Temporarily unable to find John, Ren could only turn his gaze to the branch of the Moon Tree in his hand.
This branch looked somewhat unremarkable. The shape and form of the leaves didn't seem much different from ordinary small trees by the roadside. Just broken off from the giant Moon Tree, it hadn't lost its vitality yet, but it needed to be planted soon.
Ren temporarily placed it within the Pure Land.
The Pure Land had two sides. One side was dim, with dense mist that seemed to possess the power to swallow a person's heart. Countless bright red torii gates—some tall, some short, some straight, some tilted.
These torii gates were arranged in a circle, enclosing an empty piece of land.
If viewed from above, one could see the ring-shaped patterns covering this gray land, and at the center, an enormous design of lightning and magatama.
This side represented death; the other side represented new life.
Ren gently inserted the Moon Tree branch into this bright but empty world. Just as the god named "True" had planted the Sacred Sakura tree across time.
However, the Moon Tree was different from cherry blossom trees.
As for the Sun Tree Eve, Ren had also casually plucked a branch, but its treatment was much worse. It didn't receive the same attention as the Moon Tree. After all, Eve could be found at the bottom of the sea near the Sabaody Archipelago—it wasn't something particularly precious.
However, this plant Eve's characteristics were still quite worth researching.
If this plant were used as a conducting medium, would energy transmission be more efficient?
He was merely proposing a concept. The real challenges would need to be solved by the researchers in Enkanomiya. Speaking of which, although these people's progress in deciphering the technology of the King of the Underworld was slow, it was very productive.
As one of the crystallizations of technology from the Ancient Kingdom eight hundred years ago, the technological content of Pluton was extremely high. Even though only a small portion had been deciphered, it was enough to change this world.
"I didn't expect that technological progress would actually depend on archaeology. However, Pluton's technology doesn't have much connection to biology." In the past, Ren only knew that the three Ancient Weapons were very powerful, but after truly beginning to research Pluton, he discovered how outrageous the Ancient Kingdom's technology from eight hundred years ago was.
Now if someone told him that Vegapunk became the world's top scientist through archaeology, he would believe it.
This was also because Ren transmigrated early. Otherwise, he would have discovered that this was actually the truth.
However, this couldn't overshadow Vegapunk's capabilities. After all, the World Government had so many researchers, yet only Vegapunk could parse the Ancient Kingdom's technology—this alone proved his ability.
"Originally I thought I wouldn't need to use the scholars from Ohara if I wasn't planning to become Pirate King. Now it seems that won't work. Perhaps other Poneglyphs and ruins contain records of various technologies."
Though he said this, Ren wasn't in a hurry to contact those scholars so early. At this time, those people might have already begun secretly researching the ancient script, but progress was surely still very slow.
"If John isn't in the undersea cavern, where else could he be?" Jasmine asked strangely. "I think since he planned this, he definitely wouldn't be too far away, but we haven't found any trace of him on Skoll Island or Hati Island."
"Who knows? Perhaps he's using Den Den Mushi to monitor. Maybe we've already been discovered by him just now." Ren said with a smile.
However, in reality, when he entered the underground tunnel, he had already disrupted the signal with radio waves. In this situation, even Den Den Mushi couldn't connect. He wouldn't leave such an opening in this kind of matter.
"Then Lord Ren, what should we do next?" Jasmine asked in return. "If we can't find John, should we still stay here?"
"Regardless, I think he should show up eventually. And I don't think you've had enough fun yet either?"
Jasmine hurriedly shook her head like a rattle drum.
...
After returning to Skoll Island, Ren found an opportunity to tell Shutenmaru the intelligence he had obtained, while also sending Phryné to the submarine hidden in the sea.
After that, after some consideration, he still shared the intelligence he had obtained with Redfield.
On one hand, he didn't dislike Redfield as a person—a guy who detested the ugliness of human hearts and chose to operate alone. Even if not a good person, at least not too bad.
And he also wanted to borrow the other's Observation Haki to see if they could find any traces of John.
As for Kaido, Ren didn't say anything. However, Kaido himself had eaten the Fish-Fish Fruit, so even if drowned he wouldn't die. And with his level of strength, even if wrapped in seawater, he wouldn't be completely unable to use his abilities.
In other words, unless someone planned to chop off his head, it would be hard for him to die.
Perhaps Redfield didn't expect Ren to be so sincere, so he also shared the new intelligence he had obtained these past two days.
"Those great pirates are already on their way. Also, Silver Axe and Wang Zhi—the two of them have joined forces."
"Really? You've always operated alone, where did you get this intelligence?" Ren was surprised. Two great pirate forces joining forces was a major event. And at this critical moment, they shouldn't be publicizing it.
Moreover, probably even Shiki and Big Mom didn't know that after they hung up their Den Den Mushi calls, Wang Zhi and Silver Axe had secretly joined forces.
Perhaps they knew in their hearts that they were always a bit inferior to Shiki. In order not to lose to Shiki and Big Mom, they planned to join forces.
Redfield elegantly extended his finger, pointing at his temple: "I heard them using Den Den Mushi for secret conversations."
"According to my calculations, the seawater in the cavern will likely completely disappear in a few days. At that time, when those great pirates arrive at this island, they'll definitely start a war before entering the cavern." Redfield said.
The giant wolf's eyes had long ceased to be a secret. This kind of thing could be found out just by asking any local casually. Even before this, various forces had already sent some of their fishmen to investigate while the lake water hadn't yet receded.
Ren didn't know what the situation was on Skoll Island's side, but presumably those fishmen weren't so easily able to dive to the bottom. Otherwise, John's plan would have been exposed long ago.
"Hati Island has solid ice for protection, while this side's lake bottom has an extremely ferocious giant sea monster." Redfield explained the reason.
"A Sea King?" This kind of creature was certainly no trouble in his view, but for fishmen of average strength, it was actually quite dangerous.
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