Naruto Online: Hyuga Branch Family? Let's go all out!

Chapter 339 A Market Worth Ten Trillions

The battle wasn't very satisfying.

It could even be described as starting strong but ending weakly.

But there's nothing we can do. It's not Ning Yuan's fault; it's just that the person who came was Kizaru.

Kizaru is not going to fight you to the death.

Even if he couldn't teleport during the White Dragon's gathering, as long as he fought a few real battles to get the job done, Kizaru would retreat.

Fortunately, the goal has been achieved.

The attack by the Celestial Dragons on Sabaody Archipelago is now trending on social media, ranking number one.

Top trending topic: Three Celestial Dragons killed in the street

Second trending topic: Suspected appearance of an alien invader

Third on the trending topics: The alien invader escapes unscathed from the hands of the general.

Hmm, there's also a strange trending topic at number six: Why did the Celestial Dragons hide the blank 100-year history?

Ning Yuan glanced at the answer, then a smirk appeared on his lips. He hadn't even participated, but the style of the following comments was already quite abstract.

"It seems that the 'Gutter's History' has taken root in people's hearts. I wonder what the World Government's reaction will be?"

To be fair, although the Five Elders also saw the three trending topics above, their anger at the killing of the three Celestial Dragons was definitely not as great as the anger that the historical research from Gouzi spread from newspapers to the Internet!

After all, the newspaper's circulation is what it is, and newspapers can only be read by those who are literate. Moreover, literate people either work for the World Government or have close ties with the World Government.

Even though many people acknowledge Gouzi's historical perspective, they dare not say it openly.

However, it's different on the internet. Text information can be directly converted into brainwaves for people to understand. In other words, no matter whether you can read or not, you can understand what is being said!

Originally, there might have been only a few hundred thousand, or even a million people who knew that the Celestial Dragons' ancestors sold ditch.

Now we're doomed, probably tens of millions of people will know!

Just reading the title made the Five Elders furious, let alone the comments section. They didn't dare look at it at all. It's obvious what people in the One Piece world would say.

"What should we do now!" said the God of Scientific Defense. "We haven't found Si Qian, and Morgans from the World Economic Daily has run away. Although we've joined Weibo, nobody believes our debunking messages; in fact, it's accelerating the spread of this rubbish!"

The other four elders looked at each other, at a loss for what to do.

It wasn't that they were incompetent, but rather that they had never seen Ning Yuan's fighting style before.

How do I deal with a style of play I've never seen before?

And there's no way to deal with it, since you've been hiding your history for a hundred years.

Actually, there is another way to deal with this: to dig out the real 100 years of history and fill in the gap.

All five of them had thought of this suggestion, but no one dared to bring it up.

After all, if this part of history were made public, it could affect the legitimacy of the world government's continued existence.

Allowing the existence of ditch-based historiography would only disgust the Five Elders, while exposing the true history could lead to the collapse of the World Government.

Which is lighter and heavier, at a glance.

There's another tactic: contacting Ningyuan to remove the trending topic.

But the Smart Network was a new thing, and nobody knew how it worked. The Five Elders understood the Smart Network as another form of newspaper.

Once a newspaper report is published, can it be withdrawn?

Continuing with this line of thinking, they naturally had no idea that trending topics could be removed, or even that they had ever considered it.

After much deliberation, the Five Elders finally came up with a good idea!

Seize the spotlight with something else!

As long as something else becomes a trending topic and pushes the topic of the "blank century of history" off the trending list, people around the world will naturally stop paying attention to it!

Coincidentally, the World Government does indeed have such a major event that could trend on social media.

The Five Elders immediately contacted the Fleet Admiral, and a moment later, the official Navy Headquarters account released a message.

"The Whitebeard Pirates' Second Division Commander, Portgas D. Ace, has been captured. The Navy will publicly execute him at Marineford on October 17th, ten days from now! Further major news will be announced at that time!"

As soon as this incident broke out, several headlines quickly became trending topics.

#AceArrested#

#Whitebeard Pirates' Reaction#

#Who is Ace?#

#The World's Strongest Man with a White Beard#

Just as the Five Elders predicted, as soon as this incident broke out, four brand-new trending topics immediately appeared on the list, not only suppressing the blank 100-year history issue, but even overshadowing the Chambord incident.

