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After playing with a few features, Le Zhengling discovered that Leonardo da Vinci was staring at him in a daze.
Snapping out of his reverie, Da Vinci looked toward the inside of the archway, following Ling's voice. "Ah, sorry, I was distracted. All the men have left the monitoring room. You can go in now. We'll keep an eye on things and notify you immediately if there are any problems."
“Okay, oh right, if Fufu is here too, it would be better to throw him out as well, since he’s male too.” After answering, Yue Zheng suddenly remembered Fufu, who hadn’t appeared and whose presence was unknown, and reminded him.
Upon hearing Yue Zhengling's words, Fou, who had been quietly nestled in Mashu's arms, angrily cried out twice, "four~four! (You heartless bastard!)"
"Oh my, it really is here. Fufu, you're so lewd. Didn't I say the males have to go out? Don't you admit you're male?" Hearing that familiar call, Le Zhengling couldn't help but tease it.
“Fo~four! Four! (You’re not male!)” Fo~four bared its teeth and squeaked sharply twice.
"Alright, just kidding, don't be angry. I'll go play with you when we get back, or I'll cook you a nice meal." Although she couldn't see Fufu's face, Yue Zhengling could still imagine Fufu's angry expression.
While he was in Chaldea, although he stayed in Da Vinci's workshop, the person who spent the most time with him was Fou. Apart from exercising inside Chaldea, Fou spent the rest of her time by his side, which made even the shy Mash complain to him that Fou rarely played with her after he appeared.
As a result, Mashu would come to Da Vinci's workshop whenever he had free time. To keep Fou from getting bored, after learning mechanical manufacturing from Da Vinci, he made a batch of gadgets, including a deluxe cat house, a running turntable, a mini swing, and even a special scooter. When he had free time, he would even cook for Fou to improve her meals.
During that period, both he and Fou were very happy, and this happiness also infected Mashu. Through Fou, their relationship had changed from strangers to pet lovers with common interests.
"Ling, are you really confident that you can come back?" Seeing that the atmosphere was relatively harmonious, Leonardo da Vinci couldn't help but ask the question he had never dared to ask before.
“Yes, even if the Holy Grail War doesn’t work, I actually have another method. But if I really use that method, there are some problems I will have to face head-on.” Le Zhengling slowly put Olga Marie down from his back.
"Is that method dangerous?" Leonardo da Vinci asked worriedly.
"It's not exactly dangerous. At best, I might be taken away, and only Olga would return. At worst, if the Silver Key goes back with me, the magical foundation of your world might completely collapse. Well, it really depends on my will. I won't use this method until the very last resort."
Looking at Olga Marie's pale face, Yue Zhengling traced her lips with his finger and then began to undress her.
Upon seeing this, everyone in Chaldea fell silent.
When Einzbern's maid brought Le Zhengling to the amniotic fluid room, she had already stepped aside and quietly awaited his next instructions.
He ripped off the crooked bow tie from her neck and saw once again the marks of his violence against Olga Marie; the two red dots were unusually conspicuous on her fair neck.
His gaze swept over her neck, and after untying her bow tie, the small cape on her upper body naturally fell off. Next, he unbuttoned the vest, revealing a long white shirt underneath. To avoid trouble later, Yue Zhengling did not continue to unbutton the shirt, but instead felt around the side of her skirt, first untying the hidden chain and clasp on the left side.
Reaching inside her skirt, he gently lifted Olga's bottom and pulled the skirt out. Then, he moved his hand to her knees, bending her legs slightly, and then smoothly pulled the skirt off.
Red pantyhose clung tightly to her skin, and a white shirt covered the rest of her accessories. At this point, Yue Zhengling took a deep breath.
"Well, if you were awake, given your personality, you would probably slap me. Unfortunately, you're unconscious right now, so you can only let me do whatever I want."
“Hey, Ling, that’s a dangerous statement. Although I can’t do anything about your current behavior, it doesn’t mean I have no opinion. I’ll take it as a joke if you do whatever you want.” Da Vinci gave Yue Zhengling a strange look. “Olga will tell her everything you’re doing when she wakes up, so don’t mess around.”
