I formed the El Cat Investigation Team in Pirates

When it comes to snatching the Devil Fruit ability, anyone who has read the comics will immediately think of the Dark Fruit. Xie Wen initially considered this special natural fruit, but was quickly rejected by himself.

Not to mention that the Dark Fruit was Whitebeard's trophy, and on the night it was obtained, Blackbeard killed people to seize the treasure and eat the fruit. Xie Wen had no chance to do it. Even if he tried to join the Whitebeard Pirates now, it would be impossible. He was able to compete with Blackbeard, who was older and more powerful.

To take a step back, even if he was really lucky and obtained the Dark Fruit, it would mean that he would have to face the hostility of Whitebeard and the covetousness of Blackbeard at the same time.

Taking a step back, he said that he had found the Fruit of Darkness before Whitebeard's men did. Blackbeard, who had endured for most of his life for this fruit, would probably not let him go easily.

The most important point is that Xie Wen is actually not that interested in the Dark Fruit, or in other words, he is not that interested in obtaining the ability to obtain the fruit.

If a fruit with super power is placed in front of him, he will naturally eat it. However, Xie Wen has no intention of pursuing a certain ability. For him, the main purpose of collecting devil fruits is still Open the illustrated book. After opening the illustrated book, whether to eat it yourself, feed it to the cats, or even sell it are all issues to be considered later.

The only thing that appeals to him about the Dark Fruit is that it can take abilities from others, but taking the ability of the fruit is not the only kind of Dark Fruit.

In the original work, didn't Vegapunk develop a Seraph that can reproduce the abilities of others?

Of course, neither Seraph nor the green blood they used meant anything to Xie Wen. On the contrary, the artificial Sakura Dragon Fruit might be included in the illustrated guide of the Hunter's Manual.

As for Caesar's semi-finished SMILE fruit, the possibility of being included is relatively low.

For Xie Wen, in addition to the dark fruits and artificial fruits, there may be another way, and that is the hunting knife in his hand that has the ability to "extract materials".

In the War on the Top, Blackbeard was able to use the Darkness Fruit to extract the ability of the Shock Fruit after Whitebeard had been dead for a period of time. This shows that after the fruit-powered person dies, the Devil Fruit will not be reborn immediately, but It will stay in the original host's body for a relatively short period of time.

The hunting knife in Xie Wen's hand can take out a "thing" owned by the creature from its corpse.

Although in most cases they are body tissues such as scales, claws, bones, teeth, skin, blood, and feathers, in the game you can peel out materials that represent monster abilities such as dragon jade, fire bags, and paralysis bags... Although from the design Technically speaking, these are also part of the monster's body, but it is still a possibility.

Moreover, "humanoid monsters" such as the Strange Face Tribe and Mel Cat can also extract external objects such as ores, orbs, proofs of courage, etc. Therefore, it is not Xie Wen's fault to extract Devil Fruits from people with abilities. wishful thinking.

Anyway, it’s not a big deal if it fails, but if it succeeds, Xie Wen will have another channel to obtain the devil fruit, and all he has to do is to kill those with fruit abilities and stab the corpse with a hunting knife ... No matter how you think about it, this is a sure-fire thing.

It was a pity that before entering the Grand Line, fruit ability users were still relatively rare, otherwise he really wanted to find a pirate who had eaten a devil fruit to give it a try immediately.

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Cody's ship sailed at sea for two days and finally merged with his fleet. Although the total number of ships in the fleet was not many, only five, the specifications of each ship were large sailing ships, and the main ship was even larger. It was two or three times bigger than the one Xie Wen and the others were on.

At this time, other ships, including the main ship, were docked in a port that was larger than the port of Confetti Town, but this port was built next to a small village that was far smaller than Confetti Town.

According to Uncle Bacchus' introduction, this is actually Mr. Cody's hometown and their base camp. More than half of the sailors in Cody's fleet are villagers from this village...which means Cody and the others did not become pirates. , otherwise this place would be called a water village.

In addition, despite the fact that this is just a small village, it is actually safer than the paper town because there is a naval base on the other side of the island, so no gangsters or pirates dare to come and cause trouble.

Cody's fleet did not turn into pirates. In addition to Cody's character as the leader, the nearby naval base should also be one of the reasons.

"I said... Uncle Cody must have been in the navy, right?" Xie Wen suddenly came up with this idea after listening to Bacchus' introduction.

Then he saw Bacchus' open-mouthed expression, as if he had seen a ghost... It seemed that he had guessed it.

Xie Wen curled his lips. Isn't it normal to have such a guess? But in the world of One Piece, there are a lot of funny people and idiots, so to have this kind of reaction...well, he's still not used to it...

Although there was a sense of intellectual superiority, Xie Wen was also worried that he would be assimilated by the funny people here.

Just like Trafalgar Law in the comics, when he first appeared, he was clearly a strategizing wise man. However, after staying with Luffy for a long time, he gradually began to transform into a funny character.

Because the trade fair has not started so soon, Cody will stay in his hometown for a few days. Xie Wen can also take advantage of this time to wander around the island and open the map.

But when Xie Wen and Maomao were about to go shopping, Cody came over first and gave him two scimitars.

"You are the guard I invited. It's not good if the weapons are too weak." In order to prevent Xie Wen's rejection, Cody said this while sending the knife: "And these two are not particularly good knives, but they are better than The weapons used by ordinary gangsters and pirates are still a little stronger."

Actually...if you could give me two famous swords, I wouldn't refuse...

Although Xie Wen muttered this in his heart, he did not take the pair of scimitars.

Because for him who has mastered Armament Haki, in a place like Xihai, the quality of the sword is not particularly important... unless it is a famous sword that can help him unlock the page.

However, Xie Wen also knew that it was obviously impossible to directly deliver a famous sword during an escort, so after thinking for a moment, he pushed the two knives back and said: "What... ...If possible, can you give me a nodachi? In fact, that is my best weapon."

"Huh?! In other words, in our competition, you didn't use the most convenient weapon?!"

Before Mr. Cody could react, Bacchus jumped up.

Xie Wen shrugged, "There's nothing I can do. None of the gang members who were knocked unconscious by Keli used nodachi, so I can only pick two and make do with it."

The corners of Bacchus' eyes twitched hard twice, but he didn't speak again. It was just that he had originally planned to take a good rest for two days, but he secretly decided in his heart that he wanted to exercise hard.

On the other side, although Mr. Cody was a little surprised, he was more surprised, because for him, the stronger Xie Wen was, the better, so he not only agreed to find a wild sword for Xie Wen Things, even the pair of scimitars he didn't intend to take back.

Xie Wen thought for a while and accepted the pair of scimitars without rejecting the other party's kindness.

I personally don’t like adding some important props that are not in the original work. As for devil fruits, in addition to ordinary animals, no matter which kind of devil fruit you add, you have to consider many things, such as the effect of abilities. , the direction of development and so on.

We even have to face the problem of Oda drawing the same fruit later... For example, in the original plot of the animated version, there is another hot fruit, and its effect is called the Akainu killer.

So I had to think about a way to obtain the devil fruits that were already in the original work, and then there was the setting of the hunting knife. Originally, I originally planned to let Xie Wen only bring a salted fish sword and a cat, including the items. There are no columns.

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Added character pictures and tags to Keli Meow and Sanji Meow. If Xie Wen...any of you are interested, you can do it yourself.