I reached the top of Pirates

Chapter 279, Chapter 278: The Gran Tesoro!

"Wow! This is so delicious! It's even better than Mommy's."

With its mouth bulging with meat, Little Ahri squinted its eyes in bliss.

Olga, who was brought along by Runti, was also happily eating meat.

"Wow~ It's delicious. It's meat!" Her eyes widened slightly as she swallowed it whole.

Everyone ate with relish, but Asie couldn't eat much.

"Is it not to your liking, Mr. Asie?" Makino asked doubtfully.

Asie sighed:
"I'm sorry, it's delicious. I've never eaten meat that's been cooked so well. But I've been eating meat there for almost two hundred years."

"Nearly two hundred years?" Nami's mouth gaped open, her face filled with shock. "Really? You must be kidding me. You don't look like an old man."

Runti chuckled beside her: "Here's what happened."

After hearing this, Nami was even more dumbfounded, her face filled with disbelief.

Then his eyes suddenly lit up with golden light, and he looked at Moses and quickly asked:

"I want to see it, I want to see it! Please, just let me take a look!"

Before Mercer could speak, Olga chuckled and said, "It's just a piece of pure gold, I'm just showing it to you out of politeness."

He pulled a ring from his pocket, its dazzling, comforting golden light radiating outwards.

Nami's eyes widened. "This is pure gold, a treasure big enough to buy the whole world."

Moses shook his head, speechless.

"The main value of pure gold lies in its longevity; buying the whole world is nothing more than a speculative act."

“That’s still impressive. Mercer, tell me, how much do you think this small pure gold ring can sell for?”

Mercer smiled faintly, "The value of this thing is like an electrocardiogram; its value depends on who it's sold to."

Selling it to stupid, rich Celestial Dragons would fetch billions of Berries, while selling it to wealthy tycoons would yield hundreds of millions or even billions. As for someone like you with no money…

Looking at Nami, Moses smiled:
"If I were to sell it to you, how much would you pay?"

I immediately became conflicted.

Nami's eyes were filled with struggle, while Moses said calmly, "If it were someone else, they couldn't afford it, but they still wanted it. So what do you think they would do?"

Nami pouted, "No need to imagine it. You can figure it out with your own eyes. What to do? Just rob it. If it resists, just kill it."

No one wants to live longer, especially the wealthy.

Mercer then looked at Olga and said calmly, "Here, you can only beat Little Ahri. Learn your lesson and don't take out this kind of thing so casually in the future."

Although the Ark of Eternity is relatively safe, there are always those who are not afraid of death.

Don't just grow older without growing smarter.

Seeing her face turn awkward, Moses said, "Take your things back."

Olga quickly put the ring away, and the pure gold's brilliance immediately vanished.

Mercer glanced at Asie and asked, "By the way, Dr. Asie, you are an expert in the field of metal minerals. I wonder if your research has involved the self-repairing of metal damage?"

Asie blinked, his eyes thoughtful, and after a long while:
"I think there was, but it's been so long I've forgotten. However, there should be records in my lab."

However, we can't go there now.

Mercer smiled and said, "Sorry, I've packed up all the data in your lab."

You probably won't mind, will you?

Asie's eyes widened, then he laughed and shook his head:

“I don’t mind. Right now, the most important thing to me is Olga. My dream is to watch her grow up, get married, have children, and I want to be a grandfather.”

Olga swallowed the meat, her face darkening as she glared at her father: "I'm still a six-year-old girl, and you're telling me this now? Get lost, Dad, are you a pervert?"

Moses looked at her and smiled faintly:
"The little girl and the old woman are pretending to be young again. They've clearly lived for two hundred years."

Olga fell silent, and after a brief silence, she grabbed a large piece of meat and lunged forward.

Mercer dodged by transforming into his elemental form beforehand, while Olga lay on the ground, trembling and convulsing, a wisp of black smoke rising from her slightly open mouth.

"He's both good and fun-loving."

"Mercy said calmly."

They all had smiles on their faces as they watched Olga make a fool of herself.

