Chapter 63: The Gold Content of Totto Land

"You can't guarantee that a member country with permanent Navy presence will be fine,

after all, you never know when a Celestial Dragon will come."

Heaven-Dependent Zhang Jie complained.

"It's not that it's not necessarily fine, but rather that this kind is the most dangerous.

Because in a World Government member country, no matter what the Celestial Dragons do, there will be no consequences,

and only the most arrogant Celestial Dragons on the outer layer will appear, like the likes of Charlos.

Celestial Dragons like the Five Elders, who are so indifferent that their interest in civilians

has reached the point of not caring, would actually be safer.

If you encounter pirate looting in a non-member country, there is a probability of not being killed or hugging a thigh,

like Koby at the beginning; apart from being a chore boy, the pirates didn't do much to him.

But encountering a Celestial Dragon with CP, there is no other possibility,

either you lose everything, or you are shot to death because he doesn't like you,

no one will help you, no one will stand up for you, because not all bystanders are called Luffy.

Kneeling bystanders are the norm for pirates."

Heaven-Tian Tian Long Zhang Jie pointed out that the danger of Celestial Dragons is even greater than Big Mom.

"Almost every chapter of Pirate King features masses being persecuted or living miserably,

and then Luffy and the others appear to become the only hope for the masses, and finally defeat the boss.

But this plot didn't appear in the Big Mom arc, and as a result, Luffy and the others also flipped the car.

To some extent, it can be considered indirect proof that the residents of Whole Cake Island really live quite well,

and it's not suitable for the old methods." Water Shui Hu Zhang Jie touched his chin and said.

"But isn't it necessary to hand over lifespan in Big Mom's place?"

Heaven-Dependent Zhang Jie was still a bit puzzled.

Love is precious, freedom is higher, if it is for life, both can be abandoned.

Throughout history, countless people have gone crazy to live longer:

Qin Shi Huang, for the sake of immortality, toured the east several times, attempting to find Penglai Island,

and also sent alchemists like Xu Fu to search for immortality medicine all over the world.

The Jiajing Emperor of the Ming Dynasty practiced Daoism from a young age and took pills for I don't know how many years.

To obtain medicinal materials for alchemy, he did not hesitate to let women take medicine that would cause blood collapse,

and was almost strangled by the palace maids who could not bear the humiliation.

Countless others have practiced alchemy, taken pills, cultivated,

practiced abstinence, ignored worldly affairs, and cultivated in the mountains for the sake of immortality.

"You seem to still not understand the gold content of Totto Land; let me translate it for you:

Work one day and rest five, food and housing included, work time can be skipped."

Water Shui Hu Zhang Jie patted Heaven-Dependent Zhang Jie's shoulder.

"Tom, I get it!"

Heaven-Dependent Zhang Jie slapped his thigh, suddenly enlightened,

he now understood, Totto Land is truly invincible:

"Calculated this way, working 8 hours a day takes away at least one-third of your life."

"More than that, the time you are occupied could have been another possibility and opportunity,

the life of the ideal self you originally and previously expected.

It seems like 8 hours, but removing sleep, the remaining morning and evening, the good time of the day is also gone.

In fact, 8 hours occupies more than half of the waking time.

Not counting the educational cost time you needed to invest for these 8 hours in the past,

commuting time, work-related sub-health and a series of occupational diseases,

and the inevitable overtime and staying up late, etc." Heaven-Tian Tian Long Zhang Jie added.

"It's even worse than this, because you can't skip it; you have to stay there and endure eight hours of mental torture.

Being drained of 8 hours of lifespan at once is equivalent to skipping it in an instant and it's over."

Pirate Zhang Jie, who had already joined the workforce before transmigrating and had seen stupid leaders and stupid colleagues, felt a sense of sympathy.

Heaven-Dependent Zhang Jie: "Comparing it this way,

I feel that Big Mom is indeed much more conscientious than those bosses with slave-owner thinking."

Water Shui Hu Zhang Jie corrected: "Big Mom and slave owners are actually no different,

for example, they both regard the people under them as their private property, and their life and death are all in her mind.

But unlike slave owners in non-magic worlds who can only exploit slaves cruelly,

Big Mom really has superpowers; she doesn't have to exploit slaves very cruelly.

Many of the sons and daughters under her are also 'food' type superpowered,

and her own Soul-Soul Fruit can create Homies through part of the soul,

obtaining super high productivity, and she is fully capable of building a kingdom on earth.

For Big Mom, as long as she has food, you can do whatever you want."

"In this way, Totto Land is actually somewhat similar to the Garden of Eden in the legends of the Western Cross religion:

The omnipotent God is the only ruler and exploiter,

and has the right to kill everything in the Garden of Eden,

but he is also a contributor, providing everything needed for the lives inside."

Heaven-Dependent Zhang Jie said thoughtfully.

"The only question now is, is the lifespan handover a deduction of the upper limit or directly getting old?"

Heaven-Tian Tian Long Zhang Jie asked; the feeling of getting old before one's time is not good.

Water Shui Hu Zhang Jie and Heaven-Dependent Zhang Jie also focused their attention on Pirate Zhang Jie.

"Probably deducting the upper limit; although I only fully awakened my memories in the last few months,

I have lived in Totto Land for eighteen years, and about three years of lifespan have been extracted.

