The infinite sword system has been mastered, and you say this is the dragon clan?

Chapter 270 Deep Sea Computer Purgatory Hatchery

Mariana felt that everything from the attack to the rescue had happened too suddenly and unbelievably, but she should have thanked the person who had supposedly saved them. However, Su Xiaoqiang beside her seemed to have a different reaction:

"Yes, it's you..." Su Xiaoqiang stared at Emiya who was walking towards him, with suppressed excitement in his voice.

But when she said this, she couldn't help but get stuck, because Su Xiaoqiang found that she still didn't know Emiya's name.

Oh no! This long-awaited "reunion" has finally stopped at the first step!
"Xiao Qiang, what's wrong with you?" Mariana asked, her face full of gossip. "Could it be that you've fallen for the guy across the street because you're a hero saving a beautiful girl?"

But she knew that her little cousin was arrogant and strong-willed, and Su Xiaoqiang would not be interested in ordinary boys.

"Cousin, you misunderstood!"

Su Xiaoqiang was feeling a bit down because she realized that she recognized Emiya right away, but he hadn't paid her any special attention. It was like dressing up for a dinner party, only to have the person she should have locked onto ignore her without even a glance.

Moreover, Emiya's strength has obviously become stronger compared to last time. Even his act of saving himself may be essentially just a casual act, just like last time, and he doesn't care what he can get from him.

"...The branches on this floor should have been cleared away."

Emiya was still talking to Rigidrev. The small team that boarded the ship had already rushed to the YAMAL as soon as possible and reserved tickets here in advance to prepare for the investigation, but they were still too late.

"The situation has deteriorated much faster than we expected."

"Ever since I boarded the ship, I've had a strange feeling that something is wrong, and Vincent is missing."

St. Regis thought to herself that if she returned to the ship with dignity, Vincent, who once valued her very much, would definitely find her at the first opportunity... But now, St. Regis found that she seemed to have become an ordinary tourist.

Vincent and the others seemed to be attracted by more important things. In comparison, he, the canary in the cage, was not worth mentioning at all.

"We'll talk about finding people later. We need to count the casualties of this attack. Such a massacre happened on our first night here. I wonder if something similar happened on the previous voyage before we arrived."

Emiya's expression was not good.

According to Reggie Reeves and others, their grandmother, Star Maria, the original source of the clone's genes, is losing control. The reason for the loss of control is still unknown and Vincent has never revealed it, but it must have evolved into a situation worse than losing control.

He opened the door of room "307" and saw a bloody smell inside. It was obvious that the owner of the room had been murdered and his body was missing.

Sure enough, just like before, when Emiya walked all the way from the end of the corridor, he saw similar scenes in the rooms of all the passengers who had been killed by branches.

"Master Emiya," said Ridgelev, who, though she did not miss this "home" at all, felt saddened by the slaughter it had become. "It seems there are few survivors on this level."

"……that."

After talking for a while, they noticed Su Xiaoqiang, whose cheeks were slightly puffed, and Mariana, who was smiling. After the introductions, they learned about their origins.

"So it's about that incident last time!" Of course, Emiya hadn't forgotten saving Su Xiaoqiang that time. After all, that was his first time seeing Deadpool. However, the current situation was not optimistic, and he really didn't have the time to chat and reminisce. "It's a bit unexpected that you would join the Holy Church..."

Su Xiaoqiang put his hands on his hips and said, "To be precise, not yet. I'm just an outsider, not even an apprentice. I haven't even had a proper training or battle... I didn't expect to encounter such a good thing while traveling."

According to her understanding, it seemed to be a "good thing".

Su Xiaoqiang had not experienced many serious "mysterious incidents", and seeing that Wei Gong handled it as quickly as the wind, he thought he could learn a lot of experience.

Emiya noticed the two were in high spirits and decided to speak harshly upfront, "...You seem to have misunderstood the situation. Even if your predecessors, the true agents, arrived, they would be facing a formidable enemy... No, there would be no chance of survival!"

"Huh! Are those branches so dangerous?"

