The phone bug, who had several images of Maud, opened his mouth and heard Maud's voice.
Warring States' eyebrows were cold, and he looked down at the phone bug and said, "What you did is equivalent to declaring war on the World Government. You don't think you can compete with the World Government, do you?"
The other end of the phone was silent for a while.
After a few breaths, Maude's voice came from the phone bug again.
"How scary."
The phone bug's eyes suddenly became as sharp as a knife like Maud's.
"You don't think you can take back the 'initiative' with just a few threats, do you?"
“…”
Chapter 164 Initiative
In this series of events involved in obtaining the [living heart].
After successfully arresting the crew of the Heart Pirates, the Navy took the initiative.
It is precisely because of this that CP0 has the confidence of a lion and wants to get more benefits from it than [living heart].
but,
When Mod attacked the Holy Land and captured five Draconians.
The initiative changed hands on the spot, and was firmly held by Maud. Naturally, he would not take these indifferent threats from Warring States seriously.
"It's better to stop talking nonsense."
Without waiting for a response from Sengoku, Mod went straight to business and continued: "The five Celestial Dragons will be exchanged for the members of the Heart Pirates. I will decide the place and time of the exchange. Do you have any objection?"
"Can."
Sengoku narrowed his eyes.
One second he was thinking about how to create pressure on Maud, but the next second he agreed to Maud's proposal without hesitation.
To be honest,
With Mod holding five Draconian chips, he had no idea that Mod would give up the opportunity to raise the price and directly exchange five Draconians for the crew of the Heart Pirates.
"What time? Where to exchange?"
As if afraid that Mod would regret it temporarily, Seng Guo quickly asked.
"In two weeks, New World Thunder God Island, those who are major general or above should not come to the scene to join in the fun."
"Okay, but don't play tricks, Bacardi Mod."
"I should be the one to say this, right? Do you still want me to explain the virtues of the World Government and your navy?"
“…”
"Crack."
Maude hung up the phone.
Warring States took a deep breath and looked gloomy.
From his position, he has no spare power to obtain the living heart that Dr. Vegapunk needs.
What can be done, what should be done.
It is to ensure that the five Heavenly Dragons kidnapped by Mod can come back safely.
Warring States slowly put down the phone, raised his eyes to look at the three CP0 members in front of the desk, and said coldly: "Up to now, are the bosses still trying to get the 'fruits of surgery'?"
“…”
The three CP0 members, whose faces had been violently swollen by Mod, could only remain silent after hearing what Seng Guo said.
Until this moment,
These members of the top intelligence agencies who often engage in dirty deeds finally realized a fact -
Maud was completely on a different level than the people they had dealt with in the past.
Just to seize the initiative, they frantically attacked the Holy Land and kidnapped the Tianlong people.
This kind of thing is simply not something a normal person can do!
Headquarters Scientific Corps Research Office.
Zhan Taomaru's injuries had almost recovered and he came to the research room as usual.
"Dr. Vegapunk, I just got bad news from the old man."
Zhan Momomaru walked into the research room where no one else was allowed to enter, and looked at Vegapunk who was standing in front of the workbench and tinkering with something.
Hearing what Zhan Taowan said, Vegapunk did not stop what he was doing. He turned his back to Zhan Taowan and asked, "What's the bad news?"
"The 'living heart' you want to use to enhance the pacifist is probably out of reach."
"Really? What a shame."
Vegapunk's busy hands suddenly paused, his tone full of regret.
Without the [living heart], it means that he has to overturn the main direction he designed to further enhance the pacifist's combat power.
"Dr. Vegapunk? We originally thought we could successfully get a hundred hearts."
Zhan Taomaru came behind Bega Punk and frowned: "No one expected that that guy Mod... would rather attack the Holy Land and kidnap the Celestial Dragons than honestly use a hundred living hearts to do it. trade."
"You said that Mod attacked the Holy Land? And kidnapped the Celestial Dragons?"
A strange color flashed in Begapunk's eyes? He looked back at Zhan Momomaru.
"Yes! Dr. Vegapunk, did you know? Moder's gang, I don't know what method they used, found the reborn Piaopiao Fruit less than a week after the death of the golden lion."
Zhan Taowan opened his hands and made some meaningless gestures.
"Then they used the power of the Piao Piao Fruit to move an island and smash it into the Holy Land. It was precisely because of this that Maude and his gang succeeded!"
“…”
When Vegapunk heard this, he put his thumb on his chin? The focus was not on the method used by the Mod Pirates to attack the Holy Land, and said to himself:
"One or two times can be explained by 'luck'... maybe? They didn't 'find' the reborn Devil Fruit, but mastered the technology to 'preserve' the Devil Fruit 100%."
