Early in the morning, Arthur got some good news.
Admiral Sengoku called and offered a devil fruit known to be superhuman.
Let Arthur send someone to escort Stella, and ask Arthur if he will answer.
promise!
Of course yes!
Arthur agreed on the spot without any hesitation.
Originally, Stella was his person. If Sengoku didn't ask Arthur to escort him back, Arthur would send someone to protect him. Now, if you escort him, you can earn a Devil Fruit for free. Of course, it's better!
So when Warring States called, Arthur agreed without hesitation!
Moreover, it is also a good thing for Stella to go to the headquarters of the Navy. He was originally a brigadier general of the branch!
If you go to the headquarters now, you will be the brigadier general of the headquarters, and the rank has risen invisibly by a rank.
At the same time, you can also inquire about news to Arthur at the Navy headquarters, and then the Navy's movements will not be concealed from Arthur.
However, Arthur also knew from Stella that after Stella left, a brigadier general would be parachuted from the naval headquarters to be in charge of the naval branch near the Kingdom of St. Martin.
Arthur was stunned for a moment when he heard the news, and then he didn't care.
Even if the Airborne Brigadier General comes over, it doesn't matter.
The managers of the naval branch base of the Kingdom of Saint Martin are all his people, and all the managers who control the branch navy are these managers.
After the brigadier general came over, although they would listen to the brigadier general, they actually obeyed Arthur's orders. The base was still firmly in Arthur's hands, no different from before!
However, having said that, Stella's problem is easy to solve, as long as it is sent back to the Navy headquarters, it will be safe, but no killer will rush to the Navy headquarters!
But Chris is not easy to solve. Although the reward is only 500 million, Chris is obviously better to kill!
If killing Stella cost a billion dollars, but also offended the Navy, wouldn't the Navy kill the killer?
And Chris is just a small mafia family in Xihai. Killing him includes his entire family. It's easy and won't offend anyone. The price is obviously higher.
So, how to keep Chris is a problem!
If you send someone directly, there is no problem in protecting Chris, but at the same time, it will reveal that Chris is his person.
This is not in line with Arthur's idea!
After thinking about it, Arthur made a decision!
"Let Chris run with important members. As for those ordinary family members, just give up, they are a group of scum anyway!" Arthur murmured, "Just let Chris change his name and go to other sea areas to develop!"
"But Hall and Bell Kingdom will continue!" Arthur frowned, "Let Ghost Fire take over the arms business!"
After a while, Arthur arranged all the funeral arrangements for Chris.
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Hornby has been very anxious for the past few days. Pika is dead, and no one will sell cheap arms to Bell Kingdom anymore.
Therefore, during this period of time, he had an advantage in arms and once advanced to Quandong City.
It's a pity that the advantage is not big. The Bell Kingdom is defending the city, narrowing the gap between the two sides, and he can't attack for a while.
Moreover, the constant counterattack of the Bell Kingdom during this period of time has caused the death of the Hall Kingdom to be close to 30,000. If this continues, more people will die.
So he wants to buy some more arms to expand his advantage, and it is best to break the Bell Kingdom once and for all this time.
But at this time, he found out that Chris had lost contact!
If you can't get in touch with Chris, you can't buy cheap and good arms!
It is also unable to expand the advantages of the Hall Kingdom.
Of course, he can also find other arms dealers to buy.
But if he contacts other arms dealers, the kingdom can't afford the expensive price.
So he was very anxious, but he couldn't think of a way.
"Blood!"
At this moment, the phone bug beside Hornby rang.
He picked up the phone casually.
"Hey!"
"Hello, General Hornby!" said Ghost Fire with a smile.
After Guihuo left Blood Harbor Town, he re-established the Guihuo Pirates, but he did not go to the Great Channel like Aiden, nor did he do the arms business like Chris, but did his old job in the West Sea, robbery!
Now, at Arthur's request, he's taking over from Chris.
"Who are you?" The unfamiliar voice on the other end of the phone puzzled Hornby.
"Chris' friend!"
"Really?" Hornby asked hurriedly with a beaming look on his face, "then do you know why Chris can't get in touch?"
"I know, someone in the underground world offered a reward of 500 million to kill the Chris family, so he ran away!"
"Isn't there no place to buy my arms?" Hornby didn't care about Chris's life or death, what he cared about was that there were no cheap arms to buy.
"Hehe, General Hornby, I will be responsible for your arms in the future!"
"You!?" Hornby was a little surprised. He didn't trust the ghost fire. He couldn't help it. A stranger called you and told you that whose business would be in charge of him in the future, would you believe it?
"Don't worry, Chris and I both have the same source of goods, and our goods are all the same!"
"But."
"Well, I know that the general will not believe it. The general can directly tell you how much you want, and I will send it to you directly. When the time comes, I will pay the money and deliver it on the spot!"
"Okay!" In the end, Hornby agreed suspiciously!
a few days later.
Hall Kingdom port.
For the first time to deal with the ghost fire, so Hornby temporarily put down the tense situation and came in person.
In the distance, a fleet of five ships slowly emerged, only to see a skull painted on their flag, with a green ghost in the eyes of the skull.
"Pirates!?" Hornby frowned, he didn't expect that he was dealing with a pirate.
Not long after, the fleet docked.
A skinny figure in a black robe jumped directly from the boat.
"Hello, General Hornby, my name is Guihuo, and I will be responsible for your arms trade in the future!" Guihuo said with a smile, but with his thin body, he looked gloomy!
"Are you from the Ghost Fire Pirates?" Hornby wondered.
Hornby of the Ghost Fire Pirates knew that they had done business with the Chris family before.
Of course, if you think about it this way, the voice of the ghost fire taking over the Chris family is normal!
"Yes, I'm the captain of the Ghost Fire Pirates, Ghost Fire!" Ghost Fire nodded.
"Okay, can I see the goods first?" Hornby asked bluntly.
He doesn't care if the ghost fire is the captain, he doesn't care who it is, he only cares about his arms.
"Haha, General Hornby is still so straightforward! Okay, let's go straight to the topic." Ghost Fire smiled and gestured towards the back.
After a while, the pirates behind him got off the ship with boxes of arms.
"Please!" Guihuo casually opened a box of ammunition and made a please gesture.
When Hornby saw the arms for the first time, he was already sure that the ghost fire was right, he and Chris did have the same source of supply.
This box contains the Chris family's specialty flying thunder cannon.
Then Hornby opened the other boxes and checked them.
Finally, he showed satisfaction.
"General Hornby, is the goods right?" Ghost Fire laughed.
"En!" Hornby nodded and beckoned to the soldiers behind him.
The soldiers immediately ran forward with a few boxes.
"Come on, check if the money is right!" Hornby made a gesture of invitation.
The ghost fire did not check, and directly let his subordinates take the box, "I believe in General Hornby!"
This sentence made Hornby slightly stunned, but at random he stretched out his hand with a smile, "Haha, then it's a pleasure to cooperate!"
"Happy cooperation!" Guihuo also stretched out his hand and held it tightly with Hornby!
"Okay, this transaction is complete, we are leaving, if the general still needs it, remember to call me!" Guihuo said with a smile.
"En! Good!" Hornby nodded slightly with a smile on his face.
Afterwards, Guihuo waved his hand, turned around, and took the pirates with him, and left without looking back!
Just got back on the boat.
The smile that Guihuo had been hanging on immediately eased, and he took out the phone bug and dialed it.
After a while, the phone was connected.
"Hello, General Duford, we have a batch of cheap and high-quality arms here. Do you want it?"