Chapter 53: Stealing the Devil Fruit Experiment
Lister saw the pirate ships were about to break out.
Naturally, he had to help.
His gaze swept across the deck.
He quickly locked onto several crates of unused cannonballs.
He walked over, picked one up, weighed it, and after getting a feel for it, threw it at a nearby warship.
*Boom!!*
The cannonball exploded on the strong impact.
Directly blowing off the warship's mast!
After that, one cannonball after another shot out of Lister's hands.
With the boost from the Kuài Kuài no Mi ability.
Those cannonballs were extremely fast.
In an instant, the surrounding warships were thrown into chaos, people scattering and holding their heads.
The thirteen ships of the Money Pirates also orderly passed through the gap and slipped out of the encirclement.
Lister saw all the pirate ships had escaped the encirclement. He didn't stay on the warship any longer. Grabbing Eric, who had been cut down, he used Geppo to return to the New Money.
"Lister, you're back!" Nami saw Lister return, and her suspended heart finally settled.
"I'm back!!"
Lister nodded and said loudly: "Men, although we've escaped the encirclement, we are not safe! The Marines could catch up at any time. Continue accelerating forward!"
"Yes!!"
All the pirates responded in unison.
Then, they maneuvered the pirate ships, increased their speed, and fled into the vast sea.
"Is there food? Bring it all to me!!"
After Lister deactivated his overclock mode, he shouted at Michelin and the others.
Don't look at the short time he had overclock mode active.
But those few rounds of intense movement and combat had consumed a huge amount of Lister's energy.
He needed to replenish it as soon as possible.
Otherwise, who knows, there might be a problem later.
"Yes, yes, Captain! Please wait a moment."
Michelin and the twelve girls heard this, immediately went into the kitchen, and brought out all the meat from the banquet that hadn't been eaten.
They placed it in front of Lister.
Lister didn't hold back and started eating directly.
After devouring hundreds or thousands of pounds of meat.
Lister finally caught his breath.
He returned to his peak state.
"Lister, why did you bring this guy back??" After Lister had eaten and drunk his fill, Nami pointed at the half-dead Eric on the ground and asked.
"To do an experiment!" Lister glanced at Eric and smiled faintly.
"An experiment? What experiment??" Nami asked, confused.
"This guy is a Devil Fruit user. So, I brought him back to kill him, to see if the Devil Fruit will reincarnate nearby," Lister said.
"There's such a thing??" Nami was greatly surprised.
"The probability isn't high, but it's not zero! Devil Fruits actually have a will.
When we humans choose Devil Fruits, in fact, the Devil Fruits are also choosing a suitable person.
If someone on my ship has fate with this Devil Fruit, it should choose to reincarnate nearby!" Lister said.
Devil Fruits have a will?
Everyone on the ship heard this, and their minds were blown.
"Then, next, what should we do??" Nami asked again.
"Go, bring a few boxes of fruit, we need a variety!
Also, bring a large bathtub!" Lister said to Michelin and a few other men.
Manual labor like this is more convenient for men to do.
"Yes!" Michelin led a few colleagues towards the warehouse.
Soon, they brought back several boxes of fruit and a huge bathtub.
This kind of large bathtub... even a person three or four meters tall could use it. You can see how big it was.
Lister ordered people to pour half of the fruit into the bathtub.
Then they put Eric into the bathtub.
Then Lister killed Eric with a single slash.
Finally, they added another layer of fruit, completely submerging him in the fruit.
"And that's it??" Nami watched Lister's operation, feeling a bit lost.
This method of intercepting a Devil Fruit... she had never heard of it. It was completely unscientific.
"A Devil Fruit's reincarnation isn't becoming a seed, then landing, rooting, sprouting, growing strong, and finally bearing a Devil Fruit.
It directly possesses a fruit, and then slowly changes that fruit into the Devil Fruit's form.
Finally forming a new Devil Fruit!!" Lister explained.
"So that's how it is!!" Nami was enlightened.
"Then how long do we have to wait??"
"The specific time, I'm not sure. A few minutes? Or maybe an hour, it's all possible!"
Lister said.
"After an hour, I'll check again. If I don't find a Devil Fruit, then I can only assume it reincarnated somewhere else, and my experiment failed!" Lister smiled faintly.
"An hour?? That's fast!" Nami nodded.
Then she called for people to bring a canvas to cover the bathtub.
"Lister, next, where are we going?" Nami asked.
Nami is just the navigator; she can only decide the route.
As for the destination, where to go, only Lister could decide.
"Next, we are, of course, advancing to the Grand Line!" Lister said in a deep voice.
The Krieg Pirates were defeated and absorbed.
The bounties are out too. Lister at 60 million, Nojiko at 50 million, Zoro at 20 million, Gin at 12 million, Nami and Jango at 10 million, Johnson and Rocky at 5 million...
The bounties of all members add up to almost 200 million.
Now, they were the strongest pirate crew in the East Blue, in name and in reality.
The East Blue is too small. It's clearly not enough to mess around in.
Now is the time to enter the Grand Line.
"The Grand Line?? Got it!" Nami nodded.
After the Money Pirates defeated the Krieg Pirates, they received all of the Krieg Pirates' legacy, which of course included the Krieg Pirates' nautical charts.
After hearing Lister's words, she naturally knew how to proceed.
"The Grand Line!! I hear that's the cradle of the strong. I'm really looking forward to it!!" A sharp light flashed in Zoro's eyes.
Zoro was also looking forward to going to the Grand Line.
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