I formed the El Cat Investigation Team in Pirates.

Chapter 702: The Smartest Man in the Pirate World

The pirates retreated, but the navy did not leave.

Egghead Island has been discovered. Now the World Government has only two options:

Move to another location to rebuild the science class's research base, or strengthen the defense of Egghead Island.

But no matter which option they choose, they will not be able to leave for a while, because no one knows when those pirates will strike back.

As the main person in charge of Egghead Island and the only remaining scientist, Vegapunk naturally had to discuss with the Navy about what to do next. As for the two Five Elders, they had already run back to Santa Marie Joa as if they were avoiding the plague.

"Sorry to keep you waiting."

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

"I have discussed this with the World Government. Considering that we are more vulnerable to attacks during the transfer process, we have decided to let the science class continue to stay on Egghead Island to conduct research. They will send back all the scientists who were evacuated before long."

After briefly explaining the World Government's arrangements to Xie Wen, Vegapunk immediately made his own request, "So, during this time, could you please help us optimize the Holy Mother Flame? In exchange, all the research data on Egghead Island can be opened to you. In addition... I can also give you a devil fruit, not an artificial one."

"……Why?"

If it was just about sharing technology, Xie Wen could still understand it, after all, Vegapunk was not so strict about his own technology, but directly giving away devil fruits seemed a bit too attentive.

Not to mention that the price of devil fruits has been rising in recent times.

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

"At first, I was just curious about the cat-fur tribe in your team who looked very similar to Kaido, and I thought he was a fur-fur tribe clone of Kaido, so I went to collect some information about you, but I soon discovered that these cat-fur tribes around you... or should I call them Felynx? They all seemed to appear out of thin air."

He talked about the strangeness of the Felynes somewhat irrelevantly.

"You like to collect famous swords and devil fruits, but you don't cherish them very much. You will 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, new Felyne will appear around you. So, I have a very magical guess..."

With a look of inquiry on his face, Vegapunk stared into Xie Wen's eyes and said slowly: "They are not the Cat Fur Tribe, but you 'made' or 'summoned' them through some special means, and the key lies in your collection of 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 Sea and the East Sea, and then the team added Hiko Seijuro and Li Huamei who were good at swordsmanship. After visiting a swordsmanship gym in the East Sea, Xiao Ai joined. After taking a picture of the devil fruit in the Spring Queen City, Link appeared..."

Vegapunk counted the patterns of cats' appearances. Although some cats in the map card pool and monster card pool were divided into the weapon pool and fruit pool, his guesses were generally accurate.

Xie Wen raised his eyebrows, feeling slightly surprised.

In the comics, Vegapunk doesn’t seem to be very smart except for his various magical inventions, so Xie Wen often complained about him as the “world’s smartest man” when he was reading the comics. But now it seems...

It turns out that we should not underestimate a guy with such a title.

"So, why did you give me the devil fruit?"

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

"I want to confirm whether my guess is correct. If possible, I want to see how they appeared." Vegapunk did not intend to hide anything and spoke his mind directly. He also took the initiative to guarantee: "I will not upload the matter about the Felynes to the punk records, so you don't have to worry about the World Government knowing about it. I haven't even mentioned this guess to my other clones."

As for Pythagoras and Edison, there was nothing they could do, because this conjecture was discussed between them and the original author.

In addition, they also discussed another possibility...

"You should have a way to steal other people's fruit abilities, right?" Vegapunk glanced at Meowerya. "The Snow-Snow Fruit is the ability of a certain cadre of the Donquixote family. The previous user of the Bomb Fruit appeared in Crocodile's Baroque Works... Did you get the Dark-Dark Fruit?"

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

"No, the success rate of my method of seizing the power of the devil fruit is very low. It can't be compared with the Dark 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 Vegapunk will really believe it if he denies it, so it is better for him to admit it openly.

Furthermore, Xie Wen was also planning to agree to Vegapunk's request to watch the summoning of Felynn...

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 that they would find a way to go to the Monster Hunter world.

Of course, Xie Wen did not intend to reveal 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, he let Vegapunk continue to guess.

then……

"The animal department... I won't be able to let you see it for a while."

Xie Wen weighed the Animal-type Dog-type Fruit that Vegapunk gave him and asked helplessly, "Is there no Parahuman-type one?"

After summoning Kaido Meowth, the fragments in the animal pool were exhausted, but the fragments in the superman card pool were only one piece short.

“No,” Vegapunk shook his head and answered helplessly, “Whether it’s an artificial devil fruit or an elemental beast, all they need is an animal-type fruit, so the World Government only gave me an animal-type fruit…”

"I secretly took this Dog-in-Dog Fruit under the pretext of experimental loss. I can't continue to do so with the same excuse. When I can create elemental beasts, the World Government will not agree to my 'wasting' devil fruits like this."

Xie Wen had just opened his mouth a little when 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, one last question... What kind of dog is this Dog-in-Dog Fruit?"

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

Xie Wen: "..."

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