192: Special Program 1~☆

Chaldea Hall, Central Leisure Area.

It had been a full half-month since the update for "Fate/EXTRA" and the Battle Royale mode.

During these two weeks, players had been immersed in the thrill of "dropping and dying instantly" and "scavenging for Mana to save up for ultimate moves," living quite comfortably.

"Phew... today is another peacefully nuked day."

PD sat on the metal bar counter in the Chaldea cafeteria, comfortably taking a bite of a large virtual burger he had just bought with QP.

Beside him sat Nero Claudius, the red tyrant he had decisively placed in the assistant position after completing the storyline.

"Umu! Praetor, your performance today was also quite good!"

Nero happily ate the spaghetti on her plate while giving PD a thumbs-up, "That backstab in the Battle Royale earlier was truly to my liking!"

"Hehe, basic maneuver, don't be surprised."

PD wiped his mouth smugly, watching the barrage of comments in the livestream saying "I'm jealous" and "Let go of my wife Nero," feeling quite satisfied.

"Brothers, although it's fun to ambush people in Battle Royale every day, why is my liver starting to itch again?"

PD stretched, "Ever since the Shinjuku Chapter was finished, there's been no movement on the storyline. Could Old Thief Gu be running out of ideas and planning to just let us play PVP forever?"

The comments agreed one after another:

"Seconded! Strongly demand the opening of a new Singularity!"

"The doctor is gone, the great detective is now a consultant, and I desperately need new story content to soothe my wounded soul!"

"Is there a possibility that God Gu is saving up for a world-destroying ultimate move?"

Just as PD was chatting casually with hundreds of thousands of viewers, and the entire Chaldea Hall was filled with a peaceful and tranquil "downtime" atmosphere.

"Beep beep beep—!!!"

A sharp, ear-piercing, top-level red alert suddenly exploded across the entire Chaldea base without any warning!

"Holy crap! What's going on?!"

The burger in PD's hand almost dropped to the floor in fright.

All the players in the hall also instantly stopped talking and looked up in astonishment.

Immediately after, Da Vinci's urgent voice spread through the broadcast to every corner of the base:

"Emergency! All Masters, please proceed to the Control Room immediately!"

"Just now, Chaldea's hidden branch located in the deep sea—the offshore oil rig base 'SE.RA.PH'—sent out a top-level SOS distress signal!"

"The base has completely lost contact. According to the final captured footage from the Sheba observation lens, the entire oil rig base... has disappeared!"

Hearing this announcement, PD and players across the entire network were stunned.

"Offshore oil rig branch? Chaldea actually has this kind of industry? Are they drilling for oil here?"

"Drilling for oil, my ass! This must be a secret base used as a cover!"

"Disappeared? This doesn't sound like a normal shipwreck; a new Singularity has definitely arrived!"

Before the players could recover from the shocking news of the "disappearing oil rig," the anomaly escalated again!

"Crackle—"

The lights throughout Chaldea began to flicker wildly, and the originally azure holographic Earth observation model was instantly covered by a patch of blinding red garbled code!

[Warning! Warning!]

[Chaldea's backbone network has been invaded by unknown high-dimensional data!]

[Firewall breached... underlying control permissions have been forcibly tampered with!]

"Invasion?!"

PD widened his eyes, "Who has the guts to hack Chaldea's server? Aren't the Demon God Pillars mostly dead?!"

Before the players could react.

A cheerful, slightly playful, and eerie BGM (exclusive to BB Channel) suddenly rang in everyone's ears.

Immediately after, on the largest holographic projection screen in the center of the hall, a "crackle" of static flashed by.

Virtual cherry blossom petals filled the screen, falling slowly against the pitch-black background.

A young girl with long purple hair, wearing a provocative black sailor uniform and holding a small pointer, appeared smiling on the retinas of all players across the server.

The girl had a pair of deep purple eyes that seemed to see through everything, with a perfectly devious smile hanging on the corners of her lips.

"Koha—☆!"

"Good afternoon everyone, you incompetent, lazy, and fake-comfort-obsessed Chaldea pig-senpais!"

The crisp, sweet, yet entirely provocative voice spread into every VR pod on Blue Star.

"Oh my, what a fragile firewall. I only moved my fingers a little, and your dilapidated magic base was completely paralyzed."

The girl tapped her palm lightly with the pointer and winked playfully with her right eye.

"Please allow me to introduce myself. I am the supreme ruler of the Moon Cell, and an outstanding super AI—you may call me BB-chan with awe~!"

Silence.

The entire Chaldea Hall fell into a dead silence that lasted for three seconds.

Subsequently, the server-wide channels and the livestream's barrage of comments welcomed an ultimate tsunami comparable to a volcanic eruption!

"Holy crap!!! This character art! This sailor uniform! Amazing!"

"Wait! In the Moon Cell Holy Grail War of 'FE' we just cleared, there was no such character at all! When did a ruler pop up in the electronic sea?!"

(Gu Yi did not include the CCC route in "FE")

"Look at this purple hair, this appearance... isn't this Matou Sakura from FSN who follows Shirou around calling him Senpai every day?!"

"Sakura-kouhai my ass! How could our gentle and timid Sakura wear such a provocative black sailor uniform, use a pointer to call us pigs, and become a high-level AI of the Moon Cell?!"

"Case solved! Old Thief Gu must have hidden an unreleased 'hidden route' in the underlying code of 'FE'! He threw Sakura-kouhai into the electronic sea and completely corrupted her into a cyber delinquent!"

"Hacker girl? Purple-haired little devil kouhai?! With the same face but such a huge contrast, Old Thief Gu, you really know your stuff!"

"Did she just call me a pig? Hehehe... scold me again! Hurry up and scold me again!"

Amidst this screen full of crazy thirsting and complaints, the BB on the big screen seemed very satisfied with this reaction.

She covered her mouth and chuckled, continuing to throw out the bombshell that was enough to make all players' blood pressure skyrocket:

"Are you looking for that boring oil rig base that disappeared into thin air?"

"Don't look at the present, try adjusting your dilapidated Sheba observation lens to [Year 2030] and take a look!"

Hearing this, Da Vinci in the Chaldea communication channel immediately typed rapidly on the keyboard, forcibly adjusting Sheba's observation scale to the future.

"Crackle—"

The holographic projection background on the big screen changed instantly, turning into a bottomless, hair-raising dark ocean trench!

And the Chaldea offshore oil rig that had disappeared into thin air was now falling rapidly into the depths of the trench in a twisted, cyber-fied state!