Pirates: Dark Smoker, never lose three times in a row

After hearing what Smoker said, Vegapunk looked around nervously even though he knew the lab was closed.

"You...do you know what you are talking about?!"

"How could I know that dangerous guy!!"

"Oh?" Smoker said innocently: "Don't you know him? Didn't you meet him after the O'Hara incident..."

Before he finished speaking, Vegapunk rushed up and covered his mouth.

"Shut up, you bastard!!"

"No, how do you even know this?!!"

Smoker pushed Vegapunk's hand away.

"It's not convenient to reveal this, but don't worry, the World Government and the Navy definitely don't know!!"

Looking at Vegapunk's suspicious expression, he moved forward again.

"Then I'll reveal more."

"It doesn't matter if the senior officials of the Navy Headquarters know about this..."

"You know what I mean..."

Sure enough, after hearing this, Vegapunk was shocked.

He looked at Smoker with shock in his eyes.

After a long while, he slowly nodded: "I understand... Although I work for the World Government, I have to say that this is really good news."

Smoker smiled slightly.

"So, from this perspective, our positions are not in conflict..."

Now, Vegapunk finally relaxed.

In fact, since Stussy was arrested, his heart has been hanging.

In theory, Stussy will not betray him, and the World Government will not blame him,

But who knows, will there be any accidents? !

Hiding in the lab these days,

both to catch up with the research progress and to use heavy experiments to force himself not to think too much.

Now with Smoker's explanation...even a gesture of goodwill,

he finally doesn't have to worry about it anymore!

As for Stussy, as long as his identity is not exposed, at most he will suffer a little imprisonment.

Suddenly, a machine in the lab beeps.

Vegapunk's face changes, and he doesn't care that Smoker is right next to him, and rushes over.

Smoker is curious, and seeing that the other party didn't drive him away, he also follows.

To be honest, he is also very interested in Vegapunk's research.

Vegapunk opens a machine, and with a burst of white smoke, the devil fruit inside is revealed.

However, this fruit looks very strange.

It looks like an apple, dark red, and the pattern on it is orange-yellow circles.

Smoker sees the clue at a glance.

【Artificial devil fruit? ? 】

【Has it been studied to this extent now? ! 】

Vegapunk took out the fruit and put it on another instrument.

The instrument was turned on, and several probes kept scanning the fruit. Numbers appeared on the LCD screen next to it and kept jumping.

0%...4.5%...28.8%...57.2%...95.0%...96.1%...98.9%...

Just when it was about to be full, the number suddenly stopped at 98.9%, failing to reach 100%.

Vegapunk fell to his knees with a plop, pounding the ground and crying loudly...

"How can I repair it..."

"Failed...failed again..."

"This is the 37th test product!"

"What went wrong? Why can't it reach 100%!!"

After that, he continued to cry loudly, which made anyone who heard it sad and cried.

This time, he "retreat" to study this artificial devil fruit wholeheartedly.

It took more than three months, sleepless nights,

I thought it was perfect, but it still failed...

Family, who understands!!

The more Vegapunk thought about it, the louder he cried...

After he vented for a while, Smoker walked up and patted him on the shoulder.

"No. 37... Did you fail 37 times?"

Vegapunk nodded with a sob.

"I have improved everything that can be improved, but why did it still fail..."

"I don't know which direction to improve it next..."

Smoker smiled as brightly as the sun.

"Failure? Where did you fail?"

Vegapunk raised his head and looked at Smoker blankly.

Brother, are you blind?

"Dr. Vegapunk, you didn't fail 37 times, but you mastered 37 ways to fail!"

"?!!"

"I don't know how many times it will take to succeed, but I know

, only need one more failure than failure. "

"! ! ! "

Vegapunk's eyes widened due to the bowl of chicken soup.

"Smoker...you...you..."

He grabbed Smoker's hand and was moved to tears.

"You are really a saint! ! Aoaoao oh! ! ! "

After crying for a while, Vegapunk finally calmed down.

He wiped his nose: "Sorry, Smoker-kun, I made you laugh..."

Smoker waved his hand indifferently.

"Understand, understand. In scientific research, the road to pursuing truth is bright, but also tortuous!"

Vegapunk showed a shocked expression.

"This sentence is simply the truth! Smoker-kun, your understanding of scientific research... is so profound! ! "

"Excuse me..."

Then, Smoker began to beat around the bush.

"By the way, why didn't this devil fruit succeed? ! 98.9%, in my opinion, it is close to perfection, and it is not an exaggeration to say that it is successful!"

He already knew that this value is the restoration degree of the original fruit...

Although Vegapunk has many secrets in his belly, he is just a simple scientist after all.

When he heard someone asking about science and technology, he immediately spoke everything he knew.

"No, no, science cannot tolerate any carelessness! !"

"Don't say 98.9%, even 99.9%, 99.999%, and 100% are not the same concept! !"

"A difference of 2% can be said to be two different things."

Smoker was a little surprised.

Are the requirements for artificial devil fruits so strict?!

I don't know what the restoration degree of the artificial devil fruits made by Caesar is...

"Sorry, I don't understand it very well."

"For example, what is the difference between this fruit and the original fruit? !"

"How big will the difference be in the fruit if the error of 1% is reflected? "

Vegapunk put his hands behind his back and looked up at the ceiling at a 45-degree angle.

"Originally, after eating this fruit, the transformed form was dark blue."

"But look at its strange appearance now. Although I don't know what color the ability user will be after the transformation, it must be a warm color..."

"This is too far away!!!"

Smoker's body was shocked.

"Wait... Well, Dr. Vegapunk, may I ask what the prototype of this fruit is? ?"

"Oh, the Fish-Fish Fruit·Mythical Beast·Blue Dragon Form."

"What? ! ! "