Chapter 137: Fierce Argument, Headquarters Competition

Chapter 137: Fierce Argument, Headquarters Competition

Seeing Cyborg and Garp arguing endlessly, Sengoku on the side tried to smooth things over by saying, "Actually, what Garp said makes sense. It's too shocking for a 16-year-old marine to become a vice admiral."

Cyborg on the side was about to refute, but when he saw the suggestive look from Zhan Guo, Cyborg immediately understood and said nothing, but a barely perceptible weird smile appeared at the corner of his mouth.

Zhan Guo continued, "So I also suggest that while we are promoting it, we should retain Lu Kai's military rank for now. When he has made another great contribution that is indisputable in the eyes of everyone, we can discuss this matter again."

"Okay, let's do this for now. If there is no objection to this matter, then let's discuss the rules of the internal competitions in the navy!" Seeing that everyone agreed with this suggestion, Cyborg brought up the next topic.

The internal competition of the Navy is an important topic recently raised by the top brass of the Navy Headquarters. The participants are all officers and officers with the rank of major and above, and the rank of lieutenant general and below in the Navy Headquarters and branches.

Internal naval competitions have actually been held before, but they were all on a small scale. However, what the headquarters wants to do now is a large-scale competition covering all navies around the world.

The apparent reason for organizing this competition is that the Navy Headquarters wants to reorganize the Navy's internal combat capabilities.

Some of those who are strong can be directly promoted and given more training efforts through their good performance in this competition, while some of those who are less capable, if their contributions are insufficient, will be sent to the branch to guard it.

Those who lack ability but have made great contributions will be assigned some idle positions. This will also be an opportunity to see clearly some branch commanders who have deceived the headquarters and are actually very weak.

Doing so would maximize the concentration and deployment of naval power.

Therefore, after the news of the internal competition within the Navy spread, many naval officers with the rank of major and above were very excited, while some officers who became officers by swindling and lying about their military achievements were all in a panic.

Now the Great Pirate Era has not yet begun and the number of pirates is not that large, so concentrating the naval generals from all over the world in Marinford will not cause much shock to the world's security for a short period of time.

After all, although the generals came to the headquarters, the non-commissioned officers and marines from each branch were still there.

"We can start high-intensity combat again." Luke, who was returning to Marinford, couldn't help but light up when he heard his adjutant's report on the internal competition of the navy.

A day ago, Lukai had already handed over the escort of Kaido to the warship that was responsible for escorting criminals to Impel Prison. At this time, he was trying to find something to do.

Adjutant Clyde, who was standing by, couldn't help but feel a headache when he saw Lu Kai's expression.

Lu Kai trains hard, is very strong, has a bright future, and has made outstanding military achievements. Following a general like Lu Kai, the officers or marines under his command will generally be promoted faster.

A year ago, 23-year-old Clyde was just a major under Cap. After following Luquet, Clyde made continuous military achievements. In less than a year, he was promoted from major to colonel, and it would not be long before he would be promoted to brigadier general.

In addition, Clyde admired Luke from the bottom of his heart, and he volunteered to follow Luke and wanted to stay with him.

But there were two things that Clyde couldn't stand.

The first is that Lu Kai’s training is too crazy. He doesn’t care about anything on weekdays. All kinds of things on this warship, from top to bottom, are actually taken care of by him, the adjutant.

The second is that Lu Kai is too warlike. Once a fight starts, he doesn't care about anything else. Many times he is the one who has to clean up the mess.

But the more this happened, the more Clyde felt that he should stay by Luke's side and help him fill in the gaps. Sometimes Clyde even called himself a cheapskate, but there was nothing he could do about it, it was just his way of liking this.

"Clyde, give the order to speed up the return trip." Lu Kai said immediately as he looked at the document in his hand.

Inside the room, Luke was not training for a rare occasion. Instead, he sat opposite Clyde and asked the latter, "Clyde, do you think I have a chance to meet Borsalino?"

"I think there's a high probability that we'll meet him," Clyde analyzed. "Borsalino is now well-known and very powerful. He will definitely not be eliminated easily."

"It all depends on the rules of this battle. You have to fight for your reputation and don't embarrass me. Your strength improvement has been a bit slow recently." Lu Kai instructed Clyde in a condescending manner.

"Yes," Clyde agreed verbally, but he felt a pang of bitterness in his heart, thinking, "Do you think everyone is as perverted as you?"

The port of the Navy Headquarters, Marinford, is gradually becoming more and more lively.

Nearly two thousand officers came from all over the world to participate in the competition, including nearly a thousand officers from the 15 G-branches directly under the Navy Headquarters.

There were only a few people coming to the other local branches, but the number of branches was large, so the total number of people exceeded that of Branch G.

After the naval officers from all over the world landed on the island one after another, someone immediately came to lead them to their respective settlement places.

"It's Major General Lu Kai. Major General Lu Kai's warship has arrived." The monitoring personnel's voice suddenly rang out excitedly over the loudspeaker, and the volume was much louder than when they reported the arrival of generals from other branches.

Then the trumpet sounded again: "People at the port, hurry up and make room for Rear Admiral Lu Kai's warship."

The monitoring personnel were very excited, looking like fans of Lu Kai, but they did not realize that many eyes were looking at the sea with great hostility. The behavior of the monitoring personnel just now really attracted a wave of hatred for Lu Kai.

In everyone's sight, a warship appeared on the sea.

The design of Luke's warship is no different from that of an ordinary warship, but on the bow, there is a huge fist carved as a decoration. That fist seems to want to smash everything that stands in its way. It is even more like Iron Fist Garp's ship than Iron Fist Garp's ship. In Luke's own words, it is to pay tribute to his teacher.

Soon, Lu Kai's warship docked.

After seeing Lu Kai get off the ship, many marines immediately stood straighter. When they saw Lu Kai walking past them, they saluted loudly and said, "Major General Lu Kai, you have worked hard on your mission!"

The scene before us was by no means a result of Lu Kai's special hobbies, but rather the spontaneous behavior of these marines on duty.

Today, Lu Kai is at the peak of his career. The soldiers at the Navy Headquarters know more about Lu Kai than those outsiders who only read about him in newspapers, so they respect him even more.

"You have worked hard." Lu Kai responded without any airs and nodded one by one.

However, this scene turned into anger in the eyes of some naval officers from outside the headquarters.