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

Chapter 350 Floros, did you know that the Demon Pillar's pancakes have four cooking methods?

miracle.

If someone unaware of the mystical phenomena witnessed this scene, they would surely regard it as a miracle of resurrection. If they were a Christian, they might even lift Lu Mingfei up and have him become sworn brothers with the Son of Jesus Christ who was bound to the cross.

But what kind of place is Chaldea?
This is a research center for abnormal humans... no, it's a gathering place for saviors of human civilization certified by the United Nations. It has all kinds of talents, so having a powerful healer is probably... to be expected, right?
No, how should I put it? Everyone, including Zero, stared in disbelief at the incredible sight before them. They knew beforehand that the alchemical matrix could amplify the effects of the Word of Power, but actually seeing it with their own eyes was a completely different matter.

The most horrifying injury suffered by Director Caesar visibly improved, his complexion regained its color, and new granulation tissue quickly grew from the sunken, hideous wounds beneath the bandages, mending and repairing the injuries. Even the broken and crooked bones automatically reconnected and returned to their original positions... and the same phenomenon occurred to the other injured patients.

Zero and the others stared at the indicators displayed on the professional equipment, all within the healthy range. They rubbed their eyes to finally confirm they weren't hallucinating. In short, each patient was experiencing an exaggerated rate of "respiratory blood return."

Now, even the ordinary doctors looked at Lu Mingfei in bewilderment. Good heavens, with such a powerful figure as him, all kinds of injuries could be directly resolved.
Does trauma surgery simply cease to exist?
However, Lu Mingfei didn't think as far ahead as they did.

His first reaction upon seeing this scene was, "Is this a copy of the Night Elf Keeper of the Grove's level 6 ultimate ability, the group healing 'Tranquility'?"

He was also astonished by this super healing technique. Did he really have the potential to heal everyone with a wave of his hand? Or was it not so exaggerated originally, and the effect of this alchemical array was amplified?
Tsk, if he were a Warcraft jungle guardian or a druid, he would actually prefer a group blue silver entanglement skill.

Hey, Mingming!

Lu Mingfei, whose thoughts inexplicably drifted back to the game, stepped down from the alchemy matrix platform and happened to see Old Tang waving at him.

He raised his long eyebrows in displeasure. "Good heavens, I just saw it with my own eyes. You clearly made a name for yourself in your department, unlike me, Old Tang, who works hard as a porter and remains unknown..."

"A porter? What are you moving?" Lu Mingfei glanced at him sideways. Old Tang was dressed neatly, not at all like a worker. He was so nonchalant that he looked like a hypocrite... no, a beast in a suit.

"Tsk, do you think it's possible to have a zero-fatality rate in such a massive explosion? It's all thanks to my timely transfer! Otherwise, by the time you slowly made your way to the medical department, who knows how many people would have died from their injuries!"

Old Tang hummed and hawed with his hands behind his back.

"real or fake?"

"Hey, don't underestimate me. Do you know there's something in China called the 'Five Ghosts Moving Technique'? Old Tang is now somewhat knowledgeable about magic. With a flick of my finger, moving some wounded people across this distance is a piece of cake, isn't it?"

"That's amazing?" Lu Mingfei was completely taken aback by Taoist magic.

"That's impressive. When the director wakes up, Lao Tang, you can ask him for credit later. I'll vouch for you!"

"Alright, alright, it seems you still care about me. With your attitude, that's enough. There's no need to worry about anything else. After all, with the Emiya brothers around, Chaldea shouldn't skimp on their credit..."

"Oh—by the way, is Emiya alright? And I don't think I've seen Chu-senpai and Fingel from Group A..."

"What could possibly happen to Emiya?" Old Tang glanced at Lu Mingfei in surprise, thinking to himself, "Why are you so worried about him? Even if the world is destroyed, Emiya will still die."

"As for Group A, I haven't been in Chaldea for long and I'm not familiar with your organizational structure... But Emiya did have me move a few basket-like devices out of the fire, and he told me not to open them. They should be the ones in the corner. Your senior brother might be in them?"

Lu Mingfei turned his head and saw that the medical facilities that had been taking up space in the corner had been moved slightly to make room for seven large crates. However, they were not left in the open, but were completely frozen in a cabinet-style cold storage unit, looking like seven ice coffins from a distance.

Why freeze it?

From a distance, Ling walked over and said, "This is an emergency measure because the basket is not allowed to be opened. It can only be temporarily frozen and will be dealt with later."

Lu Mingfei's doubts deepened. What exactly happened in the accident that led Emiya to forbid opening it? "By the way, will this freezing method even work? I once saw a science program that said cryogenic freezing of the human body is still considered science fiction in modern times, but in reality, cryogenic freezing can cause human tissue to die—"

"..." Although Zero slightly raised his head, his cold face seemingly expressing disdain for Lu Mingfei's lack of common sense, he still patiently offered an explanation:

"That's because water crystals condense during the freezing process, which can damage human cells, but Chaldea's technology is advanced enough to solve this problem."

