Chapter 311: Death Land Invasion!

As Caesar pressed a button, the massive ventilation system outside the research facility suddenly emitted a harsh grinding sound of gears, then immediately began running in reverse.

The purple "Slime" poison gas, previously blocked by the heavy alloy doors, finally found an outlet.

It poured frantically into the major corridors of the research facility, following the thick ventilation ducts and the gaps damaged during the battle.

The harsh red top-level alarm sound instantly echoed throughout the entire massive underground facility.

The constantly flashing red light illuminated the cold metal walls, making them look like a hell of Shura.

Sanji, Nami, Franky, and the others in the labyrinthine corridor of Building B looked on in terror at the deathly poison mist, which was rapidly approaching like a purple tsunami.

The purple gas churned, and wherever it passed, even the steel floor hissed as it was corroded.

"Everyone, run! You absolutely cannot stop!"

Sanji roared, guarding the outermost edge of the group.

They had no other choice but to urge and lead those terrified giant children, running with all their might toward the deeper parts of the research facility.

Meanwhile, in another complex steel corridor.

Zoro, Robin, and the samurai from Wano Country, Kin'emon, were anxiously searching for an escape route.

Behind them, the hissing sound of spreading poison gas could also be heard.

Suddenly, the temperature in the corridor ahead plummeted, and tiny ice crystals even formed in the air.

Accompanied by a bone-chilling cold wind, an abnormally thick and massive ice wall rose from the ground without warning, instantly sealing the entire wide corridor completely and cutting off their path.

A strange figure slowly descended above the ice wall, which was overflowing with cold air.

It was a beautiful green-haired woman with pure white wings, but her legs had transformed into sharp bird claws — the Snow Woman, Monet.

The corners of her mouth curled into an eerie and cold smile as she looked down at the three people below:

"This path is blocked, everyone."

"Stay here obediently, be swallowed by the poison gas, and become the stepping stone for the Master's great cause."

Hearing the hissing of the poison gas getting closer and closer behind them, Zoro's eyes suddenly turned cold.

Without any wasted words, he reached back and drew the named sword at his waist, a chilling gleam flashing across the pitch-black blade.

He stepped forward, blocking in front of the group, and without turning his head, he barked to Robin and Kin'emon behind him:

"Leave this to me. Don't worry about me, go first!"

Robin took a deep look at Zoro's reliable back. Knowing her companion's strength, she decisively activated the power of the Hana Hana no Mi, and with a slash from Kin'emon, they broke a large hole directly into the steel wall on the side.

The two quickly passed through the hole in the wall to continue their escape, leaving this cold corridor battlefield to the great swordsman of the Straw Hat Pirates.

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The scene cuts back to the central control room in the deepest part of the research facility.

Caesar was sweating profusely, staring fixedly at the surveillance screen in front of him.

He despairingly discovered that his pride and joy, the death poison gas, was still unable to stop the progress of those two guys.

Just as he was preparing to activate the backup defense mechanism.

The super-alloy blast wall beside him, which was claimed to be unable to be destroyed even by heavy artillery, suddenly emitted a muffled metallic groan.

Immediately after, a huge, incomparable fist imprint suddenly bulged on the flat wall surface.

The next second, "BOOM—!!"

With an earth-shattering loud noise, that expensive super-alloy wall was completely pulverized like a fragile paper toy, turning into metal fragments splashing across the sky!

Amidst the swirling dust, Luffy appeared at the hole, his fist still emitting white steam due to intense friction.

He raised his hand, casually patting the dust off the Straw Hat on his head, his clear eyes now turning icy cold.

He stared fixedly at Caesar, who was paralyzed on the ground in the control room in fear:

"Finally found you!"

"You're that perverted scum who likes to feed poison to innocent children, Caesar, right!"

"I will definitely beat you up today!"

As soon as Luffy finished speaking, Tatsuya walked in from the hole that had been smashed open, hands in his pockets, looking relaxed.

