Chapter 989: Ancient Wisdom, Technology Can Change the Future
After using Den Den Mushi to convene the 'Super Important Fairy Kingdom Mayors Meeting' and calling all his subordinates together, Kira announced the most important thing to everyone.
"Everyone, we are leaving."
All the mayors were stunned when they heard this, whether they were former navy officers such as Zephyr and Aokiji, retired pirates such as Rayleigh and Marco, or special students such as Vegapunk, Ichigo, and Robin, they all stopped what they were doing and looked at Kira sitting on the Gorgeous Kingdom, suspecting that there was something wrong with their ears.
"Excuse me, what did you just say?" Zefa frowned and asked first, "Who do you mean by 'we'? Where are we going?"
"We mean us!"
Kira pointed at himself and said in a powerful voice, "Wizard! We are going back to our original world, back to Ascalante, and we will never come back again!"
Among the hundreds of mayors, some looked around in confusion, some scratched their heads and ears with anxiety, and some lowered their heads in deep thought, but they all fell silent.
In fact, the wizards never concealed their origins from the beginning, but the people in this world didn't quite believe it. After all, they had seen and heard of all kinds of strange people and things in this ocean, but they had never seen or heard of anyone from another world.
Although later, because of the strangeness of the "magic" and the origin of the "untraceable person", everyone gradually believed in the "other world", but now half a year has passed, they have long been accustomed to this group of outsiders, not to mention the various benefits that the "Fairy Kingdom" has brought to this world.
Now that this group of people who have brought changes to the world suddenly say they are leaving, naturally no one can easily accept this.
"Do you really have to go?"
"What will happen to the Fairy Kingdom if you leave?"
“If we increase taxes, will you stay?”
"The revolution hasn't succeeded yet, the world hasn't been unified yet, why did the king run away first?!"
"Did something happen? Tell us what the problem is and we can work together to find a solution!!"
"Didn't you say you wanted to see the great secret treasure come to light??!"
“…”
It can be seen that Kira's sudden decision caught these mayors off guard. Several of them even began to doubt whether they had not done well enough and whether they should increase taxes and beg Kira and others to stay.
Kira kept these people in mind and prepared to ask Zefa to check them out.
"Everyone be quiet and listen to me!"
Kira pressed his hands together, indicating that he had something to say: "Leaving this world is a decision we wizards made after careful consideration. Coming here was an accident in the first place, and now we are just getting everything back on track..."
"After we leave, the Fairy Kingdom will not disband, but there will be no king. You will still handle the government affairs of your respective areas as 'mayors', and then hold a meeting like this at least once every quarter. You can decide the content of the meeting by yourselves!"
"If there is anyone who intends to destroy the hard-earned happy life of the people... I think it won't take you long to beat that person up."
Under Kira's insistence, everyone was helpless but had no choice but to accept this fact.
Now the power and influence of the Fairy Kingdom are already very huge.
It is obviously the world's largest food exporter and the savior of the new era, but secretly it colludes with sea emperors like Kaido and Big Mom, and exchanges what they have with the Seven Warlords of the Sea like the Empress and Hawkeye; it also secretly communicates with the bosses of underground forces such as Dragon of the Revolutionary Army, Morganse of the News Agency, the Shipping King, the Loan Shark King, etc. It can be said that it is involved in both black and white; what's worse, many non-member countries are also showing signs of surrendering.
You know, there are more than 500 countries in this world, but there are only 170 member states of the World Government. The remaining countries are poor and backward because they cannot pay the Heavenly Gold and are repeatedly harassed by pirates. The Fairy Kingdom can bring them hope of survival.
Under such circumstances, their attitude towards the Fairy Kingdom is of course to welcome them with open arms and welcome the king's master! Even if they haven't announced joining the 'Fairy Kingdom' yet, that day is not far away.
The confrontation between the Fairy Kingdom and the World Government is not a one-day thing. Before the final battle breaks out, there is no room for these fence-sitters. But in the final analysis, they don't have the right to choose.
Half an hour later, Kira arrived at Vegapunk's Eggman City and found his real body through perception.
The one who just went to the meeting was the 'positive' Sakya among the six clones, while his real body was in the giant robot's body, conducting various research on it.
Sensing Kira's approach, Vegapunk's true form, an old man with an apple on his head and a long tongue, seemed to be muttering to himself, or as if discussing with Kira, and expressed his confusion.
"It is now almost certain that the energy source of the ancient machine is electricity! However, compared to the energy issue, its inexplicable appearance and its purpose of climbing onto the red soil continent at that time are more puzzling."
The huge robot in front of us was the one that inexplicably appeared on the Red Earth Continent 200 years ago and has been climbing up to Marinjoa, but it stopped moving because it ran out of energy after arriving at the destination. Until now, its energy, appearance, and purpose are still a mystery.
Kira stared at the robot in silence for a while. The technological level of this thing was far beyond this era, but Vegapunk detected through the machine that it was a product from 900 years ago, so it was hard for him to comment on it.
"Since it appeared 200 years ago, why don't you just think about that time? I don't know much about the history of this world. Do you know what happened 200 years ago?"
After thinking for a while, Kira added, "It would be best if it is related to Marinjoa, the Red Earth Continent, the Celestial Dragons, the Giants, the Dwarfs, Fishman Island, and Wano Country?"
"Well..."
