Kamen Rider ZZZ from the American comic book world

“That’s right, this is it. Continue.” The Asgardian witch coiled around the physical clone like a python, creating a strange atmosphere in the consultation room.

However, since the other party only came for the virus constitution, it also proved that they hadn't guessed the Kamen Rider ZZZ aspect, which made Li Ai breathe a sigh of relief.

“Okay…” Li Ai then had his physical clone tell him about the combat training he had received.

"Next, you're going to have a very long dream~"

The Asgardian witch sang a lullaby to her physical doppelganger, watched her target fall asleep, then took out a cell phone and clumsily dialed a number.

“Hey, you strange woman from Midgard, I’ve got the person you wanted under control.”

"Oh? How did it go?" A voice that sounded exactly like Ida's came from the other end of the phone.

“He is still very wary. When I ask him about his secrets, I need to add fuel to the fire to make him lower his guard.”

The Asgardian witch replied, reverting to her original appearance: red hair, blue eyes, and a bewitching beauty that seemed capable of captivating all beings.

“You did a great job, Lorelei,” Radames said with satisfaction on the other end of the phone.

"I will give that thing to you once he arrives at my base."

“Those who play tricks on witches never have a good end, Midgards,” Lorelei said coldly.

It seems that their relationship is not particularly friendly.

Li Ai took all of this into account.

Although Li Ai didn't know what Radames wanted her to do, she knew she had to speed things up. After all, a physical clone was not the real body, and once it involved blood testing, it would inevitably alert her opponent.

Li Ai used the teleportation portal to leave the building and return to his home. He heard rustling sounds coming from the basement, so he went to investigate.

In the basement, Ada, whose basic combat uniform had been changed to a red turtleneck shirt and black leggings, was adjusting her equipment. Hearing footsteps, she instinctively raised her gun, but upon seeing that it was Li Ai, she quickly lowered it and asked:

Aren't you going to ask me for the secret code?

“Then you speak,” Li Ai replied.

Although Radames and Ida share the same way of thinking, their memories are not synchronized, so Ida proposed a secret code as a backup plan.

“Show me your report card,” Ada said sternly.

Li Ai rubbed her temples and said with a pained expression, "Don't even mention it. Even though it's not finals yet, I get a headache just hearing this."

"Let's change the subject then." Ada smiled, her tense shoulders relaxing slightly. She changed the subject and asked:

"I've already drunk ten bottles of that medicine called Tide Essence. When can I get the Lord's Summoning Weapon and the matching capsules?"

Because she was certain that the person in front of her was her real mother, Li Ai spoke without any attempt to hide her feelings:

"I can give you the equipment anytime, but there are some things I need to tell you first..."

Li Ai recounted everything he had seen at the clinic.

Fake phone numbers, witches, hypnosis, kidnapping, actions against Li Ai... every keyword is triggering Ada's nerves.

“That sounds like something I would do if I were to do anything,” Ada sneered. She looked at Li Ai and said calmly, “We need to act immediately to prevent her from doing anything dangerous.”

Li Ai raised his hand and a teleportation portal appeared out of thin air. He reached into the portal and took out a black briefcase.

"The equipment is here."

“I don’t need you to teach me how to use it. I’ve already watched you two spar many times.” Ada reached out and took the briefcase. After opening it, she saw a Lord’s Summoning Device and a black and red capsule.

"The capsule is called 'Illusion,' which in the game is called a magic-type equipment. Its direct combat ability is not as strong as my dad's turbo," Li Ai said, looking at Ada who had picked up the capsule.

The Illusion Capsule was created by Li Ai using a projection capsule, making it more suitable for Ada Wong's fighting style.

“Illusion? Okay, I understand.” Ada nodded, put away the Lord's Summoning Device and the Illusion Capsule, and asked:

Can you pinpoint the exact location?

"The physical clone is still moving, but its speed has slowed down. It should be approaching their base soon," Li Ai said, looking at the location information on her glasses.

Chapter 181 The Physically Discomfortable Replacement

Late at night, in a port city near New York, a secret experimental base is hidden beneath the cold seawater.

The stark white light stretched along the metal corridor, the air thick with the smell of formaldehyde. Lorelei tossed her fiery red hair, holding 'Li Ai' by the back of the neck as if she were carrying a piece of cargo.

Asgardians possess physical abilities far exceeding those of humans on Earth. Even the seemingly frail Lorelei has the physique of a super soldier.

Wearing a red turtleneck shirt, paired with black skinny jeans and high heels, Radames, who looks exactly like Ada, leans against the door, holding an empty syringe in her hand. Beneath her cold and beautiful expression lies an incorrigible obsession.

"I've brought you the target." Lorelei tossed Li Ai's physical clone aside like merchandise. The clone lay unconscious on the cold ground. "Now give me what I want."

Several fully armed bio-clone soldiers emerged from behind the door. They carried Li Ai's physical clone, allowing the leader to carefully examine her target.

