Facing the Morse code banknotes on the table, the room fell into silence again.
The clues left by Shao Qingge's father made everyone feel mixed. Unexpectedly, the Noah's Ark project launched 25 years ago caused hundreds of cloned babies to all die within half a year, and the project was terminated.
But if that's the case, why was the plan restarted when Xiao Lou was 5 years old?
Mr. Shao felt uneasy during the first plan and even secretly destroyed Shao Qingge’s specimens. Why did he agree to start the second plan and sign the plan?
Less than two years after the plan was implemented, except for the only survivor, Professor Zhang Shaohua, all the signers died due to various "accidents". Why did the boss behind it suddenly kill these people to silence them?
These questions are the key to the next investigation.
Xiao Lou carefully sorted out his thoughts and speculated: "From the clues left by Mr. Shao, we can guess that the original intention of launching the Noah's Ark project was to allow mankind to have a 'backup healer' to deal with various possible emergencies in the future.
This disease. Once the main body becomes ill, the organs, bone marrow, and blood of the cloned person can be directly used by the main body. They may stay in a petri dish for their whole life, without social interaction and self-awareness, just like being raised in a greenhouse with
A flower isolated from the outside world.”
Tang Ci looked at Xiao Lou and said: "I am used to backing up computer data with a mobile hard drive to prevent data loss if the computer is poisoned. This kind of clone is also equivalent to a data backup of the human body? After the data of the main body is wrong, the backup data can be used
To make repairs, is my understanding correct?"
Xiao Lou nodded: "That's right, the backup clones have no self-awareness and only grow in petri dishes. They can't speak and can't even understand human language. Such clones cannot be called 'people', they are just a bunch of people."
Experimental data.”
Shao Qingge clasped his hands on his chest, narrowed his eyes slightly and said: "That's why my father agreed to the first plan and wanted to make a data backup for me? However, after discovering that the scientists had copied more than a dozen specimens, he
That’s why I felt terrified and uneasy.”
Yu Hanjiang frowned thoughtfully: "The failure of the first experiment should be due to a problem with the petri dish, and none of the babies cultivated survived. So, what was the opportunity to launch the second plan? Since you dare to restart
, they must have improved this copying technology, at least to ensure that the clones survive and are the same age as the original body?"
Xiao Loudao: "If the catalytic technology is mature enough to allow the replica to grow rapidly and be the same age as the original body, this should not be enough for the boss behind the scenes to kill all the participants to silence them. There must be other reasons."
Ye Qi boldly guessed: "Could it be that a replicator developed self-awareness and escaped from the laboratory?"
The teammates were stunned for a moment and looked back at Ye Qi.
Xiaoye scratched his hair and said seriously: "Isn't this what science fiction movies show? The clone escaped from the laboratory, came back to take revenge, and killed all the scientists who did research as if he were a guinea pig."
Shao Qingge chuckled and touched his hair: "You have watched quite a few movies."
Ye Qi was a little embarrassed: "I just guessed."
Unexpectedly, Xiao Lou actually approved Ye Qi's guess and said: "Xiao Ye's guess is also reasonable. It cannot be ruled out that the replicator escaped from the laboratory or took away confidential documents, causing all the insiders to be silenced."
He paused and then said: "But I think it is unlikely that the clones will come back to take revenge and kill all the insiders in the plan. The causes of death of these people include car accidents, frontline sacrifices, laboratory poisoning, falling from high altitude, etc.
On the surface, they are all reasonable 'accidents'. The murderer must be very powerful if he can create so many accidents."
Ye Qi nodded in agreement: "Professor Xiao is right. The clones don't have such great abilities. If they can kill nine people in a row without leaving any loopholes, there must be an OSS behind them."
Yu Hanjiang looked into Xiao Lou's eyes and asked in a low voice: "Is there anyone you suspect?"
Xiao Lou smiled helplessly: "It's pretty much what you thought."
"Your Majesty?" Yu Hanjiang felt that the most suspicious person was his Majesty.
"Yeah." Xiao Lou also thought so, and said softly: "If it was my father who caused the accident, it would be absolutely seamless. Moreover, there were three clones of the prince appearing in the palace, and he also had the motive to participate.
All of them will be silenced."
There was silence in the room for a few seconds.
