At this moment, the lush, beautiful and rich Punk Hassad Island fell into an eerie silence, with a green cloud in the center rising straight into the sky, sending poisonous clouds and smoke in all directions like a fountain under the influence of gravity.
A frightened deer jumped out of the forest and ran towards the beach, but before it could land, its limbs became stiff for a second. It twitched in mid-air, lost its balance, and then hit its head on a protruding rock, with a bloody head.
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The same thing happened everywhere. Those soldiers, guards, and prisoners who had no time to evacuate fell under the poisonous gas one after another, like fish out of water, howling and dying.
Seeing the poison gas getting closer, Lovett knocked on the deck and said.
"Leviathan, rise up!"
"Chirp!"
The boat, which was no more than five meters high, quickly rose up. Large balls of red fleshy foam flowed out from the gaps in the wooden planks and were piled up layer by layer under the hull. It quickly rose to a terrifying level of 50 meters, like a pillar, standing on the coast.
The vast and poisonous smoke passed by Leviathan's "foot", making them feel as if they were on top of the clouds.
Standing at this height, you can have a panoramic view of the entire Punk Hassad.
Looking around, the entire Punk Hassad was covered in a green coat, like a matcha cake, dyeing the sky green.
Jiu took a breath: "Caesar Courant, what exactly did you create?"
"It is a neurotoxin that interferes with nerve signals, causing the body to lose control and eventually suffocate..."
At this time, an answer came from below. Jiu turned around and saw a warship filled with figures wearing protective clothing. One of them stood at the front, looking up at them.
"This voice..."
Jiu was stunned: "Is it Mr. Begapunk?"
Putting on a protective suit, Vegapunk's dull voice came out from behind the mask.
"It's me. Thank you for your courage to help me, Lord Jiu."
"Stop talking about this, do you have a way to stop this, Vegapunk?"
He pointed at the clouds of poisonous smoke and said, "If this continues, the base will not be saved!"
"It's no longer possible to save it."
Hearing this, Vegapunk corrected him seriously: "According to the research data that Caesar Courant was too late to take away, this poisonous smoke will form acidic venom when combined with water molecules in the air and penetrate into the soil, making the island at least
No grass will grow within ten years, and then it evaporates to form a transparent poisonous gas that fills the air."
"As for me……"
Speaking of this, Vegapunk smiled bitterly: "I'm just an ordinary scientist, not a god."
"Caesar's talent in virus weapons is far beyond ordinary people. Even if I want to create an antidote, I must conduct in-depth research every year."
hiss!!
Jiu took a breath after hearing this, even Vegapunk couldn't do anything?
Doesn’t that mean...Punk Hassad is finished?!
"Bastard thing!"
Jiu clenched his fists angrily.
The birth of the Four Emperors pattern has caused the world government's originally weak control over the new world to plummet again. Only a few islands are still under the jurisdiction of the government. As an island with rich products, Punk Hassad has become this situation, and the government's losses are considerable.
heavy!
"But I've grabbed more than half of the research data. I can start over at any time if I change places."
Vegapunk said: "And according to the soldiers' reports, no warships have lost contact, so he must still be nearby!"
Looking at Jiu seriously, Vegapunk bowed: "We have contacted Lieutenant General Vergo of the G5 branch, and he promised to send someone to respond, so Lord Jiu, please, we must not let Caesar escape!"
"This virus weapon is too cruel and has violated our original intention!"
Regardless of whether they are pacifists or artificial Devil Fruits, the government has only one purpose: to end this era of great pirates.
Instead of destroying the world!
"Ah, I know."
Jiu's eyes were cold and murderous: "Lord Wulaoxing also means the same thing. If necessary, execution on the spot is allowed!"
As a scientist who is second only to Vegapunk in the scientific force, he is allowed to be executed on the spot, which shows how angry the Five Old Stars are at this moment.
They are the rulers.
The rulers don’t want to see anything that destroys the world happen.
After that, Jiu asked: "Mr. Begapunk, can you lend us some protective clothing?"
"sure!"
The latter did not hesitate, but then looked at the young man standing quietly at the edge of the deck without saying a word.
He was wearing a handmade black dress, a wide-brimmed top hat, a black velvet mantle with alexandrite buttons on his shoulders, and a gold ring under the pestle in his hand. He looked quite aristocratic.
