Chapter 424: with translation of chapter title

Main Universe Time: 2183/04/14.

Location: Zero Three Universe's Solar System, the edge of the gravitational range of Shensheng Tala.

Here, there is a Glory Iron Fist homeworld with a complete ecological environment, capable of self-sufficiency for a relatively long period, and the Indomitable is in docking orbit around Earth.

At the same time, the Indomitable is also cooperatively deployed in Shensheng Tala and within the Solar System's Glory Iron Fist Legion and UNSC fleet group for defense.

As of today, the vortex Space Gate linking the Main Universe and the Zero Three Universe has existed for 282 days, which also means that the expeditionary force's various operations, reconstructions, and "cleansing" actions against the Zero Three Universe have also lasted nearly a year.

The current galactic territory is basically under the control of humans from the Main Universe, and during the expeditionary force's thorough purge of the New Human Empire, there actually are "clueless" alien species, "shamelessly" wanting to return to the galaxy??

In response, the four legions and four Original Bodies responsible for eliminating hidden threats in occupied territories and for conducting punitive expeditions have "given a good education" to those alien species that wanted to fall into the pit again.

Even at times, the Original Bodies will temporarily halt their offensive against the remnants of the New Human Empire and instead turn their spearhead toward suddenly intervening alien species that feel good about themselves.

Humans are fighting a civil war among themselves, and yet alien species dare to come over??

The New Human Empire can't even beat them, yet they still want to try to oppose the Main Universe expeditionary force that presses the New Human Empire into the ground, rubbing and crushing it……

They're really asking for death.

During this period, not only are military operations progressing steadily, but also Robert, serving as temporary governor of the Zero Two Universe, is using the vortex Space Gate to transport countless personnel, resources, and equipment to the Zero Three Universe, so that Umbrella's engineering teams, UEG's Construction Bureau, and UNSC's engineering corps can carry out reconstruction work.

And Umbrella's Supervision Department also accompanies the Engineering Department to various planets, using the various "disinfectants" derived from the Round Moon Water to purify entire planets, so as to ensure that future inhabitants are not disturbed by alien space and evil gods and demons while residing.

Everything is proceeding in an orderly manner onto the right track.

At this time, the Indomitable's inner world.

Turning one's gaze to the research area, one can directly observe that, compared to 280 days ago, the research area has gained many buildings of various purposes, with its scale expanded more than sixfold.

After all, Sui Bian must personally oversee the Zero Three Universe, whose situation is far more complex than that of Zero One, Zero Two, and the Main Universe, using his own strongest and most domineering spiritual energy in material space to intimidate the petty and prevent evil gods and demons from inadvertently causing various destructions.

Moreover, Sui Bian also hopes to immediately launch the next-generation Original Body, Astate, and Guard plans; therefore, Umbrella has transferred the Terra Shield and the relevant equipment and scientific personnel from Luna Base from the Main Universe all together to the Indomitable docked at Shensheng Tala.

Although the environment of the Zero Three Universe is categorized as "dirty", "chaotic", and "poor", the inner world of the homeworld possesses absolute isolation from alien space; that is to say, conducting research and experiments inside the Indomitable makes no significant difference from doing so in the Main Universe.

At this moment.

Inside the large cultivation room, deliberately equipped with isolation, protection, and stasis devices, located on the middle floor of the research building at the core of the research area.

Here, the temperature is constantly maintained at 0°C, and forty-four black-armored white-tasseled guards are stationed here, constituting a relatively critical link among all safety measures.

Numerous researchers wearing white coats and equipped with nano-grade face masks, who hold the highest clearance at Umbrella, shuttle between the many cylindrical incubators, checking and confirming whether each incubator's state shows any abnormality, maintaining a stable and steady condition.

The reason why, even in the inner world, this cultivation room is equipped with numerous safety measures, and even has forty-four guards specially assigned as "security", is entirely because of the incubators mentioned earlier.

Looking closely, there are a total of nine incubators arranged in three rows and three columns in the cultivation room, and each incubator has a transparent isolation wall, filled with azure liquid, and……

Infants.

That's right, these nine infants are placed and floating in the center of the incubators, with their mouths, noses, and arms connected to tubes continuously supplying nutrients, so that "they" can develop steadily.

And these nine infants are the result of combining the Zero Three Universe Original Body provided by the chairman, the manufacturing technology of Astate, plus the recovered and executed corpses of Zero Three Universe Original Bodies from Umbrella, and the biological programming technology of the administrator civilization, thereby cultivated into "Original Body Infants".

