One Piece: From the Rocks Era to King of the World

Chapter 299 Soros and Vegapunk
"Lazili, don't stay in the lab all day. Go out for a walk occasionally. You haven't been with me for a long time!"

Seeing Lazili in a white robe, Li Yuan couldn't help but sigh helplessly.

Ever since Lazili became a researcher, she has become a homebody. Not a very homebody, but a very special homebody.

Now Li Yuan really wants to learn from Lazlido and Caesar and walk out of the laboratory to be lazy when he has nothing to do, instead of becoming an experimental maniac like Yumaz.

"Husband, I understand. After this experiment, I will take a good rest for a few months. That should be fine, right?"

Seeing her husband say this, Lazili had to give up her experiment. After all, she really hadn't had a rest for a long time.

"Soros, although I have told you this before, I still want to tell you again at this time."

"I will exchange your mind with Vegapunk's in a moment, and then you will enter Vegapunk's body."

"And your body will be inhabited by Vegapunk's mind. Of course, we will put Vegapunk into a dormant state like before, and then preserve your body. If you want to return your body in the future, it will be no problem!"

"After the experiment is completed, you will have to live in Vegapunk's body for a long time."

"Now, let me ask you, are you willing?"

Li Yuan looked at Soros seriously and asked.

"Captain, my answer is the same as before: I do!"

"For the Captain, for science, it's just a body!"

"What's more, after changing my body, I can also get the most powerful brain in the world. No matter how I think about it, it's a win!"

Soros said seriously.

He was an orphan since childhood. It was Li Yuan who picked him up and was willing to teach him, allowing him to become the scientist he had always dreamed of.

So, a long time ago, he had sworn in his heart that after he had learned enough, he would repay the Wuji Pirates and Li Yuan.

Now that Li Yuan has a request, how could he refuse!
What's more, he has no other relatives, so he won't have any worries even if he changes his body.

"Very good, I was right about you. Once you possess Vegapunk's body, you will become the most powerful scientist in the world!"

Li Yuan patted Soros on the shoulder and said with relief.

His Observation Haki was always on, so he naturally knew that Soros was very loyal to him, which was the real reason why Li Yuan chose Soros.

What he values ​​most is loyalty. Li Yuan is absolutely unwilling to trust or employ a disloyal person.

Vegapunk, who had previously disliked him, was a good example. Since he could not be used by him, Li Yuan would never allow the other party to continue living and threaten him.

Soros then walked consciously into a new nutrition chamber, lay down, closed his eyes, and was ready to exchange minds at any time.

"Yadina, it's time to start!"

Li Yuan nodded to Yadina.

"Mind swap!"

Yadina stretched out her hands, grabbed Soros and Vegapunk's bodies in the air, and then exchanged them, and it was done quickly.

"All right!"

Yadina laughed.

"Sister Yadina, is this all right?"

Lazili asked curiously.

"Well, it doesn't need to be too complicated. Both of them have no resistance, so it's easy to successfully swap!"

Yadina said.

"Soros, you can open your eyes now!"

Li Yuan said to the original Vegapunk body.

"Captain, is that all right?"

Vegapunk's body opened its eyes and asked curiously.

"All right!"

Li Yuan used his Observation Haki to confirm that the person living in Vegapunk's body now is Soros, not Vegapunk.

(Note: To make it easier to distinguish, the Soros living in Vegapunk's body is still called Soros.)
"Soros, you haven't exercised for several years. You are very weak. I will have someone take good care of you. You will be fully recovered in about seven days."

Lazili said.

She was fully aware of the shortcomings of this nutrient chamber.

"I see!"

Soros replied.

"By the way, Soros, how do you feel now? I mean, how does it feel to have Vegapunk's body compared to your previous body?"

Li Yuan asked curiously. He just wanted to know whether the power of the Brain-Brain Fruit was inherited by Soros.

"Captain, I feel like I'm much smarter now than before. I can now quickly figure out what was going on with some of the experimental difficulties that I couldn't understand before!"

Soros replied, "Very good, take good care of yourself. When you recover, I will give you a huge laboratory that belongs to you alone."

After hearing what Soros said, Li Yuan felt relieved. With the power of the Brain-Brain Fruit, Soros' future achievements might not be worse than Vegapunk in the original work.

Maybe with Li Yuan's support, he might be even better than Vegapunk in the original work.

