The world I hear is completely different from yours.

"Although it's not exactly immortality, being able to maintain youth for a period of time without it expiring is a pretty good gain from this time travel!"

Chapter Eleven Recruitment and Organization

At night, the sky was filled with stars.

"The examination is finally over!" Kiritani Kazuto led his sister, Kiritani Suguha, out of the hospital after her surgery.

The surgery on Kirigaya Suguha was very successful, and there was no unexpected situation of a miscarriage followed by the birth of an extra fetus. Therefore, on the same day after the surgery, after the doctor confirmed that Kirigaya Suguha would have no aftereffects, she was discharged from the hospital. After all, the hospital was still brightly lit and overcrowded, with no extra beds available for other patients.

Kiritani Kazuto pushed his sister's wheelchair toward the subway station, carefully avoiding the bumps and potholes on the road to prevent them from waking his sister, who was asleep from exhaustion after the surgery.

Unlike the useless protagonists of other harem anime, Kirito is an elite player in the game and still possesses considerable manly qualities in real life. As a mere 14-year-old boy, he stepped up when his family was unable to care for his younger sister, becoming the pillar of the Kirito family and taking on the responsibility of caring for her.

Despite the fact that his muscles had atrophied from being trapped in the game for too long and he still couldn't exert much strength, Kirito Kazuto steadily pushed the wheelchair step by step with all his might, without any complaints or groans.

However, no matter how hard Kirigaya Kazuto tries, some things will not change because of his efforts. After all, reality is not a game. At this moment, he is not a black-clad dual-wielding swordsman who can take on bosses one-on-one, but just an ordinary 14-year-old boy.

"The subway has stopped operating because it's past closing time!" Kiritani Kazuto looked at the heavily locked subway station gates, then turned and looked around. The taxis and buses that were usually everywhere on the streets late at night were nowhere to be seen. This was probably because half the population—almost all women—had lost their ability to work due to pregnancy, resulting in a significant reduction in the number of public transportation options available due to a lack of staff and customers.

"I can't get through to my father either. He's probably still working overtime at this hour, right?" Kirito Kazuto smiled bitterly as he listened to the busy tone on his phone. It seemed he really couldn't find any other solutions right now.

Then, Kirito silently estimated the distance home, gritted his teeth and suppressed the muscle pain all over his body, and pushed the wheelchair carrying his sleeping sister along the road towards home.

True strength doesn't come from brute force, but from unwavering resolve and conviction! At this moment, Kirigaya Kazuto also held fast to one conviction: to take good care of his younger sister and get her home as soon as possible. Any other efforts or pain he might incur were already forgotten. Even though he wasn't the powerful, one-against-a-hundred-person powerhouse he once was, but just an ordinary 14-year-old boy, he would still hold fast to his beliefs!

"Maybe on the way home we'll run into a taxi or a bus? Maybe we'll even run into a kind policeman?" Kirito encouraged himself as he pushed his sister's wheelchair with all his might.

Some things are not something we persist in because there is hope, but rather something we persist in because there is hope!

Just as Kirito was slowly pushing his wheelchair forward, a black limousine suddenly stopped beside him and opened its door.

Sitting in the back seat, Tianqing looked at the astonished Kirigaya Kazuto and said, "Hey! This brave little brother-complex boy, need a ride?"

"Thank you!" After helping his younger sister into the car, Kiritani Kazuto sat in the back seat, looking at the luxurious interior of the car with a slightly awkward expression, scratching his head as he spoke to Tensei.

"It's nothing really, I just happened to be passing by." Tianqing smiled and chatted with Kirito about everyday things, exchanging pleasantries.

Even if they hadn't met this time, Tianqing would have found time to see Kirigaya Kazuto and recruited him into the newly established Hunter Association, making him a hunter to explore the world of Yharnam. The reason is simple: Kirigaya Kazuto is the protagonist of this Sword Art Online world, practically the chosen one, favored by the world's consciousness, possessing immense luck. Therefore, who could be more suitable to represent the Sword Art Online world in exploring Yharnam?

As the Hunter Association, spearheaded by Tianqing and jointly established by multiple countries, will also specially allocate a large number of people to form a team dedicated to assisting Kirito. They will provide him with equipment and experience as needed. With the assistance of a large number of national-level experts, Kirito's level and attributes will inevitably soar like a rocket. Then, relying on his protagonist aura, he will thoroughly investigate all the mysteries of Yharnam!