Since they are "Original Bodies", the genetic source is naturally Sui Bian, who holds numerous titles such as speaker, chairman, and father of Original Bodies.

However, the "Original Body Infants" cultivated with the aforementioned technology, steps, and process are merely a vessel whose potential and limit far surpass mortals; no, it should be more accurately described as surpassing even deities…… just a vessel.

They are not naturally conceived, so a soul will not naturally be given to the "manufactured" ones.

In fact, after the research team led by Plague Doctor, William BoKen, Rebecca, Alekxia, and Zigler Keczi successfully cultivated nine stable vessels, Sui Bian then implanted the nine corresponding Zero Three Universe Original Body souls into them, putting it nicely as implantation, harshly as "stuffing" them in.

Moreover, to give these nine next-generation Original Bodies a complete and happy childhood, Sui Bian, when implanting the souls, erased all the injustice, pain, regret, etc., they had endured in the Zero Three Universe, turning them into blank slates.

Thus, even when the nine Original Bodies grow into adulthood, understand their pasts, and know what heinous crimes they have committed, they can, under Sui Bian's careful guidance, face and accept them with a mature mind.

As for the identities of these nine Original Bodies, they are the traitorous Original Bodies including Helusi, Motarian, and Peturabo, excluding Conrad Koz, Angelong, and Magnus, plus two Original Bodies that have long disappeared from the records of the new and old empires, and whose entire legions have been erased.

Since Conrad Koz's body and soul are both worth saving, Sui Bian therefore pardoned this Midnight Wraith suffering from "severe insomnia" and "mental illness".

Since being escorted to the Indomitable by Kelakesi, Koz has continuously received surgical improvements to his physical form from the Plague Doctor.

Once William BoKen, Rebecca, and others also arrived at the Indomitable, this group of Umbrella's top researchers began, using the extremely small amount of Sui Bian's own blood and tissue samples provided by him (the whole process being closely monitored by Sui Bian), to create nine vessels for the next-generation Original Bodies while also cultivating the final three Original Body‑grade G glands, and seeking a feasible solution to try implanting one of them into Conrad Koz's body, thereby preparing to forge a stable Midnight Lord legion that is immune to alien space interference.

As for the Midnight Lord, which uses the original gene seed and is inferior in physical attributes such as strength, reaction, and especially stability compared to the Main Universe's Astate, it will not be subjected to Umbrella's forced destruction measures.

Knowing this, doing so would not only lose nearly 200,000 experienced and combat‑effective Astate, but would also make all Original Bodies and Astate feel cold‑hearted, planting the seeds of disaster.

Having learned from the Zero Three Universe's precedent, and with Sui Bian personally also not intending to "deal with" the Midnight Lord who refuses to fall and clings to a heart‑held "justice", even though that "justice" is somewhat overly extreme.

Therefore, Sui Bian specifically ordered the Plague Doctor to develop and perfect a dedicated vaccine that suppresses the negative effects of the gene seed, ensuring that the Midnight Lord, as well as the Shadow Moon Grey Wolf and all surviving loyal Astate of the Zero Three Universe, are completely free from harassment and corruption by the evil god Chaos.

Of course, Conrad Koz's 'software' problems, such as self-abandonment and severe suicidal tendencies and other mental illnesses, are to be personally treated by Sui Bian.

The treatment method is also 'simple and brutal'.

Sui Bian, who had obtained the Zero Three Emperor's Spiritual Energy, physique, and knowledge, did not explain in words but directly released Spiritual Energy to let Koz know that he is the isotopic counterpart of the human emperor, and also 'your father'.

Immediately after, Sui Bian also employed his forte 'language art', giving Koz several 'talk therapy' sessions, temporarily 'correcting' the suicidal tendencies of this midnight wraith; self-abandonment also improved somewhat, and his guilt over the innocent sacrificed people and deceased brothers decreased greatly, after all Sui Bian also relayed some information about the new generation OriginalBody plan.

Upon learning that his brothers would obtain 'rebirth' in another way, the endless gloom suppressed in Koz's heart gradually dissipated; the whole 'person' is no longer as neurotic as before.

As another survivor who had undergone treatment and almost fully recovered, Chahatai Khan likewise needed to undergo the exclusive surgery of the Gland, but Chahatai had no resistance whatsoever and was quite cooperative.

Without needing much 'talk therapy' or a Spiritual Release, Chahatai accepted the fact that Sui Bian and the human emperor are isotopic counterparts, and also 'father'.

