A man among dragons, building a mysterious ancient church.

Chapter 339 The real body must be shark-crazy.
On the basement floor of the pachinko parlor, none of the elite members of the Fierce Ghost Clan were present; only Xu Lie remained.

Xu Lie dispatched all the elite members of the Fierce Ghost Clan to actively search for each of his colleagues and bring back all the Fierce Ghost Clan members in Tokyo as soon as possible.

Miyamoto Toru naturally passed this information on to Herzog, who could do nothing but rage in vain.

They could only watch helplessly as the humiliation was endured, huddled in a corner of the ditch, and unwillingly watched as Ince took all the members of the Fierce Ghosts.

With no concrete information about the White King's remains and Erii's plane crash, Herzog dared not engage in a direct battle with Ince.

The basement level, even with only Xu Lie present, was far from deserted; on the contrary, it was quite lively. A dozen or so Xu Lies were gathered around a ping-pong table, watching with great interest as two Xu Lies engaged in a passionate match, occasionally offering their comments: "Good thief!"

Yes, it wasn't a good shot, but a good steal. Halfway through the game, Xu Lie on the left released a high lob, and the height of the smash was absolutely top-notch. Xu Lie on the right couldn't resist taking the bait and jumped up to smash it.

The moment the hand swung out, the ping-pong paddle disappeared. The five fingers of the rapidly swinging right hand weakly swept across the front of the ping-pong ball, hitting nothing but air.

The ping-pong ball landed on the table and bounced up, as if Xu Lie on the left was mocking him, while Xu Lie on the right twitched his cheek: "The Thief's ability isn't for you to steal rackets."

After making a comment, Xu Lie on the right pulled out a racket from somewhere and continued serving. The two exchanged rallies twice when Xu Lie on the right suddenly paused: "Your real body? You're awake?"

Upon hearing this, the dozen or so Xu Lie around him scattered like birds and beasts, each pretending to be busy with something.

Some were busy making coffee at the coffee machine, some were sweeping the floor, and some were organizing ingredients in the refrigerator.

Xu Lie on the left didn't dare to receive the ball, thinking he should just slip away to avoid being caught by the main body.

As a result, he threw the racket away and ran a few steps but still couldn't see the racket. That's when he realized something was wrong and he had been tricked!

Xu Lie, on the left, turned around with a dark face: "Using a clone to trick another clone? Is that funny?"

"Of course there is." Xu Lie on the right, who had put on a monocle at some point, was laughing particularly freely.

When Xu Lie's main body came out of the room, this was the messy scene he saw. Upon seeing this, his right clone quickly put down his racket, took off his monocle, and pretended to wipe the lens.

Xu Lie, annoyed, walked back and picked up his racket again: "You think you can just run away after winning? Let's go again!"

Xu Lie on the right didn't respond, but secretly glanced towards the main room. Xu Lie on the left didn't care: "Still lying? I won't fall for the same trick twice..."

"You've been tricked?" Hearing the voice that suddenly came from beside him, the left clone trembled all over, not daring to turn its head. It could only look at the opposite side with a bitter expression. There really should be some trust between clones!

In the story of "The Boy Who Cried Wolf," the boy is fooled the first two times, and the third time the wolf actually comes. But this guy on the right only fools you once, and the second time it's the truth?
Xu Lie sighed, "Am I that scary? With you guys around, I can maintain my humanity. How could I blame you just because you played basketball?"

The left clone couldn't help but mutter, "I'm not afraid of being blamed by you, I'm afraid of being sent out to work. I don't know how many clones have been sent to various hotels as receptionists. Because of the smiling service, their faces have become stiff from smiling."

The clone on the right nodded in agreement: "Yeah, who would want to go to work if they could relax and have fun? With so many hybrids coming from all sides, how many clones would we need to monitor them all?"

“Hmm.” Xu Lie’s main body deeply agreed and nodded in agreement: “You’re right. Speaking of work, there’s something that requires the two of you to make a trip.”

Both of the clones looked bitter; their expressions had never been so bitter when their ping-pong paddles were stolen or when they were tricked by the clones.

"Pfft." A series of light laughs came from Xu Lie's clones around him, each doing their own thing. Luckily, they had the foresight.

Xu Lie didn't care about the laughter of his clones around him. There would always be a chance to send them out to work. He reached into the air in front of him and pulled out his unique monocle.

While wiping his glasses with a cloth, he explained the situation: "Herzog's side has been put under surveillance by his clones."

"Just now, a message came back from the Time Worm responsible for monitoring Herzog Laboratory that Chen Motong went there and even infiltrated Blake Gattuso's Mind Island, which is parasitized by the Time Worm."

The left clone remarked with some emotion, "Chen Motong? That's incredibly efficient. They only arrived in Tokyo today, and they've already found out about Blake and Herzog by tonight?"

The clone on the right was not surprised: "After all, he is now a Sequence 4 Manipulator, a demigod in the field of mind. As long as we find even the slightest clue, we can follow the trail and pull out the whole thing."

The unique monocle doesn't actually get dirty. Xu Lie wiped it symbolically and put the unique monocle on his right eye: "So you'll have to make the trip. I'll take you to the vicinity."

"Uh, where are we going?" The left clone asked curiously, like a student, even raising his hand to ask, "Are we going to kill Chen Motong?"

"..." Xu Lie's lips curled up slightly. He discovered that people can actually laugh when they are speechless to the extreme.

