It was after the last war, in order to confirm the issue of Blackbeard's life and death, Li Yan had Blackbeard's ship that was crushed in the ruins of the underwater prison...

It was fished out.

After some inspection and verification, although the bodies of all Blackbeard's crew were found on the ship, Blackbeard himself was not found.

Originally, Li Yan was a little disappointed, but...

On this ship, he found something else, something that others might have dismissed as useless, but that was very familiar to Li Yan.

That's a piece of black cloth!

When he saw this piece of cloth, Li Yan remembered the War on the Top in the original work. After killing White Beard, Black Beard took out such a piece of cloth and covered himself and White Beard in it.

No one knew what Blackbeard, who was covered in black cloth, did, but when he came out of the black cloth again, he had the white tiger's own shocking fruit.

In his previous life, there were many speculations about Blackbeard's ability to seize fruits.

For example, through the Dark Fruit.

For example, after the esper dies, the fruit ability will re-parasitize the nearest fruit.

Another example is that there is something fishy about that piece of black cloth.

At this point, Li Yan thinks the first two are unreliable.

If it were the first type, in the original story of Dressrosa, Bassas would not have tried every means to kill Sabo and take away the Burnt Fruit that he had swallowed.

Obviously, Bassas knows how to seize the fruit, but it is definitely not Blackbeard's secret fruit, because Blackbeard is not in Dressrosa at this time. After Bassas kills Sabo, is it possible that Blackbeard can still win the fruit instantly?

Move over and help him take out the fruit?

Therefore, this guess is very unreliable.

As for the second type, it’s actually more ridiculous.

If the esper dies, the devil fruit ability will leave the body of the esper and possess the nearest fruit.

Then why has no one discovered this in eight hundred years?

Speaking of which, in the past eight hundred years, perhaps eight hundred people with abilities have died, if not a thousand. If it had been that simple, they would have been discovered long ago.

After all, no one is blind.

Or should I say that in the past eight years, I have never encountered a situation where there was fruit nearby when a person with abilities died?

Therefore, the first two guesses are unreliable.

So...

This leaves only the third type.

In other words, there is something fishy about this piece of black cloth!

Therefore, Li Yan brought this piece of black cloth to Vegapunk and described to him a scene that did not exist.

He told Vegapunk that Blackbeard once used this piece of cloth to cover himself and the pirate's body after killing a pirate with Devil Fruit abilities. When the black cloth was lifted,

Blackbeard got the opponent's devil fruit.

Based on this non-existent scene, let Vegapunk study how Blackbeard did it.

Of course, Double Punk didn't know that the scene Li Yan told him had never happened in the real world.

Vegapunk is one of the three people in the world who has studied bloodline factors the most, and his research in this area is also quite impressive.

No, in just one month, he had a preliminary conclusion and was ready to start experiments.

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Ten thousand meters above Gaya Island.

Apayado Comprehensive Scientific Research Institute.

"Old Bei, are you saying that the problem lies with this piece of black cloth?"

Looking at Vegapunk holding a black cloth, Li Yan asked.

"Yes, our previous research only revealed that after a person eats a Devil Fruit, the bloodline factors contained in the fruit will enter the human blood system, relying on the blood as nutrients to survive while feeding back to the host.

This feedback is the ability of the Devil Fruit."

"At the same time, when a human dies, the blood in the body can no longer maintain the survival of the bloodline factors. At this time, the bloodline factors will leave the human body and find a new host."

"Of course, first he must find a container that can maintain his own existence, and this container is various fruits."

"But it's not like you put a fruit in front of the corpse of a person with abilities. The bloodline factor will definitely enter the fruit after it is separated. According to records over the past eight hundred years, there have been cases where devil fruits were counted two days after the death of an ability user.

The incident of someone being found on an island a thousand kilometers away.”

"For now, it is still unclear what mechanism the bloodline factor relies on to find a suitable fruit to parasitize after leaving the body of the ability user. But after you told me about Blackbeard last time, I have

New ideas..."

"Of course, this idea requires a premise, a method that can bind the blood factor, and through your story, I focused my attention on this black cloth. After researching it, I found that the problem still lies in this!

"

Vegapunk talked a lot today, and he was obviously a little excited at the moment.

After all, the study of bloodline factors is his old profession. With this sudden breakthrough, how could he not be excited?

"Old Bei, just tell me directly, what method?"

"This method is surprisingly simple, follow me!"

Without directly revealing the answer to the mystery, Vegapunk took direct steps and asked Li Yan to follow him.

512 There was no choice, the blood factor was sad soon, and the two came to an empty laboratory.

Why is it said empty? It's because...

This laboratory is surprisingly clean. There is nothing except a black cube in the middle that is about three meters long, wide and high.

"Old Bei, what is this?"

"Hai Lou Shi!"

"Hai Lou Shi is so big and all of them are there?"

Hearing this, Li Yan was also surprised. If a cube with a length, width and height of three meters each was made of sea tower stones, how big would it be?

You know, sea floor stones are very expensive, and they are definitely comparable to luxury goods in the world of pirates.

"What are you thinking about? It's all there, I do, but you have to give me so many sea tower stones!"

As he came to the black cube, Vegapunk complained, then reached out and grabbed a handle on the cube and opened it.

Good guy, it turns out it's not an entity, but something like a box, just a little bigger.

The thickness is about five millimeters, which is not too exaggerated.

"Lao Bei, stop being so secretive and say it quickly!"

"Well, before I talk about this, I still have to talk about this piece of black cloth!"

With that said, Vegapunk raised the black cloth in his hand again.

"Maybe, you would think it's just a different black cloth, but it's not!"

"This piece of black cloth is mixed with many pieces of sea floor stone. As you know, sea floor stone has unparalleled suppressive power on bloodline factors."

"So, you can imagine that when the ability user dies, the blood-drinking factor leaves the body and prepares to find new fruits to host, but..."

"The surroundings are wrapped in black cloth, and the black cloth is also filled with sea tower stone fragments that have a suppressive effect on it. Finally, if there is an apple placed in the black cloth..."

"How do you think the blood factor will be chosen?"

hiss...

After listening to Vegapunk's explanation, Li Yan understood instantly.

I have no choice but to dive headfirst into the apple in front of me.
Chapter completed!