Finished a delicious barbecue meal.

Moses found Dr. Clockwork and settled him and his daughter here. The environment here is nice and suitable for them to live in.

Makino is here playing with Ahri.

Moses vanished in the form of lightning.

Nine Snake Town
After glancing at Hancock, who was still dozing off in her room, Mercer handed a cleaned dinosaur to Sonia.

There was a flash of lightning.

They arrived at the ship and returned to the castle.

In the laboratory.

Watching Kureha teach Law and Chopper medicine and experiments.

Seeing Moses approach, Luo laughed:
"Mercy, what brings you here?"

Nodding, Mercer retrieved the small piece of pure gold from the small world.

Handing it to Kureha, Moses smiled:

"Send something over here. Take a look at this and see if you can figure out anything from it."

This stuff is pure gold; the light it emits can almost stop the division and metabolism of cells in the body.

Kureha blinked, looking at Messer with some surprise:

"Explain in detail how it came about."

Let Moses give a simple explanation.

Kureha blinked as she took it, her surgical field expanding as she began to analyze the golden light.

"The power of radioactive light can subtly modify the physical body, and we could try to develop a drug that grants near-immortality."

"Not bad, this thing is interesting. I'll keep it here."

Mercer laughed and said, "Just take a look and have fun. I'll also give you these research and development materials."

As he spoke, stacks of documents emerged from the spreading gray mist.

Kureha looked at her two disciples and smiled:

"Law, Chopper, you two go and sort this thing out."

Mercer laughed and said, "I'll help too. I'm quite interested in synthesizing these ores."

Looking at Law and Chopper, Moses said:

"Help me find out if there are any formulas that involve metal self-repairing damage."

They both nodded and searched.

Moses also began to read it.

The sound of pages turning could be heard in the laboratory.

At that moment, Kureha's calm voice came:
"By the way, the problematic, fabricated research you asked me to do is finished. Have Luo take it to the IQ development lab downstairs in the administration building later."

"OK, all right."

"What are you planning to do with those World Government CPs? Forget it, I don't care about those, you can figure it out yourselves."

Anyway, you're the strongest man in the world now, no one is afraid of you, and no one dares to mess with you.

Mercer looked at her helplessly. Kureha's lips curled into a smile. She walked over and tugged at Mercer's cheek. Seeing Mercer speechless:

"What, you have an opinion?"

Mercer sighed helplessly, "I wouldn't dare. You're the eldest in the family."

Kureha chuckled out:

"Fine, then get lost."

Moses: "."

The three of them were quick; in no time, they found the corresponding information on metal self-repair mechanisms.

Moses examined it carefully.

He memorized it all very quickly.

After considering various formulas and conjectures, Moses vanished in a flash of lightning.

Soon after, they found Xiong Bao and the others in the beast enclosure at the stern of the ship, where they were training.

"Mercy, are you looking for a bear?"

Moses looked at Xiong Bao, who was now over four meters tall and standing upright, and laughed:
"I have several metal recipes here. Eat more metals later and see if you can extract some useful alloys."

Xiong Bao blinked and nodded: "No problem, it's no big deal."

Mercer nodded, then looked at Connie beside her, "How are you feeling? Are you getting used to your stay?"

Connie, dressed in a form-fitting light green tracksuit, looked stunning with her curvaceous figure and youthful charm. She smiled and said:
"Yes, I'm fine. You don't need to worry."

Erii walked over from the side, and beside her was a group of ferocious beasts whose edges had been smoothed out by bubbles, each one unable to even stand up.

He came up to Mercer and hugged him around the waist, "Brother."

Seeing how clingy the girl was, Moses reached out and ruffled her hair, laughing:

"We're going to collect metal from the sky again. Do you want to come with me?"

Erii nodded gently.

Moses smiled at them and said, "You can continue."

The gray mist swallowed Erii.

Sizzle—

A piercing bolt of lightning shot into the sky.

It hurtles towards higher altitudes at breakneck speed.

