Chapter Thirty-Six The Naval Squad Stationed in Advance City
Impel Down, the world's largest prison
The prisoners in the prison are all serious criminals. It is very eerie and scary inside, and is monitored by various monster jailers and videophone bugs. There are a large number of large sea kings on the seabed outside the prison, so Impel Down City is known as the "Iron Wall".
The Navy Headquarters, Judiciary Island, and Impel Down City are also the three important locations of the World Government on the sea, and can be called a no-go zone for pirates.
Compared with Judiciary Island and the Navy Headquarters, Impel City has its own internal management mechanism, and the positions in Impel City have little to do with the Navy.
Even the general navy, unless there are special circumstances, cannot enter or enter the Impel City and can only be responsible for guarding the outside of the Impel City.
However, everything has special circumstances. In the past few years since Pirate King Roger was executed, the number of pirates on the sea has increased dramatically.
Impel Down, which used to imprison various criminals from around the world, has almost become a so-called "pirate prison" in the past two years.
Because vicious pirates are thrown into Impel Down City every day, and because the Navy Headquarters needs to pass through the windless zone to get to Impel Down City, whether it is to pick up people or capture people, they need to go through a series of procedures every time.
After going back and forth, Sengoku, who had just taken over as the navy marshal, felt that it was too troublesome, so he negotiated with the director of Impel Down City.
Set up a small naval unit on the outskirts of the Impel City. Its main function is to facilitate handling of pirates caught in the Impel City and other matters, and also help patrol the periphery of the Impel City.
Sengoku's proposal has no disadvantages for Impel Down City, and Sengoku also promised the prison director of Impel Down City that the navy sent to Impel Down City would not be too strong and the number of people would not be too large.
After believing that Sengoku's proposal could indeed simplify many steps and would not have any impact on his own rights, the director of Impel Down City happily accepted the proposal.
And this so-called naval contact point outside Impel City is the post that Wood is going to now.
After bidding farewell to Smoker and the wild boar on the back mountain, spending half a day on a ship at the Navy headquarters, and passing many checkpoints, Wood also saw the so-called World Prison.
Don't get me wrong, with Wood's current status, it is impossible for the Navy to specially send a warship to send him to Impel Down.
He came here just by chance. In addition to a rear admiral, there was also a large boat of pirates who were going to be thrown into Impel Down City in the same boat with him.
The Marshal of the Warring States Period had just taken over, and now he was frantically reviewing his political achievements every day to stabilize his position as Marshal.
Moreover, pirates on the sea have indeed become rampant and numerous in the past two years. Every time Garp and other lieutenant generals and major generals sail out, they can bring back many pirates with bounties on them.
The entire Impel City is a huge tower-like structure submerged in the sea. Its foundation is on the seabed. The higher the level of criminals, the deeper the seabed is.
Moreover, the anklets and even the cells that bound the prisoners were all built using "Hai Lou Stone", which can be said to be a truly wealthy person.
And the reason for doing this is because there are many devil fruit ability users among the prisoners detained here.
Seastone is an ore that can emit the same power as sea water, and can neutralize the abilities of esper.
As soon as the warship of the Navy Headquarters docked, the prison captain of Impel Down City had already approached with several creatures holding axes in their hands and looking like blue orangutans.
"Although I heard that the navy would bring many prisoners over this time, I really didn't expect that the number would be so large.
Can't your navy calm down a little? Impel Down is a prison for the world's criminals, not the navy's exclusive prison.
If we bring so many prisoners here every time, not only will the cells be insufficient, but it will also increase our workload, okay?"
The "Prison Captain" of Impel Down City is a dwarf holding a demonic trident in his hand and with a pair of demonic wings on his back. He doesn't look like a normal human being.
But Wood didn't find this too strange. There were too many races in the pirate world, and the jailers and other management in the city basically didn't look like normal humans.
In terms of military rank, strictly speaking, the "prison commander" is inferior to the rear admiral of the Navy Headquarters, but this "prison commander" did not give much face to the rear admiral in front of him.
Although everyone is working for the World Government, their departments are different. Besides, the Navy has been really noisy recently, pushing pirates into the castle every day and night, causing them to work overtime every day, and even their holidays were cancelled.
"The navy's duty is to enforce justice. You can't just turn a blind eye while watching pirates making trouble everywhere.
Pirates are also criminals, we just follow the rules, what's wrong with that?
The storm of One Piece Roger is almost over, and it should be better in a while.
Moreover, Marshal of the Warring States Period is worried that everyone is busy with affairs, so he sent extra manpower here this time."
As the rear admiral spoke, he stepped aside to let the other party see Wood and a few other unlucky guys.
That's right, they are the additional manpower sent by the Navy Headquarters this time.
Although before coming here, Wood had always heard others say that this was a good job, but now seeing the attitude of the people in Impel Down City, Wood felt that the navy and the people in Impel Down City did not seem to get along well.
Taking over criminals from the Navy requires a series of procedures, and if a certain pirate is to be executed in the future, extracting people from the city will require complicated procedures.
Wood and several others were sent to Impel Down City. It was said that they were assisting Impel Down in detaining criminals. However, in fact, they were just doing clerical work on the periphery, just getting stamped if they had nothing to do.
After handing over all the pirates he was chasing to the people in Impel Down, the rear admiral didn't seem to want to deal with the people in Impel Down. After being polite, he left in the warship.
In addition to the captured pirates, those left behind were newcomers like Wood who didn't know anything.
Several Brugli, known as "sea fighters", brought chains one after another at the signal of the prison captain. Then the devil-like prison captain looked at Wood and others and said: "Then what happens next?"
Just follow the procedure, you should know how to do it, right?"
Looking at the impatient expression on the other side, Wood was also confused. He knew what to do? He knew a hammer. It was his first day at work today!
"Sorry, Captain, they are all new here and don't understand the procedures yet. We will work together immediately."
Wood and the other newcomers who were left behind looked confused. Just when the prison chief of Impel City began to show impatience, several naval personnel stationed in Impel City finally arrived belatedly and signaled Wood and the others with their eyes.