After all, while the Celestial Dragons may cause harm, it doesn't really affect most ordinary people. In contrast, pirates cause harm to a vast number of people, making people all over the world feel the same way.

Upon hearing that Ace was to be publicly executed, cheers erupted worldwide. Even though they had no idea who Ace was or what he had done, as long as he was a pirate, he deserved to die.

"Speaking of which, could the World Government be intentionally condoning the growth of pirates?" Ning Yuan pondered as he scrolled through the comments section under the trending topic.

Before the pirates, the member states were not very happy about paying the Heavenly Gold, since they didn't know what they were being protected for.

However, after the emergence of pirates, the significance of the Heavenly Gold became real, which reassured some of the member states.

Secondly, when pirates were weak, the miserable lives of ordinary people were mostly due to the exploitation by nobles.

Why do the nobles oppress the common people?

One reason is for their own comfortable life, and the other is for heavenly gold.

To prevent local people from rioting, the nobles would usually blame the Celestial Dragons, causing the people's hatred to shift to them.

In other words, if the common people are not living well, they will hate the Celestial Dragons.

But now there are more pirates. They plunder merchant ships and slaughter civilians. Unlike the Celestial Dragons who only want money, they want both money and lives.

As a result, the people's lives became miserable, and they stopped hating the Celestial Dragons and started hating the pirates instead.

When we asked them to hand over the Heavenly Gold, their resistance wasn't as strong anymore, since the Heavenly Gold was meant to protect us!

Through a series of maneuvers, the people's hatred for the Celestial Dragons was successfully transferred to the pirates.

They never imagined that the pirates had grown to such a powerful extent entirely because of the World Government's inaction!

Ning Yuan shook his head; he was used to this kind of situation.

In the Naruto world, ninjas are so powerful, while bandits are everywhere in Chaoyang.

America, despite dominating the world, is unable to manage its own internal affairs, leading to rampant gangs and widespread bandits.

Is it really beyond their control? Or is it that they simply don't want to control it?

It landed lightly on the ground. Ning Yuan was about to walk forward when he suddenly realized something was wrong.

This is Amazon Lily, located in the Calm Belt. Ning Yuan traveled all the way to Sabaody Archipelago to kill three Celestial Dragons, all for the sake of Amazon Lily.

However, as soon as he landed, Ning Yuan suddenly noticed a plant that was both unfamiliar and somewhat familiar.

It feels unfamiliar because I've never seen it in real life.

It's familiar, but only because I've seen the pictures before, and I see them often.

This is a tree that is over 6 meters tall. Its trunk is upright and usually cylindrical or oval. The bark is smooth, grayish-brown, and in small pieces.

The tree was also covered with clusters of reddish-brown berries, giving it a very bountiful feel.

"This looks like a coffee tree?" Ning Yuan's eyes widened, quite surprised.

Why? Because he couldn't find a similar plant in the Naruto world.

Even in the world of One Piece, it's not here either.

It's not that he can't live without coffee, but the main point is that it's a bit of a shame that a beverage he often drinks on Earth has suddenly disappeared.

It was quite a surprise to see one on Amazon Lily.

Ning Yuan then thought of the coffee trees' need for calm, cool, shady or semi-shady, and humid environments, while Snake Island is located in the doldrums and has no wind at all.

Furthermore, snakes prefer cool, shady or semi-shady, and humid environments. The name "Nine Snakes" reflects the fact that the environment here is perfectly suited for the growth of coffee trees.

"Hey!" A voice suddenly rang out behind Ning Yuan: "Who are you! Turn around!"

Ning Yuan turned around, and then his eyes lit up.

A beautiful short-haired girl with blonde hair, fair skin, and a voluptuous figure stood on the tree trunk behind him, holding a snake bow in her hand, with an arrow already nocked.

"Where is this place?" Ning Yuan asked. "And who are you?"

"This is Amazon Lily, the territory of the Kuja Pirates!" the girl said. "My name is Margaret, and I'm a warrior on this island!"

"Warrior!" Ning Yuan nodded. "My name is Bai Longzhi. I'm a traveler who came here by accident!"

As he spoke, he raised both hands in a French salute: "Rest assured, I mean no harm. Look, I don't have any weapons in my hands!"

The girl looked Ning Yuan up and down warily.

Ning Yuan was dressed in white, his hands empty. He didn't look like a fighter, but rather... well, Margaret wasn't very cultured, and I don't know how to describe him.

