Xiao Lou still has many doubts in his heart. For example, his Majesty once told him about the one-year-old imperial brother who died at the age of one, and the invisible man who sneaked into the twin wombs on the day of the birthday party. Does his sister know about these things?
Just as he was about to ask, he heard the conversation between Professor Edwin and Prince Hermann outside the door.
Herman's voice sounded a little anxious: "How long will the inspection last?"
Edwin said: "The princess wants to have a comprehensive physical examination. She just said that her chest is tight. I have arranged for a cardiologist to carefully examine her heart, and also draw blood to check for hormones... Don't worry, I am the doctor."
I have contacted the experts in advance. The nurse took the princess to draw blood just now. She will return to the color Doppler ultrasound room after the blood drawing is completed."
Herman's footsteps stopped at the door for a moment, then turned around and said, "Well, call me when the time comes."
The doctor took Prince Hermann away. Xiao Lou knew that time was tight, so he had to keep the conversation short: "Sister, I still have a few questions to ask you."
Xiao Rou nodded: "Well, you can ask."
Xiao Loudao: "My father told me that I once had a brother who was assassinated when he was less than a year old. My father experienced the pain of losing a son. Is this true?"
Xiao Rou's face turned slightly pale: "There was indeed a prince before you, who died when he was less than one year old, and his mother suffered a great blow. She happened to be pregnant at the time and spent more than half a year in the hospital.
I gave birth to you. As for whether he was assassinated or not, I don’t know. My father announced to the public that he died of illness."
It seems that His Majesty did not lie to him about this matter.
Xiao Lou then asked: "My father and my mother gave birth to you less than two years after they got married. Why did they not have any more children for the next thirteen years? Is there something wrong with their relationship or with their genes?"
Xiao Rou thought carefully for a moment and said: "I remember that when I was five years old, my mother was pregnant with a pair of twins. Unfortunately, the children were aborted within three months. I don't know the specific reason for the miscarriage.
The mother cried very sadly. The miscarriage caused great damage to the mother's body, and she has been recovering in the following years. They did not have children in those years. The key reason should be that the mother was relatively weak. The father loved her very much and did not
I’ve thought about marrying again.”
Xiao Lou took the time to ask: "Is the invisible man who sneaked into the Twin Wombs on my birthday sent by my sister?"
Xiao Rou was stunned: "Invisible man?"
Xiao Lou said: "Yes, you can't see the entity, it's like it's transparent."
Xiao Rou shook her head decisively and said: "It's not me. I married into the Blue Empire when I was 20 years old. It's difficult to leave the palace. I don't trust more than five people here. I can't send anyone to find you..." She
After a pause, he seemed to have thought of something, and suddenly said: "By the way, I have heard some legends about the invisible man.
"What legend?"
"The Blue Planet is a planet inhabited by humans, but not all humans live on this planet. There is also nearly 50% of the ocean. I heard that there are magical creatures in the ocean that humans cannot see. Folks call this creature transparent
people."
"Since they are so transparent that you can't see them at all, how can you prove their existence?" Xiao Lou asked doubtfully.
"Legend has it that fishermen on the beach occasionally hear strange singing at night, but they can't see who is making the sound. After I married into the Blue Empire, many elders frightened their children by saying, 'The invisible man who sings in the middle of the night will eat them.'
"Of course these are just rumors. No one has ever seen the so-called 'invisible man'. I only thought of this after hearing you talk about being invisible. Could it be related to the people you met?" Xiao Rou said anxiously.
"..." Xiao Lou and Yu Hanjiang looked at each other, and at the same time they saw a hint of surprise in each other's eyes - the strange singing voice, doesn't this coincide with the mysterious figure who saved Ninth Brother?
Xiao Lou asked: "What specific sea area is the seaside that my sister mentioned? Is there any specific place it refers to?"
Xiao Judao: "They are all rumors like fairy tales. No one has witnessed them with their own eyes."
Prince Hermann's footsteps sounded again outside.
Their private meeting had lasted for more than 10 minutes. If it dragged on any longer, if Prince Hermann burst into the examination room out of suspicion, it would be difficult to explain why the two interns were giving the princess a prenatal examination.
Xiao Lou walked up to Xiao Rou, gently pressed her shoulders, and said softly: "Sister, protect yourself and your children. I will see you again after I resolve these matters."
Xiao Rou's eyes instantly turned red. She choked and said, "I'm living a good life. But you... I wonder how many of those princes who are exactly like you are still alive now? What if they want to confuse the fake with the real one? If necessary.
, my sister can testify for you and prove that you are the real prince."
Xiao Lou smiled: "Real or fake, is there any difference?"
Xiao Rou was stunned: "What do you mean?"
Xiao Lou said calmly: "To my father, all of us are his descendants. Whether we are clones or ourselves, we are all called Xiao Lou anyway. We are all his sons, and our genes are similar."
Xiao Rou's eyes widened in disbelief: "How could he do this? My mother worked so hard to give birth to you for ten months, and he actually used your blood to make more than a hundred copies! If my mother knew, she would definitely
You’ll go crazy!”
