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"I can't die. I can't die yet. My research is not yet complete, and my experiment is not yet successful."
In the deepest part of Hojo's laboratory on the 68th floor, Hojo walked like a madman to a corpse entangled by countless instruments.
The corpse in front of him was extremely huge, like a giant, but her appearance showed that she was a woman.
And she is none other than Sephiroth and Cloud's "mother", Jenova - the corpse that Shinra found in the ancient ruins.
Hojo looked at Jenova in front of him, who had fallen into madness. He quickly entered a line of numbers on the console, and a huge metal culture chamber in the instrument opened its door.
Inside the hatch was a woman who was also entangled in countless instruments.
She has a perfect figure and her looks are so beautiful that there is nothing wrong with her.
And if you look closely at her appearance, you'll find that she's vaguely similar to Aerith.
In fact, this was his second "daughter".
He was also the one who suspected that after Sephiroth's death, he used Jenova's cells and Aerith's mother ifalna's cells to cultivate a "daughter" to replace Sephiroth.
And her name was Ifarna.
The only pity is that this "daughter" who was used to replace Sephiroth did not have any fluctuations in consciousness no matter what instrument was used to examine her. She was like a body without a soul, which made Hojo always feel very strange.
But since the last time he saw Sephiroth, he suddenly realized that the reason why her "daughter" had no thoughts was perhaps because Jenova only allowed one offspring who could think for herself to exist.
Later, he came up with a new idea, which was to use instruments to transfer other people's consciousness to this zombie.
He conducted countless experiments for this purpose, but the few successful samples turned into lunatics after a few days due to the huge amount of information brought by the dual consciousness.
However, the experiment was successful after all, so he kept selecting suitable candidates and looked at many people, but for various reasons, he has not conducted the experiment again until now.
Now that he was seriously injured, his strong desire to survive made him make a bold decision.
He was going to transfer his consciousness to his "daughter".
"I will gain eternal life." Hojo said, and entered a line of code on the console, and then another incubator opened.
However, just as he was about to lie down, his chest was suddenly pierced by a long knife, and a cold voice sounded behind him.
"Is this... my sister?"
Looking down at the blade emerging from his chest, Hojo turned around in shock and saw that Sephiroth had appeared behind him at some point.
"Yes!"Hojo then spat out a mouthful of blood, and then nodded with difficulty.
"Very good, this means I will no longer be lonely in this world." Sephiroth also nodded, then lifted Hojo's body high with his long sword.
"It's just...she shouldn't have been there. This is all your fault," Sephiroth continued.
"Cough cough..." Hojo spat out another mouthful of blood. The massive blood loss made him unable to say anything, but his eyes revealed his confusion.
"Because, someone will come to correct us soon." Seeing the confusion in Hojo's eyes, Sephiroth kindly explained. Then, a large number of Whispers appeared around him, but surprisingly, they did not stop him from speaking. Instead, they circled around him at a high speed, as if they were alert to something.
Hojo also saw those Whispers. It was the second time he saw such strange creatures. Unfortunately, his reaction was becoming slower and slower. The only thought in his mind was what Sephiroth meant by the correction.
But soon, he understood.
As Whispers beside Sephiroth spun faster and faster, the entire Hojo laboratory was filled with a strange atmosphere. Hojo, whose thinking was becoming increasingly slow, had difficulty breathing, because the air in the laboratory seemed to have solidified.
Finally, the Whispers around Sephiroth stopped circling around him and all rushed in one direction.
Hojo opened his eyes with difficulty and looked in that direction. Then, he didn't know where he got the strength from, and his eyes widened.
Because in that place, a man appeared. That man had silver hair like snow, a tall figure, and held a katana Masamune in his hand.
Surprisingly, another Sephiroth appeared.
"This is impossible." The treasure hanging on the long sword raised his hand and pointed at Sephiroth, his tone full of disbelief: "I created you, you are unique, why?"
"There is no reason, and there is no impossible. Although I also think that I am unique, it seems that he is here to suppress me." Sephiroth said to Hojo.
"Ban you? What do you mean?"Hojo seemed unaffected by the blood loss and suddenly perked up.
"Because I am defying fate!" Sephiroth glanced sideways at himself not far away, his half-smile revealing a hint of madness: "Am I right? The me from another world?"
The other Sephiroth nodded: "Fate will eventually follow its original trajectory. You should not allow it to change."
He paused, then continued, "This is our destiny."
"Fate? I don't believe in that. Just like that little girl Aerith, her fate has changed. The person who wandered outside of fate made changes for her." Sephiroth of this world said.
"So this time I was summoned by the fate of this world to correct you." Another Sephiroth raised his long sword Masamune: "Without Whispers's help, you will not be my opponent."
"Then... let's give it a try." Sephiroth in this world swung his sword, threw away the treasure bar, and pointed the sword at the other Sephiroth.
An invisible cyclone formed between the two Sephiroths. Suddenly, the cyclone exploded. As if hearing an order, the two Sephiroths spread their black feathers at the same time, and as they tapped the ground with their toes, they swung their swords at each other.
clang!
The two long swords collided with each other in an instant, and the same burning fighting spirit was in the two pairs of identical eyes. Then, the two men quickly separated, and while retreating at high speed, they swung their swords at the same time, slashing at each other with sword energy.
Boom boom boom…
Wherever the sword energy passed, the ground was cut into grooves, but the two people who were very familiar with their moves would not be hit at all. The scattered sword energy could only hit the instruments and walls in the laboratory, making a series of roaring sounds.
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In the corridor of the 66th floor, the battle was over, and the bodies of Turks and Shinra soldiers scattered all over the ground had already confirmed who the final winner was.