Not only Kirito, but all the high-level players who appeared in the original novel, such as Asuna, Klein, Sinon, Laughing Coffin, and Eugeo, will be made members of the Hunter Association by Ameyo, to explore the world of Yharnam for her. Although these people come from different backgrounds in reality, and some were even born into powerful families, they still have to bow down to the Hunter Association that Ameyo has established. How can the power of a single family stand against the power of a nation? Especially an alliance composed of multiple large nations!

Overwhelming the enemy with the power of the organization—that's what we call the general trend!

It's important to know that the Hunter Association has more than just these elite players; it also has hundreds of thousands of elite individuals drawn from various countries' militaries and industries.

The elite soldiers from those armies will also enter Yharnam. Their physical abilities far surpass those of the young protagonists, and with their companionship, the protagonists' team will undoubtedly be much stronger. Such a large number of players will also be enough to clear a fairly safe area in the monster streets of Yharnam. The sight of players outnumbering monsters, with dozens rushing to attack as soon as a monster spawns, will surely be a sight to behold for the monsters of Yharnam.

Every player who enters Yharnam is assigned a dedicated team to monitor their psychological state and emotional fluctuations. If any abnormalities are detected, the player is immediately brought back to reality to prevent them from being excessively influenced by Yharnam.

Every image and piece of information brought back by these players will be interpreted and analyzed by intelligence experts around the world, striving to deduce the climate, biological composition, geographical conditions, and power distribution of the entire Yharnam world. Then, experts from other industries will study corresponding player countermeasures based on this intelligence and provide them to the players for reference.

This is the power of an organization. Once this tightly controlled machine is in operation, it will generate a terrifying force that can even shake the gods!

Such exploration missions are merely one of the functions of the Hunter Association. Tianqing's reason for leading the establishment of this organization is not just for this purpose!

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P.S. First update! I'm in a much better mood now. I'm going to pay back all the tickets I owe this week.

Chapter Twelve: Do Umbilical Cords and Silkworms Look Alike?

The Hunter Association's second function was to research the effects of the divine umbilical cord that Tensei had obtained, and Tensei herself participated in the research.

On the one hand, it was because if Tianqing strayed too far from the umbilical cord, she would be affected by an invisible deity and become pregnant. On the other hand, Tianqing understood the preciousness of the umbilical cord and therefore had to protect it at all times to prevent it from being taken away by other forces.

"I hope these scientists succeed soon. They've brought together the most elite personnel from various countries!" Tian Qing smiled as she looked at the scientists working busily around her. "I imagine many of them are on espionage missions, planning to secretly transmit their research results along with this umbilical cord, right? Those high-ranking members who agreed to establish the Hunter Organization should know I have this strange thing by now, shouldn't they? After all, with their intelligence network, discovering that I didn't get pregnant due to the influence of that invisible deity shouldn't be difficult for them. It's just that because of my current status, they can't directly force me!"

This is Tianqing's plan: to use the Hunter Association to explore the world of Yharnam and study the umbilical cord of the gods. These two paths are pursued simultaneously in order to unravel the secrets of the gods! Although, for those in power, Tianqing established the Hunter Association to find a way to achieve immortality for them.

As someone who has been turned into a listener by the glare of a strange creature, Tian Qing knows the extent of her enemy's power. It is an unknown creature that could be called the ultimate god of the entire universe. Therefore, Tian Qing must unravel the secrets of the god as soon as possible to ensure that she will not suffer another mental breakdown and have to return to Qingshan Hospital for treatment because of the other party's casual glare.

Soon, with the help of various advanced technologies, scientists discovered that the umbilical cord of God had changed.

"It moved! It moved!"

To the astonishment of the scientists, after absorbing a large amount of blood, the umbilical cord of God began to wriggle like a silkworm and then began to spin a cocoon!

"It can actually move? All the previous testing methods have already proven that this is just an inanimate object!"

"It's unbelievable! We had tried all sorts of methods to inject energy, but in the end, we had to rely on injecting a large amount of fresh human blood to restore our vitality!"

"And we just injected nearly a hundred liters of blood, almost depleting the entire blood bank! I can't believe how such a small thing can hold so much blood underground!"

"Don't be surprised! Keep injecting! It looks like it's about to stop again! Someone, immediately notify the logistics department to get blood bags from the national blood bank!"

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After being irrigated with a large amount of blood, the experimental table that originally held the umbilical cord of the god was now covered with the threads it had spun out, tightly wrapping its body and forming a blood-red cocoon the size of a football.

"Stop! All scientists, step back! Cut off the blood supply!" Tian Qing commanded, looking at the writhing blood-red cocoon. "I'm not going to be so foolish as to continue providing you with energy and let you undergo some kind of mutation! I can't let something of unknown origin gain the power to break free from its cage! But before that, we need to get those scientists out first, and we can't let anything happen to them."

