At the same time, the voice of the person filming came from the video, and the screen zoomed in: "Brothers, today's protagonist is the flower of our Navy Headquarters Base, and even the goddess in the hearts of all our Marines, Colonel Hina!"
"Hehe, you must be very curious about what she ate for lunch today, geigeigei!"
"Leave a comment in the comment section and tell me, if you want to see it, press 1, if you really want to see it, press 2. Based on the voting situation, I will decide whether to upload Colonel Hina's eating video slower or faster."
As the camera zoomed in, the entire phone screen was filled with Hina's captivating profile.
The video ended here.
"Bastard!!!"
Smoker slammed his fist on the table in a fit of rage, took a deep drag from his cigar, and then exhaled forcefully.
"How dare that bastard openly film the private life of Marineford? Isn't this leaking secrets?!"
Tashigi looked at Smoker, a bit dazed: Isn't it just a video of someone eating?
Is it that serious?
"Hmph! That bastard didn't even film the whole video, and he's going to upload it in two parts. It's infuriating!" Then Smoker looked at Tashigi, his ferocious expression startling her, as if he was about to eat someone.
"Tashigi, I order you to immediately comment 2 in the comment section!"
Tashigi: ...
Seeing Tashigi still frozen, Smoker directly snatched the phone and left a string of 2s in the comment section, muttering incessantly: "Hurry up and send me the follow-up!"
"You bastard, don't let me find out who you are, or I'll go to Marineford tomorrow and drag you out!"
"Hurry up and send it, you bastard!"
Seeing Colonel Smoker, who was somewhat obsessed, Tashigi realized it would be unwise to ask for the phone back now. It was better to wait until he had watched the follow-up video.
Meanwhile, inside the Navy Headquarters Base, Helmeppo looked at the video he had posted, and the comments section was frantically pressing 2. He was overjoyed: "Hahahaha, I'm truly a genius."
"Press it, press it. Even if you wear out your phones, I'll still upload the follow-up video tomorrow."
Helmeppo really enjoyed this feeling of being noticed. In just a few days, his follower count had reached 1,500, which was quite astonishing!
"I'll go see how Koby is doing first. It's a bit strange; I haven't seen him all day."
"He couldn't still be looking at his phone, could he? Tsk, if Koby falls behind on his training because of me, that would be a huge sin!"
...
Mobile phones were selling like crazy all over the world, and on some islands, the price of phones was even skyrocketing!
200 Belli directly soared to 20,000 Belli!
Some nobles had already started sending people to watch the News Pigeons in the air. Once a News Pigeon was spotted, they were to intercept it and buy all the phones it carried.
Some nobles even began to win over News Pigeons, giving them benefits and building temporary resting places, just to be able to buy phones earlier than others.
Because the supply of mobile phones currently couldn't meet the demand, some kiosks only had a hundred units a day, and some at most three hundred, leading to large crowds of people buying phones at kiosks every morning.
Morgans had no solution for this.
Transportation was already operating at full capacity, and yesterday, over two hundred News Pigeons had collapsed from exhaustion.
If they hadn't been absolutely unable to fly, these two pigeons would have kept delivering. There was no helping it; the boss's commission was too generous.
"Boss, we need to think of a solution. Phones in the East Blue, West Blue, South Sea, and even North Blue are selling like crazy. We need to seize this opportunity to make a fortune!" a subordinate said anxiously.
"Yes, if it doesn't work, we can use sea transport. Those merchant ships would definitely be willing to transport them, though the price might be high," another person suggested.
"No sea transport! Our phones are extremely popular right now, and their value has skyrocketed. Pirates would definitely rob them, perhaps even more frantically than if they saw gold!" someone else countered.
"Hiss… that makes sense. Currently, phones are truly more valuable than gold!"
"Then what do we do? Are we really going to miss this huge opportunity to make money?"
...
A group of people looked at Morgans, not knowing what to do, they could only wait for the boss to speak.
"Indeed, phone delivery is a troublesome issue, but it's also not an issue at all. It is precisely the key to us making money!" Morgans said, his eyes gleaming, a hint of cunning in his tone.
Not an issue? Then what is an issue?
Everyone was stunned, looking at each other, their gazes falling on Morgans.
"That's right, we need to keep the market hungry. Otherwise, if we feed it too much at once, it will be difficult to continue digesting. So, we need to take it slow; a steady stream is the way to go," Morgans said, rubbing his chin thoughtfully.
Then,
Morgans took out his phone, found Ron's private message, and initiated a video call.
After a moment, the video connected.
"Ron, I have good news for you, the phones are selling like hotcakes! Just as I expected, they're very popular!" Morgans said excitedly.
"I know about the phones. Just keep selling them like this. Don't worry about those who are inflating the prices. Anyway, we have plenty of phones. My only request is not how much money we make, but that everyone can afford a phone," Ron said calmly.
Morgans was incredibly touched. He had never seen anyone like Ron, who regarded money as dirt.
"I know you don't like money. Don't worry, I, Morgans, am absolutely reliable in what I do."
With that, Morgans chuckled twice, a hint of slyness in his laughter, "You don't care, but I do. You know I can't stand those nobles. This time, I'll make sure they're completely ruined!"
"Oh?" Ron also became interested.
"Aren't those nobles inflating phone prices, planning to make a fortune?"
"Then I'll massively output phones and sell them all to them, making them think that's all the stock there is. Then, after a day or two, I'll sell three or four times more phones than before. If we add a discount promotion on top of that, our sales will surely skyrocket again, and those nobles will lose all their family fortune in the process."
Morgans spoke of his plan, very pleased with himself, as if he could already see the scene of those nobles going bankrupt.
Ron looked at this guy in surprise. There weren't many fools among those who could become one of the emperors of the underworld.
"Alright, do as you say. Go ahead and cause a ruckus."
Then Ron instructed Morgans to tell him before the phones sold out, and he would come back to manufacture another batch. After chatting about various things, the two hung up the video call.
In the following days, phones continued to sell like hotcakes, and traces of phones appeared on many islands.
Windmill Village, Cocoyasi Village, Loguetown, and the Sea Restaurant where Sanji grew up...
Wherever News Pigeons could reach, there were traces of phones.
Coupled with easy-to-understand instruction manuals, many people learned to use phones, and even registered their TikTok accounts and posted videos.
This led to more and more videos on TikTok, far richer than the single videos at the beginning.
...