“Da Vinci, it’s a bit too late for you to say this.” Le Zhengling didn’t look up, but slowly unbuttoned Olga’s shirt.
Upon hearing Yue Zhengling's words, Leonardo da Vinci's expression changed, and he looked at Yue Zhengling solemnly, saying, "You don't really intend to do anything reckless, do you?"
Le Zhengling did not answer her. Her hands moved swiftly, and in the blink of an eye, she had taken off Olga's top, leaving only her most intimate pantyhose and underwear that accentuated her breasts.
"Oh, right, I can't just focus on Olga, I need to take my own clothes off too." Withdrawing her hand from the bra strap, Yue Zhengling quickly took off all her clothes, revealing fair skin that was no less beautiful than any woman's.
“Listen!” Leonardo da Vinci shouted, but Le Zhengling paid no heed.
The projection angle on Chaldea's side had already been changed. Shion adjusted the angle of the control room to be behind Yue Zhengling, so that not only could only Yue Zhengling's upper body be seen, but it also blocked Yue Zhengling's next move just right.
When Leonardo da Vinci saw Yue Zhengling throw away two matching sets of red underwear and red stockings, he became extremely worried.
"Don't worry, I have absolutely no interest in her." Ling turned her head, frowning as she looked at Da Vinci. "I'm not a fan of ice love, and I'm not particularly interested in that kind of thing, not to mention Olga's figure isn't in my favor. If it weren't for that last time—"
At this point, Yue Zhengling stopped talking, a sigh flashing in her eyes, and then continued calmly, "You can't wear clothes when you enter the amniotic trough, so don't make a fuss."
After saying that, he picked Olga up again and walked barefoot into the amniotic fluid room. On both sides stood culture tanks, all of which contained female androids that had not yet been activated.
The amniotic fluid pool below shimmered with a blue light and was crystal clear.
"Hey, this is really something!" The view from Ziyuan's window was completely different from that from the control room, so she could clearly see the entire amniotic fluid chamber.
Looking down from above, the amniotic fluid chamber is circular and full of traces of alchemy. Its overall scale is even slightly larger than that of the artificial human cultivation chamber in the Atlas Institute.
However, this was not the reason for Shion's sigh; the reason was that she saw the truth at the bottom of the amniotic fluid pool—it was filled with abandoned artificial human corpses.
Although she didn't know exactly how deep the amniotic fluid pool was, after visual estimation and calculation, Shion concluded that it was over thirty meters deep. In addition, the room was incredibly huge, and the abandoned androids had been piled up very close to the water surface.
"How many artificial humans did the Einzbern family actually produce?"
Chapter 304 From Death to Life (Part 1)
"Who knows? After all, this is a magic workshop that has existed since the first year of the Western calendar. It has a history of nearly two thousand years. Even if one is replaced every year, nearly two thousand have been discarded here. Not to mention that the lifespan of artificial humans is extremely short. In order to maintain this huge workshop, there will never be a shortage of manpower here."
As Le Zhengling gazed at the corpses in the amniotic fluid pool, he felt an inexplicable sense of kinship.
"Well, it seems that Chief Ahad wasn't lying to me. I didn't feel disgusted when I saw these android corpses. I guess it's because this body of mine belongs here."
“Hum, that’s an interesting point of yours. Indeed, an ordinary person would feel uncomfortable seeing such a large number of corpses all at once.” Shion nodded as she spoke. “Based on my calculations and your words, did something terrible happen when you came to this world? And although Chaldea hasn’t asked any questions, you’re not a Servant now, but you’re not the same as a pseudo-Servant.”
Shion analyzed the data on the screen, "If it's called 'rebirth,' the magical power contained in this body is too high, and it doesn't match the size of your spirit origin. Heroic spirits rebirth means that the body is regenerated according to the size of the spirit origin. In other words, the strength of your body will be limited by the spirit origin. This situation is unheard of."
