Seeing the government personnel walking in without any restraint, Vegapunk didn't lower himself because he was under the World Government's intimidation. Instead, he said with a very dissatisfied tone: "What are you doing? The results of this research shouldn't be out until two months later, right?"
"Vegapunk, put aside the experiment you're working on for now. You need to research this guy first!" The government agent in the black suit waved his hand, and from behind him, he pushed over a comatose man lying on a bed.
"Who is this person? Why do I need to research him?" Vegapunk asked with a frown. What was he supposed to do with a living person brought over for him to research? He was already very familiar with the human body. Did this person have something special about him?
"This guy has obtained a power similar to a Devil Fruit, has a certain self-healing ability, and can also use this power to treat diseases for others, but he hasn't eaten a Devil Fruit. The higher-ups want you to research the source of this power!" After the agent said this, he turned around and left.
Although Vegapunk was now a genius scientist at Navy Headquarters, he was still in the stage of being watched, and his power was, to be honest, not much, and his freedom was severely restricted by the Navy.
Now, he had to do whatever the World Government ordered him to do!
"Self-healing ability without a Devil Fruit?" Looking at the comatose Avro, Vegapunk took out a scalpel and made a cut on his arm. A thumb-sized wound appeared, and blood spilled out, but soon, under a golden unknown light, the wound actually healed in about five seconds.
Then Vegapunk took out a bit of blood and put it under a microscope.
"What a strange thing. These blood cells aren't cells at all, but something that can't be seen clearly... a bit like photons?"
"This isn't the cell of a Devil Fruit user, but if it's not a Devil Fruit, then what is it?" Vegapunk began to wonder. There were actually things in this world that he didn't know, especially that there were some golden particles in these cells, and their activity was very high.
"Where did those guys in the government get this guy?" Vegapunk's face was full of interest.
At the same time, in Navy Admiral Sengoku's office, Fleet Admiral Sengoku was holding a file, frowning and saying: "What exactly is this guy named Grimm? A Devil Fruit user, or just like Dr. Vegapunk said, does he have an unknown new power in his body!"
Sengoku propped his chin with his hand. This Grimm not only possessed this power himself, but could also allow others to obtain this power. According to Vegapunk's guess, this was a power that came from "faith."
Sengoku knew that this Grimm was a charlatan. If this power really came from faith, then wouldn't he spread that damn "Holy Light" everywhere he went, and wouldn't all those places be his territory? This was too dangerous.
But Grimm hadn't done anything to the Navy or the World Government yet, so a wanted poster hadn't been issued yet, but his level of danger did need to be taken seriously.
"Is there any action from the government's side?" Sengoku asked the rear admiral who had brought the file to him.
"Dr. Vegapunk is researching the sample, further researching the transmissibility of this power. What specific actions to take against Grimm are still under discussion!" The rear admiral quickly replied.
"What are Tirion D. Grimm's recent actions?" Sengoku continued to ask.
"He seems to be preparing to enter the Grand Line. As for the route, it should be this one! Because they went to buy a permanent Log Pose for the Grand Line a few days ago," the rear admiral said, pointing to one of the seven routes in the Grand Line on the map.
The starting directions of the entrances to the Grand Line were different, so there were a total of seven routes. Once the route was decided at the beginning, it wouldn't normally change until they arrived at the "Sabaody Archipelago," the end point of the first half.
"Send out his photo. Even if he's not wanted, let the soldiers pay more attention to him," Sengoku said solemnly. "Oh, and also that Gangplank."
"Yes, I'll go do it now!" The rear admiral saluted Sengoku, took back the file, and left the office.
Knock knock knock!
A rush of footsteps came, and another rear admiral rushed into Sengoku's office and reported: "Admiral, Shiki the Golden Lion has entered the New World. Please allocate combat power to capture him!"
Sengoku slammed the table hard: "Restless bastard pirate!"
At this time, Grimm had only attracted attention. Most of the Navy's energy was still focused on Roger, Whitebeard, and Shiki.
...
Grimm's ship soon slowly sailed into the first large main island of the Grand Line at the entrance to the North Sea. However, when they had just sailed into the main port, they discovered an unusual scene.
In the past, there would definitely be many merchant ships and fishing boats docked in the port, but here, most of the ships docked were pirate ships, and huge skull pirate logos were painted on the sails. Grimm's ship, with its white sails that had nothing on them, looked very conspicuous.
Grimm was sitting on the deck, pondering the extra reward that the system had given him when he left the Minas Kingdom five days ago.
How should he put it? Getting this thing was a bit unexpected for Grimm, because no matter how he looked at it, this thing had nothing to do with the "Holy Light." If he had to make a connection, it would be the Holy Light's enemy - [Blood Plague].
This thing was obtained because he completed the [First Paladin] achievement.
So what was the "Blood Plague"?
This thing came from the DNF world. To put it bluntly, it was a curse, or rather, a virus, a highly contagious virus.
People who were cursed didn't look any different from normal people on the outside, but their hearts would be occupied by demons. These people were collectively called [Disguisers]. For example, werewolves and vampires in the DNF world were variants of Disguisers. They had extremely high aggressiveness.
People who were attacked by Disguisers would also become Disguisers, thus spreading the infection.
Because Disguisers normally looked no different from ordinary people, it was easy to hide among the crowd, hence the name.
[Blood Plague]: Turns a person who doesn't believe in the Holy Light into a Disguiser. The stronger the person, the lower the direct infection rate, and the weaker the person, the higher the mortality rate after infection! Cooldown time: 3 months.
What did that mean? It meant that if he wanted to infect a strong person like Sengoku, directly releasing the Blood Plague on him might not cause anything to happen, but if the infection was successful, he would become a powerful "Disguiser."
Conversely, if he infected ordinary people, the probability was very high, but then the problem also came, because the [Blood Curse] was very aggressive, these ordinary people might die directly after being infected.
The most important thing was the last sentence that the system gave: All Disguisers will not attack believers of the Holy Light and will obey the Host's orders.
Grimm: ??? Was he a paladin, or a death knight, or Uncle Four's "Avenger"?
But he had to admit that if he wanted to develop his power, this thing was definitely much more powerful than promoting the Holy Light. It was an extremely powerful biochemical weapon. If you didn't want to be killed, you had to force others to believe in the Holy Light.
Of course, the shortcomings were also obvious. This thing had too long of a cooldown, a three-month cooldown, and he couldn't guarantee that the infection would be successful, which was very annoying.
But once the infection was successful, it could spread infinitely.
"The stronger the person, the lower the direct infection rate." This sentence was very interesting. It was the direct infection rate. What if these powerful guys were bitten by the infected?
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