No kidding, even Rocks would have to offer me a cigarette.

We'll head to Wano Country then.

Let Barrett cooperate with Kaido to kill that useless man, Kozuki Oden!

While he's at it, he'll also banish the entire foolish Kozuki family to the ranks of the Yakuza, and have three generations of them mine seastone!

Everything was set in stone from that point on!

That pesky Momonosuke will never be born!

Kaido will also be able to take control of the entire Wano Country!

And Rahu himself can use the territory that Kaido has conquered over the years to develop the situation and directly initiate the establishment of a new power government!

........

Chapter 179 Barrett, who sweeps away everything!

After flying back to the floating island with Tianyue Shi, Luo Hou gave Barrett, who was still training frantically, a meaningful look.

"Don't worry, Brother Luo!"

"When I, Douglas Barrett, was only 8 years old, I was already fighting for my country on the battlefield!"

"These few bandits and traffickers, I could smash their heads to pieces in a minute!"

Barrett put down the barbell plates that were piled up on his body like a small mountain.

He stretched his muscles and bones, producing a crisp cracking sound!

Then, like a tiger descending a mountain, he leaped horizontally from a height of over a thousand meters!

Boom!

Standing over five meters tall, with muscles bulging from extensive training, Barrett slammed onto the beach below, raising a cloud of dust!

"Run!!!!"

"This guy is a monster rookie for whom the Marine Headquarters has put a huge bounty!!!"

"Is it too late to run? Our ship is still docked at the shore!!!"

"Besides, this guy is just a rookie pirate... Do you think he's one of those monsters from the Rocks era? His fists are hard, but isn't my sword sharp enough?"

A large group of human traffickers who had just finished collecting the captain's body gathered together, the pirates looking at Barrett with somewhat solemn expressions. Barrett's body was covered in Armament Haki, making him appear almost black and shiny.

However, before they could finish their discussion...

Suddenly! Eight muffled sounds rang out in succession, and the heads of the eight people who had been planning to attack together suddenly shattered and exploded on the spot!

This sudden scene stunned the crowd, and almost instantly, everyone lost all will to resist and scattered in all directions like birds and beasts.

Barrett, standing still, smiled coldly and flicked the blood off his dark fist.

These ordinary pirates are pitifully weak compared to his current strength.

It's like a piece of paper glued together as trash; it can be easily torn to shreds and scattered all over the ground!

Barrett shook his head helplessly as he watched the enemies fleeing in all directions.

Then, his powerful muscles erupted instantly, transforming him into a blurry black shadow as he gave chase.

bang bang bang! ! !

A series of collision sounds rang out!

With his immense strength, hard bones, and Armament Haki covering his entire body, Barrett was beating up a child like a child!

One punch at a time!

And every attack is aimed at extremely tricky and vital points!

The fist landed either on the cheekbone or the back of the head—extremely dangerous spots!

With such precise attacks, he smashed the heads of dozens of human traffickers open like punching a watermelon. Their headless bodies continued forward with the momentum of their escape, and after running for a while, they gradually lost their balance and fell to the ground, where they could not die any longer!

A few minutes later, all that could be seen on this deserted island was a pile of ravaged corpses.

"How boring. Looks like I'll have to go find Kaido and have a go at him again~"

Seeing that all the enemies had been dealt with in just a few minutes, Barrett suddenly felt bored.

After all, this amount of exercise is not even a warm-up for him now!

However, just as he was about to sink and jump back onto the island, he was about to fall back down.

He had already swum to the surface of the sea by diving, and a head appeared in his domineering senses not far away.

"Hmph! Want to escape?"

"If you get away with this, where will I, Barrett, put my face in the future?"

Faced with an enemy trying to escape, Barrett did not hesitate at all and picked up a medium-sized pebble from the beach.

In that instant, Armament Haki wrapped around the soft sand and gravel, turning it into a weapon hard enough to destroy steel!

