One Piece Talent System Chapter 311-313

"Naturally."

Vegapunk responded calmly.

Although he succeeded, he was not very satisfied, because so far, only one subject has completed the third transformation, and most of the experimental subjects died in the first transformation, and only two have survived the second transformation, including the Marine Vice-Admiral.

If they want to make the whole battle force consisting of these subjects. The subjects have to go through the third round of transformation, but according to the current success rate, they can't make it in batches.

The inability to produce something in batches means failure to Vegapunk.

"But they can't be mass-produced."

Caesar quickly gets to the point, too.

A Marine Headquarters Vice-Admiral who voluntarily participated in the transformation. This is something that they may not encounter for decades. A person with the physical fitness of Headquarters Vice-Admiral is not a cabbage that can be caught everywhere.

In addition to having the body fitness of a Headquarters Vice-Admiral, they must also have a strong will to support three rounds of transformation in pain. Each of the three rounds of transformation has a high failure rate, and it is incredible that one can succeed.

It can be said.

Even with a Vice-Admiral's physical fitness, strong will, and survival desire are met at the same time, the success rate of completing the third round of transformation is less than one percent.

Not to mention that it is difficult to meet these two conditions.

"Yes."

Vegapunk nodded and said: "So I'm going to suspend the Biological Transformation trials and having successful at one will be enough to get more resources from the government,"

The corner of Caesar's mouth twitched, and when he was about to say something, a series of dense alarm sounded suddenly in the laboratory.

Vegapunk and Caesar froze at the same time.

Didididididi!

Vegapunk quickly came to a monitoring screen and pressed several buttons in succession. The screen shifted to the cell area where the prisoners were held.

In the cell area, the prison where Fukuro was held was destroyed by a strange force of Distortion, and Fukuro walked out of the prison.

"What happened!"

Caesar's eyes glared at the screen and he was feeling inexplicable, how could the cage suddenly break?

Vegapunk calmed his emotions and pressed a button.

"Starting Power Level analysis."

Didi!

The picture instantly became a scan-like thing, sweeping across the cell.

With a series of sounds, the Power Level of all the prisoners in the cell were scanned one by one and appeared on another screen next to it.

Most of the data are between 500-1000, Fukuro's data is 1200, it seems that there is nothing abnormal.

"Strange, what the hell is …"

Caesar stared at Fukuro in the screen, and while frowning, the entire screen suddenly glowed a red light and shook violently.

On the other screen on the side, a label of "Unknown Life Form" appeared, and its Power Level data was … 99,999!

What the fuck!

Caesar's eyes almost popped out of their sockets.

"What the hell, is this machine broken?!"

Vegapunk's pupil also shrank sharply. He vaguely thought of something and his face changed drastically, he grabbed the pager on the side and said, "Release the thirty-seventh experimental body, quickly!"

While giving the order, he turned without hesitation and rushed out of the laboratory.

Kāchā!

Almost as soon as Vegapunk rushed out of the laboratory, the picture of the surveillance cell suddenly burst, completely broken, and the surveillance was destroyed by internal violence.

Caesar stood there stupidly, reacting only a few seconds later and he screamed and also ran outside the lab but he could no longer find Vegapunk.

"Ross Sama!"

Fukuro bowed to Ross.

Although he knew that Ross and others will most likely come here for him. This is a secret base and it can isolate all life-based detections, such as Vivre Card, so he was not sure how Ross would find him.

He had some fear in his heart about this so-called biological transformation. If would be better to eat a Devil Fruit instead of getting injected with something weird and getting turned into a half-human, half-animal form that could not be changed back into a human being, that would have been worse than death!

"Good job."

Ross smiled slightly at Fukuro.

Even after getting caught, he was able to pass a message to Kaku and others and clearly pointing out that he was caught in the secret base of Scientific Force Base, Fukuro is undoubtedly using his intelligence capability to the limit.

Being able to find this base is undoubtedly credited to Fukuro.

"It's my duty to explore various intelligence reports for Ross Sama."

Fukuro spoke with gratitude as it was a great honor for him to be praised by Ross. After this mission, maybe he can be promoted.

Ross looked up at the ceiling with indifferent eyes.