The sound of footsteps interrupted the conversation between the two parties.

"Lord Emiya, we've finished our side!"

Xia Mi led Helver and Orluen from the other side of the corridor. This was the "maid group" who followed Emiya on board. Like Emiya, they were responsible for cleaning the branches and investigating the situation.

"The survivors have been counted. There are three people still alive on the first and second floors, two on the third floor, and five on the fourth and fifth floors!"

"We also found a suspicious person on the top floor - the sixth floor!"

Emiya looked from a distance and saw that there was a tied-up man behind them. The man had a decadent face. He should have looked handsome, but because of the years, his face was inevitably frayed.

It turned out to be Chu Tianjiao!

Chu Tianjiao, who was ostensibly a driver but was actually a member of the secret party, seemed to have found his savior the moment he saw Shigong:

"You've kidnapped the wrong person! This Emiya-kun... no, God Slayer, I was really sent here to help with the investigation. I have nothing to do with secret party traitors like the Twilight Creed... Why don't you come and take care of your maid?"

"Twilight Dogma..." The last time Emiya heard this term was from Angers, but Regis, Revel, and Helwell and the others said it was the renamed Far North, which means... "You were sent by Angers, right?"

Wei Gong ordered Xia Mi and others to be untied, and Chu Tianjiao breathed a sigh of relief.

Luckily, Lord God Slayer was reasonable. These girls had no shame at all, launching a sneak attack from the shadows! Xia Mi's seemingly soft punch even caused internal injuries... Could this girl possibly know some strange martial arts like "shooting the bull from behind the mountain"?

"The God Slayer is indeed very discerning. I originally wanted to use the name of the Secret Party to immediately investigate Vincent and his hidden Saint... but I discovered something terrifying. Not a branch, but something even more terrifying, right below the deck."

Chu Tianjiao's tone suddenly became serious.

Emiya instantly exchanged glances with Rigidreve. He knew that Rigidreve's grandmother was imprisoned below the deck, but time was too short for him to go and see.

And the situation is not certain. There are five floors under the deck. The top three floors are for crew accommodation, engine room, nuclear power room, and warehouse. The bottom two floors are where Star Maria is imprisoned.

"what have you found?"

"It's hard to describe. If you hadn't seen it with your own eyes, you wouldn't believe it. Anyway, I wanted to investigate further down, but those horrible things blocked my way. I had no choice but to return to investigate the top floor—which is said to be Vincent's exclusive luxury suite... and then you ambushed and captured me."

"What's in Vincent's room?"

Emiya looked at Xia Mi, who took out a diary.

My goodness, an old man is writing a diary. Which decent person would write a diary?
He flipped through the notes and found mostly scattered, trivial entries like "Another wave of investment has been swindled," "The Saintess has rebelled again," and "The Gate to the Divine Kingdom is within reach!" Emiya planned to examine them more closely later, and if there was no important information, he would leave it at that.

He thought for a while and then gave instructions to everyone:
"Let's gather the survivors and place them in the dining hall. There are probably still quite a few crew members alive there."

"Then, Xia Mi... no, Helweier, you two will be responsible for coordinating with Su Xiaoqiang and Marianna to secure the survivors and prevent them from escaping. Remember to emphasize the dangers inside the ship."

"Xia Mi, come with us to investigate below the deck."

A moment later, under the guidance of Chu Tianjiao, several people walked down the fire escape. According to him, the elevator leading to the bottom cabin had been destroyed and could not be used.

When they approached the crew quarters and the engine room, they finally discovered the horrible thing that Chu Tianjiao had mentioned.

There were several puddles of deep red blood in the crew quarters, the air was filled with a metallic smell, and red or purple structures, like dense branches or delicate blood vessels, were densely covered on the walls and ceiling.

Chu Tianjiao led the way in front, pointing the handheld flashlight at them. He could even clearly see the blood vessels pulsating like living things, which was terrifying at first glance.

"This ship has been corroded!" Xia Mi exclaimed. It was as if a powerful monarch had taken up residence here, transforming everything into his own incubator.

