Seastone

Seastone Factor (N23), Seastone (N23Cl); N was the symbol for neutrons.

First characteristic of Seastone Factor: in liquid, this substance had properties similar to Sodium Ions and could form a relatively stable free state with Chloride Ions.

Second characteristic of Seastone Factor: this substance stimulated interference neutrinos, which decayed into Electron Neutrinos over an extremely short distance. However, once the interference neutrinos entered an environment containing Sodium Ions, their effective range could reach roughly thirty meters at most.

Third characteristic of Seastone Factor: this substance could combine with Chloride Ions in a sealed environment of high temperature and pressure to form special Seastone crystals.

Fourth characteristic of Seastone Factor: because this substance consisted of pure neutron atoms, it possessed extraordinarily high strength and was generally difficult to process through ordinary methods.

Fifth characteristic of Seastone Factor: Seastone Factor in a free state was difficult to extract through distillation. This was because once it lost its liquid environment, it broke its bond with Chloride Ions, rapidly sublimated from solid to gas, and then dissolved back into seawater.

Sixth characteristic of Seastone Factor: because this substance consisted of pure neutron atoms and had no outer-shell electrons, containers made from ordinary materials could not store Seastone Factor.

Wang Gao set down his notes and considered how to extract Seastone Factor.

Judging from these six characteristics, the only option was to use highly concentrated Chloride Ions as a stabilizer for Seastone Factor.

This was also the method Wang Gao currently used for the Artificial Seastone he had created. He used chitin as a base to formulate a high-Sodium Chloride chitin.

He then used the high-Sodium Chloride chitin to make sealed containers, sealing highly concentrated Seastone Factor and Chloride Ion solution inside them.

That was how Artificial Seastone was made.

However, although this Artificial Seastone could likewise restrain ability users, its strength was not high. Even after he had specifically modified the chitin, its overall strength was still thirty to forty percent lower than ordinary steel.

This Artificial Seastone could be used for things like Bullets, Shells, capture nets, and large prison cells.

But when used for Seastone Shackles or inlaid into Cold Weapons, it had obvious drawbacks. Its outer shell could easily be shattered during battle, causing Seastone's interference effect to fail.

If it was used for prison cells and protective layers, however, its applications were extremely broad. After all, Artificial Seastone was cheap to produce and very easy to process.

At Camel Island Base, Artificial Seastone layers had already been added to the exterior of certain important areas, specifically to guard against all sorts of bizarre Devil Fruit Abilities.

For example, if Giant Morley encountered an Artificial Seastone layer, he would be unable to push aside the protective barrier made from Artificial Seastone.

As for prison cells, they were even simpler. To ability users, cells made from Artificial Seastone were practically more terrifying than Impel Down.

After all, in Impel Down, prisoners only wore shackles or leg irons. If they were ruthless enough to break their own hands and feet, they could still escape the Seastone Shackles.

But inside a prison cell made entirely of Artificial Seastone, it was like entering seawater. Cutting off one's hands and feet would have no effect.

After taking the prisoner out of the Life Support Pod, Wang Gao threw him into a sealed room made of Artificial Seastone.

The room had three layers of Artificial Seastone both inside and out. Because of the Anesthetics, the prisoner thrown inside remained unconscious.

Wang Gao felt no pity for him. Most people who became pirates were not good people, and this prisoner before him was a heinous villain.

All kinds of fruit gathered from Camel Island hung from the room's walls and ceiling, while the floor was covered with a layer of fruit as well.

A rope suspended the prisoner in midair.

The vines whipped about, filling the passage left on the floor with more fruit.

After closing the room's triple doors, Wang Gao activated Atomic-level Observation Haki, covering the entire room, then snapped his fingers.

The poison sac implanted Inside Body the prisoner instantly ruptured. Deadly poison spread wildly through him, and after a brief twitch, the prisoner completely succumbed to death.

Hm?

On the ceiling in the upper-left corner of the room, an ordinary banana silently transformed, becoming covered in purple swirl patterns.

Within Wang Gao's Observation Haki, a fleeting ripple shot from the prisoner's body before crashing into that banana.

The vine opened the triple doors and retrieved the banana with purple swirl patterns. This was a Devil Fruit—Zoan—Sub-Ancient Zoan—Horse-type—Three-toed Horse.

The so-called Sub-Ancient Zoans were a category of Zoan Devil Fruits that fell between ordinary species and Ancient species.

Calling them Ancient Zoans was not quite right, since they differed little from ordinary species; but calling them ordinary species was also inaccurate, as there were no corresponding species in the modern world.

After setting this Devil Fruit aside, Wang Gao manipulated the vines again and hung up another prisoner, repeating the process.

He conducted the experiment on five ability users in succession, but the success rate was not one hundred percent. He successfully recovered three Devil Fruits, while two escaped.

However, This Time's experiment allowed him to understand two phenomena.

First, the Ability Waves released after an ability user's death could indeed have their direction disrupted by the interference neutrinos emitted by Seastone Factor.

Second, he learned the mechanism by which Ability Waves attached themselves to and combined with ordinary fruit.

These two discoveries would allow him to further improve his Devil Fruit transfer technology.

During the tests, the protective layers made from Artificial Seastone successfully deflected Ability Waves three times, corresponding exactly to the three layers of Artificial Seastone protection.

Perhaps because the density of Artificial Seastone was too low, it could not completely lock down the Ability Waves and trap them inside the room.

He could consider thickening the layers or adding more of them, then filling the spaces between each layer with large amounts of fruit to increase the chance that an Ability Wave would strike a fruit.

But why could fruit be attached to by Ability Waves?

Or rather, what trait did fruit possess that allowed it to combine with Ability Waves?

Across the three successful transfers, Wang Gao noticed several characteristics. Ability Waves had a "sugar-seeking nature." They combined with the fructose in fruit, then transformed the fructose into "special aromatic hydrocarbons." This was also the cause of a Devil Fruit's foul smell.

The second discovery was that Zoans did not necessarily take the form of bananas. Among the three transferred Zoan Devil Fruits, one had taken the form of a pineapple. Its specific shape depended on the type of fruit struck by the Ability Wave at the time.

After understanding this, Wang Gao revised the experimental plan again.

He used genetically modified creations to cover the ability users with a layer of "Fructose Coat," thickened the Artificial Seastone protective layers and added more of them, then filled the spaces between the layers with fruit and Fructose Coat.

Fructose Coat was not merely fructose. It was a special genetic construct imitating fruit, equivalent to having his body sealed within layers of fruit.

In another experiment, all five ability users successfully transferred their Devil Fruits.

Of those, three Devil Fruits reincarnated on the first layer of Fructose Coat, one reincarnated within the first layer of fruit, and one reincarnated on the second layer of Fructose Coat.

At this point, Wang Gao had preliminarily mastered the technique for targeted Devil Fruit transfer.

Devil Fruits reborn on Fructose Coat would take on an apple-like shape due to the Sea Apple genes.

Of course, certain specific Paramecia Devil Fruits might become strangely shaped, which required further experimentation.

For now, the targeted Devil Fruit transfer technique was already sufficient.

Next, it was time to make plans for the Devil Fruits of Golden Lion and the others.

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