Minecraft: I'm Really Not a Monster

"Come here!"

Yang Bo beckoned to a man who looked to be in his thirties. The man, who had been carrying household items, immediately put down what he was holding and jogged to stand in front of him.

"Leader!"

Yang Bo nodded slightly and sized him up. He was about two meters tall and looked very strong, with a resolute face and a hint of fanaticism.

This was clearly a physical enhancer, but his talent probably wasn't very high, although that didn't have much impact on the cloning experiment.

Reaching out, he patted the man's sturdy arm and said with a smile:

"I have an experiment that requires your cooperation. If it succeeds, we'll be able to immediately counterattack the Abyss."

"The experiment is dangerous, and I can't guarantee your safety, but you have the right to refuse. Think about it."

Before he could finish speaking, the man nodded immediately and said, "I'm willing!"

"Okay, go back and tell your family or friends…"

"Leader, my family all died during the first disaster, and my friends… my friends also lost contact when the demons invaded…"

Yang Bo: "…"

The guards who had been training outside had basically all returned. Now, if someone was still out of contact, it could be confirmed that they had sacrificed themselves during the demon invasion.

He patted the arm of this man, who was either unlucky or lucky, and didn't say any words of comfort. The fact that the man could stand in front of him meant that he hadn't been defeated by everything.

"What's your name?"

"Wang Peng!"

"Alright, I'll do my best to ensure you survive. Come with me!"

With that, Yang Bo turned and walked straight towards the center of Sky City, and Wang Peng followed quickly behind him without hesitation.

Passing through a hidden teleportation gate, the two arrived in a spacious underground space. The underground space was filled with fluorite, so it wasn't dim.

The space was densely packed with many strange glass cabinets, like transparent refrigerators or upright ice coffins.

These strange glass cabinets also had some numbers on them.

Yang Bo pointed to the rows of [Shell Cloning Pods] and said with a smile, "Choose a number you like. Consider it a perk for you."

"This thing might be with you forever!"

Wang Peng couldn't figure out what these things were for, but he knew that Yang Bo, this seemingly very young leader, wouldn't harm them.

"I want to choose number 6. That's my daughter's age."

"Okay!"

The two arrived in front of the [Shell Cloning Pod] numbered six.

Taking out a [Golden Apple] and an [Undying Totem] from his backpack, he handed them to Wang Peng.

"Eat this apple, then take this totem and place your hand on the instrument on this cloning pod."

"Cloning pod?"

Yang Bo's words made many thoughts pop up in Wang Peng's mind, but his hands didn't slow down. He took the [Golden Apple] that Yang Bo handed over and stuffed it into his mouth.

A crunching sound rang out.

The [Golden Apple] looked like it was made of pure gold, but it still tasted like an apple, and the flavor was especially good.

After three bites, the [Golden Apple] disappeared out of thin air from Wang Peng's hand. He didn't panic, feeling the continuous stream of heat coming from his body, and without hesitation, he reached out and placed his hand on the [Shell Cloning Pod] as Yang Bo had said.

A strange power swept through his body. Instantly, he felt as if his body had been hollowed out, and his legs went soft, causing him to collapse to the ground.

"Looks like it really does take a life…"

Yang Bo frowned slightly as he looked at the single-digit health points above Wang Peng's head.

However, he quickly relaxed. This cloning pod only needed this one-time permanent certification. Even if the clone died, he could continue to use this [Shell Cloning Pod] to continue cloning without having to re-record the information.

"How is it? Can you get up now?"

Wang Peng's face was pale, revealing a color that only a dying person would have, but the [Golden Apple] had a life recovery effect, so his health was still constantly increasing.

"I might… need to rest for a bit!"

"Haha, it's okay! Here, you can eat another one."

Saying that, Yang Bo took out another [Golden Apple] and handed it to him.

Obviously, Wang Peng wasn't the kind of person to dawdle. He reached out with some difficulty, took the [Golden Apple], and stuffed it into his mouth.

With life recovery and damage absorption, Wang Peng's condition immediately improved. Feeling that he could get up, he stood up from the ground.

"Leader… I… did I succeed?"

"Halfway there!"

Yang Bo pointed to the treadmill next to the [Shell Cloning Pod] and said, "Now you just need to run on this treadmill for a while…"

The corners of Wang Peng's mouth twitched uncontrollably. He had just seen the treadmill, but he didn't expect that he would actually have to run on it.

This was completely nonsensical.

However, he still followed the instructions very readily.

Standing on the treadmill, he started running, and then the next moment, his eyes widened, and he looked incredulously at the [Shell Cloning Pod] in front of him.

In the empty cloning pod, a piece of flesh appeared… or rather, a foot, but this foot only had a sole, and it was still growing as he ran.

"This…"

"Clone, don't worry, just keep running."

Yang Bo looked at the foot that appeared in the [Shell Cloning Pod], a puzzled expression on his face, thinking in his heart: 'Huh? Shouldn't there be clothes? Why doesn't this clone have shoes?'

Then an idea popped up.

'Could it be… that my clothes also count as the main body?'

The clothes he was wearing now weren't the ones he was wearing when he traveled through time. These were the ones he picked out during his zero-dollar shopping spree in the mall.

'Maybe it counts as skin…'

That was the only possibility, otherwise there was really no way to explain it.

As time passed, Wang Peng's expression also became solemn. The clone in the cloning pod had now appeared by two-thirds.

Yang Bo smiled and whistled to ease the awkward atmosphere, saying, "Not bad capital!"

"I think you should also be able to see that, yes, this is your clone. When the street light on this cloning pod lights up later, it means that this body has been cloned."

"Then we'll be at the final stage of the experiment."

Wang Peng nodded slightly, then took a deep breath and asked somewhat uneasily, "Leader, can… can dead people be cloned?"

Yang Bo was stunned for a moment when he heard this question, but he quickly recovered and said, "No, this instrument needs vitality to activate, you should have felt it just now."

"However, there might be a chance in the future…"

He wasn't lying to Wang Peng. In his memory, there were specialized cloning modules. Compared to this cloning, which didn't rely on any science, that module was more 'scientific'.

Whether it was in fossils or living organisms, DNA could be extracted and then analyzed and cultured through a series of complex procedures, and then sent to the cloning machine, which could clone new individuals.

When Wang Peng heard Yang Bo say this, a new hope burst out in his eyes.