Chapter 118: Artificial Devil Fruit Born Early, Targeting the Small Garden

"Wow, what a big tree."

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The most conspicuous thing about O'Hara is the Tree of All-Knowing, whose huge crown almost covers half of the island.

Even at the place just docked, the silhouette of this giant tree can be clearly seen. For the people of O'Hara, cleaning up fallen leaves every day is a heavy task.

"Let's go, that tree is our goal."

The size difference of the island is huge. Compared with Firefly Island, O'Hara's area is not even as large as a subdivision of Firefly Island. It didn't take long for Orlan to bring Leliana to the Tree of All-Knowing.

The shape of the trunk is very strange, and it is full of traces of human activities.

On this island, the only thing older than this tree is the island itself. After thousands of years, the Tree of All-Knowing has experienced the changes of time and even formed a strange symbiotic relationship with the residents of O'Hara.

Some windows can be seen on the trunk, and many people live inside. Cloba is also waiting for Oran at the door.

"Dr. Sidilier, long time no see. I heard that you are the king now?"

"It's just a little empty title, not important. I'm sorry to bother you this time.

Dr. Cloba, I want to borrow the library of the Tree of All-Knowing to find some literature."

"What kind of bother is this? The library of the Tree of All-Knowing is open to the world. Knowledge should not be concealed. If you want to borrow, you can go anytime. And there is an old friend of yours here."

Although Oran and Cloba don't have a close relationship now, they are also acquaintances and occasionally communicate. After all, they represent the top stream of archaeology and medicine at the same time.

When some scholars hold exchange meetings, they sometimes attend.

"Old friend?"

"You will know when you see him. This is also a coincidence."

Cloba led Oran and his party into the interior of the Tree of All-Knowing. Almost all the books were in sight. Various different documents filled the surrounding bookshelves and even formed a wall of books.

Under the bookshelf, Orlan also saw a familiar big head.

"Punk? Why are you here?"

"Olan? What a coincidence, I came here to find some information, but I didn't expect to meet you here."

Kloba's old acquaintance was none other than Vegapunk. As the director of the institute, Vegapunk was not under house arrest, and he was free to go wherever he wanted.

However, he rarely went out due to time constraints. Although he could also conduct research on the ship, the environment was much worse than that of Punk Hazard.

"What a coincidence, I'm also here to find information. How is the director of the institute doing?"

"Not bad, at least the World Government has sufficient funds. Recently, I have a new discovery. If seastone is embedded in the bottom of the ship, the ship can pass through the doldrums more safely.

Aren't you in close communication with the navy? Maybe you can use this to make a new deal with them."

The appearance of Orlan has greatly changed the progress of Vegapunk's research. Although Orlan did not directly tell Vegapunk about the seastone warship, Vegapunk still discovered this many years in advance.

When MAD was disbanded, Orlan hid most of his research results, and even let the outside world think that many of the research results were done by Vegapunk. Therefore, Vegapunk wanted to use these results to help Orlan exchange some research funds from the Navy.

This is his small help as a friend.

"No need, you can find a suitable time to tell the Navy, I will make my own arrangements."

"Okay. Is this Riley? She has grown so big, it's really unbelievable."

"Hello, Uncle Punk, your head has become bigger, isn't it heavy?"

Today, Vegapunk's head is several times bigger than a few years ago, and even the tongue outside his mouth has become longer. From the appearance, he looks more like a weirdo than Frankenstein.

"It's okay, these are all real knowledge."

Vegapunk didn't feel anything. This is also the effect of the Brain-Brain Fruit. The more things he remembers, the bigger his head will become.

"Okay, Riley, you and Kate go play for a while, or find your favorite books, Dad has something to do."

"Okay~"

Riliana didn't say anything, just followed Kate to the side, and Absalom followed them silently.

At this time, he already knew that Orlan was a king, and he had already put himself in the position of a servant. In Absalom's cognition, it would be a great thing to become a confidant of the king.

Afterwards, Orlan and Vegapunk were looking for something in the library together, but Orlan was simply touching the books with his hands. Every time he touched a book, his collection of books in the book world would increase by one.

It was rare to meet an old friend, and Vegapunk seemed to have forgotten his original purpose, and discussed some research difficulties with Orlan.

