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

The ninja master was extremely bored and had to wait patiently. He couldn't help but feel full of doubts and followed the group all the way to a high-tech industrial park in the suburbs.

It was already late at night, and the park was covered in lush vegetation, with the occasional chirping of insects. Beyond that, it was vast expanses of darkness. Only from a distance, as if to conserve power, would I stingily turn on a single LED streetlight...

Come on, are you guys really saving on electricity? Is this just standard villain style? Jiude Mai was speechless.

The mixed-race armed personnel did not have such a complaining mentality. They walked along the way as if they were familiar with it, and it was the same during the day and at night. Everyone escorted the unconscious Nono into a testing and inspection center that was painted white and illuminated by the residual light of the street lamps.

Jiude Mai looked around and found that there were R&D centers, scientific research institutes, public laboratories, data centers all around... The scientific research facilities were quite complete, but she didn't know how many of them were essentially used as superficial efforts to fool government officials.

After entering the testing and inspection center, the indoor lighting was obviously brighter. At least the rows of high-ceiling lights in the corridor cast dense light. Jiude Mai did not follow them closely this time, so as to prevent them from noticing something wrong when they looked back.

Anyway, Jiude Mai came along just to collect the "evidence" of the Chen family's Deadpool research, and as the eldest daughter of the Chen family, Nono would probably be fine even if she encountered something.

But judging by the way Nuonuo is treated as an experimental subject, maybe she can stumble upon some unexpected gains?

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Nuonuo had a dream in a trance.

She dreamed she was locked tightly in some kind of cold metal machine, unable to escape. A damp feeling and a sweet, fishy smell filled her throat and nose. She painfully tried to gasp for air, but the heavy water pressure blocked any chance of recovery. She almost thought she was about to die.

Then, a metal machine roughly lifted her out of the water and emitted a cold electronic synthesized voice: "The 17th execution is completed. The asphyxiation time is 45 seconds. Frigga III, you may begin your statement."

Nuonuo took the opportunity to open her mouth to breathe. She felt blood all over her cheeks and bruises. She tilted her head slightly downwards and looked towards the water surface. She saw herself with a grim face, wearing a white dress but covered in blood...

Frigga III was talking about herself? What did that mean?

Nuonuo tried to think, but the next moment, a sharp pain like a needle pierced his head... Ahhhh... Enduring the severe pain, a flash of inspiration finally came to his mind -

Frigga, the queen of the Aesir gods in Norse mythology and the wife of the great god Odin, is in charge of love, family, fertility, harvest, and destiny. She is usually depicted wearing a white robe...

But this is clearly some kind of experimental code name. And since she is Frigga Three, does that mean there are also Two, One, and Zero as a prototype?

What the hell is she...?!

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Chapter 32: Prohibition of the Use of Metaphors, Rhetorical Questions, and Suggestions

Mai Jude carefully placed miniature pinhole cameras, eavesdropping devices and other equipment in the corners. The devices she used were all hidden stealing equipment that could be hidden in cracks in the wall, ceiling, furniture and the like.

It has low power consumption and high durability, and can be used to shoot and record for a long time for surveillance and monitoring. It is a must-have for home anti-theft, anti-cuckolding, and eavesdropping and taking photos when going out.

Including a few affixed locators, Jiude Mai finally used up most of the small equipment she brought.

Oh my god, I’m almost dying of exhaustion. This damn place is so huge!

Jude Mai felt a little resentful due to her long-term tense nerves, but as a ninja who had undergone professional training, she had good qualities. Although her work was hard, she would never be sloppy.

The main problem was this damn place... Tsk, the Chen family base had several signal jammers, and she had to run around looking for a suitable place to put the equipment. Some key laboratories were important, but the security was very strict, so she could only install the equipment outside...

Alas, maybe the signal can't be sent out, so the device can only save the recorded data locally, and she will have to make another trip to retrieve it next time...

The blurry black smoke transformed by Yan Ling Ming Zhao was swaying in the building late at night. She had almost confirmed the key locations.

First of all, most of the industrial parks here are high-tech research institutes, medical institutions, biological research institutions and supporting data centers invested by the Chen family. Among them, the one most likely to be related to Deadpool research is a medical institution next to a testing center.

She collected a large list of imported goods from it.

