Chapter 31 We Protect This World (Ch 31)

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Looking at the surrounding environment, Vegapunk was not much calmer than Kizaru outside.

He looked like he had discovered a new world, with curiosity and excitement written all over his face.

This is a gray world without the sun.

On the boundless sea, glaciers, deserts, volcanoes, forests, and the Egghead beneath your feet blend perfectly to form a huge island with complex and diverse landforms.

The sky above was filled with leaden clouds with flashes of lightning from time to time, covering the entire island.

As soon as they closed their eyes and opened them again, the surrounding environment turned into this horrible look. The people who were originally on the future island began to panic. Some were looking for Den Den Mushi to contact the navy, and some were busy protecting research data. The scene was as lively as a market.

But Vegapunk calmly looked at the unknown world in front of him, and even took out a notebook and started writing and drawing while talking to himself.

“Without the sun, the entire island seems to be stitched together, and there are thick clouds in the sky… Why do they look so much like the thunderclouds on Thunder God Island? Very interesting… Is it caused by some kind of climate or crustal movement?”

“Uncle Punk, now is not the time for research.” A fat boy who was as sturdy as a wrestler came to Vegapunk carrying a giant axe. “All the Den Den Mushi in the research institute are dead. No matter the World Government, the Navy, or even Uncle Kizaru, we can’t contact them…”

Before Zhan Taowan finished speaking, he suddenly looked up as if he had sensed something, his expression extremely solemn.

Suddenly, the sky twisted visibly, and a figure in golden armor walked out of the space vortex.

With the appearance of the man, the air around them seemed to freeze. More and more people rolled their eyes, fell straight to the ground and hurriedly fell asleep.

After using his domineering power to stun everyone except Vegapunk and Sen Taomaru, Enel smiled and waved to the two of them, “Good evening, both of you.”

“Who are you?” Facing the sudden appearance of Enelu, Zhan Taomaru clenched the giant axe in his hand as if facing a great enemy. He felt a stronger sense of oppression from the man in front of him than from Uncle Kizaru.

Vegapunk was not nervous at all. He greeted Enel with a smile, as if he was greeting an old friend. “Good evening, good evening. It was you who brought us here, right?”

Although it was a question, the tone was extremely certain, more like stating a fact.

In the comics, Oda calls Vegapunk “the man with the best brain in the world.” In the pirate world where the average IQ is touching, thoughts are abstract, and behaviors are outrageous, Vegapunk is simply a bug-like existence.

Some people even mistook Danmaro Black for King Luffy, but Vegapunk was able to guess that Enel was the culprit the moment he appeared.

This made Enel very happy. Talking to smart people would save a lot of effort. We were all thousand-year-old foxes, so there was no need to use those roundabout ways.

With a warm smile on his face, he decided to open his heart to Vegapunk and get straight to the point:

“Vegapunk, you don’t want the World Government to know about your research on the ‘Blank 100 Years’, do you?”

Upon hearing this, Vegapunk’s expression froze and he could no longer laugh.

Before he could continue, Enel continued, “18 years ago, you went to the ruined O’Hara to pay tribute to Dr. Clover and discovered a huge amount of documents at the bottom of the lake in the center of the island.”

“Later, you met the giants who were transferring historical documents, and also met Monkey D. Dragon, the leader of the revolutionary army, who came to pay tribute to the clover.”

“Through him, you learned the purpose of the Giants’ transfer of the documents, secretly went to Elbaf and read through all the materials, and recorded all the mysteries of the world interpreted by O’Hara in your mind, and began to study them…”

“Am I right, Dr. Vegapunk?”

“You said that if Saint Jaygolucia Satan knew about this, he would definitely issue two rounds of demon-killing orders to Egghead, right?”

Enel yawned, half-leaning against the tree in a lazy manner, looking nonchalant.

But Vegapunk’s expression became more and more rigid, and his face turned green by the end.

He pursed his lips and was silent for a long time before he smiled bitterly and said, “You are CP0, right? Only the world’s strongest intelligence agency can find out these things. Are you going to execute me now?”

Looking at the old man who looked like Einstein, Enelu chuckled and shook his head, “Don’t worry, I’m not CP0, and I don’t have any bad intentions.”

He snapped his fingers, and four huge stone tablets fell from the sky and crashed to the ground.

Vegapunk looked at the huge stone tablet, and the corners of his eyes twitched.

“This is……”

“The historical text.” Enel crossed his arms over his chest and smiled wantonly and ostentatiously, “Not only that, the only survivor of O’Hara, archaeologist Nico Robin, is also working for me. She is also studying the ‘blank hundred years’.”

“I think if you work together, you’ll get twice the result with half the effort, right?”

After hearing this, how could Vegapunk not understand?

The old man took two steps back and looked Enelu up and down. “So you came to me because of the ‘blank hundred years’ of history.”

Enelu was stunned for a moment when he heard this, but he quickly reacted and couldn’t help but sneer, “No, no, no, I’m not that boring.”

Facing Vegapunk’s wary and suspicious eyes, Enel smiled faintly, “I’m not interested in the past. It’s nothing more than a man named Joyboy, who was born 900 years ago in a kingdom with an extremely advanced civilization. The giant kingdom of Elbaf called him the legendary ‘sun god’ Nika. He was the first man on this sea to be called a ‘pirate’. At that time, Joyboy’s enemy was the current ‘World Government’, or to be more precise, the predecessor of the ‘World Government’ – a temporary community of 20 kingdoms – the United Army.”

“That war ended with Joyboy’s defeat, and the final battle also left irreversible scars of war on the world…”

He leaned forward and whispered in Vegapunk’s ear,

“You know, this world once sank to the bottom of the sea, and where we live now is just a fragment of the past continent.”

Upon hearing this, Vegapunk shuddered and fell to the ground, looking at Enel with horror in his eyes.

What this man said was exactly the same as what I had researched!

Enel smiled playfully, “In a way, we are the same kind of people.”

“You…you are also a scientist?” Vegapunk seemed even more surprised.

“I’m not.” Enelu held his forehead and smiled bitterly, “You don’t have to make such an expression.”

“What I mean is that those of us who know part of the history of the ‘blank hundred years’ are the targets that the World Government wants to erase.”

“Then why not cooperate?”

“No matter what happened in the past, no matter what will happen in the future, whether it is war or disaster.” Enelu said with a smile, “You and I…”

“Together we protect this world.”