I reached the top of Pirates

Chapter 278, Section 277: Living long is good!
"That's someone else's pure gold, you're not allowed to touch it."

The little girl woke up from the steamy grip of the giant hand with a fierce expression, glaring at everyone and angrily rebuking them.

Mercer turned his head to look at her and said calmly:
"Aren't you pretending to be asleep?"

I was indeed scared to death at first, but after waking up ten minutes ago, I've been pretending to be asleep ever since.

He's a smart little guy.

Moses looked at the pure gold in front of him.

[An item with legendary attributes has been detected.]

Item rating: A
Item effect: The pure gold light can greatly slow down cell division and metabolism, and significantly delay the aging process of organisms, thereby achieving an alternative form of longevity.

It's worth mentioning that this pure gold piece is of quality A, while the larger one in the Mercer's miniature world is of quality EX.

They are all beings capable of plundering credit.

*Crack!* The cylindrical container shattered.

Pure gold flew up and landed in my hand.

With each breath, the golden light emanating from the pure gold interacted and circulated with Moses, accompanied by the frequency fluctuations within it.

The workings of all things.

I sensed a unique and profound frequency fluctuation acting on me.

Cell division and metabolism are slowed down to almost a standstill.

The body's condition was kept almost constant.

In psychic vision, unique frequency fluctuations represent the power of stagnation; it is this concept, not the concept of time.

Come to think of it.

Pure gold is essentially a unique metallic mineral.

How could the power of time simply slow down physical changes?

In other words, it has limitations, and how could such a high-level ability as time management seem so low-level?

The pure gold was tossed up and down in his hand. Mercer shook his head, and the pure gold was thrown from his hand, arcing through the air and landing in the hands of the flailing little girl.

She was taken aback, not expecting that Mercer would actually return it to her.

"What is your name?"

Mercer smiled faintly.

“Olga, Mischina Olga, that’s her name. I’ll reluctantly tell you since you returned the pure gold.”

Olga hugged her pure gold tightly, amusement flashing in her eyes as she looked at Mercer.

Moses looked at her and said calmly:

"The light emitted by a piece of pure gold the size of a grain of rice is enough to grant a person a long enough lifespan."

Lifespan is always a mysterious topic. If you were to walk in the outside world with such a large piece of pure gold, you definitely wouldn't survive a single day.

"By the way, little girl, old woman, would you like to go out and live in the outside world?"

Olga paused, tilted her head to look at Mercer, and gave herself a thumbs-up:
"Young girl. Old woman?"

Mercer nodded slightly. "This ruin can also be described as a laboratory. Having toured this place, we can roughly tell that its history dates back nearly two hundred years."

Although your physical time was almost frozen in pure gold, your consciousness did indeed live through that long period of time.

I didn't say anything wrong, did I?

Olga's face instantly turned as black as the bottom of a pot, and she hurled the pure gold at Mercer.

Pure golden light swirled in the air.

Upon reaching Mercer, it automatically stopped floating and rose up again.

Moses started tossing himself up and down again.

"You bastard, do you want to get beaten up?"

Mercer looked at her calmly. "Since you've handed over the pure gold to me, it means you want to go outside, right?"

Olga fell silent for a few minutes, then nodded. "There's no need for me to stay here any longer. Here, take the pure gold. It's fair that you take me away from here."

Pepe looked at Mercer with admiration. He had gotten another piece of pure gold so easily. He was quite the smooth talker.

Mercer turned to look at the room, which contained a lot of ore refining equipment.

Even after nearly two hundred years, they remain intact, but Moses' attention is not on these objects.

Instead.

I walked to the bookshelf to the side, where it was filled with books and materials, all of which were still top-notch and sophisticated even today!

Picking up the documents on the table and quickly flipping through them, a slight smile appeared on Moses's lips.
"The notes are rather hasty, but it is indeed a recipe for synthesizing pure gold?"

It is more valuable than pure gold.

The gray fog spread out, swallowing all the books and documents inside.

The group left.

We arrived outside the laboratory.

Olga, looking at Mercer who had ignored her the whole way, asked with great dissatisfaction:

"You plan to take someone somewhere, and they tell you, 'I'll give you pure gold.'"