Of course, such an order was not something the scientists who were about to see the results were happy to accept. However, after seeing the row of fully armed soldiers behind Tian Qing, they had no choice but to obey Tian Qing's order and leave the laboratory.

After the last scientist muttered under his breath and reluctantly put down his tools and left the laboratory at Tian Qing's command, Tian Qing personally cut off the blood supply to the Crimson Cocoon.

Then an angry roar came from the blood-red cocoon, as if the creature inside was angrily rebuking the outside for cutting off the tribute. Then several threads began to wriggle, trying to pierce through the metal tube next to them and then draw blood from inside. The seemingly soft threads actually scratched white marks on the tube made of superalloy, making a piercing scraping sound!

After several attempts by the silk threads failed to pierce the duct, the creature inside the blood-red cocoon began to panic. Lacking the most crucial blood supply, it could barely move for long!

Immediately afterwards, it "looked" at Tian Qing and the others, or rather, it was attracted by the blood in their bodies, and began to extend more threads, crawling towards Tian Qing and the others!

"Everyone, stand back!" Tian Qing ordered, looking at the threads. This laboratory is huge; let's see how long your threads can stretch.

These threads cannot extend automatically like rubber, so for the Crimson Cocoon to extend its thread tentacles, the threads must be pulled out of the cocoon. As Tian Qing and the others retreated further and further, the threads extended further and further, and the threads surrounding the Crimson Cocoon began to decrease, eventually even faintly revealing the constantly writhing umbilical cord inside the Crimson Cocoon!

At this moment, after absorbing a large amount of fresh human blood, the umbilical cord actually produced a small fleshy ball at one end, as if the original owner of the umbilical cord was going to be resurrected by relying on this umbilical cord!

But how could Tian Qing just sit idly by and watch this happen?

"Sage Mode! Sage Art: Boiling Bone Cannon!" Tian Qing drew her snake-shaped sword and fired a cannonball at the little fleshy ball!

That pure and dazzling light was like a concentrated beam of light, instantly annihilating the small ball of flesh, and then mercilessly piercing through the 17 layers of armor on the outside of the laboratory, soaring straight into the sky!

Then the threads that had been constantly wriggling and crawling towards the clear sky stopped moving.

"Mobilize the remotely controlled robots! Prepare to retrieve the target! Also, everyone be careful when walking, don't step on these threads. Have the small robots prepare to retrieve these threads!" Even though the target had stopped moving, Tian Qing wouldn't risk her life by foolishly letting humans approach that greedy, blood-sucking monster. Instead, she would send out bloodless robots to prevent the enemy from turning the tables!

"Also, should we have the logistics department prepare for the possibility of an abortion?" Tian Qing looked at the divine umbilical cord in the distance. Although she had just aimed at the newly grown fleshy ball on one side of the umbilical cord, if the divine umbilical cord lost its ability to shield the invisible deity after this, she would probably have to become pregnant and have to go to the operating table.

For the first time in her life, Tianqing began to doubt the saying "It's good to be a woman in this life" and seriously considered the necessity of removing her uterus.

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PS: Second update, making up for the missed monthly tickets and rewards.

Chapter Thirteen: A Temporary End

In the Hunter Association's most secret laboratory, a group of scientists are studying the threads that emerge from the umbilical cord of God.

Now that they knew what strange changes would occur after blood was injected into the umbilical cord of God, these crazy scientists naturally wouldn't let such a great opportunity pass by. After all, scientific research progresses through repeated experiments and hypotheses.

Since the last experiment, scientists have been continuously injecting fresh blood into the umbilical cord of the god. After it spins a cocoon, Tian Qing will then strike it back to its original form in order to observe its mysteries and changes.

The final result of the experiment was a special tight-fitting suit woven from these threads. Given its blood-absorbing properties, Tian Qing gave it a nice name: Divine Blood Robe.

Unfortunately, after more than a dozen repeated blood injection experiments, the original vitality of the divine umbilical cord weakened, and the speed of its silk-spinning slowed down. In the end, no matter how large the doses of blood the scientists injected, the divine umbilical cord could no longer spin any silk. It lay there limp and lifeless, like an impotent caterpillar, refusing to move no matter how the scientists tried to provoke it.

"Looks like this guy's already exhausted and dead? I guess the scientists here can't figure anything out anymore, so it's time for me to go back!" Tian Qing estimated the time. Anyway, she couldn't do anything more in this world, and could only wait quietly for her plan to progress, so she might as well go back sooner to avoid any problems in the other world.