Shao Qingge leaned lightly on the sofa and said regretfully: "Unfortunately, only one of the people in the signature died, Zhang Shaohua. We can't just ask His Majesty directly."
Lu Jiuchuan suddenly interrupted and asked: "Will there be any progress on Qu Wanyue's side? Isn't she very familiar with Lin Yan? Maybe she can get close to Lin Yan and find out something from the survivor Professor Zhang Shaohua."
As soon as he finished speaking, Shao Qingge's communication device suddenly lit up. It was the message from Qu Wanyue.
In order to prevent the communication device from being tracked, Xiao Lou, Yu Hanjiang, Lu Jiuchuan and Tang Ci all left the communication device at the capital star before teleporting to Peach Blossom Spring. If Qu Wanyue makes any progress, she will directly contact Shao Qingge.
A video was sent from the communicator, recorded by Qu Wanyue.
The picture showed the backyard of a large villa. A woman with ear-length hair was sitting in a wheelchair. The skin on her face did not have many wrinkles and her facial features were exquisite. She was a very elegant woman, but her eyes were calm.
Ru Shui, as if he had no soul, stared at the teacup on the stone table with his eyes silently, showing no emotion.
Zhang Shaohua, who must be in his 50s this year, still looks very young.
Lin Yan walked over and squatted beside her, and said softly: "Mom, I took your favorite oranges, how many can you eat?"
The woman turned back and looked at Lin Yan, as if looking at a stranger.
Lin Yan peeled the orange for her with a smile and put a piece to her mouth: "Mom, try it."
The woman in the wheelchair opened her mouth like a puppet and ate the orange without saying a word.
Lin Yan fed her an orange and then said: "Dad has been busy recently and hasn't seen you for a long time. Mom, don't blame him. He was still thinking of you when he left today and asked me to spend more time with you..."
She kept talking to herself, but her mother never responded.
Lin Yan's voice was choked with sobs, and tears filled her eyes.
Seeing her crying, Zhang Shaohua gently stretched out his hand to touch her head and asked softly: "Who are you? Why are you crying?"
A gust of wind blew in the yard, blowing the woman's hair away. Lin Yan stood up and quickly wiped away her tears, covered her with a blanket, pushed the wheelchair and said, "The wind has picked up. I'll take you back to rest."
The video ends after the two enter the house.
The six people looked at this video and looked at each other.
Shao Qingge looked complicated: "So, Zhang Shaohua is alive because she has lost her memory?"
Immediately afterwards, Qu Wanyue sent another text: "I went to see Lin Yan this afternoon. After chatting, I pretended to go out and used the Chameleon Card to sneak into her house. Their house has a secret backyard and the door is always locked. Mrs. Lin
She is under house arrest here. It is rumored that Mrs. Lin is not in good health and has retired early to recuperate at home. But I think it is not that she is not in good health, but that her brain is bad."
Yu Hanjiang and Xiao Lou looked at each other.
Yu Hanjiang had speculated before that since the person behind the scenes wanted to kill the insiders of the Noah's Ark plan, Zhang Shaohua would not be the only hidden danger. It turns out that - the reason why Zhang Shaohua became the only survivor was because she forgot
He lost everything and didn't even recognize his biological daughter.
Yu Hanjiang walked to Shao Qingge's side, took the communication device and typed quickly: "Are you sure she has lost her memory?"
Qu Wanyue said: "Lin Yan spent an afternoon with her, and I kept hiding and observing. It didn't look like she was acting. And according to my investigation, this Mrs. Lin has not appeared in public for nearly 18 years."
Yu Hanjiang said: "What's your Majesty's reaction?"
Qu Wanyue replied: "Long Sen is in the palace, and the signal is blocked so he can't talk to me. But the capital star is very calm, and the troops stationed here haven't made any move. The prince's escape may not have been discovered by your majesty yet.
."
Yu Hanjiang said: "Continue to pay attention to the movements of Lin Yan's family, and you two should pay attention to your safety."
Qu Wanyue: "I understand. I will report back if there is any progress."
After cutting off the communication, Yu Hanjiang frowned: "It seems that Zhang Shaohua can't find any useful clues for the time being. But there is a problem. I always feel that something is wrong."