The clone on the right explained irritably, "Are you stupid? You're going to kill the manipulator you've painstakingly trained? What's the point? Is it for that Sequence 4 manipulator extraordinary trait?"

"That thing is useless to us. At most, it'll just give us another high-sequence extraordinary item for the audience. It can't replace Fortress's side in assisting the Source Matter and resolving conflicts with the universe." The left clone, mocked by his old rival, retorted, "Then tell me, if we don't kill him, what are we supposed to do? Let Chen Motong keep watching? What if he discovers us?"

The clone on the right looked at the main body: "Hmph, the main body must have already thought it through. We can just work overtime obediently. Just give the orders, main body."

Xu Lie gave him an affirmative look. The clone on his right was so sensible; he wouldn't be made things difficult for him this time.

As for the clone on the left, with its rather peculiar thought process, it'll have to suffer a bit this time.

Xu Lie, wearing the unique item, spoke leisurely, thus activating his ability to deceive.

……

'How could this be?' Chen Motong did not interfere with Blake's mental island, but simply observed the memories.

Then, from Blake's memories, he learned a shocking secret!
It turns out that the Gattuso family had known about Herzog, this mad doctor, for a long time! In fact, Gattuso had been monitoring Herzog ever since the Black Swan event twenty years ago!
Herzog always believed that he was clever enough and hid extremely well, but little did he know that for the past twenty years, Herzog and all his clones had been under the surveillance of the Gattuso family!
Chen Motong's mental body couldn't help but feel a chill. What exactly was the Gattuso family plotting?

I originally thought Herzog had outmaneuvered the enemy to the extreme, leaving everything to his clones and even hypnotizing and brainwashing them to leave no trace.

As it turned out, the Gattuso family was even more cunning, hiding behind Herzog and doubling down their bets after discovering Herzog's talent.

Not only did they provide money, they also secretly dispatched a large number of scientific research talents to do research and assist Herzog, thereby stealing a large number of Herzog's scientific research results.

Blake was the chief steward sent by the Gattuso family to manage all of Herzog's projects in this plan.

Blake not only assigned more than ten researchers to Tachibana Masamune's side, but also assigned more than sixty experts and scholars to Herzog's side.

What exactly is the Gattuso family trying to achieve?
Furthermore, Chen Motong obtained an important piece of information: the Gattuso family has a close relationship with the Holy Palace Medical Association, which she has been searching for!
However, Blake's authority within the Gattuso family was not high enough, and his understanding of the Holy Palace Medical Association was limited. He only knew that the medical association had been cooperating with the family for many years, and knew nothing else.

'Anything else?' Chen Motong, unwilling to give up, explored the Mind Island again, hoping to uncover more clues.

Just then, a spatial rift quietly unfolded in front of Blake in the real world. Upon seeing this, Blake respectfully took two steps back and made a gesture of worship.

In the next instant, Odin, clad in dark gold armor and wearing a mask, appeared in the underground laboratory riding an eight-legged winged horse.

Chen Motong, who was still lurking on the island of the mind, was shocked to see this. Odin? How could Odin be here?!

And is my spirit warning me? It's not a puppet that's coming, it's Odin himself?
Without time to think it through, Chen Motong subconsciously followed the prompting of her spirit and made a run for it.

She leaped silently from Blake's island of the mind into the sea of ​​the collective unconscious, fleeing swiftly, fearing that Odin, the dragon king, might possess some means to keep her there.

After swimming far, far away into the ocean of the collective unconscious, Chen Motong finally breathed a sigh of relief and began to suspect that it was Odin's true form!

If it were an Odin puppet from the time of Bello Island, like Chu Zihang's father, Chu Tianjiao, it would be impossible for her, the manipulator, to issue a warning.

But how could Odin's true form have directly created space to arrive at Blake's location? And Blake's behavior suggests that he already knew about Odin?
Could the Gattuso family be connected to Odin in some way?!
As Chen Motong walked away, Blake, whose face had been full of respect for Odin, finally relaxed and pinched his right eye socket: "Has the main body shark gone mad?"

"You even lied to one of your own, Chen Motong?"

Odin on horseback remained silent, while the eight-legged winged horse he was riding displayed a remarkably human-like expression of frustration: "Even clones are starting to deceive each other. What's wrong with deceiving Chen Motong?"

"Besides, starting with the Old Church that the original entity fabricated, they have been deceiving their own people all along."

"Holy crap?" Blake's eyes widened as he stared intently at the eight-legged steed. "This eight-legged steed is even more intelligent than Odin's real horse!"

"How did the original body manage to do that? Has it already been able to imbue Deadpool with intelligence? Or did the original body find Odin's lair and parasitize Odin's mother?"

The horse, which looks almost exactly like Odin's eight-legged winged horse except for a noticeable right eye ring, kicked forward and said, "God-screwed Deadpool, I'm just an avatar like you!"

Odin on horseback finally laughed out loud: "We didn't expect that the ability of the main body to deceive the mentor could be used in this way."

"I deceived the ping-pong table into turning into this mask and golden armor, and deceived my clone into turning into an eight-legged winged horse. I didn't even find a real horse to parasitize, and I became the Odin you see now, riding a horse on top of a human."

Blake stared at the eight-legged pegasus, dumbfounded for a long time, before slowly regaining his senses and becoming more certain of his conclusion: "The real body must be Shark Mad."

(End of this chapter)