This incident was also recorded on the sunken "Lenin". The first generation of black snakes eroded the Lenin in this way, allowing it to achieve a symbiotic relationship with the hull.

But the horrors that unfolded on the YAMAL went far beyond this.

"Where are the crew members here?"

Ridgelife asked.

"They were all killed and devoured by the branches." Emiya raised his hand and split open a locked door, pointing to the bed inside where the blood had dried.

The process was identical to the previous attack, though it had clearly occurred earlier. The crew members who remained on the upper deck were lucky enough to have escaped the disaster thanks to a shift change.

"Is this the horror you mentioned?"

Facing the question, Chu Tianjiao shook his head with a heavy expression, "No, go deeper, closer to the engine room, and you will see it."

After walking for dozens of steps, he suddenly became enlightened.

"……what is that?"

Blue fluorescent material filled the field of vision.

The engine room that should have been filled with boilers, pressure gauges, valves, pipes and other equipment has disappeared. The fire escape downwards leads to an illusory blue light and shadow. Matter is dissolving, and living things and all things are being melted and swallowed up in that fluorescent sea.

Regislove was surprised to notice that this special area, which looked very ominous, was expanding outwards as time passed, gradually eroding upwards along the fire escape, and transforming more walls into a glowing blue fluorescent world!
And those erosion routes are exactly the places that have been eroded by the vascular branch structure!

"What on earth is that thing?" This time, even Xia Mi couldn't figure out what was going on.

She has lived from ancient times to the present day and has seen all kinds of scenes - don't even mention it, she has never seen this scene before!
Just like the Holy Grail War and Gods, these days new things are all getting more and more amazing, both unique and outrageous!

"I think I know what it is."

Xia Mi suddenly heard Emiya say next to her.

Lord Emiya, how did you know this?

The intelligence officer Shirou projected a dagger in an instant, stretched it out, and gently threw it into the mysterious blue world below.

Silently, the dagger turned into the same blue light substance the moment it entered. The dagger seemed to be the same dagger, its appearance had not changed, but some essential change seemed to have occurred inside.

“It’s computerization.”

"Computerized?" Ridgelife had never heard of such a phenomenon.

"Completely dissolving matter or life forms and converting them into an informational form similar to electronic data is known as computerization. The area below is already a complete cyberspace."

Emiya had only seen this phenomenon in the FGO's "Fate Extra CCC" collaboration event plot.

At that time, the offshore oil field Seraphix under Chaldea was computerized due to the power of the demon god Jie. Finally, the entire offshore oil field gradually alienated and evolved into the body of Jie's host Kiara Sesshōin. Sesshōin used this body to try to transform into a beast (BeastⅢ/R).

"Computerization..."

Chu Tianjiao suddenly thought of something. The supercomputer Norma in the basement of the Kassel College library hides a girl personality named "EVA".

As Ange's confidant, Chu Tianjiao knows a lot of inside information, such as EVA was a student who enrolled in Kassel in 1999 and died in the Greenland Sea incident a few years later. Her mentor, the Night Watchman, finally stored EVA's body in the central computer room through alchemy, making it a de facto "electronic ghost."

Why is there such conversion technology here?
Chu Tianjiao thought about Ange's warning before he arrived, and seriously suspected that there was an insider who was secretly researching a similar alchemical computer.

Then, due to some accident, a rampage phenomenon was triggered, causing the real world to be converted into electronic data.

"Retreat!" Emiya suddenly took Rigidref's hand and retreated, shouting to everyone.

"!?"

"The previous test has attracted the attention of the mastermind, and it's starting to react!"

As soon as he finished speaking, a blue wave rolled up in the electronic world.

"Divine Core Loading: Susanoo!"

Purple lightning surged, and the giant's armor unfolded a tiny part in the narrow fire passage. The vast and majestic power barely resisted the angry and roaring blue tide.

In the electronic ocean, a large number of fluorescent figures began to emerge.

Emiya looked intently, "These... are all Servants!?"

(End of this chapter)