Sequence 3, One Piece...
A year and a half had passed since the great Marineford War.
After Aokiji took the position of Fleet Admiral, Akainu quietly withdrew and began to walk his own path, pursuing his own justice.
After the Marineford War, due to Xiao's influence, revolutions swept across the entire world, and a large number of people took to the seas, causing pirate forces to become increasingly rampant.
As time went on, the pirates grew stronger and stronger, their spheres of influence constantly expanding, while the Navy's forces became increasingly stretched thin.
Unlike Akainu in the original story, Aokiji did not aggressively recruit people from around the world.
As one of the representatives of the Navy's dovish faction, Aokiji had always been regarded as a staunch conservative.
He inherited the will of the previous Fleet Admiral and the older generation of the Navy, striving to preserve the purity of the Navy's justice while ensuring it retained enough strength to face future challenges.
Therefore, Aokiji chose the opposite path, deciding to completely withdraw the Navy's forces, thoroughly ceding the New World to the pirates. By shortening the front lines, he could concentrate the Navy's strength to ensure the safety of the people living in the Four Blues.
The Navy, once aggressive and high-profile, also began operating in a low-key manner, slowly fading from public view while silently maintaining the safety of local residents from the shadows.
Aokiji's policy was also very simple: since the New World had become a rotten piece of meat, it was better to let it continue rotting.
The pirates fought incessantly over the legendary treasure, the One Piece, and the title of Pirate King.
Given this, the Navy would completely surrender the New World to the pirates, allowing them to compete among themselves.
Holding the Four Blues, the Navy only needed to quietly develop while watching the tigers fight from atop the mountain.
All unstable elements would be driven into the Grand Line, where its harsh environment would eliminate most of the pirates.
Then, the elite pirates who survived would head into the New World and continue causing trouble for the Four Emperors.
In this way, the Navy would not only avoid conflicts with the Four Emperors in the New World, reducing casualties, but could also concentrate its efforts on protecting the Four Blues and the Celestial Dragons.
At the same time, giving up the New World also served as a show of weakness to the pirates, making them believe the Navy had declined, causing them to lower their guard and plunge into unrestrained civil war.
After ten years, when they looked back at the world situation, even if someone found the One Piece and became the Pirate King, how many pirate powerhouses would still be alive?
Conversely, the Navy could quietly develop and strengthen itself during those ten years.
After a decade of warfare, with their strength and foundations exhausted, how could the pirates still fight the Navy?
Although this strategy might cause suffering for the people of the New World,
in the long run, it was a strategy to eradicate the problem at its root and eliminate the World Government's greatest hidden danger.
Then, all those sacrifices would be worthwhile.
Moreover, even if the Navy had remained in the New World, the local populace might not have welcomed them.
Given that, the Navy's decision to withdraw was also understandable.
However, once this policy was announced, Aokiji's prestige suffered a tremendous blow.
Although Aokiji had his own difficulties, he had no better choice.
During the Marineford War, Blackbeard's words had been too sharp, even shaking the morale of the Navy itself.
Now, the Navy could no longer withstand any greater storms. He could only hope that, over time, the Navy's morale would gradually recover.
Without the Navy's interference, the pirates of the New World began to grow wildly.
Whether foreign pirates or local pirates, they sprang up like weeds, wave after wave.
The entire New World became like a giant meat grinder, crushing everything within it.
Pirates fought to the death over even the smallest territories, not even sparing former Navy bases, directly occupying them and turning them into pirate strongholds.
In such a chaotic New World, the most active forces were naturally Xiao's Blackbeard Pirates and the Whitebeard Pirates.
The Blackbeard Pirates, with their hunting squads, hunted Devil Fruit users every day, their goal being to collect more Devil Fruits to strengthen their crew.
The Whitebeard Pirates, on the other hand, traveled around eliminating evil and bringing peace in order to repay their debt of gratitude, slaughtering every pirate who plundered within their territory and repaying the Black Sun God's grace with their lives and flesh.
Meanwhile, in the shadows of the world, the Black Sun Cult also continued to develop and expand.
They would occasionally emerge to overthrow a kingdom, incorporating it into their sphere of influence, and once the Navy or the World Government arrived, they would immediately withdraw.
After all, the local revolution had already been completed, and all the local nobles and lords had been executed, so there was no need to remain there any longer.
On the Celestial Dragons' side, Gorosei Saint Jaygarcia Saturn, supported by Pure Gold, gained increasingly greater influence and gradually became the dominant figure among the Five Elders.
Lokesani, that little brat, had been discovered to be two and a half months pregnant, and relying on the Xiao Family bloodline in her belly, she became increasingly bold in provoking Xiao.
She often angered Xiao to the point of giving him headaches, and he swore that once those ten months were over, he would definitely teach her what true cruelty meant.
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Sequence 4, Cyberpunk World...
Time flew by, and two years had passed in the blink of an eye.
The war between NUSA and the European Community was still ongoing, seemingly without end.
Night City was still Night City, maintaining its unique culture and style, but its scale had expanded several times over.
The city's rulers had changed from Arasaka and Militech to the sole dominance of Universal Corp.
During these two years, the Mechanicus had completely replaced NUSA's local churches and deeply infiltrated every corner of the American continent.
It had also become increasingly integrated with NUSA, with the two becoming interdependent and inseparable.
At the same time, the Xiao Family had quietly integrated itself into both forces, skillfully utilizing their resources to achieve its own goals.
In this European-American war, the School of Life of the Mechanicus truly began to shine.
Through the School of Life's biotechnology, NUSA only needed to spend a relatively small amount of money to mass-produce super soldiers who stood two and a half meters tall, possessed two hearts and three lungs, lacked unnecessary desires, displayed absolute loyalty, and possessed formidable combat power.
Compared to expensive cybernetic modifications, the cost of biological enhancement was significantly lower, and there was no need to worry about losing cyberware worth astronomical sums when a soldier died.
Therefore, these warriors were jokingly nicknamed "100-eddie Bros" by the Xiao Family: cheap, powerful, easy to produce, and available in enormous numbers. They could truly be considered the finest basic cannon fodder.
Likewise, many exceptionally talented "100-eddies Bros" also emerged among them. Through their own talent and hard work, they were able to further stimulate their physical potential and advance into even more powerful warriors.
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