Good Things Come in Threes

In just one day, Teach had returned to the Combat Pyramid, which relieved Rediat and Mostima, as nothing unexpected had happened at the Combat Pyramid in such a short time.

They didn't ask Teach what he was going to do.

However, they could sense a change in Teach; he seemed quite happy.

They also brought Teach good news—good news from the Christie Kingdom Teach.

Thanks to the substantial funding provided by the Night Pirates, as well as scientists recruited from all over the world, sophisticated research equipment, and a powerful research force.

Whether it was the underground research base of the Christie Kingdom or the hidden base on the Sky Island 12,000 meters above the Christie Kingdom, during the nearly one year that the Night Pirates occupied the Sagar Ross Sea.

Their research has already yielded initial results, meaning it has produced some progress.

The significant investment was entirely worthwhile.

Although Otto's central nervous system has not yet been successfully developed, a preliminary template has been created. To achieve the level that Teach and his team desire, continuous experimentation, research, and improvement are still needed.

This central system can only control a limited number of living machines, and its range is limited to the Christie Kingdom; it cannot cover the entire Night Sea Domain.

Although it cannot cover the entire Night Sea Domain, the most basic and difficult first step has been taken. Next, all that is needed is to continue upgrading, and it will soon be able to meet the requirements of the Night Pirates.

To control everything in the Night Sea Domain.

Meanwhile, mechanical dogs and mechanical birds have been manufactured, and a production line has been built for each, which is now in continuous production.

The mechanical dog possesses powerful attack and defense capabilities, which are naturally incomparable to those of the future Pacifista, but a single mechanical dog could easily handle an ordinary pirate with a bounty of five million.

Currently in initial production, the mechanical dogs are still somewhat crude. Meanwhile, the flesh-and-blood machines are still in the planning stages, combining Artificial Flesh and blood with life-giving machines. This is currently being tested, and a perfect and effective solution for this combination has not yet been developed.

The mechanical dogs will also be upgraded in the future, and combined with their weapons, they will eventually be able to fight against tens of millions of pirates.

However, there's a lot of exaggeration involved, since mechanical dogs only possess basic intelligence, and there are many ways to exploit it.

However, the mechanical dogs in the Night Pirates' plans are always to fight as a group, attacking all at once. This makes them very difficult to deal with, even for pirates with a bounty of 100 million.

Moreover, it is not expensive to build.

In the future, the Night Pirates may create even more powerful life machines, but they don't have such plans for the time being.

The mechanical dogs are the henchmen of the Night Pirates, and they will play a significant role in future wars.

Mechanical birds, whose main function is similar to bombers, can drop shells, even poison gas, and other weapons from high altitudes.

Furthermore, they are equipped with self-destruct devices inside their bodies, and the power of their self-destruction is terrifying.

Besides their strategic role in war, each of them is the eyes of the Night Pirates. Their pupils can transmit what they see to the central system to monitor and control the entire Night Sea Domain.

Just like the omnipresent Homie of the Big Mom Pirates, they built their territory into an impregnable fortress.

However, one is a creation of Devil Fruit powers, while the other is a creation of technology.

In comparison, each has its advantages and disadvantages. The Night Pirates require a larger investment, but their materials can be reused. However, for the Homie, once they die, they are truly dead. Even if they are given a new soul, it would require a significant amount of lifespan.

Lifespan, though precious, is not worth much; for Big Mom, it's plentiful.

Moreover, the Homie are more intelligent. Although the intelligence of the life-mechanical creations is lower, they are directly controlled by a central system, and the efficiency of message transmission is just a thought away.

Through continuous experimentation and research, Otto's strength improved rapidly, and the development of his mechanical fruit progressed much faster.

If it is truly developed to the Awakening, it will be able to create a war behemoth through its abilities, just like Ancient Weapon.

Now, it's not yet time for mechanical creations to emerge, and various forces are gathered in their own territories in a chaotic mix—how can anyone feel at ease in this situation?

