Pirates: Your Emperor is Back!

Speaking of the underground world, the most unavoidable thing to talk about is the "arms trade" in the underground world.

Whether it is in an illegal area beyond the control of the world government, or a great route, or within the territory of a member country...

It is not uncommon for weapons of all kinds to be sold in the underworld and then shipped around the world.

The reason why the underground world can do this is not entirely because of its supernatural powers, but partly because they have some kind of "support" from the world government.

This kind of "support" is not ordinary "approval".

What a gigantic organization is the World Government? If he wanted to investigate with all his heart, no one in the underground world would be able to escape.

Therefore, for the arms dealers in the underground world, as long as the world government "does nothing" and acquiesces to their transactions, that is already the greatest "support".

This is actually very ironic.

Because many people in this world think that the world government and the underground world are two incompatible opposites.

On the one hand, they hate the war brought to them by the arms dealers in the underground world;

On the other hand, they also hope that the world government can uphold justice for them and eradicate the "bad guys" in the underground world.

All in all, it seems that "white" must be righteous, and "black" must be evil.

But the world as a whole is a hazy "gray".

Black and white intertwined, messy...

That is the gray called "Chaos"!

...

In that hazy gray, the underworld seemed a gigantic ghost.

It took exaggerated steps, each step was like an earthquake, and its two eyes radiated a faint light.

Everyone in this dense fog can see this huge ghost, but very few people can touch its entity.

This is the so-called "notoriously illegal"!

Everyone knows that this violates the laws of the World Government, but everyone also knows that this group of people-at least "today" will not be sent to prison.

For ordinary people living in this sea, this is actually very strange, isn't it?

...

So what kind of role is the "weapon trafficking" in the underground world playing in this hazy gray?

Probably, some kind of "tool".

In the thick fog, whether it is "black" or "white", you can take it at will.

That tool is called "force"!

Everyone is yearning for more and stronger force, because in this world, only "force" is the most fundamental foundation!

Abandoning the brilliance of force, no matter how dazzling it is, it will be a castle in the air after all.

O'Hara, the island of archeology, for example.

The scholars in it achieved what no one could accomplish for hundreds of years, but were eventually destroyed by the gunfire of naval warships.

Another example is the Don Quixote family, who obviously hold several lifelines in the underground world, but no one dares to covet them.

Germa 66——Obviously their ambitions are well known in Beihai Road, but there is no force or state intervention to resist them.

[Beasts] Kaido entrenched in Wano Country.

【BIG MOM】Charlotte Lingling who created her own country "All Nations" as she wished.

Even [Pluto] Rayleigh, who lives in seclusion in the Chambord Islands and doesn't care about worldly affairs...

All of this is because it is equipped with enough "power"!

Only "value" alone cannot survive in this sea.

"Value" can be plundered or destroyed by others, but "force" can guarantee that a person's "value" will always be firmly in his own hands!

This is the iron rule about survival in this sea.

...

above deck.

Rowan leaned against the special lava gun, then stretched out his hand, and tapped the barrel on it with his knuckles.

He grinned and said with a smile, "This thing is very dangerous..."

Even Barlow could easily hear the "anger" hidden in Rowan's tone.

Danger?

For Ryan Rowan, the weapon wasn't actually dangerous.

Ordinary gravel soldiers can take a blow from this lava gun with only a shield.

If it wasn't necessary to protect the civilians in the merchant ship behind him, Barlow could easily escape the lava shell.

Therefore, the "danger" that Rowan is talking about at the moment does not refer to a certain person, but the lava gun itself represents "danger".

In other words, it is the so-called "force input".

...

Force input-this concept may be a bit unfamiliar to most people.

But this situation is not uncommon in confrontation at the diplomatic level.

Just imagine, there is such a "country".

At the very beginning, the strongest weapons in circulation in the country were nothing more than sharp swords and strong shields.

Around this country, there are a group of rogues wandering around, and the weapons used by these people are also swords and shields.

When the country's army clashed with these rogues, it was a sword-to-sword, shield-to-shield battle.

But what if suddenly one day, a certain arms dealer sold a large number of muskets and heavy artillery to the bandits?

The army of that country armed with swords and shields is certainly no match for the bandits equipped with muskets and heavy artillery.

The country's armies are bound to be defeated!

unless--

This country is capable of making its own muskets and heavy artillery!

But what if the country is incapable of producing muskets and heavy artillery?

Then they can only buy from weapon dealers.

In this way, there is only one result:

Whether it is the country or the rogues, the money in their hands is given to the arms dealers in exchange for a large number of weapons.

After that, the conflict between the country and the bandits continued, and because of the existence of new weapons, the casualties on both sides were even greater!

The war was brutal, the money was lost...

In the end, except for the "arms merchants" who made a lot of money, both the country and the bandits will be greatly weakened, and even eventually die out.

Analogy now.

If this special "lava gun" is widely circulated within Alabasta and even the Universal Alliance, the results will be met.

Pirates equipped with such lava guns cannot be easily dealt with by ordinary soldiers of the king's army.

Even murloc warriors would probably suffer casualties.

If there is no countermeasure available in Alabasta, the only way is to seek a solution from the underground world!

Because of this, Luo Wen's tone was filled with anger.

But Lane Rowan was that Lane Rowan after all.

He offers a completely different solution.

Since the end result is that the "arms merchant" benefits, wouldn't it be good to just kill the "arms merchant"?

Cut off the source of "trafficking force", and "force" will naturally disappear!

...

After two days of preparation time.

third day.

A fleet headed by naval warships officially set sail from Alabasta!

This team is dominated by the entire navy of the G-T Navy Branch, and the Four Seas Alliance has also sent many elite soldiers to join it.

Target--

The largest "headquarters" in the underground world.

New World, Wano Country!