From a Pirate to a Revolutionary Mentor

Chapter 267: Giving Civilization Time and the Evacuation of Marinford
The three of them, who had joined the navy at the same time when they were young and had been arresting pirates on the sea for decades, understood each other's thoughts.

Just like after Sengoku knew about the existence of Roger's bloodline, he did not rush to the East China Sea Windmill Village immediately, nor did he ask Garp the reason.

He knew very well the reasons for choosing this partner.

Garp and Tsuru also understood what Sengoku meant by hard work.

If the revolutionary army fails, the future of the navy will be entrusted to them to maintain the current state of the ocean so that some people can survive.

"Hahahaha!"

Garp laughed loudly, then stood up and said, "When the war started, even the pirates did not let their king go first. The cloaked man is just a little kid. How does he compare to Rocks 28 years ago?"

Tsuruya said in a deep voice: "When the two sides are fighting, the marshal must be in the rear. As for the cloaked man... that temperature form can only be maintained for two or three seconds. Garp and I will find a way to intercept him."

"Brother!"

An anxious voice sounded from the seat of the substitute general. Taotu looked worried, but couldn't say any words of persuasion.

At this time, Kevin, who seemed to be in a trance since the meeting began, stood up.

"Everyone has their own answer to what is right and wrong, but the existence of the navy is indeed the only force that ordinary people can rely on at present."

"I think everyone has their own thoughts on the true position of justice. I don't want to judge the good and evil of an organization that has committed serious crimes, but as long as we are still the navy, we need to think about those ordinary people."

Having said this, Kevin looked at everyone behind him and said, "If there is no navy on this ocean in the future... I'm afraid the world will really fall into complete chaos."

“It is human nature to care about gains and losses, but this world is not just about gains and losses, but also about what we insist on in our hearts.”

……

As soon as the words fell, some people in the conference room looked at Kevin with admiration.

The halo bestowed upon them by the Seven Warlords system once again played a role at this moment.

Kevin sat down again, thinking about the previous communication with the original body.

When the true secrets of the world were revealed before him, he knew that this war would not be the final one.

The power in the original body's memory that can destroy the Kingdom of Lulucia in one blow is not unique to Marijoa.

six...

Such a number is simply frightening to the bottom of one's heart. He was also glad that due to an accident, the headquarters was moved from Baldigo to Sky Island.

Due to Vegapunk's technological innovations, the location of the Sky Island Headquarters is never fixed.

If the Revolutionary Army was discovered before the transfer, and at this time, I'm afraid that guy on Marijoa would use that power without hesitation.

Kevin's words puzzled both Borsalino and Kuzan, because those words just now were based on the premise that the Revolutionary Army would fail, asking the Navy to consider the overall situation.

But doing so would only result in additional casualties for the navy.

In their opinion, the navy was about to become a force comparable to the revolutionary army.

In recent years, since batches of lecturers were assigned to the navy, the thinking of the new generation has changed greatly.

Even many people who were able to attend this meeting, including major generals and above, had already secretly become members of the revolutionary army.

In this situation, both sides are on the same side, how to fight?
"Besides, the cloaked man is no fool."

Kevin looked at Zhan Guo: "Such power is very strong but it cannot be maintained for a long time. Who is the real enemy of the Revolutionary Army? I think he knows his limits."

This made everyone in the conference room suddenly understand.

The public execution was scheduled to take place in Marinford. They were responsible for blocking the enemy outside the bay, so the top forces of the World Government would inevitably be present inside the bay and even on the execution platform.

In the CP organization, CP0 is called the Shield of the Celestial Dragons.

Above Marijoa, there is also the power of the Knights of God.

In addition, according to the New Era News, in the previous action, all the Five Elders descended from Marijoa, and the Saint Satan was burned to ashes by the flames but seemed immortal.

Of course, these three forces will definitely not descend on Marinford in a month. After all, the Celestial Dragons on Marijoa still need protection.

However, what everyone in the navy can think of is that the Five Elders will definitely be there.

For a moment, the navy in the conference room was restless.

……

Revolutionary Army, Sky Island Headquarters.

After passing the verification and entering the research institute, all the scientific researchers we met stopped and bowed slightly to show respect.

The cursor worn on the chest is the identification given when entering.

Kevin walked all the way to the conference room at the top of the research institute. Not long after he entered, Vegapunk pushed the door and walked in.

