Chapter 282: Admonition, Self-doubt

Chapter 282: Admonition, Self-doubt

"These bastards!"

In Marinford, in the Marshal's office, Luke was looking at the newspapers where some pirates who had been forced into a corner by him began to shout at him unscrupulously, with an unhappy look on his face.

"You can't hold it back anymore." Cyborg said as he looked at Lu Kai who was furious again.

"Old man!" Lu Kai said to Cyborg Kong who was sitting behind the table, "Just let me go out to sea once. It's been two years, and I really can't hold it in any longer.

"Let me teach these impudent guys a lesson and let them know what restraint is."

"Lu Kai, do you have the ambition to become a navy admiral?" Cyborg Kong shouted, "When I told you to read the newspaper, I didn't mean to tell you to catch them.

"I want to tell you that a person's power is limited, and there are endless pirates to catch."

"Really? Being a general is like being in prison. I would have refused the promotion if I had known this." Lu Kai said with an unhappy face, "Our army is so powerful, what do we need to guard? I've become sick from being idle. It's really frustrating!"

"No matter whether you are happy or not, you have always been training your subordinates. This is your real job. Only when there are more powerful people like you can the navy better deter pirates!" Cyborg Sora ordered.

"Training for combat, not for show, what's the point of just training?" Lu Kai said dissatisfiedly, "If you don't take them out to fight with real swords and guns, no matter how much you train, they will just be flowers in a greenhouse."

"How dare you complain, kid?" Cyborg immediately blew his beard and glared.

"Okay, old man, you've said this eight hundred times. Really? So when can I go out to sea?" Lu Kai asked.

"Didn't I tell you? One of your main duties is to guard the headquarters!" Cyborg Sora said, "And the place you are going to is a lawless area that is not under the jurisdiction of the World Government, so don't make things complicated."

"Fallen Eagle Island is indeed a lawless zone that is not under the jurisdiction of the World Government, but the pirates who now occupy there are openly clamoring at me, calling me the number one coward in the navy, and you still want me to continue to endure it?" Lu Kai said unhappily.

“Isn’t it said that the admiral is the symbol of the highest strength of the navy and must have a strong deterrent effect?

"I've been publicly called a coward, but I haven't said a word and am hiding in the headquarters like a coward. If I continue like this, who can I intimidate?"

"You can't help but be yelled at by others. Is this the only limit of the Admiral's self-control?" Cyborg Sora still refused to agree. "There is no end to catching pirates. No matter what they say, you have more important things to do."

"I think we can let Lu Kai go!" Zhan Guo, who had been silent, suddenly interrupted, "Marshal Kong, this has nothing to do with concentration. The new world is indeed too chaotic now. We really need to shock it."

Cyborg Sora couldn't help but fall into deep thought, his eyes flickering, and no one knew what he was thinking about.

After a while, Cyborg finally said to Lu Kai: "Alright, alright, just this once, and..."

"Grandpa, if you have anything to say, let's talk when we get back. I'll go and prepare something first." Lu Kai said excitedly.

Before Cyborg could continue to explain, Lu Kai teleported and disappeared from the spot.

"This brat, is he so impatient? He doesn't even want to hear me finish my words." Steel Bone Air crushed the document in his hand and shouted in the direction where Lu Kai was going, "I'll lock you up next time and prevent you from going anywhere."

Zhan Guo on the side frowned and said, "Marshal Kong, I think you can no longer treat Lu Kai as a child."

Cyborg was stunned when he heard this.

You know, Zhan Guo has never contradicted him on anything in the past two years. He has been guarding the headquarters conscientiously and handling various affairs for Cyborg. He didn't expect that Zhan Guo would make such a proposal.

"Everyone knows that you treat Lu Kai like your grandson. Before he became a general, you spared no effort in training and promoting him. When we strongly recommended him for the position of general, you agreed and were very happy!" Zhan Guo continued.

“But in the past two years, you have tied Lu Kai to your side, always worried that he would go out and cause trouble, always worried that once you let him go, he would be like a wild horse that can’t be restrained, always worried that Lu Kai would become a general that people would gossip about.

"I have never said anything about this, but today I feel it is necessary to remind you that you are not helping Lu Kai by doing this, but harming him!"

"You said I was harming him?" Cyborg looked at Zhan Guo in disbelief and said, "I just want him to become a more qualified general. Is it wrong for me to do this?"

"When we nominated him as the general, he was already qualified, wasn't he?" Zhan Guo retorted, "We didn't recommend him because you liked him, admired him, and trained him.

“We all saw his ability and strength, because two years ago, Lu Kai was qualified for the position of Navy Admiral.

“But after he became a general, you didn’t let him be his former self. You only wanted to change him, reform him, and make him do everything according to your requirements.

"But he is only 22 years old. If I were asked to think and behave like a man in his s or s at my age, I would think I was abnormal.

"Besides, your path may not be suitable for him." Zhan Guo continued, "I know that because you value him too much and like him too much, you always find fault with him and don't want him to have any flaws.

"But he is a man, a young man, a righteous admiral, and he has his own ideas.

"Do you know why Luke has never left Marinford in the past two years? It's not because he really agrees with your ideas and actions, but because he respects you from the bottom of his heart.

“He is willing to listen to you. He knows you are good to him, so he doesn’t want to make you sad, that’s all.

"Otherwise, as an admiral of the navy, what can you really do to him even if he forces to set sail? Are you going to simply revoke his position as admiral of the navy just because he disobeys you once?" Zhan Guo continued.

As he spoke, Zhan Guo's voice became somewhat sharp. Every word seemed to pierce Cyborg's heart, causing Cyborg to fall into long contemplation.

As the saying goes, those who are involved are often confused, while those who are not involved can see things clearly. Cyborg has never really thought about the issues that Zhan Guo mentioned today.

As Zhan Guo said, he valued Lu Kai too much, so he was determined to transform him according to his own wishes, and he believed that what he did was right and was for Lu Kai's good.

But at this moment, Cyborg was shaken and began to doubt himself.

He was young once, but perhaps because it has been so long, he has forgotten that feeling. Sixty years ago, Cyborg, who was in his twenties, was far inferior to Luke today.

Can I really make Lu Kai better by demanding him to do better based on my own experience and lessons learned from living for another sixty years?