#504Chapter 504: Flesh and Blood Are Short, Mechanical AscensionAI Model: gemini-2.5-flash
Chapter 504: The Flesh is Frail, Machine Ascension
Mai Shiranui solemnly handed the small bottle containing Andy's hair tissue to Cheng Tian, who received it with an equally serious expression.
Because Cheng had spoken about that matter in public, Andy's vigilance towards Mai Shiranui had now reached its peak, completely denying her any chance for a forced marriage to secure a direct descendant.
It was a pity, though, that Mai Shiranui had already found an opportunity to make her move on him much earlier.
To prevent Andy from discovering her secret trip to the Hammond Laboratory, Mai Shiranui had gone to great lengths to disguise herself… but her outstanding beauty and figure rendered any so-called disguise useless; it was just that Andy hadn't noticed yet.
However, upon hearing Cheng Tian's promise, she began to joyfully anticipate the day when the "Andy-Exclusive Estrus Pheromone" would be synthesized.
Cheng Tian was not bluffing, because in the Cadillacs and Dinosaurs dungeon, the laboratory guided the dinosaurs to natural reproduction by specifically releasing pheromones.
And as one of the rare animals in nature that can go into estrus 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, humans are actually easier to control in this regard than dinosaurs.
Of course, as a martial artist, Andy's will should be very firm; his firmness lay in his unwavering refusal to take responsibility, even when Mai Shiranui actively proposed to him.
But it didn't matter, Cheng would choose to increase the dosage.
Mai Shiranui, however, was unaware that there was an undeniable prerequisite for creating targeted pheromones… which was to cultivate Andy's clone!
The speaker had no intention, but the listener took note. While Cheng Tian and Mai Shiranui were exchanging pleasantries, Ms. Eileen, like a passing breeze, quietly left the reception room and arrived at Uthan's work laboratory.
Facing a surprised Uthan, Eileen, like a thief, lowered her voice and quietly asked if it was possible to create a pheromone spray that would make Cheng aroused.
Then she received a look of disdain from Uthan.
"If you want to mate, just tell the boss directly. I don't think he'd refuse you, so why go through all this trouble?"
"Oh, you don't understand! I'm a girl! I get shy!"
...Is that something someone planning to drug another person would say?
"This is different!"
No sooner had Eileen finished speaking than the laboratory door opened, revealing the Goddess of the Red Moon, Fina!
Fina and Eileen's eyes met, and almost instantly, they captured the same emotion revealed in each other's eyes.
"Two portions." Then Fina held up two fingers.
"Huh?" Uthan scratched his head.
"Excuse me—" Bazett's burgundy hair appeared in the gaps of Fina's wings.
"Three portions!" Fina righteously held up three fingers.
"Why don't you just all go together? It'll save two portions of material…"
Uthan, feeling his work disturbed, began to grumble.
Due to his busy work schedule and his general dislike for crowds, Uthan had remained on standby in the laboratory throughout the competition, working while watching TV.
The assistants converted from the Doll Troopers could only help with the most basic instrument operation; Uthan himself still had to lead all projects.
And to prevent himself from suddenly dying from overwork in the future, Uthan had spent most of his energy these past few days uploading his thoughts and personality as data into the laboratory's main computer. If all went well, he would likely have at least two cybernetic doppelgangers by tomorrow.
At that time, he could directly distribute his current workload.
As for the remaining small portion of his energy, it was now primarily focused on modifying the clone production line.
The clone production line obtained from the Shadowloo organization was already very complete for manufacturing clones, but in Uthan's view, it still had too many flaws.
The most serious of these was a symptom called "abnormal shortening of telomere genes," which manifested as accelerated growth alongside accelerated aging of the organism.
Whether it was Shadowloo's cloning technology or NESTS's cloning technology, both shared almost identical drawbacks: all clones were short-lived.
From a biological perspective, this is unavoidable; the cost of accelerated growth is necessarily accelerated aging. But if one considers it from another angle, if clones are to grow normally, then the same amount of time must be spent cultivating them.
And from the perspective of players who have to fight for their lives in main quests every month, a 20-year cloning cultivation period is clearly impractical.
However, at this moment, the Hammond Innovation Lab contained equipment called the "Large Feng Shui Engine / Android Reserve Device," with eight complete and immediately usable bio-androids quietly lying within the device.
The term "bio-android" already signifies that they are beings with both flesh and mechanical components, and these eight bio-androids contained Vega's genetic components. Since Vega's genes could be used, it was naturally possible to use genes from other organisms.
And Uthan, possessing the ability to "Manufacture Ancient Metal Beasts," had already quickly mastered and absorbed the related technology for "Bio-Android Manufacturing" through analogy.
That is, Uthan could not only transform living dinosaurs into Velociraptor Warriors with both flesh and mechanical attributes, but he could also transform living people into semi-mechanical, semi-flesh units similar to Maxima.
And, preliminary results had already been achieved.
In the nutrient tank of the experimental subject codenamed "Spider," Juri Han, whose body was already fully radiating a metallic luster, quietly floated.
"A bit strange…"
In the boss's office, Cheng Tian, stuffing the oily pig's blood and limp chives into his mouth, showed a subtle expression.
Because his HP self-recovery rate had actually increased!
Although it was only a faint BUFF of 0.1 per minute, lasting 1 second, it did indeed increase the self-healing rate.
And he didn't know if it was due to the chef's skill and ingredients, or the Daywalker bloodline, but this mouthful of pig blood product actually made him taste something different.
Soon, Cheng Tian's chopsticks moved to the dragon blood sausage, which was made from the blood of a Spinosaurus with Spades' mutation. After this bite went down, Cheng Tian snapped his fingers, and a small ball of flame appeared on his fingertip.
This time it wasn't an illusion; he really had a "Spades Mutation +1%" 5-second blood BUFF above his head, which corresponded to a temporary boost to fire-element skills… Perhaps the effect was lost after the blood was cooked?
Cheng Tian was a bit conflicted, wondering whether to have someone send over a bag of chilled dragon blood. Orochi's blood was precious, but he had an abundance of these mutated dragon bloods, more than he could ever use.
But a suddenly lit projection call interrupted Cheng Tian's thoughts.
Looking at the name, it was Chizuru Kagura calling.
"Please help me! Find someone!"
Chizuru Kagura got straight to the point.
"Who are you looking for?"
Cheng Tian asked, somewhat puzzled.
"Kyo Kusanagi's girlfriend! Yuki!"
Ch. 504 / 855