And the sole remaining OriginalBody‑grade Gland, originally prepared for the OriginalBody fire lizard Wokan, but this 'Lord of the Fire Dragon' remains missing; thus, Umbrella had no choice but to store it at the highest alert level via cryogenic preservation.

In contrast, Angelong, whose temperament drastically changed due to torture by the Butcher's Nails and who voluntarily defected, and Magnus, whose soul was imprisoned by demons—these two OriginalBodies failed to obtain a corporeal form and also failed to obtain 'rebirth' redemption, for the simple reason that they, in order to maintain absolute loyalty, are the isotopic counterparts of Sui Bian's eighth and ninth sons born of the autonomous universe.

Even though the sons say that having an identical 'clone' brother is no big deal, and they can accept isotopic 'rebirth' via a physical body, as a father Sui Bian however…

No, it should be said that it is very difficult.

If the White Empress, or Hong Hou reports to him that Rus has caused trouble again, Sui Bian must first clarify which Rus it is.

Must we come up with a separate designation?

For example, Rus 1, Rus 2?

Sui Bian cannot accept this; even if they change names, their souls remain isotopic counterparts, and no matter how they change their skins and flesh, they cannot alter the fact that they are the same person.

And in order to let the deceased Angelong, Magnus, as well as Robert Kyriman, Leiman Lusi, and other loyal OriginalBodies of the Zero Three Universe obtain 'redemption', Sui Bian used his own Spiritual Energy to erase these souls' memories and then fuse them into his sons' bodies.

In other words, the sons' absorption of isotopic counterparts is equivalent to him absorbing all of the Zero Three Emperor's Spiritual Energy, resulting in a qualitative leap in power.

Furthermore, the sons' immunity to the allure of alien spaces, as well as their complete and beautiful childhood memories, also count as granting the OriginalBodies Angelong, Magnus, etc. of the Zero Three Universe 'redemption'.

However, he absorbed everything of the Zero Three Emperor, including knowledge, but he lacked only memory; after all, doing so, he might no longer be himself.

The Zero Three Emperor, who had long noticed this point, deliberately excluded his own memories, and only then gave everything to Sui Bian, fulfilling his final entrustment; the Zero Three Emperor then vanished without a trace.

It may fall, or it may 'ascend' and enjoy freedom.

Therefore, when Sui Bian used the same method to let his sons absorb their respective isotopes, he also deliberately erased the memories of the same body, so as not to cause trouble for his sons.

Moreover, Sui Bian, amidst his busy schedule, took time to use the knowledge he gained from the Zero Three Emperor, and then used the technology of the Administrator civilization to customize a secondary surgery plan for Robert, John, Leon, etc., in order to balance the gap with the new generation of Original Bodies.

The Original Bodies have undergone so many changes, indicating that the Astate will also undergo a large-scale 'update' and 'upgrade'; thus, the main universe and the Zero Two universe have temporarily halted the implantation of the existing G glands in adapters.

Only after waiting for Umbrella's new and old Original Bodies to fully stabilize and perfect the new-generation G glands will the implantation surgery of G glands be resumed.

However, after the sons absorbed their isotopes and simultaneously launched the new-generation Original Body plan, John, whose combat power should have been among the top, enough to 'compete for first place', plummeted and actually became the bottom-most existence.

Because among all Original Bodies, only the second-ranked John in the Zero Three universe did not encounter the corresponding isotope, and thus could not undergo absorption; in terms of Spiritual Energy volume, there was basically no change at all...

One cannot say 'no change at all'; while Sui Bian's Spiritual Energy surged, his son John also 'got a boost' and became stronger, but compared to his brothers who had absorbed their isotopes, he always fell short by a margin.

As for this, such a trivial matter, in front of Sui Bian who likes to 'keep the bowl of water level', is hardly a problem at all.

Isn't it just an increase in Spiritual Energy volume?

Sui Bian allocated a 'minuscule' portion of his own Spiritual Energy to John, causing this Spartan son's overall strength to return once again to the forefront among his many brothers.

At this time.

Beside one of the culture vessels in the cultivation chamber, surrounded by top researchers such as Alekxia, and likewise wearing white lab coats but without wearing nano masks, were the plague doctors.

And the overall commander of the new-generation Original Body plan, Sui Bian, wearing black-gold armor, also not wearing a nano mask, and even not having fastened his helmet, stood here, his gaze fixed on an Original Body infant with silver long hair inside the culture vessel.

(End of chapter)