Xiao Lou said helplessly: "My mother has passed away, no one can control her..."
Xiao Rou's face was full of disappointment: "Then what should you do?"
Xiao Lou said: "Sister, don't worry, I will live well, please take care of yourself."
Xiao Rou hurriedly said: "Take care too! Although I can't help much, if one day you need to prove your identity, my sister will definitely help you testify without hesitation!"
Xiao Lou nodded towards her and winked at Yu Hanjiang. Yu Hanjiang used the earphone to send a signal to Brother Jiu, and Lu Jiuchuan immediately activated the Peach Blossom Spring Teleport.
Seeing Xiao Lou and Yu Hanjiang disappear in an instant, Xiao Rou's eyes were full of reluctance and worry.
At this moment, Prince Hermann opened the door and came in. He looked at the empty room and frowned: "The inspection took so long?"
Xiao Rou pressed her temples and pretended to be weak: "I just checked my heart, and the nurse took me to draw a tube of blood... Where is Professor Edwin? Let him take me to do a color ultrasound."
Herman squinted his eyes and scanned the room. Finding nothing suspicious, he helped Xiao Rou and turned around to leave.
**
In the Peach Blossom Spring, six people from Xiao Lou gathered together.
Tang Ci stepped forward and asked, "How was it? Did you gain anything from meeting the princess?"
Xiao Lou told his teammates about the news that his sister knew.
After hearing this, Lu Jiuchuan couldn't help but cursed: "Fuck, what is this His Majesty doing? Copying a hundred sons? This is simply batch assembly line production!"
Xiao Lou said solemnly: "We previously speculated that Your Majesty copied the prince because the queen was unable to have any more children. In addition, the eldest prince died at the age of one, which made him suffer the pain of losing a son. He was worried that no one would inherit the throne after the prince's accident, so he might as well give birth to another child.
Making a few copies will give you a little more protection."
Lu Jiuchuan touched his chin: "I'm worried that no one will inherit the throne. Just two or three copies will be enough. A hundred won't cause chaos?" He looked at Tang Ci: "Xiao Tang, you won't copy so many copies of your backup data.
Bar?"
Tang Ci said expressionlessly: "Even if a data engineer backs up the most core data, he can only make two or three copies at most. No one will be bored and copy 100 USB disks. Fundamentally speaking, backing up data is for security reasons.
, if the original data is damaged, there will be a backup to replace it. But once the number of backups is too large, it will be counterproductive."
Lu Jiuchuan agreed: "That's the truth. For example, I copy 2 copies of important information on my computer for safety reasons, but once I copy 100 copies, wouldn't it be easier to lose or be stolen?"
Ye Qi scratched his head and said: "Yes, Your Majesty made 100 copies of the prince. What if a few of them were used by someone with intentions? Wouldn't that cause trouble for yourself? Also, what if those copies became self-aware and started to compete for the throne?
What? This is even more exaggerated than the Nine Dragons fighting for the throne in history during the Kangxi era. A hundred dragons fighting for the throne, or 100 identical princes fighting for the throne? Movies would not dare to shoot like this!"
Everyone: "..."
Xiaoye's description makes people dumbfounded.
100 princes seizing the throne is not as simple as a bloody battle, not to mention that these 100 princes look the same?
Yu Hanjiang said calmly: "Of course His Majesty will think of everything we can think of. Don't forget, Xiao Lou's father has been sitting firmly on the throne of the Luoke Empire for decades. He can't be stupid enough to create 100 princes for himself.
Cause trouble."
Xiao Loudao: "The 100 princes are what my sister saw, not what we see now."
When everyone heard this, their faces changed slightly.
Shao Qingge, who had been silent, narrowed his eyes and said: "You mean, most of the princes may be dead?"
Xiao Loudao: "Well. Hanjiang is right. His Majesty must have thought of everything we can think of. He certainly didn't copy 100 princes to raise them all to cause trouble for himself. 100 princes fighting for the throne will destroy the entire palace.
How could he do such a mess that would harm others and not benefit himself? Perhaps he had planned all of this from the beginning. He copied so many princes just to select the best princes and raise them."
Ye Qi looked at Xiao Lou blankly and blurted out: "It's like planting potatoes. Plant a large area first, then pick out a few of the best ones and keep them, and throw away the rest?"
Xiao Lou closed his eyes. It was hard to imagine that beings exactly like him were copied and then killed one by one.
But the suspicion in his heart told him that this was true.
The clone project is so cold-blooded and cruel.
When Xiao Lou opened his eyes, his face had returned to calm, and he said: "Survival of the fittest - mass production first, selecting the best ones to keep, and destroying all defective products. Isn't this the principle of many companies in producing high-end products?
"
Yu Hanjiang also thought of this: "In the palace, plus Xiao Lou, there should be three clones. The other two are probably the elites selected from the Noah's Ark project."
Lu Jiuchuan and Tang Ci looked at each other. For some reason, the two of them suddenly remembered the scene when they saw the fusion of the Zerg on the Zerg planet. The low-level Zerg merged into the high-level and eventually became the queen.