"Speaking of which, your previous research helped me a lot, at least saving me decades of effort, but unfortunately the product was still a failure."

"Failure? What did you research?"

"It's not easy to replicate artificial devil fruits through bloodline factors. I'm planning to suspend research in this area."

"Kaido's bloodline factor?"

"How do you know?"

"I also read the newspaper. I saw the news that Kaido escaped from the research institute a few years ago."

At this time, Orlan had already guessed what the failed product that Vegapunk was talking about was, which was a replica of Kaido's fish-fish fruit.

In the original timeline, Vegapunk spent a full twenty years researching it and consumed countless funds. However, due to the existence of Orlan, many difficulties in this project were overcome by the two in advance, and even affected the subsequent research progress.

"I won't say much nonsense, Punk, give me that "failed product", I am quite interested in it."

"That's a "failed product", what do you want this kind of rubbish for?"

"I know you have severe obsessive-compulsive disorder, you can't fool me with this.

And if the failed product is not destroyed, it would be a bit strange, and I just need it."

".Okay, but I can't send it to you specially. You can find a chance to come to my place. I will "destroy the failed product" in those few days, and then you can take it away."

Vegapunk didn't want the World Government to know that he had cracked this secret and could successfully create the Devil Fruit of the Mythical Beast. In the final analysis, he and the World Government were not of the same mind, and they were simply taking what they needed.

Orlan knew Vegapunk's character, and knew that the so-called failed fruit was just different in color. Apart from that, it was exactly the same as Kaido's fruit.

"Trouble."

Olan also had his own research on bloodline factors, but his application was different from others. It can only be said that MADS each has its own direction of expertise.

Although Orlan is a generalist, he is not a jack of all trades. He also has his own areas of expertise. He admits that he is not as good as Vegapunk in replicating devil fruits.

"By the way, do you want that fruit?"

"Do you still need to ask? Of course it's for Riley. By the way, where's Stussy? Didn't you bring her out this time?"

A suitable mythical beast devil fruit, this is the path Orlan arranged for Leliana. With her physical talent, the enhancement of the mythical beast can maximize her combat power.

Although many mythical beast fruits have appeared in the original timeline, most of them have owners.

Except for the missing ones, the fighting style of the vampire fruit in the ancient town of Shuigu is not very suitable for Leliana.

It's better not to touch Nika for now. A fruit that can escape and choose its master by itself and is stained with a lot of troubles is a bit difficult to deal with.

The replica Azure Dragon is more suitable for Leliana.

"No, I left her in Punk Hazard to handle some trivial matters for me. To be honest, after you left, I only had Caesar by my side, and many things were really troublesome to do."

Thinking of the very unreliable Caesar, Vegapunk sighed helplessly.

"In fact, he is not completely without merit."

"Well? Don't you think his research ability is very poor?"

"No, this is a fact, but he is much more professional than you in defrauding funds."

Oran spent most of the day in the library. While chatting with Vegapunk, he touched all the books along the way.

These collections are not even all of them. At present, there are still scholars from all over the world gathering here, and new books will be sent from time to time. After the books are updated in a few years, Oran will probably have to come again.

After finding the information he needed, Vegapunk started reading, occasionally exclaiming.

After completing his goal, Orlan set out on the return journey and did not stay here for too long. Since Firefly Island is still a non-member country, he finally got a ticket to Alabasta.

As a superpower in the Grand Route, there are relatively more ships heading there.

However, after arriving in Alabasta, they did not return to Firefly Island immediately, but got a new record pointer in the market of Alabasta and purchased a large amount of liquor.

"Dad, this is not the direction of home, right? When we leave, the morning sun should be on the other side."

"Well, we have some other things to do. This time I plan to find you a new teacher."

"Are you going to learn some powerful moves?"

"Yes, it is a very powerful move. If you master it thoroughly, even a monster as big as an island can be penetrated with one blow."

"Okay, it sounds powerful. I will definitely learn it!"

Olan released the ship that had been prepared long ago from the book. This time, the place they went to had no fixed route, so they could only rely on themselves. After all, it was an uninhabited island known to the outside world - the ancient island, the small garden.