"Let me see what they are capable of that they dared to detain one of my people."

Bang!

As soon as his voice fell, Ross stopped hiding and punched in the upward direction so violently that the ceiling above the cell burst apart.

Countless exclaims and screams occurred one after another.

"There is … An intruder!"

"What a joke, this is the Zero Base and it is also 10,000 meters below the sea. How could there be an intruder? Which prisoner ran out?"

The huge movement caused many people to startle and scream. They were stationed at Base Zero, and the Scientific Force Base soldiers guarding them soon arrived.

Looking at the severely damaged cell, the Captain of Scientific Force Base shouted, calming the chaos slightly.

How can there be an invader at 10,000-meter deep seafloor?

Which idiot was so negligent that he accidentally gave the prisoner a chance to escape from the prison, but the prisoners here don't have much power except for one or two of them.

Whiz!

Just then, a figure flickered out of the cell.

He was a very fat man and he is Fukuro of the Intelligence Unit 4 under the Ghost Hand Pirate regiment flag, a former member of CP9.

"Oh it's you……"

The Captain of the Scientific Force Base knows about Fukuro. He even met him once before and he also knew that Fukuro was now a traitor.

Looking at Fukuro, there was a cold look in his eyes. "Do you know where this is? This is Calm Belt seafloor! You can't get out and escape. Get captured without a fight."

"It turned out to be the bottom of the Calm Belt."

Fukuro looked at the Captain of Scientific Force Base without any panic and smiled, "But unfortunately, this place will soon cease to exist."

"Big words!"

The Captain of Scientific Force Base sneered. He knew that Fukuro was quite powerful but it is impossible for him to destroy this base unless …

Unless…

Unless…

The sneer on his face solidified.

Looking at the figure coming out from behind Fukuro, his forehead gradually began to overflow with cold sweat and fear and panic appeared in his eyes.

"Can you tell me, where is Vegapunk?"

Ross looked calmly at him and asked.

His Observation Haki can sense all life in this base, but he can't distinguish which one is Vegapunk, and there is also a strong presence in this base, but this strong guy gives Ross an inexplicable Familiarity.

Is he Vegapunk?

Where has he seen Vegapunk before?

"You are … are … are …"

Looking at Ross standing in front of him, the Captain of the Scientific Force Base guard was sweating heavily. Although this is a secret base on the bottom of the Calm Belt, it also keeps in touch with the outside world.

He may not recognize Four Sweet Commanders or the Three Disasters, but Ross who is one of the four pirates standing at the highest point of the sea, how could he not recognize him!

Yonkō (Four Emperors)!

Ghost Hand Ross!

Along with Whitebeard and Hundred Beast Kaido, he is the new generation's monster that is giving more headaches to the World Government than Whitebeard and Kaido combined!

"Can't you speak well?"

Ross looked at him calmly and suddenly reached forward.

There is still a distance of more than ten meters, but the space of more than ten meters is suddenly compressed by Distortion. Everyone saw Ross' hand directly cross the ten meters of space and instantly grasped the captain's neck and tugged him in front of him and lifted him up.

"Can you tell me, where is Vegapunk?"

Ross stared at him and asked again.

The Captain's face showed fear as he struggled hard, but no matter how hard he tried, he couldn't get rid of Ross's hands.

"Captain!"

"Hurry, attack!"

Nearby, all the Scientific Force Base soldiers, too, looked horrified. Someone spoke in a quivering voice and shot at Ross with his gun.

Bang! Bang! Bang!

Suddenly, countless bullets shot towards Ross's head and his body.

These bullets are specially designed by Vegapunk but they are not to deal with invaders, but to control the riot that the transformed creatures would cause.

The transformed creatures, even if only transformed once, have more than 5,000 Power Level data. These bullets can deal with them so their power is undoubted.

But.

Before any of the bullets could reach within three feet of Ross, they were all contained in the air by the power of distortion and began to deform under the watchful eyes of countless people.

Ross looked at this scene indifferently and then he looked at the soldiers of Scientific Force Base.

Bang Long! !!

The Power of distortion flooded into the ground. This kind of base building is made from ore and steel which are very strong but it is like a piece of paper in front of Ross's power of distortion.