Ziyuan watched the data increase and decrease with great interest. As the data about Yue Zhengling became more detailed, she became increasingly eager to understand everything about Yue Zhengling.
For alchemists, the unknown is the most precious thing, because only the unknown can bring them closer to perfection.
"Ziyuan, I am not a Heroic Spirit. The so-called Spirit Origin is just a remedial measure given to me by someone I know in order to maintain my existence." Yue Zhengling shook her head and prepared to enter the amniotic fluid pool by going up the steps.
"Wait a minute, Ling, you want to take Olga into this kind of magical cultivation tank like this?! There's a limit to recklessness!" Da Vinci scolded. "I thought you wanted to use the nutrient solution for cultivating androids to treat Olga, but now you're telling me you want to enter this kind of recycling pool! Do you have any common sense at all?!"
Le Zhengling glared at Da Vinci with annoyance, "You say I lack common sense, simply because you don't know Olga's situation."
He tiptoed to test the water temperature, and the cold, slippery sensation spread from his feet to his whole body, making him shiver involuntarily.
"Why do you think I would drink Olga's blood?"
Since becoming a vampire, Yue Zhengling has naturally learned a lot about vampires. After all, his elder was Hei Ji, and he still remembers how he was driven by hunger to take Hei Ji's heart and drink her blood the moment he woke up.
After the two officially formed a Servant Contract, through this contract, Yue Zhengling learned about part of her background. The Dead Apostle has the ability to extract information from the blood of the person he drinks, which is why he drinks a lot of Olga's blood. While strengthening the bond between the two, he also learned about her entire past from her blood.
Before Da Vinci could press for details, Le Zhengling explained, "You can ask the doctor for more information. Rafe seems to know as well as well. I don't have time to explain that now, but in short, I won't harm Olga."
After speaking, Yue Zhengling endured the cold and slowly stepped into the water tank.
"It's clearly something similar to LCL, but the Sea of Life is supposed to be a warm place. Is it because the Sea of Life is a warm orange-red color, while this place is a cool blue color, that causes the water temperature to be different?" Yue Zhengling made a rare comment, but no one understood what he was talking about.
"What are you talking about?" Da Vinci rubbed his temples in frustration. He had spent quite a bit of time with Yue Zhengling, but he often couldn't understand what he was saying.
She understood that Yue Zhengling knew a lot of things, but in most cases, she could understand what he said. However, the very few things she couldn't understand always gave her the feeling that he was talking nonsense.
Like these words, LCL, the Sea of Life, these are things I've never heard of before.
Da Vinci had pressed Yue Zhengling about the meaning of those terms she didn't understand. For example, once Yue Zhengling mentioned her masterpiece, the Vitruvian Man, and then told a story called "The Da Vinci Code," about the Holy Grail and the Holy Blood, Jesus' wife and descendants. The whole story was so well-reasoned that Yue Zhengling almost believed it, but it was just a figment of her imagination.
When I pressed her for details about the story, she would first look confused, and then her expression would turn quite unpleasant.
But whenever this happened, she could always see the memories and pain in Ling's eyes that weren't well hidden.
"Then give me a reason, even if it's just to fool me, so I can have an explanation." Da Vinci felt that he was a real failure as a teacher, because Ling wasn't afraid of him at all.
“Death replay, from death to life.” Yue Zhengling succinctly stated the two phrases.
"Speak like a human being! You actually took my polite words seriously, didn't you!" Da Vinci clenched his fist and waved it twice, his meaning quite clear.
"Well, although I don't really care about your threats, I'll take the time to explain for the sake of the future." The water in the amniotic fluid pool had already reached above her calves, and Yue Zhengling was slowly getting used to the water temperature.
“You know that before a person knows that death is about to come, their entire life's memories will replay rapidly in their mind. As for Olga's memories, I already know most of them from her blood. What I lack are her memories before she was born. So, by using the amniotic fluid pool in Einzbern, there is a great chance that I can see these memories that I haven't seen yet.”
