The pirates sat and forgot, and they really believed the nine truths and one lie.

If it were the old Lucci, he would have been just an ordinary Devil Fruit user, and most likely wouldn't have resisted, even knowing that he couldn't defeat CP0 if he did.

But this time it was different.

He could never hand over his two companions to those five unpredictable old men; that would mean a complete loss of freedom, and they might even become experimental subjects.

Lucci and Kaku moved almost simultaneously, tacitly shielding Ada behind them.

In terms of close-quarters combat ability, Ada is the weakest of the three. She could be instantly killed by CP0. We must not let her become a hostage to blackmail our comrades.

Lucci was too lazy to feign humility as a subordinate anymore. He directly ordered Kaku beside him, "You stay here and protect Ada."

"I can handle these three CP0s by myself."

The three CP0 agents opposite them exchanged glances, and even through their masks, a fleeting smile could be caught in their eyes.

Since when did a nobody like CP9 dare to be so arrogant?

One person can take care of CP0? They wouldn't mind teaching this arrogant genius a lesson, showing him how to talk to his superiors properly.

“I understand the arrogance of a genius, but it is foolish of you to challenge CP0 and disobey your superiors now.”

“Teach him a lesson, let him know the difference between CP0 and CP9, and that not all agents are the same.”

A cold smile appeared on Lu Qi's face, and the color of his pupils deepened, with a faint dark golden halo around the edges.

In his vision, the figures of the three CP0 members in front of him were surrounded by a murky black aura.

The black aura was formed from countless acts of killing, while the white aura, representing good, was almost invisible, completely overwhelmed by the evil value.

As expected, the most loyal white glove under the Celestial Dragons' command has long been tainted by darkness.

"Let me teach you how to use the Six Styles," said the one with the weakest aura among the three CP0 members, stepping forward with undisguised contempt in his tone.

"Your pitiful talent is worthless in front of CP0!"

The CP0 member vanished from his spot almost instantly, appearing behind Lucci in the next instant.

His preemptive use of Observation Haki allowed him to clearly see that Lucci remained facing forward, seemingly unaware of the attack from behind and making no defensive move.

"Are you scared out of your wits?" This thought flashed through CP0's mind, but he showed no mercy to his men.

His right hand was held together with five fingers, and his entire palm was covered with dark Armament Haki.

The paper gun, swift and precise, pierced through from behind, aiming straight for Lucci's chest. He intended to defeat him in one strike, utterly crushing this genius's laughable pride.

The jet-black finger, covered in Armament Haki, pierced through Lucci's chest without any resistance, going in from behind and exiting through his chest, precisely at the location of his heart.

"Is this all there is to genius?" The CP0 member, his lips barely concealed by his mask, was about to curl into a disdainful smile.

Something is wrong!

Something is very wrong!

His fingers did indeed penetrate Lucci's body, but the sensation was completely wrong.

There was no real sensation of piercing muscle and touching warm internal organs; instead, it felt like being plunged into a pile of cold sand.

I could clearly feel countless tiny, hard grains of sand flowing through my fingertips. How could this possibly be a human body?!

"Sir, how are you feeling?" Lu Qi's voice, tinged with amusement, came from ahead.

His face showed no sign of pain whatsoever, as if the arm that had pierced his chest was merely stuck in a clay sculpture.

"What's going on?!" The CP0 member who made the move was shocked, and a strong sense of crisis surged into his heart.

Through the arm stuck in the sand, he could clearly feel that the moisture and even the life force in his body were being frantically drained away at an alarming rate.

His face beneath the mask turned pale rapidly, and an unprecedented feeling of weakness swept over him, making him realize that this was no illusion.

"not good!"

The two CP0 members who were watching finally realized something was wrong, but it was too late!

Suddenly, Lucci stretched out his left hand and grabbed the CP0 member's masked face. Dark golden sand began to emerge from his palm.

These grains of sand seemed to possess a life of their own, frantically burrowing into the skin through the gaps in CP0's mask.

"Let me go! Who are you?!" the CP0 member screamed in terror, his body convulsing violently, but the loss of strength quickly rendered his resistance powerless.

"This...this is not the power that an ordinary Devil Fruit should have!" His voice grew weaker and weaker, and his body under the white suit began to wither rapidly.

Not only his energy, but even his life force was being mercilessly devoured by the dark golden sand.

The two CP0 members watching the battle were so shocked by the bizarre and terrifying scene that they hesitated to step forward to help.

They watched helplessly as their companion, like a punctured water bag, received a continuous flow of life force and power into Lucci's body, while he himself withered away rapidly.

This feeling of absorbing the power of others to nourish himself gave Lucci an unprecedented sense of exhilaration.

In less than two minutes, the CP0 member who had made the move was completely silent, even his last twitches had stopped.

Lucci tossed the now-lightweight corpse at the feet of the other two CP0 members as if it were trash.

"Give it back to you. You're no longer useful as an officer," he said, his voice chillingly calm.

One of the CP0 members instinctively bent down and carefully removed the mask from his companion's face.

Beneath the mask was a face with grotesque features, wide-open eyes, and a gaping mouth, having endured indescribable pain in the final moments of his life.

The face had completely lost its moisture, the skin clinging tightly to the bones, forming a horrifying depression, like a dried corpse that had been weathered in the desert for decades, completely beyond any hope of saving.

"Even the awakening of a regular Devil Fruit wouldn't bring this kind of power. Could it be that you can eat a second Devil Fruit?"

Driven by the inertia of their thinking, CP0 still tried to associate this strange ability with their second Devil Fruit.

Lu Qi raised a hand and opened his palm, dark golden sand flowing in his palm. His gaze fell on the sand, and his voice carried a hint of mockery: "Why don't you try again?"

“Look at me, I’m just a normal one after all…” He raised his eyes, his dark golden eyes coldly locking onto the two CP0s in front of him.

The two CP0s looked at the junior who exuded an eerie aura, and then at the hideous, desiccated corpse of their companion at their feet.

An unprecedented chill shot from the soles of my feet straight to the top of my head.

They were agents, the Celestial Dragons' sharpest blades, but they were also human and afraid of death. Suddenly, they didn't want to fight Lucci anymore.

The mission is important, but to lose one's life here and become a hideous, desiccated corpse is certainly not a wise choice.