At the port of Marine Base 36, it was no longer the entire base's soldiers seeing someone off this time. Only Hina and Yang Yunzhi were there.
Watching Gion's ship fade into the distance, Hina asked, "She wanted to transfer you to Marine Headquarters. Why didn't you go?"
"What do you think?" Yang Yunzhi gently took Hina's hand and asked with a smile.
Hina blushed, but still said, "It's difficult to earn merits and rise through the ranks in the Four Seas. Advancing two ranks in ten years would already be impressive. But at Marine Headquarters, with your abilities, you could become a rear admiral within five years!"
"So what?" Yang Yunzhi shook his head. "I have no desire to become a General; I only wish for peace upon the seas. What I seek is for the people of the Four Seas to live and work in peace, not personal status or rank!"
"Don't forget our cause!" Yang Yunzhi looked at Hina.
Hina froze for a moment, then suddenly understood.
That was right, they were going to fight the World Government. How could they oppose the World Government if they went to Marine Headquarters? Of course, they had to build up their forces in the Four Seas!
In truth, that was all nonsense. The main reason was that Yang Yunzhi knew it was not yet time for the plot. No matter how hard he worked now, it would be useless.
Besides, all three General positions were already filled. Even if he had the strength, they would not promote him.
He might as well quietly build up his power in the Four Seas.
Colonel Nezumi had sheltered Arlong for so many years without anyone discovering it. Colonel Morgan had outright built a cult of personality in his own territory. If Garp had not come along, nothing would have happened to him.
Those two examples alone showed what the Marines in the Four Seas were like. They were practically local tyrants.
With such great power at his disposal, would it not be a waste not to use it?
And it seemed that becoming a General required going through some sort of loyalty test as well?
It would be better to wait until after the Paramount War, when a General position became vacant, and then seek promotion.
Of course, he might even be promoted directly to Fleet Admiral. That would depend on how well Yang Yunzhi developed his forces by then.
Although this was a world that placed enormous importance on individual strength, he still needed to build up a force of his own. He could not personally handle everything himself!
"By the way, how is your ability development going?" Yang Yunzhi suddenly asked.
Hina rolled her eyes. "When have I had time to develop my Devil Fruit these past few days?"
She had been busy drilling soldiers during the day, then spending the nights fooling around with her young boyfriend. She truly had no time to improve her personal strength.
Yang Yunzhi was somewhat speechless and hurriedly said, "But now that we're both Devil Fruit users, why don't we use the daytime to train?"
"But I still have to drill the soldiers!" Hina said.
"Leave soldier training to your subordinates. Pick out several instructors and have them do nothing but train the soldiers!" Yang Yunzhi said. "This is a world where personal strength reigns supreme. Soldier combat power is all superficial, so you need to learn how to employ people and delegate your work!"
"That does make sense!" Hina nodded. "A few Marines have already grasped the essentials. I'll promote them to instructors right away! By the way, what about you? Shouldn't you find someone to share your work too?"
"I plan to find a capable secretary!" Yang Yunzhi thought for a moment, then asked tentatively, "Would you agree if I found a clever, beautiful female secretary with a great figure?"
Hina's gaze sharpened, killing intent filling her eyes. "You dare!"
"Fine." Yang Yunzhi sighed. It seemed he could only keep Robin outside.
But the problem was, he had not found Robin yet!
"Do you know where General Aokiji is right now?" Yang Yunzhi suddenly asked. "Is he in the West Blue?"
"How did you know?" Hina asked. "He really did come to the West Blue these past two days!"
General Aokiji guarded the Grand Line year-round, though he occasionally crossed the Calm Belt to inspect the Four Seas.
Hina had naturally received a notice from the General, but she had not told Yang Yunzhi because she did not know he would care about it.
How could he not know? Aokiji had followed Robin for nearly twenty years. Who knew whether the guy was some kind of pervert?
"Where in the West Blue is he?" Yang Yunzhi asked.
"I don't know that, but the commander of Branch 82 on Ghost Mulberry Island in the West Blue met him yesterday!"