As time passed, the two soon arrived at the outer edge of the planet.

The location we arrived at was densely covered with meteorite clusters of varying sizes. A figure moved among them.

The gray fog, stretching for tens of thousands of meters, spread and engulfed, refining a large amount of high-quality earth essence within the small world.

Part of it was swallowed and absorbed by the small world, and part of it was integrated into the bodies of the two.

Those containing metallic minerals are separated out.

After devouring one piece, it moves on to a new place.

The two merged together, and Messer sensed the boiling dragon blood within his body.

With the infusion of abundant earth element essence and the daily water element essence, one can clearly perceive the subtle changes occurring in the dragon blood within the body.

Erii asked curiously:
"Brother, will I turn into a dragon someday?"

"what do you think?"

Erii will listen to her brother.

"Hmm, don't worry." Sensing the thoughts that were arising in Erii's mind, Messer smiled and said, "Erii knows that my species has changed, right?"

"Yes, my brother said he is a transcendent."

"Hmm, I have an idea. I'm going to undergo a major transformation in the future, and you'll come with me then."

"Okay, I'll listen to my brother."

As the two chatted and continued to devour each other in space, an idea suddenly popped into Moses' mind.

If I were to eat all the meteorites from outside the planet, and that guy with the ability couldn't pull them down, wouldn't that be incredibly funny?

However, the planet's magnetic field is constantly pulling on meteorites in the universe.

This idea,

That's somewhat unrealistic.

After replenishing their energy by consuming earth spirits, the two traveled in space for a week.

Mercer, carrying Erii, traversed the magnetic field and arrived inside the planet below.

Soon,
Looking down, a huge golden ship appeared a thousand meters below.

The bow of the ship was pulled by two giant sea turtles as it sailed on the sea.

The world's largest entertainment city, the Gran Tesoro.

Having just been completed not long ago, it was featured prominently in Morgans' major news coverage, and together with Moses' Eternal Ship, they were like two dazzling stars on the new world's ocean.

It's an alluring place, a true land of extravagance and debauchery, where money talks and money is everything.

As for those who have no money, they are the lowest level of servants.

Moses heard that this guy had a lot of collaboration with Doflamingo.

It was nearly 8 p.m., and the area was brightly lit and bustling with activity.

At the bow of the ship, on a golden platform, a flamboyant man with gray-green hair and dressed in pink is enthusiastically singing and dancing.

Cheers and shouts echoed from the surrounding streets and buildings.

We arrived at a height of 100 meters.

A gray mist took shape.

Messer and Erii sat on top, watching the song and dance performance below.

Sitting in Messer's lap, looking at the man below, Erii blinked curiously:
"Who is he? He sings and dances quite well, and he looks kind of familiar."

Moses looked down at him and smiled faintly:
"The only guy in the newspapers who can be compared to us during this period."

"Oh! I don't quite remember. Erii doesn't really like reading newspapers. The only reason I vaguely recall her is because Robin and the others were reading them."

Mercer rubbed her head and laughed, "Come on, although this place is quite interesting, let's go play here for a while."

Erii tilted her head, resting it against Messe's chest, a bright smile on her face:

"Ok!"

After watching the song and dance performance, the two watched as the huge golden fountain shot into the sky.

Golden dust falling from the sky.

I sensed the gold dust falling on my skin and seeping into my body.

Moses smiled.

Erii's beautiful brows furrowed, and tiny white bubbles appeared on her body, washing away the gold powder that had seeped into her skin.

"This person, he..."

Mercer pinched the bubbles on Erii's skin with her fingers, rubbing them between her fingertips, a smile playing on her lips:

"They're all just petty, low-level tricks."

With a thought, thunderclouds rolled across the sky.

Water vapor rose all around.

After the two entered a high-end restaurant.

The torrential rain poured down from the sky, giving the city a good wash and dispelling any bad luck.

Gilles Tezzolo, who was preparing to continue his singing performance, watched the falling rain with a twitching mouth and quickly ran to avoid it.

