One Piece: Transform into the Eight Great Demons!

Punk Hassard, within.

Institute for the Future.

Vegapunk's wonderful inventions can be seen everywhere here.

However, due to the situation, Vegapunk no longer has the opportunity to take everyone to visit one by one, which is a pity.

However, among the many people present, there are always those who do not need instructions.

For example, the two of them——

Lindsay and Utta.

Taking advantage of the break between Vegapunk's treatment and Momomaru's treatment, the two of them wandered around the area and were soon attracted by a practical invention.

Its name is: Unmanned Food Machine!

It was an automatic cooking machine, and as long as the ingredients were in place, 500 kinds of dishes could be made in one minute.

Uta listened to the melody of the machine, found the start switch, and then the two of them started feasting on the spot.

Lindsay took a few sips of wine, her facial muscles habitually lost control, and she squinted her eyes and smiled.

.

"Ha ha!"

No matter how many times he watched it, Uta still found Mr. Lindsay's drunken reaction very interesting, holding his stomach and laughing.

…

"..."

Looking at the two people not far away, Zhan Taowan fell into silence for a while.

The desperado with a bounty of 2.2 billion beli and the name "Devil" does not look like what the World Government claims.

Seems a bit... too casual?

Zhan Taomaru asked casually while receiving Vegapunk's treatment:

"Are they too excited? Or is that always the case?"

"Always."

Crocodile on the side opened his mouth and lit a cigar for himself, thoughtfully.

Glancing at Vegapunk with a gloomy gaze, he asked:

"What exactly is the 'ancient machine' you just mentioned?"

It is not difficult to see from the attitude of the world government that anything related to "ancient times" is extraordinary.

Historical texts, ancient creations, ancient weapons, and now "ancient machines"...

There is a lot of information about the above, just "knowing" it will be obliterated!

What is the world government hiding?

Crocodile has only one purpose from beginning to end.

That is: establishing an "Utopia" that is not held hostage by any force.

If you want to achieve this goal, your own "military power" is indispensable, and the plan to pursue ancient weapons was born.

But combined with the information he heard from Vegapunk, Crocodile had another guess.

[Ancient Weapons] may be the pinnacle of the ancient people's military power, but at the same time, the military power possessed by the ancient people is far more than that!

Whether it is the resurrected primitive people or the current chaos of Punk Hassad, they all prove this point!

What did ancient people do?

What were the ancient people dealing with?

"..."

Looking at Crocodile's eyes, Vegapunk knew that he was a smart and dangerous man.

Vegapunk is a kind and generous person, and he doesn't want to see his technology used for evil.

Therefore, in normal times, he would never disclose information to Crocodile, but the current situation is somewhat different.

because of him"--

An arm was put on Crocodile's shoulder, and several pizzas were brought over.

Crocodile didn't want to eat it, but he didn't want to get involved with the primitive people, so he had to take a piece.

Not long after, everyone got a piece of the hot piece and started chewing it.

"..."

"Is it because of the [Devil]?"

In his heart, Vegapunk murmured secretly:

"Ambitionists, revolutionary soldiers, archaeologists, adventurers, and even the navy..."

"The reason why this group of people can get together to eat pizza is probably because of the [Devil]'s presence, right?"

In this case, there is no need for Vegapunk to hide it

As he chewed the cheese, he recalled:

"Remember what I said before? Caesar Curran privately explored the sea area of ​​​​Ohara Ruins, and was finally discovered by the World Government."

"In fact, after that incident, I also became interested in what was happening on O'Hara's side."

"I secretly returned to O'Hara without telling the World Government, and I really discovered something I hadn't noticed before."

Bega Punk said:

"On the seabed near O'Hara, I found a batch of sealed 'ancient machine blueprints'!"

"O'Hara's scholars are proficient in archeology, but not good at technology, so they just regard those design drawings as 'documentary data.'"

"I brought them back to Punk Hassad and secretly studied them without telling the World Government."

"..."

"The sealed blueprint?"

Robin heard this and slowly began to analyze, "There must be a reason for doing this. Maybe those things are inherently dangerous."

"Bah, bah, bah, blah, blah, blah, worrying blindly will not make science progress!"

Vegapunk explained with a smile: "As long as you have enough awe, taking risks is not a big deal."

"..."

Robin thought for a while and felt that it made sense, "Indeed, you have to have enough awe."

Begapunk also nodded and said: "Yes, enough awe..."

"..."

Having said this, it is actually not difficult to guess what follows.

Crocodile raised his eyebrows and said, "But someone without awe is here, right?"

"indeed so."

Bega Punk's face straightened up and he said in a deep voice:

"That guy Caesar, I've obviously kicked him out of the research institute, but he still doesn't give up."

"He has been obsessed with the research of weapons of mass destruction before, and even completely ignored the life and death of innocent people. I have warned him many times, but he still insists on his own way."

"Caesar secretly returned to Punk Hassad this time just to take away his research materials and prepare to make a comeback elsewhere!"

"In the process of stealing research data, he discovered the 'ancient machine' that I restored, and then activated it without any preparation..."

"..."

Everything starts from here.

The ancient machine was activated and then ran out of control, occupying the highest authority of the Future Research Institute at an extremely fast speed.

Vegapunk was in it, and he didn't even have time to send out a signal for help, so he was trapped in place!

Caesar himself is a user with natural devil fruit abilities and can easily escape using elemental transformation, but Vegapunk cannot do it at all.

"About that ancient machine..."

Vegapunk said:

"I named it 'Copy Clone Machine'!"

"It can collect personal body intelligence and information and use machines to clone it."

"The more information is collected, the better the performance of the cloned 'machine' will be to suit the individual!"

"The small amount of navy left here is no match for the replicating robots. They can only keep retreating, but there are more and more replicating robots."

"Under the vicious cycle, Punk Hassad became what it is now..."

Vegapunk sighed helplessly.

"The key is that I haven't studied the 'upper limit' of ancient machines yet."

"What is the limit of the power of those copying robots? To what extent can they copy objects? In what ways can they copy them?"

"I don't know any of this!"

"So my advice is to avoid contact with those replicating robots for the time being."

"..."

Everyone listened quietly and sighed inwardly at the "bizarreness" of the truth.

It is really unbelievable that it was obviously an ancient creation hundreds of years ago, but it stumped a group of modern people.

Robin wanted to know more, so he asked Bega Punk, "Do you still remember the 'ancient writing' on the ancient design drawings?"

"certainly."

After all, Vegapunk has the best brain in the world, so it is effortless to copy.

Looking at some of the "ancient texts" written by Vegapunk, Robin's expression became serious.

"You cannot fight replicators - this judgment is correct."

Robin paused and translated:

"The core meaning of these ancient texts is that this machine can achieve 'automatic evolution' through contact and combat with others."

"Theoretically, the ultimate limit of the strength of those replicating robots will be infinitely close to 'myself'!"

"..."