"Then you'll have to take care of their food, clothing, shelter, and transportation from now on. Also, they haven't eaten meat for almost two hundred years; they want to eat meat, all kinds of meat."

Moses looked at her and laughed, “Okay, you troublesome little old lady.”

Olga's forehead veins bulged.

Makino, standing to the side, smiled and tugged at Mercer's arm with a reproachful look:
"Olga is a child, don't bully her like that."

"Oh my?" Olga's eyes widened and she let out a strange laugh: "Little sister, I didn't realize you were such a nice person."

Reiju couldn't help but burst out laughing: "Makino? Little sister."

Mercer reached out and tugged at Reiju's cheek. The gray mist swallowed Runti and merged with her, and the fluctuations in space interacted with them.

He lifted Olga by the back of her collar with one hand.

Swish!
Mass teleportation.

In the blink of an eye, everyone arrived at Stomach Island Number One.

This is an island covered with primeval forests, and its ecology is still in the dinosaur era.

Everyone landed on the ground.

"here it is?"

Mercer looked at Makino and smiled:
"Stomach Number One, it was quite interesting to sense this place just now. It's a good time to replenish some dinosaur meat to take back and eat."

"Dinosaur meat?" Olga's eyes widened; she had never eaten dinosaur meat before.
"Where? Where is the dinosaur? Go catch it right now, I want to eat meat."

Looking at the older little girl bouncing around with an expectant look on her face, Moses said:
"You all go hunting. I'll go wander around here."

Pepe rolled her eyes at Messer. "What's there to see here?"

As he spoke, he took flight and headed into the heart of the forest.

Soon after, a series of strange dinosaur roars filled with negative emotions rang out.

Mercer locked onto a location, then his body suddenly vanished.

Robin stretched and looked at Nojiko and the others with a smile:
"Let's just treat it as a workout; it's been a long time since we've had dinosaur meat."

"Okay, let's go then."

"Dinosaur meat! Dinosaur meat! Dinosaur meat! I want to eat dinosaur meat."

Olga, full of anticipation, kept repeating the same sentence with a grin, making a bit noisy.

Makino looked at her with pity in her eyes. This child must be very lonely having been here all by herself for so long.

At this moment, Olga looked at Makino with displeasure in her eyes and said:
"Little sister, are you pitying me? Let me tell you, what I hate most is being pitied."

"Because he contracted an incurable disease before he was six years old, the people around him were pitying him, and he didn't like those looks."

People are advising you not to look at them like that, or they'll beat you up.

As he spoke, he pulled out a dagger from his lower back, licked it in front of him, and gave off an impression that he was not someone to be trifled with.

She's very good at putting on airs.

Makino smiled at her, white powder piling up in her right hand. In the blink of an eye, a huge, white, steel-gleaming butcher's knife appeared. With a casual swing, she slashed the ground, creating a deep trench. She tilted her head and smiled at her.
"Are you going to beat me up?"

Olga swallowed hard, using the reflection of the dagger to examine her face, and rubbed it with her left hand. "My face isn't dirty, is it?"

After finishing, he quickly sheathed the dagger and looked at Makino with clear eyes:

"What did they just say?"

Makino smiled:

"Are you going to beat me up?"

Olga said with a grin:
"Just pretend you didn't hear them take that back."

Makino smiled and blinked past her, slashing a small carnivorous dinosaur across the neck.

Passed by.

The bodies were separated.

A small knife quickly slices through the dinosaur.

Manipulating the dinosaur blood to flow out as a beverage, bubbles filled with blood wine floated in her palm, smelling incredibly rich and mellow. Makino turned to look at her:

Would you like some blood wine?

With a grin, she placed a thumb-sized piece of blood wine into her slightly parted red lips, hooked her pink tongue around it, and sucked it into her mouth, even licking her fingertips.

Olga stared in disbelief, and upon hearing Makino's words, she couldn't help but shudder.

"What kind of monster woman is this? They all seem to be monsters. I wonder if they'll die?"

Makino blinked, and hearing these words that were clearly from the heart, chuckled softly:

"I've finally spoken my mind!"

"Oh my?" Olga was shocked, surprised by herself.

Makino looked at her with a smile in her beautiful eyes and a maternal glow. Olga blinked and immediately became obedient.

"They have an incurable disease, they can't take a beating, they'll die."

