"No, meow. They've been poisoned for too long, and the cells in their bodies have already died. Even removing the toxins won't restore them, meow."
Ai Haibara Meow adjusted the glasses frames she wore for show and told Xie Wen.
Xie Wen had waited a long time for the survivors, and only when they reached him did he learn why.
It wasn't that they hadn't wanted to get there sooner. Their legs had long since been paralyzed from inhaling too much poison gas, and they had dragged themselves all the way to Xie Wen using their hands...
No wonder Luo had fitted all these people with animal legs in the manga. Xie Wen had thought it was some peculiar preference of Caesar's, since eating the Artificial Devil Fruits he produced resulted in something similar.
Although these people were in a miserable state, Xie Wen didn't think they deserved any sympathy.
Given the World Government's usual behavior, plenty of the people they convicted were bound to have been wrongfully accused, or unlucky enough to offend the Celestial Dragons, or rebels like the Revolutionary Army who couldn't stand the oppression. But people like that probably wouldn't be dumped here as test subjects...
Unless they belonged to a special race, like King the Wildfire.
Of course, the main thing was that Hua Mei Meow had already confirmed that these survivors had all been pirates. They might not have committed every evil imaginable, but they certainly weren't good people.
Xie Wen had only let Ai Haibara Meow treat them because Little Kitten herself was interested in their condition, and because dealing with a whole group of people paralyzed from the waist down would be difficult...
Well, Xie Wen really couldn't bring himself to kill a group of disabled people like this. Their current situation