"The Demon Egg has left a backdoor in this world and initiated the return process. We should go back!" Tian Qing put on the Divine Robe of Blood, put the Divine Umbilical Cord into the scroll, and disappeared in a cloud of white mist.

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The Daimyo Mansion of the Land of Fire.

A servant entered respectfully and handed over a document: "My lord, this is the document from Konoha regarding the new Third Hokage."

The daimyo of the Land of Fire, who was playing mahjong at that moment, seized the opportunity to throw down his tiles, disrupting his game that he was about to lose: "Oh dear, I'm not playing anymore, I need to get back to work!"

Then the daimyo left the card table, took the document from the servant, and completely ignored the expressions of his fellow card players who were looking at him as a scoundrel. If he didn't even have this much shamelessness and the nerve to spout nonsense, how could he be a leader?

Although the Daimyo himself knew perfectly well that the appointment document from the ninja village for the new Hokage was merely a procedural formality, and his opinion was completely irrelevant—all that was needed was to stamp it in agreement—he still opened the document and began to read it. After all, he might have to deal with this new Hokage in the future, and it would be good to learn about him beforehand.

"Huh? Why is the new Hokage still a young girl?" Tianqing's youthful appearance is indeed very deceptive. Looking at Tianqing's photo, the Daimyo never expected that she was already a young woman in her 20s.

"Is this new Hokage really that strong?" As a daimyo, he naturally employed some wandering ninjas to provide him with intelligence, but the strength of these wandering ninjas was generally not very good, and the information they could obtain was naturally vague. Therefore, the daimyo only knew that this girl named Tensei had a very high reputation among ninjas, that various major powers valued her highly, and that she had made great contributions in this war; he knew little else.

Despite his doubts, the daimyo stamped the application with his seal. After all, it was a matter for the ninja village, and it wasn't his place to worry about it. After returning the approved application to his attendant, the daimyo continued to immerse himself in the world of mahjong.

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call!!!!

As the white mist dissipated, Tian Qing stood once again in her laboratory.

Everything in the laboratory was exactly as I had arranged before I left, with no trace of anyone intruding.

The huge showroom houses the Colossus and the Freedom Gundam, while numerous small automated golems constantly climb up and down to perform maintenance. Even when he is not present, these simple automated golems can still complete some basic repairs, ensuring that his summoned creatures have a certain degree of recovery ability.

On the other side was the laboratory's warehouse, filled with mountains of ninjutsu scrolls and materials. These were all puppet research materials and secret puppet techniques from the Sand Village over the years, which had been sent to Konoha as reparations. As the main contributor and commander-in-chief of this war, Ame not only received a huge monetary reward, but also these precious puppet techniques materials that she had painstakingly collected but could not obtain in the past, so that she could use them for her future puppet technique training.

These priceless items showed no signs of being moved, indicating that no one else had indeed been in the laboratory.

However, for a ninja, caution is key to survival.

Tian Qing looked at the red-haired puppet she had placed in the corner before leaving: "Little Red Riding Hood, how has the lab been doing lately?"

“No problem. In the few days since the master left, although there were signs of disturbance to the spells and barriers on the outer shell of the laboratory, those people did not dare to break in by force.”

At this point, Tian Qing also began to realize that keeping all the puppets in the laboratory was really inconvenient. If the laboratory were invaded by outsiders and her summoning puppets were destroyed, that would be a huge problem. Moreover, the strength of her puppets was currently uneven, especially the Freedom Gundam. As a pure puppet creation, its performance was far inferior to what Tian Qing remembered, and it needed further improvement.

"Perhaps, the blood from the divine robe on my body can solve this problem?" Tian Qing suddenly remembered a function of the robe she was wearing and secretly made up her mind to integrate all her abilities. After all, her various abilities were too scattered at the moment. As the saying goes, it is better to be good at one thing than a jack of all trades. She had been too scattered in the past.

Shortly after Tian Qing left the lab and returned to her room, someone knocked on the door.

Tap! Tap!

The maid knocked on the door: "Lord Tianqing, the village has sent someone to welcome you. They say the daimyo's appointment has been approved and you are invited to attend the inauguration ceremony."

"Okay, I'll set off right away."

Over the bloodstained robe, Tianqing donned a white divine robe tailored to his own, the words "Third Hokage" shining brightly behind him, proclaiming that Konoha was about to enter a new era.

As soon as I pushed open the door, cheers and applause erupted outside!

"From now on, this is my village." Tianqing looked at the crowd in front of her, then suddenly remembered something. "A memo to myself: I must make sure the Fourth Hokage teaches Naruto properly in the future, and I absolutely must not let that brat scribble on my Hokage Rock statue again!"