Microwave Oven and Deep-Sea Adventure

The outskirts of the island? Akainu and Aokiji were both slightly taken aback. At that moment, Nico Robin, standing beside Vegapunk with a smile on her face, pressed the remote control. The entire Central Lab suddenly turned transparent, and all the Marines saw a golden Energy Shield abruptly appear around the island's perimeter.

"Vegapunk, what are you trying to do?!"

Looking at the golden barrier outside, the Marines had no idea what Vegapunk intended, but they all began to feel that something was wrong. Aokiji was the first to ask, "What exactly is that thing outside?"

"You'll know soon enough!"

Vegapunk shrugged and replied.

The hot-tempered Akainu finally lost his patience. Without another thought, he charged forward and knocked Vegapunk to the ground with a punch.

"Tell me, what are you trying to do?!"

"Heh heh... You'll find out..." Blood slowly flowed from Vegapunk's seven orifices. After saying those words, he breathed his last.

"Akainu! You were too impulsive!"

Aokiji's face darkened as he looked at the dead Vegapunk. However, Akainu immediately shook his head. "It wasn't me! I completely controlled my strength in that punch!"

Huh? Aokiji froze for a moment, then quickly raised his head. Nico Robin, who had been standing nearby just moments ago, was now bleeding from all seven orifices and slowly collapsing to the floor.

"Robin..." Aokiji called out quietly. Yet beneath the coverage of his Observation Haki, he could already sense that Robin had completely stopped breathing.

But Aokiji had no time to mourn, because the entire island began to shake. Then Future Island rapidly started sinking. Seawater instantly flooded the island's outskirts, swallowing the golden shield around it.

"This is bad! We're going to sink to the bottom of the sea!"

Every Marine's expression changed, Akainu included. To be honest, even if all of Future Island exploded, it might have been a catastrophic disaster for the lower-ranking Marines, but it would have been difficult to harm those Marine officers proficient in Armament Haki.

But sinking into the deep sea was another matter. The ocean depths in the world of the Pirate King far exceeded those of an ordinary world. Sinking tens of thousands of meters was perfectly normal, and at a depth of ten thousand meters, aside from Aokiji, an Ice-Ice Fruit user, no one else—not even Akainu—had much hope of escaping.

"Quick, break the Energy Shield around the perimeter! I'll freeze the surrounding seawater!"

At such a critical moment, Aokiji moved decisively and prepared to act. But just then, a strange ripple echoed throughout the island. After taking only a few steps, Aokiji's entire body began to melt.

"What's going on?" He was briefly stunned, but before Aokiji could react, miserable screams rang out all around him.

The Marines around him all let out agonized cries. Their bodies turned red, thin streams of blood seeped out, and even their blood seemed to be boiling.

"The Microwave Generator works quite well. Even Armament Haki can't block these waves at all."

In outer space, aboard Dream Star, Vegapunk watched the Electronic Screen before him. Clearly, the Vegapunk and Nico Robin on Future Island had merely been his Clone Substitutes.

Light and shadows flickered across the screen, displaying scene after scene from Future Island. Countless Marines howled in agony as blood like red grease flowed from their bodies. Before long, most of the Marines had completely stopped breathing.

The so-called Microwave Generator had been inspired by a film called Flubber. Put simply, it treated all of Future Island as a giant microwave oven and directly cooked every living creature inside.

These microwaves had no effect on plastic or steel, but for human bodies rich in moisture, such powerful microwaves with internal heating capabilities did not care how strong one's Physical Body defense or Haki was.

Ordinary Marines were almost entirely wiped out in less than a minute. The stronger Marines, with their greater vitality, could hold on a little longer, but once their own blood had been heated to the point of boiling, they could only endure for another ten-odd minutes at most.

Of everyone present, only Akainu and Aokiji could resist the microwave damage. Yet Aokiji's elemental body continued melting away, while only Akainu could still maintain the ability to move.

However, the entire island had already sunk into the seawater. Akainu was not Aokiji; without the ability to freeze seawater, he could not possibly save anyone else. He was even trapped within the island himself.

Soon, as all of Future Island continued sinking and entered the deep-sea region completely, a thunderous boom rang out, and the entire island finally sank all the way to the seafloor.

In fact, Future Island was a floating island created using the planet's Magnetic Field. Vegapunk had merely shut down the Magnetic Levitation Device, causing the whole island to naturally fall into the sea. At the same time, the Energy Shield around the perimeter had actually been created by drawing power from the Magnetic Levitation Device.

But after the island fell completely to the seafloor, waves of tremors shook it. The Magnetic Field Energy Shield around the perimeter flickered a few times before collapsing completely, and the towering seawater pressure came crashing down.

The entire screen aboard Dream Star flickered several times before finally going black.

Vegapunk stroked his chin. "I wonder whether Akainu and Aokiji can escape? If both of them die, the Marines will probably really be turned upside down!"

As for the other Marines, they definitely had no chance of surviving. In fact, aside from one or two particularly tenacious individuals, the rest had long since been cooked by the microwaves. Once the seawater crushed them, they were guaranteed to become meat patties.

Letting out a long breath, Vegapunk stopped worrying about those Marines. In any case, those on Future Island were merely cannon fodder. The consciousnesses of those robots and Clones had long been uploaded to Dream Star. Even if their bodies were destroyed, they could all be remanufactured in ten days to half a month.

Dream Star possessed Gene Sequence Chips extracted from the body of a Munch-Munch Fruit user. As long as raw materials were fed into it, it could produce products without end.

As for raw material costs... With the ability of the Munch-Munch Fruit, even scrap copper and rotten iron picked up from a junkyard could still be used to manufacture large numbers of robots. Naturally, Vegapunk did not care about this loss.

For the current Vegapunk, the issue he truly cared about was not those Marines, but the Soul Transfer Surgery he was about to undergo.

The Quantum Bio-Chip had fully developed. After a series of tests, this manufactured Physical Body had also proven to have no problems whatsoever. Thinking of how he was about to cast off this old and frail body, even with Vegapunk's calm temperament, he could not help feeling somewhat excited.