[comprehensive] red tide

The news of the destruction of the Goddess Muse, one of the three major black markets, spread overnight like it had grown wings.

Before the fleet of warships returned, the public opinion media under the control of the government rushed to report that the generals and soldiers who participated in the extermination operations were all brave and fearless, and the pirates fought fiercely and stubbornly.

Singing praises, whitewashing the peace, there is no negative report, let alone the slightest bit about that person.

Of course, this kind of result was expected by Huang Yuan, after all, this operation is classified.

From the beginning to the end, military reporters were only allowed to write manuscripts that the military needed to be known by the world. Even if anyone had discovered or seen something, they were repeatedly kept silent under the constraints of surveillance and military law.

When the general Huang Yuan who stayed in this sea area finally cleaned up the mess and led a large number of fleets back to Marineford, the headquarters of the Navy, within ten days, he had already received countless calls.

Among them were routine inquiries from the Naval Staff Department, casual greetings among colleagues and subordinates, and hints from some seemingly unrelated alliance countries and even private forces through channels.

The first two are okay, whether it is business or personal, they are all matters that can be put on the table to be resolved.

It is the latter that is bothering Huang Yuan.

The alliance countries and private forces that can come to the door are more or less not so easy to dismiss, and those oblique gestures are either trying to fish out a few caught guys from him, or they are unfortunately implicated this time. The loss was heavy, so I tried to find a way to ask him to forgive me.

All that is needed to destroy a floating city on the sea is powerful force, but the aftermath of troubles is mind-bending.

After all, it is one of the three major black markets. After all these years, various forces have been intertwined in it, with an intricate network of relationships. It is not surprising that there are so many hands and eyes reaching the sky, and their tentacles can reach into the navy.

Of course, if Huang Yuan hadn't been the commander-in-chief this time, he would probably have watched the fire from the other side and taunted him a few times in his heart, but it's a pity that he's putting himself in the same place now, and it's really annoying.

Consciously not interested in playing tricks with others, staying in this sea area and unable to find a shield for a while, the general Huang Yuan, who was very sullen, ordered in a rage:

All non-navy personnel were stuffed into the bilges of several warships, and the confiscated property was piled up in the ship Muse, which was lucky enough to survive, and then led the team back to the voyage.

Regardless of whether the captured pirates or the men of the Muse, when you return to the Navy headquarters, you can slowly complain to the Ministry of Justice!

Simple and crude, but efficient.

At least after he vented his words, those who wanted to plead turned to find other ways. On the way back to Marineford, the ears of the yellow ape were immediately clean, and his mood improved a lot.

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Admiralty Headquarters, Marineford.

It was noon when the fleet sailed into the harbor, and Huang Yuan walked off the warship slowly on a step ladder, only to feel that the sun was too bright, making people dizzy.

He adjusted his dark tea sunglasses on the bridge of his nose, and his gaze drifted unconsciously to the nearby generals and sergeants, who were waiting at the pier after receiving the fleet's arrival signal, and were members of various departments who were going to take over and deal with the follow-up.

After looking at it for a while, but unable to find a face that he thought would appear, Huang Yuan pursed his lips, looked back, and stared at the huge wall with the word "justice" printed not far away.

After another moment of silence, he raised his hand and waved back, signaling all parties to act according to the plan, while he himself set off for the Marshal's office a little tired.

The navy of the Muse was victorious, and the gray forces that had been entrenched in the first half of the decade were uprooted, almost without a single soldier, and the superficial achievements are enviable.

However, for the team he led, everyone who saw the scene later, including the lowest-ranking sergeant, knew that the current ease was only based on that person's attack.

With Huang Yuan's prudence, he naturally didn't want to celebrate or recuperate at the first time. He had to sort out the hidden dangers hidden in the depths first, and make a detailed report to the marshal in order to make a decision before making a move.

She killed humanoid weapons first, and then frightened the audience. She completed the most critical part of the annihilation plan deployed by the navy on her own. Without these, many of the troops involved in the operation might sleep forever in that sea area .

Regardless of whether it will be an enemy or a friend in the future, and whether she will admit it or not, the general Huang Yuan, who knows what is inside, needs to write down this feeling of helping.

As for what to do...

Walking and thinking for a long time, in the end, Huang Yuan made a rather irresponsible decision to let the Warring States Marshal himself have a headache.

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Knocking on the heavy wooden office door in front of him, waiting for the eve of permission, Huang Yuan first made a draft in his heart for the upcoming conversation, and speculated on the situation by the way:

After the private meeting, a meeting was held as usual. The work attitude of the Marshal of the Warring States Period was conscientious for decades, and he probably had to wait until the dead of night if he wanted to rest.

