Miyazaki's schemes often permeate every unexpected place.
Even if this was reality and not a game, Terra and not Yharnam, every time Goki was ambushed, he couldn't help but curse that old bastard who was currently on Earth—and regret that he might never get to play Elden Ring again.
Long-term peaceful daily life had made Goki relax a bit, but the recent tranquilizer dart attack quickly heightened his hunter's vigilance.
He understood that locked treasure chests were best not opened casually, and the same applied to the translucent cultivation chambers in front of him.
Heaven knows whether the seemingly lifeless beings inside were truly dead.
For the Great Ones and their kin, life and death themselves were extremely ambiguous concepts.
Blessed by the Moon Presence, after death, Goki's Soul would return to the Hunters Dream, and his Physical Body would be reshaped; he would lose nothing except the accumulated blood echoes—if he couldn't win, he would just try again.
Even if he killed the Moon Presence, he wasn't sure if it truly died.
But clearly, Nona Muelsyse / Muir Sais didn't understand this problem.
For her, and for researchers including Saria and Silence, most things placed in transparent cultivation chambers were already dead, used to maintain cell activity, or were basically half-dead animal and plant specimens.
Absolutely impossible to be… jumping around alive like now.
"Waaahhh—help me! Save me!"
On the experimental table in front, a cultivation chamber, originally less than a meter tall, looking like a fish tank filled with murky sewage, suddenly had a nearly two-meter-tall, flesh-and-blood-constructed, tentacle-like entity burst out of it.
The powerful tentacle coiled around Muelsyse / Muir Sais's water Clone, and with a violent Dump, slammed her into the low, two-meter-high ceiling.
"What the hell is this thing—why can't my Originium Arts dispel it?!"
Her occiput directly hit the ceiling; if it were an ordinary person, she would have fainted by now, but Muelsyse / Muir Sais remained conscious—Clones don't have brainstems.
In the several years she had been the Director of the Ecology Department, Muelsyse / Muir Sais had faced no shortage of assassination attempts.
No matter which big capitalist or other department Director was behind those professional killers, she had narrowly escaped death several times—true business wars often involve directly poisoning the cup.
For this, Muelsyse / Muir Sais specifically created this Originium Arts, which uses water flow to mimic herself and can project part of her consciousness onto the Clone. Although it cannot move too far from her main body, it can effectively ensure her safety.
Of course, the Clone's sensations would also be completely replicated to her current self, and now—she couldn't even dispel her Originium Arts!
"Director Muelsyse / Muir Sais, are you alright?"
"N-no, I'm fine."
Several floors below, in the Structure Department, she had just stepped into the Structure Department laboratory and almost stumbled and fell, which made Saria, who was beside her, look at her strangely.
"Hey, help me out, Goki—why are you just watching?!"
Slap!
Before she could finish speaking, Muelsyse / Muir Sais was slammed onto the floor by that long and powerful flesh tentacle.
Meanwhile, Goki was unhurriedly flipping through the experimental records belonging to Rhine Lab, or rather, solely to the Director.
"Serves you right. Even a half-baked person like me knows not to casually touch things you don't understand. Letting you act recklessly just because you're a Clone, you deserve a lesson."
Goki knew that the Muelsyse / Muir Sais in front of him was a Clone, and this guy hadn't even considered whether her rash actions would release something that would threaten Goki, so he had no intention of pitying her.
"Hmph, if you don't help, you don't help. I'm not afraid of you anyway, my Clone has no feeling—ugh, why is this thing reaching into my clothes, it's, it's so itchy—help!"
She hadn't even been tough for three seconds when she saw the sea anemone-like tentacles splitting from the tip of the main tentacle begin to probe her waist. Muelsyse / Muir Sais immediately started laughing and begging for mercy.
However, Goki paid no attention to this. He just picked up a small reagent bottle, similar to his own blood collection vial, and saw the deep black blood within, quiet and brilliant like the starry sky.
"Through observation of researchers with brain injuries, we initially discovered that the 'starry blood' blood samples found in the Kazimierz Gods People ruins still possess strong activity, and red blood cells still contain nuclei—after using chalk treatment needles to enhance their cellular totipotency, we successfully induced them to produce muscle and nerve tissue… Truly worthy of a researcher."
Looking at the "starry blood" in his hand, which was similar to the sample he had secretly taken before, but with stronger activity, Goki sighed.
[Thick Cold Blood (Starry)]
A tube of thick, cold blood rich in blood echoes, which can be used to obtain a large amount of blood echoes.
Powerful enemies can produce thick pages, and this is undoubtedly a product of obsession, a powerful source of strength for people to use.
The crown of the ancient god has been cut down by the knight, but he has grasped the power from the starry sky and the Universe, and he will return to the throne.
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