Lily's Stomach!

Although Vidal greeted him amicably, smiling warmly at him as if they were old friends reuniting, Woonan was still startled and stood up abruptly, his eyes filled with apprehension.

"How did you get in!"

"Of course I walked in. You don't really think those vegetative people outside can stop me, do you?" Vidal asked doubtfully.

"Can"

Woonan Nan opened his mouth but couldn't say a word, thinking to himself, "But there shouldn't be any sound at all!"

"Alright, don't worry about such a small thing. Now let me see what's going on with you. If you're being controlled by that little flower, just blink!" Vidal teased with a smile.

"How do you know Lily?!" Woonan felt that he had been in a state of constant shock for the past few minutes.

Meanwhile, during this conversation, Vidal had already seen what had happened to Woonan in the past, including the scene of his consciousness struggling and trying to persuade Lily. He naturally confirmed that the other party was indeed being controlled by Lily.

In this way, Vidal had a better idea of how to deal with Woonan.

If the other party did not choose to betray them voluntarily, but encountered unforeseen circumstances, then it is forgivable; otherwise, they must be dealt with seriously.

Seeing that Vidal had no intention of answering him, Woonan felt a surge of intense anger and resentment. His eyes seemed to glow with a chilling red light, and then he stretched out his left hand, from which a wooden stick immediately sprouted.

The wooden strip visibly sculpted itself into a longbow, and the next second, as soon as the right hand touched the slender bowstring, a wooden arrow appeared automatically and shot out with a thud!

"Oh?"

Seeing this, Vidal raised an eyebrow and tilted his head slightly to the right, easily dodging the arrow attack. He thought to himself, "I originally thought that ability to control the bow and arrow was the Devil Fruit power of that Carnival Baron, but I didn't expect it to be a special ability given to me by Lily as well."

Upon closer reflection, in the original future timeline, after Lily's body was shattered by an arrow, all the arrows on the ground disappeared, while the Baron's will remained conscious. This proves that the existence of the arrows was unrelated to the Baron.

Just then, Woonan fired a second arrow, this time with Armament Haki Coating around the arrowhead. At the same time, the arrow that Vidal had dodged earlier circled in mid-air and continued to shoot toward his back.

Facing attacks from both sides, Vidal, who already knew that the arrows were automatically tracking him, calmly grabbed the arrow coming from behind, Hardening it with a layer of Armament Haki, and then swung it in front of him as if he were holding a longsword.

With a whoosh, a sound of air being cut rang out, followed by the clang of metal clashing. In the blink of an eye, the second arrow was cleaved in two by the black arrow in his hand.

"Lily!"

Woonan knew that Vidal would not be so easy to defeat, so after firing his second arrow, he immediately smashed the window and ran outside the wooden building, shouting the name of the little flower on his shoulder.

As soon as he finished speaking, the ground began to tremble violently. In the blink of an eye, the entire three-story wooden building was swallowed whole by a terrifying being that emerged from the ground like the gaping maw of an abyss, including Vidal inside!

"It's a success!"

Woonan was overjoyed to see his long-prepared plan succeed in one fell swoop. Although he knew that with his good luck, the possibility of failure was very small, he was still a little uneasy.

Now it's all good!

"Lily, drain as much of his energy as possible; I want to make sure he can't move a single finger!"

"Ha ha!"

Woonan looked up at the colossal pillar-like structure in front of him and burst into wild laughter, "What Marine Vice Admiral, what Admiral Candidate? Faced with my Lucky-Lucky Fruit and Lily's power, didn't they still fall for my trap!"

Inside the colossal column, Vidal, his entire body protected by Armament Haki, observed the colorful energy around him with great interest. He then removed the Haki from his hands and touched the energy, feeling its effects.

"So that's how it is. It absorbs my vital energy and also has an anesthetic effect. That's why most creatures, once swallowed, will quickly fall into a coma, allowing their vital energy to be slowly drained away. In the end, their entire body will sink to the bottom and be digested as nutrients."

To put it bluntly, this columnar behemoth is actually Lily's digestive organ, and also her predatory organ; her own body is simply too fragile.

Through the power of the Woods-Woods Fruit, Vidal quickly learned how this digestive organ absorbs biological essence. However, he was still unclear on how to use this essence to create plant life forms that originated from the host's memories and were as lifelike as real people.

After all, a stomach is just a stomach. To learn more about the inside story, we need to find its brain, which is Lily's true form, the one possessing Woonan's body!

So Vidal was going out, but to avoid harming Lily's body or even causing her death, he thought it best not to cause too much damage to her stomach, just in case.

"Little manatee, open the door."

The next second, an air door appeared in front of him, and Vidal used Geppo to push it open and disappeared without a trace.

While Vidal was conducting an on-site investigation inside, a large number of plant-like soldiers with green seedlings on their heads had already surrounded the area.

The storm raged on, lightning flashed and thunder roared in the dark clouds, and Fire Pistol stood guard over the massive pillar in the field. Woonan stood in the storm, holding a longbow, his face radiating confidence and arrogance.

Suddenly, Woonan felt the ground beneath his feet shaking again. He looked down at the bouncing pebbles, a hint of doubt flashing in his eyes. Could it be an earthquake?

[Bang! Bang! Bang!]

The next moment, the surrounding ground suddenly shattered, and clumps of thorns grew wildly, instantly binding all the plant soldiers tightly.

The so-called several hundred soldiers were wiped out in one fell swoop!

Then a tree trunk emerged from the ground and gradually grew into a three-meter-tall Vidal. He still had his handsome smile on his face, but his clothes were exposed to the rain and got soaked.

"Lily! How did he get out?!" Woonan stared at Vidal in disbelief.

However, the anthropomorphic expression of the little flower on its shoulder also looked puzzled. It clearly felt that it had absorbed the other party's energy, but it suddenly disappeared just now, which was beyond its comprehension.

"Lily, I know you can understand human speech. I am Devil Fruit User, the king of all plants. To you, I am no different from a god. Now I'm giving you a chance. As long as you release yourself from control of Woonan and obediently submit, I will spare your life and at most give you a different place to live."

With his thick, long, black curly hair swaying in the wind, Vidal spoke as he strode toward Woonan with his long, slender legs.

"Damn it, if that's the case, let's just kill him. We don't need to waste our energy!"

Woonan said fiercely, while using the full power of the Luck-Luck Fruit, but no special effects appeared on his body, making the scene particularly awkward for a moment.

To be honest, even Woonan, a user of superpowers, didn't know what would happen next.