His face is a little childish, but he is only in his twenties, but there is a strand of frosty white hair in front of his forehead, which hangs down casually to cover his right eye.
Let the apparently simple and solemn aristocratic style have a hint of unruly and arrogance.
Vegapunk recognized him.
Last year, the blood-cursed weapon maker who rose up from the East China Sea in an extremely terrifying manner and made the whole world excited, the king of the Shichibukai, [Black Earl] Francis Lovett!
Feeling Vegapunk's gaze, Lovett smiled slightly.
"I don't have to."
"I think there are a lot of government secrets on the island. As a pirate, it's better for me to be a little self-aware."
Jiu nodded when he heard this but said nothing.
The Five Old Stars just believe that Lovett has a sense of restraint and will not act haphazardly. It does not mean that they will completely trust the Shichibukai. Especially the mysterious and dangerous guy Black Earl. If he is allowed to land on the island and find something, who knows how much trouble there will be in the future.
thing.
Xiao Xiao has already said that after this time, he will personally be responsible for escorting the goods next time.
If he goes out with the Black Earl again, he will take off his head and play it as a ball!
First, there was trouble caused by the fishmen on Fish-Man Island, and then there was the betrayal of Punk Hassard Caesar. This kind of weird luck that went wrong wherever he went, left CP0 and even the Five Old Stars extremely speechless, and at the same time, they also had lingering fears.
"Then please help me investigate the nearby waters. Since Caesar did not hijack the warship, besides hiding on the island, the most likely possibility is to escape from the bottom of the sea."
"Okay, but next time we can't discount the arms."
Jiu: "..."
It’s just a 50% discount, do you want to be so serious?!
(╯‵□′)╯︵┻━┻
However, he did not expect Lovett to really contribute. This was just to give the other party a step up. To truly investigate the sea area, they still had to look at the large CP0 force hanging behind them.
…
Soon, Jiu, who had changed into protective clothing, and his men set foot on the poisonous island where they could not see their fingers. Lovett ordered Leviathan to move backwards, return to its normal height, and stay parallel to the warship.
Seeing the flesh and blood hull under Leviathan's belly sinking into the gap between the planks, Vegapunk took off his mask, his eyes filled with surprise.
"What a magical fruit power!"
"How on earth could so much substantial flesh and blood be hidden in such a small hull?"
"This is magic!"
Lovett looked at the man in front of him. He had a fluffy brown head, a shaggy afro like a blue pheasant, sunken cheeks, and thin limbs, which fit the world's established impression of a mad scientist.
Only those eyes are too bright, and they are lost in thought from time to time, giving people a strange feeling of being full of wisdom and shrewdness.
"magic?"
Hearing this, Vegapunk asked curiously: "What is that? Is it like the one in the novel?"
"Yes and no."
Lovett pulled out the bone chair and sat down, with his cane on his knees, his expression indifferent: "Magic is also a rigorous and complex knowledge system like science. But magic takes a spiritual route, which is completely different from the physical route that science takes.
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"Spiritual route?"
This statement made Vegapunk's eyes light up, as if he had caught something.
In response, Lovett nodded slightly.
"Yes, the spiritual route."
"You observe the world with your eyes and use your hands to make tools to change the world. This process is science."
"And we use our souls to observe the world, and use our mental power to create spell circuits to produce the same effect. This process is magic."
"So to be honest, there is no essential difference between magic and science."
But, there is a level difference!
Lovett didn't say everything.
The same scientific system also has different levels of height.
There has never been a civilization cutoff in the mage world. In addition, with tens of thousands of years of civilization establishment, even if they switch to a scientific route, they are still a high-level science fiction civilization targeting the stars and the sea.
On the other hand, the pirate world...
The most advanced scientific creation is probably the pacifist.
But in the mage world, this kind of thing was abandoned tens of thousands of years ago. Not to mention the cumbersome process, the strength is not as good as building a magic puppet to put the human soul in it.
In Lovett's first year as an apprentice, this was his summer homework!
The main reason for this phenomenon is that there are too many unreasonable and invincible monsters in this world, and science is not enough to compete with them.
In other words, science does not provide much guarantee of survival, it is just a foil to set off the invincibility of the strong.
In the mage world, magic truly explains what "knowledge is power".
People specialize in magic and gain powerful power while learning knowledge. This is something that science in the current pirate world cannot do.