"You have gained 150 power points."

"Gained a stronghold, the fortress of Pampol."

"Since you are currently in the Hermit state, the reputation will be temporarily adjusted to 0...... after opening the Battle" system"

The page refreshed a series of prompts, and Xia was dazzled.

"Stephanie, are you done with your wine? Take a look at what this system is all about. ”

She closes the page and dives inside the mansion again.

Because of Kevin's orders, the soldiers did not enter Bella's bedroom, and she was still lying on the bed. In the hallway, some of the guards could be seen angrily holding their weapons and cursing the soldiers, while the maids wiped their tears to clean up the messy floor.

Even a disciplined army like Kevin's was very rude in his actions, and some uncooperative maids were pushed a few times, resisted fiercely and even slapped in the face, and the decorations in the house were also damaged a lot.

Everyone was busy, trying to get this qiē in order before the master woke up, except for one person.

The maid with short red hair calmly walked through the hallway towards the room where Kevin had just met with the thieves.

She took a broom and made a sweeping appearance, and when she came to the door, she looked left and right for a moment, and then dodged inside.

Natsu lurks outside the door, watching her movements.

I saw that she put the broom aside, took out a bottle on her body, collected a few white wolf hairs from the ground, and then came to the place where General Kevin had sit. After searching the back of the sofa for a while, he showed a disappointed expression, and it seemed that he could not find any traces left by the other party.

The red-haired maid then took a hair ornament from her hair. The front of the hair ornament lit up with a faint light, and she took it and swept around the room for a long time, and finally her eyes lit up, and she found a small bugging device from under the solid table.

This bugging device is the one that Natsu had Stephanie put in her room in the first place, and the hair ornament in her hand seems to be a kind of detection device, which can accurately detect all kinds of small devices.

"Such an ingenious technological device should be rare in the kingdom. Could it be that she, like Luo Ye, is from the Empire? ”

Natsu thought as he looked at the door.

The red-haired maid searched the room for a while. Finding nothing else, he took the bugging device and the vial to his body, and picked up the broom that had been placed in the doorway.

Then she had a pain in her head and collapsed to the ground.

Natsu emerged from behind her. dragged her to the other end of the hallway, and then opened a basement door under the guidance of the black-clad little Lori, and slipped in.

"Master, your current strength is not enough, and your identity is too sensitive, I should not take care of that system for the time being, just throw it there."

The little Lori in black said to her worriedly:

"The continental hegemony system is extremely cruel, and its course often means one war after another, if you only look at the force factor. The master only has the capital to crisscross the battlefield after reaching the fifth turn, and now he is just cannon fodder, even if he is the boss. They will also be targeted by clever assassins. ”

"Don't worry, I'm not interested in war......"

Xia looked at the unconscious red-haired maid and asked the little Lori in black, "The cooldown time of the Book of Shadows hasn't passed yet, Stephanie, is there anything like a confession?" ”

"There's a pretty much ...... There may be side effects. ”

Stephanie pulled out a small box from her skirt.

"What side effects, can they damage the brain?"

Xia frowned.

"Not really. It's just that you lose your memories for a while, and it's like waking up from a dream. But he couldn't remember what was in the dream. ”

"Wouldn't that be better, stupid."

Natsu took the small box.

"Why is it better, master?"

The black-clothed little Lori lay on Xia's back: "Although it won't cause actual damage, it will cause memory confusion." ”

"It was not the best option for us to have to kill her or imprison her after being questioned, because we had to travel and could not stay here forever; If you give her to Bella or Kevin......"

She didn't finish her sentence.

She doesn't want to kill people at will, but a beautiful spy falls into the hands of the enemy, and you can imagine what treatment she will receive.

"Let's see what she says for a while, and decide how to deal with it according to the situation, if it's really the heinous type, we don't have to worry about it."

Natsu took out the potion from the box and found that it was an oral potion, so he fed it to the red-haired maid.

"What's your name? I asked for my real name. ”

After a while, the red-haired maid opened her eyes slightly, revealing a confused look in them, and Xia asked her in a low voice.

“ik-309”。

The red-haired maid replied in a faint voice.

Code name?

Xia suddenly had the feeling that he was watching a spy war movie.

"Where are you from?"

She then asked.

"I'm from the Harlem Empire."

The red-haired maid replied.

Really.

Natsu's mind immediately conjured up Luo Ye's expressionless face.

Is there any connection between these two military intelligence investigators?

"Who are you?"

"I ...... Not people. ”

The red-haired maid gave a very strange answer.

"Hey, Stephanie, is she some kind of monster? Or is it a demon? ”

Natsu asked strangely.

"Master, she looks normal, and the message shows a human being."

The little Lori in black was also a little puzzled.

"Be clear."

Natsu asked her again.

"I'm IK model, clone 309."

The red-haired maid gave an unexpected answer.

Clones?

Natsu and Stephanie glanced at each other.

"Is there a difference between this clone and a replicant?"

