Crunch—
Pushing open the door, Maud walked into the ward.
On the hospital bed near the window, Jim, who was covered in bandages, was leaning on the bedside, reading a book in his hand.
Hearing the sound of the door being opened, Jim immediately looked towards the door.
The moment he saw Maud, Jim quickly put down his book and pretended to stand up.
But Maude's shadow was faster and directly fixed Jim's body.
"Don't move, you need to rest now."
Maude signaled Jim to stop messing around and removed the shadow control.
"Boss."
Jim, who had regained control of his body, obeyed and did not move, maintaining his posture of sitting on the head of the bed.
Maud smiled at Jim, walked to the bed, made a chair with her shadow, and sat down.
"How do you feel? Does the wound still hurt?"
"pain."
Jim used his fingers as bookmarks, stuck them in the pages of the book, and said dullly: "But as long as you can survive, it doesn't matter how painful it is."
"Well, you were seriously injured this time and almost couldn't be saved."
While Maude was speaking, she glanced at the book that Jim was pressing lightly with his hand.
He couldn't see the title of the book, but judging from the color and general composition of the cover, he recognized the book as a love book that Perona occasionally took out to read.
Jim noticed Maud's gaze and silently took it under the quilt.
Maude didn't pay attention to Jim's little move and said seriously: "However, after this near-death experience, your ability should not be far away from awakening."
Relying on the reconnaissance ability of the hunter's notebook, Mod noticed Jim's devil star level, which suddenly reached 8 and a half stars.
There is only half a star left before awakening.
Sure enough, if an animal-type ability user wants to awaken quickly, they can only speed up by being beaten or even near death.
This is also the reason why Kaido, who is known as the strongest creature on land, sea and air, often commits troubles and seeks death.
Jim lowered his head and thought for a moment, then said: "Although there is no obvious feeling, the self-healing speed is indeed faster than before."
"That's why you wake up after a day."
Maud smiled and said: "According to Luo's judgment, normally, it will take at least three days for you to wake up."
Jim heard this and nodded silently.
The hands huddled under the quilt slowly clenched.
"I'm still too weak. Not only can I not keep up with the boss, but I will also be held back. If this continues..."
"Snapped."
Maud reached up and patted Jim on the shoulder.
The slightly hard slap made Jim's body tremble slightly, which hurt.
"It's okay to go slow, as long as you can keep up."
Maud looked at Jim and said seriously: "I will take you to accomplish what you want to do, and kill all those high-ranking Celestial Dragons..."
"Boss..."
Jim looked at Maud intently, his face under the bandage moving slightly.
This dull man smiled happily.
Chapter 345: If you can’t beat me, join
The turmoil caused by the Impel City incident has not yet subsided, but the latest bounty order updated by the Navy Headquarters has shocked the world again.
Thanks to the efforts of newspaper delivery gulls and telephone bug fax machines, Maude's new bounty was spread to every corner of the world in less than a day.
Whether they are pirates of the Grand Line or pirates of the New World.
In their view, Mod, who has a bounty of 4.48 billion, is already a veritable Yonko.
And he is still an extremely young Yonko.
In just a few days, countless eyes once again focused on Maude.
In the underground dark world, Mod's head has always been valuable, and the total reward amount is at least more than 2 billion.
With this update of the Navy, the organization responsible for integrating and issuing bounties, instead of removing Mod's bounty in the underground world, instead abruptly increased Mod's bounty to 4.5 billion like a prank.
This amount is 2 million more than the formal reward amount released by the Navy.
The bounty is very tempting.
But the vast majority of bounty hunters have no intention of troubling Mod.
So what about 9 billion
What's the difference between it and a loft suspended in mid-air
Most people are sensible.
But on the other hand, there are also people who lack reason.
Although there are not many, there is indeed a group of people who dream of getting Mod's bounty.
Greed, desire.
This is one of the normal conditions of the world.
New world.
The country of Wano, the island of ghosts.
Yamato held Mod's latest bounty order and was secretly frightened.
The handsome man in the reward photo, who was younger than her, actually managed to be on an equal footing with her father.
