Chapter 139: Tragedy? Accident?
Vegapunk is a watershed, the science world can be completely divided into two eras before and after his appearance, before Vegapunk stepped onto the grand stage named “World”, the discontinued science and technology developed extremely slowly, especially under the rule of the World Government and Celestial Dragons, for hundreds of years scientific development was like a pedestrian trapped in a quagmire, and in a hundred years there might not even be any refreshing progress.
In the past many years, the field of science was simply like a barren desert with no grass growing, until Vegapunk’s birth, with his own power he changed this desolate landscape, the science and technology that had stagnated for hundreds of years without any progress ushered in a volcanic eruption-like leap forward.
Before Roger pulled open the curtain on the Pirate Era, Vegapunk had already sounded the horn of new life in the world of science.
Although Vegapunk was ultimately half-forced and half-lured by the World Government to join the Navy’s Science Unit, to ensure his safety and also to prevent him from having any disloyal thoughts, in short under the World Government’s strong order, the Navy squeezed out a Headquarters General to serve as Vegapunk’s bodyguard.
Most of his research results were restricted by the World Government and could not be applied on a large scale to change the world, but a small number of results still circulated onto the Sea in different ways, for example, colleagues who survived in illegal research institutes without being caught by the World Government, when Judge’s photo appeared in the Newspaper, he recognized Judge at a glance.
However, Vegapunk did not leak this intelligence, he chose to turn a blind eye.
After all, he did not join the World Government willingly, at the beginning he was a prisoner captured by the World Government, he was only serving a lifetime in prison and could no longer touch any research work; joining the World Government to continue his research······ between these two choices he chose the relatively not bad path.
From the bottom of his heart, he had no sense of identification with the World Government at all.
It was just that after discovering the funding support from the World Government, many of his researches became smoother, no longer like before, just wanting to build a large heater that could regulate the climate in his hometown to make the islanders’ lives more comfortable, but in the end the plan failed due to insufficient funds······
This made him realize his own shortcomings.
He is a genius, an unprecedented genius in the field of science and technology, but limited to this field, clearly he held in his hands many research results that could earn countless money, but his ability in operating was insufficient to monetize his research results into funds.
This is also one of the reasons why he joined the research institute established by miss·Bakin.
“Doctor Vegapunk, what to do next?”
This was a very empty and pale Room, except for a series of surgical equipment, there were no flowers or plants decorations here, the burly Bear stood on one side of the Operating Table, leaning forward and asking Doctor Vegapunk for technical guidance.
Yes,
No mistake.
The Revolutionary Army’s great Cadre, the Seven Warlords’ Tyrant, the King of the Sorbet Kingdom, Bartholomew Kuma, has now become one of Vegapunk’s research assistants.
“Next······ Bear, try to see if you can eject the ‘Lead Poison’ from this guy’s body.”
On the Operating Table,
lay a young man with hair and skin as pale as paper.
White hair and white skin······ these are not this young man’s natural features, this is the effect brought by Lead Poison disease, of course strictly speaking, this is not the malignant infectious disease rumored outside, this is poisoning.
White Town·Flevance.
Bear knew this tragic Country, which prospered because of Lead Poison and ultimately perished because of Lead Poison······ The rumors of Lead Poison disease on the Sea were very terrifying, but the Revolutionary Army had long mastered the truth of Lead Poison disease through Spies planted in the World Government and Navy.
Infectious disease was simply a rumor put out by the World Government,
Unfortunately,
Lead Poison poisoning is incurable, the Revolutionary Army was also powerless to save this Country, even if they went all out to expose the truth, they could not save the poisoned people of Fllevance, let alone at that time the Revolutionary Army’s Strength was far from as powerful as it is now.
Bear originally thought that after Fllevance’s destruction, all Lead Poison disease patients had also disappeared.
He didn’t expect that Vegapunk still had Lead Poison disease patients surviving in his hands.
Of course, these surviving Lead Poison disease patients were only lingering on with their last breaths, unable to remove the Lead Poison from their bodies, the so-called Lead Poison disease could never be cured, Vegapunk did many Experiments, but still could not completely eliminate the Lead Poison from the patients’ bodies.
