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

"Windfall? What windfall? Can you translate it for me?"

Lu Mingfei's eyes were blank.

Finkel lowered his voice and whispered in her ear, "Didn't you see the tense situation between your team leader and the director this morning? That's conflict! With conflict comes money."

"Say, for example, I sell intel to you, Brother Lu, and you're the first to find something fishy about a Chaldean employee, report it to your leader, and he'll credit you with a great achievement, maybe even give you a promotion on the spot! That's called a fucking opportunity!"

After listening to this, Lu Mingfei's eyes gradually widened. Wow, you are such an unethical information dealer. You actually sold out Chaldea just to make money.

Mad, if Chaldea is gone in the future, maybe you will have contributed to it!

Seeing that Lu Mingfei's expression seemed a little shaken, Finkel quickly added fuel to the fire:

"Brother, think about it carefully. You're just a new member of the inspection team, no different from any other employee. You can't attract the attention of the leadership. But you've all come across a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. Who would be willing to just muddle through like this? If you don't do the inspection team work, there are plenty of people who will!"

Lu Mingfei's pupils shrank, he understood this time.

Honestly, he didn't know how he'd even been selected despite his poor quality. He couldn't remember who he had any connections with. So, if others were to join in, he might not be able to compete.

What's even more terrifying is that if he rejected Finkel's offer, someone else in the expedition team might take the opportunity on his behalf and rise to prominence!

But Lu Mingfei still felt a little timid, and always felt that such a malicious approach was a bit unreasonable. "I say, is there really any black material on Chaldea that we can find? I feel that the official organization run by the United Nations is quite formal and decent!"

Finger shook his finger, indicating that Lu Mingfei was still a figure...

"Do you really think the information in the brochure is trustworthy? How naive! Chaldea is indeed supervised by a coalition of international organizations, but the majority of the funding comes from the Gattuso family themselves. In this territory, it would be easy for Gattuso to hide anything shady."

"You're probably an ordinary person who was recruited here temporarily, and you know nothing about this mysterious side world. No wonder you think that. Anyway, abandon your naiveté. This place is not simple at all."

"The waters of Chaldea are too deep for you to grasp!"

"But with my impeccable intelligence support, you can relax and prepare to reap the rewards while rising to the top!"

Lu Mingfei, having been led into a ditch, couldn't help but imagine himself receiving Emiya's appreciation, a promotion, a raise, unlimited delicious pastries, working, slacking off, and playing games. He gritted his teeth and said, "Okay! Then I'll place an order. Name a price!"

Finger's eyes lit up with joy, thinking to himself, "Hey, the fish has taken the bait, and the money is here!" He raised his eyebrows and rubbed his hands together, saying, "Great! The intelligence gift package I have here is of guaranteed quality and quantity. I guarantee that you will feel that it is worth every penny after purchasing one!"

"Come, come, come! This way, there aren't many people here," Finkel pulled Lu Mingfei away and whispered in a more secluded corner, "Let me tell you something in advance. Chaldea's biggest scandal is the 'human experiment' project in the early days..."

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"Hey, Senior is actually interested in a girl he has never met before and even went out of his way to investigate her. How bizarre!"

In the empty room, while Emiya was eating lunch, BB floated out of the phone and flew to the side, half covering his face with his hands and laughing.

"...It's just that this Kirelight happened to be a long-time employee of Chaldea. Out of curiosity, she hopes to uncover more secrets hidden in Chaldea from this clue."

Emiya had just taken a bite of his black truffle risotto when he had to stop and make a few defensive remarks. "The HR department roster sent over from Chaldea must have issues with their work histories. After checking every one of them, there aren't many truly long-time employees left."

BB held his chin with one hand in the void.

"Aren't there a few others? For example, Fingel von Frings is a suspect, right? BB-kun has dug up a lot of dirt on him. He's suspected of being involved in the transfer of spirit particles and the development of the accompanying Sheba lens. There are unidentified expenses in his salary account..."

"No, he... I don't think he is that kind of person." Emiya knew Fingel. He had met him several years ago during the Holy Grail War. Fingel might be a member of a faction within the secret party - most likely from Ange's side, but he wouldn't be in cahoots with someone like Odin.

"Huh? Didn't you want to find an Aryan researcher from Germany? This Finger fits the bill perfectly."

