Attracting Pirates

At this moment, the entire Pildac Island knew about it.

The Marines had landed, and they had brought a very strange person with them.

A colonel who loved cleaning up trash. On his very first day, he had cleaned their streets spotless.

And unlike other Marines, this one did not have that lofty, superior air about him.

Even now, at night, he was still cleaning up trash in some of the bars that stayed open after dark.

Three days later.

As long as it was a resident's home in town, Ye Tong had swept through it.

The entire town had been given a fresh new look.

Even Kakajero, the king of the Pildac Kingdom, had come to receive the colonel. In the end, however, he had only managed to take him away by using the excuse of having him clean the royal palace.

Still, they had a very favorable impression of Ye Tong.

"Have you been attacked by pirates here before?"

After cleaning the palace, Ye Tong asked Kakajero directly.

"Only small-time pirates come here. The big pirates do not even think we are worth robbing."

"And there are bandits here too. Marine sir, you..."

"Enough. My people have already gone to deal with the bandits."

"We will remain here for another two days. During that time, can you lure some pirates here?"

Ye Tong directly asked the question he cared about most.

Indeed, no major pirates would appear here.

But Ye Tong believed there had to be some way to make it happen.

He simply did not know what it was.

"There is a way. As long as we obtain a huge amount of wealth, we can lure in major pirates."

Kakajero answered directly.

"A huge amount of wealth?"

"I have thirty million. Is that enough?"

As Ye Tong spoke, he tossed out a bag.

It was packed full of ten-thousand-Beli notes.

"It is enough. This is enough to attract pirates with bounties in the tens of millions."

Kakajero was somewhat excited.

Since becoming king, let alone possessing great wealth, he had nearly been unable to keep the kingdom running.

If not for the fact that the people here could still live and work in peace, the country would likely have fallen long ago.

This was the reality for many small nations.

They could not pay the Heavenly Tribute, nor did they have enough military strength to resist pirates.

They were like duckweed drifting on the sea; once a wave struck, they could be destroyed at any time.

Seeing this, Ye Tong felt somewhat moved.

There were countless places like this in the world.

If he wanted to save them, he would have to change the Celestial Dragons' policy of collecting protection money.

But changing that group of people would not be so simple.

"Go ahead and lure them in. Before I leave, I will make sure you can live stable lives."

With that, Ye Tong left.

As time passed, Ye Tong continued carrying out his cleaning tasks the next day.

The third day.

It was also the second day after Kakajero had promised to lure in pirates.

One pirate ship after another appeared outside Pildac Island.

"Men, there is only one Marine colonel here. With the three of us, we can destroy them all."

"This is the West Blue. Once we run, even the Marines will not be able to do anything to us."

"Prepare to fire!"

On one of the pirate ships, its captain began rallying his crew.

"Hey, are you Ulrok, captain of the Beheading Pirates, with a bounty of twelve million?"

Just as Ulrok was about to attack, a voice reached his ears.