"There are highly mature solutions for various methods, such as implanting antifreeze proteins through technological means, or magic and alchemy (for example, the hibernation method of the Gattuso family elders). In addition, all members of Group A are excellent hybrids with superior physical conditions, and can endure for longer than ordinary people."

"Oh, oh, oh!" Lu Mingfei suddenly realized, and chuckled twice. It seemed that he still knew too little about supernatural things. Maybe even the newcomer, Old Tang, knew more about them than he, an old man who had been in Chaldea for several months.

"—Hey Lao Tang, do you know if there's anything similar to magic in Shenzhou…" He turned his head and looked around, only to find that Lao Tang, who had just been beside him, had suddenly disappeared. "Where's Lao Tang?"

Zero pointed to the door. "He went out. Something might have happened."

"I guess I'm done here. Let me take a look!"

Upon hearing this, Lu Mingfei also slipped out. He felt that the gazes of his colleagues in the medical department were becoming increasingly intense... Could it be because he had taken over everyone's work and threatened their interests, so everyone was secretly plotting to frame him?

Before they could even leave the house, they were blocked by people coming in.

"Hey, it's Emiya-nii!"

Emiya glanced at Lu Mingfei, then looked around the somewhat strange atmosphere in the medical department, and asked in surprise, "Have all the wounded been treated? So quickly?"

"Uh—" Lu Mingfei was about to say that he had just made a move that guaranteed that any injured person would immediately recover and regain their original condition... when he realized that he had forgotten to check how well the patients he had treated were recovering.

Just as he was about to awkwardly run back to confirm, Zero spoke up, saying, "Currently, all the external injuries have disappeared, and the equipment tests show that everyone's physical indicators have returned to normal... This is all thanks to Lu Mingfei... His performance was outstanding."

Emiya looked at Lu Mingfei in surprise. Was the decision to transfer him to the medical department actually the right one?

Lu Mingfei, on the contrary, felt his face itch from Ling's praise, thinking to himself—Oh, you damn little devil, don't think that by secretly using a female account to boost my favorability, I'll fawn over you...

“Alright, once Caesar wakes up, Zero, notify me immediately. As for Lu Mingfei, come with me; there's a mission that urgently needs your help.”

After finishing his sentence, Emiya turned and left.

"Huh? Me?"

Completely bewildered, Lu Mingfei received no explanation from Wei Gong. He could only silently follow behind him.

Emiya and Tang walked ahead. As they passed the hall, they saw Minamoto no Yorimitsu and Shuten-dōji arriving from the entrance of Chaldea. These two had actually been assigned a mission beforehand—to be responsible for the external defense of the entire Chaldea and to guard against any enemies that might appear at the entrance.

Emiya had anticipated the possibility of a strong enemy attack and thus made preparations for defense in advance. This was also the reason Emiya hadn't attended the control room meeting; it was to lure the lurking Demon Pillars out. "Haven't we encountered any enemies?"

The heavily armored Minamoto no Yorimitsu replied solemnly, "Well, the good news is that no enemy has appeared, but the worse news is that something is not right outside—"

Is that really how it is? Goetia's plan has begun, and the Human Order Burning has been activated?
After the explosion in the control room, Emiya guessed what was going on.

The original FGO storyline was similar, with an explosion occurring at the control room at the end of the year. The Grand Bomber killed all seven members of Team A and a large number of staff members with a single explosion. At the same time, all human civilization outside of Chaldea disappeared, burned by flames, and had its energy stolen, resulting in a vast expanse of ashes like a purgatory.

In other words, is Chaldea unable to contact the outside world?
Emiya took out his communication device. He had the right to freely contact the outside world within Chaldea, but no matter how he tried to make a phone call or access an external network, there was no response.

He then looked at the electronic clock hanging above the hall. It looked no different from a normal timekeeping clock, but it actually used magic combined with the Chaldea defense system to add an abnormal warning mechanism inside.

Since we started dealing with the accident, it should have been past midnight by now.

But the clock mysteriously stopped working...

No, the digital clock is still working, but the time it displays is quite strange—"-00:03", and after another minute it becomes "-00:04", the time has turned into a negative number!
"—What's the situation outside? Describe what happened."

Emiya asked the two Servants questions and at the same time began to contact Da Vinci in the workshop. The warning mechanism on the clock was made by Da Vinci, and he really didn't understand what was going on with this negative time.

"The situation is quite interesting, so interesting that it's not good for your Chaldea," Shuten-dōji said, carrying a jug of sake, her eyes half-closed—Minamoto no Yorimitsu stared intently at the oni woman, his eyes seeming to warn, "No drinking during work hours"—the latter waved her hand dismissively and said:
"Well, it probably only happened in an instant. Suddenly, a super huge halo appeared in the sky, encircling the world. Then, the world you know was like... like, well, cooked beef being roasted by a raging fire? It was charred and burned through in a flash, and the whole world was blackened and nothing was left! Now, you can't see anything outside anymore."