Xiao Lou and he had a close connection, and he quickly guessed: "Lin Yan?"
Yu Hanjiang opened the Morse code clue he had just translated, pointed to a line in it and said: "The experiment must be kept secret. It is best for human cells to be provided by a few of our insiders... Professor Zhang used the cells of her daughter Lin Yan."
Lin Yan’s cells.
She and Xiao Lou were born in the same year. In the first plan, all the clones raised from Lin Yan's cells died. So, did she participate in the second plan?
Thinking of this question, Shao Qingge said: "Zhang Shaohua is a professor at the Academy of Sciences. In the second experiment, she should continue to add her daughter's cells to the experimental group. So theoretically, Lin Yan should also have a surviving clone, right?
"
Tang Ci quickly checked the information of Zhang Shaohua, Lin Zecheng, and Lin Yan, and enlarged the virtual LCD screen in front of everyone: "Professor Zhang Shaohua graduated from the Imperial Academy of Life Sciences and has a doctorate in genetics. She and Lin
General Zecheng got married in 2973 and gave birth to his daughter Lin Yan in 2975. In 2981, one year after the Noah's Ark project was restarted, she suddenly became seriously ill and could no longer work. The Imperial Academy of Sciences approved her to go home to recuperate in advance."
The serious illness is definitely not simple. It is called "recuperation", but it is actually under house arrest. Her husband, General Lin, is definitely not innocent either. He may be an insider of the genetic project like His Majesty.
Now she doesn't even know her own daughter, so it's not easy to dig clues from her.
Yu Hanjiang frowned and said: "At present, except for Mr. Shao who sensed the danger in advance and secretly left a safe, the other insiders were either killed or lost their memory. It is difficult to find out what happened that year."
In other secret rooms, Yu Hanjiang is mostly a policeman and can arrest suspects for interrogation.
But in this secret room, he can't interrogate His Majesty and General Lin, right? The suspect has a special status and a high position, and they can't act rashly without sufficient evidence.
Xiao Lou carefully sorted out the current clues in his mind and said: "Now we only have two breakthroughs. One is Lin Yan's side. If her mother can remember something, that would be great; secondly, my sister Xiao Rou
Maybe you know something."
Xiao Lou always felt that what the princess said to Xiao Lou on the day of her wedding was not simple.
——Xiaolou, my sister is going to marry far away. You should take good care of yourself and grow up quickly. You will definitely come to see me if you have the opportunity in the future.
On the surface, this sounds like something a loved one would say casually when parting.
But the question is, why did she say this to Xiao Lou instead of the other two princes in the palace?
The year she got married, the Noah's Ark project had been launched for the second time, and the clones must have been successful. Did she know that the prince had a clone? As the prince's sister, could she tell the difference between the replica and the real thing?
Xiao Lou had a splitting headache when he thought about the memory of when he was five years old.
Seeing that his face turned pale, Yu Hanjiang immediately walked to him, gently hugged his shoulders, and said softly: "Don't think about it if you have a headache. When we get to the blue planet, we will find a way to contact your sister first and test her.
position.”
Xiao Lou said softly "Hmm" and stopped to think.
At this moment, a soft female voice suddenly sounded on the radio: "Dear passengers, our spacecraft is about to pass by the β-Helix Nebula. Everyone can go to the observation deck on the third floor to enjoy this beautiful and spectacular natural scene of the universe..."
All six of them were stunned.
Ye Qi couldn't help complaining: "The starship also broadcasts attractions?"
When I went to college by train, every time I visited a provincial capital city, the announcer would introduce the city's famous sights. Those long-lasting memories made Ye Qi feel nostalgic for a moment. He walked to the floor-to-ceiling window and looked out at the scenery.
It has to be said that the luxurious suite booked by Mr. Shao was indeed worth the money. It had an unobstructed view and could clearly see the spiral nebulae in the universe - in the distance, layers of nebulae were rotating and entwined, as if forming a huge purple
Compared with the whirlpool, the human spacecraft looks extremely small in front of the nebula.
Ye Qi exclaimed: "It's so spectacular! I have only seen this kind of spiral nebula in photos taken by astronomical telescopes before. I never thought that one day I would be able to see the cosmic nebula so close!"
