They've already fought their way through the Holy Grail War, and you still call them dragons?

"Besides, I was the one who wiped out the Chen family's Deadpool before, so I should have been noticed by them. Now that I know they might still be creating them, I can't just stand by and watch."

Besides, he has made significant progress in projection technology recently, and combat will help test and consolidate it.

"Hehe, Shirou, thank you so much!" Wazhu opened her eyes and relaxed her brows, smiling happily. She quickly climbed onto Shirou Emiya's back, lying on his shoulder and whispering softly in his ear, "You, as a butler, are still so considerate."

Ahhhhhh——! Su Enxi, who was watching the whole thing, lowered her head in pain. Help, stop it! Do you know how much harm your public display of affection will cause to a single, homely girl like me?

She suddenly envied Ling and Shude Mai who were always left alone in the next room. They must have nothing to do except staring blankly.

"Oh, by the way," Wazhu seemed to have noticed Su Enxi's presence, "Regarding the plan to invade the Chen family base, I have a bold idea."

"Eh?" Su Enxi suddenly felt something was wrong. Was this matter not over yet?

Lord Wa was kind to his housekeeper, but spoke to her in a very strong tone, and in his words he turned back into the majestic head of the family.

"My Zhou family originally planned to join forces with other aristocratic families to launch a joint operation against the Chen family. Since you have invited my Zhou family, we might as well expand the scale and cooperate with us to form a joint operation - so, you must change the action plan as soon as possible."

Ah!! When Su Enxi heard that her overtime work was far from over, her vision went dark, she screamed, her head tilted, her legs kicked, and she fainted.

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Chapter 25: Three steps to kill the Chen family!

Well, it’s good to be young, you can fall asleep as soon as you lie down.

Su Enxi was finally carried away by her two teammates.

After coming out of the room where they were dazed, they found that Jude Mai and Ling, who had completed their mission, stood in front and behind, one tall and one short, and lifted the old lady's head and feet on their shoulders respectively, and carried her away like a dead person.

Zero remained expressionless.

Jiude Mai was pretending to be sympathetic, brushing past Su Enxi's face with a sad face and whispering:

Potato Chips, I'm sorry, I wronged you. It turns out you really weren't giving up but were actually being wise and foolish. It's a pity that this was supposed to be a mission for the three of us... but in the end, you took it all on by yourself.

"..." In other words, Su Enxi, whose consciousness had fallen into chaos, was unable to refute, otherwise she would have jumped up and down with gritted teeth and had a big fight with Jiude Mai for three hundred rounds.

Before leaving, the trio agreed with the Zhou family on contact information and the next meeting place. Both sides divided the work and cooperated with each other, making preliminary preparations for the action.

"Preliminary preparations?"

"Just contact those noble families to take action. Hey, there are still several days of verbal battles to go."

On the way back, Lord Wa talked about this matter with Emiya, and shook his head with a slight headache. As the descendant of Nuwa in Chu, the Zhou family is known as the patriarch of the aristocratic families in Jingchu, but other aristocratic families are not pushovers either.

When it comes to small matters, everyone recognizes you as the head of the Zhou family and naturally gives you some face. Then, when there are profitable things, such as the development of large-scale ruins like the Three Kings Tomb, everyone also recognizes your Zhou family as the one that will take the lead in distributing the benefits...

But should we devote manpower and resources to deal with the Chen family, who are difficult to deal with?

I'm sorry, but without some legitimate reasons and genuine, high-quality compensation, the best you can do is just sit back and relax, and cheer. As for charging into battle? You'd better go on your own.

Wazhu pondered, "It's okay to give them the magic circuit system. After all, the development of the circuit depends too much on talent. As for the follow-up, the thought disk that Shirou mentioned sounds complicated. Maybe we can try to keep them hanging."

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In the days that followed, the Zhou family began to secretly contact other families one after another to discuss cooperation in a joint action against the Chen family. Lord Wa regained her charm, and she argued with the heroes and the heads of the various families in a majestic manner, causing a chaotic battle.

She was able to argue with the mysterious dragon spirit in the Dragon-Breaking Platform for two whole days and nights and win the battle. Why would she be worried about dealing with you little half-bloods like Karami?

While Lord Wa was arguing with the heads of other major families at full speed, he also found some free time to urge the three nannies to urge them to make progress on their side.

According to the nanny team, their battle plan was to send a heavyweight infiltration expert, Jiude Mai, to contact the insider they found in the Chen family...

The source of information for this trio is quite mysterious. Wa really didn't expect that the Chen family, who are very prickly and almost like a hedgehog, could actually uncover a high-level insider.

So, several parties made a strategy, three steps to kill the Chen family -

The first step is for the nanny group to work with an insider to obtain evidence of the Chen family's shady research and further detailed intelligence from the base.

In the second step, the Zhou family will try to contact more noble families, from severing contacts and cooperation to attacking the Chen family manor and completely blocking the research base on the day of action.

Finally, the Zhou family dispatched their sharp knife troops to attack and destroy the resistance forces in the base and any possible Deadpool products...