"Are there any well-known mafia forces around Ghost Mulberry Island?" Yang Yunzhi asked.
"Um..." Hina shook her head. "I really don't know!"
Then she remembered something. "Wait, isn't the Intelligence Office under your command? Why are you asking me for intelligence?"
That was such a reasonable question that he had no answer.
"It hasn't opened for business yet!" Yang Yunzhi scratched his head awkwardly. "But the Door-Door Fruit is already in place, so naturally this intelligence organization is about to begin operations!"
"You wanted the Door-Door Fruit to build an intelligence organization?" Hina asked in surprise. "Wasn't it for storing ammunition?"
"That was just to fool Gion!" Yang Yunzhi said. "The space opened by the Door-Door Fruit can not only store things, but people too, and the space inside is infinitely large. Intelligence organizations have extremely strict secrecy requirements, so our Intelligence Office headquarters and all kinds of intelligence can be kept entirely within that alternate space. Then no one will ever be able to find them!"
"So that's how it is!" Hina nodded. If they were merely setting up an intelligence organization for Base 36, there would have been nothing wrong with placing its headquarters at Base 36.
But if it was an intelligence organization built to resist the World Government, they needed to find another headquarters.
Yet the World Government's spies were highly capable too. If they truly established headquarters somewhere in the West Blue, it would be easily discovered.
But now that they had the Door-Door Fruit, they had an intelligence organization headquarters that would never be found.
"Come to think of it, shouldn't we give our intelligence organization a name?" Hina suddenly remembered something.
Military Intelligence Office was the name of a department, not the name of an intelligence organization.
"I know there's an organization in the North Blue that sells intelligence called the Joker Organization! I think we could call ours the King Organization!"
Yang Yunzhi was speechless. "Can an intelligence organization that lets people know its name still be called an intelligence organization? Can an exposed intelligence organization still gather classified intelligence?"
"Huh?" Hina froze. That did seem to make sense!
"So our intelligence organization will have no name, but it can also have many names!" Yang Yunzhi said with a smile. "Just watch how I handle it when the time comes!"
"Mm-hm!" Hina nodded. He had handled even the eradication of the mafia so skillfully. What kind of approach would he take with this intelligence organization?
"But there's something I need to report to you in advance!" Yang Yunzhi said. "From now on, I may often be away from the base during the day, and I might not necessarily return at night either!"
"No!" Without even thinking, Hina shook her head. "I won't agree!"
"How can you not agree? If I'm forming an intelligence organization, I'll definitely have to travel everywhere. But at my speed, I can cover at most two hundred li a day. Are we supposed to limit our intelligence organization to within those two hundred li?"
"..." That did seem to make sense.
But they had only just started dating. Were they already going to be separated?
If she had known the price of opposing the World Government would be so great, she would have...
Fine, she still had to oppose it. After all, Yang Yunzhi was definitely going to rebel. If she did not, they could never be together.
"Fine, but you can't be gone too long. You have to return at least once every three days!"
"Ten days!"
"No, five days!"
"Eight days!"
"Seven days, all right? Come back at least once a week!"
"Fine!" Yang Yunzhi nodded, then added, "Actually, I have an idea for the Door-Door Fruit. Once I develop that ability, let alone every seven days, I might even be able to come back every day!"
"Really? What ability?" Hina asked curiously.
"Any Door, or perhaps a teleportation gate!" Yang Yunzhi said. "As long as I open a door, I can instantly travel from the East Blue to the West Blue, from the South Blue to the North Blue!"
"Can such a door exist?" Hearing Yang Yunzhi's description, Hina blinked. No matter how hard she tried, she could not imagine what such a door would look like.
"Of course it can. For the sake of our happy life, it must!"
Naturally, the locals of the One Piece World knew nothing about dimensional gates, but how could he, a transmigrator, not know about them?
Dimensional gates, space-time gates, Any Doors, Stargates—he had seen plenty of them!
He even had the relevant physical concepts in his mind. He refused to believe he could not develop it!
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