"Scarlet, you actually betrayed Shinra." A Shinra high-ranking official kneeling on the ground glared at Scarlet, but was immediately kicked to the ground by a special forces soldier controlled by Scarlet, and then pierced through the body by a long knife, and then the body was dragged to the side.
The Shinra executives who were also kneeling on the ground nearby all lowered their heads when they saw this scene.
However, among this group of senior executives, there was still one person standing, and that was Shinra's Minister of Urban Development, Reeve.
He is a good man. It was he who opposed the old president's demolition of the pillars of the Seventh District.
Although he was standing, his expression was solemn and sad, and his eyes were fixed on a corpse on the ground - Rufus.
"Why did it turn out like this?" Reeve murmured.
"Because they attacked Shen." Scarlet, who had just finished examining the body, came over and answered his question, then turned to look at Shen Ye and said, "We didn't see Hojo, so he must have run away."
"He is injured and shouldn't be able to run far." Shen Ye sat on the ground. He was slightly injured, but it was not a big deal.
"Send someone to find him. If he's alive, we must find him. If he's dead, we must find his body." Shen Ye said to Scarlet again.
Scarlet nodded, moved his eyes away from the hand that was holding Shen Ye's arm, and turned to give orders to the special forces behind him.
But at this moment, the Shinra Building suddenly shook. Just when everyone was wondering what happened, someone suddenly reported:
"Minister Scarlet, there was a fierce battle on the 68th floor."
"The sixty-eighth floor?" Scarlet was startled, then said to Shen Ye, "Shen, that floor is also Hojo's research room, and Jenova's body is imprisoned there."
"Let's go and take a look." Shen Ye stood up immediately, and Tifa, who was leaning on him, also stood up.
At this time, Aerith said something to Elmyra and followed over: "I'll go with you."
Shen Ye glanced at Elmyra not far away and nodded, "Scarlet, send a few people to protect Ms. Elmyra."
"Yeah!" Scarlet nodded.
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Soon, Shen Ye and his companions arrived at the door of the 68th floor. Scarlet took out the ID card obtained from Rufus and opened the door of the laboratory.
However, as soon as the door opened, a cold sword energy attacked her. Fortunately, she had strengthened her body to a certain extent in the past few days, and she narrowly avoided it.
"This sword energy…" Shen Ye pulled Scarlet to his side and spoke while comforting Scarlet, who had not yet recovered from the shock.
Aerith glanced at Scarlet and snorted softly, but continued with Shen Ye's words: "It feels very familiar. He should be here."
Tifa glanced at the wall behind her that was broken by the sword energy and asked, "Who are you talking about?"
"Sephiroth. You guys wait outside first, I'll go in and take a look." Shen Ye said, and walked in, but not long after, he immediately stepped back.
Seeing the sudden surprise and disbelief on Shen Ye's face, the three Aerith girls asked in unison: "What's wrong? What happened in there?"
"I'm not sure. I suspect I'm hallucinating, otherwise I wouldn't be wrong." Shen Ye said, pinching his brows.
"I'll go in and take a look."
After pinching his eyebrows, Shen Ye entered the laboratory again.
And this time, he felt that what he saw was no longer an illusion. There were really two Sephiroths in Hojo's laboratory.
"How is this possible?" Three women had walked in next to Shen Ye and said in unison again. Like Shen Ye, they looked at the two Sephiroths fighting in the field in disbelief.
Especially Aerith, she seemed to have thought of something, and then looked at Shen Ye in panic, and Shen Ye also looked at her.
Neither of them said anything, but they both understood what the other meant.
The extra Sephiroth was probably arranged by fate to make corrections.
"What should we do now?" Scarlet asked after watching for a while, "Should we just keep watching and wait for them to decide the winner, or?"
She raised her hand and made a slashing gesture in the air: "Or should we kill them all together?"
"I think it's better to just keep watching." Tifa's impression of Sephiroth was still the legend she had heard before. She was naturally a little in awe of this mysterious and powerful special forces soldier.
However, if Shen Ye said that he would kill them all, that little bit of awe would be nothing.
"No, we have to help one of them eliminate the other." After exchanging glances with Aerith, Shen Ye vaguely guessed what the extra Sephiroth wanted to do, and also guessed where he came from.
At the same time, he guessed that the original Sephiroth might have given up on continuing to correct fate, so he decided to help Sephiroth of this world and eliminate the extra Sephiroth together.
"But they both look exactly the same, who are you going to help?" Scarlet crossed her arms, and the greatness in her chest was lifted up by her action, making her look even more unfathomable.
She didn't care the least about Sephiroth's strength, because in her opinion, no matter how Sephiroth was resurrected, he had died once five years ago, which proved that he was not invincible.
"That's a difficult problem." Shen Ye frowned. He couldn't just ask the two people in the field who was the enemy and who was the friend, right?
"Perhaps, we can rely on them to distinguish them." Aerith suddenly pointed at the Whispers who were surrounding one of the Sephiroths. With their help, the other Sephiroth could no longer withstand the pressure, and his sword moves gradually became scattered.
"What do you mean? He is a friend?" Shen Ye looked at Aerith.
Aerith shook her head: "Whispers will only help Sephiroth to correct his fate. He is - an enemy."
Shen Ye looked at the field again and nodded. He also saw it.
"In that case, let's go." Shen Ye's eyes focused, and his whole body was instantly filled with internal strength. He had already transformed into a wandering warrior.
He raised his hand and grasped the void, and the hot epic lightsaber appeared in his hand. Along with the special effects brought by the epic lightsaber, he jumped down from the platform with a series of red light and shadows, and swung a sword energy towards Sephiroth.
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