The reward amount is a very interesting thing in this world.
Although the amount of money does not necessarily represent the real strength, but to a certain extent, it represents the viciousness and danger of the pirates. The comparison between pirates is almost always based on the reward amount, so generally For pirates, they are often complacent about the increase in their bounty.
Pirates with low bounties will usually feel awe in front of pirates with high bounties, and pirates with high bounties will also feel superior because of this. This can be regarded as the class division among pirates .
It is precisely because of this interesting phenomenon that Ian actually wants to know what kind of situation he can reach if he is offered a reward.
After hearing Ian's question, Tina put on her sunglasses, sat down on the deck chair, and said unhurriedly, "Oh? You also want to be offered a reward?"
"Isn't this curious?" Ian smiled and said, "Beauty Tina, just help me figure it out!"
"Put that word away!" Tina took a puff of cigarette and said coldly, "Little brother, I'm older than you, even if you want to call me, you should call me sister!"
After finishing speaking, she also said sternly: "According to the pirates you captured in the East China Sea, your bounty is at least higher than 20 million Baileys, but since you have not caused any threats, it is not true at this point. It is better to assess your danger level, so I can only say that if you are offered a reward, the current reward should not exceed 40 million!"
"So few!" Ian was a little disappointed.
Compared with Ace's 90 million, it's more than double the difference. Sure enough, people with natural devil fruit abilities are more valued.
In fact, Ian also wanted to go wrong. Tina didn't know much about Ian's strength. Let Tina increase Ian's bounty by 20 million in her heart, which shows that she still attaches great importance to Ian.
And there are some things that Tina didn't say. When she contacted the Navy Headquarters to inquire about Ian's information, she naturally also learned about Smoker's evaluation report on Ian. Smoker's sentence "does not fear authority" It reminded Tina a lot, and Ian was also based on this consideration. In Tina's view, for a person like Ian, there is no need to force him to become a pirate. There is no need to erect more opponents for yourself.
Therefore, she tried to say as little as possible about Ian's bounty judgment, and she didn't want Ian to breed ambitions because of the estimated bounty.
Ian was unaware of this mental activity, and just as he was about to let go of this matter, chat with Tina, and learn about the situation on Chambord Island, the watchman on the mast of the warship suddenly shouted.
"Colonel Tina! There is a situation ahead!"
Tina stood up abruptly, and asked, "What's the matter? Is it a pirate?"
"No...it doesn't look like it!" Holding the binoculars in his hands, the watchman said while observing, "It looks like a shipwreck!"
Tina came to the bow suspiciously, followed by Ian and a group of naval soldiers. As the warship continued to advance, what the watchman said was gradually revealed to everyone.
The first to bear the brunt was a corpse floating in the sea!
The corpse was still lying on a broken plank, but there was a long wound on his back, which had been soaked white by the sea.
"It's a pirate!" Tina was startled when she saw the tattoo pattern on the corpse's arm, and said, "And it's a member of the Iron Bone Pirates!"
Tina was originally ordered to hunt down the Iron Bone Pirates this time. Although the siege failed, she remembered the logo of the Iron Bone Pirates firmly, so she recognized it at a glance.
The naval soldiers on board were also very surprised. They never expected that the Iron Bone Pirates, who had been chasing for a long time, would suddenly appear here.
The warship continued to move forward, and more and more corpses appeared, and without exception, they were all members of the Iron Bone Pirates. When they arrived at the scene of the incident, everyone saw a tattered ship The bottom of this ship is fine, so it can float on the sea, but the entire hull, as if blown away by a violent explosion, completely disappeared.
The members of the Iron Bone Pirates were scattered all around, drifting slowly with the sea.
"Investigate immediately!" Tina immediately commanded: "See if there are any survivors. If there are survivors, rescue them and ask them to find out what happened! Also, look for Iron Bones Ewing to see if he has any survivors." it's here!"
The navy soldiers immediately started to move, put down the boat and rowed forward.
Tina turned her head around and asked Ian, "Your friend Ace didn't make this, did you?"
