Chapter 722 Puppet Fruit 2
After all, the Vice Admiral had been working on the Northern Line for many years and knew that this phenomenon was most likely caused by a Devil Fruit user. According to convention, he should report to the Navy Headquarters and seek orders from higher-ranking officers.
However, in order to gain credit, this guy did not report it immediately, because according to his analysis, the devil fruit user definitely did not go far, otherwise these puppets would not be able to still be active and repeat the mechanical movements every day.
The conjecture was wrong but the result was right. After the puppet fruit turns a creature into a puppet, it can ignore the influence of physical distance and remotely control any puppet.
Scorpion was still staying in a nearby town at this time. The vice admiral led his team to sneak in. As long as they could deceive the eyes of the puppets in the town, the boy would not know that there was an invasion by foreign enemies.
A few days later, Scorpion was polishing a new puppet as usual, when an invader suddenly came in and put a pair of white shackles on his arms. The original form of the puppet degenerated, and Scorpion turned back into a human again. Hunger, thirst and sleepiness came to him again.
The pair of white handcuffs had a natural inhibitory effect on Devil Fruit users. The seastone handcuffs made the users' abilities ineffective. Scorpion was so weak that he became a prisoner of the Vice Admiral of the Navy.
He was roughly dragged out of the room by this man. The puppets in the outside world lost control one by one and collapsed on the roadside, unable to do anything. Even the vice admiral kicked and crushed several of them along the way.
The Vice Admiral sneaked into the nearby town and soon found a talking child among the many puppets. Scorpion often talked to himself with the puppet, and did not lose the ability to speak after being touched by the puppet.
It is not difficult to guess that this boy is the user of the Devil Fruit and the culprit behind all these events. Although he is not a vicious child, the bad influence he causes is even greater than that of a pirate.
There is no living person in the entire branch base, and someone needs to take responsibility for this crime. There is no option to let go of children in the pirate world, and the vice admiral of the navy will not miss this credit.
Find out Scorpio's personal schedule in the dark, lurk for a few days and then use the two-color domineering aura to sneak into the house, put on seastone handcuffs on the boy at work, and everything will be done.
Being imprisoned, Scorpion had nothing to say and he didn't want to argue for himself. Under the questioning of the navy, the boy continued to pretend to be a human puppet.
Faced with this situation, the navy could not ask the perpetrator why he did this, and could only assume that the child in front of them was born bad.
The prisoner was not treated politely. His fragile little body was beaten and kicked, leaving obvious bruises and swelling on his body, proving that Scorpion was still a flesh and blood body.
Perhaps God favored this ill-fated puppeteer. On the way back to the naval headquarters, the warships encountered a sea storm that was rare in recent years. The ships suffered damage and many people were missing.
Later, the fleet was left alone and encountered siege by multiple pirate groups. The vice admiral was outnumbered and had to abandon the ship and escape alone. The last warship was occupied by pirates, but many pirates died and did not get much treasure.
But in the innermost holding room, a little boy in handcuffs was found dying. The pirates made a living outside and knew the effect of seastone.
Since he is an imprisoned Devil Fruit user, he is recruited into the pirate group to serve as a cadre to strengthen the strength of the pirate group. Then these pirates find the key and open the seastone handcuffs for Scorpion.
The moment he left the seastone, the familiar feeling returned to him again. Scorpion once again became a puppet, and he could no longer feel the pain and hunger in his body.
He was very satisfied with this situation. In order to repay his saviors, Scorpion turned these pirates into ordinary puppets.
There was a group of pirate puppets working for him. They operated their own pirate ship and stayed away from this troubled place. During this time, they experienced a shipwreck and lost many ordinary puppets.
But at the end of drifting on the sea, through the efforts of the last ordinary puppet, Scorpion finally set foot on an unfamiliar land. This process took nearly several months. If it were an ordinary human, he would have died of thirst and starvation at sea.
After Scorpion settled down on this island, he began to study his puppet fruit. He could control the ability of turning living things into puppets at will. He did not turn every person he came into contact with into a puppet.
With his love for puppets, many years later, he relied on his own willpower to take the first step and complete the awakening of the puppet fruit.
When the ability of the puppet fruit is reached at this stage, it will be strengthened in another way. The puppet created by the awakening of the fruit is called an elite puppet by Scorpion.
The elite puppet requires a part of human body tissue and various puppet-making materials, which can be combined to create a talking puppet.
No matter whose body material is used, the elite puppet will retain the memory and skills of that human. Although it is essentially a puppet, it has its own thoughts and believes that it is not a puppet.
Making elite puppets of some ordinary people went very smoothly, but these elite puppets were too weak to protect Scorpion's fragile body. He urgently needed a stronger human body to create stronger elite puppets to protect himself from external threats.
One day later, he was found by a talking plant, which invited Scorpion to join the Joker Pirates. After joining, the plant would provide him with raw materials from strong humans for free, allowing Scorpion to create stronger puppets.
Although the death of his parents was half attributed to pirates, he suppressed the hatred in his heart. He needed more powerful puppets to fulfill his childhood dream. Scorpion wanted to build a country full of puppets, and he wanted to be the puppet king in it.
After passing the test and joining the Joker Pirates, Scorpion obtained a lot of physical materials from other cadres, such as Doflamingo's head.
This former Celestial Dragon who once achieved fame by launching major events is already dead, his head is soaked in preservative fluid, and the research on his memory has ended, so theoretically, he has lost his scientific value.
After being taken by Scorpion, he used Doflamingo's head to reshape the body of the former Shichibukai, turning him into an elite puppet.
Doflamingo came back to life from the Joker Pirates in another form. Most of the memories of the elite puppet were lost, but the ability of the String-String Fruit was retained. Even if he could not exert the combat power of a navy admiral, he could still maintain the combat power of a Shichibukai level.
The elite puppet created can actually retain the devil fruit abilities of the deceased. This excellent additional ability of the puppet fruit was immediately recognized by the Joker King.
The Joker Pirates hiding behind the scenes have no shortage of corpses. If they don't have corpses, they can send people to dig them up in the cemetery. Breaking the lower limit is nothing for pirates.
The tomb of Whitebeard Edward Newgate was robbed by the Joker Pirates, and the graves of his adopted sons were not spared either. One by one, the bodies of Whitebeard Pirates members were dragged back to the Joker Pirates through underground channels.
The pirate who was known as the strongest man, his body did not rest in peace after his death, and he became the strongest elite combat puppet in Scorpion's hands.