Wireless Telegraphs and Beacon Towers

He had actually drawn the Byakugan!

Yang Yunzhi was quite satisfied with the result of this draw.

It was not because the Byakugan's abilities were particularly powerful. In fact, in the One Piece World, its abilities were merely decent. Observation Haki could replace its insight, and while Golden Wheel Reincarnation Explosion and Silver Wheel Reincarnation Explosion were powerful, Yang Yunzhi might not necessarily be able to develop them to any great extent.

The key was that the Byakugan could fuse with his body and become his own eyes.

And every time he was promoted, all the organs throughout his body would be strengthened accordingly.

For example, when he had previously advanced from Third-Class Seaman to Second-Class Seaman, his eyesight had improved by a huge margin.

Now that the Byakugan had become part of his body, would it also be strengthened with his next promotion?

After being strengthened three or four times, would the Byakugan become comparable to the Tenseigan?

So, the Byakugan itself might have been unremarkable, but combined with the system's functions, it became a pair of eyes that could grow.

A reward like this was naturally excellent. Or rather, any ability that could fuse with his body was excellent.

"How do I use this Byakugan? Do I need eye replacement surgery?" Yang Yunzhi asked.

"No. System rewards can fuse directly!" Little Bean said.

"Then fuse it!"

With a thought, Yang Yunzhi felt a warm current beginning in his eyeballs and gradually spreading through his entire body. A moment later, the warmth vanished without a trace.

Although the current had disappeared, Yang Yunzhi could feel the changes brought by the Byakugan.

First was his field of vision. A person's vision was generally only 120 degrees, but he discovered that his field of view had become 360 degrees, as if he had grown another pair of eyes in the back of his head.

Logically, this kind of vision should have felt incredibly uncomfortable, yet he adapted to it naturally!

Perhaps the Byakugan's Bloodline Limit had altered his brain as well?

Second, he could see the world much more clearly. Although his eyesight had already doubled when he advanced from Third-Class Seaman to Second-Class Seaman, it was still nowhere near what it was now.

Finally, Yang Yunzhi discovered that he had gained the ability to see through things.

As long as he focused on a particular spot, his gaze could pass through it and see what lay behind an object.

"Wait, doesn't the Byakugan only gain 360-degree vision and x-ray vision after it's activated? Why do I feel like these have become passive abilities for me?"

Yang Yunzhi walked to a mirror and opened his eyes. He found that they had not turned white; instead, they remained as distinctly black and white as before.

"My eyes didn't turn white either!" Yang Yunzhi asked curiously.

"That's all the system's doing. I don't know the principles behind it either!" Little Bean said.

"Fine!" Yang Yunzhi was somewhat speechless, but he could not help starting to speculate.

The system had only said Bloodline Limit: Byakugan. It had not said whose Byakugan it was.

Maybe it was a Byakugan on Kaguya Ōtsutsuki's level.

The active abilities that the Hyuga Clan needed chakra to activate really were passive abilities for the Ōtsutsuki Clan.

As for why his eyes had not changed color, perhaps he had not replaced his eyes at all, but fused two kinds of eyes together.

If it was fusion, then the Byakugan being white was like painting on a blank sheet of paper. Naturally, the characteristics of his original eyes would remain.

"All in all, this is a good thing!"

Yang Yunzhi familiarized himself with this brand-new field of vision in his room, including how to activate and deactivate his x-ray vision. People in the One Piece World had keen senses, and if he peered through others, someone might notice.

After testing it, he found that his Byakugan's range for precise observation was roughly a radius of four thousand meters. Within that range, it provided extremely detailed observation. As long as he shifted his attention there, he could see even ants on the ground clearly, no different from standing beside an ant and examining it with a magnifying glass.

But beyond four thousand meters, it immediately became no different from ordinary eyesight. Although he could still see farther than normal people, he lost that precise observational ability.

The Byakugan was not only useful for observation; it was also the bloodline of the Ōtsutsuki Clan, and the Ōtsutsuki Clan was a race capable of producing chakra.

Now that I have the Byakugan, can I cultivate chakra too?

Yang Yunzhi sat on the bed and gave it a try.

Although he did not possess a chakra extraction technique, he knew that chakra was formed by combining physical energy and spiritual energy. Since he knew the principle and had the Byakugan to observe his body at all times, he naturally dared to try.

