#640Chapter 640: Brother Gen is troubled by the beautyAI Model: gemini-2.5-flash
Chapter 640: Root Bro Falls for a Beauty
"I found you!"
Cheng Tian's eyes flashed with a sharp glint, having already pinpointed the terminal location in the vehicle deployment zone.
As the newly promoted core of the mothership, Cheng Tian's idea was quite simple.
If mental scans couldn't detect it, it meant the opponent either had mental shielding abilities or had adjusted their mental wavelength to be similar to that of Martians, allowing for precise camouflage at the mental scan level, preventing him from quickly and accurately identifying them.
Since that was the case, he might as well directly use a human wave tactic, simultaneously sealing all entry and exit points while conducting a comprehensive search of the entire mothership, or rather, herding them.
These Steve clones, lacking self-awareness, obviously couldn't perform intricate operations, but regarding this point, probably few people knew about it apart from the controller of the fungal fluid production line.
And as long as these Steves continuously drove and searched, if the opponent didn't want to expose themselves, they would inevitably try to continue through unobstructed passages.
In fact, before locating the target, Cheng Tian had already conducted some psychological profiling.
Firstly, the fact that the opponent could embed infectious fungi within a considerable number of Martians proved that their status within the Martian faction was not low, or rather, they were free to roam the ship.
And the Martians' attitude towards humans was akin to that towards lab rats, which meant the opponent was highly likely not a pure human, but an individual mixed with fungal abilities or bloodlines, similar to a Toad-like mushroom person.
Then, the opponent absolutely did not want to fight him and was certainly aiming to escape.
Based on this profiling, he could basically deduce a "cowardly/self-aware player(s) who, seeing the Root of Mars about to face complete defeat, were preparing to take an evacuation route."
As is well known, when trying to catch someone, if you don't give them any way out, they are very likely to fight back desperately; to avoid the opponent's desperate counterattack, surrounding on three sides and leaving one open is the most classic strategy.
Therefore, while Cheng Tian closed all hatch doors and used a large amount of fungal mat to directly cover many obvious cracks and gaps for emergency treatment, he deliberately left some emergency exits in the vehicle deployment zones open.
Sure enough, the target was found.
"Only one?"
Cheng Tian, not seeing any other figures for the moment, muttered to himself, but he wasn't in a hurry to do anything to this guy.
Because this fellow couldn't crack the emergency exit computer terminal program at all… Computer skills or a strength check, either one would open it, but according to the players' habitual thinking, people who would immediately kick a high-precision instrument are quite rare, except for Russians.
Seeing that the 'Old Six' had been found and the internal battle situation was basically under control, Cheng Tian then redirected his attention back to the Root of Mars.
This Root Bro, who had grown larger from eating mushrooms, had already released more than one wave of psychokinetic shockwaves, and it was only because the entire mothership vehicle was large enough and its armor thick enough that it hadn't suffered any fatal damage.
Cheng Tian even suspected that the Martian leader, who already possessed fungal characteristics, might gain even more special effects when eating super mushrooms.
It must be said that Cheng Tian's previous act of threatening with Martian captives indeed touched the Root of Mars's soft spot; if the Root of Mars itself didn't care about its kin at all, it wouldn't have led the mothership in an exodus to Mars.
But then again, what trust could there be in a species like humans, adept at infighting and self-destruction?
"Those not of our race are sure to have different hearts" was one of the anthropological essences the Root of Mars had learned about humans over the past few years, and even if they weren't killed, they would likely not escape being used as test subjects… just as he had done to humans.
It was precisely because of this projection of himself onto others that the Root of Mars chose to fight to the death with the super mushroom rather than surrender.
At the same time, Root Bro also felt a bit of regret. If he had previously incorporated this super mushroom into his own Martian bloodline system through cultivation, the battle situation might not be as it was now… However, just as the Root of Mars was conflicted, Cheng Tian, sitting on the toilet, seemed to suddenly remember something. He called for the Modern Army to help escort an uninfected Martian captive over, then raised his hand and threw a 'Midnight Blessing' at him.
With a puff of smoke, the originally gray Martian instantly transformed into a being with entirely pink skin and a small bow hair accessory on his head.
This scene was perfectly displayed on the projection.
And seeing this, the Root of Mars's mouth fell open, and he froze on the spot, even his brain stopping its mental energy pulsations.
[Holy Grail Mission — "Dimitri Greets the Martians," completed.]
Seeing this prompt pop up, Cheng Tian nodded with satisfaction.
There had been too many chaotic things happening; he had only just remembered that he still had a mission to use Midnight Blessing in front of the Root of Mars to turn a Martian into a "female Martian."
Although it would cause unknown variables and there were no definite rewards, in terms of the completion rate of the main quest settlement, Cheng Tian was still willing to give it a try.
Even through the thick walls of the combat fortress, the projection accurately conveyed the image to the Root of Mars's face, so the mission was accomplished.
By the way, Dimitri's Midnight Blessing being able to transform a unit with strong fungal characteristics like the Martian into a conceptually "female" unit was also based on the game's original setting.
In "SNK vs. Capcom," Martians are explicitly controllable characters, and whether it's Hundred Demons' Night Parade, Midnight Blessing, or Goddess Tracing, Martians are susceptible to them all.
As a group of Martians with strong fungal characteristics, they do not have a clear concept of gender similar to animals and plants, but they do have a very complex reproductive system, primarily achieving genetic material exchange through "mating types," and there are also individuals that reproduce asexually, capable of self-multiplication with just spores or mycelial fragments.
And the Root of Mars is such an existence; as the leader of his clan, he can propagate and multiply his kin's descendants by planting fungal fluid spores without the need for mating type interference.
But just as Cheng Tian's earlier mention of the Venusians led to a background setting completion, Midnight Blessing transforming a Martian into a truly female Martian injected new, unavoidable special elements into the entire Martian race's background setting.
The first female Martian in the Metal Slug universe was born without warning!
What's more, the Martian unit, forcibly transformed into a female, with its pink skin and bow combination, plus noticeably deliberate eyelash extensions, actually looked a bit… cute?
Cheng Tian judged this from the perspective of a plush toy, but in the Root of Mars's eyes, it was different.
His own kin had been altered in form by humans using some unknown method, yet it generated an indescribably powerful attraction towards him!
If it were her, perhaps my clan could… "I surrender."
Cheng Tian's mind suddenly heard a telepathic message from the Root of Mars.
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