"That's not necessarily true. Maybe I'm wrong."

Emiya actually wants to find Leif who appears in the FGO plot, the undercover Demon King whose true identity is the Demon Flauros.

According to FGO's setting, Leif should be German, of Aryan descent... but now that seems off, he might not have adopted that appearance or identity. Emiya can only carefully investigate each case one by one.

"In short, veteran employees are targets of suspicion, but they are not necessarily potential enemies. They may simply be forced to do so."

With the previous experience, Emiya is not sure whether Mashu is the test-tube baby in the FGO setting. She may still be an experimental subject, but the specific setting may have changed to some extent.

Emiya quickly finished his black truffle risotto and ate a piece of beef Wellington with French onion soup. "The steak tastes good. Xia Mi's skills have improved recently."

He didn't actually eat the special delicacies provided by Chaldea, or rather, he pretended to accept them, but in reality, he still ate his own food. With his God Slayer physique, he was not afraid of the poison, but he still felt more at ease when it was made by his own people.

"Hehe, Maid Leader Xia Mi may not have given up yet, and is still hoping that you, Senior, will be so kind as to release her and give her freedom!"

BB Zhang's skill in making up stories is unparalleled, so Emiya wouldn't be so foolish as to believe him directly. "Really? Then I'll take your story and mention it to Xia Mi later to scare her, and at the same time let her know that this was caused by you, how about that?"

BB immediately lost her temper. "Ah, hey! I was wrong. Senior God Slayer, your ability to drive away tigers and devour wolves is so powerful that you can take on several of me. I can't bear it. Please let me go~!"

"You..." Emiya saw BB start making dirty jokes, which seemed to be an admission of guilt and a plea for forgiveness, but was actually a verbal provocation. "You're going to fall into trouble sooner or later."

In a few days, he would have a good understanding of the situation in Chaldea, and he planned to set up a hidden interface here to connect to Avalon. By then, if there was any change in Chaldea, or even if he failed to prevent the explosion in the control room, he would have a way to use Avalon as a springboard and retreat to advance.

With this in mind, he had established a base in Avalon over the past few years, and Nono Eri and the others were currently there. As for Baby, the more she danced, the more people would want to teach her a lesson.

"Hmph, boring." BB saw that Emiya was thinking about something else, so he squatted at the corner of the table and started drawing circles. "Speaking of which, why do you suddenly need me to design a base vehicle blueprint?"

"Well, that's also a backup plan. With some assumptions that still need to be verified, I'm confident that I can lure Da Vinci, the only Servant on Chaldea's side, over to our side."

"Oh, so impressive?" BB's interest piqued, his eyes sparkling. "What's the name of this car?"

“Shadow Border.”

Chapter 304 We are all living hard

The imaginary submarine Shadow Border appears in the second part of FGO. It is the base vehicle carrying the members of New Chaldea. In the original work, it is a vehicle that Leonardo da Vinci himself spent a lot of time secretly making. Its appearance is similar to a large armored vehicle.

Shadow Border can use the magic gift set - "Imaginary Compass · Plane Moon" as a compass, allowing the entire vehicle and the human body to dive into the imaginary space (a meaningless space without a time axis), and then move forward along the route indicated by the compass, floating back to the real world (the real world) with different time and space coordinates, thereby realizing time and space movement.

In the original game, the "Imaginary Submersible" technology was actually an alternative to "Spirit Transfer." It wasn't used in the first FGO storyline simply because it failed in the bidding process.

The main reason for becoming a backup option is that using imaginary number submarine navigation to move through time and space is a more risky behavior than lepton transfer.

The biggest problem with imaginary diving is that without an anchor point in the real world, it is impossible to successfully surface and reach the space-time coordinates of the destination.

Then you can only sit in prison for the rest of your life in the dark and dayless imaginary space. When your supplies are used up, you will die in the imaginary space and never come back.

This situation is similar to Tiamat, who created the planetary ecosystem of the Type-Moon world. After being exiled to the imaginary space, she could not return, which was equivalent to encountering an unsolvable seal.

However, the transfer of spirit particles requires special "spirit particle transfer qualifications", unlike the imaginary submarine which does not require qualifications.

The first step in the process is to place the transfer object into a special basket, and then use a supercomputer and accelerator to decompose the human body into leptons.