Well, the content of the list is not important, it is definitely packaged information anyway, but the problem is the source of the goods shown on the list.

The goods come from two main sources, one is the gangs in South America, and the other is the gangs in Japan... Why are they both gangs?

If it's a gang, then there's a problem... a huge problem.

Jude Mai curled her lips. As a Japanese, she knew the situation in her hometown very well. The local gang group "Snake Eight Families" could be said to be the leader of the dark world in the entire country.

In addition, there is a gang organization called "Monster Demon Clan" composed of dangerous half-bloods, but most of the members of the Monster Demon Clan also defected from the Eight Snake Families... These two organizations basically cover or lead all the half-bloods in this country. People like her, Mai Shude, and Emiya who come out to work on their own are actually a minority.

So, if they have a relationship with the hybrid organization and need to trade goods in secret, their ultimate goal can basically be locked in the eternally unchanging categories such as dragon blood research, bloodline potion experiments, etc. It is not surprising that Deadpool is involved.

On the list Jude Mai collected, she had never heard of another South American gang involved in smuggling. After searching through the pile of lists for a long time, she finally found a relevant name:

"Neo the Boar".

It was a strange nickname. Jiude Mai shrugged after seeing it. She had never heard of it. She would ask Potato Chip Girl to check it out later.

It seems that the human trafficking business is rampant in South America. Could it be that the Chen family traded a large number of South American mixed-race people from there for bloodline experiments, which is why they created Deadpool?

While thinking, Jiude Mai left this mysterious medical institution and returned to the testing center where the eldest daughter of the Chen family had entered at the beginning.

This should be the place with the biggest problems besides the organization mentioned above.

There was clearly no research project, but the head of the Chen family ruthlessly sent his own daughter in.

Jiude Mai saw from afar the pale corridor with dense light from the high ceiling lights. It was from here that Nono was taken to the depths.

At this moment, everything was silent, the world was extremely quiet, terrifyingly quiet. The darkest part at the end of the corridor was like a ferocious monster waiting to devour people, as if if provoked, it would surely summon deadly fangs to bite and gnaw.

Jude Mai remembered that she had also put a device on Nono, and she didn't know what the little witch would encounter, so she decided to take it off and take a look later.

"?"

She tilted her head, as if she heard a scream?

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In a trance-like dream, a terrifyingly cold and indifferent mechanical voice kept repeating: "Frigga III refuses to answer. Increase the intensity. The 45th execution begins!"

The endless feeling of suffocation came from all directions countless times. Nuonuo was almost in pain and collapsed, falling into the endless dark abyss.

Until one moment, the sound of chains clanging suddenly came to his ears, and the biting cold forced Nono to wake up from the terrible dream.

——So she opened her eyes and found herself in darkness, tied to a solid metal torture rack with heavy chains, as if she were some kind of dangerous half-blood... Wait, why is this place exactly the same as the scene in the dream?

Good news, it was just a dream.

Bad news, now the dream has come true.

Nuonuo raised her head with a pale face, and at this moment a dazzling light like the shadowless lamp on the hospital operating table shone on her, making her close her eyes immediately.

That mechanical voice, identical to the one in her dream, declared mercilessly to her ears:

"Frigga III, please begin your statement. Clearly describe the 'bloodline memory' you obtained through clairvoyance. Please note that metaphors, rhetorical questions, and allusions are prohibited in this type of statement."

Huh? Nuonuo was filled with questions. She barely even had the chance to see, so where did all this messed-up bloodline memory come from?

Wait, isn't that... the words that the ninja master taught her before?

"Please pay attention to the time, Frigga III. Based on the conclusions of the previous generation sample, 'Frigga II', the execution interval has been adjusted and extended as usual. You have ten minutes to recall your memories."

The mechanical sound stopped midway, and the shadowless lamp dimmed suddenly. Recalling the scene in her dream, Nono raised her eyes tremblingly and looked around. She finally saw the tall, thick, solid alloy walls with a cold glow around the dark room, as well as the source of her dead silence and despair next to it.

—They were two identical execution racks, their metal chains, already covered in dust, entangled with the messy red hair she was all too familiar with, hanging in the air like dried, solidified, dangling specimens of dark bloodshot hair...

