Chapter 281: Artificial Seven Warlords
Haiyuan calendar year 1495.
This was an extremely extraordinary year in the original timeline, but due to Lex's intervention, nothing major happened.
Especially the famous Battle of Et-Wol, which was the super naval battle between Golden Lion and Roger, did not happen because of the appearance of Lex, because Golden Lion had no motive to cause trouble to Roger.
The reason why Golden Lion launched the Battle of E-Wall was to force Roger to join the Flying Pirates, and then use Roger's information about ancient weapons, plus Golden Lion's own power and strategy, to rule the world.
I have to say that Lex's uncle really has a big imagination. He wants to rule the world solely with ancient weapons and the two king-level combat forces of himself and Roger. It can be said to be a daydream, if not a fantasy.
With such strength, it would be difficult to even unify the new world, let alone rule the world.
Objective analysis——
Although the Golden Lion is ambitious and capable, his strategic vision and self-positioning are poor. To put it bluntly, he thinks too highly of himself. He is also too rebellious and arrogant. However, this rebelliousness is also the charm of the Golden Lion. It can only be said that there is gain and loss.
But Lex is different. Compared with the Golden Lion, he is undoubtedly more stable and closer to perfection.
The Golden Lion is cruel, unruly, and overbearing; these are all superficial and can be seen and felt at a glance.
But Lex is different. Compared with the Golden Lion, he is actually more cold-blooded, arbitrary, and unruly, but he can disguise himself and pretend to be kind.
Lex's character incorporates the arrogance of the Golden Lion, the cold-bloodedness of the Red Earl, and the gentleness of the White Beard. This is undoubtedly a more perfect character system. On the surface, he is gentle and kind, but at the critical moment, he is ruthless, cruel, cold-blooded, and decisive.
This is a ruthless person who can kill people with just a smile. He is an absolute smiling tiger.
And at this moment——
Lex, the smiling tiger, is performing another big drama.
West Sea, the top of the Western Heaven.
This is the research institute where Vegapunk is located. A few years have passed, and Vegapunk is still serving as the director, but secretly, most people in the institute have already defected to the deputy director Dr. Indigo.
Vegapunk, the "world's most intelligent person", had long been sidelined by Indigo. He now stayed in the laboratory almost all day long, not caring about the chores outside, and devoted himself to his own interests, such as peace research.
Lex came here with Roy and Stussy.
Beep beep! ! ~
A short and rapid beeping sound was heard, and the mechanical door of Vegapunk's futuristic laboratory was automatically opened, and Lex and the other two walked in.
"Hey! Doctor, Sasi is wrong~"
Lex greeted with a smile, followed by Roy and Stussy.
Upon seeing this, Vegapunk put down his work for the time being and looked at Lex and the other two with great interest:
"Wahahaha, you're all here. That's great. Let me show you my new creation—"
After saying that, Vegapunk staggered towards the test bench with his huge head that was half amputated.
A corpse was lying flat on the test bench. To be more precise, it was a 'corpse' that had lost self-awareness but still had physiological circulation.
This is none other than the former CP chief who was captured alive by Lex a few years ago - Shiki! ! ~
Vegapunk's eyes flashed, and after making some preparations on Shiki's body, he pressed the button on the test bench.
Snap! ~
In an instant——
Shiki on the test bench suddenly opened his eyes. His eyes were dull and his pupils were unfocused. He looked like a dead person's eyes, but Shiki's body began to move.
Witnessed by Lex, Roy and Stussy, Shiki slowly walked to Vegapunk's side, stretched his body, and demonstrated the Navy Six Styles!
Then, Shiki continued to display the ability of the fruit he had originally eaten - the Parahuman Speed Fruit!
Shiki's body quickly disappeared from the spot, turning into a residual image, and moved rapidly in the huge laboratory. His speed was not inferior to that of an admiral!