Yeah—that's really strange, obviously he is also a general, compared to Aokiji, why is he in dire straits?

After hearing the answering sound from behind the door, Huang Yuan twitched the corners of his mouth, pushed open the door, instantly calmed down his messy thoughts, put on his signature smiling face, and greeted in a carefree voice, "Your Excellency the Marshal—"

The immediate superior sits behind the desk visible from the entrance, glances at him casually, clicks on the sofa in the corner of the room, and then continues to bury his head in his pen. The two sides of the table are piled up on both sides as high as a hill, waiting to be signed or processed. document.

Huang Yuan quietly walked to the sofa and put himself in it, took a cup of hot tea, took a sip, lowered his eyelashes, stared at the curling smoke through the dark tea lenses, and his eyes were a bit empty.

As a result, he didn't wait too long. After drinking the third cup of hot tea and lifting the porcelain pot to add the fourth water for himself, Huang Yuan heard the sound of steady steps walking around the desk and heading for the corner.

After a few breaths, the air rolled up and flowed weakly. The supreme commander sat down on the sofa opposite, first took off his glasses and put them aside, and then took a sip from the tea cup pushed by Huang Yuan. Then he took a long breath and asked in a deep voice, " Your reports say that Nicole Robin is on board the Muse?"

"She ran away~" Huang Yuan replied quite straightforwardly.

"Run away again?" The Marshal of the Warring States paused the hand holding the teacup, raised his eyes, looking suspiciously across the rim of the porcelain cup, "Even you let her escape?"

"Yeah—that girl is really good at escaping." Huang Yuan shrugged without feeling embarrassed at all, and then raised his hands in a gesture of surrender, "Hey—Marshal, it's because I didn't sleep well after traveling for several days , the cup in your hand, take it easy, don't point it at my head~"

"Do you think you're Karp or that bastard Kuzan? This is my favorite tea set." After speaking, Marshal Warring States bowed his head as usual and took a sip of hot tea, implying that you were worrying too much.

Huang Yuan smiled silently, pretending not to notice the slightly sinking corners of his immediate superior's mouth, he picked up the teacup at hand, and put on a posture of concentration, with the attitude of wanting to drink rare treasures from the cup, taking his time After tasting this dish, I have changed to the tasteless warm tea many times.

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The room was eerily quiet for a moment.

After a long, long time, Huang Yuan heard the incomprehensible sigh of the immediate superior, and said without mentioning anything else, "Have you received the news? The end of the civil/war in Pakistan."

"Ah?" Huang Yuan moved his eyes away from the cup in his hand, thought for a while, and nodded, "I heard on the way back that the sand crocodile was defeated by a rookie pirate." The corners of his lips curled up, "This year, there are really talented people~"

After he finished speaking, Marshal Warring States slapped his palm on the table, his face turned blue, and his voice was raised several degrees, "That bastard Sand Crocodile will definitely add to the chaos! When is it not good to steal the country, I chose to destroy it at the same time as the Muse bad timing."

"With the lack of the Qiwuhai camp, the three major forces in building a balance will be tilted. The situation is already bad enough, and the underground black market will collapse again. It won't be long..."

"Marshal don't have to worry too much, just find a replacement." Huang Yuan interjected leisurely, and continued casually, "Let the news out, there are so many desperadoes who are willing to take over~"

With the tacit consent of the government, wanton plundering and killing -- such a "good thing", few people can resist the temptation, ah~ except for the fire fist who didn't know if he had a brain a few years ago, and even the emperor of the Nine Snakes They all surrendered under pressure, didn't they?

"Speaking of this matter—" the eyes under the deep tea lenses narrowed meaningfully, glanced at the opposite side quickly, and immediately lowered their eyelashes, Huang Yuan pretended to be unintentional and said, "I have someone to choose. "

The Marshal of the Warring States Period was just silent, and did not continue to ask. After a long while, he put down the teacup in his hand, picked up his glasses and put them back on the bridge of his nose, and glanced at him again, his eyes were sharp and clear, and he saw everything. "

He got up slowly, followed the steps of his immediate superiors, one after the other, went to the large meeting room of the Navy Headquarters at the end of the corridor.

After leaving the office, he and the marshal were alone in the long corridor.

In an atmosphere that was so quiet that it seemed to be depressing, Huang Yuan heard the Warring States Marshal with his back turned to him, and said in a moody manner, "Pirates are just pirates after all."

He knew the marshal's concerns, and the marshal must have guessed what he meant, but neither side made it clear, but he was not in a hurry to argue. Huang Yuan believed that when the meeting was over, his suggestion would still have a high success rate.

The camps of the three major forces are out of balance. In order to ensure a stable situation, they must find someone to fill the vacancy and stabilize their position before the situation deteriorates further.