Nuonuo tilted her head, lowering her eyes to look down, and could barely see the situation at the nearby execution stand... Beneath the metal chains was a dark brown container resembling a coffin, and inside, within the colorless liquid, a silent, red-haired corpse floated.

Nuonuo's face immediately lost its color and turned pale. His profile almost activated passively, and a lot of information such as cloning, formalin, dozens of tortures, etc. filled his mind...

That was undoubtedly another her... the corpse of another Frigga experiment!

It turns out that she is a clone, a replica of Frigga Zero - the real "Chen Motong"!

So, her memory, her past are fake...

Including her deceased mother whom she missed, and the family that made her disgusted to the point of wanting to vomit...it turned out that everything she had belonged to the real Chen Motong.

And she has never owned anything of her own. From body to soul, she is the afterimage of others and a hypocritical mask!

What little witch, what eldest daughter of the Chen family, is nothing but a carefully woven beautiful shell. Once it fades away, the noble halo disappears and the lively days turn into emptiness.

A moment later, a dazzling white light suddenly lit up.

With a click, the chain tightened even more, forcibly tying Nuonuo back to the bleak reality from the rapidly rising despair.

The mechanical voice sounded again: "Frigga Three, time has expired. You have not made any meaningful statement. Increase the intensity and begin the 46th execution."

"Ah ah ah ah ah--"

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Chapter 33 How Did She Offend Her Boss?

"Hiss, potato chips, I think I discovered something incredible."

After returning from the mission, Jiude Mai immediately revealed a shocking piece of information to Su Enxi, "Can you believe it? Chen Motong from the Chen family is actually a clone."

"Oh."

"Hey, you potato chip girl, why are you reacting so calmly? When did you find out?"

Su Enxi didn't even raise her head and made a "tsk" sound. She was typing furiously on her keyboard. She was making billions every minute and was very busy with her accounting work. On the contrary, Jiude Mai had finished her own task and had to find time to chat with her when she was busy as a mess at work.

"It's just human cloning technology, what a novelty! Aren't all the other Chen family children artificially inseminated? I've estimated that with the limited medical resources at the Chen family's disposal, they don't have the courage to clone—I don't believe it."

"Look, they even used electric shock, causing the little girl to scream so loudly. After interrogating her and failing to get any results, they simply wiped her memory and sent her back. Even so, they still treat her as the eldest daughter of the Chen family. How ironic!"

Jude Mai shook her head. In fact, when she was being taught by her ninja master, she had experienced even more perverted pain-endurance training than Nono, but how could one expect an inexperienced and delicate young lady to be tough and durable?

"How refreshing! I guess the Chen family thinks clones don't have personal rights!"

"Speaking of which, it's the boss who deliberately arranged for this girl to be tortured. Hey, Potato Chips, could it be that Chen Motong has offended the boss somewhere? ...Wait, could you please stop saying 'how fresh' again?"

Japanese ninja master Jude Mai said that she couldn't quite get the jokes from Deyun Club's classic crosstalk pieces.

"..." Su Enxi turned her eyes away from the screen and moved her lips. "How about you ask the boss in person next time what happened between him and Chen Motong?"

"Do I look like someone who's really into suicide? Hey, we're not the boss's sweethearts... Like you, I've always felt like I was just a tool."

"Same as me? Then I really have to thank heaven, thank the earth, thank fate for bringing us together..."

Su Enxi nodded and hummed casually twice before saying, "By the way, the Chen family is researching Deadpool's 'evidence'. I've already found out the results of my investigation into the 'boar Neo' you mentioned..."

"Are you in such a hurry? Aren't you busy with business?"

Su Enxi half-reclining in her office chair, arms outstretched, her back leaning back strategically. Her eyes, a little sore from staring at the monitor for so long, slowly closed and began to rest, concluding with a relaxed air:

"There's no need to put in too much effort to investigate! That boar Neo was a 'secret party scum' student expelled from Kassel College in 1999. My people went to Rio de Janeiro and made some inquiries there, and they found out that this guy is thriving in drug trafficking and human trafficking, and has become the boss of several gangs in Rio!"

"Oh~, it's only been a few years and they've already become so powerful? A bit arrogant. How can the secret party tolerate this? Why can't the executive department send some people to deal with it?"

