Arceus' Pirate Journey

Chapter 780: A small meeting of the navy, a headache

Sakaski tore off the bandage on his hand. According to the ship's doctor's prediction, his hand should have healed by now, but the reality was not so. The wound healed much slower than expected.

There was some mysterious force interfering with the healing of his wounds.

"According to the science team, that guy must have really mastered the technique of bringing the devil fruit to life. After he threw the fruit out, it turned into a scorpion.

It feels very similar to an awakened animal-type ability user, and for some reason, that thing can attack my body, and elementalization seems to be ineffective against it."

"Then how did you hurt your hand?"

The headquarters' offices were filled with high-ranking naval officials. Even the people serving tea and water were major generals, and the lieutenant generals had to stand at the back and listen.

Tsuru, Sengoku, Sakaski, Kuzan, and Garp made up the bulk of the meeting, along with a few of their trusted associates, and Sengoku's goat.

There is no need to publicize the news of Sakaski's injury on a large scale, as that would affect the morale of the army.

"That thing exploded. I was underground and avoided the main damage, but my arm that was in direct contact was greatly affected."

"Devil Fruit... Sakaski, you said that you couldn't help but want to get rid of the scorpion first, right?"

"Yes."

"Let's assume that the fruit is some kind of scorpion fruit of the animal type, and Quinn released it. It is the essence of the devil fruit, so it has this effect. Isn't this more reasonable?"

He gave the result of her own analysis, which was the most practical reason she could think of.

There are too many mysteries about devil fruits, and even Vegapunk only put forward his own hypothesis, so Tsuru analyzed the information brought back by Akainu and came up with new results.

"No, if that's the case, why couldn't Kaido's dragon Hydra attack my entity during the G-1 incident?"

Kuzan raised objections, saying that the eight-headed evil dragon and the monster scorpion created by Quinn were somehow related, but the eight-headed evil dragon failed to solve his natural body and was even injured.

"It's different. According to Sakaski, the scorpion was completely transformed from a devil fruit, but the dragon might be some kind of creature that ate the fruit. Vegapunk is not 100% sure that the dragon is a devil fruit, but they just said that the content is higher.

They're related, but they're different, and at least the dragon isn't going to explode, but that's good news."

People will use what they can understand to explain what they see. This is what He has thought of for the time being, and it makes sense overall. As for studying the root cause, that is what the scientific team should do, not her chief of staff.

All she wanted to analyze was the impact of this incident on the navy.

"Good news? Crane, you weren't infected by that bastard Garp, were you?"

Listening to He's slightly outrageous words, Zhan Guo felt his head starting to hurt again.

“First, we can confirm that the use of this ability consumes a lot of physical strength. If even Quinn will become thin, then ordinary pirates cannot use it. It is not universal.

The subsequent explosion means that it will consume the devil fruit. Even if it is a hundred beasts, how many devil fruits can it find? Although the power of the explosion is very strong, if it cannot be popularized, the impact will be limited.

Sakaski was attacked by seastone first and then hit, which shows that the hit rate was not high.

According to his reaction, this attack seems to be specifically targeted at people with special abilities. It should have certain limitations. It is a nuisance, but it is still within the acceptable range. Compared to this, Sengoku, you should worry about another problem. "

"What trouble?"

"It's a letter of accountability from the World Government. To be more precise, it's a letter of accountability from some Celestial Dragons."

Standing at the pinnacle of power and enjoying endless wealth, the Tianlong people lead a life of extravagance and luxury every day. Wine and women are the real norm for them.

Their desires manifest themselves in different ways, some like to collect alien slaves, some like to search for women, collect stones, and some like to eat delicious celestial dragons.

Many items of the Hundred Beasts Fruit were positioned for the high-end market from the beginning, and the Celestial Dragons were naturally included.

The damage to the banana plantation is an irreversible thing, but this time, Quinn's share was not reduced. He was a victim. In order to vent the anger of this victim, part of the Celestial Dragons' shares disappeared directly.

[Due to force majeure, the noble banana plantation built specifically for you was destroyed in the navy's attack. We are unable to provide you with delicious food this year. The quality of food in other areas is not worthy of your noble status. Please forgive us. ]

This was the speech prepared by Tai Zuo Luo. He had already grasped the temperament of those celestial dragons and knew how to communicate with this group of people.

The result is that the letter of accountability came to the Navy.

In order to uphold justice and protect the sea, the Celestial Dragons were not interested in such things. They only cared about themselves. Due to the actions of the navy, the banana plantation was destroyed, and they were very unhappy. So a group of Celestial Dragons jointly filed a protest.