At this moment, a figure emerged from the ground and appeared beside him, his eyes filled with seriousness:
"Lord Tesoro, the surveillance Den Den Mushi covering the entire ship have detected a dangerous person boarding our ship. It's the Thunder Emperor."

Tesoro's eye twitched violently, halting his changing, before he said calmly:
"Ignore them. Go and inform the people below that all his expenses here are free; I'll pay for them."

Tanaka nodded, and his figure disappeared into the ground.

Tezzo sat on the sofa, sipping red wine, a look of utter helplessness in his eyes.
"Why did that monster suddenly appear here? What is its purpose?"

And wasn't that sudden downpour his doing too? The gold dust was discovered; well, that kind of method is only good for dealing with low-level pirates.

He witnessed that live broadcast firsthand; it was terrifying, and he knew he couldn't afford to mess with them.

We can't afford to mess with them no matter what.

The man who rose to power by stepping on another of the world's strongest men is not someone he can afford to mess with.

To survive in this new world, you need to be discerning and know who you can mess with and who you shouldn't.

And this is someone you absolutely must not provoke.

"Should we give them a visit? To survive in the new world, finding a reliable partner (a powerful backer) is essential."

"Forget it, let's see what he really means by coming here."

……

The table was laden with all sorts of delicious food.

Mercer and Erii ate elegantly, but they ate very quickly.

The kitchen staff were extremely busy, having received instructions from above, fearing that Moses might have some negative opinions.

Erii ate in small bites; the girl was very well-behaved, not picky even when she didn't like the food.
"Brother, it doesn't taste as good as what Sister Makino and Xiong Bao make."

Listening to the girl's complaints, Messer sighed:

"Just make do with this; this is already the most upscale place around here."

"Oh! Okay. Actually, it's not bad to eat if you don't savor it carefully."

Moses was amused.

When we finished our meal and went to pay the bill, the owner told us that Tezzoro had already paid.

Moses smiled, pulled a stack of Berries from the gray mist, and tossed them onto the table.
"Have someone tell him that I don't like being invited to dinner by strangers."

The two went outside, where the rain had stopped and the air smelled fresh.

The two strolled around the streets and bought several outfits at a beautiful clothing store, changing their clothes as well.

He wore a light blue shirt, crisp gray-black casual trousers, and shiny black leather shoes.

With clean, short black hair, Mercer smiled faintly as he carefully examined the girl beside him.

Erii wore a white taffeta off-shoulder dress, her hair tied up with a white headband, and a pair of Daphne high-heeled sandals, revealing a pair of exquisite calves, slender and fair ankles, and a pair of feet that looked like they were carved from white jade, delicate and warm.

She looked incredibly beautiful and captivating, like a noble princess who had stepped out of an 18th-century portrait.

Erii clung to Messe's arm, curiously looking around at the entertainment options.

The two visited many places.

Muscle turtles compete in unregulated, mechanically powered racing.

Beautiful and melodious star song and dance performances.

The entertainment center focuses on entertainment.

Since we happened to run into each other, I decided to have some fun with Erii.

Messe and Erii did not hide their identities.

Seeing how much fun the girl was having, I took her to experience all the interesting entertainment activities here.

Time passes slowly.

I was sitting in an open-air ice cream shop.

The two took a break during their trip.

"Brother, this place is so much fun! In terms of playing games, it's just as good as our Eternal Ark."

Mercer laughed and said, "There are differences. Our place is more of a residential city."

The main focus here is on enjoyment and pleasure.

Sensing the various emotions present in this den of iniquity, Mercer narrowed his eyes slightly.

This is another great place to reflect on the concept of emotions. Here, under the allure of money, all sorts of emotions are amplified.

Sensing all this, Moses' lips curled up slightly.

There is also a unique kind of fortune fluctuation here.

"If you like, we can stay here for a while."

Erii's eyes lit up, and her bright, sunny smile was incredibly captivating.

"Brother, let me treat you to this."

He scooped out a spoonful of ice cream and handed it over.

Open your mouth and eat!
(End of this chapter)