Facing Xie Wen, who had unleashed his ultimate move and activated Flurry Rush, Queen was defeated without any surprises.
What was worth mentioning, however, was that a single Scarlet Sky's End from Xie Wen had actually failed to kill him. It had only severely wounded him, and it took two more slashes afterward to finish the guy off...
Zoan Devil Fruit users really did have extraordinarily tenacious vitality.
After killing Queen, Xie Wen naturally did not forget to open his mystery box. He quickly pulled out his Hunter's Knife and plunged it into Queen's body, which rivaled a small Sea King in size.
"Is this... the Ice Oni virus?"
Looking at the somewhat familiar glass jar of blue-purple liquid that emerged from Queen's corpse, Xie Wen pursed his lips in frustration.
Without his heaven-blessed kitty around, he had more or less expected not to carve out the Brachiosaurus Devil Fruit, but getting a bottle of Ice Oni virus outright...
Never mind that he was planning to loot Queen's laboratory shortly anyway-the dinosaur body he had put away earlier alone carried several bottles of this stuff, along with the antidote.
After putting away the Ice Oni virus he had carved out and taking two of the spare bodies Queen kept here to give his Research Cats more samples to analyze, Xie Wen called Kaido Meow over and started heading back.
As for the weapons, ammunition, and other things stored here...
Xie Wen had not seen anything more unusual than Queen's spare bodies. His two Bomb Cats would turn their noses up at ordinary explosives.
The man and cat returned to the first basement level. More than half the space here was also an armory, though this floor mainly held melee weapons. Xie Wen went inside and took a casual look around.