He very thoughtfully closed the remains of the broken door behind him, using his ability to seal the gap, isolating the poison gas trying to pour in from the outside.

Facing the murderous and steadily approaching Luffy, after a brief moment of panic, Caesar suddenly remembered his absolute home-field advantage as a Logia user.

He floated up from the ground, turned into a mass of gas, and let out a nauseating, frantic laugh:

"Shurorororo!"

"Don't be so arrogant, mere pirates!"

"Do you think you can defeat me just by relying on brute force?"

"In this room, I am the absolute god!"

Luffy shouted, not wanting to listen to his nonsense at all, and suddenly exerted force with his feet, preparing to rush over and end the battle with one punch.

However, the moment he took a step, his body suddenly stiffened.

An intense sense of dizziness struck his brain like a hammer.

Luffy opened his mouth wide, his hands clutching his throat tightly, struggling desperately to breathe, but he felt as if the surroundings had turned into an absolute vacuum, unable to inhale even a single bit of air.

His legs went weak, and with a "thump," he fell directly onto the cold floor, rolling in pain, his face rapidly turning purple.

Caesar floated in mid-air, transformed into a mass of purple gas, looking down at Luffy struggling to die on the ground, triumphantly showing off his trump card:

"Shurorororo! Feeling the pain, aren't you?"

"My Gas-Gas Fruit ability can instantly drain all oxygen within a certain range around me!"

"For creatures like you who need to breathe, without air..."

"No matter how powerful your Haki is, or what kind of amazing Devil Fruit ability you have, it's a dead end!"

After saying that, Caesar took a lighter out of his lab coat pocket and held it high.

A cruel light flickered in his eyes as he prepared to directly ignite the high-concentration gas he had already released around him, burning this suffocating Straw Hat into a charred corpse.

"Farewell, Straw Hat!"

Caesar laughed wildly, and with a "click," he ignited the lighter in his hand.

However, the moment the flame lit up, the smile on his face suddenly froze.

Scanning with his peripheral vision, he was shocked to find that the man with red and purple eyes was standing quietly in place.

Tatsuya was standing with his arms crossed, looking at him with a mocking gaze as if he were looking at an idiot.

Not only that, Tatsuya's expression was normal; he didn't show any signs of oxygen deprivation or suffocation at all.

Caesar's eyes almost popped out; he was completely incredulous.

Of course, he didn't know that the thick and vast Chakra inside Tatsuya could completely maintain the body's vitality in such an extreme environment through internal circulation.

Tatsuya looked at the smug Caesar, a trace of undisguised mockery flashing in his eyes:

"Draining oxygen? Is that the extent of your tricks?"

"When it comes to gas techniques, you seem to have chosen the wrong opponent to show off to."

Before he finished speaking, Tatsuya's hands blurred in front of his chest, forming seals at high speed.

"Wind Release: Great Breakthrough!"

Tatsuya took a deep breath and exhaled violently.

A violent airflow, like a Category 12 hurricane, suddenly exploded within the relatively closed control room!

This powerful Wind Release Ninjutsu not only instantly blew Caesar's pride and joy, the high-concentration poison gas, into disarray.

It also used the violent wind pressure to forcibly pour fresh air from the outer corridor, completely breaking the oxygen-free desperate situation.

With the crazy influx of fresh oxygen, Luffy, who had been struggling in pain on the ground, took a deep breath of air.

"Haaa—!"

Sufficient oxygen instantly filled his lungs, and Luffy's eyes, which had been unfocused due to suffocation, lit up again in an instant.

"You bastard!!!"

Accompanied by a deafening roar, Luffy's legs stomped hard on the ground.

He was like a cannonball fired from its chamber, his right fist instantly completely wrapped in pitch-black, cold Armament Haki.

His gaze locked onto Caesar, who was being blown about by the wind in mid-air, his face full of panic!

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