248: Chapter 249 "Ordinal Warfare" [Clone City]: The Establishment of Clone City

In an extremely remote polar region of the Ultra-Era Tech Empire lay the ruins of an ultra-ancient technological Empire where the "corruption aberration" was unearthed. It was a special, extreme environment where even the monitoring satellite signals of the [Central Superbrain] were interfered with, rendering them unable to provide coverage.

Snow filled the sky, ice gravel covered the ground, and the extreme low temperatures meant that few life forms could survive in this polar region. Had it not been for the arrival of the Ultra-Era Tech Empire's research team, this area on the edge of the Empire's territory, ignored by all, would have been completely forgotten by the Empire's citizens.

Yet, deep within this desolate polar region, a city construction project capable of overturning the entire Empire's understanding was proceeding quietly.

Three full years had passed since the middle-aged man obtained forbidden knowledge through the "corruption aberration".

During these three years, he sold off all the assets under his name—from his detached research villa in the core district of the Imperial Capital to the ownership rights of dozens of patents capable of changing the landscape of the biotechnology industry; he sold the exclusive ownership of his patents to the major tech giants of the Empire.

The wealth he had accumulated throughout his life was entirely cashed out through various channels, converted into a string of cold electronic digits. Immediately afterward, he unhesitatingly poured everything he had into this polar region with its extremely harsh environment.

The middle-aged man utilized his special authority at the Ultra-Era Research Institute, bypassing the regulatory approval of the [Central Superbrain], and under the guise of an "extreme environment biological adaptability experimental base," he purchased the permanent usage rights to this polar region spanning a radius of three hundred kilometers at an extremely low price.

Subsequently, nearly a hundred heavy transport airships, using space expansion technology to increase their internal space by 128 times, worked day and night to continuously transport the Ultra-Era Tech Empire's most advanced building Materials, large-scale regional climate control devices, gene editing equipment, and fully automated Clone cultivation assembly lines—the necessities for building the [Clone City] planned by the middle-aged man—deep into the polar region.

There were no workers, no construction teams; the entire construction project of [Clone City] was completed entirely by universal robots manufactured by the Empire's largest robot factory, remotely controlled by the middle-aged man.

Another three years passed, and a sci-fi city built from special blue glass rose from the ground in the polar region. With the blue glass tower, [Clone Tower], at the center of the city, the environment within an area three times the city's diameter was adjusted to a temperature and humidity comfortable for the human body. Glass pipes extended in all directions, connecting every part of the city like blood vessels. After completing their mission of building the city, the universal robots set their System mode to alert robot mode and integrated themselves into every building in the city, acting as tools for the middle-aged man to monitor and control this [Clone City].

Now, in the central control room at the top of the [Clone Tower], the middle-aged man looked at the perfect altar he had built to elevate his own "Life Status" and complete the [Ascension Plan]—[Clone City].

Moving his gaze away from the "Experimental City" design blueprints projected in the air, he looked at this city destined to be "destroyed." There was not a shred of regret or reluctance in the man's eyes; there was only a craving for forbidden knowledge to which he was extremely addicted.

This [Clone City] was never a city built for "Original Humans" to inhabit. From beginning to end, this city was merely a "Clone" testing ground planned by the middle-aged man—completely enclosed, fully monitored, and absolutely controlled—a factory that continuously manufactured and stored consumables for his own [Ascension Plan].