#563Chapter 563: Cursed Container? Pseudo-UO? Lostbelt?AI Model: gemini-2.5-flash
Chapter 563: Cursed Vessel? Pseudo-UO? Lostbelt?
Cheng Tian's portable laboratory can be deployed in multiple instances, but in a certain sense, its internal spaces are interconnected.
For example, Decapre, who has already joined other puppet troops and become a defensive force within the laboratory, can be dispatched by Cheng Tian to any currently deployed physical laboratory instance for additional tasks. However, if Cheng Tian wants her to assist in another instance mid-mission, he would need to wait for her to successfully return from her current instance before redeploying her.
It's somewhat similar to the Palico expedition teams in the "Monster Hunter" series.
Similarly, experimental results are also interconnected; all experimental projects are dependent on the portable laboratory, and the physical laboratories dispersed across different instances are more like exclusive projections.
Of course, NPC units not belonging to the portable laboratory cannot invade Cheng Tian's portable laboratory via the physical laboratories. For instance, Shadow Luo's invasion back then only managed to destroy the corresponding physical projection at most.
After returning from the King of Fighters World, the laboratory's main research focus shifted to clones.
According to the original plan, the top priority for clone cultivation was the "blood of Yugi Muto" obtained from Seto Kaiba, primarily to complete the CEO's Duel in the Underworld.
Next were the Qin brothers; Cheng Tian didn't need them as people, only their blood to unlock the bloodline-encrypted compressed package of the Great Qin version.
Only third in line was Orochi.
In fact, logically speaking, a god-tier entity like Orochi is an existence that human means simply cannot replicate.
However, in the cross-world fighting game "NeoGeo Battle Coliseum," which includes the King of Fighters worldview, it was clearly documented that an organization did acquire a sample—whether it should be called Orochi's gene or not is unknown—and successfully artificially created a cloned deity named "Mizuchi."
The creation of clones has a cycle; within the game's worldview, it takes years. When transferred to Heaven's Chosen Space, this cultivation time was drastically shortened to only months, much like Bazett cultivating the Reverse-Flash Sword with blood, both receiving a default enhancement.
The growth efficiency of the embryos in the cultivation tanks was incredibly rapid, almost catching up to the metamorphosis of insects.
This is understandable; after all, under circumstances where one must face a life-threatening main mission every month, units cultivated over years would indeed be of no practical use.
However, when the new laboratory branch was established in Fuyuki City, it also meant establishing a certain connection with the current world.
At that time, Uhtan had already noticed that the growth rate of the Orochi clone had increased rapidly.
Within a single day, it had transformed from a small child, roughly equivalent to a 2nd grader, into the physique of a young adult. Its bulging chest also began to show sun-like marks resembling the spread of Yamata no Orochi, just like the real Orochi.
Because the sample was extracted from Orochi Iori, the clone naturally also possessed Iori's gender, resulting in the cultivated Orochi clone being female.
Of course, this wasn't important; what was important was the change in the Orochi clone itself.
Uhtan is not Cheng Tian; it doesn't understand the underlying logical structure of the Fate worldview, and it was also its first time cultivating a cloned divine body. It had no idea whether this situation was good or bad, normal or erroneous.
Until the detection device detected that the clone's brainwaves began to show complex activity.
This clearly exceeded Uhtan's capabilities, so as per usual, when things can't be handled, just shake the boss!
"This is a bit bad…"
Cheng Tian looked at the female Orochi clone in the cultivation tank, whose eyelids occasionally twitched, and decisively switched to the title "Earth God Has Resigned."
[Earth God Has Resigned: Golden Legend, Special Title. Having once merged with Orochi, you also indirectly successfully joined and became the Earth God of the island nation branch under Gaia, the planetary will of the King of Fighters World. Although you have currently resigned, you still retain your former superior's contact information. As the saying goes, more friends mean more paths. As long as you understand social etiquette, you can indeed try to contact your former superior for some help.
After equipping the title, you can attempt to contact the Planetary Will/Earth God superior for help. This action may require an additional cost.]
This Golden Legend title, in essence, is a direct phone line specifically for contacting the Planetary Will. As for whether anyone answers on the other end, whether they are willing to listen to Cheng Tian speak after answering, whether their attitude is good or bad, etc., all depend on the current situation.
Cheng Tian wasn't very confident in other worlds, but in this world, he was quite confident about being able to contact the Planetary Will.
Because his current identity was that of a dispatched worker in the Type-Moon worldview, working under the Planetary Will. The boss couldn't possibly refuse to answer an employee's call, could he?
The call was answered, the situation was asked about.
Without paying an additional price, or perhaps as an employee benefit, the Planetary Will, Gaia, gave Cheng Tian an unexpected yet reasonable answer.
The blank body of Orochi, an artificial clone deity, had been targeted by the black mud within the Holy Grail.
In short, the Orochi clone, as an artificial divine body, was the most suitable existence to house the black mud in its current state, without even a close second.
Becoming a UO was a bit of an overestimation; after all, it was still just an artificial body. Gaia would not acknowledge such an artificial creation as an agent. However, compared to Illya, the Lesser Holy Grail, and Matou Sakura, the Pseudo-Holy Grail, it was clearly more qualified... and also more dangerous.
Once the black mud physically came into contact with the Orochi clone, it would inevitably give birth to a quasi-UO artificial disaster that was fundamentally still an aggregate of curses.
Using a more game-like term, that would be a Lostbelt BOSS.
By then, the affected area would not be limited to Fuyuki City; the Counter Force might even have to intervene.
"This is trouble you actively brought upon yourself. If you don't handle it well, your salary will be docked."
These were Gaia's last words before hanging up… Alright, this is indeed my fault.
Cheng Tian's mind began to race, and a multitude of countermeasures flashed through it in an instant.
Ultimately, it boiled down to two directions for countermeasures.
Destroy the black mud, or destroy the Orochi clone. However, from the perspective of resolving the event, destroying the Orochi clone could only solve the immediate problem; eliminating the black mud and the Holy Grail would end everything at its root.
"Let's destroy the clone first; we can't give the black mud a chance to occupy it."
Time was pressing, so Cheng Tian immediately issued the command to Uhtan to eliminate the clone.
Although it cost him a lot of money and a considerable amount of effort (Uhtan's), compared to the impending situation, Cheng Tian was willing to sacrifice all his wealth.
But just as Cheng Tian issued the destruction command, the Orochi clone in the cultivation tank suddenly opened its eyes, and at the same time, a voice abruptly echoed in everyone's minds.
"Is this your decision, Father?"
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