Lord Wa politely declined the proposals of the various families who were eager to actively participate in the attack on the base, because they also coveted the Chen family's research results - it would be funny if they were all stuffed in to form a temporary team with complex composition, and then they would hold each other back and scramble for the results.

As for Emiya, he was also squatting in his room making preparations for the battle—

"Projection, start (Trace on)."

A much stronger alchemy field unfolded in the void, and two bronze swords that were almost identical to Gan Jiang and Moye slowly took shape.

——If this scene was seen by Jiude Mai, she would probably be surprised and feel a sense of déjà vu. Her boss Lu Mingze once directly pinched two artifacts out of thin air, Tianyu Yuzan and Budu Yuhun and gave them to her to use in battle.

In terms of this world's alchemy system, this is the advanced realm of the legendary "Seven Kingdoms," an outstanding achievement.

At this point, Emiya had essentially touched a corner, but not very deeply. The reason was that—

"Buzz!" Emiya tried to inject magic power into the projection weapon to activate the effect of the treasure. The light tempered by magic power spread all over the sword, but the response was mediocre, and there was nothing magical at all.

"This level... can only be considered a pseudo-noble phantasm."

A pseudo-noble phantasm is not the original Noble Phantasm, but a degraded version of it with a lowered level. It cannot be used to release the True Name.

Emiya suppressed the frustration in his heart.

If you think about it a little more positively, the Projected Pseudo-Codex has low consumption, is quick to produce, and can also give you powerful long-range means.

Red A's common tactic is to project a pseudo-noble weapon, such as the pseudo-spiral sword, and use it as a tactical missile for long-range bombing.

At this time, Old Tang pushed the door open. He had two big dark circles under his eyes and looked haggard. It was obvious that he had not slept well.

"Hey, brother, I tried that dual personality you were talking about, and it feels like the brother inside me refuses to talk to me no matter what! Hey, Old Tang, I'm now a young, wealthy, handsome guy. Could it be that I would be disliked by 'myself'?"

I used to be a poor guy living on welfare in Brooklyn. If I had any ambitions, it was to travel around North America on a Greyhound bus watching beautiful women and become Indiana Jones.

But now, following behind his brothers, he has found a stable job in a top family in Shenzhou, and even entered the other world, where he possesses a genius-like magical talent...

But a certain dragon ignored him.

So Old Tang beat his chest and stamped his feet in grief. People who didn't know he was single thought he was dumped by some woman.

"Huh? I mentioned to you yesterday that you might have a split personality. Old Tang, have you been trying all night?"

"Of course not, brother, how can I not believe you when you said it yourself!"

Old Tang believed that Emiya was the guide who led him into the "gate to the other world". He referred to Emiya's advice on knowledge about gods and ghosts and followed what Emiya said as the guiding principle.

He even felt that Emiya knew more than the Zhou family, a mixed-blood family.

Does the Zhou family know about magic circuits? No!

They were still confused themselves and wanted to ask his good brother Emiya for advice.

"Well, I'm just guessing. There are indeed methods in the world to actively create other personalities, which can help you, Old Tang, unlock the secrets of your body."

Old Tang scratched his head and said, "I may not be very knowledgeable, but I know this thing is just a split personality disorder. Could it have some benefits?"

"Old Tang, you know alchemy, right?"

"Oh, I understand. My time in the Zhou family wasn't in vain. I learned about the Western Philosopher's Stone that turns stone into gold, and the Shenzhou weapon and pill refining—"

"No, that's not what I'm talking about. It's an ancient alchemy from the Atlas Academy. 'Split Thinking', which creates multiple personalities, is their method of practice."

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Chapter 26 Where to Start Cutting

The Atlas Academy in Type-Moon, also known as the "Giant's Cellar", is located in an unknown place underground in the Atlas Mountains. It inherits ancient alchemy that is very different from modern alchemy.

The basis of this alchemy is to use "split thinking" to divide into multiple personalities. Different personalities can be connected to each other at high speed, exchange information, multiply thoughts, and complete high-speed calculations.

How fast is it?

比如分成3个人格，就是3*3*3=27，思维加速27倍；分成4个人格，就是4*4*4*4=256，思维加速256倍！

Accelerate thinking exponentially and turn the human brain into a supercomputer!

Thanks to their high-speed thinking, the alchemists of Atlas continue to create weapons beyond the imagination of modern magicians, the most terrifying of which are the seven world-destroying weapons.

Therefore, there has always been a rumor: Do not uncover the seal of Atlas, otherwise the world will be destroyed seven times.

Old Tang raised his hand at this opportune moment. "Let me ask you something: What's the grudge between the world and these ancient alchemists? Why do they always want to destroy the world?"

Old Tang has watched all kinds of film and television works since he was a child, but what he can't stand the most is that the villains in the movies are provoked to destroy the world. Damn, you have revenge to take, grievances to take, why do you have to come out and destroy the world, making it impossible for ordinary people like us to survive?

Emiya was silent for a moment, then uttered, "They created world-destroying weapons to prevent the world from being destroyed."

"Ah?" Old Tang was shocked. He had never been so speechless in his life.

"Well, their thinking is this: in order to resolve the possible crisis of world destruction in the future, they need weapons with the same level of performance."