However, it doesn't seem to pose much of a threat.

Margaret nodded, put away her bow, and leaped to the ground.

"Do you want to settle down in our Nine Serpents?" Margaret asked.

"Can we settle down here?" Ning Yuan asked in surprise.

Didn't they say that men aren't allowed to enter the Nine Serpents?

Oh, she's never seen a man before, so she doesn't know I'm a man. That's alright then.

"If you're homeless, that's fine!" Margaret said. "I'll take you to see Lady Plantagenet to register!"

"Okay!" Ning Yuan nodded. "But let me ask you a question first: are there many trees like this on this island?"

"Red bean trees?" Margaret glanced at the coffee trees behind Ning Yuan and said, "There are quite a few. Are you hungry? But these beans aren't very tasty; they're bitter whether eaten raw or cooked! I'll take you to town to eat later. Although we Nine Serpents aren't wealthy, we can still give you something to eat!"

Ning Yuan blinked: "Not wealthy?"

"Yes!" Margaret nodded. "We don't have any suitable land for farming on Amazon Lily. All our resources have to be obtained through trade with the outside world. Unfortunately, there are many warriors on the island, and their consumption is high, so we always run out of food, and naturally, we're not wealthy!"

They were not just not wealthy; the Nine Serpents could even be described as impoverished.

Because they do not engage in production, the only resources they produce here are the meager food obtained from fishing and hunting.

Margaret came here to hunt.

This amount of food is barely enough to supply the soldiers, let alone the Nine Serpents, which have another major consumer of food: snakes!

Every woman on Amazon Lily raises snakes, and the snakes are quite large, so much so that they have huge appetites, which adds up to a considerable expense.

Even Boa Hancock, the most beautiful woman in the world, has to go out and raid all year round, otherwise she wouldn't be able to support the people on the island.

Just how poor were the Nine Serpents?

To put it another way, when Momonga came to invite Hancock to the Marineford War, Hancock still tried to plunder everything on Momonga's ship.

Seeing that Ning Yuan was still looking at the tree, Margaret hesitated for a moment, then put her hand to her chest and took out a piece of jerky.

"If you're really hungry, have some jerky to tide you over!"

Ning Yuan was speechless, but also touched.

Isn't Margaret too kind? When I first saw you, my mind was full of unhealthy thoughts.

For a moment, Ning Yuan felt somewhat guilty.

Instead of accepting Margaret's dried meat, Ning Yuan pointed to the red bean tree behind him and said, "Do you know the value of this tree?"

"Is this tree valuable?" Margaret blinked, asking curiously. "It's just a wild fruit that people hate, dogs won't eat, and snakes won't touch!"

"This isn't some wild fruit!" Ning Yuan laughed. "After drying this fruit and grinding it into powder, we can use it to make tea, let's call it red bean tea."

Since the coffee tree in this world is called the red bean tree, let's do as the locals do.

"There are currently 8 million people in the world. If we cultivate this market properly, we could create 3 million red bean tea consumers!"

"Each cup of red bean tea costs at least 50 Berries. If each of these 3 million people drinks one cup a day, that's 150 billion Berries per day, 4500 billion per month, and 5.4 trillion per year!"

"If you also include premium coffee and the additional profits coffee shops generate, this is a market worth trillions!"

"So!" Pointing to the red bean tree behind him, "Look, are these still wild berries? Each and every one of them is like gold!"

Margaret's eyes widened. "Wait, really? You're not kidding me, are you?!"

"Why would I lie to you? We'll just pick some red beans, and I'll make you some to drink when we get back, won't that be better?"

"Alright!" Margaret wasn't a greedy person, but the Nine Serpents were just too difficult to obtain. Upon hearing that the tree was worth trillions, she stopped hunting and decided to climb the tree to pick the fruit.

"Just pick a little bit!" Ning Yuan shouted.

"Okay!" Margaret readily agreed, mainly because she was also eager to taste the red bean tea. So, after picking a large bunch of red beans, she jumped down and grabbed Ning Yuan's arm: "Let's go, let's go, let's hurry back!"

"Don't rush!" Ning Yuan called out, "Let me straighten my clothes!"

His long robe made walking through the forest quite difficult.

"Mmm!" Margaret nodded quickly, anxiously watching Ning Yuan tuck his clothes into his belt while still thinking.

What exactly is 5.4 trillion?

(End of this chapter)