4.48 billion.
What a magical thing it is to put this amount on a man who is less than twenty years old.
Yamato stared at Maud in the bounty photo, feeling uneasy in his heart.
After a while, Yamato put down the reward order and looked at the closed door.
"We need to get the phone bug to Jabba quickly, but..."
Yamato frowned, picked up the mace when he stood up, hung it behind him, and then walked towards the door.
Crunch.
Pushing open the door, Yamato walked out of the room and came to the corridor.
After standing still for a second or two, Yamato walked to the left.
After only walking a few meters, Yamato heard a slight rustling sound coming from the pillars above.
You don't need to look to know that the rustling sound is caused by the little animal shikigami used by the emperor for surveillance.
She was being watched.
This was also the reason why she had not been able to send the phone bug to Jabba for two or three days after getting it.
As for why the emperor sent shikigami to monitor her, it must be Jhin who was behind it.
"hateful."
Yamato was angry, but there was nothing he could do.
She knew very well that the royal surveillance shikigami were everywhere in every corner of the castle.
In this case, she didn't even dare to visit Jabba again.
Because the surveillance shikigami can not only transmit images, but also sound.
If you go to Jabba rashly, let alone deliver the phone bug, if Jabba unintentionally says it, your plan will be exposed to the royalists and the others.
Yamato wandered around the castle aimlessly.
No matter where she goes, there are seven or eight monitoring shikigami following her.
It is simply an all-round surveillance without any blind spots.
Yamato sighed in his heart, pretended to go to the kitchen to get some food, and then returned to the room.
at the same time.
Inside the cell.
Jabba quietly stared at the faint light outside the prison rod.
He is waiting for Yamato to arrive.
But two or three days have passed, but there is no movement at all, and I don't know what happened in Yamato.
Jabba was a little worried, but besides that, he could do nothing but wait patiently for the good news.
Of course, there could be bad news.
No matter what, he was mentally prepared.
... ... ..
Horrible Barque, Castle Research Laboratory.
This is a research room with complete equipment and ample space, and it was specially prepared by Maude for Luo.
The purpose of the research room's existence was not to allow Luo to study medical skills, but to study the theoretical feasibility and practical possibilities of [Chimera].
If this research topic derived from the secrets of Blackbeard's body can achieve a breakthrough, the strength of each main battle member of the team will be qualitatively improved.
In addition to the research on "Chimeras", there is also the research on "Vicious Medicine" obtained from Fish-Man Island that can greatly increase a person's strength in a short period of time.
If the side effects of dangerous drugs can be eliminated, this kind of drug that can be used to increase strength will become a drug that will make all parties jealous.
But whether it will succeed is still unknown.
Compared with this, chimera research has a higher priority.
If the research on [Chimeras] can be successful, it means that the idea of dual-fruit ability users will become a reality.
By then, Maud might consider eating the Quake Fruit.
Research room.
Luo, wearing a white coat, is busy working in front of various precision instruments.
It had only been five days since the Impel Down incident ended, and he had yet to fully recover from the injuries he sustained on the battlefield.
Even so, on the premise that he thought his physical condition was passable, he was unwilling to waste time and quickly devoted himself to research.
In order to live up to Maude's expectations, Luo wanted to shorten the time for the research results to come out as much as possible.
Rona's practice of working regardless of his health was noticed by Maud.
Maude hoped that Luo would recover from his injuries before returning to work, and he tried to persuade him several times.
But Luo was too stubborn and refused to listen to advice.
Maud had no choice but to give up.
And this research can only be done by Luo alone.
The only help the team can provide Luo is labor.
"With the ability to perform surgical operations, it is not difficult to mosaic two different genes together, but ensuring coexistence and activity is the biggest problem."
Luo slowly put down the notebook filled with notes in his hand, his eyes showing contemplation.
Chimerizing two different genes sounds like a fantasy, but I'm afraid no doctor can do it.
But in front of the ability of the surgical results, it really is nothing.
only.
The most powerful aspect of surgery is its operability.