Pirates: The Black Earl

At this moment, the lush, beautiful and rich Punk Hazard Island fell into a strange dead silence, and a group of green clouds shot straight into the sky at the center, sending highly poisonous clouds in all directions like a fountain under the action of gravity.

A fawn jumped out of the forest in panic and ran towards the beach on the coast, but before it landed, its limbs stiffened in the next second. It twitched in mid-air, lost its balance, and then slammed its head on a raised rock, bleeding from the head .

The same thing happened everywhere. Those soldiers, guards, and prisoners who had no time to evacuate fell under the poisonous gas, like fish out of water, howling and dying.

Seeing the poisonous gas getting closer, Lovett knocked on the deck and said.

"Leviathan, go up!"

"Chirp!"

The boat, which was no more than five meters high, quickly rose up, and a large group of red meat foam flowed out from the gaps in the planks, stacking layers under the hull, and quickly rose to a terrifying height of 50 meters, like a pillar, standing on the coast.

The mighty and highly toxic smoke passed through the "foot" of Leviathan, making them seem to be on the top of the clouds.

Standing at this height, you can have a panoramic view of the whole Punk Hazard.

Looking around, the entire Punk Hazard was covered with a green coat, like a matcha cake, dyeing the sky green.

Dove gasped: "Caesar Courant, what exactly did you make?"

"It is a neurotoxin that interferes with nerve signals and causes the body to lose control and finally suffocate..."

At this time, a reply came from below, Jiu looked back and saw a warship full of figures in protective clothing, one of them stood at the front and looked up at them.

"This voice..."

Jiu was stunned: "Is it Mr. Vegapunk?"

Putting on a protective suit, Vegapunk's dull voice came out from behind the mask.

"It's me, thank you for coming to help, Mr. Jiu."

"Stop talking about it, do you have a way to stop Vegapunk?"

Pointing at the cloud of poisonous smoke, he said, "If this continues, the base will be lost!"

"I can't keep it anymore."

Hearing this, Vegapunk seriously corrected: "According to the research data that Caesar Courant hadn't taken away in time, the poisonous smoke will combine with the water molecules in the air to form an acidic venom that infiltrates into the soil, making the island at least Not a single blade of grass will grow within ten years, and then it will volatilize to form a transparent poisonous gas, which permeates the air."

"As for me……"

Speaking of this, Vegapunk smiled wryly: "I'm just an ordinary scientist, not a god."

"Caesar's talent in virus weapons is far beyond ordinary people. Even if I want to make an antidote, I must conduct in-depth research on a yearly basis."

hiss! !

Dove gasped when he heard the words, even Vegapunk couldn't do anything about it?

Doesn't that mean... Punk Hazard is over? !

"Asshole!"

Dove clenched his fists angrily.

The birth of the Four Emperors pattern caused the world government's weak control over the new world to plummet again. Only a few islands are still under the jurisdiction of the government, and Punk Hazard, as an island with rich products, has become this situation. The loss of the government is not unreasonable heavy!

"However, more than half of the research materials have been snatched out, and you can start over at any time in another place."

Vegapunk said: "And according to the soldiers' reports, none of the warships have lost contact, so he must still be nearby!"

Seriously looking at Jiu, Vegapunk bowed: "We have already contacted Lieutenant General Virgo of the G5 branch, and he promised to send someone to respond, so Lord Jiu, please, we must not let Caesar escape!"

"This virus weapon is too cruel and has violated our original intention!"

Regardless of pacifists or man-made devil fruits, the government has only one purpose: to end this era of great pirates.

Instead of destroying the world!

"Ah, I know."

Jiu's eyes turned cold, and the murderous intent filled the air: "Master Wu Laoxing also meant the same thing. If necessary, he is allowed to execute on the spot!"

As the most important scientist in the science force after Vegapunk,

Allowing the execution on the spot shows how angry Wulaoxing is at the moment.

They are rulers.

And the ruler, the last thing to want to see the destruction of the world happen.

After all, Dove asked: "Mr. Vegapunk, can you lend us some protective clothing?"

"sure!"

The latter did not hesitate, but immediately looked at the young man standing quietly on the edge of the deck without saying a word.

He was wearing a handmade black dress, a wide-brimmed top hat, a black velvet mantle with emerald buttons on his shoulders, and a golden ring in his hand. He looked quite aristocratic.