Ian shook his head and said, "Impossible! Leaving aside whether he followed the same route as us after leaving, even if he did, it's impossible for him to do such a cruel thing."
The members of the Iron Bone Pirates appearing here are almost all dead bodies, and most of them are mainly stab wounds. This cannot be done by Ace.
With the investigation by the navy soldiers, more and more strange situations appeared. Among the corpses they salvaged, there were several corpses that looked like children!
However, here is the strange thing. Although they look like children, there are tattoos of the Iron Bone Pirates on these corpses!
Just as Tina and Ian looked at these corpses suspiciously and imagined what was going on, the navy soldiers finally sent a report that they had found Iron Bones Ewing's body!
When Iron Bone Ewing's body appeared, it meant that the Iron Bone Pirates were really wiped out. Tina carefully examined Ewing's injuries, and Ian watched with disgust, because the corpse's The appearance is really scary, a big hole was opened in his chest, as if he was pushed on the chest and fired a mortar.
"How is this possible? Tina is so puzzled!" Tina frowned and said, "Iron Bone Ewing is a bone fruit capable person. He can freely manipulate the bones of his body, exposing the bones to form a layer of bone armor. It’s comparable to steel, not to mention mortar shells, even if it’s a warship’s cannon, it wouldn’t hurt him much, how could it be possible for a mortar fired close to penetrate his chest?”
There are too many doubts. The fatal injury of Iron-Bone Ewing gives people the feeling that he has no defense at all and was directly pierced.
Ace's suspicion was indeed ruled out at this time, but the question is, who is the person who attacked the Iron Bone Pirates
Ian was also thinking deeply. The Iron Bone Pirates must be very cunning. Tina led the troops to the Labyrinth Island to encircle and suppress them, but she didn't meet them at all. The appearance of this location shows that the so-called activities near the vortex island must be false news released by the Iron Bone Pirates. Encounter another enemy, resulting in annihilation of the entire army.
But if we change the direction of thinking, the Iron Bone Pirates did not encounter the enemy by accident, but were deliberately hunted down
It’s no wonder Ian thinks this way, the battle between pirates usually doesn’t kill them all like this, they usually focus on grabbing the other party’s money, then kill the main cadres of the other party, and then recruit the other party’s cadres. The subordinates strengthen themselves, so the tragic situation of the Iron Bone Pirates can only show that the Iron Bone Pirates have a deep hatred with their enemies.
And to hunt down the Iron Bone Pirates means that they need quite detailed information, even comparable to the navy. After all, even Tina, the colonel of the headquarters, was confused.
However, what pirates can have intelligence capabilities comparable to the navy? It’s hard to say, maybe there are, but pirates with such intelligence capabilities are afraid that they will rarely appear in the first half of the great route, right
Tina is probably similar to what Ian thought of, so she feels very confused.
At this moment, a navy soldier suddenly ran over and said excitedly, "Colonel Tina, we finally found a clue! Look, we found this!"
The navy soldier was holding a tattered black cloth towel in his hand. While shaking it to show it to everyone, he said: "We found this in the hands of a member of the Iron Bone Pirates. It seems that he was killed before he was killed. , ripped from the opponent's clothes!"
Both Tina and Ian looked up, and saw that after the black cloth was unfolded, there was a pattern on it, which looked like a skull being pierced by a sharp sword.
This looks a bit like the pirate flag of a certain pirate group, but if you understand it according to the meaning of the pattern, it is a bit wrong. It seems to mean killing pirates instead!
Tina looked at the pattern for a long time, and came to the same conclusion as Ian. She felt that it did not seem to be the logo of a certain pirate group. After thinking about it, she stood up and said, "Tina must Report to the headquarters! You continue to search the scene!"
"Yes!" The navy soldiers stood at attention and responded, and started to work again.
Tina returned to the cabin, and Ian looked around, and found that many naval soldiers were busy at this time, and no one was paying attention to him, so he couldn't help rolling his eyes, and slipped into the cabin quietly.
He planned to eavesdrop and see how Tina reported this matter to the headquarters.