However, after sitting on the bed for a while, he discovered a problem.

It was not that physical energy and spiritual energy could not fuse. He simply could not find either kind of energy at all!

"Could it be because the laws of the two worlds are different?" Yang Yunzhi mused. In the One Piece World, physical energy had become Armament Haki, while spiritual energy might be Observation Haki, or perhaps Conqueror's Haki.

And no one had ever fused those three types of Haki together.

Then it truly was an issue with the world's laws. He could use the Byakugan in this world, yet he could not extract chakra!

Now that his strength had increased greatly, what should he do?

Catch pirates?

Unfortunately, he could not. The troops at Base 36 had not yet been fully recruited, and even after they were, they would need at least three months of training first.

"Three months!" Yang Yunzhi was somewhat speechless. His Justice Gauge needed Justice Value, and the passive ability Hell's Curse also needed to collect souls.

Yet since enlisting until now, he had not fought a single pirate. As a result, his Justice Gauge was empty, and Hell's Curse had collected exactly zero souls.

Forget it. There was no rushing something like this. He should handle proper business first.

Proper business was, of course, the work of the Military Intelligence Division. As for the New Recruit Office, the paperwork was extremely simple and could be finished in half an hour every day.

It would be easy to get the Intelligence Division running. Every village had a village entrance intelligence office, or failing that, there were always old men without jobs who spent every day sunning themselves at the village entrance.

As long as he gave them a thousand Beli each month, they would naturally be willing to gather intelligence for him.

But the question was, how would the intelligence be delivered?

Pirates were much like bandits on horseback; both were highly mobile. They generally stayed in one place for no more than two days. If an intelligence agent had to travel on foot or by boat, then from spotting the pirates, to reaching the Marine base to report, to the Marines deploying, three or four days would probably have passed. By the time the Marines arrived, the pirates would have long since fled.

Raise carrier pigeons?

Leaving aside whether this world even had carrier pigeons, even if it did, he feared the villagers would eat them after he gave them out.

Den Den Mushi could work, but Yang Yunzhi did not have any.

The entire Base 36 had only one, and it was with Hina.

These things were extremely precious, more precious than mobile phones in his previous life, comparable to the wireless telegraphs used by the Communist Party during the War of Resistance. Giving one to every intelligence agent was simply unrealistic!

"Wireless telegraphs?" Yang Yunzhi froze. Wait, wireless telegraphs?

So, could he use wireless telegraphs?

Wireless telegraphs involved some technical knowledge, but not much. They had already been invented in 1895 in his previous life.

And the scientists in the One Piece World were incredibly capable. They could create clones, robots, chips, and even unlimited energy.

Wouldn't making a wireless telegraph be effortless?

But the subsequent impact of wireless telegraphs might be enormous, because he would not be the only one to see their benefits. The upper ranks of the Marines would see them too.

Once the Marines began using wireless telegraphs, they would gain the ability to coordinate in battle. Pirates, on the other hand, generally only had one or two ships and had little use for such things, so they would become scattered rabble and be precisely targeted, surrounded, and captured by the intelligence-equipped Marines.

When that happened, the Great Pirate Era might be directly suppressed by the emergence of wireless telegraphs.

See? Many transmigrators who arrived in the One Piece World with some kind of scientific research system invented Senzu Beans and interdimensional gates, but there was no real need for that. Just inventing wireless telegraphs would be enough to completely transform the Marines.

Of course, because this technology was not particularly difficult, it might also be used by the Revolutionary Army and the great pirates of the New World.

But so what? The ones who would suffer then would be the World Government, not me!

"Still, is it really necessary to create wireless telegraphs just to transmit intelligence from a few villages?" Yang Yunzhi thought for a moment, then shook his head. If he really introduced this thing, pirates would have a hard time, but where would I find pirates to fight, level up, and earn promotions from?

And even if he proposed wireless telegraphs, the greatest credit would not fall to him. Instead, his unconventional thinking might attract the hostility of certain higher-ups, perhaps even the Celestial Dragons.

He should wait until he had been promoted to a flag officer before dealing with something like that.

Forget it. He should try the old methods instead.

For example, beacon towers, carrier pigeons, and human couriers!