Almost instantly, the ground in front of Ross crumbled like a whirlpool, engulfing dozens of Scientific Force Base soldiers and wiping them out.

"Damn it!"

"He is really Ghost Hand Ross!"

Hurrying to the spot, Scientific Force Base Head Captain and Vegapunk's bodyguard Sentomaru looked at Ross in the distance, his pupils twitching, feeling a little scared.

He is the Head Captain of Scientific Force Base and also a subordinate of Marine Admiral Kizaru. He is no stranger to Ross.

But.

This is the Zero Base of Scientific Force Base!

How did Ross appear here!

"What?"

When Sentomaru looked at Ross, Ross also found Sentomaru. Although Sentomaru didn't play any major role in the original series but because of his unique shape, Ross still had some memories of him.

With a toss of his hand, he flung the Captain out and threw him against the wall, breaking it into pieces and sending blood flying everywhere.

If he remembers it correctly.

This Sentomaru seems to be Vegapunk's bodyguard, he should know where Vegapunk is.

Ross looked calmly at Sentomaru, took a step forward and suddenly crossed a few dozen meters and appeared in front of Sentomaru.

"What!"

Sentomaru's pupils narrowed sharply, and he attacked Ross with a fright.

Ross swings his backhand.

Bang!

Sentomaru's Armament Haki collapsed instantly, and the whole person flew backward like a ball, smashing into a wall and spitting blood.

"Where is Vegapunk?"

Ross strolled towards Sentomaru, asking him.

Sentomaru gritted his teeth and barely stood up, he wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth, and said, "No comment! Don't expect to get any intelligence out of me. My mouth is sealed."

"Then you are useless."

Ross stared at Sentomaru indifferently, throwing a punch at Sentomaru.

However.

Almost immediately, a huge black shadow smashed into the wall and came hurtling toward it and punched and collided with Ross's fist.

Bang!

Two fists collided, and a loud Bang broke out. The entire Zero Base shuddered in the aftermath as if it was hit by an earthquake.

The ground between the black shadow and Ross suddenly showed signs of cracking, spreading in all directions, eventually covering the entire hall, and then stopped.

"You are……"

Looking at the creature in front of him, a strange gleam flashed in Ross' eyes.

What is this creature? Because Ross doesn't know if it should be called a human or something else. Although it still has a head with two arms, the entire body looked ugly. The surface area of the body is covered with a layer of silver-colored scale armor. With two white horns sprouting from its head like Hundred Beast Kaido.

Its muscles are exploding, its body the size of a giant ape with a tiger's stripes and skin on its head, its whole body looked a combination of countless creatures.

The strangest thing is.

Ross still felt a little familiarity from this creature.

"Don't you know me, Ghost Hand Ross …"

The weird creature had a caracre-colored face, bloodshot and red eyes, and a grin on his huge mouth.

He swung his fist with condensed Armament Haki, which seemed to explode with a Hundred Beast Kaido-like powers, onto Ross.

Ross raised his hands expressionlessly.

Bang!

A bang resounded through the entire base again, and the ground at the feet of the two collapsed directly to the next level, which is also the lowest level of the base.

"I don't really remember it."

Ross slowly retracted his hand and said indifferently, "Are you Vegapunk?"

"No."

The creature looked wicked and said, "Vegapunk … gave me a new life and gave me the power to destroy you, Ghost Hand Ross!"

He roared and charged into Ross again, his fists waving constantly.

Bang! Bang! Bang!

In the constant bangs, Ross's figure receded and the ground under his feet continued to shatter.

"Is this the strength after that test finally succeeded?"

Sentomaru was standing in the upper corner, watching the creature below beating Ross violently, and there was a touch of palpitations in his eyes.

"What a terrible thing, even the Ghost Hand Ross …"

Bang! !!

Almost as soon as his voice fell, a shocking sound came from below, and Ross's figure flickered, avoiding the opponent's punch, and levitating into the air.

He kept searching in his memory, and finally fixed on a certain figure, he looked at the creature unexpectedly, wondering:

"You are, Doberman?"

"Jihahahaha, do you still remember me? I thought you had forgotten, and I never thought you would come here alone …"

Doberman seemed to be in a state of insanity, he growled and jumped into the air using  Geppō (Moonwalk) and punched Ross.