Xia though is from the 28th century. I know a little bit about this concept, but I've never studied these things specifically:

"I remember that Zero's message showed a replicant, so I couldn't tell it when I got to her. Or is there a bug in the system? ”

"Master, there is indeed a difference, the replicant has a higher technological content, because it completely replicates the one qiē of the mother, including *, personality, behavioral habits, etc. This is a very difficult technique. ”

"Cloning, on the other hand, is much simpler, and it mainly extracts DNA from the nucleus of the mother's cell. New individuals are then bred, but because the mitochondria and other organelles in the cytoplasm also contain a small amount of DNA, this has a subtle effect on the breeding results. ”

Stephanie patiently explained.

"Hmm...... This means that the replicant and the parent being copied are nearly identical. But there are some subtle differences between a clone and a mother, right? ”

Her explanation was so succinct that Natsu immediately understood the difference between the two.

"Roughly speaking, that's the case, but there's something special about Zero."

Stephanie had a sad look on her little face:

"Although her replication is complete, it should have used some means to accelerate the growth of her body and brain, which will greatly shorten her lifespan, and her body will be weaker than normal, which is probably the reason for her stuttering and frequent sleepiness."

"Those damn scientists!"

Xia's heart was furious, and he even wanted to go to those people who "made" zero now. Draw your sword and hack them all to death.

"Not a scientist, master."

Stephanie corrected:

"In this world, there is only legacy technology, and replicating organisms is a very difficult subject. The current level of science and technology on the mainland is not at all possible for independent research, and it is operated by the instruments and theories excavated in the ruins of Guò, and these people often do not reach the level of legitimate scientists. ”

"That's damn it, too!"

Xia gritted his teeth and said.

When she looked at the red-haired maid again, there was already a hint of pity in her eyes.

"Test her brain and body to see if there are any control devices or dangerous items like self-detonating bombs."

Xia gave the order.

"No anomalous objects were found in the brain. However, a device was found in the back of the neck that could affect the central nervous system, targeting the spine. ”

The little Lori in black quickly completed the inspection:

"The preliminary judgment is that this is a device that can destroy the neural network. It should be used as a killer weapon to prevent the rebellion of military intelligence personnel. ”

"Can you safely destroy it?"

"No problem, master."

The little Lori in black patted her small breasts:

"It's not very high-tech, but I need some related equipment......"

"Isn't that still not going to work!"

Xia slapped her on the head, angry:

"Where can I find you this kind of device? You shouldn't have it in your skirt. ”

The little Lori in black covered her head and hid to the side, but suddenly her eyes lit up:

"Master, I've found a way!"

“…… What a way. ”

Xia has never looked forward to the "method" of this artifact Lori.

"It's just past 12 o'clock, master, just after the automatic mode of the profession was refreshed, and there is a profession in it that can safely destroy this device."

Stephanie covered her head with one hand, and quickly pulled up the panel with the other.

The random profession bar in front of Xia showed a "surgeon" profession, and she couldn't help but wonder:

"It's just a medical profession, right? How can you destroy that kind of technological device...... Besides, I don't have any surgical equipment at hand. ”

"This device is closely related to medicine, there is a medical technique called 'neurosurgery', which can be used to separate this semi-finished instrument, and only some simple medical instruments are needed."

As she spoke, she pulled out some scattered knick-knacks from her skirt, which she had "taken" from various places such as stores before, but she didn't expect them to come in handy now.

"Don't do it, I remember that this kind of surgery requires very sophisticated testing equipment."

Natsu's legs are a little weak.

Although she has seen scenes of flesh and blood, in that case, it is often a battle of life and death, so that she has nothing to do with a knife to cut people little by little, and there is still a lot of psychological resistance.

"Master, don't you want to save the life of a beautiful woman?"

The little Lori in black pushed her over and said a reason that someone couldn't refuse:

"Look at this girl, she's been changed by Bella. It's so pitiful that you have been tortured for so long, and you have to carry out dangerous missions at the same time, and your life is still in the hands of those hateful bad people. ”

“…… All right. ”

Xia watched the black-clothed little Lori skillfully disinfect, and finally turned on the automatic mode.

"Hoo ......"

About half an hour later, Xia put down the knife in her hand, and the black-clothed little Lori was an assistant to help her wipe her sweat:

"Master, obviously you didn't do it yourself, why do you look like you're about to collapse."

"It's a terrible feeling to cut through a human body."

Xia turned around:

"Put that device away, this level 40 surgeon is not bad, and I can separate it without destroying the instrument."

"Hehe, and the core of this device actually uses magic power, which is naturally a piece of cake for the owner."

The little Lori in black took that thing out to wash it, flew back and said:

"Originally, I had to pay attention to how to avoid the trap, but the owner touched it lightly and it failed, and I said that I didn't have to take it down."

"This kind of thing is not a good thing to put on people, but it took half an hour to remove the hidden danger, and such a thing is worth doing."

Natsu asked her to put away the barrier under the cloth, and then the two continued to question the red-haired maid, who was still unconscious.

"Unexpectedly, she is really Luo Ye's subordinate."

After getting all the information he wanted to know, Xia was a little surprised:

"The Empire is tracking my whereabouts? When the hell did I provoke them? ”

Thinking of the representative of the science and technology department wearing glasses, a complicated look appeared in her eyes:

"Luo Ye, Luo Ye...... Have you become my enemy now? (To be continued) R466