“Didn’t you say those were memories from before you were born? How could you possibly remember them?” Da Vinci frowned, then thought of a possibility, and she gasped in surprise, covering her mouth.
"You figured it out, didn't you?" Yue Zhengling could tell at a glance that Da Vinci had figured out the truth.
"How is this possible? How is this possible—" Leonardo da Vinci exclaimed in disbelief in a low voice.
"I'll tell you the truth after I see it. After all, depending on the situation, we both need to have new bodies after we come back. I'll have to trouble you then, Da Vinci." Yue Zhengling nodded to Da Vinci, while Ziyuan interjected at this moment.
"So the so-called 'rebirth from death' is just maintaining a state of neither life nor death through a pool of amniotic fluid filled with death and life, so you can finish spying?" Ziyuan looked at Le Zhengling with disdain. "Doesn't the word 'privacy' exist in your dictionary?"
“My fate is already tied to Olga’s. Do you think the contract between us is something ordinary? Do you know how many times I’ve been schemed against since entering this world? What I fear most now is that I will be forced into unknown situations against my will, and that future is already foreseeable!”
Le Zhengling raised an eyebrow almost imperceptibly, his eyes filled with worry. "Ziyuan, I'm not stupid. What happened to me is more bizarre than any story. Heh, the people I've met are no ordinary people. They're practically the key figures in various parallel worlds. Before, I didn't want to delve into it and wanted to be an ordinary person who didn't care about anything. But now I know I don't have that chance anymore."
Ziyuan looked surprised. Indeed, she only knew part of Yue Zhengling's past because she could only read information about his arrival in her parallel world.
If we trace back further, we can only go back to the records of the Starry Sea.
How did he appear in the Starry Sea? Who was he before? There wasn't a trace of him in the Imaginary Sea. Judging from his tone, it seems that he had encountered many extraordinary beings before this.
"How do you know you can no longer live as an ordinary person according to your previous ideas?" Ziwan asked impatiently.
"Because the Counter Force has already noticed me, Olga, the Star Maiden, has made a Servant Contract with me, and Gaia's woman, Black Princess, has also made a Blood Contract with me. Even if Alaya doesn't take action, I'm already connected to the concept of 'Planet.' If He wants, there's nowhere for me to hide on the planet called 'Earth.'"
Le Zhengling's lips curled slightly upwards, revealing a chilling aura that seemed out of place for her age, and her entire body radiated a mysterious negative energy field.
"Since Gaia has already made a move against me, I certainly can't just sit here and wait to die. The first thing I need to do is figure out the situation of the agent. Maybe I can even break the restraints that Gaia has placed on me. Then, as long as I find a place to hide, I can still do what I want to do, right?"
In a sense, Le Zhengling always thought he was harmless because he believed that he adhered to the principle of "I will not offend others unless they offend me," and that he did not contribute to the world or cause any harm.
This idea persisted until he went to Chaldea, because he believed that even if the burning of humanity occurred, it would still be safe in Chaldea, and that he could witness various beings from human history and even participate in various activities, which would be an interesting thing.
He always believed that with his foresight, he could always retreat with ease, and even when Leonardo da Vinci told him about Ji Ling's existence, he didn't pay much attention.
However, Olga's existence slapped him in the face, and only then did Yue Zhengling take the so-called "plot" he possessed seriously.
Ultimately, a plot is just a story. When the world of a story becomes the real world, then everything that happens in the story is just a corner of reality.
What happened before the story began is no longer a simple background, and this is where Yue Zhengling stumbled this time.
Chapter 305 From Death to Life (Part 2)
After his death, the person who claimed to be his mother said, "I believe in the goodwill of the world."
Le Zhengling never believed this statement from the beginning. Although his mental age had regressed somewhat, he was not some immature teenager. At least he knew that his worldview was still that of a normal adult.
So "goodwill in the world"? What kind of nonsense is that, meant to fool children? How could goodwill possibly exist in the world?