This is the application of the third stage of Armament Haki!

Domineering and powerful!

Although he is only 15 years old now.

However, Barrett is already quite familiar with the various applications of the three types of Haki.

Compared to top-tier experts, his current shortcomings are simply that his domineering aura hasn't caught up with his pace, and his attack methods aren't as refined.

After weighing the imposing sand and gravel in his hand and the human head floating on the sea not far away...

huh~

A whooshing sound was heard!

Without any surprise, under the precise control of his Observation Haki, Barrett used a piece of sand to smash the head of the guy who was trying to escape into the sea!

One day passed.

The island, which was still slowly drifting, was gradually approaching Wano Country.

The rocks on the shore are being pounded by the sea day after day with an extremely rhythmic force, like a musical score. The salty seawater falls into the crevices of the dark rocks and creates patches of light white foam.

If nothing else happens.

Within an hour at most, Rahu will be able to fly directly to Kaido's lair with the floating island.

After setting the island to cruise control and autopilot, Luo Hou turned to look at the group of people behind him.

These guys will be the first revolutionary team to seize power in their own government in the future!

Barrett is still training his physique like crazy today. Despite being incredibly strong compared to ordinary people, he still treats himself so harshly.

That's exactly what that unwritten saying means.

People who are more talented than you are working even harder than you!

However, this statement is somewhat of a fallacy for Luo Hou, since hard work requires talent as well!

They are geniuses who can understand it at a glance and learn it in no time.

The difference between someone who spends three hours struggling to understand something and someone who works hard is truly vast!

Aside from Barrett, Amatsuki, who had just joined the team, was doing her best to show off her culinary skills, quickly turning piles of ingredients into delicious dishes.

However, just as Luo Hou was preparing to go and see how far the scientist father and daughter's research had progressed...

Two "old people," one big and one small, who had lived for over two hundred years, rushed over first, each carrying a bottle of pale purple medicine that was surrounded by a faint wisp of smoke.

"BOOS! The results of the first-generation multi-fruit gene potion adapted to the human body are in!!!"

"Based on my test results... the success rate of this medicine can reach over 99.99%!"

"Of course, the reason the success rate wasn't 100% is because I believe in maintaining a rigorous attitude towards science, hahaha~"

The image of the scientist father and daughter suggests they are undoubtedly top-tier in terms of scientific research.

...........

Chapter 180 The Cyborg Project

"Oh, so fast?"

Luo Hou accepted the finished product, the multi-fruit gene agent, and the research report handed to him with some surprise.

After observing it for a while, Luo Hou realized that he couldn't understand a single thing at all.

He clearly recognizes every single word in the research report!

But when put together, it's as if they've never learned these words before, and they have no idea what they mean!

To avoid embarrassment, Luo Hou could only quickly offer some praise and compliments.

Of course, this is based on the strength of someone who has already reached the world's top level.

Of course, Rahu wouldn't just smack his lips as a reward.

At least a portion of the enormous gold wealth plundered from the Celestial Dragons should have been allocated as a research fund.

Anyway, I've already reached the point where I'm not interested in wealth anymore, so even if I had a lot of money, it wouldn't be of much use to me.

No wonder the important figures portrayed in those TV dramas, after reaching a certain level, become...

People will start focusing their attention on power and fame!

When you have a good relationship, money really doesn't matter that much once you reach a certain level!

It's not that money and wealth are unimportant, but in the face of power and authority, mere money and wealth can only bow down and submit!

After casually piling a large amount of gold on the ground, forming a small golden mountain, Rahu gestured to the father and daughter in front of him that they could make any request.

As long as it doesn't involve destroying the world, Rahu is generally able to do his best to satisfy the other party.

To Luo Hou's surprise, the scientist father and daughter in front of him merely glanced at the piles of money in front of them and then paid no further attention to it.

Luo Hou was quite helpless about this, after all, he really had nothing but money!