Until he discovered the various inconceivable abilities that Bear had developed from the Paw-Paw Fruit.
He immediately realized that Bear’s ability could be of great use in some similar research Experiments requiring separation and purification techniques, so he spared no expense to bring Bear over to serve as his assistant.
“I’ll try.”
Bear simply agreed.
He bent down, stretched out his right hand and gently patted the young patient’s arm, carefully trying to eject the Lead Poison deeply hidden in the human body, honestly speaking, when he learned the truth of Lead Poison disease before, Bear who had already developed the Paw-Paw Fruit to a certain extent had thought that perhaps his ability could help.
It was just that Bear at that time was still not up to it and could not effortlessly perfectly separate the Lead Poison from the patient’s body.
Moreover, Flvenance’s Lead Poison disease patients had almost all reached the edge of Death due to long-term pollution, standing on the cliff’s edge, as long as they took one more step forward, they would embrace Death intimately, and to cover up the truth of Lead Poison disease, the World Government dispatched the Navy to surround Fllevance on the pretext of preventing the spread of infectious disease.
Ultimately,
Bear could not change that destined outcome.
White Town·Flevance thus became one of the many tragic regions recorded in human history.
And now, a Lead Poison disease patient appeared before Bear once again, whether to fulfill his past obsession or to satisfy Vegapunk, he mustered all his energy to start working, under Vegapunk’s verbal guidance, little by little slowly ejecting that highly polluting poison—Lead Poison—from the patient’s body.
“Incredible! Incredible······ To eject all the Lead Poison so quickly.”
Even fully armed with gas mask and protective suit could not stop Vegapunk from exclaiming repeatedly, through the thick anti-poison gloves, he gently touched that lump of grayish-white irregular spherical Lead Poison, this thing was ejected from the young man’s body on the Operating Table.
“As expected······ Devil Fruit······”
Doctor Vegapunk’s expression was complex.
Even something he could not easily do, in front of the Devil Fruit’s unreasonable ability, was like a sandcastle built by a child on the beach, easily destroyed by a big wave······ Of course, a terrifying big wave like Bear was actually not common.
In this newly built secret Research Base, the research presided over by Vegapunk was still continuing.
Similarly,
The Combat on Black Thorn Flower Island was still continuing.
Zephyr swinging his only remaining Fist, beating the freak Weibul so aggrieved that he was about to cry, his IQ was not enough, but his Intuition was quite sharp, he smelled the intense killing intent on Zephyr with no room for maneuver.
As time passed, he increasingly sensed the taste of Death.
Fear of Death is the common instinct of all creatures, unrelated to race, gender, IQ and such things, even a dog knows to run after being beaten, seeing Zephyr as invincible and powerful with no glory or dignity or such things, Weibul chose to escape.
This was also miss·Bakin’s teaching to him.
“Ahh! You stinky Old Man get away!”
Weibul mustered all his Strength to swing the Naginata, temporarily forcing Zephyr back two steps, then he immediately carried the Naginata and madly ran towards the direction where miss·Bakin was, even after being smashed three Fists in a row by Zephyr, with his occiput broken open, he still endured and ran forward.
And it must be said,
Zephyr moving with ‘Shave’ had extremely fast Speed, unexpectedly unable to catch up to Weibul at full horsepower for a while.
“······I just wanted to watch the excitement properly!”
Elus looked at Weibul charging like a red-eyed bull, still shouting “Mommy” nonstop in his mouth, helplessly scratching his chin, miss·Bakin was quite honest, her heart like cold hard ironstone, completely ignoring the rushing Weibul.
Weibul rushed to within ten meters in front of Elus.
Seeing that he only needed two or three steps to pass Elus, pick up miss·Bakin standing at Elus’s side rear and escape.
“Cero.”
Elus raised his right hand.
At the tip of his index finger, vast Spiritual Pressure gathered, crimson light suddenly shot through the Atmosphere, like lightning thrown down by a god, piercing through Weibul’s powerful body, opening a through-and-through round wound about the size of an Apple on his right shoulder.
This strike,
Not only pierced through Weibul’s body.
