Chapter 702: The Smartest Man in the Pirate World

The pirates retreated, but the navy did not leave.

Dantou Island has been discovered, and now there are only two paths before the world government -

Change another place to rebuild the science class's research base, or strengthen the defense force of Dantou Island.

But no matter which choice they choose, they won't be able to leave for a while, because no one knows when those pirates will come back and fight back.

As the main person in charge of Egghead Island and the only remaining scientist, Vegapunk naturally wants to discuss with the navy how to arrange the next steps. As for the two five old stars, they have long been like avoiding the plague. Running back to St. Mary Joa.

"Sorry for keeping you waiting."

After discussing with the Navy, Vegapunk returned to the top-level laboratory of Punk Records with his "wisdom" clone Pythagoras and "thought" clone Edison.

"I discussed it with people from the World Government. Considering that they are more likely to be attacked during the transfer process, we decided to let the science class continue to stay on Egg Head Island for research. Soon they will send all the previously evacuated scientists. return."

After briefly talking to Xie Wen about the arrangements of the World Government, Vegapunk immediately made his request, "So, during this period, can you please help us continue to optimize the Virgin Flame?" ? In exchange, all the research information on Egghead Island can be made available to you. In addition... I can also give you a devil fruit, not the artificial one."

"……Why?"

If it's just technology sharing, Xie Wen can understand. After all, Vegapunk is not so guarded about his technology, but directly giving away Devil Fruit seems a bit too attentive.

Not to mention that the price of Devil Fruit has been rising recently.

Vegapunk did not immediately answer Xie Wen's question, but glanced at the cats next to Xie Wen.

"At first, I was just curious about the fur cat in your team who is very similar to Kaido, and I thought he was Kaido's fur clone, so I went to collect some information about you, but I quickly I noticed that the fur cats around you...or should I call them Ellu cats, all seemed to appear out of thin air."

He talked about the strange things about the El cats, somewhat nonchalantly.

"You like to collect famous swords and devil fruits, but you don't cherish them very much. You will also exchange them for famous swords and devil fruits of equal or even lower value. And every time you collect some famous swords and devil fruits, there are many people around you. A new El Cat will appear soon, so I have a very magical guess..."

Vegapunk, whose face was full of inquiry, stared into Xie Wen's eyes and said slowly: "They are not cat fur tribe, but they are 'created' or 'summoned' by some special means. , and the key lies in your act of collecting famous swords and devil fruits.”

Then, regardless of whether Xie Wencheng admitted it or not, he continued to talk about his speculation: "You collected several famous swords in the West China Sea and the East China Sea, and then you added Higu Seijuro and Li Huamei who are good at swordsmanship to the team, and visited a family in the East China Sea. After the Swordsmanship Gym, Xiao Ai appeared again, and after taking the Devil Fruit in the City of Spring Queen, Link appeared..."

Vegapunk carefully counted the patterns of cats appearing. Although some cats in the map card pool and monster card pool were divided into the weapon pool and fruit pool, his guess was generally relatively accurate.

Xie Wen raised his eyebrows, feeling slightly surprised.

Since in the comics, apart from various magical inventions, Vegapunk doesn't seem to be very smart in other aspects, so when Xie Wen was reading the comics, he often complained about him as "the smartest person in the world", but now It seems...

Sure enough, one should not underestimate a guy with such a title.

"So, what was your reason for giving me the Devil Fruit?"

Xie Wen did not directly respond to Vegapunk's speculation, but once again repeated the question just now.

"I want to confirm whether my guess is correct. If possible, I also want to see how they appeared." Vegapunk didn't mean to hide anything, he stated his thoughts straightforwardly, and he also took the initiative Guaranteed: "I will not upload the matter of the Elcats to the punk records, so you don't have to worry about being known by the World Government. I have not even mentioned this speculation to the other clones."

As for Pythagoras and Edison, there was nothing they could do, because the two of them discussed this conjecture with the ontology.

In addition, they also discussed another possibility...

"You should have a way to seize other people's fruit abilities, right?" Vegapunk glanced at Meowrya, "The Snow Fruit is the ability of a cadre of the Don Quixote family, as well as the previous user of the Bomb Fruit. , appeared in Crocodile's Baroque Workshop... Did you get the Dark Fruit?"

Obviously, Vegapunk also knows the abilities possessed by the Dark Fruit, but it seems that his understanding of the Dark Fruit is relatively limited.

"No, the success rate of my method to capture the Devil Fruit's ability is very low, incomparable to the Dark Fruit." Xie Wen shook his head and answered honestly.

At this point, there is no point in denying it. Xie Wen doesn’t think that after he denies it, Vegapunk will really believe it, so it’s better to admit it openly.

And, regarding Vegapunk's desire to watch the summoning of Feycat, Xie Wen also planned to agree to it...

He also remembered that many cats actually wanted to go back to the Monster Hunter world. If he could get Vegapunk to help, it would be more likely to find a way to go to the Monster Hunter world.

Of course, Xie Wen did not intend to expose the existence of the Hunter's Manual and the Hunter's Knife. At most, he would let him know the existence of the summoning ticket. As for where he got the summoning ticket, let Vegapunk continue to guess.

Then...

"Animal system... I can't let you see it for a while."

Xie Wen weighed the Animal System Dog-Dog Fruit that Vegapunk gave him, and asked helplessly: "Is there no superhuman system?"

After summoning Kaido Meowth, the fragments of the Animal Pool were exhausted, but the fragments of the Superhuman Card Pool were only one piece short.

"No," Vegapunk shook his head and answered helplessly: "Whether it is an artificial devil fruit or an elemental beast, what is needed is only an animal-type fruit, so the World Government only gave me an animal-type fruit..."

"I secretly withheld this Dog-Dog Fruit under the pretext of experimental loss. I want to continue to do so with the same excuse. When I can make an elemental beast, the World Government will not agree to my "wasting" devil fruit like this."

Xie Wen just opened his mouth a little, and Vegapunk guessed what he wanted to ask, and immediately explained it first.

Xie Wen, with his mouth half open, was stunned for a moment, then shrugged.

"Okay, the last question... What kind of dog is this Dog-Dog Fruit?"

"Uh..." Vegapunk scratched his cheek and slightly shifted his sight, "Husky."

Xie Wen: "..."

No wonder the World Government agreed to let Vegapunk use it for experiments!