Radames's gaze swept over 'Li Ai's' face several times, and after confirming that this was what he wanted, he took out a silver amulet inlaid with a dark green gem from his pocket and tossed it to Lorelei.

This is an ancient witchcraft artifact that can help the wearer evade detection, but it requires the continuous consumption of the souls of innocent people.

Lorelei was a notorious prisoner in Asgard. After escaping, she killed several of her own kind and used dark magic to open a portal, which brought her to Earth.

In other words, the Rainbow Bridge is still damaged, which means Lorelei doesn't have to face Asgard's pursuit for the time being.

Lorelei didn't dare gamble on when the Rainbow Bridge would be repaired, so she needed something, such as an item that could help her avoid footprints under Heimdall's detection.

Radames happened to have one of these items, so the two established a trading relationship.

“You are the most trustworthy witch I have ever met,” Radames said with a smile, her tone deliberately mimicking Ida’s languidness. “I have prepared some red wine in your room. Although it is not as strong as the liquor from your hometown, it can still help pass the time.”

Having said that, Radames tossed the amulet to Lorelei, who caught it, ran her fingertips over the patterns on the gemstone's surface, and after confirming it was genuine, said:

"It's a pleasure to work with you, Midgards."

Lorelei turned and walked toward the lounge, her heels clicking crisply on the metal floor.

Once Lorelei's figure had completely disappeared at the end of the passage, Radames withdrew her gaze. She reached out and pinched 'Li Ai's' chin, forcing him to raise his head. Her fingertips traced the boy's cheek, her eyes filled with a mixture of jealousy and fanaticism.

"The perfect virus fitter, Ada Wong's son... Soon, I will have a son of my own."

As soon as she finished speaking, Radames snapped her fingers, and the bio-clone soldiers hoisted 'Li Ai' onto their shoulders. She herself then walked through the metal tunnel and opened a blast-proof door that required her fingerprint, pupil, and voice to be locked.

The alloy doors slid to the sides, revealing a brightly lit laboratory inside.

Dozens of culture chambers were neatly arranged. In the central chamber, number one, a boy whose figure was seven parts similar to Li Ai was immersed in the light blue nutrient solution. He floated with his eyes closed, and the bluish-purple veins were faintly visible under his pale skin.

The clone soldier placed 'Li Ai' into pod number two. Radames watched as the pod filled with nutrient solution, and several mechanical tentacles stuck to 'Li Ai's' head, as if to probe his brain.

Radames looked at 'Li Ai' inside the second compartment with a twisted expression, and said in a frenzied manner:

“As long as all your memories are transferred into the brain of the ‘replacement’ I created with a high concentration of the C virus, he will become the real Leah Scott, I will be the real and only Ada Wong, and I will have a son who belongs only to me.”

Radames then put on sterile gloves and rapidly tapped his fingertips on the screen of the main control panel. Streams of data flowed along the lines into the experimental table and culture chamber, and fine bubbles began to rise in the pale blue nutrient solution.

The substitute's fingers trembled slightly inside the No. 1 incubation chamber, as if he would open his eyes at any moment.

“What a terrible imitation, Kara Radames.”

A cold female voice suddenly came from the shadows of the laboratory. Radames turned around sharply and saw Ida Wong slowly walking out of the shadows. Her red turtleneck shirt made her skin look pale and cold, and her eyes were completely calm, as if she were watching a clumsy farce.

Ida and Radames have identical genetic information, so it was very easy for Ida to infiltrate this underwater base. Any biometric lock could be opened with a single click, without any need for hacking.

“So you did find this place.” Radames smiled smugly. “This is the power that ‘Ada Wong’ should have. But you’re too late. The memory transfer has already begun. There will only be a new Leah Scott left in this world.”

"That's not necessarily true. Is it possible that I'm not in there?"

With her glasses styled as sunglasses and dressed in a secret agent uniform, Li Ai stood beside Ada with a gun, as if declaring Radames's defeat.

Seeing this scene, Radames's expression froze completely, but then he let out a piercing laugh.

"A double? Ada Wong, you're even more ruthless than I thought. To protect your own child, you chose to let another boy die?"

Upon hearing this, Li Ai and Aida exchanged a glance, both seeing helplessness in each other's eyes.

“You underestimated my limits after becoming a mother, Radames, simulated.” Ada fastened the Lord’s Summoner to her chest, while holding the Illusion Capsule in her hand, neatly inserting it into the groove.

【Mirage!】(Illusion!)

【On Your Mark】 (Get in position)

【Invoke Lord System·Mirage!】(Invoke Lord System·Mirage!)

The moment the mechanical voice faded, Ada donned a black and red fitted combat suit, with dark red patterns winding along her waist and limbs, and a faint red light shimmering in her palms.

"What kind of power is this?"

Radames' pupils contracted, and she immediately thought of the rumored strongest avenger, Kamen Rider ZZZ. However, she quickly adjusted her state, gently waved her right hand, and the walls on both sides of the laboratory opened. A set of silver-gray exoskeleton armor flew out from it and covered Radames' body in the blink of an eye.