After hearing what he said, his teammates also walked over to look at the spectacular scene outside the window.
Before reaching the blue planet, we could not continue the investigation, so everyone had to take a break from the busy work to relax their nerves.
After the spacecraft passed through the Helix Nebula, it was already ten o'clock in the evening.
Shao Qingge said: "Let's rest first. We can't get out of the spaceship anyway. Only by recharging our energy can we deal with the next thing. How do you arrange the three bedrooms?"
Ye Qi said positively: "Professor Xiao and I are in the same room."
This guy was obviously a die-hard fan of Xiao Lou. Of course Yu Hanjiang disagreed. He took Xiao Lou directly to a bedroom and said calmly: "Go sleep with your father."
Ye Qi: “…………”
Lu Jiuchuan ignored Xiaoye and left the next room with Tang Ci, smiling and saying "good night".
Ye Qi looked at Shao Qingge with a confused expression.
Shao Qingge walked up to him with a smile, leaned over, stared into his eyes and asked: "What, don't you want to sleep with daddy? I remember that when you were a child, you liked to sleep in daddy's arms."
Ye Qi immediately retorted: "That's nonsense, why don't I remember it!"
In fact, he remembered that he was already over five years old when he was adopted. Maybe he grew up in an orphanage and had no concept of "home" and no sense of security in his heart. After arriving in the new environment, Ye Qi couldn't sleep at all, so Shao
Qingge took the initiative to carry him to his bedroom and sleep with him.
Ye Qi woke up many times in the morning and found him nestled in Shao Qingge's arms, using him as a pillow.
The more I think about it, the more embarrassing it becomes. The gatekeeper definitely has a grudge against him. He actually set him up as Shao Qingge’s adopted son and gave him so many childhood memories...
Seeing that Ye Qi's ears were gradually turning red, Shao Qingge felt soft and reached out to touch his head: "Don't think too much. In this secret room, I am your father. What is there to be ashamed of when you were sleeping with me in your arms?"
?Don’t talk about holding me to sleep, you seemed to have wet the bed when you were a child."
Ye Qi's face turned red: "...can you please stop talking!"
Shao Qingge chuckled: "Well, I won't tell you."
I will ask for it back twice as much in the future. Of course, when the time comes, Ye Qi will call him another name and nestle in his arms.
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【Chapter 422, Thrilling Moment】
Tang Ci was not used to sleeping on the same bed as others, nor was he used to his newly grown legs.
The way he lay on the bed was very much like a corpse.
Lu Jiuchuan looked at his upright sleeping posture with a tight body, and couldn't help but joked: "Your sleeping posture really looks like you were forced to sleep with a gangster, and you are worried that you will be molested..." He leaned towards Tang Ci.
In his ears, a hint of laughter melted into the deep voice, "Xiao Tang, do you need to be so nervous about sleeping with me?"
Tang Ci's eyelashes trembled slightly, and the roots of his ears were a little red, but his expression was very calm: "I'm not nervous, I'm just not used to sleeping alone next to me. This bed is too small."
Lu Jiuchuan lay down next to him, deliberately keeping an arm's length distance, and said with a smile: "Don't worry, I'm a very upright man. I'm just sleeping together, and I won't do anything to you."
Tang Ci looked back at him: "A gentleman?"
Lu Jiuchuan's eyes were full of smiles: "Why, do you think I'm not an upright person?"
Tang Ci: "..."
You are a very thick-skinned person.
Tang Ci glanced at him, turned over and ignored him: "Go to sleep."
Lu Jiuchuan smiled slightly: "Good night."
Gradually, Tang Ci's even breathing as he fell asleep sounded in the room, but Lu Jiuchuan couldn't fall asleep, so he simply rested his arms on his head and thought about something.
I don’t know how long it took, but suddenly, the spacecraft shook violently.
Tang Ci woke up from his sleep. The whole spacecraft was spinning like an earthquake. Due to inertia, he suddenly crashed into Lu Jiuchuan's arms. Lu Jiuchuan stretched out his long arm like a conditioned reflex and caught Tang Ci steadily: "What's going on?
"
Tang Ci was hit so hard that his nose was almost crooked, and he whispered: "Is the spaceship shaking?"