Of course, this doesn't mean that Yue Zhengling believes the world is full of malice. To be more precise, he believes that there is no concept of good or evil in the world.
Children's world is black and white, while adults' world is only gray and driven by self-interest.
Ultimately, goodwill from the world only applies when things develop in one's own favor, and so far, Yue Zhengling has never felt this goodwill; being powerless to change his fate is a perfect description of his situation.
So, in order to turn the tables and take control of the game, he decided that the first thing he needed to do was to figure out who the other players were, remove himself from the role of a piece, step out of the game, and not expect to become the player, but at least become an observer. As for whether he would still be watching the game, that would depend on his mood.
Yue Zhengling had considered that he might be the most crucial figure in this game, with everything revolving around him, but he felt that he wasn't destined to be the protagonist.
Even if he inadvertently ended up next to several important figures, or even had close contact with Olga, he didn't consider these things to be of any particular importance.
When I first met the Aozaki sisters, it was only a brief encounter. Even though I kept the manuscript, it only left a deep impression on Touko.
After all, he had already died in that world, and the story of The Night of the Wizard was completely irrelevant to him.
In the post-apocalyptic world, he encountered Orange from that world. Although he didn't understand why she knew him, Orange from that world took good care of him, which clearly showed that she was on his side.
As for Arthur, I already knew about him during our conversation. His story with the Sajo sisters was over, and I wouldn't be dragged into that story.
Then came the Chaldea timeline in 2012, before the Burning of Humanity had occurred. He told Da Vinci everything he knew, which should have given him more room to maneuver regarding the Burning of Humanity. He thought he could just watch the show unfold, but he was dragged down by Olga's sudden outburst.
Arriving in this world before the Fourth Holy Grail War, Le Zhengling unexpectedly gained a new body and devoured Angra Mainyu. This development was not unexpected, because Merlin had given him several trump cards.
However, Olga betrayed him again, resulting in the two truly forming a Servant Contract.
At the time, he thought it didn't matter because, in his eyes, Olga, though special, was still destined to be cannon fodder.
Orga, who died at the very beginning of the FGO story, didn't even appear in flashbacks in later episodes. Although the alien priestess in version 2.0 is suspected to be her, Yue Zhengling is confident that the story of version 2.0 will not happen in the hands of Leonardo da Vinci, who knows the truth about the burning of humanity.
Everything was so peaceful—until the appearance of Kurohime.
As the true progenitor of Gaia's tentacles, and the daughter of both the Moon King and Gaia, Altrucci's bizarre abilities shattered his illusions.
The blood pact created an invisible bridge between him and Black Princess, indirectly allowing Gaia to influence him through other means.
It was only then that Yue Zhengling suddenly realized that many things had been subtly changing after she left her original world.
Even if he didn't know Gaia's purpose, as a person from another world, he didn't believe that the world's suppressor simply wanted to have tea and chat with him. This wasn't to say that he had any paranoia; it was just a simple analysis.
To give an analogy, imagine you immigrate to another country, and the country's top leader suddenly speaks out and expresses interest in you. Whether you like it or not, your every move will be watched by countless eyes.
Even if the country's leader doesn't really care about you, there will still be busybodies who think you're special, and then all sorts of tests will follow.
Le Zhengling wanted to cut off this attention, so he wanted to figure out what the leader's true purpose was. At the same time, in order to deal with the machinations of those who wanted to cause trouble, he had to become stronger as soon as possible.
On his first time drinking blood, he didn't gain much information from Black Princess's blood. Although he knew that she had come to him with Gaia's help, Gaia's only instruction to her was to make a blood pact with him, and he knew nothing else.
Subconsciously feeling that Altruchi was a threat, he immediately succumbed to the malice remaining in the black mud upon waking up and attacked the unsuspecting Black Princess, stealing her heart, which was crucial to vampires.
As a result, after the heart crystallized, it disappeared from his hands for some unknown reason. At that time, he had just woken up and did not think about it in detail. Now, recalling it, he realized that something was very wrong.