"It's pretty quick this time, Doctor."

"I received a notice after Mr. entered the institute."

Vegapunk casually took an iron rod from the robot and swung it, and a three-dimensional image was projected into the conference room.

All he saw was a ball of fire rising from the water. It was just a projection, but Kevin knew what it was.

Looking at Vegapunk again, his eye sockets were bloodshot, his tongue was weak, and he had lost a lot of weight.

"The Doctor hasn't slept since that meeting, has he?"

Vegapunk waved his hand and asked the robot to pour him a cup of coffee.

Then he turned around and looked at the projection in the center of the conference room: "In the initial stage, I didn't understand what it meant at that time. But when it was actually produced..."

At this point, Vegapunk's already thin body trembled, as if he was afraid of something.

A pair of trembling hands reached out and carefully touched the projected three-dimensional image, until the fingers touched and penetrated it, and then they came to their senses a little.

Yes, what is in front of you is not that thing, it is just a three-dimensional projection recorded in the cloud database.

"In fact, even before the meeting, the energy project, which is the most important part of the giant mechanical soldier project, had already achieved initial results."

Vegapunk said as he came back to his senses and looked straight at Kevin.

"But because it was only in the initial stage, I didn't see its essence clearly. In the past month, if I didn't sleep and worked non-stop, I was able to produce the first generation of samples."

"Mr. has also seen that I succeeded."

After the words fell, there was silence in the conference room.

After a long while, a mechanical voice sounded from the conference room's loudspeaker: "Leader Dorag is visiting. Do you want to open the entrance to the top-secret meeting?"

Without any hesitation, Vegapunk replied, "No."

Mechanical voice: "Understood."

Outside the meeting room, Dorag looked helpless.

As the leader of the revolutionary army, he was actually rejected by his own research institute. He had no choice but to wait.

In the revolutionary army, the internal discipline of scientific research institutions is determined by scientific researchers and implemented after meetings. Even the leader is not allowed to violate it.

If there are loopholes, a high-level meeting can be held to decide whether to change it, but orders cannot be imposed based on one's status.

The discipline of the revolutionary army not only constrains ordinary members, but everyone, including the leader, needs to abide by the discipline.

……

In the conference room, neither Vegapunk nor Kevin paid any attention to Dorag who was turned away, but continued to look at each other.

"I succeeded sir."

"Ah."

"But the first thing I thought about was how to destroy it."

Vegapunk frowned, his expression extremely complicated: "I created it and called it the Mother Fire. But at that moment, I knew that I couldn't control it, or guarantee the hearts of the people in this world."

"The teacher said: The changes in people's hearts are unpredictable. Right and wrong, good and evil need to be analyzed and discerned with one's own wisdom."

"Just like the power of technology, it will play a different role in everyone's hands. Whether it is good or bad depends on people's thoughts."

"Sir... this flame..."

"It represents people's desire for unlimited energy, and the dawn of a rapid development of civilization..."

"But it also represents...destruction."

The moment the words fell, the projection began to blur and change.

The Clover Islands in the East China Sea, the Polaris Islands, the Kingdom of Goa, the Cocoa West Village, and the Rogue Town...

These islands, which present a panoramic view from the air, appear one by one in the form of projections.

"Sir, do you know... if the energy of the Mother Fire is used in war, the power will be devastating even to the world, sir?"

The next moment, the projection changed into the appearance of Rogue Town.

Above it, a little fire began to condense, and then suddenly began to fall.

The projection began to shake violently, and the little firelight suddenly emitted a strong and dazzling light, illuminating the entire Rogue Town in the dark as if it were daytime.

At first, the high temperature burned everything, and then the impact suddenly contracted and then suddenly expanded.

A mushroom cloud rose up, and with Rogue Town as its center, the entire island was completely eliminated from the sea level. The attack even caused the sea water under Rogue Town to disappear, forming a huge deep pit.

This scene made Kevin's eyes slightly fixed.

But the next moment, the sea water in the projected scene began to flow back, quickly filling up the huge hole formed by the attack just now.

The vortex still existed on the sea surface, swallowing up the sea water and all the debris of the island, but this was different from the scene Kevin remembered.

The energy used in the attack that erased the Kingdom of Lulucia from memory was just a part of the stolen Mother Fire. You must know that what Vegapunk is simulating now is the explosion of the full power of the Mother Fire.