He struggled to get out of Lu Jiuchuan's arms. However, the man's arm on his waist tightened slightly, controlled him in his arms, and whispered: "Don't move, something is not right outside."
"Have you encountered airflow?" Tang Ci's voice came from his chest, "Just like an airplane will bump when it encounters airflow? There will be such airflow in the universe, right?"
As if to confirm his guess, the spacecraft shook violently again.
Lu Jiuchuan was shaken so much that he rolled off the bed.
He held Tang Ci tightly with his right hand, pushed hard on the ground with his left hand, rolled on the spot, and quickly rolled to the door with Tang Ci, wanting to notify his teammates.
At the same time, Yu Hanjiang and Xiao Lou were also woken up by the violent vibration. Yu Hanjiang put his arms around Xiao Lou's waist and used Qinggong to fly out. He grabbed the pillar in the living room with one hand and shouted: "Everyone, wake up, there is someone outside.
Condition!"
Ye Qi also pulled the sleepy Shao Qingge out.
The six of them looked at each other, walked quickly to the floor-to-ceiling windows, and opened the curtains.
It was pitch black outside the porthole window, and countless stars decorated the vast sky of the universe.
In this darkness, a huge red object floated quietly in front. The thing's "eyes" emitted a dazzling red light. The wings spread out on its body were as sharp as knives, and the bright metal lines were sharp, as if they could
Destroy everything.
Lu Jiuchuan was shocked: "What is that? An alien creature?"
Shao Qingge was still yawning, but now he was completely awake. He squinted at the behemoth not far away and said: "Such a huge size... in front of it, we are simply food."
The spacecraft was still shaking violently.
Tang Ci took out his optical computer to look up information, but was shaken to the point of standing unsteadily. Lu Jiuchuan immediately held his waist from behind. Tang Ci brought up the LCD screen, quickly typed in some information, and then frowned and said: "Navigation
It failed and our current position cannot be determined. The network connection was interrupted and the signal of the spacecraft was affected!"
He paused and then said: "Based on the speed of the spacecraft and the route we took before going to sleep, the place we are arriving now should be... near the Hydra star field."
Xiao Lou recalled the interstellar map he had seen at that time and said: "There are no humans living in the Hydra star field. However, the route of this interstellar spacecraft has been opened for more than ten years. It is impossible for alien creatures to suddenly appear on the route, right?
"
Yu Hanjiang frowned and looked at the behemoth not far away, and suddenly said: "That is not an alien creature, but a huge starship. The interruption of our spaceship network should be due to the interference electromagnetic waves emitted by it."
Ye Qi's eyes widened: "Captain Yu is right, look over there!"
Everyone followed Ye Qi's gaze.
I saw the huge starship, its blade-like wings suddenly extended, clinging to the starship like claws. Due to the attack of the "claws", the spacecraft shook crazily again!
The six people almost fell to the ground collectively and hurriedly grabbed the pillar at hand to stabilize their bodies.
More and more sharp claws stretched out from the starship, and the entire interstellar passenger transport spacecraft was controlled by its claws. The hull shook more and more fiercely, and the miserable screams of the passengers came from outside the door: "Ahhhh
Ah, what’s going on!” “It seems like our spaceship has been attacked?” “Oh my god, what on earth is that?!”
The huge creature was showing its teeth and claws, and the red light emitted from its eyes just shone on the portholes of the spacecraft. After the passengers saw it, their screams became even more piercing!
It is like a huge spider, with eight sharp wings made of special metal that can be turned into "claws" at any time to capture the prey it likes.
At this time, this interstellar passenger spacecraft became its prey.
"This is a battleship! We encountered the Star Thief's battleship!"
"Oh my god, is he the legendary star thief who kills people like crazy?"
The screams outside had become a chaotic mess.
At this moment, all the videos in the cabin were forcibly opened, and a woman wearing a black leather jacket, a neat ponytail, and a silver mask appeared in the video - obviously, she had controlled the spacecraft's video broadcast system.
.
The woman's eyes were as sharp as knives, and her voice was as cold as melting ice: "Open the cabin door of the spacecraft and leave all your belongings behind. I can consider letting you live."
Teammates: "…………"
Although she was wearing a mask, everyone recognized her at a glance.
——Chu Huaying, you are so awesome that you actually became a star thief?!