At this time, the basket is isolated from external observation and becomes a "box of both life and death", and the people in the basket are in a superposition state of the two.

The second step is to confirm the status of the destination of the soul particle transfer through the human history map Chaldeas, and deliver the soul particles that the human body is decomposed into to the destination.

The third step is to observe the inside of the basket, and the result is "nothing", while the object of the lepton transfer is successfully materialized at the destination.

From this, it is obvious that lepton transfer utilizes a sophisticated theory similar to the "observer effect".

As long as there is no problem with the "Observer" (that is, equipment such as Chaldeas), and there is no accident with the basket during the transfer process (such as an explosion caused by a bomb buried by Leif underneath).

The security risks are basically very small, and there is no need to worry about situations like virtual diving.

Therefore, if virtual diving can really be carried out safely, the issue of the "anchor point" cannot be avoided.

BB stretched out a finger and swiped it nimbly across the air, transforming it into the shape of an island.

"If we're talking about an anchor point in real space, wouldn't Avalon be enough? Although it was once Odin's lair, it's a very ancient existence, and now it belongs to us. As long as we use Avalon's material as an anchor point, we can ascend to Avalon in any era."

"But senior, do you really think that imaginary space exists?"

The name of the imaginary space comes from the "imaginary number" in mathematics. It is just an auxiliary number relative to the "real number". Everything in the real space is described by real numbers.

The solutions to quantum mechanics' equations allow for the existence of imaginary numbers, resulting in imaginary solutions that are mathematically meaningful but physically meaningless. All our imaginations of imaginary space stem from this. However, in this world, there is no evidence that imaginary space exists...

Since they are all imaginary numbers, how can they be easily observed by people in the real world?

"It's very likely... No, it definitely exists."

Emiya's answer was quite confident. He wasn't just making random guesses. "If you consider imaginary space as 'an alternate dimension different from real space,' what can you think of from this perspective?"

"A world so different from reality? Nibelungen?"

"That's right. The physical laws of the Nibelungen are obviously different from those of the real world. They even align very well with the imaginary space of the (Type-Moon World)—"

"They don't seem to have any flow of time."

For example, the flowers and trees on Avalon are always in full bloom year-round, with no signs of withering or dying, as if time has forgotten this Apple Isle. The Nibelungen Night Food Field in Tokyo is also filled with an ancient atmosphere, as if a scene from the Edo period has been completely preserved.

"And how was Nibelungen able to establish such a different dimension where time doesn't accumulate? There must be a foundation for establishing such a dimension with completely different physical laws."

BB suddenly took over Emiya's words and said, "In other words, the Nibelungen—is built on the foundation of imaginary space! Imaginary space does exist, but it is essentially an alternate dimension without any Nibelungen. It's a meaningless space with nothing in it!"

"Well, there is one more point to support this."

Emiya stacked up his finished steak plates and said, "Remember? Helver and Orlune, they have the ability to infiltrate the shadow world. They once described to me what it felt like to infiltrate the shadow world. I suspect the essence of their ability is to infiltrate the imaginary realm."

"Oh, so Senior's preparations for the 'Imaginary Submersible' are complete! Research materials, conceptual design, and that Da Vinci as the engineer... after all the calculations, it seems like the hard workers are basically ready to go at any time!"

Seeing Emiya clear the dishes off the table, BB playfully sat down at Emiya's table. When she lifted her long legs slightly, her skirt lifted up. She said arrogantly, "Then congratulations in advance on another great achievement, Senior!"

"...It's daytime now, I don't have time to play with you." Emiya pushed away BB, who was taking up a large area of ​​the desk.

"Ouch!" BB was caught off guard and fell backwards. After leaving the table, he turned around in the air, made a face at Emiya, and then angrily got into his phone and disappeared.

At this moment, there was a knock on the door.

"Who?"

"Lu, Lu Mingfei!" A stumbling and somewhat nervous voice sounded.

"Huh?" Emiya didn't pay much attention to this e-sports player who entered the inspection team through the "backdoor", so it was a bit unexpected that Lu Mingfei would take the initiative to come up to him.

"Come in, what can I do for you?"

The latter came in with a serious expression and closed the door, "—Leader, I found something wrong with Chaldea!"

Emiya: “…” Of course I know there’s a problem, and it’s a big problem!

