Chương 1875: Battle of the North Sea (21)

Although he didn't know how many troops the Rockefeller Kingdom had dispatched this time and which powerful people were helping, Damon didn't want to be that silly "warrior".

He would rather choose to retreat temporarily, preserve his strength, and wait for a better opportunity to make a comeback.

However, Damon was very sure that this uninvited guest was definitely extremely powerful and famous.

He couldn't help but think of the famous and powerful people in the Rockefeller Kingdom, all of whom he couldn't afford to offend.

Damon is now in his sixties, and the vicissitudes of life have long erased the bravery and fearlessness of his youth.

Not only that, as he got older, his strength inevitably declined.

Although his current strength can still be maintained at the level of vice admiral, he is obviously still slightly inferior to those elite vice admirals of the Navy Headquarters.

It can be said that Damon is at best just an ordinary lieutenant general.

It was for this reason that he was sent to the remote area of the North Sea to serve as governor.

After all, the navy's need for combat power in the battles of the Grand Line is extremely urgent, and any elite lieutenant general-level combat power can be regarded as a backbone and can stand on their own.

The Navy will naturally not leave such valuable combat power idle in a place like the North Sea and waste its value.

You know, the Four Seas and the Grand Line are simply two completely different worlds.

In the Grand Line, there are countless strong people, like fish in the river; but in places like the Four Seas, strong people are rare, and most of the people you see on a daily basis are ordinary people.

The reason why they can act so arrogantly is simply because they rely on their large numbers.

Those pirates with bounties of hundreds of millions or even tens of millions seem extremely powerful, but in fact, even an ordinary person with a gun is fully capable of shooting them to death.

Because of this, the bounty hunter industry came into being and quickly grew in the vast sea of the Four Seas.

Bounty hunters are famous throughout the world. They make a living by hunting down pirates whose bounties are on the minds of the navy, and hand these pirates over to the navy in exchange for huge bounties.

This industry attracted many powerful people from all over the world, who specifically selected pirates with bounties on their heads by the navy as their targets in order to earn generous rewards.

For some people, bounty hunting is no longer just a side job, but their main job.

However, it is worth noting that the profession of bounty hunter only exists in the four seas.

In the Grand Line, a place full of unknowns and dangers, there is almost no news about bounty hunters.

Only at the entrance of Upside-Down Mountain can you see some bounty hunters squatting at the exit of Upside-Down Mountain, waiting for the pirates who are rushing from all seas to the first half of the Grand Line.

However, once you go deep into the Grand Line, the bounty hunters' living space becomes extremely narrow.

After all, none of the pirates who can survive in the Grand Line are easy to deal with.

They are all truly strong men with extraordinary strength, so how could they be easily hurt by bounty hunters?

In the Grand Line, the true strength of a pirate with a bounty of tens of millions is incomparable to those pirates in the four seas with a bounty of over tens of millions.

In the vast seas, the struggle between the navy and pirates never stops.

However, a unique mode of cooperation has quietly emerged on this ocean - the navy often entrusts bounty hunters to eliminate pirates on their behalf.

In this way, the navy can reap the credit for eliminating pirates without having to take risks themselves; and bounty hunters can get generous rewards by completing missions.

This mutually beneficial and win-win approach has provided navies around the world with an additional outsourcing task.

In such an environment, as many as 80% of the people in the navy of the four seas are regarded as waste.

The reason they chose to join the navy was simply to make a living, and they had no interest or ability in real combat.

It would be a pipe dream to expect these "wastes" to fight against the powerful Rockefeller Empire or stop its expansion.

Damon knew this very well, so he expressed his views to Zhan Guo so tactfully. In fact, he was giving the marshal a shot of prevention in advance so that he could be mentally prepared.

After all, it is not something that can be said openly that Damon, the Governor of the North Sea, wants to escape.

He could only inform the marshal in this tacit way, so as to avoid having all the blame on him when the North Sea fell.

Damon knew very well that if the North Sea was lost, someone would have to take responsibility, and he was ready to be dismissed.

After all, in such cases, there has to be a scapegoat to bear the consequences of failure.

Apart from Damon, an old man in his seventies who is about to retire, I'm afraid no one else has the "honor" to take this blame.

After all, whether it is the powerful Zhan Guo or the unfathomable Five Elders, they are definitely not people that a small North Sea Governor like Damon can easily offend.

Damon knew this very well, so he had no choice but to swallow his anger, just like a broken tooth that he had to swallow hard.

Anyway, he is already in his sixties, and it is time for him to retire and enjoy a peaceful life.

As for whether he will be punished for this, there are actually some unwritten rules within the navy.

If you really break this matter down and analyze it carefully, you will find that it is not Damon's fault at all.

The ones who should really take responsibility are the Navy and the World Government.

Who could have imagined that the Rockefeller Kingdom far away in the New World would suddenly invade the North Sea?

As the Governor of the North Sea, Damon has always been responsible for dealing with the local forces in the North Sea.

But now a powerful foreign enemy suddenly appears, and it seems understandable that Damon cannot defeat him.

So, Damon is actually not worried at all about the possible liquidation.

Since he had already made up his mind to retire, he naturally didn't need to be nice to Zhan Guo anymore.

After all, even Zhan Guo himself has given up, so why should he try to please him?

Damon felt powerless at this time. He knew very well that he could not compete with such a powerful enemy.

So, he made the decision without hesitation - to save his own life first.

Damon hung up the Den Den Mushi unceremoniously, as if it were just a trivial matter.

However, his action stunned everyone else present.

Especially He, her expression instantly became stiff.