The new Shichibukai needs absolutely powerful force to be able to suppress the turmoil that is about to be set off in the first half, and at the same time, it cannot be so hostile to the navy that it will never die.

Not counting the old grievances 20 years ago, just talking about the personal relationship, the above two items, that person actually fits.

In any case, Huang Yuan is still very optimistic about his idea.

…………Dividing line…………

In the large conference room of the headquarters, all the personnel have arrived.

Followed the Marshal into the conference room, walked to the head of the long conference table, took the empty seat and sat down, changed several postures in a row to find the most comfortable angle, and then Huang Yuan slowly looked around the room:

Those who participated in this meeting were all high-ranking navy officers, lieutenant generals, and above, except those who were stationed or performing missions, the generals who stayed in the headquarters were present.

Nearly half of the more than a dozen lieutenant generals guarding the headquarters were present, all of them looked solemn, and their eyes were fixed on the top Marshal of the Warring States Period.

Among the three generals, apart from Akainu Sakaski, who is in the New World now, Aokiji Kuzan is also diagonally across from the yellow monkey, with one hand propping his jaw, and his eyes are indescribably loose and sleepy.

After the Marshal of the Warring States Period took his seat, he raised his hand slightly to signal, and he didn't say much. He just let the staff of the staff who were waiting on the side distribute the sorted materials to everyone one by one. Scenes from the Muse operation.

This is Huang Yuan's style of doing things. He has always disliked explaining things afterward. During major operations, every operator on a mission is equipped with surveillance equipment, and every word and action is recorded, and made public when the dust settles. In public, rewards and punishments are clearly defined.

During the time of returning to the voyage, the written materials and the images extracted by the photography bug were all sorted out. The beginning and end of the Muse's trip were fully replayed through the team led by him from multiple angles.

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Landing on the Muse, I met a former major general who defected from the navy camp in the dock...

Zhan Taomaru leaves the air bridge and goes to the pirate area below to collect information...

He exchanged greetings with the guide, and the empty seat next door was occupied by the Heart Pirates...

A woman with an unfamiliar appearance enters the snow-white rice paper door...

Admiral Flying Squirrel sits quietly in front of the golden cage, behind the railings strewn with jewels, the delicate and beautiful Bird of Paradise sings quietly...

Seeing this scene again, Huang Yuan subconsciously cast his eyes on the flying squirrels sitting in the group of generals below, raised his brows slightly, then moved away with a half-smile, and focused on the scene being played.

In the quiet conference room, the voice of that person came out through the equipment. The disguised voice seemed very ordinary, but inside it still had a quality that ordinary people could not match.

She said, "It's better not to make a promise like this~"

She said she didn't hate the navy, she just had a different stand.

She raised her hand and gently placed it on the back of his hand. She clasped his fingers and let go of each other's hands almost at the same time. She confronted his well-known temptation and stood cautiously within their respective bottom lines.

Knowing what he was doing, she said, she said he was an enemy again.

She said, 'My honor is loyalty. '

Like words of admiration, there is imperceptible regret and sadness hidden in the tone.

In the end, she turned around and drifted away, and he stayed where he was, vaguely as if the two who admired each other finally went their separate ways.

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To be honest, after watching the video footage submitted by the flying squirrel, Huang Yuan was more or less surprised. He really didn't expect that this subordinate would be willing to make all the things that happened between him and that person public.

After the Chambord Islands incident, there have been rumors about Nicole Robin that are not good for flying squirrels, and the addition of the Muse section proves that the previous whispers are not groundless.

The flying squirrel is so calm that he is not afraid of any kind of gossip afterwards.

After quietly staring at the flying squirrel for a while, and then carefully looking at the expressions of other people in the meeting room, Huang Yuan immediately looked away and only sneered in his heart.

Sitting in the meeting room now, Lieutenant General Flying Squirrel looked as usual. From Huang Yuan's point of view, this subordinate might have already made up his mind to break the boat.

Instead of making people criticize, it is better to spread all the secrets in front of everyone's eyes. As a lieutenant general, Flying Squirrel has not done anything wrong. It is just that he likes a person, which is not a big deal.

And the incompatibility with the navy camp, after that person said that sentence, silently weakened a lot.

She said, "My honor is loyalty. ], even though they knew that she was a wanted criminal, all of you in the conference room, as soldiers, agreed for a moment.

Therefore, unconsciously, the ignorance between her and the lieutenant general is not so obtrusive.

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Hey—Lieutenant General Flying Squirrel is not as rigid and inflexible as he appears on the surface~ He is indeed the person brought out by Garp, and the way to solve the predicament is really unusual.

Huang Yuan clicked his tongue twice, on the surface he was still relaxed and out of tune, but there was no smile in his eyes.