Chapter 104: Did My Ancestors Lose to Such Idiots...
On Delta Island, the islanders had already become busy.
Although this sea was incredibly dangerous, it also brought benefits that the ordinary world didn't have. Plants in this world usually grew very fast, and many precious plant species were even born.
Treasure Tree Adam, Sunlight Tree Eve, driftwood with super buoyancy, and so on.
Besides these rare woods, on islands suitable for survival, food production was generally very abundant.
Some islands that became lands of famine due to natural or man-made disasters were special cases. Apart from those, islands with population gatherings could basically achieve self-sufficiency in food.
Delta Island was originally an uninhabited island. After years of development, plus the fact that Fish-men and Merfolk could obtain marine resources more easily, it could be considered abundant in supplies.
At this time, many people were processing food by the seaside. Through smoking, drying, pickling, and other methods, food could be stored for a longer time.
Although food on the island was plentiful, one always had to be prepared for unexpected needs.
"Are there no more wanted posters?"
"Gone. Only so few were sent over; they were distributed long ago."
"I saw Charlie next door took several. Why don't you go ask him?"
When Kuma came outside intending to do some physical work to help others, he saw many people asking about wanted posters.
This was a custom on the island. Whenever Nereus's bounty was updated, they would collect these wanted posters, usually taking them home to use as posters.
Anyway, the photographers of the World Government and the Marines were top-tier in photography skills. As long as the angle was right, they could photograph wanted criminals looking like they belonged in a promotional brochure.
Unless the person themselves was some strange creature that looked bad on camera, the effect was very good.
Under normal circumstances, ordinary people couldn't produce this kind of effect.
"Here, I still have one."
Seeing an islander keep asking others if they had any wanted posters, Kuma took one out from his bosom.
He got up relatively early at school and happened to bump into the early-shift News Coo, so he grabbed a few.
Meanwhile, in a nearby sea area, the ship of Nereus and his group also appeared here.
After leaving Mary Geoise, Nereus brought people here. Just as the people on Delta Island thought, the number of slaves liberated this time was the largest since Nereus began his operations.
In a sense, Nereus even had to thank some Celestial Dragons for doing a good job in "family planning"; the number of Celestial Dragons hadn't reached a terrifyingly exaggerated level yet.
Over 800 years, if calculated according to known societal algorithms, who knows how many people the Celestial Dragons would have reproduced into.
The Ming Dynasty imperial clan could develop into hundreds of thousands of people in over two hundred years. If the Celestial Dragons were on this scale, their number of slaves would have exceeded a million.
If it were really that number, probably even now, Nereus's people wouldn't have finished transporting them.
But the population reproduction on this sea could even be described as slow. For example, Cobra—even counting from the establishment of the World Government, he was only the 12th generation King, and royal family members were also very scarce.
Only 12 generations in 800 years; this was already a very scarce number. The situation with the Celestial Dragons was similar. If they really had millions of slaves, the operation plan would have to be heavily modified.
Right now, everything was still manageable.
"Papa, it's today's newspaper. Your bounty has been updated again. This should be the highest bounty on the sea right now, right?"
Nanamo took the newspaper and wanted posters from the News Coo. Below Nereus's updated wanted poster, the number 5 Billion Berries was extremely eye-catching.
"Among the pirates still alive now, it seems only you, Papa, have broken the 5 billion mark."
Previously, after rescuing a large number of slaves from Mary Geoise, Nereus and the others returned to Fish-man Island first due to route restrictions and carried out a personnel change there.
Sunbell and Babel stayed on Fish-man Island again. Given the current situation of Fish-man Island, although Nereus didn't need to be nailed there 24 hours a day like a spike, stationed executives with certain strength were still needed.
Nanamo and Amphelite also re-boarded Nereus's ship and began to head towards Delta Island again with some people who needed resettlement.
"Don't mind that kind of thing. Bounties have long been just a string of numbers to me."
A higher bounty isn't necessarily more effective. While money moves people's hearts and heavy profits can drive people to do many things—like inducing bounty hunters to actively hunt those pirates—
Bounties are more or less linked to strength. A bounty of one or two hundred million would attract some greedy people to take action. But when the bounty breaks through to one billion, a wanted criminal at this stage is no longer someone a few bounty hunters can take down.
They wouldn't feel fear because of the bounty increase; the increase in such numbers would only serve as proof of their strength.
"That's true. I really don't know what the use is of them raising the bounty so high. Is it to reasonably ask the World Government for funding when they defeat a certain pirate later?
By the way... if the Marines catch a pirate, will the World Government pay this bounty?"
"They probably will. When I was chased by the Marines before, they did mention wanting to exchange me for the bounty."
"Your situation is special, Miss Flame Mummy."
"Flame... Flame Mummy?"
Amphelite didn't understand why Nanamo suddenly gave her such a nickname until she saw another wanted poster handed over.
The image should be from Dressrosa, where they were fighting those agents. The mummy attire and the flaming long sword ultimately led to the appearance of this title.
And apart from this title, there were no adjectives on the wanted poster.
"I always feel the World Government's brains aren't good. By doing this, do they want to show that everything related to Papa must be wanted? But this wanted poster... if you change your clothes, who can find you?"
What Nanamo said wasn't unreasonable. This kind of wanted poster would ultimately lead to misunderstandings. If she bumped into someone wearing the same outfit one day, they might arrest that person instead.
Duval suffered greatly because of Sanji's excruciatingly sketchy wanted poster drawing. However, as soon as these words came out, Amphelite seemed somewhat depressed instead.
"What's wrong? The bounty doesn't matter. Look who dares to come to Papa's side to arrest people. At worst, you change your outfit.
Armor, tight suit, or headgear? Or do you have some obsession with the mummy look?"
"It's not that. I just feel that my ancestors lost to such opponents back then..."
"Don't mind such things. Thinking the World Government is stupid is fine, but those guys are indeed not weak.
Moreover, history that has passed is not something we can change. What we need to grasp is the present and the future. If we lost in the past, we lost. Just win it back."
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