"Die! Ghost Hand Ross!"

Bang!

The blow made the air ripple with a terrible crack.

Ross's gaze calmed down, his mind moved and the space barrier opened, and Doberman's punch passed through him without causing any harm.

"Die! Die! Die!"

Doberman howls and punches and the aftershock of these punches shatters the back walls but never does Ross any harm.

Based on strength and speed alone, Doberman, who has become a monster today, does have two improved points, but he only has strength and speed.

Both of his Armament Haki and Observation Haki were too weak in front of Ross' eyes.

"It's … I feel sorry for you."

Facing Doberman's Rainstorm-like attacks, Ross was suspended in the air and sighed softly, and the whole person stepped forward.

Sneer!!!

In an instant, Ross crossed the distance between him and Doberman and appeared behind him.

There was a terrible blood mark on Doberman's chest and abdomen.

He looked at his chest in disbelief and put his hand to the wound. "How can … this way … my strength is obviously …"

Ross turned around and held the Cursed Blade Murasame. His eyes were calm and indifferent, with a touch of compassion, saying: "This is not the strength you get from practice, relying on external forces to gain strength, it is never possible to reach the peak by yourself. You will never be strong enough."

Sneer! Sneer! Sneer!

At the moment his words fall, Ross suddenly disappears in Void, instantly turning into three shadows and he charged into Doberman from three different directions.

In an instant, numerous sword lights crisscrossed, and Doberman's tough transformed scale skin was cut by Ross's attacks, showing horrible cracks.

There was a hint of unbelief in Doberman's eyes.

Why.

I have gained much more power than I did before and I still can't win against Ross, I can't even fight against him.

He can't accept it!

The cracks spread in all directions, and Doberman's large, terrifying body eventually shattered into numerous pieces in the air and fell to the ruins at the bottom of the base.

"This this……"

Sentomaru looked at the scene with a fearful look on his face.

What kind of strength Doberman has after completing three rounds of transformation, he just saw it clearly, and each of his punch is almost enough to kill him directly!

With that tough-to-terrifying body, even his own master may not be able to injure Doberman in a fight.

But.

Even such a monster was so vulnerable in front of Ross!

Ghost Hand Ross, how much power does he contain in that body?

"Farewell."

Ross floated in the air, facing the flat opening at the base of the base, then flew overhead to the top of Sentomaru and watched him calmly.

Sentomaru gritted his teeth tightly, and there was an unwilling look in his eyes, and he said indignantly: "Don't expect to know where that punk bastard is from me," he said angrily. "I'm the most tight-lipped man in the world and I won't tell you that the bastard went towards a submarine!"

"Oh, he went to a submarine."

Ross glanced at Sentomaru and instantly used his Observation Haki, covering the entire Zero Base, perceiving a certain direction of the Zero Base where a submarine was starting.

Whiz!

He ignored Sentomaru and rushed in that direction. Everywhere he went, the solid walls were broken by him.

Occasionally, when he comes across the Seastone embedded in the wall, Ross punches and bangs it out, smashing it into pieces and continue to rush in the direction of the submarine.

The submarine's propeller has been activated, and the steel front door to the submarine has been almost closed, leaving less than a third of the last opening.

"Come on! Come on!"

On the submarine, Caesar hurriedly urged the Scientific Force Base members who drove the submarine.

Even without Caesar's urging, the Scientific Force Base member of the sturdy submarine was already full of fear. Although he had never seen Ross before, the name of Yonkō (Four Emperors) was enough to make people fear.

Purr!

The submarine started, and the special propeller ejected a peculiar air current, which drove the entire submarine to the depths of the sea.

Caesar was relieved to see the base behind him get further and further away, and the steel gate glinting white from its last crack.

"Get … Saved …"

"No matter how strong the monster is on this kind of ocean floor, it won't be possible to catch up, oh …"

Caesar wiped the cold sweat from his forehead, sighed with relief, and made a strange laugh.

But almost at this moment, in the last crack of the steel front door, a figure flashed through it, like a blackfish and instantly rushed into the water.

"Oh, no?"