"They have done human experiments before!" Lu Mingfei's voice was so low that it seemed to be squeezed out from between his teeth.

"Oh?" Emiya finally showed a hint of surprise, "Sit down over there and let's talk in detail."

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The next day, Da Vinci was humming some kind of baroque polyphonic music while tending to the decorations in the newly decorated workshop. Still unaware of Chaldea's dark history, she was still excited about the human rights protection plan implemented through the transfer of spirit particles.

The core of the plan mentioned by Director Pompeii is undoubtedly the simulated earth environment model called Chaldeas. This great invention completed in modern times has also aroused her great curiosity.

So, in exchange, Da Vinci agreed to stay temporarily as a Servant to help Chaldea improve the Heroic Spirit Summoning system with a more stable spiritual base. This problem would be a difficult task for others, but for her, a genius, it was a piece of cake.

"Ms. Da Vinci... Here are the documents you need, as well as a list of renovation materials. Please confirm."

Suddenly, a pink-haired girl wearing glasses named Kyrielight ran over. This girl was also a member of Group A, but Da Vinci always felt that her temperament was completely different from that of ordinary people, with a pure and flawless feeling that she had never seen the world before.

"Thank you for your hard work, Kyrielight," Da Vinci said, examining the girl's pink hair with curiosity. "Excuse me, but is your hair naturally like this... I mean, the color? Or is it dyed?"

"Hair color..." Kyrielight subconsciously twisted the hair next to his cheek.

"It's definitely not natural. It was originally dark red, but something happened that changed it to this color... When you say 'hair dyeing,' you mean the process of temporarily coloring your hair with hair dye. That requires a professional hairdresser, right?"

"...Yes, it seems that Kyrielight has some unspoken reasons. Well, never mind, thank you for coming here. As for the renovation workers, I don't need them for now. As a Caster-class Servant, you are also very good at the basic 'Field Creation' skill."

Leonardo da Vinci said goodbye to the other party with a smile, while secretly thinking about the strangeness of Kirilet in his heart.

This girl's description of something as everyday as hair dyeing was surprisingly formal and academic, as if she'd never experienced it before and only knew it from informational materials... Did she lack a lot of normal life experience? She wasn't a summoned Heroic Spirit, her modern common sense instilled in her.

However, this hasty thinking was soon forced to stop.

The unexpected arrival made her grip the large wand tighter.

"Entering someone else's workshop without permission is considered a serious, hostile act of provocation, you know?"

Da Vinci raised the tip of his staff and pointed it at two figures that suddenly appeared from the corner.

The girls in skirts and long boots bowed lightly to show that they had no hostility.

"Excuse me, I'm Helver, and this is my sister, Orlune. We're here on the orders of Lord Emiya to deliver a groundbreaking engineering design to Ms. Da Vinci. Lord Emiya said you'd be interested."

After saying that, Orluen, who was standing beside Helvir, stepped forward and placed the folded blueprints of the imaginary submarine on the table next to Da Vinci.

Da Vinci didn't reach for it immediately. He said calmly, "Does it have to be this intrusive? If you encounter a magician with a bad temper, you'll be attacked immediately."

"I'm sorry, Lord Emiya, if I openly contact you, it will cause an overreaction from the rest of Chaldea. In order to avoid attracting attention and unknown changes, this method is safer."

"You trust me? You actually openly reveal such a hidden stealth ability to me, a Heroic Spirit who has only been in Chaldea for a short time?"

Helweier answered flawlessly, "Emiya-sama said you would be interested in the blueprints."

Da Vinci glanced at the blueprint, her curiosity piqued. However, seeing her probing methods were fruitless, she resorted to a more direct method to elicit information. "Okay, so you're planning to collude with me, right? Who are you trying to protect against?"

Helvil raised her head and looked directly into the Servant's eyes, "Master Emiya said there was a problem with the Spirit Transfer."

"Are you suspecting the director?!" There was a flash of surprise in Da Vinci's eyes. She had just entered Chaldea not long ago and did not trust the people here much, but it was not to the point that she inexplicably suspected Pompeii of using the spirit particle transfer plan to cause trouble.

"Yes, it's okay if you don't believe me, but Lord Emiya said that the first experiment with the transfer of spirit particles is bound to go wrong, so we must take precautions in advance. The drawings Lord Emiya gave you are one of those precautions."