Why hadn't they shut the laboratory door tight to keep the poison gas contained?
Because the door to Caesar Clown's laboratory was already shut tight.
Yet the purple gas was still seeping out through the cracks.
Staying inside the laboratory meant certain death.
"Quick, quick, quick! Get some water first and see if that works!"
"Aaah! The poison gas is spreading so fast!"
"Captain, save me!"
The man running at the back was unlucky enough to come into contact with the poison gas.
In an instant, his skin turned purple, and he collapsed unconscious.
Seeing how potent the gas was, the people ahead turned deathly pale with fright.
They wished they could grow a few extra legs.
By then, the other researchers in the base had received the news too.
Chaos erupted at once.
Up on the surface, both the World Government personnel and the Marines received word.
Their expressions changed drastically.
It didn't really matter if anyone else died, but nothing could happen to Vegapunk!
"Damn it! Why did something like this have to happen on our shift?"
"Everything was fine before. Then that Marine showed up, and this happened..."
"Are you saying that Marine did all this?
"Then was he deliberately trying to screw us over?"
Everyone else immediately turned to the speaker as though they were looking at a complete idiot.
"Huh? Why are you all looking at me like that?"
"Seriously, what makes us worth his time to target?
"Believe me, even if he killed all of us right in front of the Five Elders, they wouldn't say a word.
"Use your brain before you speak!"
One man looked at the previous speaker in exasperation.
It was precisely because of people who never thought before acting or speaking that the Marines always had them firmly under