If the navy had achieved results, the World Government would not have said anything, but they failed. In order to make these Celestial Dragons quiet down, the World Government chose to exchange the face of the Navy, and when this was implemented in specific policies, it meant that Sengoku had to go to Marijoa to be lectured again.

"These bastards..."

"These bastards are like worms in the sea. Just say whatever you want to say. There's no need to put up with it."

"Garp!"

"Ah, you can't say that casually. Just pretend you didn't hear it."

Sengoku, who was so popular with Tianlong, couldn't help complaining, but he only complained in his heart, but Garp said those words directly, even if this was something that the high-level navy knew well, only Garp dared to be so presumptuous .

"Okay, let's talk about those headaches later. What do you think about the bounty? Sakaski?"

As a participant in this conflict, Sakaski's suggestions are more relevant for reference.

"If we ignore those external forces, the threat of lightning is much greater than that of the plague. It's just that the guy's skills are a problem, but in a one-on-one situation, they will not pose a threat."

"I understand. I'll report it like this then."

This level of bounty was still finalized by the World Government, and the Navy would only provide reference opinions. In the end, two new bounties arrived on the sea along with the news bird.

Plague-Quinn

The bounty is 2.7 billion berries. It is extremely dangerous.

ONLY ALIVE

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Lightning Zeraora

Reward: 1.27 billion Baileys

Being able to fight with the admiral for a period of time without being defeated and escaping unscathed is extremely rare among the forces of the Sea Emperor. This directly increased the bounty of Zeraora by 500 million. However, compared to Zeraora, Quinn is still more eye-catching.

Especially in Punk Hazard, Caesar Courant's expression had turned into gnashing of teeth when he looked at the bounty order.

Chapter 781 But Akainu said so

Twenty-seven billion, this number is already a very terrifying number. Among the pirates still active on the sea, the number of pirates with bounties exceeding this amount can be counted on two hands.

Even in the Beasts Pirates, only Kaido of Billion and Arceus of Billion exceed this amount. In other pirate groups, only the captains have such terrifying bounties. The Red Hair Pirates are a little special, and Beckman's bounty is much higher than that of other cadres.

Even if all the remnants from the Rocks era were caught, plus those monsters that had retired, this bounty would still be enough to rank among the top.

Moreover, the World Government has specially marked it as extremely dangerous, which reflects how much importance the World Government attaches to it. Coupled with the unchanging ONLY ALIVE, he now suspects that if Quinn surrenders, the World Government will throw him, the second-in-command, aside without hesitation.

Let him take his place.

We can estimate this by looking at the experimental results of recent years.

Caesar failed in the human gigantism experiment.

Quinn created a terrifying war monster, which has been successfully used in actual combat, and even has technology that adds a bloodline factor.

Caesar failed in the devil fruit replication experiment.

Quinn is currently suspected of mastering the strange technique of bringing the devil fruit to life, and this suspicion seems to have been confirmed recently.

In the bloodline factor experiment, Caesar has not shown any performance so far, while Quinn has copied all of Kaji's techniques, and the previous devil fruit experiments are also closely related to the bloodline factor.

Even his best skill, weapons of mass destruction, has now been surpassed by him, or rather, Quinn has never lost to him in this regard.

In contrast, Caesar suddenly felt like a waste.

The two have known each other for too long, and it is obvious that they are equally matched. They were evenly matched when they fought. How come Quinn suddenly became a top scientist and was even able to injure the admiral of the navy?

There is no need to doubt the dual-color domineering of a strong admiral-level warrior. Facing a natural ability user who is proficient in observation Haki, it is basically hellish to hurt him, not to mention the special injuries that are difficult to recover from.

"I'm telling you, there must be something wrong with your intelligence department! There's no way that guy Quinn could do this. He doesn't have that kind of ability. It's impossible for humans to make his brain soar in just a few years, unless that guy has seen a god!"

Before the accident, Caesar still had some face here, and he also established a amiable personality for himself. Although he seemed a little neurotic since Quinn began to appear frequently, the researchers and soldiers here still respected him very much.

"But this is what General Sakaski saw with his own eyes, not the intelligence department's speculation..."

"Eyes can be deceiving. The point is, Quinn can't do such a thing. Do you understand?"

"But that's General Sakaski..."

"Why can't I explain it to you clearly? The problem isn't Akainu, it's Quinn!

"

"I know what you mean, but this intelligence was obtained by Admiral Sakaski during the mission..."