Shuten-dōji used food analogies to create dark humor while observing everyone's reactions. To her disappointment, Emiya, who had anticipated this and was on guard, showed no sign of panic. Old Tang was clearly not an ignorant person either. Only Lu Mingfei turned into a Mongolian on the spot, falling into a state of incredulous bewilderment.

"Okay, I understand. Thank you for staying on guard. The state of emergency at Chaldea hasn't been lifted yet," Emiya said, leading his men without stopping. He pondered the meaning of negative time. "Let's have Leonardo da Vinci come over and study it later."

Lu Mingfei, like a clueless tagalong, only came to his senses after they had walked quite a distance. "Emiya-sama, was what that Servant said true? What exactly is going on outside...?"

"Well, it should be mostly correct, but we still need to confirm the current situation outside. Don't sneak out to check. You're not a Servant, and it would be dangerous if you couldn't come back!" Emiya solemnly warned.

Seeing that even Emiya was so serious, Lu Mingfei had no choice but to suppress his curiosity and nod like a chicken pecking at rice.

They stopped when they were roughly close to the control room. Looking around blankly for a moment, Emiya asked, "Old Tang, where's the entrance to that passage? Has Nuwa moved it again?"

After Emiya left the barrier created by Nuwa, Nuwa continued to adjust the space of her barrier to guard against Goetia's location. Not long after, Emiya suddenly found that he could no longer find the original entrance!

"Wait a minute! She's still completely focused on maintaining that state, she's being way too cautious!" Old Tang muttered to himself. "Luckily I have the authority, otherwise we'd be searching forever! -- Let's go!"

Lu Mingfei listened to the conversation between the two again in a daze, and then saw the flat wall in front of him suddenly open up, revealing a round entrance that was overflowing with brilliant light!

Holy crap, Tang, you're Doctor Strange?!
Lu Mingfei took a deep breath and bravely followed the two into the area, where he witnessed a magnificent spectacle of a torrent of water raging from the sky and wildfires erupting from the earth, a scene of water and fire colliding and clashing.

They walked on a transparent platform in the void, and Lu Mingfei looked down at the surging waves and felt a chill run down his spine.

Finally, they saw Nuwa and the dying remains of the Demon God Pillar that she guarded there. When Lu Mingfei saw Nuwa's long serpentine lower body and the indescribable remnants of the Demon God Pillar, his heart almost jumped out of his throat... So Chaldea really is a non-human research center.

Nuwa first glanced at Emiya, then at Lu Mingfei who had come with them, her expression subtly disdainful. "Is he the most skilled healer in Chaldea?"

“That’s right, Lu Mingfei, don’t be nervous. Use your unique talent on that remnant of the Demon God Pillar,” Emiya said, pointing to the thing that Nuwa was guarding. It was the only pillar that survived after he and Goetia attacked the Demon God Pillars at the same time. Was it a coincidence? The only survivor was none other than Floros, an old acquaintance of Chaldea.

"Received!" Lu Mingfei gritted his teeth and stepped forward under the gaze of the group of bigwigs. His voice trembled as he spoke to the densely packed crimson eyes and the indescribable dark creatures, "No, don't die!"

The three of them stared at Floros, who remained unresponsive, his life force continuing to decline. Without a living witness, leaving only a lifeless object made it difficult to obtain information.

If we waste any more time, the only use for Floros will probably be to make Demon Pillar pancakes, cupcakes, and the like.

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Lu Mingfei's eyes widened, thinking to himself, "Why is the cheat code failing me now? Move! The power buried within me, why aren't you moving!"

"Don't worry, it's just a technical adjustment!"

Lu Mingfei calmly comforted the three of them.

Emiya thought for a moment, "Is it because you're not concentrating enough? Should we move a little further away?"

Nuwa looked doubtful. "Really? We're far away now. If this kid suddenly saves the Demon God Pillar, won't he be ambushed and killed?"

"Then... Old Tang stays with Lu Mingfei, and we'll keep our distance!"

"Alright!" Nuwa's expression instantly softened.

"..." Old Tang was speechless. You two had better get lost and not put on a show in front of me!
A moment later, Lu Mingfei, who looked like he was constipated, finally found his rhythm and successfully used his "Don't Die" ability again. His face, which had been almost red from holding it in, instantly relaxed. He said that it felt as comfortable as taking off his underwear and sitting on the toilet to release himself in the morning!
Upon hearing this, Old Tang, who was standing nearby, covered his nose and said mischievously, "Stop talking, stop talking, I already know. You clearly have a strong odor, no need to act anymore!"

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'I'm awake? I should be destroyed, then reborn in the King's Temple of Time...'

Floros opened his dense eyeballs—the human body he was inhabiting, Biddle, had already been damaged in the previous battle—and surveyed his surroundings. 'No, this is still the Chaldean trap world! That means the enemy is still here!'

'Ugh...!'

Unable to move, the structure that transmits magic is imprisoned; the body is intact but cannot move.

"Oh, you're awake? Mr. Floros, the treatment was a success, and you've become our prisoner," Emiya said.

"What...what do you want to do?"

"Floros, do you know how many ways there are to cook the Demon Pillar's flatbread?"

(End of this chapter)