So was this difference caused by... the ancient weapons? Or some other reason? Soon, the projected town of Rogue completely disappeared above the sea level, and the projection ended.

Vegapunk lowered his head and muttered to himself: "If such power is obtained by someone with evil intentions, I really don't know what else can stop it..."

"Sir... I'm very confused now."

"Mr. said that as long as everyone awakens themselves and liberates their imprisoned thoughts, based on the conditions of domineering awakening, evil dragons will no longer appear in the future."

Looking at his own hands, Vegapunk trembled slightly: "But I... I feel like I am creating a dragon with my own hands, an invincible dragon."

"I am just a scientist, a scientist who relies on the power of the Brain-Brain Fruit. There have been people smarter than me in the past, and there will be in the future as well."

"If that time comes... no one can stop the birth of the evil dragon, sir. The power of domineering is simply irresistible."

After he finished speaking, the conference room was silent for a long time, with only the sound of Vegapunk's breathing remaining.

After a long moment, Kevin said, "The mother fire comes from the giant mechanical soldiers, and the giant mechanical soldiers are clearly from the ancient kingdom. So, do you think the power of the ancient weapons has this core energy?"

This made Vegapunk stunned.

Yes, the Mother Fire was not the first one he created, but was the result of reverse engineering based on the analysis of the giant mechanical soldiers.

According to the documents from O'Hara within the Revolutionary Army, even he today cannot fully replicate the technology of the ancient kingdom.

But such a huge kingdom eventually disappeared in history.

Kevin sat down on his own and looked up at Vegapunk: "In fact, I can't guarantee you what the future of this world will be."

Vegapunk frowned.

Kevin laughed at himself and continued, "In the past, I felt that I was standing in the future of this era. I looked at the development of this world arrogantly and believed that this world would definitely become the perfect ideal."

"But the so-called perfection itself is wrong. Even the ideology of the Revolutionary Army cannot guarantee that every future generation will have such a selfless spirit as the present one."

"Times are changing. The next generation, or the next three or four generations, will eventually look back on the heroic sacrifices of the revolutionary army as history."

"Maybe they will shed tears, or they may even speak sarcastically, but no matter how they react, their inner human desires will not change because of anything."

Kevin sighed at this point: "The world itself is a huge cycle. There is no absolute fairness, only relative fairness and relative perfection."

Vegapunk's eyes gradually became confused: "Then...what are we fighting for?"

Kevin replied in a deep voice: "For this deformed world in front of us, in order to change it so that he can be better, even if it's just a little bit better..."

Better?
Vegapunk stood there in a daze, ignoring the coffee that the robot brought over, and kept thinking about Kevin's words.

After a while: "The destruction of the world... is that a better thing?"

Kevin smiled and said, "I don't know. But I think the appearance of the Mother Fire is definitely not to destroy the world. The Doctor hopes that he can provide nearly unlimited energy for the continuation of life, right?"

Vegapunk nodded: "But with this kind of power, once..."

"In that case, there will be a new revolutionary army, right?"

Kevin interrupted him, still smiling: "Human wisdom is not something that was achieved overnight. Intelligent life has evolved from slash-and-burn farming to living in groups today and standing at the top of the food chain. What is the reason?"

As if answering his own question, Kevin continued, "Grind the stone to a sharp edge, then tie a straw rope to the top of a wooden stick and throw it. This change not only makes it easier to catch prey, but also makes it easier for the same species to kill each other."

"When life gathers together in a group, there will be one or two who will stand out and become the leaders who lead the progress of the race... and thus the thing called power is born."

"Power breeds desire. When life enjoys the benefits brought by power, desire will expand. But Doctor... sometimes desire is not necessarily a bad thing."

"In Dr. Baltimore's hometown, cold weather resources have become very difficult to obtain. But from the perspective of the entire world, humans have occupied a lot of resources, but doesn't the doctor still have desires? Nearly unlimited energy is also a kind of desire, isn't it?"

Kevin paused at this point.

I got the truth about this world from Roger, and also learned which two ideas were the so-called collision of ideas.

The future of rapid technological development will destroy the world. So is it right to stagnate technology and maintain the power of a small group of people through feudal slavery?
At that time, a passage from memory emerged from my mind.