Inside a cave, Mercer appeared, looking at five life-sized dinosaur eggs and a dinosaur egg pieced together from broken eggshells.

The gray mist of Mercer devoured the intact eggs, then looked at the remaining one and walked forward, listening to the purring sound coming from inside.

Crack the eggshell.

The middle-aged man woke up when he saw the fat man inside wearing a dinosaur costume and slapped his face.

“Mischina Asie”.

A soft voice came from behind him, and seeing the shocked expression on his face, Mercer smiled:
"You were the renowned mineral expert almost two hundred years ago, weren't you?"

Asie blinked, looking at Messer with some confusion. "Who are you? How did you get here? This is Lord Lantern's stomach space."

Gray mist spread from Moses's hand, and a pure gold coin appeared, gleaming brightly:
“I’ve been to your workshop, and I even found this on a young skeleton.” A ring appeared in his hand, radiating the same pure gold light.

Asie stared blankly at the ring he had crafted to extend his daughter's life.

He mechanically walked over and took it from Moses's hands. Even though he had long believed that his daughter was dead, he still found it hard to accept.

With red-rimmed eyes, she looked at Mercer and said in a hoarse voice, "Can you take me to her burial ground? Take me there, and my life will be yours from now on."

Mercer nodded and turned to leave.

This was easily taken away during the teleportation process, thanks to spatial fluctuations.

It must be said that the Teleportation Fruit is an extremely useful ability.

Furthermore, one can perform more complex operations by interfering with the frequency of space.

Asie followed Mercer's footsteps blankly and soon arrived at Makino's side.

"Get lost, Dad?"

Olga stared blankly at the unshaven, fat man behind Mercer and shouted.

Asie stared blankly at Olga, muttering to himself in a daze:

"Are you hallucinating? Isn't your daughter already dead?"

The next second, Olga, her face dark with anger, cursed:
"Get lost, Dad! You actually cursed me to die! I still hate you, after all."

Asie stared at Mercer in disbelief. "An undead?"

Mercer said calmly, "Your daughter needs a good beating. Go over and give her a slap and you'll see."

Asie staggered over, knelt down, and hugged her tightly, murmuring repeatedly:

"I'm sorry, I'm sorry, it's all my fault, my Olga, it's all Daddy's fault."

"I'm so glad you're still alive."

Makino looked at Messer with a smile and said:

"Tell me, I want to know how you found him."

Moses briefly explained his quirky sense of humor.

Makino looked at Mercer reproachfully, then at Olga, and asked Mercer:

"The child is very cute. Do you like him?"

Moses shook his head with a smile, "It's quite troublesome, but..."

He reached out and put his arm around her waist, then whispered in her ear.

Makino smiled and turned her head to give it a light peck.

Watching the father and daughter talking to each other, Moses smiled and said:
"Dr. Asie, Olga wants to go outside. What about you? Would you like to come with us?"

Asie looked at Messer with a complicated expression.

He's a guy with a twisted sense of humor.

But he's a good person.

But he did not refute it; he spent the rest of his life accompanying his daughter as she grew up.

At this moment, a hint of expectation appeared in his eyes: "How should I address this gentleman?"

"Just call me Mercer."

"Mr. Mercer, I would like to ask, nearly two hundred years have passed, is there now a cure for an incurable disease called ***?"

"Yes, there are. That kind of terminal illness from your time is now just a common minor ailment."

Asie hugged Olga tightly. "That's wonderful, Olga. Can you hear me? Your illness can be cured. Your mother will be so happy in heaven."

Olga's expression darkened.
"Get lost, Dad! I hate you. Why did you make pure gold? If it weren't pure gold, it wouldn't attract pirates, and Mom wouldn't have died."

Asie nodded emphatically and smiled happily:

"I will not run away anymore. Whether you like me or hate me, I will not regret making pure gold."

Because of pure gold, you can have a bright future.

Before long, Pepe and her friends came over with a whole bunch of dinosaurs that had fainted.

The gray fog of Mercer spread out, engulfing them and the dinosaurs all around.

Sensing the location of the island ships outside, Lanternfish had already sunk into the sea.

But it's not a big problem.

Swish!
Mercer's figure disappeared.

In the blink of an eye, they arrived on the ship.