But also temporarily deprived his right hand of mobility, and his forward charging momentum came to an abrupt halt, the impact force brought by the Cero made him retreat a few steps, and just this brief obstruction, he completely lost the hope of taking miss·Bakin to escape.
Zephyr,
Caught up.
That Fist wrapped in Armament Haki smashed heavily on Weibul’s right shoulder, right at the position of the wound made by Elus, the Old Man although known as ‘no-kill’, but making so many unruly Pirates on the Sea tremble in fear was not by relying on his Kindness and Goodness.
Under the premise of not killing those Pirates, Zephyr would use all means to disarm the Pirates’ combat ability, he didn’t talk about benevolence, righteousness, morality with Pirates.
In that era,
There were even Pirates who would rather be punched into a puddle of meat sauce by Garp than be captured alive by Zephyr.
Hit with a heavy Fist at the wound, the crisp sound of Bone breaking was heard by everyone around, Weibul painfully let out an earth-shattering roar, tears slid from the corner of his Eyes, his left hand clutching the Naginata and swinging wildly, completely without method.
Zephyr pressed his advantage relentlessly, continuously striking heavy blows around Weibul’s right shoulder.
Weibul broke down from the beating.
The Bones of his right shoulder and right arm were almost hammered into powder by Zephyr, the immense pain affected his thinking ability, Weibul who was already inclined to instinct completely lost his head, he forgot miss·Bakin, forgot those teachings that miss·Bakin had spent much effort to teach him barely to remember.
He relied on instinct to want to escape.
However,
His injuries not only affected his Brain, his Body also suffered huge interference, his steps were not as flexible and swift as before, Zephyr using ‘Shave’ easily drove him back to the original spot, like a Beast circled by hunters, could only struggle desperately within the encirclement.
“Your child is about to die, don’t you feel heartbroken?”
Elus looked at the Weibul in desperate straits, and spoke to miss·Bakin again.
“That’s just a money-making tool I cultivated.” miss·Bakin’s gaze flickered, no sadness or reluctance could be seen in her Eyes, only endless indifference, at this point whether Weibul lived or died was no longer important, her own life was the most important. “If I had known he was so useless, I wouldn’t have spent so much money raising this Waste, that much money could have let me enjoy properly for two or three years!”
She said quite annoyed.
From her voice, Elus felt that sincere regret, he once again confirmed that miss·Bakin was a cold-blooded Monster who recognized money but not people, wearing human skin······ Even if Weibul was not miss·Bakin’s child, after raising him for so many years, in the end she still discarded him without hesitation.
“Why did you attack the Navy’s training ship back then?”
Elus asked.
He still couldn’t figure out what meaning there was in Weibul attacking the Navy training ship? Apart from provoking the Navy, there was no benefit at all? Even that madman Beasts, every ‘suicide’ had different purposes, in his view Weibul attacking the Navy training ship was completely meaningless.
“That was an accident.”
miss·Bakin lowered her voice, as if afraid of Zephyr hearing that she was also related to that incident back then.
“At that time, to test Weibul’s Strength, I took him everywhere looking for Pirates, that night the Prey I found was also the Navy’s target, Weibul killed all those Pirates first, but before they could leave the Navy training ship appeared, Weibul······ his Brain was not enough, he thought those Navy were also Prey too, as a result······ I didn’t expect he actually chopped off Black Arm’s one arm.”
Speaking of this matter, miss·Bakin had a face full of regretful expression.
Everything she did was for money, the conflict with Zephyr was really a huge accident, completely destroying her original Plan, originally afraid of being discovered by Whitebeard about Weibul’s existence they had always been acting covertly, but ended up provoking the Navy······
Forced by circumstances, she abandoned the original Plan, taking Weibul to start the reclusive life up to this day.
It was all that damn accident!
Making her fall to this situation now.
“Accident······ Hiss! This accident really harmed people deeply!”
Elus didn’t think miss·Bakin was lying, looking at the current situation one could see that miss·Bakin and Weibul perhaps lived quite well on Black Thorn Flower Island, but after all this was just a remote backward Edge Region with sparse population.
The living conditions here no matter how good were just like this, couldn’t be much better.