Currently, mechanical creations can only be seen within the Night Palace; black hounds and black falcons are constantly patrolling the Night Palace.

From a distance, it's not immediately obvious that these mechanical creations are so lifelike, with a layer of artificial skin on their surface, though they have no hair.

Biomechanical technology endows them with rudimentary intelligence, which is directly controlled by a central system.

It's still in the experimental stage. Once the technology matures, they will all be taken back and reworked.

This was a happy thing for Teach, after all, the security situation in the Night Sea Domain was not stable. In a few years, Otto gave him an exact time of three to four years, because the construction of the central system was very difficult, beyond his expectations. Even with the assistance of other scientists and assistants, the subsequent upgrades would take a long time.

With each upgrade, the coverage area of the central system expands several times over, while the workload and difficulty continuously increase.

This timeframe wasn't long for Teach; he could afford to wait if necessary.

When he has time, he wants to go to the moon, where there is an intelligent core and artificial intelligence technology; the robots on the moon are all intelligent.

However, Teach cannot go to the moon yet. He cannot leave, as the Rumble-Rumble Fruit and the Plasma Fruit he just acquired do not yet have suitable people to eat them.

Not to mention developing it to the point where it could support the massive "Ark Maxim" to go to the moon.

The sheer size of Birka's "Ark Maxim" is on a completely different scale from the "Ark Maxim" created by Enel in the original work; the energy required to activate and operate it is also far greater.

Meanwhile, Teach was also having people research how to utilize the energy within the Seastone as a power source, so that it could replace the power source for starting the Ark.

Seastone is a stone imbued with special energy from the sea, much like the Thunderstone that Teach found by chance. If placed in a fantasy or magical world, it would likely be a water stone or a water magic stone.

The research and development of such technology will likely take longer than the refinement of the central nervous system.

By extracting and utilizing the energy, Teach was prepared for no results for at least ten years.

Teach, on the other hand, had the idea of leaking this intelligence to the World Government and the Navy, asking them to help with the research, and then using his own methods to seize their research data in order to shorten the time required.

Although there is suspicion that this is intended to strengthen their position, the main source of Seastone is still in the New World. Being in such a close proximity, they are the ones who benefit the most.

Wano Country couldn't possibly have such technology, since it doesn't even have the basic industrial foundation.

The blueprints for Pluton have already been analyzed. As expected of the name "Pluton," it is one of the Three Ancient Weapons. However, building a complete warship would be extremely difficult. The technology involved would be very useful to the Night Pirates, but it would be very expensive and not cost-effective.

Once the central system is perfected, the focus will shift to powerful weapons, namely, absorbing the weapon systems of "Pluton" and developing science and technology.

The Night Pirates also possess the technical data that Vegapunk left on Karakuri Island, waiting to fully understand it, which will undoubtedly bring tremendous improvement to the Night Pirates.

After all, times have changed, and science is now the primary productive force. Even if it cannot threaten top-tier combat power for the time being, it has an absolute advantage in ordinary warfare.

This is something Teach certainly wouldn't give up.

If Otto's focus is on electromechanical engineering, then the secret base on the Sky Island is on biochemistry.

The research mainly focuses on "super soldier blood serum," human evolution, genetic engineering, and biomodification.

Every scientist is obsessed with the pursuit of knowledge. Research on Life Blueprint, for example, undoubtedly violates taboos and may involve illegal methods of experimentation.

If they simply conduct research quietly, they will naturally go unnoticed by the World Government.

The Night Pirates wield immense influence in the West Blue, and the Dark Council's reach has extended to other seas, even the Grand Line.

With the help of Stephanie's intelligence and Shakky's intelligence network, Teach had already identified many scientists, both biological and mechanical. Even before arriving in the New World, Teach was already gathering information on the Night Pirates' research projects, the enormous sums of money of which were an irresistible temptation for them.

The mysterious disappearances of scientists, or their feigned deaths and quiet departures through various means, may have little impact locally, but the scope of this event is far-reaching, spanning the globe and naturally attracting the attention of World Government with eyes and ears all over the world.

