Chapter 35 Senior Cannon Fodder Goes to Work in Advance City
Previously, hundreds of people participated in the training of non-commissioned officers, but one year later, only half of them remained.
As for the other half, most of them died in battles with pirates during actual combat courses.
Another part was because they faced vicious pirates for the first time, so they acted cowardly and ran away during the battle, and were eventually kicked out of the navy.
Wood's abilities at the Naval Academy were quite average, so when he graduated, he reached the rank of private third class.
Strictly speaking, this military rank is not considered a "non-commissioned officer", but at most a higher-level cannon fodder.
And what makes Wood feel uneasy is that his duty is actually to patrol the surrounding areas of Impel Down City!
Impel Down City is where the World Government imprisons criminals. Most of the prisoners are imprisoned here before they are executed.
And the people imprisoned here are not limited to pirates, but also some other extremely vicious people.
Impel Down City is not under the jurisdiction of the Navy Headquarters, and there are corresponding positions within it to guard prisoners.
This prison is divided into levels one to six. The first level contains ordinary criminals, while the sixth level is said to contain extremely evil criminals who can threaten the world.
Roger, the former Pirate King, was imprisoned on the sixth floor of Impel Down before he was executed.
Impel Down has its own defense mechanism and is located on an isolated island, making it impossible for escaped prisoners to escape.
For some marines who have no ambitions and only want to be salty, working in Impel Down is undoubtedly the best job.
Because hundreds of years have passed, no one has been able to leave Impel Down City, and the so-called patrols are completely routine.
If it were in the past, Wood would naturally be very satisfied with this job where he could just eat and die.
However, after experiencing his second life simulation, Wood knew quite clearly that Impel Down, which had not had any problems for hundreds of years, would soon be disgraced!
The captain of the Flying Pirates, the great pirate Golden Lion Shiki, who is imprisoned on the sixth floor, will soon break his legs and complete his escape!
In my second simulated life, I died at the hands of the golden lion Shiji who escaped from prison. Now I have become a patrol navy again. This is clearly history repeating itself!
Although Wood's current strength is not a bit stronger than that of himself in the second life simulation.
Not only did he become a "swordsman", he also realized the "dominance of seeing and hearing" and mastered the "Six Styles", but even so, he still didn't have the qualifications to challenge a big shot like Golden Lion Shiji!
He deliberately wanted to remind Zefa and Garp that the Golden Lion would choose to escape from prison in the future, but it was completely unexplainable when the time came.
After all, things haven't happened yet. Let's not mention whether Zefa and the others will choose to believe in themselves. Even if they believe it, how will they explain their ability to predict the future?
Wood tried every means to hide his strength, didn't he just want to be a supporting role? Such eye-catching behavior is really contrary to his style of conduct.
Moreover, the navy is not all kind-hearted people. Having the ability to predict the unknown may not be a good thing. It is even very likely that when he wakes up, he will find himself pinned to the experimental bed of a mad scientist.
After warning the Navy's top brass in advance that the plan was not feasible, Wood could only work hard to make changes in himself with the intention of improving the future.
So when he took the deployment application document and found the only big boss he could find, Zefa, hoping that the other party would change him to another unit, even an ordinary cannon fodder soldier, he was rejected by Zefa.
Zefa has a very stubborn character. He believes that as a naval soldier, it is his bounden duty to accept orders from his superiors.
And he also believed that Wood's character was too loose and he had great talent but was always wasting his time.
Impel Down is a place where the world's criminals are imprisoned, and the people imprisoned there are all extremely vicious people.
Zefa also thinks this is a good opportunity. Only when he sees clearly the evils in this world can Wood find the justice in his heart and understand that the people he needs to protect are not just those on Red Leaf Island.
Zefa rejected his request to change positions with a righteous expression, and now Wood only had two choices left.
Either obediently choose to go to work in a new position, or choose to disobey the orders from the superiors and directly defect to the navy...
It is impossible to defect. He is just a little shrimp now. Without the halo of the protagonist, he cannot be like a rubber boy who fights the impel city with the navy headquarters and then leaves safely without any trouble.
Compared with facing many big bosses in the entire navy headquarters, Wood still felt that it was safer to face Golden Lion Shiji alone.
And although the history is surprisingly similar, there have actually been some changes.
In the second life simulation, although Wood died in the hands of Shiki the Golden Lion, he died as a supporting navy, but this time he directly served as the guarding navy in Impel Down City.
In addition to the changes in his position, Wood's own strength is also different from what it used to be.
According to the results of the second life simulation, Wood should have been killed casually by the escaped Golden Lion Shikey, and even the Golden Lion Shikey didn't know who he was.
With his own strength in the Sims, he is indeed no match for the Golden Lion. However, the current Wood is much stronger than himself in the second life simulation.
If he hadn't deliberately provoked Golden Lion Shiji, or if he had been deliberately targeted, he probably wouldn't have been killed like an ordinary sidekick.
When he thought of the details, Wood instantly felt relieved. The worst he could do was not be able to work hard at all. If he really encountered the golden lion Shiji, he could just lie down on the spot.
After graduating from the Navy Headquarters School, being a student of Zefa, and having previous experience in killing pirates, as long as he stayed in Impel Down for a few years, he would be able to apply for a Navy branch in another place.
The navy branch on Hongye Island is naturally the first choice, not to mention where it is my hometown, my living habits, and as it is the first half of the Grand Line, even if I encounter pirates, most of them are newbies.
To put it bluntly, today's Wood, if he doesn't deliberately hide his strength, is at the level of a naval colonel, and he is not an ordinary naval colonel, but a real captain of the headquarters.
The Sixth Form of the Navy, the domineering power of seeing and hearing, plus swordsman-level swordsmanship, if he encounters the "Iron Arm Cook" of the year, Wood can easily beat the opponent with both hands and feet!