inquired about the exact time of the pirate group's invasion, only to learn that it happened nearly a month ago, which was different from the information given by the navy.

After further questioning, it turned out that the islanders themselves accidentally made a mistake when reporting it to the navy.

It's outrageous that they could get something like this wrong.

Remos no longer holds out much hope for the next hunting operation, but of course he will continue trying to chase them. Even if he cannot find the target pirate group, it would be good if he could encounter other pirate groups.

After bidding farewell to the small town, Remos began to try to search to the north according to the direction the pirate group left given by the sheriff.

To the north of Cassia Island is a vast empty sea area without a single island.

After passing through this sea area and heading north, you will reach the famous island economic zone in the East China Sea, where there are hundreds of islands of all sizes and millions of people.

Remos spent another three days and finally found a small island called Kuri. After replenishing some fresh water, he began to inquire about the information of pirates.

As expected, the target pirate group had never appeared here, but in the process of inquiring, Remos obtained another piece of information.

"The Gunsword Pirates? Did they just show up recently?"

Remos asked the bartender in a low voice, while sliding a Bailey over to him.

"Yes, they appeared nearby a week ago. They were chasing a merchant ship at the time, so they did not land on the island."

The bartender's eyes lit up, and he moved as fast as lightning, snatched Bailey away, and then gave a definite answer.

"Where's the direction?"

"Headed northwest."

"Thanks."

"Hey, that's easy to talk about."

Remus was about to leave, but the bartender spoke again.

"For the sake of money, I'm giving you a piece of news for free. It's not authentic. I heard it from someone else."

"It doesn't matter, as long as it's related to pirates."

Remus paused and said.

"No, no, no, this news has nothing to do with pirates. You are a bounty hunter, so you should know more than me. Have you heard of the power of the devil..."

The bartender said with a low laugh.

Half an hour later, we arrived at the town pier.

Remos untied the ropes and let the boat out to sea, still thinking about the information the bartender later gave him.

The power of the devil...it must be the devil fruit without a doubt. It was said that it appeared at an auction on Paoni Island half a month ago. Paoni Island is in the southeast, and the pirate group that appeared a week ago came from the southeast. Considering the behavior of the bounty target who looted the village and headed north a month ago.

Remos guessed that this might all be related to the devil fruit.

"Go and take a look first before talking."

He steered the boat and headed northwest.