"Give time to civilization, not time to civilization."

Before I knew it, these words came out of my mouth.

At the same time, it also made Vegapunk look up suddenly.

Civilized?
The darkness of this world is so unbearable that all races are slaves of the Celestial Dragons, and some are branded with sin since birth.

Being executed because of one's surname, becoming a slave because of one's race, or even having a hard time surviving because of one's ordinary status is extremely difficult.

In his mind, the truths of the world that Vegapunk knew emerged one by one.

Give civilization time...

This world is not a civilized world.

"Boom."

Kevin placed a round sphere on the desk.

"This thing can form a protective shield by inputting energy. The amount of energy determines the strength and area of ​​the protective shield."

"We can't be sure of what the future will be like, but we can decide now... at least, make the world look not so bad now."

After he finished speaking, Kevin turned and left the meeting room.

He returned the power of choice to Vegapunk and did not make any moves to demand anything from him from a moral high ground.

Just like Roger and Rayleigh of the Sabaody Archipelago, everyone will have their own choice when facing OnePiece, and this choice is not consistent.

Kevin has his own persistence. Because he has seen the light before, he cannot tolerate the darkness now no matter what.

This was decided since he was born into this world. In his memory, life should not be taken away so easily. No matter how big or small the price is, there is always a price.

……

There are only seven days left before the execution.

In the living area of ​​Marine Headquarters Marinford, each sailor was saying goodbye to their loved ones.

But the lowest military rank among them was not major general, but lieutenant colonel of the headquarters.

Under orders from the World Government, the Navy must deploy sufficient forces outside the bay.

Yes, it is the number of troops rather than the combat power.

The issuance of this order once again gave rise to the idea that the navy was a victim.

After people's wisdom was awakened, everyone learned to think about what the events represented.

However, due to the eight hundred years of the World Government's rule, the voices for uprising have not yet appeared, and anger is just anger.

In the living area, Smoker looked at Tina beside him: "You too?"

Tina lit a cigarette: "Sometimes Tina wonders if they can see that future if they are alive."

Smoker looked at the living area again. The families of the middle-level navy officers were basically all here.

Ever since the family of Admiral Zephyr was killed by pirates more than a decade ago, the families of high-ranking officials have had more secretive protection measures.

At this time, young sailors were comforting their families, allowing them to board the refugee ships and leave this place which was originally the safest place in the world.

There were the crying of children and the anxious instructions of his wife.

Smoker snorted coldly and clenched the newspaper in his hand tightly.

White smoke rose up, shredding the newspaper.

A breeze blew the debris up into the air and showered the living quarters below.

"They openly announced the evacuation of the families of mid-level naval officers in the World Economic Journal. These bastards have become more and more unscrupulous!"

Tina blew out a puff of smoke: "You and I both know the reason, don't we? This situation also shows their fear. The clash of ideas has begun, Smoker."

A collision of ideas...

Smoker was silent for a moment.

Of course he knew what this meant.

Those idiots on Mary Geoise probably haven't reacted yet, or they didn't expect in a short period of time that the New Era would bring such a huge change to the world.

This newspaper, which exposed the information about the evacuation of the families of mid-level naval officers, will make all the people in the world who have gradually become wiser speculate on the deeper meaning behind it.

"Any orders?"

Tina had finished her cigarette and sounded a little irritable.

Smoker: "No. Mr. Admiral just told us to act alone and not follow him."

Tina stretched out her hand and rubbed her hair, frowning and stamping out the cigarette butt: "The importance of Mr. General is different from ours. Wartime orders must be obeyed, and we cannot affect Mr. General."

Smoker nodded: "I understand."

……

At the same time, just as Smoker and Tina expected, people around the world were also discussing the new issue of World Economic News.

But just like the last projection broadcast of the World Government, people once again did not just look at the surface, but also analyzed the content of this report in context and drew conclusions.

Roge Town in the East China Sea.

People in the tavern were talking a lot, loudly declaring their views on the situation that would follow.

"The execution site was set in Marinford, and the information about the evacuation of the navy families was leaked directly to the newspapers... Isn't it obvious that the Revolutionary Army is ambush these navy families?"

"Haha...if we really set up an ambush, the Revolutionary Army's reputation would be infamous."

"That's right. After all, no one will trust those villains who don't follow their words and deeds."

……

(End of this chapter)