"Isn't this a modern version of the slave trade?" a research professor lamented during a livestream. "What Vinsmoke is showing is not evolution at all, but a dangerous signal of human objectification!"
His livestream attracted over 500,000 viewers, with comments flooding the screen, calling for the "protection of the weak."
However, a considerable number of supporters also defended genetic technology.
An account calling itself "Future Human" released a series of videos using cool CG animation to depict a human society after genetic optimization:
Free from the troubles of disease, with an average lifespan extended to 150 years, and even capable of establishing colonies on Mars. "Are you willing to cling to your fragile flesh rather than embrace evolution?" The question at the end of the video sparked deep thought.
...
Onigashima,
In the spacious hall, Queen's bulky body was slumped in a soft chair, the light from his phone screen reflecting on his oily face.
"Victory!"
With the game victory sound effect, he shook his head proudly, a smile spreading across his lips: "Diamond II! I really am a genius!"
He casually swiped open TikTok to pass the time. As soon as he opened TikTok, he saw Vegapunk's video and the Vinsmoke Family's theory, and showed great interest in the official title of 'Master Inventor'.
All sleepiness instantly vanished!
"Hmm? Is that old geezer Vegapunk showing off again?" His short, thick fingers quickly swiped. The Vinsmoke Family's genetic modification video made him snort in disdain through his nose. "That's it? Is that even worthy of being called technology?"
Queen suddenly sprang up from the chair, the fat on his body jiggling like jelly.
He ripped open his Hawaiian shirt, revealing his modified mechanical body—his left arm was a gleaming alloy prosthesis, a precise energy core was embedded in his chest, and several tubes extended from his spine connecting to a medicine box on his back.
"My subordinates! Film a video!"
He kicked open the laboratory door, and a dozen subordinates who were dozing off scrambled to their feet.
Three minutes later, a video titled 'What is True Technology!' suddenly shot up to the top of TikTok's trending list.
In the video, Queen stood before a giant culture tank labeled "Danger," within which dozens of ice-blue bodies floated.
"Watch this!" He pressed a button on the control panel, and an "Ice Oni" was grabbed by a mechanical arm. The moment the test subject touched the air, sharp ice crystals immediately condensed on its surface.
"This is what you call evolution!"
Queen poked the test subject with his mechanical finger, and a layer of white frost immediately formed on his fingertip.
"Just 0.1 milliliters can turn a waste into an invincible warrior!" He proudly displayed a syringe containing a blue liquid. "Ten thousand times stronger than those sissy clones from Germa!"
Suddenly,
He grabbed a trembling Pirates grunt nearby and directly injected the "Ice Oni" medicine into him amidst screams.
Under a close-up shot, the Pirates's skin quickly turned ice-blue, muscles swelled and tore through his clothes, and a chilling blue light shone in his eyes.
"Hahaha! Look at this power!"
Queen laughed wildly, pointing at the monitoring screen where the mutated grunt was punching through a steel plate in the training ground.
"Can Vegapunk's childish equipment compare? Vinsmoke's genetic modification takes ten years? I can create an army in ten minutes!"
At the end of the video, Queen's mechanical arm suddenly transformed, extending a six-barreled Gatling gun pointed at the camera: "I'm claiming this 'Master Inventor' title! Who dares to disagree? Come to Onigashima and try my new invention!"
With a burst of frantic gunfire, the video suddenly cut off.
Queen's livestream video caused a huge stir on TikTok, quickly igniting widespread discussion across the entire network.
Related topics #IceOniVirus# and #QueenHumanExperiments# directly surged to the top of the trending list, triggering strong reactions from all sectors.
Vegapunk went online urgently just two hours after the video was released, publishing a serious technical analysis video.
In the video, wearing protective gloves, he magnified and analyzed Queen's livestream video frame by frame: "Based on the speed of muscle mutation and the degree of pupil dilation, this is not a strengthening agent at all, but a highly lethal virus."
He pulled up a set of data models showing that the cells in the infected person's body were rapidly disintegrating. "The survival rate will not exceed 20%, and the remaining 80% will die of organ failure within 48 hours."
At the end of the video, the usually gentle Vegapunk uncharacteristically and severely reprimanded: "This is not science, this is murder!" He called on the World Government to immediately intervene and investigate.
The video received over 30 million likes, and the comment section was crowded with angry netizens.
Immediately after, the Vinsmoke Family's official account also released a statement video.
Judge sneered while standing in front of a gene map: "Since when did the Beasts Pirates stoop to playing with viruses?"
He contemptuously showed a video of one of Queen's early failed experiments. "He doesn't even understand the basic gene chain, he should go back to the womb and be remade."
The video deliberately circled the detail of blood seeping from the mouth of the mutated Pirates in Queen's livestream with a red circle. "Look closely, this is the rejection reaction, junk modification."
After Queen saw Vegapunk and Judge's mocking videos, his entire fat face instantly turned a pig-liver color.
He furiously smashed his phone screen with a punch, his mechanical arm sputtering dazzling electrical sparks as he vented, then picked up his phone and walked towards the laboratory.
"These self-righteous bastards!" he shrieked hysterically, and the subordinates in the laboratory cowered in the corners.
Grabbing the half-empty bottle of whiskey, he took a big gulp. Queen, with bloodshot eyes, replayed the livestream recording—the screen froze on the test subject that had exploded and died.
"20% survival rate? Bullshit!" He violently smashed the whiskey bottle, glass shards mixed with alcohol splashing everywhere.
Suddenly, his bulky body froze, a dangerous red light flickering in his eyes: "Wait... the data that old geezer mentioned..."
Stumbling towards the laboratory bench, Queen frantically searched through the experimental records.
Grease-stained papers were scattered everywhere. He finally found the key data in a corner: "21.3%... it really is around 20%..." His fingers involuntarily tightened, crushing the data sheet into waste paper.
"My subordinates!" he suddenly turned and roared, "All of you, work overtime!"
...
The tech community on TikTok immediately split into three major camps:
1. The "People's Livelihood Tech Faction" supporting Vegapunk started the topic #BoycottHumanExperiments#.
2. Vinsmoke Family fans created the discussion group #GeneEvolutionIsTheWay#.
3. A minority of Queen supporters used the tag #PowerIsSupreme#.
It's worth noting that,
The official account of the Marine Science Unit suddenly released a video of Smoker purifying poisonous gas at Punk Hazard, with a simple caption: "This is the technology of justice." It was collectively retweeted by Marine accounts.
Facing the public opinion storm, Queen went live again in the early morning to retaliate.
He was drunkenly holding a bottle of alcohol, the laboratory behind him in a mess: "What the hell do you know! The 20% who survive are the elites!"
Saying this, he injected medicine into a prisoner, but the person immediately exploded and died.
"Uh... this time it was a dosage issue..." The livestream suddenly cut off, but the screen recording had already gone viral across the network.
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