One Piece: Starting with God Valley, intercepting the Dark-Dark Fruit

Giger waved his hand again, and a vast expanse of darkness surged forth, engulfing the fragments and blood completely.

Since Noah's impact was shared by several sea kings, these thick-skinned creatures were not seriously injured, but the impact thoroughly enraged them.

They want to crush that human, who is as small as an ant!

As they charged at Gigg again, several enormous dark tentacles suddenly emerged from behind Gigg and wrapped around the necks of these sea kings.

Darkness is invisible, but it has an even more terrifying gravitational pull, and no matter how fiercely these sea kings struggle, they cannot break free from it.

As their massive bodies twisted and turned, the seawater churned and roared as if boiling, and the immense force made the currents increasingly violent, forming whirlpools and rapids.

The Fishman Island below resembles a small boat on a stormy sea, in danger of capsizing at any moment.

The giant sea kings, seeing the perilous situation on Fishman Island, quickly stopped struggling and let the dark tentacles tightly lock their necks, obediently floating there.

Being chained up like a dog by Jigge made these intelligent creatures feel a strong sense of humiliation, but they were powerless to do anything about it.

As Giger gazed at the seemingly endless mass of behemoths before him, a wicked smile curled at the corner of his lips. He said...

“Animales should be aware of their animalistic nature. Do you really think you're some great hero who saves the world? In the end, you're just tools.”

The sea kings glared at Gig, their mouths opening and closing repeatedly. To the uninitiated, it would seem as if they wanted to eat Gig, but in reality, they were talking.

However, they could understand what Gigg meant, but Gigg couldn't understand them. This feeling was extremely frustrating for these sea kings.

Giger continued,

"No need to get so worked up. Sooner or later, I will make you all willingly become my dogs. That day is not far off!"

It was the same sea king with a bird's beak. It stretched its neck and opened its mouth wide at Gigg.

This time, Gigg probably guessed what it was going to say: "You're dreaming!"

Giger laughed heartily and said,

"Just you wait, your eight hundred years of waiting will all turn out to be a joke! Hahahaha!"

Amidst the laughter, Giger's body gradually twisted, eventually transforming into a dark vortex and disappearing completely, leaving behind a brief vacuum zone.

The dark tentacles wrapped around the sea king's neck also disappeared.

But these sea kings showed no sign of relief; they looked at each other and communicated in their own language.

"Who exactly is that human? Is he mentioned in the prophecy? What role does he play?!"

"Prophecy? Noah is already destroyed! This is completely different from the prophecy!"

Will our king be born again? And who will be...?

"Was everything that human named Joy Boy said back then a lie?"

"No! This is impossible! The prophecy was right! It was that human from before! His appearance was the biggest variable! Before this, the world was operating as the prophecy foretold!"

"And he clearly knows something. If that's the case, then our king, and that other one, are both in danger?"

"As long as the Queen is still in the sea, we can protect her, but what about that one? Can he handle that human from before?"

"We don't know. All we can do now is wait for the king to be born..."

At this point, the sea kings fell silent, gazing intently at the Fishman Island surrounded by seawater below, their eyes revealing complex emotions.

Ironically, the inhabitants of Fishman Island looked at them with nothing but fear, and they even hoped that Gigg would reappear and suppress these terrible monsters.

After gazing at each other for a moment, the sea monsters turned around and swam into the dark seabed, eventually disappearing into the vast darkness.

Chapter 194 Artificial Fruit Experiment

Bank Zone, Research Institute.

Vegapunk was carefully holding a test tube containing red liquid and gently shaking it.

Not far from him was a glass container filled with a solution, in which a large purple apple was soaking.

If you look closely, you can see that circular patterns are slowly emerging on the surface of this apple.

The bottom of the glass container is connected to an instrument, on which dense data is constantly displayed.

Vegapunk looked somewhat nervous. After hesitating for a moment, his gaze gradually hardened, and he walked towards the glass container.

Just then, a dark vortex suddenly appeared in front of Vegapunk, startling him so much that his hand trembled and the test tube shattered on the ground, splattering the red liquid inside everywhere.

Vegapunk's eyes widened suddenly, his heart stopped for a moment, and he almost fainted.

The dark vortex coalesced into the form of Gigg. He glanced questioningly at the dazed Vegapunk, whose rage vanished instantly upon seeing Gigg, and he said with a tearful expression, "..."

"Gig Sheng, could you please give me a heads-up next time you come? If you keep popping up like this, you're going to give me a heart attack sooner or later!"

Giger raised an eyebrow and asked in an unfriendly tone,

"What? Are you planning some secret experiment again?"

Vegapunk shuddered, realizing his words had been extremely disrespectful, and quickly said...

"No, no! Saint Giger, you can ask Kuma and Borsalino. If I had any experiments, there's no way I could hide them from them!"