For example, one day in the future, the world may be destroyed by an asteroid hitting the earth, so an alchemist creates a gravitational weapon that can deflect asteroids from the earth.

But what if the asteroid doesn't come? Then we can just use it the other way around and "pull the asteroid over to hit the Earth."

Therefore, weapons of salvation and weapons of destruction are similar, it just depends on who uses them.

"...After listening to your explanation, I'm beginning to worry about the future of mankind," said Old Tang with a worried look on his face.

"They're just a bunch of crazy researchers. Forget about whether they can solve the crisis of world destruction. I think they are at least 100% capable of destroying us humans before that happens."

Emiya thought to himself, bro, not only are the Atlas Institute a bunch of psychos, there are hardly any normal people among the various magicians on the entire planet.

However, according to the development of Fate/Extra, this Atlas House will strangely be cut off due to the declining birthrate. By 2030, everyone will die and only one android will be left. It can be seen that the human race was almost gone long before that...

As soon as the topic was brought up, the two began to chat and talk about everything, just like ordinary men getting together, discussing the general situation of the world, and casually speaking passionate words to point out the way forward... After an unknown amount of time, they heard a call from outside, and Lord Wa arrived.

A snake shadow flew over hurriedly, and at the same time a clear and pleasant sound was heard.

"I've been arguing with those old guys from the aristocratic families for a long time. Today, we're finally almost done discussing it. Do they still think they can defeat me alone with a group of people? Haha, they're just like a bunch of chickens and pottery dogs trying to hit a rock with an egg!"

Wazhu looked very proud, but in fact she herself felt that there was nothing to show off. However, every time she saw Shirou, she couldn't help but show her true feelings and act like a cute little girl who liked to show off in front of him.

She wore light makeup today, with long straight black hair, bangs, and smoky eyebrows. A touch of red lips added a touch of rosy charm to her translucent white jade cheeks.

She swung her skirt and quickly sat down next to Emiya. "Shirou, I've been busy these days and haven't had time to talk to you about that thought disk..."

In fact, what she was thinking about was that since the last date, she had become very busy again and rarely saw Emiya. After carefully reviewing it, she always felt that something was missing in the final stage of the candlelight banquet that she had been longing for.

Decision made! Let's get him out for another drink. After being so busy for so long, it's time to indulge... It seems Wa has developed a new hobby.

"Eh, but I don't really understand that thing either—"

Emiya only remembered that it was the foundation of Type-Moon Shenzhou's magic system. Its principle was similar to cloud computing, allowing for the use of large amounts of computing resources when performing magic, thus not being restricted by individual circuits...

Let's be honest, everyone can talk about it on paper, but when it comes to actual operation, cloud computing has not even been proposed at this point in time.

"That's okay! You're the technical director, so it's always good to share your thoughts."

As he spoke, Nuwa's serpentine tail quietly climbed up his waist. It seemed like a habitual movement, but Emiya's eyelids twitched. Nuwa seemed to have become more entangled and powerful after not seeing her for a few days. It felt like she was up to something else, like Xiang Zhuang dancing with a sword...

"Oh, I suddenly remembered that there is something I haven't done yet!"

Old Tang understood instantly and reacted quickly. He blew a loud whistle and stood up to leave. Before leaving, he blinked his big eyes and gave a thumbs up to show encouragement.

"Brother Emiya, I'm going to be out for a few days, haha. I have to use my hunter channel to get some North American goods. They should be useful for the next operation!"

slip away.

Emiya opened his eyes wide, raised his hand and shouted, "Hey, Lao Tang!" How could you leave me alone!

All that was left for Emiya was a lonely figure walking away with his arms raised high and thumbs up, but from an outsider's perspective, at first glance he looked like a funny guy with a weird running posture and a very excited face.

Wa, who was standing next to Emiya, was already doubled over with laughter after watching the series of interactions. Her small chest was heaving violently with panting. After she stopped laughing, she looked at Emiya and exhaled softly, "Shirou, help me explain the thought disk. Come, the banquet is ready. Follow me back to the palace, and we will drink and talk!"

"Uh, uh, can I say no—" Emiya thought of what happened that night when he went out, thinking, are you serious about talking while drinking? Are you hiding something else?

"No! Be obedient!" Wazhu interrupted, swung the snake's tail and continued to tie it tightly, her eyes shining and aggressive. At this moment, she was majestic and imposing.

Hiss, if I had known that boys would also be...

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Late at night, somewhere on the bank of the Three Gorges Reservoir of the Yangtze River.

Old Tang looked at the lonely river scene with rippling waves, and his pure golden eyes revealed a feeling of nostalgia, but it disappeared in an instant.

He is no longer the funny Old Tang, but the noble first generation of the dragon clan in this world, the son of the Black King, one of the four monarchs, the Bronze and Fire King Norton who controls the "fire element".

"Go, bring up the Seven Deadly Sins."

Norton spoke to the river surface.

A rumbling sound suddenly erupted beneath the surface of the water. A moment later, a massive black shadow, accompanied by a puff of blazing white steam, broke through the water. The moonlight dimly illuminated the dark scales and multi-story dragon's body.