"Don't worry, Captain. I will recover as soon as possible and go to the laboratory to work immediately!"

Soros was very excited when he heard Li Yuan say that he wanted to build a laboratory of his own for him.

You know, in the Wuji Pirates, having a laboratory of their own is something many scientists dream of.

"Husband, this is great. The thing you've been dreaming about is finally done!"

After Soros left, Lazili said happily.

She knew how much her husband valued Vegapunk, or rather, how much he valued the Brain-Brain Fruit. Otherwise, he wouldn't have done so many things and spent so much time planning for this devil fruit.

"We agreed. Now you have to come back with me. You are not allowed to stay in the lab all the time!"

Li Yuan said while holding Lazili's hand.

"Husband, didn't I say before that I would wait until I finished the experiment on my hand before returning?"

As if she knew that Li Yuan wanted to take her away right now, Lazili immediately started to act pitifully and coquettishly.

"No, we have to leave today. No, we have to leave now!"

Although Lazili's coquettish and cute behavior softened Li Yuan's heart, Li Yuan's attitude remained tough on the surface.

Without even giving Lazili a chance to speak, he bent down and half squatted, then picked her up in a princess hug.

"Xia Qi, open the mirror world and let's go home!"

In order to get home quickly, Li Yuan went directly through the short-distance passage of the mirror world.

"Sister Lazili, my husband has been missing you very much these days, otherwise he wouldn't be so anxious."

Xia Qi teased from the side.

Hearing Xia Qi say this, Lazili's cheeks suddenly turned red, and she shyly hid her head in Li Yuan's arms, not daring to show it.

Batlila Island, South China Sea:
"Roger, why didn't you tell me you were leaving?"

"Can you really bear to leave us alone?"

Portgas D. Luju looked at the newspaper in his hand and tears fell uncontrollably.

She and Roger were so loving before, but she didn't expect that Roger would suddenly disappear from her world. Until now, if she hadn't received this newspaper, she probably wouldn't know that Roger was dead!
"Husband, this is the island. You asked me to check Roger's whereabouts before, and I found that Roger stayed on this island for a long time."

At the same time, Xia Qi and Li Yuan had arrived on this remote island.

The people from Luowang had never monitored or contacted Roger or the people around him before. They only knew that Roger stayed here for a long time.

Li Yuan came here to see if Roger, like in the original book, had left his wife and children alone on the island without making any arrangements for their future.

After all, in the original work, Roger handed over his wife and child to Garp, the unreliable navy. Eventually, in order to avoid the search of the navy and the World Government, Lu Ju used some means to keep the child in her belly for 20 months.

Although she finally managed to evade the search and wait for Garp's arrival, Luju paid the price with her life.

In Li Yuan's opinion, Roger's irresponsible character beneath his free and easy appearance is really disgusting.

With Roger's own strength, status, and connections, it is completely possible for him to ensure that his wife lives safely.

Even if he asked his crew members to take care of his wife in advance, it would be better than leaving his wife here alone and letting Garp, a navy man, take good care of her!

Anyway, from Li Yuan's perspective, he could not agree with Roger's irresponsible behavior.

Li Yuan admired Lu Jiu very much, so he wanted to see if Lu Jiu was really on this island. If so, he would take Lu Jiu to live in the Wuji Sea.

"Let's go and ask if there is a woman named Lu Jiu here."

Li Yuan said.

The island was not big, and the village was also small. They soon found out where Lu Jiu lived and went there.

"who are you?"

Lu Jiu looked at Li Yuan and Xia Qi standing at her door and asked warily.

"My name is Li Yuan, I'm the captain of the Wuji Pirates, and I'm considered a friend of Roger. The baby you're carrying should be Roger's child."

Li Yuan looked at Lu Jiu, whose belly was slightly bulging but not noticeable, and asked directly.

"Li Yuan, the captain of the Wuji Pirates?"

Lu Jiu had heard of the name Li Yuan, a famous pirate who was as famous as Roger. At first, she didn't know Li Yuan, but when she looked at Li Yuan carefully, she found that his face was exactly the same as the Li Yuan she saw in the newspaper.

"No, I don't know any Roger."

Although she recognized Li Yuan, Lu Jiu did not admit what happened to Roger. After all, she didn't know whether Roger and Li Yuan were real friends.

(End of this chapter)