With the help of Observation Haki, Xie Wen and the cats easily skirted around the pirates and Marines fighting each other and began wandering through Egghead Island's lower level.
After walking only a short distance, Xie Wen discovered that although there were no Pacifistas here, there were still Mechanical Police-or rather, Mechanical Security Guards-to maintain order. Some were Mechanical Beasts like those in Baldimore, while others were entirely Mechanical Constructs, like the Guardians Meowrah made.
Of course, whether Mechanical Beasts or Mechanical Constructs, even those equipped with Laser Devices were still no match for the Pacifistas in the manga.
After all, Kuma's physical gifts were exceptionally formidable, and he was also a mixed-blood member of the Buccaneer Tribe, which possessed some Giant Tribe blood and could rival the Lunarians in strength.
Although these Mechanical Security Guards were considerably weaker than Pacifistas, they also cost far less to build, so their main selling point was sheer numbers.
They stood no chance against the powerful pirate officers, but they had no trouble dealing with ordinary pirate grunts. This was also one of the main reasons the pirate forces had yet to break through to the Central Area.
Otherwise, the Marines alone might have been able to hold off famous top-tier fighters like Kaido and Big Mom, but plenty of the vast number of ordinary pirates would certainly have slipped through.
Besides that, compared with the Egghead Island littered with "junk" in the original manga, the one Xie Wen and his companions were exploring was considerably "cleaner." They had not seen a single one of the technological products Luffy and his companions could pick up just lying around.
But that made sense. Knowing pirates would come to attack and plunder the island, Vegapunk naturally would not be foolish enough to leave his technological