So where are they now?

"...went on a trip."

Giger rolled his eyes, thinking to himself that Kuma was about to become the number two member of Kizaru's slacking-off squad.

However, Vegapunk wasn't actually conducting any secret research. He glanced at the red liquid on the ground, sighed, and said...

"Saint Giger, please believe me. I'm just conducting research on artificial Devil Fruits, as you know. The blood that was spilled on the ground just now is extremely valuable experimental material."

"Whose blood?"

“Kaido, last time he was captured by the Navy, I extracted blood from him. That guy's body is too strong; I only managed to extract a little bit despite all my efforts. The first few experiments failed, and what's left is only enough for one more experiment, but it's already been wasted…”

After a moment's thought, Giger said,

"Kaido gets captured all the time, so we can just extract some blood next time."

Vegapunk shook his head and pointed to the glass container, saying...

"It's too late. Kaido becomes stronger every time he's captured, making it increasingly difficult to extract his blood. Besides, I used all the rare materials in this experiment, and it will take almost twenty more years to collect them all again!"

Giger's heart skipped a beat. The original work did describe how Vegapunk spent twenty years to succeed. In other words, it was very likely that even without him, Vegapunk would have wasted the experimental materials for other reasons.

But could it also be interpreted that, barring any unforeseen circumstances, the artificial Azure Dragon Fruit was created this time?

In the end, Momonosuke ate the fruit. When Vegapunk saw Momonosuke's comical "pink dragon" transformation, he thought he had created a failed product.

If it weren't for Luffy's existence, Giger would really think that Momonosuke is the protagonist of this anime, and that this artificial Blue Dragon Fruit was prepared for him.

Vegapunk judged the success or failure of the fruit based on the form that Momonosuke exhibited after eating it. When he saw that the dragon that Momonosuke transformed into was pink instead of blue, he immediately concluded that the fruit had failed.

It can only be said that Vegapunk truly deserves to be called the world's number one scientist. His rigorous attitude towards science has reached the point of being nitpicky, and it is not an exaggeration to call him an obsessive-compulsive.

However, in Giger's view, this artificial Azure Dragon Fruit was a success beyond compare, and judging its success solely by the color after transformation was clearly too arbitrary.

Judging from Momonosuke's performance after being "forced to mature" to the age of twenty, it can be seen that the power exerted by this artificial Blue Dragon Fruit is almost identical to that of the original.

Compared to the artificial Blue Dragon Fruit created by Vegapunk, the ones Caesar made later were simply garbage. Not to mention the side effects of failure, even if one succeeded in becoming a Devil Fruit user, the ability would still be missing.

For example, some may only possess one of the racial talents of a particular animal, and some may not even be able to benefit from the physical enhancements provided by Zoan-type Devil Fruits. (Refer to the giant horned sheep Devil Fruit user under Kaido.)

Ironically, Vegapunk concluded that his research on artificial Devil Fruits was a complete failure, so he stopped working on Zoan-type artificial Devil Fruits and focused on developing Paramecia-type green-blooded ones.

Of course, compared to the first generation of green blood on Zig, the second generation of stable green blood that Vegapunk researched later can indeed be considered a great success.

After all, in this world, there is probably only one person, Giger, who can adapt to the first generation of green blood, or even accommodate a dose of two people.

Giger glanced down at the gradually drying bloodstains on the ground, nodded, and said calmly,

"Oh I got it."

After saying that, Giger extended his finger and gently hooked it.

The blood immediately transformed into several threads that rose from the ground, condensing into a blood sphere the size of a ping-pong ball on Giger's fingertip.

Giger waved the blood orb in front of the stunned Vegapunk and said,

"Okay, where should we put it now?"

Vegapunk, regaining his senses, was overjoyed and quickly pointed to a device, saying...

"Just put it there!"

With a flick of his finger, Giger sent the blood cell precisely into the opening above the instrument.

The solution in the glass container next to it immediately boiled, quickly turning the purple apples bright red. At the same time, the ring pattern on them became clearer and clearer, until it turned into alternating gold and orange.

Vegapunk stared intently at the apple in the container, nervously rubbing his hands together, while even Gigg watched with great interest.

Under their gaze, the apple, which was entirely red—no, it should be called a Devil Fruit—gradually cooled down, and eventually its skin turned a blood-red color, with golden and orange ring patterns on it.

Upon seeing the final form of the fruit, Giger paused slightly, because in the anime, the fruit in Momonosuke's memory seemed to be dark purple. Was he mistaken, or had the experiment failed?

Chapter 195 Low Blood Pressure?

Just as Zig was deep in thought, Vegapunk suddenly clapped his hands loudly and shouted excitedly,

"Yay! I did it!!!"