Caesar happens to see this with a vague sense of foreboding.

"Want to run?"

Looking at the fast-moving submarine, Ross's eyes flash with indifference, his hands grasp the Void and a jerk of power of distortion spread at the bottom of the sea.

At a depth of 10,000 meters, the submarine is engulfed by Ross's power of distortion vortex that covers an area of about a thousand meters.

No matter what source of power the submarine tried to use to accelerate, it could not get out of the whirlpool, and finally caught up in the whirlpool currents, it began to spin and fall into the middle of the whirlpool.

"Ahhhhh! It's over! It's over!"

Caesar was flying around in the spinning submarine, tears and snot flowing out of him in horror.

Because he is a Logia Gas-Gas Fruit user, he can't be knocked to death, but he is bound by this current, and it is still at the bottom of 10,000 meters in the sea. The user of the Ice Devil Fruit may be able to survive this, but the user of the Gas-Gas Fruit is going to die.

Goo-dong goo-dong!

The inside of the submarine became a mess, but the shell of this submarine was made out of an unknown material as It could withstand the water pressure of the 10,000-meter-deep ocean floor and it was ridiculously strong and it did not break in the whirlpool.

No one knows how long it has been, it may be less than half a minute in the outside world, but in Caesar's eyes, it seems to be a long time as decades seems to have passed in front of his eyes and the rotation finally stopped.

"Eh? I'm not dead yet?"

Caesar affixed himself to the ceiling of the submarine in a mass of gas and noticed that the rotation stopped. He stares for a while and then reacted.

Caesar responds with a triumphant smile, reaching over to stroke the submarine's inner shell, and laughs.

"Ahhh, it is indeed a submarine made of Ademan alloy. It's all right, this solidity is perfect!"

Sii!

Almost as soon as his voice fell, a wave of marks suddenly waved across the center of the submarine, and the shell of the submarine, along with his entire body, instantly appeared with a crack.

Slap!

The submarine, like an apple split by a sword, cut to the sides.

Caesar, who was also cut in half, also had a stiff expression on his face. Since he was a Logia user, he was healed immediately after being cut, but the submarine was cut in this way, which also meant …

Caesar turned his head little by little, and his entire body instantly seems to fell into an icy cellar.

"You?

Ross looked at Caesar shrouded in purple gas, frowning slightly, and he glanced again at the submarine, where there was only a Scientific Force Base soldier who had fainted.

He naturally knows this Caesar knows and the Logia Gas-Gas Fruit ability. A scientist originally affiliated with the World Government, who was convicted of a poison Gas accident, he later escaped from prison and made artificial Devil Fruits with the help of SAD for Doflamingo and sold it to Hundred Beast Kaido.

At this point in time, Caesar doesn't seem to have that gas incident.

"Where is Vegapunk?"

Ross frowned.

He didn't want Caesar, but Vegapunk. Although Caesar was a bit useful, it was impossible for him to be compared with Vegapunk.

Caesar's eyes showed fear, and under Ross's unintentional momentum, he was so scared that he almost pissed himself and his voice trembled: "Beck … Vegapunk, that asshole, he has long slipped away."

As soon as Vegapunk was mentioned, Caesar cursed Vegapunk countless times in his heart.

Vegapunk was first onboard the biggest submarine and escaped the base when the Power Level data detector machine detected Ross's unreasonable data.

By the time Caesar reacted, there was only a small submarine left. As a result, as soon as he sat up in the submarine and the chair was barely warm, Ross pulled a vortex and dragged it back.

Caesar was broken inside.

"Ran?"

Ross frowned.

From Sentomaru's humorous response, it should not be possible for him to lie in that situation, and to leave the ocean floor, you must only take a submarine.

And the submarine on which Caesar sits is indeed a bit smaller.

Buzz !!

Ross utilized his Observation Haki on the ocean floor, but it's been half a minute, and probably longer, and there's no sign of a submarine.

Ross looked at Caesar and asked in a deep voice, "Which direction did he run away?"

"This … I don't know …"

Caesar trembled as he answered.

Ross rubbed his eyebrows and looked at Caesar, he took a deep breath and slowly said, "Give me a reason not to kill you."

Chapter end