The face is a little immature, but in his twenties, but there is a strand of frost-white hair on his forehead, which hangs down casually to cover his right eye.

Let the obviously simple and solemn aristocratic demeanor show a little more unruly and wild.

Vegapunk recognized him.

Last year, the maker of the Blood Curse Blade, King Shichibukai, [Black Earl] Francis Lovett, rose from the East China Sea with an extremely terrifying posture and made the world boil!

Sensing Vegapunk's gaze, Lovett smiled slightly.

"I don't have to."

"I think there are many government secrets on the island. As a pirate, it's better for me to be a little self-aware."

Jiu heard the words and nodded, but did not speak.

Wu Laoxing just believes that Lovett has a sense of propriety and will not mess around at will, which does not mean that they will completely trust Shichibukai. Especially Earl Black, a mysterious and dangerous guy, if he was allowed to land on the island and find something, who knows how much trouble there will be in the future.

Xiao has already said that after this time, he will personally be responsible for the escort next time.

If he goes out with Earl Black again, he will take off his head and kick it as a ball!

First, the murlocs made trouble in Murloc Island, and then Punk Hazard Caesar betrayed. This kind of weird luck that went wrong wherever he went, made CP0 and even the five old stars extremely speechless, but also lingering fear.

"Then I would like to trouble your Excellency to investigate the nearby waters. Since Caesar did not hijack the warship, besides hiding on the island, the most likely possibility is to escape from the bottom of the sea."

"Okay, but next time the arms can't be discounted."

Dove: "..."

It's just 50% off, do you want to be so serious? !

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However, he didn't expect Lovett to really contribute, so he just gave the other party a step. To really investigate the sea area, he had to look at the CP0 troops hanging behind them.

...

Soon, Jiu, who had changed into protective clothing, led his subordinates to the highly poisonous island where they could not see their fingers. Lovett ordered Leviathan to back off and return to normal altitude, keeping parallel with the warship.

Seeing the flesh and blood under Leviathan's belly sink into the gaps in the planks, Vegapunk took off his mask with surprise in his eyes.

"What a magical fruit ability!"

"How did so much materialized flesh and blood fit into such a small hull?"

"It's magic!"

Lovett looked at the man in front of him. He had a fluffy brown hair with an unkempt afro head like a green pheasant, with sunken cheeks and thin limbs, which fit the world's established impression of a mad scientist.

Only those eyes are too bright, and from time to time they fall into meditation and empty their eyes, giving people a strange sense of wisdom and shrewdness.

"magic?"

Hearing this, Vegapunk asked curiously: "What is that? Is it like the one in the novel?"

"Yes and no."

Lovett pulled out a bone chair and sat down with his cane on his knees, with a calm expression: "Magic is also a rigorous and complex knowledge system similar to science. But magic takes a spiritual route, which is completely different from the physical route taken by science. .”

"Spiritual route?"

This statement caught Vegapunk's eyes, as if he had caught something.

In response, Lovett nodded slightly.

"Yes, the spiritual route."

"You observe the world with your eyes, and make tools with your hands to change the world. This process is science."

"And we use the soul to observe the world, and use spiritual power to create a magic circuit to produce the same effect. This process is magic."

"So if you have to be serious, there is no essential difference between magic and science."

However, there is a level gap!

Lovett didn't say the whole thing.

The same scientific system also has different height levels.

There has never been a civilization severance in the mage world, plus tens of thousands of years of civilization establishment, even if they switch to the scientific route, they are still high-level sci-fi civilizations targeting the stars and seas.

On the other hand, Pirate World...

The most advanced scientific creation is probably a pacifist.

But in the mage world, this kind of thing was abandoned tens of thousands of years ago. Not to mention the cumbersome process, the strength is not as good as building a magic puppet to put the human soul into it.

Lovett's first year as an apprentice, summer homework is all about this!

The main reason for this phenomenon is that there are too many unreasonable, powerful and invincible monsters in this world, and science is not enough to compete with them.

In other words, science does not provide much guarantee of survival, it is just a foil to set off the invincibility of the strong.

In the mage world, magic truly interprets what is meant by "knowledge is power".

People specialize in spells, learning knowledge and gaining powerful power at the same time. This is something that the current science of Pirate World cannot do.