"impossible."
Zhan Taomaru was stunned for a moment and then said: "Isn't it a problem that even you haven't been able to overcome until now to retain the Devil Fruit 100%? What about other people? How can it be possible!"
Retaining 100% of Devil Fruit technology was one of the projects that the World Government and the Navy wanted Vegapunk to complete a long time ago.
If they could master this technique, the navy could directly cleanse the powerful esper prisoners in the impel city, and then use the retained devil fruits to enhance the strength of their own camp.
It's a pity that even Vegapunk has not been able to figure out how to 100% retain the Devil Fruit.
In the process, he accidentally discovered the technology of how to make objects eat devil fruits.
Vegapunk did not respond to Zhan Momomaru's words, but rested his chin and fell into deep thought.
... ... ...
The terrifying barque.
Maud sat on a chair, in front of the phone bug who had just closed his eyes.
Lafayette stood quietly behind Maude.
He looked at the hung up phone bug and said softly: "To the world government and the navy, the importance of the five Tianlong people needs no further explanation. Just using them to 'exchange' Luo's crew would be too cheap for them. .”
"That's right."
Mod raised his legs, straddling the table, and said calmly: "But at this stage, helping Luo rescue Bebo and the others is more important than anything else. Therefore, the heavier the chips on our side, the less reason the navy has to go." Playing tricks.”
"Hahaha... That's the truth, but it's inevitable that you'll feel it's a pity."
"Lafayette, it's not the first day you've met me."
"Um?"
Lafayette looked at Maude's profile, a little surprised.
Maude turned around, met Lafayette's gaze, and said with a smile: "I will return the Celestial Dragons to them, but I never promised to 'return them intact'."
"Hoo ho."
Lafayette thought of something, and his eyes suddenly shone with interest.
"Mode, do you plan to keep the heart of the Celestial Dragon? Is that why you specifically asked Luo to take out the heart of the Celestial Dragon?"
"No, taking out the heart of the Celestial Dragon is just an insurance policy."
Maude held her cheek and looked indifferently.
"What I really want to leave behind is the 'shadow heart' of the Celestial Dragons."
Chapter 165 Ability Design
"Shadow heart? That's it... hoo hoo."
With Lafayette's understanding of Maud's shadow ability, he quickly thought of the mystery behind it, and suddenly felt a little enlightened.
Luo, who was not far away, couldn't help but look over after hearing the term Shadow Heart.
"Lafayette, it's very interesting to have such a combination of abilities, right?"
Maude tilted her head and glanced in the direction of the cell.
"Hoo ho... It's really interesting."
Lafayette said seriously: "In this way, even the Navy, which already understands the principles of the 'Shadow' and 'Surgery' abilities, will only focus on guarding against the possible moves of the 'Shadow' and 'Surgery', and I would never have thought that there is such a thing as 'shadow surgery'."
"It's just that I'm curious. Captain, you... deliberately left such a small mechanism in the body of the Celestial Dragon, is it to prevent it from happening, or is it to... kill the Celestial Dragon?"
When he talked about killing the Celestial Dragon, Lafayette's eyes looked like a drop of water falling into a frying pan.
He has never been interested in the weak.
But the Celestial Dragons are different.
It would be interesting to kill it.
This was Lafayette's idea.
Maude looked at Lafayette and said seriously: "Both, maybe. After all, the other party is the world government and the navy. Just in case, there must be a backup plan. If the other party is not honest, then I don't mind killing him." A Celestial Dragon came to warn them."
"Hoho, then..."
Lafayette made a gentle gentleman's greeting to Maude, pursed his blood-red lips, and said with a smile: "I sincerely hope that the World Government and the Navy will be wiser."
"Ah."
Maud's eyes were deep and calm.
If you don't need to worry about the consequences of trash like the Tianlong people, what if you kill them
Half an hour later.
Maud returned to the room.
Luo and Perona, who had nothing to do, came into Maude's room one after another.
Maud glanced at the open window.
With a wave of his hand, the shadow blocked the sunlight coming in through the window like a curtain.
The room suddenly became dark.
The candle immediately lit up and the flame flickered.
Luo leaned against the wall next to the door, crossed his arms, and looked at Maude curiously.
Perona squinted her eyes, as if she was enjoying the strange comfort brought by this candlelight environment.
After a while.
Lafayette took the Draco's heart, and Jim brought the Draco into the room who had just been physically anesthetized, like a chicken.
Maud took the heart from Lafayette.
Under the candlelight, the shadow of the heart was reflected on the wall not far from Luo.
Maud raised her index finger, and a wisp of black shadow extended from her finger to the wall, and then drew a line towards the edge of the shadow of her heart.