Sky-Piercing Elevator
As these merchants returned, Magic Valley City's prosperity rose to another level.
More importantly, it had become much safer.
If there had once been pirates who were reckless enough to come here and provoke trouble, acting wildly and getting carried away, then now every pirate who came here kept their heads down and behaved themselves.
Only good public safety could create a good business environment. This was an entirely new experience and feeling for many merchants of this era.
The moment they arrived, they fell in love with the place.
This also explained why the people under Four Emperor Big Mom's group would rather pay Big Mom several years of their lifespan every year as protection money than flee her territory.
Some people in the film Lord of War put it well: they lived in a country where they might die tomorrow, so why worry about a virus that would only kill them more than a decade later? (Referring to AIDS.)
That was also why everyone was willing to hand over their lifespan to Big Mom as taxes—under Big Mom's protection, they might live until fifty before dying.
But without Big Mom's protection, they might not even live to be thirty or forty.
That was why Leo said that even the worst order was better than the best disorder.
Disorder represented chaos. It meant that one could not even count how many people had died, how many had been injured, or how many had survived. It was a complete intelligence black hole, an abyss of despair.
Perhaps only those with a thorough understanding of this era could understand how precious peace truly was. They would rather give up half their lifespan just to obtain peace.
Perhaps only people living in the Central Ball region could understand such resolve.