Chapter 435: The Boomerang Struck Geese's Head Hard
[Large Feng Shui Engine/Mecha Reserve Device: Golden Legend/Lv-, Special Item, Special Accessory. Installation requirements: Only research facilities or large vehicles that can physically accommodate this engine can equip this accessory, and a dedicated accessory slot must be reserved in advance.
The largest prototype Feng Shui engine built by Shadowloo Commander Vega to complete the "Strongest Humanoid Weapon" project, it also serves as a special device for reserving bio-mechas. It can only achieve its intended effect after configuration, and once configured, it will be bound to the corresponding facility or vehicle and cannot be easily relocated.
Once successfully configured, it can provide a continuous power source for the facility or vehicle—
If it's a facility, it will fully supply all necessary energy within the facility, reducing the consumption of Chosen Coins generated when using energy; it will provide an additional 100% energy replenishment speed for mechanical units within the facility, such as ancient metal guardians and combat vehicles.
If it's a vehicle, it will restore 5% of its total energy per minute; when the vehicle is a large warship, it will provide an additional 100% energy replenishment speed for returning mechanical units.
The current device has 8 built-in bio-mecha sleep pods, with the current number of bio-mechas being — 8/8, 4 with male characteristics and 4 with female characteristics.
Bio-mechas are special units with numerous mechanical implants and gene-enhanced modifications, retaining some human tissue. Originally intended as backup bodies for "Vega" or "Seth," they are currently blank husks.
You can attempt to awaken the bio-mechas by additionally injecting combat data and personality data, but the injection of personality data may lead to cognitive deviations in the bio-mechas, causing them to become uncontrollable. Please use with caution.
Bio-mecha basic data — Elite template base, Strength, Agility, Spirit, Charisma, all four attributes average 35 points, with fluctuations based on individual differences and input data, and possess 4 blank skill slots.
Bio-mecha sleep pods can repair damaged mechas, modify mecha personality programs, and add or delete mecha move data.]
[Additional comment: Who the real Huang Silang is, no longer matters.]
They didn't catch Seth, but they did seize Seth's backup bodies along with the Feng Shui engine.
In Cheng Tian's opinion, the energy bonus provided by the large Feng Shui engine alone shouldn't be enough to reach the Golden Legend level. The existence of 8 blank bio-mechas is clearly a huge bonus.
The four characters "Feng Shui Engine" are actually more like a series name for a category. Whether it's this large one, the medium one in Seth's belly, or the small one originally in Juri Han's eye socket and now hot-swapped onto Cheng Tian's forehead, they are all called Feng Shui Engines. However, their fields of application and additional capabilities differ greatly.
The large Feng Shui engine primarily provides a power source and also serves as a breeding ground for bio-mechas.
The medium Feng Shui engine, while capable of replicating and copying fighter data, also possesses a traction and compression ability similar to a small black hole, which is extremely overpowered.
As for the small Feng Shui engine, it's a buff machine used to comprehensively enhance physical stats such as perception, ki, and physical strength. Moreover, after being assimilated by Cheng Tian's prefrontal cortex, it directly exhibited completely different effects, providing a bonus to holy magic and spirit.
But there's no doubt that this large Feng Shui engine is absolutely the most valuable item in the entire SIN division, perhaps even without equal.
Cheng Tian looked into the sleep pod through a small window, like a classroom back door.
The physical details of both the male and female bio-mechas were incredibly rich and fully exposed, so rich that if one didn't know Vega and Seth's personalities, one might suspect they intended to do something extra with the bio-mechas.
The male mechas were clearly heavily referenced from Vega himself, with some details added that Vega had longed for from Ryu.
As for the female mechas, Cheng Tian strongly suspected they were referenced from Chun-Li and Cammy.
Look at those thigh muscles~~ I told you to train your legs!
The richly detailed female mechas, combined with their silver metallic texture and exquisite facial features that clearly hadn't been corrupted by Western influences, made Cheng Tian involuntarily think of the "Twin Ballerinas" from "Atomic Heart."
Although neither of them had faces... "Tsk!"
Comrade Irene, also peering inside through the small window, clicked her tongue in annoyance.
Cheng Tian used to wonder back then why Seth, who had a strong villainous aura and was completely bald in Street Fighter 4, even changed gender in Street Fighter 5?
But in the subsequent cutscenes of "Street Fighter 5," Cheng Tian learned that Seth, shattered in Street Fighter 4, was revived by Juri Han through either data download or bio-brain transfer and placed into a female mecha body.
Although the gender changed, the voice actor didn't, still Akio Ōtsuka's rough baritone, which had a unique flavor.
Theoretically, Cheng Tian could transform all 8 blank mechas into whatever he desired, but Seth's story also told him that rash personality implantation had a chance of leading to personality collapse and subsequent rampage... However, this thing should also be subject to Overlord's control, right?
Thinking of this crucial point, Cheng Tian wasn't too worried anymore. He would study it thoroughly after setting up the Feng Shui engine in the lab.
Cheng Tian's gaze turned towards the empty direction, which was actually the direction Seth had departed.
As a humanoid creature, Seth couldn't escape Cheng Tian's scan. However, the current Seth was no longer appealing to Cheng Tian; there were many other things in the SIN division waiting to be plundered.
And this brought them to Udon's domain!
...Tokyo, 8:00 AM, 28 hours remaining until the end of the King of Fighters tournament preliminaries.
Last night, with the Hammond Innovation Lab as the center, various events occurred simultaneously across the bustling city of Tokyo, making it exceptionally lively.
For the public, these past few dozen hours had been a carnival atmosphere with hardly any decline. People watched enthusiastically, spent money enthusiastically, and the cycle of day and night couldn't dampen the public's passion for watching the matches.
But in the early morning, the Bunshun Daily broke two rather significant news stories.
World-class idol, everyone's Athena Asamiya... her underwear was stolen!
The goddesses' fans' fury erupted, almost threatening to overturn the entire King of Fighters '97 arena. However, alongside the superficial fan rage, countless forums, message threads, and message boards saw an uncountable number of "seeking goddess underwear" help posts, as well as corresponding fake phishing posts and scam posts.
As for the other major news story... *CRACK!*
The ultra-expensive bathroom mirror in the most luxurious presidential suite was shattered by a single punch.
The broken mirror shards couldn't harm the skin of this fist, but they couldn't conceal that this was a relatively slender fist and arm, completely contrary to what came before, belonging only to a woman.
Geese Howard, the 44-year-old head of the Howard Conglomerate, the de facto ruler of South Town, America, and a figure at the apex of power, had at this moment transformed into a fair-skinned, beautiful, short-blonde, voluptuous mature woman!
The boomerang that mocked Terry Bogard had, in the end, struck Geese.
And with another completely different *CRACK* sound, Geese turned to look at the bathroom door, the image of his beautiful but furiously distorted features frozen on the front page of the newspaper.