"Haha, what's the point of sending someone? This kid was able to climb the ladder so quickly, he must be working for some big shot, and there's a big tree above him protecting him as a umbrella! Only when the tree falls will the monkeys scatter. As long as the people above are not defeated, who will have the time to care about a small fry like him?"

The two chatted about all sorts of gossip, but neither of them spent the time to investigate what kind of protection the boar Neo had. After all, they were working for the boss, not for the secret party. How many parasites there were in the secret party, and whether the dragon-slaying plan would succeed in the end, had nothing to do with them.

Now the boss wants them to help his big client go east to deal with the Chen family, so they will never go west.

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The big clients were still in a meeting at this time.

Zhou Yuxuan stood silently in a corner of the hall. From a distance, a faint arguing could be heard: it was Lord Wa holding a meeting with the invited Patriarch of the Bai family.

Zhou Yuxuan's position here was originally a guard. In the past, he would usually wait next to the Lord Wa in the center of the hall, but now that position has been replaced by Wei Gong.

Zhou Yuxuan had nothing to complain about. The capable ones were promoted and the mediocre ones were demoted. This was the rule of conduct that Lord Wa had implicitly set after the family reform.

Zhou Yuxuan hadn't followed Wazhu because of his ability to do things. On the contrary, when he was chosen, he had one advantage: he was a strict rule-abiding person. This met the patriarch's highest priority review criteria.

Zhou Yuxuan still remembered the first time when Lord Wa entered the main hall to hold a family meeting. She had just inherited the position of head of the family and was surrounded by a group of elders who seemed unattainable to him.

At that time, the meeting procedures in the main hall were complicated. In the first hour, waiters had to clean and sweep the floor, lay out carpets, and burn incense to ward off evil spirits. Then, Lord Wa and the elders would enter the hall in an eight-man sedan chair amidst the faint scent of burning incense, accompanied by two stringed instrument orchestras playing music.

Behind the senior leaders, all the other family members lined up in a row, following the guidance of the usher in front of the hall. Everyone stood or sat, facing the cool morning breeze and the golden light of the sun, their appearance and demeanor varied.

Zhou Yuxuan, who is now a mature young man but was only a fifteen-year-old boy at that time, was standing among them.

And now Lord Wa is a porcelain doll carved out of jade, but back then... she was still a porcelain doll.

At that time, Lord Wa was sitting in the magnificent hall for the first time, with a solemn expression as if he had been disciplined for a long time, and the elders of the family were watching and correcting his every move.

The fifteen-year-old Zhou Yuxuan also only dared to strictly abide by the "Zhou rituals" in the hall - lowering his eyebrows without glancing around, standing and saluting in a very formal manner... He was taught from a young age that the Nuwa clan had a respected status in the Zhou family and was the mixed-blood leader of the Jingchu land.

He saw that when family affairs were reported, Wazhu would often look at the elders to inquire about their attitudes. The elders would acquiesce without saying a word, and Wazhu would nod one by one, as if she was deciding the affairs of the world with just a wave of her hand. If Zhou Yuxuan hadn't looked closely at her, he would have thought that she was really like a porcelain doll who was not to be underestimated despite being the head of the family.

Only after confirming that the head of the family is familiar with the affairs will the elders slowly "let go" and return to the deep underground palace to retire. Although it seems that the head of the family is in charge, the elders' opinions cannot be avoided when encountering major events.

After Zhou Yuxuan followed Lord Wa to work, she gradually realized Lord Wa's difficult situation. Under the tight suppression of the elders, she put on a naturally tightly stitched deterrent mask. This was the result of the clan's closed training, which allowed Lord Wa to create a mask of temperament that transcended her appearance age.

Perhaps the Queen Wa under the mask is just a cute and clever little girl, but she has been in power for so long that the mask fits her genius performance so well that she cannot be taken off, forming an iron-shell barrier to her character.

Zhou Yuxuan didn't understand how Emiya did it. Maybe when Lord Wa met Emiya for the first time, she understood that she could finally take the opportunity to break this invisible barrier?

It was like that day when Lord Wa explicitly asked to go out for the first time in her life, and Emiya really made all the arrangements. Zhou Yuxuan was really happy and smiling when he saw Lord Wa parading in the streets. He took off his mask for the first time in a long time and returned to his original intention, his face full of sunshine.