This was a deception created by the Night Pirates for the World Government: a mysterious force was recruiting and inviting renowned scientists to join them; some scientists accepted, while others refused and were subsequently silenced.

In fact, these scientists were all taken away, along with their families.

Of course, some of them weren't there voluntarily, but in order to invite them, the Night Pirates also provided some of the data they wanted to study. Now that they knew about it, they couldn't just pretend nothing had happened.

Therefore, some scientists were forcibly taken away, along with their families. The first reason was to prevent threats from the World Government, and the second was that their families were their Achilles' heel; as long as they had this leverage, they wouldn't have to worry about them causing trouble.

Moreover, Teach is very tolerant of these scientists. These world-class talents receive the best treatment, Teach will arrange for their families to be well taken care of. They can meet with each other and focus on their research to change the world.

Time is the best way to bridge the gap. As time went by, they all devoted themselves to their research. After all, the treatment the Night Pirates gave them was a "paradise" level that many scientists could only dream of.

With early preparations, two research bases were quickly established after the Christie Kingdom was occupied: first, the research base underground in the Christie Kingdom, which was controlled by Otto, and then the secret base located on the Sky Island.

Because the construction of the Sky Island takes time, and it's a Sky Island large enough to conceal a large secret research base, with a large number of clouds, it took almost three months.

However, the research and manufacturing of the "Super Soldier Serum" began very early on, and after the Sky Island base was completed, it was quickly moved to the Sky Island.

One vial of the "Super Soldier Serum" has already been manufactured. This took quite a while, considering they had complete research data and weren't just figuring things out as they went along.

However, it can only be described as a semi-finished product, and its effect is not as strong. After testing, it only achieved one-third of the results recorded in the data. After all, data is just data, and some materials are different. The moon is still somewhat different from this planet, and alternative materials need to be tested and found.

The assimilation of technology also takes time.

Although the effects of the drug are more pronounced on ordinary people, this serum is unstable and its effects are somewhat violent. Ordinary people may find it difficult to withstand, and there are concerns that those with weaker abilities may die because their bodies cannot keep up, or even explode.

Therefore, the person who injected the drug was an elite member of the Night Pirates, who had joined the Night Pirates early on.

It was quite strong. After being injected with the drug serum, it took almost three days to fully digest and absorb the drug. During this time, it also used a method similar to electric shock to speed up the absorption, and ate a lot of food to replenish its energy.

His height, originally 2.2 meters, has increased to 2.5 meters, and his strength has also improved, with his bounty rising from approximately 50 million to 70 million Beli.

The increase in strength here is an all-round improvement. The essence of the potion is still a gene evolution potion, which has nothing to do with giants. If it were Giant Potion, the increase in strength would be significant.

Such an improvement is already incredibly powerful; the complete potion should allow him to reach a bounty of 100 million Beli.

Why did his height only increase by so little? After research, it turned out that this was just Teach. After all, people's physiques and strengths are different. The effect of increasing height only works on those who are weaker, because the increase in strength requires a stronger physique to withstand it, so the size of the body will increase.

For powerful individuals like Teach, their robust physiques can easily withstand the strain, so this has no effect whatsoever. The slight increase in strength would likely only result in a few centimeters of height gain.

However, this means that the effect of this medicine in increasing strength is only effective for those who are not strong, or even for children.

Teach and his team were really focused on was potential, vitality, or rather, the improvement of lifespan, which could be observed through certain means.

He could probably live to be 130 years old.

Good things come in threes! If that's the case, it won't be long before the "Super Soldier Serum" is actually developed.

After that, Teach could use the Super Soldier Serum as a template to research weakened versions, upgraded versions, and even the real Giant Potion and Demon Potion.

All technologies are interconnected. The Super Soldier Serum, in general, is more difficult to develop than the giantification technology. With slight modifications, it's very likely that we could develop the Giant Potion that the World Government desires. But that's a matter for later. (To be continued)