A complex of buildings.
The only intact research institute on Punk Hazard.
Caesar had returned here not long ago, and it had now completely become Caesar's personal experimental base.
In a laboratory filled with dismembered human bodies.
Black, pointed hair, horns on his head, over 3 meters tall, wearing purple lipstick and eye makeup.
Caesar, dressed in an orange and yellow diagonally striped suit, covered by a flowing white robe, held a syringe and looked excitedly at the man tied to the operating table, dressed in prisoner's stripes.
The prisoner looked at Caesar, his face filled with terror.
"Don't worry."
As if unfelt by the prisoner's terror, Caesar muttered to himself, raising the syringe. "This is a muscle relaxant, which can interfere with neurotransmission at the neuromuscular junction through drugs, reducing the target's muscle strength, causing systemic weakness, rigidity, and inability to speak."
The more he spoke, the more terrified the prisoner became. If his mouth hadn't been gagged, he would have screamed.
"Don't worry, it won't hurt, it won't itch. Soon, you'll be like the other prisoners around you, living forever in culture vats."
Caesar looked at the prisoner and, without any hesitation, plunged the syringe into his arm, slowly injecting the liquid.
This prisoner, along with the severed limbs in the surrounding vats, were all prisoners originally held on this island.
When the Marines and the World Government left, they did not take these prisoners with them.
Now, all these prisoners had become his experimental subjects.
As the liquid was injected, the prisoner's resistance weakened, and he finally became completely stiff and motionless.
"Hahaha, that's more like it!"
Caesar withdrew the syringe, looking contentedly at the prisoner lying quietly on the operating table, and burst into laughter.
"Shiro ro ro ro ro ro ro!!"
"Shiro ro ro ro ro ro ro!!"
Now there was no Vegapunk with opposing ideals, no annoying Marines to restrain him. He could experiment however he wanted, and this feeling made him extremely satisfied.
"Ugh..."
The laughter abruptly stopped. Caesar looked at the laboratory ceiling in confusion. Just now, he had inexplicably shivered, as if something bad was about to happen.
"It must have been a hallucination!"
The feeling came and went quickly, as if it were truly a hallucination.
Caesar shrugged indifferently, his face full of ease.
Who was he?
He was a genius scientist supported by the Seven Warlords of the Sea, Kaido, and Charlotte Linlin.
He didn't believe anyone in this world dared to do anything to him.
This was his laboratory, he...
was the king here.
Shaking his head, Caesar looked at the prisoner on the operating table, his gaze not like that of someone looking at a fellow human, but at an animal.
He took out various instruments and medicines from behind him and proceeded with further experiments.
...
On the beach in the port, Kong Tai naturally knew what Caesar was doing, but he didn't stop him.
The original prisoners on this island were not good people, and most of them were pirates. Kong Tai had no sympathy for them.
He turned around and looked at his companions disembarking from the Free. He took a sip of wine with a smile.
Hiss hiss!!
Guina appeared from a green arc of electricity and sat beside Kong Tai, her legs dangling by the side of the iron can.
She reached out and clasped Kong Tai's arm, tilting her head to ask, "Kong Tai, what are all these?"
He didn't ask who the people lying on the ground were.
Since Kong Tai had knocked them out, they were all deserving of death. Why ask about them?
Kong Tai glanced back at Guina, then pulled her down from the iron can and stood before his companions. He tapped the iron can in front of him with his right hand and said with a smile, "These things are the experimental machinery of a mad scientist. As for the pirates around, they are all people who deserve to die."
"Right."
Kong Tai turned to Hua and the other two and said, "I just knocked them out. You guys remember to finish them off later."
"Mhm!"
Hua and the other two nodded. They had done such things more than once on their journey.
Although these pirates posed no threat to them, for ordinary people, they were an insurmountable chasm.
They had no qualms about killing them.
They had not let a single pirate go on their journey.
Of course, except for Ace.
That guy came to spar, not to cause trouble for them.
And his personality was actually quite good. They hadn't felt any of the malice unique to pirates from him.
On Fish-Man Island, Ace had even become their guide, and they had become friends.
Although their relationship might not be very deep, they were still friends.
"Let's go! Let's go take a look at this laboratory."
Kong Tai looked up at the huge laboratory ahead, a strange glint flashing in his eyes.
Technology five hundred years ahead of the world, did this laboratory contain it?
To be honest, he didn't believe in being five hundred years ahead of the world.
Since he learned that the technology of this world a long time ago was not what it was now, he suspected that Vegapunk had obtained ancient knowledge to be so powerful.
No one can be born with knowledge, unless they come from the future.
Clearly, Vegapunk could not have come from the future, so he could only have obtained ancient knowledge. kanδん
He was a genius, no doubt, but he couldn't be a genius five hundred years ahead of the world.
Shaking his head, Kong Tai took the lead and walked towards the laboratory.
Behind him, Hua and the other two did not follow. Instead, they turned and walked towards the countless pirates lying on the beach.
Robin chuckled and followed. She was, of course, interested in this laboratory.
After all, it was a laboratory where the teleportation array user, Vegapunk, had worked. Perhaps there were some interesting books left behind!
Indigo also followed. As a scientist himself, although he was a doctor and had always stayed in the sky with Golden Lion, he had also heard of Vegapunk's legend.
He was equally full of interest in this person.
Brook did not follow. Instead, he slowly walked to the side, took out a teapot, sat down, and began to slowly brew coffee.
In fact, he was not a boisterous person to begin with. It was only after being alone for too long that his personality became like this.
Staying on the Free, with the unparalleled sense of security provided by Kong Tai, a world-class expert, he had gradually let go of his inner loneliness. Sometimes quiet, sometimes humorous, sometimes lively, he had become the lubricant of the Free.
With a single slash, the heavy door of the research facility was cut open.
Kong Tai and the others walked in.
Upon entering, they were greeted by steel everywhere.
Steel corridors, steel doorways, and the automatically lit white lights on the ceiling all reminded them that this laboratory had not been abandoned and its power system was still operational.
And there were still people inside.