#101 - Chapter 101 Bank Restricted Area! Materials for Human Experiments

Mignon Island.

Kalifa, Who's-Who, Jabra, and Blueno.

At this moment, the four CP9 members, each with the caged bird curse mark etched on their foreheads, stood in a line, kneeling on one knee in unison.

"Lord Tianhao."

Whether they were hailed as geniuses no less than Rob Lucci, or the 'one red flower' of CP9, they all chose to lower their heads when facing Hiyuga Tianhao.

Clearly.

After being fitted with special collars, these ruthless, blood-soaked World Government agents were like tamed vicious dogs, at the disposal of Hiyuga Tianhao.

At least until they found a way to break free from the collars, they could only obey Hiyuga Tianhao's orders.

Of course, there was another option, though not entirely appealing.

That was to end their own lives.

But in the world of pirates, except for a very few, even the most heinous pirates, when imprisoned in Impel Down, living a dark and hopeless prison life, few chose to end their own lives.

Not to mention CP9, who could still breathe the air of freedom.

"Speak."

"Why did the World Government send you to capture me?"

Although Hiyuga Tianhao had some guesses in his mind, he still wanted to hear it from CP9's own mouths.

"We don't know the specific reason."

"But it should be related to Lord Tianhao eating the Op-Op Fruit."

"Because the order issued by the World Government was for us to capture you when you meet Donquixote Rosinante, and then send you to the Punk Hazard exclusion zone in the New World."

Who's-Who and the others first exchanged glances, and then Kalifa began to speak.

After a half-day of conditioning, they had recognized the situation and adapted to their new identity as subordinates of Hiyuga Tianhao.

They dared not conceal the slightest bit about their mission.

After all, having tasted the caged bird curse mark once, even CP9, as proud as they were, did not want to taste it a second time.

Otherwise, the former Hiyuga branch family would not have obeyed the Hiyuga main family.

"Punk Hazard exclusion zone?"

Upon hearing this, Hiyuga Tianhao's eyes turned cold, and his right hand under his sleeve slowly clenched into a fist.

What was the Punk Hazard exclusion zone?

The research base of Vegapunk, the world's top scientist.

What human experiments.

What biochemical experiments.

What artificial Devil Fruits.

All of them were first conducted in the Punk Hazard exclusion zone.

It was not until the Punk Hazard exclusion zone was destroyed by Caesar Clown that Egghead was born later.

Hiyuga Tianhao could guess with his toes what the World Government wanted to do by ordering CP9 to capture him and send him to the Punk Hazard exclusion zone.

Of course, it was to be studied.

Whether it was human modification or artificial Devil Fruits, once he was sent to the Punk Hazard exclusion zone, he would become the experimental subject of these research projects.

Like Bartholomew Kuma, from head to toe, inside and out, he would be reduced to experimental material.

Not only was he himself transformed into a Pacifista, but even his lineage factor and fruit ability were copied onto the Seraphim.

It was simply burning oneself to illuminate the government.

"Does the Navy know?"

Hiyuga Tianhao pondered for a while before continuing to ask.

"Rosinante doesn't know."

"The World Government doesn't seem to want the Navy to know too much."

"So before the action, they deliberately asked us to conceal our identities, firstly so as not to leak the news and avoid alarming the snake, making it impossible to lure you out, and secondly to bypass the Navy."

Kalifa paused slightly when she said this:

"However, the Navy Marshal may know."

"Because our disguise as Navy personnel was also arranged by the headquarters, but I don't know who it was specifically."

"It's just that being able to make several non-Navy personnel become Navy lieutenants with just one sentence, there are not many people in the headquarters who possess this kind of power."

"At least Navy officers below the rank of headquarters vice admiral do not have this ability."

When talking about Sengoku, Kalifa's tone was a little uncertain.

"…"

Hiyuga Tianhao's expression did not change upon hearing this, but deep in his eyes, there was a faint glimmer of coldness.

Regarding whether Sengoku knew about this, he was inclined to believe that he did.

After all, Sengoku was different from Sakazuki. As Navy Marshals, the discord between Sakazuki after taking office and the World Government and the Five Elders grew day by day, but Sengoku was the opposite.

In his youth, he adhered to the concept that "those who do not obey government orders are not Navy."

He obeyed the Five Elders and the World Government.

Don't say that the Five Elders only sent CP9 to capture him, even if the Five Elders asked Sengoku to capture him, Hiyuga Tianhao had no doubt that Sengoku would personally take action.

His relationship with Rosinante.

His friendship with the Navy.

In Sengoku's eyes, compared to the Five Elders, they were not worth mentioning.

Seeing Hiyuga Tianhao remain silent, Kalifa and the others did not dare to speak, kneeling quietly, and slightly lowered their breathing, for fear that their breathing would be too loud and affect the other party's thoughts.

After a long while.

"Do you know Gild Tesoro?"

After a moment of silence, Hiyuga Tianhao asked a name.

"Never heard of it."

Who's-Who was the first to answer.

"Don't know."

Jabra and Blueno exchanged glances, and then shook their heads.

Only Kalifa, her eyebrows slightly furrowed, seemed to be recalling something.

"Gold-Gold Fruit?"

Hiyuga Tianhao noticed the change between Kalifa's eyebrows, so he added.

"Huh! I remember."

"Some time ago, an auction house under Donquixote Doflamingo held an auction."

"The Gold-Gold Fruit was the final auction item at that time."

"But in the end, it was snatched away by a group of people who went to make trouble."

"Because the Gold-Gold Fruit is one of the Devil Fruits that the World Government focuses on, CIPHER POL also paid attention to this matter and sent CP5 to investigate afterwards."

Because CP5 was responsible for the Gold-Gold Fruit mission, not CP9, it took Kalifa a while to remember.

"Can you find this person?"

Hiyuga Tianhao immediately asked.

"Unless CP5's mission fails, otherwise, whether it's CP1 or CP8, as long as it's an intelligence agency below CP9, if we want to know, we will definitely be able to know."

Kalifa's words revealed a sense of arrogance.

This was the condescending feeling that a member of CP9 once had when facing other intelligence agencies.

Except for CP0, CP1 to CP8 are all inferior to CP9.

"Provided that our betrayal of the World Government has not been exposed."

Jabra emphasized.

"Rosi, he's not stupid."

"You've already infiltrated his warship, how could he not think that there are people from the World Government in the Navy headquarters."

"In order to buy me more time, he will try his best to cover up this matter and delay reporting it to the headquarters."

Hiyuga Tianhao thought while raising his right hand, his five fingers gently jumping in the air, as if playing a piano that was invisible to the naked eye.

"In other words."

"In the time before Rosi reports your mission failure to the Navy headquarters, you are still CP9."

He looked around at the four CP9 members in front of him.

"Yes!"

Kalifa and the others nodded in agreement upon hearing this.

"Find him."

"Find Gild Tesoro before your identities are exposed."

Hiyuga Tianhao looked down at the CP9 kneeling in front of him.

"Yes."

Kalifa, Who's-Who and the others felt a chill in their hearts and did not dare to neglect.

This was the first mission they had carried out since changing their allegiance.

If even the first mission failed, the consequences would be self-evident.

Therefore, no matter who it was, they were all on high alert and dared not slack off in the slightest.