Mercer released them all except Runti, and looked at Ya Dabao sunbathing on the deck:
"Go tell Chopper to take the special medicine from Karachis. There's a little antique here who needs an injection."

Mercer disappeared and went to the forest at the stern of the island ship, where he released the dinosaurs that were still alive.

He was woken up by a series of hard slaps.

They were all kicked away one by one.

Let's raise these.

His figure flickered and disappeared.

We arrived at the sea.

A patch of ice has been frozen.

The three surviving dinosaurs were released, dismembered, cleaned, and then returned to the ship's deck.

The two dismembered dinosaurs were placed in a freezer.

The gray mist of Mercer spread out, releasing Runti, who blinked her big, bright eyes at Mercer:

"Why did you release me? Couldn't you have kept me a little longer?"

Mercer rubbed her head and laughed:

"What? You've gotten addicted?"

Runti chuckled:

"Being connected with you gives me a feeling of being second only to the heavens and the emperor, as if I am all-powerful."

Mercer stared at her speechlessly, while Makino, standing beside her, sighed helplessly as well.
"While Messer is indeed very strong, isn't what you're saying a bit of an exaggeration?"

"The Second Heaven or something."

Mercer laughed, "That's certainly an exaggeration."

At this time,

Seeing Olga screaming as Chopper chased after her with a giant needle, Mercer casually unleashed a bolt of lightning.

Olga was paralyzed and unable to move.

Chopper grabbed her arm and forcefully shoved the needle in, successfully injecting the medication.

Chopper wiped non-existent sweat from his forehead, his sharp teeth growling at her:
"Why are you running? Is it really necessary?"

Olga sat on the ground, covering her face and crying.

"People are most afraid of injections."

Moses scoffed, "Just as I thought, a brat."

Looking at Asiemether, he smiled:
"This is my city. You and your daughter can stay here from now on."

I'll give you a house and a decent job, how about that?

Asie nodded happily:

"Thank you so much."

Messer looked at Runti and said, "Let's go, take them both to Clockwork Town. I'll go have a look around too."

Moses looked at Makino and smiled, saying:
"There's another cute little one over there, shall we go take a look?"

Makino blinked. "Little Ahri?" she said with a smile. "Let's go then."

Runti went over and grabbed the father and daughter as they walked over. Mercer looked at her and smiled:
"Take care of them both; consider it as training their abilities."

The gray mist of Messer engulfed Makino, transforming into a bolt of lightning that merged into the magnetic field.

Following the magnetic field lines, we arrived at the orange grove almost instantly.

Once here.

I saw Nami bullying a cute little girl.

The gray fog spread, and Makino emerged.

Seeing Nami bullying Ahri, she smiled and said, "Little Ahri, do you want me to come and save you?"

Ahri's eyes welled up with tears in the blink of an eye.
"Help me! Nami is a bad girl!"

Nami smiled and released the cloud of mist she was holding when she saw Moses approaching, then floated to his side.
"What brings you here?"

Moses laughed and said, "Not welcome?"

Nami's eyes darted around, and she shouted into the house:

"Nojigo Messer is here, go get the wine."

Nochiko responded from inside.

Mercer looked around and asked, "Where are Ah Jian and Bellemere?"

Nami pouted, looking speechless: "They went to have some alone time, they went to the amusement park."

"Not bringing Ahri?"

"Ali used to go out with the two of us often, but he doesn't like going anymore."

Sigh! Bellemere will just call us back to take care of Ahri for the two of them.

"Brother Messer, are you here to play with Ahri too?"

Ahri ran over, looking at Moses with curiosity, blinking her eyes:
Did you bring me a gift?

Mercer stared at her speechlessly; this little girl was just like Nami.

Do you want a slap?

Ahri's eyes darted around, her little mouth pursed, and she immediately looked aggrieved.

Mercer smiled, took out a three-meter-diameter dinosaur hind leg from the "small world," and tossed it to Nami:

"Dinosaur hind legs, you can deal with them yourselves later."

Nami's lips curled up slightly:

"Okay. Why don't you grill it now? You're a great cook."

Moses said speechlessly:
"You're even ordering me around now."

Ahri tugged at Moses's arm, a sweet smile on her face:
"Brother Mercer, Ahri also wants to eat dinosaur meat."

(End of this chapter)