"Only one Ida Wong will leave here today." Radames' eyes were filled with murderous intent.

Meanwhile, Radames remotely activated the replacement for Incubation Pod 1, putting the premature baby into the battle ahead of schedule.

"It can be considered an unconventional mother-son relationship."

Ada glanced at Li Ai, who was staring at the replacement who had just stepped out of the No. 1 incubation chamber.

Chapter 182 You and your son are treating us, mother and son.

The replacement, wearing only a pair of shorts, stood barefoot on the ground. His body shape was exactly the same as Li Ai's, but the facial details were slightly different. His skin was sickly pale, his wet hair was stuck to his forehead, and his eyes were not clear, but only murky malice.

The replacement tilted his head and looked at Li Ai not far away. He noticed that although the man was wearing sunglasses, his exposed features were very similar to his own. He asked:

"Who are you? Why... do you look so much like me?"

Li Ai's feelings were also mixed at this moment. He looked at the bio-engineered life form in front of him, which should be considered his clone, and his thoughts were somewhat chaotic.

In the original timeline, Radames would also use the C-virus to create 'Chaos,' an ultimate bioweapon that could theoretically alter the global ecosystem.

Li Ai suspected that the 'Replacement' in front of her was a bio-weapon of the same status as 'Chaos', except that the Replacement was more intelligent and had the ability to communicate.

“It’s very simple. You are a cyborg created by Kara Radames, deliberately made to look like Leah Scott.” Leah Scott confessed directly to the replacement, still feeling a little pity for this cyborg.

"A cyborg? No! I am the real Leah Scott!" The replacement seemed to have been hit where it hurt, and his shoulders trembled violently.

The replacement's fingertips crackled with purple electricity, producing a particularly jarring popping sound. He suddenly raised his palm, and a super-high voltage current, strong enough to burn the air, struck Li Ai's chest.

This bolt of lightning shattered Li Ai's faint sense of compassion.

"This mission is: Destroy the clone." Li Ai's ZZZ Driver on his chest blocked the attack, and an impact capsule appeared in his hand.

"I am in position, HenShin!"

【Good Morning! Rider! Z·Z·Z! Impact! 】

Black and red mist spread across Li Ai's body. Before he could complete his transformation, he sprinted at full speed toward the replacement. The moment the mechanical voice fell, Li Ai punched the replacement like a cannonball, sending it flying and causing its body to slam heavily against the wall.

The replacement landed back on the metal floor, a mechanical voice ringing in his ears. Not far away, Li Ai was silently examining the replacement, who had grown a new arm, and carefully assessing it:

"A monster formed from a pure, highly concentrated biochemical virus, a bioelectric field formed by all the cells together..."

"I am the only Leah Scott!" the replacement roared, unleashing purple electricity from both hands simultaneously, relentlessly destroying the underwater base.

Every cell in the replacement generates powerful bioelectricity, giving it more energy than a nuclear power plant.

Seeing this, Li Ai raised her right hand and caught the current in her palm, muttering, "Troublesome thing."

Li Ai frowned slightly. He wasn't shocked by the power of the replacement, but rather by the fact that this guy was releasing viruses into the outside world even with his breathing. If not handled properly, the entire marine ecosystem of the East Coast would be affected.

The replacement was enveloped in purple electricity, and his flesh and bones proliferated wildly, forming a biological armor on his body. He stretched out his right hand, and white bone pierced through his skin, forming a large bone sword on the outside of his wrist.

"Die! Imposter!" The imposter raised his right bone scalpel above his head and lunged at Li Ai with a very crude stance.

hum-

The bone-like greatsword, crackling with purple electricity, slammed into Li Ai's arm, sparks flying everywhere.

"The real person is still here, and you're already acting like you're the one?"

Li Ai's face darkened. He clenched his left fist and punched the substitute in the abdomen, causing him to stagger back more than ten meters.

Before the replacement could even get his footing, Li Ai unleashed a barrage of punches and kicks.

"Mom is right, anyone who tries to stop us deserves to die."

The replacement, who had been passively taking hits, let out a low growl. He seemed to have been programmed into the combat system in advance. After getting used to the rhythm of close combat, he deliberately shattered the blade on his wrist and used purple electricity to strengthen his fists and feet, looking for an opportunity to counterattack.

Bang bang bang————

The sounds of fists and feet clashing were incessant. Although Li Ai was wary of the damage the replacement would cause to the environment, she still suppressed this monster that should not exist.

The replacement launched an attack with a powerful hook punch, but Li Ai grabbed his wrist and threw him over the shoulder, sending his back slamming into the metal floor.

With a loud 'boom,' the entire laboratory trembled. The replacement tried to get up, but Li Ai pierced his chest with the Dream Eater Claw in Blade Mode. His entire body was pressed down by an immense force, rendering him unable to move.