Although under the Observation Haki of Lex's God's Domain, Shiki's admiral-level speed was no different from a turtle's crawling, but Lex knew that it was already rare to be able to retain this speed after undergoing Vegapunk's bloodline factor transformation, so Lex was very satisfied.
Roy naturally knew about Vegapunk's secret project of style transformation, so he asked Vegapunk:
"Doctor, do you have a gene chain that can incorporate the bloodline factor of the Aurora Fruit?"
The Aurora Fruit is the fruit that Lex recovered from the centenarian Starston after he "saw him off". It is a natural fruit whose power almost overlaps with Kizaru's Pikachu Fruit.
Vegapunk smiled mysteriously when he heard Roy's question. Then, under the gazes of several people, he slowly opened his mouth and pointed at the battle simulation puppet in the laboratory. In an instant—
A golden laser shot out from Shi's mouth, instantly piercing through several high-strength puppets in front of him!
Seeing this, Lex and Roy couldn't help but feel more satisfied.
After five years of transformation by Vegapunk, Shiki has mastered the Six Styles physical skills. At the same time, he has retained the awakened ability of the Speed Fruit and added the ability of Starston's Aurora Fruit. Although he cannot be transformed into an element, the powerful skill of firing lasers alone is very powerful.
According to Lex and Roy's assessment, the current 'Shiki' has the strength of a navy admiral! !
Thinking of this, Lex looked at Vegapunk with a smile:
"Doctor, can this type of experimental subject be mass-produced? Funding is not a problem at all."
Hearing this, Vegapunk couldn't help but look regretful and shook his head slowly:
"Shiki's combat power is maintained because he already has the strength of an admiral, so his bloodline factor has a very high initial level. If one wants to clone the same 'Shiki' through gene cultivation technology, then the bloodline factor cannot be completely cloned. To be honest, I may have underestimated the gap between admiral-level combat power and non-admiral-level combat power. I didn't expect that the qualitative change of entering the admiral-level combat power is so great, so great that the bloodline factor is difficult to replicate and can only be imitated."
At this point, Vegapunk showed a look of regret on his face again. As a scientist with strict pursuits, he felt very uncomfortable that he could not do such a thing.
A hint of disappointment flashed across Lex's face, but he immediately chuckled and comforted Vegapunk:
"Doctor, don't be discouraged. You have achieved this level and are worthy of the title of the world's number one scientist. I just don't know how powerful the 'style' will be after mass production."
Hearing Lex's question, Vegapunk did not answer immediately, but came to a huge projection screen and calculated a bunch of huge data. After a moment, Vegapunk said confidently:
"He has the strength between an elite lieutenant general and a candidate for general."
!!! ~
Hearing such an answer, even Stussy couldn't help but secretly smack her lips in amazement, as she herself only had such strength.
In other words, it's not just Stussy himself, but even several Shichibukai in later generations have this kind of strength. Only the more powerful Shichibukai can be compared with the candidate admiral. As for Hawkeye, he is already a single Four Emperors and there is no comparison.
Lex and Roy looked at each other, and saw a hint of satisfaction and determination in each other's eyes.
"Hmm, haha! As expected of a doctor, I'd also like to trouble you to pay attention to the next project on increasing the production of artificial devil fruits."
When Vegapunk heard about this project, he waved his hand nonchalantly:
"I have already increased the success rate of artificial devil fruits to near the limit. It is more than enough to leave this project to Dr. Indigo."
Lex understood, and immediately left Vegapunk's laboratory after saying hello.
Before leaving the laboratory, Stussy glanced at Vegapunk's back with a complicated look, full of guilt and sadness, because she knew that once the last bit of Vegapunk's value was squeezed out, he would be "dealt with" by Lex.
Stussy couldn't help but have mixed feelings towards the scientist who created him.
Roy saw Stussy's eyes, reached out and took Stussy's hand, interlocked their fingers, and took her out of Vegapunk's laboratory.
Stussy, who chose to stand on the side of Lex, was destined to no longer stand on the same front with Vegapunk, who created him.
Such are the twists and turns of life.