But my physical function is still eighteen or nineteen years old, not twenty-one."

Pirate Zhang Jie, who had the experience of paying the life tax, spoke from experience.

"Hmm."

Water Shui Hu Zhang Jie nodded upon hearing this.

This matches his memory when he watched the anime:

At that time, Pedro was drained of 80 years by Big Mom and was almost drained to death,

but he was still in the appearance of a young man, and his physical strength did not become weaker.

That is to say, the Soul-Soul Fruit deducts the lifespan that you are too old to move, and your prime is still that long.

"Work one day and rest six, the skipped work time is still after you retire.

Others use their whole life to heal their childhood, while Totto Land belongs to using old age to compensate for a lifetime (of worry-free life)."

Water Shui Hu Zhang Jie sighed.

Even compared to the 21st century, Totto Land is very livable.

Trading the lifespan of being physically weak and sick when old for being worry-free when young + a powerful protective umbrella,

and it only consumes one-sixth of the lifespan.

Even if you work nine-to-five plus commuting every day, it's ten hours, almost half,

and relying on Big Mom is more cost-effective than working for the most conscientious capitalist.

And don't forget that writing 1/6 lifespan doesn't actually require you to spend time doing anything.

You still have nearly 100% leisure and freedom.

"Deducting the upper limit is equivalent to living to the appearance of sixty and then kicking the bucket,

relatively obtaining 40+ years of worry-free life without labor."

Heaven-Tian Tian Long Zhang Jie analyzed.

Calculated according to the 21st century, raising for twenty years, working for forty years, raising for 20 years of old age,

even if those forty years of work are eight hours a day, the time handed over seems to be more than this setting.

"Then what is the situation with Katakuri's sister Brulee?"

Heaven-Dependent Zhang Jie thought of Brulee, who was old like an old witch at a young age.

"Brulee just looks like that; she looked like that since she was a child, she didn't get old from being drained of lifespan.

This seems to be related to her father being a special race."

Pirate Zhang Jie explained.

"But it seems there is an explanation in the play that people living in Big Mom's Totto Land get old faster than people in other places.

Pedro was drained of 80 years of lifespan and obviously became weaker, and his body became much thinner.

If he hadn't been drained of 80 years of lifespan, he could have easily beaten that Egg Baron,

And it also triggered the biggest victim of the Pirate King world who was blown up by a bomb.

One must know that in Alabasta, such a big time bomb didn't blow up the bird man."

Heaven-Dependent Zhang Jie was still puzzled.

"Don't know."

Pirate Zhang Jie spread his hands.

"A world is so big, how can it be described by a mere manga?

Devil Fruits are almost the embodiment of rules in the Pirate world; it's normal to have secrets we don't know."

Water Shui Hu Zhang Jie chose to rot directly.

"Indeed."

Heaven-Dependent Zhang Jie, who was still digging to the bottom, nodded.

He was not trying to argue, but the setting of the world was too important for the Zhang Jies.

Chu Xuan, the Great Colonel, said it well: "The greatest advantage of transmigrators is their familiarity with the plot."

If the Zhang Jies took uncertain information to do things, they would probably die very miserably.

Expired information kills people!

But now that digging to the bottom doesn't get an answer, there's no need to be too entangled.

Regardless, life must go on.

"The task of exploring the Pirate world is handed over to you."

Heaven-Dependent Zhang Jie looked at Pirate Zhang Jie.

"Guarantee to complete the task!"

Pirate Zhang Jie gave a funny military salute.

"Even if the lifespan drained by Big Mom in one breath

makes you old by the corresponding number of years, you don't have to worry.

Because it is paid in installments, collecting taxes every month and draining one-sixth of a month,

can be considered slowly getting old." Heaven-Tian Tian Long Zhang Jie said in a light tone.

In a world like Pirate King, there are a lot of bandits and pirates everywhere,

Celestial Dragons want to collect tribute in slightly richer places,

and Celestial Dragons visiting slightly livelier places is a disaster,

not to mention those ability users who have eaten various Devil Fruits and have superpowers,

just the aftermath of war can make you die for no reason.

Ordinary people are truly living from day to day; living is not because you have tried your best, but just because you are luckier today.

Compared with this, Big Mom's Soul-Soul Fruit, whether it is deducting the upper limit

or directly getting old, is already a kingdom on earth.

After all, harsh government is fiercer than a tiger.

And there are some jobs that are very destructive to the body,

such as mining, where working for ten years reduces lifespan by at least ten or twenty years.

In this case, the one-sixth extracted by Big Mom is negligible.

"In peacetime, some people might hesitate, but in wartime, Totto Land is a true utopia.

Even if calculated based on our average lifespan before transmigrating, which is roughly 72 years,

it is equivalent to only living to 60, in exchange for no worries about food and drink, no need to work (production work is done by mochi made of lifespan,

you just need to eat and drink), all ministers are quite responsible,

Katakuri, Oven, the Cream Minister are even easy to talk to for ordinary people.

And lifespan is not fixed; you live to a hundred if you are relaxed and happy every day,

and live to ninety if you go to work every day; in this case, paying ten or twenty years of lifespan is pure profit."

Water Shui Hu Zhang Jie summarized the livability of Totto Land. ===== CHAPTER 64 =====