The silver tentacles are naturally part of Zack's body. As a gel-like life form, Zack's most notable feature is his split body and consciousness.
The natural devil fruit combined with Zaun's alchemical technology means that even if Zack is cut into dozens of pieces, he cannot be killed. His vitality is extremely tenacious.
Zack here is just a clone, but he understands one thing: killing the elderly, the weak, women and children without reason is wrong and needs to be stopped, so he did it.
"What is this? Hey! Help! Something's wrong with this thing."
The pirate wanted to pull his arms free from Zack's restraints, but the silver-white unknown object was as strong as handcuffs, and no matter how hard he tried, he couldn't move it at all.
The pirate tried to chop Zack with his weapon, but the blade became embedded in it and could not be pulled out.
Now Zack's body is made of a very special composition. Mercury and alchemical potions produce this extremely special gel. Facing different situations, Zack can make his body show more diverse changes.
"A woman, a little kid, do you need help from guys like this? You're such a loser."
The pirate next to him heard his cry and walked over cursing, but before the pirate could get close, the part of Zack in the pool suddenly loosened and bounced over like a spring.
The pirate who was previously restrained by Zack lost his balance because of Zack's sudden relaxation, and the two of them suddenly collided with each other.
"Asshole. Ah! Ugh."
The silvery gelatinous substance grabbed their heads and knocked them towards the middle, then stuck together like dough. The extremely dense mercury blocked their mouths and noses, blocking their breathing channels.
The pirates tried to grab it with their hands, but the extremely elastic gelatinous substance turned into fluid. This was Zack's elemental mode. He had completely transformed this part of his body into mercury.
No matter how hard they tried to grab, the mercury ball was still trapped on their heads. The struggle of their bodies increased the consumption of oxygen, and a strong feeling of suffocation suddenly surged into their hearts.
"Yekelik, run!"
Zefa's wife didn't know what was going on. The remaining pirates were looting property and preparing to set fire. The fall of these two pirates provided another way out of this deadly place.
"Oh no! Stop them!"
Several other pirates also noticed the situation here and took action immediately. The leading pirate threw away the weapon in his hand, but was knocked down by a long silver whip out of thin air.
"Ability user?!"
Orlan's figure appeared outside the gate. Following the guidance of Zack's clone, he also came over.
"Help! We are General Zefa's family, please help us!"
When facing pirates who come to seek revenge, it makes no sense to emphasize Zefa's identity, but it is different when asking for help. Now this identity may play a greater role.
It was with this thought in mind that Zefa's wife shouted this after seeing someone stop the attack.
"Zefa's family is interesting. There are many hidden stories in it."
A few pirates could bully women and children, but when they encountered stronger forces, they were defeated in an instant. The silver tentacles waving along with Oran's arms solved these troubles without much effort.
"Thank you."
The crisis was over, but Zefa's wife's limbs suddenly went limp and she leaned against the door, gasping for breath. The stimulation brought by the life-and-death crisis was so great that her body triggered some stress responses.
"Fran, go contact Vice Admiral Crane and ask her to come over and handle the Navy's own affairs, Fran?"
"Father, there seemed to be someone monitoring this place just now, but he disappeared."
"Stay alert and contact the navy headquarters first."
Oran helped Zefa's wife sit back on the chair in the room, and asked Frankenstein to contact the navy. After receiving the news here, the navy quickly sent a team of soldiers here.
However, one of the soldiers quietly slipped out of the team after seeing the situation here.
Oran didn't notice the departure of a soldier. He was recalling things related to Zefa.
In the original timeline, Zephyr's mentality changed drastically after the death of his family. Even though he was extremely unwilling, he put those pirates in jail instead of venting his anger through personal means.
But after that, Zephyr, who hated pirates more and more, did not use his status as an admiral to launch a more fierce attack on the pirates, but chose to resign in despair.
His principle of not killing led him to arrest the pirates and put them in jail, but his act of resigning was very unusual.
It was obvious that his family had died in a place where there shouldn't have been any danger, and that was why he was so disheartened.
Thanks to his superior's strong persuasion, Zephyr, who still had a glimmer of hope for the navy, became the chief instructor and began to train more navy behind the scenes until the World Government recruited the person who later cut off his arm as one of the Seven Warlords of the Sea.
The Navy is the Navy, and the World Government is the World Government. Although the two institutions are in a superior-subordinate relationship, the Navy, as a violent agency, has great independence, and Zephyr's personality is not liked by the World Government.
What the World Government needs is a more decisive and swift swordsman who can resolutely carry out the orders of the World Government. Therefore, between Akainu and Aokiji, they are more optimistic about Akainu and advocate that he succeed as the marshal.
It was fine before, but as Zephyr was promoted to admiral, his stance of not killing made the World Government very dissatisfied. More importantly, some special groups began to become increasingly dissatisfied with Zephyr, such as the Celestial Dragons.
At this moment, what happened in Marinford had been conveyed to Mary Geoise through special channels.
"Did the operation fail?"
"Yes, Saint Satan. Sidiliel, invited by the Navy to the Marine Headquarters, happened to stop those pirates. It was a coincidence."
In a familiar room, a CP0 knelt on the ground, reporting the status of the mission.
Satan still looked like he had everything under control, as if he had planned all this.
Is it more important to protect the Celestial Dragons or to protect the ocean? In the eyes of the Five Elders, it is obviously the former.
Zephyr was able to grow to the level of admiral, and his strength was undoubtedly qualified, but Zephyr's personality could not better serve the Celestial Dragons.
Some time ago, Zefa interfered with the killing behavior of a Celestial Dragon he was escorting because of his own sense of morality. This made the Celestial Dragon very unhappy, and he has been using his family power to accuse Zefa of his behavior.
The World Government does not intend to give up such a fighting force, so it wants to force him to make some changes and teach him some lessons.
Let the pirates kill Zephyr's family to let Zephyr know how stupid his behavior of not killing and being disrespectful is. He wants to use this as an excuse to make him more extreme, hate pirates, and become a killing machine willing to work for the government.
Without help from here, let alone taking action, it would be unrealistic for ordinary pirates to find where Zephyr's family is. Pirates do not have the intelligence network of the World Government, and Zephyr would not be so idle as to publish his family situation in the newspaper every day.
To be more precise, most of the ordinary soldiers in the navy cannot clearly explain the family situation of the navy's senior generals, let alone these pirates.
"Saint Satan, what's next?"
"No need to continue. Once is an accident, twice is too deliberate. The navy will strengthen its defenses after this.
Although the person didn't die, the effect should be similar. We'll know after seeing his reaction.
By the way, what happened to those pirates?"
"Most of them were killed by Sidiliel. He seems to have become a natural ability user, and he's quite powerful. One was captured alive."
"Let the remaining person disappear, and this matter ends here."
"yes."
This is Satan's usual style. Except for the Celestial Dragons, ordinary people are nothing but insects in his eyes. It doesn't matter if a few of them die for his own purposes.
Even the navy is nothing more than a hunting dog. A hunting dog that cannot be tamed will be abandoned after its value is exhausted, even if it is strong enough.
When Satan's casual words decided the life and death of others, Zefa also seemed very angry on a warship.
"Full speed ahead! Return to Marinford immediately!!"
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