Caesar felt like something was knocking at him in the head and had an inexplicable headache. The three admirals were the backbone of the navy and their influence on the navy was profound.

Especially since Sakaski is the one who has the strictest military discipline and never jokes, he is definitely not the kind of person who would lie.

What Akainu said must be true, and no one in the navy questioned this, so that this information was unanimously recognized.

Vegapunk doesn't care who owns the technology, he just thinks it is a great breakthrough. If the mystery of the devil fruit can be further revealed, perhaps eternal energy can appear in this world.

He was so absorbed in his research that he didn't care about what was happening in the outside world. He just added a new plan to his to-do list.

Only Caesar insisted on his original understanding, thinking that everyone was fooled, that he was the only one sober while everyone else was drunk, and that he was the only one still in a rational state.

"You will regret it sooner or later!"

Seeing that he couldn't convince these people, Caesar simply turned around and returned to his laboratory. Three people make a tiger. After everyone insisted on the same opinion, he also slightly doubted his own thinking, but it was his inherent cognition that made him reaffirm his belief.

And he made a new decision. If Quinn could do it, there was no reason why he couldn't do it. He also wanted to conduct a new experiment.

The first step is to write an application and trick the world government into granting him some new funding.

The expenses for food, drink and entertainment are quite high, and it would be insufficient if I don’t apply for some new funds.

He is not the kind of person like Vegapunk. Like Quinn, he is a hedonist. It is impossible for him to use all the funds to do research.

Meanwhile, others had different reactions.

"Mom, mom, why did Dad suddenly become thinner?"

"My silly son, that's not your father. This is your father."

A pirate ship was full of broken limbs. A man who didn't look too smart was holding a bounty order and comparing the differences, while the short woman in front of him was holding up another bounty order belonging to Whitebeard.

"Oh! This one looks more like it. Mom, shall we go find Dad now?"

"No, no, no, my silly son, it's still a little early."

The woman stuffed the newspaper into her coat and then went into the cabin to search for treasure.

......

On the other side, Vinsmoke Jiaji, also an old colleague of Quinn, was also researching something new. Ever since he witnessed the power of Genesect that year, the idea of ​​mecha had emerged in his mind.

Even though biological weapons continued to appear, he did not change his main direction. He was following the development path of combining bloodline factors, machinery, and biology.

At this time, a clone soldier was manipulating a seemingly bulky mecha to transform, but it failed halfway and the soldier was stuck inside.

"Father, we still failed. That metal is too rare and cannot be decomposed and refined by conventional means. Our extraction efficiency is very low and a lot of materials will be wasted. Even if it is only used as the material for some core parts, it will cost a huge amount of money."

Reijiu looked at the failed experiment and told Kaji the facts very calmly. The metal she was talking about was Arceus steel. As Arceus's ability became stronger, this ordinary creation became simpler. Onigashima now has a warehouse full of Arceus steel.

In addition to using it for their own purposes, they also dissolved it and mixed it with other metals, using the degraded version of the metal as special military products in exchange for a large amount of money.

However, this metal, which can be found everywhere on Onigashima and is even used as a snack for some Pokémon, is extremely rare in the outside world.

Chapter 782: If God wants to destroy someone, he must first make him crazy

If it is an ordinary industry, such as casting a gun barrel or using it as a house frame, it is not complicated, it is just a little more expensive, but these metals also have expensive value.

However, some people with strong technical capabilities discovered the unique role of this metal, which can realize many fantastic ideas, so the purity of the version sold outside is not enough, such as the transforming and combining mecha envisioned by Kaji.

In order to realize that concept, extremely high requirements were placed on the metal material. Before the advent of Wabo Metal, there was no substitute for Arceus Steel. Even if it came out, it could only replace Arceus Steel in some areas.

Generally, the purity was not high enough, so he could only purchase large quantities and then purify them. Although there were certain results, the cost was extremely high.

He had no intention of upgrading the equipment for the clones. Those clones were produced to be consumables. Instead of giving them expensive equipment, it would be better to give them a high-powered bomb to self-destruct.

It's just that after years of hard work, the upgraded equipment he designed for his children and himself has made a technological breakthrough. As long as the material problem is solved, there is still hope of achieving it.

“Money…”

Vegapunk and Caesar now rely on the World Government, and Quinn has the Beast Fruit behind him. They are not short of funds. Logically speaking, Germa 66 also has sufficient funds, but their money comes from plundering and war mercenaries.

Compared with those who have a stable source of business, it is much worse. The huge investment makes Kaji feel a little short of money. Coincidentally, his subordinates also brought today's newspaper at this time.