"Right and wrong."
"Saying it's right is because thoroughly studying the lineage factor can indeed reach the realm of a creator. But the contents of the lineage factor are too numerous, I discovered that this field of lineage factor has at least dozens of branches. If you just work hard in a vague direction of lineage factor, even if you exhaust yourself, in the end, you might only manage to study the surface."
Sora gently shook her head, she wasn't denying the lineage factor, but denying the possibility of researching the lineage factor thoroughly in a short period of time.
"The concept of lineage factor didn't exist in the beginning, it was proposed by Judge, and perfected by Vegapunk. I don't know if the World Government has research on this, but Judge mentioned in his research notes that they started researching from zero."
"In other words, you're not optimistic about Judge," Gion hit the nail on the head.
Gion didn't understand much about scientific research, but having been around Rosse, she had some worldly knowledge, and she also wasn't optimistic about Judge.
The Jaygarcia family also has a small scientific research lab, the talent inside came from the World Government's science division, and is currently under Rosse's management.
Though Rosse is in charge, Gion still acts as the spokesperson each time.
When the lab first began operation, it was similar to Judge's lab. It seemed to have many pieces of equipment, but the operation methods of the researchers were crude, carrying a unique wild aesthetic of the pirate world.
To give a simple example: extracting information from Vegapunk's brain.
According to the wild school's method, gather 1,000 people to conduct experiments, trying out every single coincidental plan Judge had researched.
Failures were directly carried away as corpses, without any summary or analysis, then move to the next.
If 1,000 people weren't enough, then capture more people for experimentation.
If one happened to succeed, then replicate the successful method exactly and continue testing.
Using the same method repeatedly to refine until a higher success rate is reached, only then would experiments be conducted on Vegapunk's body.
This method isn't impossible, before Rosse took over the lab, Gion also thought this was the only method.
But after Rosse took over, she realized that failed cases were also valuable, and that by thinking carefully, much time could be saved.
It turned out that all steps shouldn't be rushed at once, but should be tested one by one, first identifying which step had the problem, then making targeted improvements.
It turned out that doing experiments also required controlling variables, all variables like temperature, humidity, environment had to be considered, and experimenters had to operate carefully, as operations affect the experiment results.
Precisely because she had relayed messages for Rosse and saw the small lab become more and more standardized, Gion realized how crude Judge's experiments were.
Gion even felt that even if Rosse picked someone at random, that person could quickly surpass Judge.
"Then what is the hypothesis you mentioned?", Rosse asked.
Just now, Sora only explained the lineage factor and why she wasn't optimistic about Judge producing results, but hadn't offered her own solution.
According to the known future, Judge indeed created emotionless modified humans, but not like Vegapunk's clone types requiring designated permission levels.
Vegapunk's type called clones were more like humanoid robots.
"This is my hypothesis," Sora's eyes sparkled with confidence, "I think lineage factor is just a general term, within it should include emotions, inheritance, perception, physique, body strength, gender… and many other branches."
"So what?", Gion didn't understand, she was already unable to follow.
"So if you want to study emotions, you must first identify which part includes emotions, and then conduct independent research on it," Sora said firmly.
"Then where do you think it is?", Rosse smiled and guided her.
In this world where the tech tree is crooked beyond recognition, Sora being able to have this insight was already considered to be walking at the forefront of the times.
It was like Judge still studying what a cell is, while Sora had already analyzed the nucleus, cytoplasm, and cell membrane.
The technology in the world of One Piece had a kind of fantastical brute-force style, Rosse wasn't sure if his past life's knowledge could be applied, at most he could give Sora a correct direction.
Even if truth differs, the method of studying truth is largely similar.
"I believe to study individual emotion, the most important direction lies in two points, the brain and genetic inheritance," Sora seemed to sense Rosse's encouragement and became more and more confident as she spoke, "Judge once did something evil, um, the content is a bit cruel… he cut off a slave's head, then used a kind of technology I couldn't understand to maintain the slave's vital signs, all to make the other slaves obedient."
"But I noticed, that slave, even with only the head left, still had joy, anger, sorrow, and fear… well, at that time no joy or happiness, only anger, sorrow, and fear…"
"That's when I knew, emotions aren't some heart's power, but are related to the brain. If you want to study how to erase emotions, then you must study the brain."
"Not bad, that's indeed the case," Rosse nodded with a smile.
Rosse even now suspected that it was because of Sora's help that Judge was able to later develop the method of erasing emotions.
And it seemed that after Sora's death, Judge's level of technology never progressed again. His greatest masterpiece was the future Sanji.
However, according to the current timeline, even if Sanji still had the chance to appear, he would bear the surname Jaygarcia.
"Then what does this have to do with genetic inheritance?", Gion, as a poor student, was completely lost by now, but that didn't stop her from playing along.
Being around Rosse, she was already used to it.
"Genetic inheritance is Judge's research direction. He wants to breed the strongest modified humans. Then, to erase emotion, one must find the genes related to emotion from the hereditary genes, then delete them," Rosse explained lightly.
"That's right, Your Highness, you're amazing!", Sora looked at Rosse in surprise, not expecting him to understand so much.
In this world, there's no such thing as nine years of compulsory education. Just the term 'genetic inheritance' alone, most people probably haven't even heard of it.
"This is nothing. Sora, I have a fruit in my hand, are you willing to eat it?", As Rosse spoke, under Sora's astonished gaze, he flipped his palm, and a Devil Fruit appeared in his hand.
"Brain-Brain Fruit, huh…", Gion muttered softly. She had seen Rosse's ability before, so she wasn't particularly surprised.
According to Rosse's explanation, this was an ability granted by the Watatsumi Fruit, allowing him to obtain the enemy's Devil Fruit after killing them.
Such an ability is extremely rare, but Gion knew this kind of ability truly existed. Zephyr had explained it to her, and the Jaygarcia family records mentioned that the Darkness-Darkness Fruit had the ability to forcibly extract a fruit from a just-deceased body.
"Brain-Brain Fruit?", Sora vaguely caught Gion's murmur and couldn't help but exclaim subconsciously.
Judge viewed Vegapunk as a lifelong rival, so how could he not mention the Devil Fruit that Vegapunk consumed?
Judge often said that the reason Vegapunk became the world's strongest scientist was entirely because he ate the Brain-Brain Fruit.
Although this was Judge's words out of jealousy, it also indirectly highlighted the extraordinary nature of the Brain-Brain Fruit.
"Am I really qualified to consume it?", Sora murmured softly, filled with unease.
She simply couldn't believe that Rosse was actually willing to let her consume such a precious fruit.
No matter how she thought about it, this fruit didn't seem like something she should eat. It should belong to a scientist at least on par with Judge's level.
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