Vegapunk lowered his head and thought for a long time before hesitatingly saying, "200 years ago, Fishman Island officially established diplomatic relations with humans and became a member of the World Alliance. Does this count?"
"Yes! Of course it does! But didn't Neptune say they had never participated in the World Conference? Since they have established diplomatic relations with humans and become a member of the World Conference, how could they not have participated in the conference?"
"I don't know, maybe something happened at that time?" Vegapunk flicked his tongue in confusion.
Kira proposed an idea: "Then... do you think it is possible that the leader of the mermaid tribe was discriminated against and bullied by the Celestial Dragons at that time, so they refused to establish diplomatic relations in anger?"
Vegapunk recalled the disgusting faces of the Celestial Dragons and subconsciously felt that what Kira said made sense: "It's very likely! But what does this have to do with robots?"
"Do you think it went to protect the mermaid who was bullied by the Celestial Dragons?"
"Impossible! How can a mermaid be affected by an ancient machine...hiss!!!" Vegapunk was about to say something when he suddenly thought of something and immediately shut up.
"Mermaid Princess, Poseidon! If it's her, she'd be qualified, right?"
Kira smiled and patted the iron plate of the huge robot in front of him . "If this guy's program setting is to protect the mermaid princess, then its purpose of climbing up to Marinjoa makes sense!"
But Vegapunk suddenly shook his head and denied Kira's statement again: "No! The time is wrong! The time when it climbed onto the Red Earth Continent is not the same as the time of the World Conference! And if it was to protect the mermaid princess, then why did it climb onto the Red Earth Continent? Another very important question is, how did it appear?"
"Have you forgotten? There is a devil fruit in this world that can achieve 'teleportation'!"
Vegapunk's eyes lit up instantly. He thought of Bartholomew Bear who had volunteered to be transformed by him, so he blurted out a term: "Meat|Ball Fruit!!"
"That's right! It wanted to protect the mermaid princess who was in trouble somewhere, but because the red earth continent was too high, it hindered the flight of the meat|ball fruit, so it had to crawl. As a result, it ran out of energy halfway through!"
“This is such a bold idea!!”
Vegapunk suddenly looked at Kira with admiration: "I always thought you were just powerful, handsome, and rich, but now I realize that you are not simple-minded either!!"
"That's right. You were able to build this 'Fairy Kingdom' in such a short time. How could you be just a reckless man with money, face, and strength but no brains?"
Kira: “…”
Damn it! I know that this stinky old man looks down on me, but why can't I get angry with him?
"Brother Kira, you said that 900 years ago, the technology of that huge kingdom was able to reach this level, so how did they fall?" Vegapunk suddenly asked Kira a question that had been bothering him for a long time.
"Do you know what Wano Country was like when it was in Kaido's hands?" Kira immediately asked back
Vegapunk was stunned and said, "I heard it's very bad..."
"That's right! In order to develop weapons, Kaido discharged industrial wastewater into the rivers and seas of Wano Country, polluting the environment and making life miserable for the people there. Perhaps that huge kingdom was destroyed because it did something similar?"
"There is an old saying in the magic world that 'power must have a price'. You also know that the legendary 'Uranus' and 'Pluto' were weapons at that time. To be able to create weapons of this level, how much they sacrificed to the environment, who knows?"
Vegapunk fell into deep thought. He felt that what Kira said made sense.
When he was young, he formed an illegal research team called MADS with Caesar, Quinn, Judge, Bakin and others. Those four were not good people, so he knew deeply how bad the negative products of technology were.
Kira continued to talk non-stop: "Look at the people in the sea, there are all kinds of strange shapes, long arms, long legs, long necks, long noses, big heads, thin legs, wings on their backs, and mermaids, fishmen, giants, little people, fur... Can these really be produced by normal human genes? The key is that they don't have reproductive isolation yet!!"
"Do you think it's possible that the intelligent life forms at the beginning all looked like normal humans, but because of the 'industrial sewage' of the huge kingdom, the life forms at that time mutated?"
Vegapunk was speechless. He had never imagined such an angle before: "Ah, this... "
"And have you noticed? There is no such phenomenon among the Celestial Dragons!"
"Is it possible that they are the 'intact' people who escaped the mutation? The reason they wear those ridiculous clothes to outsiders and wear helmets and don't breathe the same air as ordinary people is actually to avoid being infected?"
"Because their ancestors defeated the ambitious people who were consumed by desire, attempted to develop technology, and even did not hesitate to bring disaster to the world, so they have such great power now? And this is also the reason why the Five Elders, who are obviously elites, always spoil those idiots, because they are the last "normal people"?!!"
"Those ambitious people are from the Great Kingdom, so the World Government does not allow future generations to study the relevant history and texts. They want to erase their existence. Are they afraid that future generations will repeat the same mistakes and make the world worse?"
Hearing this, Vegapunk broke out in a cold sweat and his expression was visibly panicked. Kira's guess undoubtedly brought a subversive cognitive shock to this old man.
“This…this…this…isn’t it…??”
"Could it be that... we are the bad guys? Could it be that everything we have done so far is fundamentally wrong?"
Kira patted the apple on Vegapunk's head and said sadly, "This is why I haven't taken any action against the World Government even though I can force them."
“Technology can change the world and the future, but it is in the hands of humans, and human desires are uncontrollable, so no one can tell whether the future will change for the better or for the worse.”
