#632Chapter 632: Your bacterial cloning production line is great, but it will be mine in the next secondAI Model: gemini-2.5-flash
Chapter 632: Your Mycelial Fluid Clone Production Line Is Quite Good, But In The Next Second, It Will Be Mine!
Cheng Tian didn't know the exact name of this room, filled with mycelial mat flesh, but he knew it was the Martian's clone production line.
The gene original, placed inside a giant bio-sac and drinking mycelial fluid, was the standard by which all previously appearing cloned Steves were manufactured.
And with Cheng Tian and the others' forced intrusion, this clone production line once again entered full operation mode.
Besides the massive bio-sac, the entire room was also filled with numerous ventilation pipes, similarly covered in mycelial mats. Accompanied by a sound like a gashapon machine dispensing its prize, fully armed new Steve clones were manufactured and rolled out, immediately launching an attack on Cheng Tian and his companions.
The Root of Mars no longer seemed to control them. The act of attacking humans originated from the living corpse radiation virus, or the Ten Commandments Virus, which existed at a genetic level within the clones, causing living corpses to actively attack all living people.
At this point, Cheng Tian was quite curious: since the shields of these cloned Steves were mushroom shields made of mycelial filaments, did that mean their clothes were also some kind of mushroom imitation, which is why they would turn into mycelial fluid when they disintegrated?
No wonder some people intentionally chose a female character before entering the rocket launch scene, so they could enjoy the few frames of green skin when a female clone died.
Finding lewdness in a normal game, and discussing stats in a lewd game—this is the rebellion inherent in human nature.
According to the original game flow, Cheng Tian and his team only needed to withstand the infinitely spawning duplicates and destroy the large bio-sac containing the gene original to officially enter the mothership escape route, preparing for the true final act.
It was true that the Root of Mars had failed its clash and was buried, but the fact that no treasure chest dropped indicated that it was still alive, and the second phase of the BOSS battle would still come.
Compared to the large number of Peregrine Sparrow Squad clones armed with heavy machine guns in the original game, these Steve clones were clearly tougher and harder to eliminate easily. However, they had one major flaw that deprived them of the capital to contend with Cheng Tian.
That was the continued presence of the living corpse radiation virus within these new clones.
It was true that the Root of Mars was buried, but the Undead Legion, which had triumphed in the clash, was still alive and well.
The accumulated flesh shell had been almost entirely stripped away to withstand the explosion's impact, leaving only a core Undead Legion swaying into the mycelial mat hatchery. With its appearance, a gravitational pull, effective only on undead units, reappeared and acted upon these Steve clones, whose internal virus had been activated, forcibly turning them into living corpses.
One after another, Steve clones covered the core of the Undead Legion, and their attributes and size visibly increased once again.
It was evident that as long as the Undead Legion's core remained intact and it had enough corpses or undead units to utilize, it would quickly recover to a battle-ready state.
Seeing the Undead Legion recovering by utilizing the clones, Cheng Tian and his team were no longer in a hurry to break the bio-sac and free Steve.
"Is this Steve somehow strongly connected to you?"
Aileen, after tidying her bird's nest hairstyle, which had completely lost its original air bangs look due to sweat and dust, suddenly asked Cheng Tian.
"Yes, it's related to my talent ability."
Cheng Tian didn't hide anything and admitted it directly.
Aileen understood this, but she didn't intend to ask further, knowing when to stop.
As the second character template Cheng Tian had ever loaded in his life, among everyone present, only Aileen had seen Cheng Tian's appearance when using the Captain America template. More accurately, she had seen that the shield in Cheng Tian's hand was identical in appearance to the shield in Steve's hand now.
Aileen remembered that at the time, she was a player who completely surpassed Cheng Tian in all aspects. Cheng Tian had only shown some powerful adaptability and talent in shield usage that was more special than many novices.
This was probably only about half a year, but Aileen had already been completely surpassed. The half-elf archer was somewhat emotional about this but also quite gratified in a way.
It was as if she had witnessed the birth of a powerful anomaly throughout the process.
And with Aileen's reminder, Cheng Tian also realized something: as the Captain America template that was taken away in his place to become the gene original, what changes would occur after he was rescued?
Would he return to his body in the form of an "unsettled" template? Or would some other unknown changes occur?
Just as Cheng Tian had this thought, the pipes that were still spawning elites for the Undead Legion to accumulate its shell suddenly stopped. This unannounced halt in spawning lasted for a full minute, and then, the sound of large gashapon drops reappeared.
But when another batch of Steve clones appeared, they stood there somewhat blankly. In Cheng Tian's perception, the alignment of the clones before him had changed from red, representing enemies, to green, representing allies.
The Undead Legion's characteristic, which would originally affect them indiscriminately, also temporarily lost its effect at this moment.
Cheng Tian's mind quickly entered a storm state, and his eyebrows twitched. He seemed to realize something and muttered under his breath.
"...Is it Utan?"
It was him!
Utan, for whom Cheng Tian had reserved a machine, had remained near the control console of the Shocking Modern, carefully hacking into the Martian mothership's internal system with two bio-mechs equipped with his personality.
In fact, if it were purely Martian technology, it wouldn't have been so easy. It was just that over the past two years, many technologies collected by Mimic Modern from the human side had also been applied to the mothership, and the Root of Mars had never anticipated that humans would dare to board the ship and hack into the system, which is why the hack was so easy.
However, despite the hack, there was still a world of difference from being able to control the entire mothership, so Utan simply continued to search for data.
Under the influence of Cheng Tian's save data, the clone-related technology of the Martian Triplets from MapleStory was incorporated into the Metal Slug Martian system. Utan's initial enlightenment in cloning technology used the Martian Triplets' technology.
In other words, although the manifestation was somewhat different, the essence was similar, and by analogy, as Cheng Tian and his team advanced towards the BOSS room, he had almost figured out the principle and application of mycelial fluid cloning technology, and thus followed the lines all the way to the mycelial fluid clone production line.
At this very moment, the mycelial fluid production line had been taken over by Utan through the internal lines, and thus the new clones produced changed from original enemy units to allied units.
But this also meant another thing... that the Root of Mars, which should have been the core of the mothership and managed some affairs within the ship, had completely detached from the mothership's core base!
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