Lu Jiuchuan's face darkened: "Why does this plan sound so much like..."
Xiao Lou whispered: "Raise Gu."
Ye Qi gasped: "Could this also be inspired by the Zerg?"
Xiao Lou nodded with a white face: "The scene of the low-level Zerg merging into the high-level Zerg. The military officials who went to the Zerg planet have all witnessed it with their own eyes. It is very similar to raising Gu; and the legend of the Gu King should also be there.
Many people have heard that to create a Gu King, you must first put many poisonous insects in the same container and let them kill each other. The weak ones will be killed and eaten, and the ones that survive to the end are extremely poisonous.
King of Gu."
Yu Hanjiang's voice was low: "On the day of the birthday party, the invisible man who sneaked into the Twin Wombs once said something to Xiao Lou. I never understood the meaning of that sentence. Now it seems that his words were hinting to us, the clones
The plan is actually a plan to raise gu."
"He said - the one who survives to the end is the winner."
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[Chapter 436, Gu Raising Plan]
Xiao Lou suddenly had a splitting headache.
Something in the back of his mind seemed to be suddenly awakened, like a seed bursting out of the soil, quickly sprouting and bursting through the soil. The severe pain seemed to be pulling away his nerves one by one. He closed his eyes in pain,
He pressed his temples hard with both hands, and the shirt on his body was instantly soaked with cold sweat.
Seeing his pale face, Yu Hanjiang hurriedly hugged him, his voice hoarse with worry: "What's wrong with you?"
Xiao Lou looked pale and shook his head wildly: "There are many messy pictures in my mind..."
A lot of blood, a face exactly like his own, and the cries of children.
That is a place scarier than hell.
Xiao Lou's eyes were filled with blood. People who looked exactly the same were pulling each other. The children's claws turned into the sharpest knives, stabbing into the bodies of similar people.
There was blood everywhere in the room.
He was panting from exhaustion, and his physical strength was gradually running out. The wounds on his body were constantly seeping blood, and his consciousness gradually became blurred, but he knew that once he fell, he would die immediately.
What should he do? Why did his father ask him to come to this place that is scarier than a nightmare? Who are these people? Why do they look the same as him? His father asked him to find a way to survive. What should he do?
Seeing children falling one after another around him, he suddenly came up with an idea.
Xiao Lou saw himself running to a corner, lying down, pretending to be dead, and covering himself with a child's body.
The pungent smell of blood made him almost unable to breathe.
He raised his head and met a pair of eyes. Those were the eyes of a 5-year-old child. The child, who was still staring at death, had a face exactly like his.
Xiao Lou: “…………”
When Xiao Lou suddenly woke up from his nightmare, he found that the familiar glass skylight of the hotel was above his head. Through the window, he could see the stars in the sky. He stared at the sky until a familiar voice sounded in his ears: "Are you awake? Your head still hurts.
?”
That voice was low and gentle, it was Yu Hanjiang.
Xiao Lou came to his senses, frowned and wanted to get up. Yu Hanjiang immediately supported him and put a pillow behind him to make him more comfortable.
The other teammates were not there. This was the bedroom where he and Yu Hanjiang were in the hotel. Xiao Lou asked doubtfully: "Am I asleep?"
Yu Hanjiang said: "To be precise, it should be a coma. You fainted from the pain. I was worried about you and took you to the bedroom to sleep. I watched from the side."
Xiao Lou looked at the time on his wrist.
They returned to the hotel at 3:30 in the afternoon. It was already 3:30 in the morning, and he actually fainted for 10 hours. Yu Hanjiang didn't even change into his pajamas, and kept sitting by the bed watching over him. Xiao Lou felt warm in his heart, and gently
Holding the other person's hand, he said: "I remembered what happened when I was five years old. Maybe it was because we deduced the key information of raising Gu, and the gatekeeper allowed me to restore my memory."
Yu Hanjiang looked at his still pale face and asked in a low voice: "Is that true?"
Xiao Lou nodded, his voice trembling slightly: "Of 100 clones, only 4 survived in the end. My father put all the children together and let them compete for survival based on their strength. I saw so many children who were exactly like me.
, I was shocked at the time..."
That memory was as vivid as if Xiao Lou had experienced it himself.
Competing with 100 "selves" for the right to survive is simply more cruel than the battle royale of a horror movie.
Yu Hanjiang hugged Xiao Lou gently: "How did you survive? You don't have Zerg genes in your body. You can't defeat those clones with physical combat, right?"
Xiao Lou smiled bitterly: "I hid in a corner and pretended to be dead, and covered myself tightly with a child's body, so they stopped attacking me. Many clones had just been released from the nutrient solution and couldn't even speak.
He said, compared with them, the only advantage I have is that I have lived in human society for five years and know a lot of knowledge, while they were catalyzed in the nutrient solution until they were five years old, and they only have nature and instinct."
In other words, five-year-old Xiao Lou survived the "Gu Raising Project" by relying on his IQ.
Others rely on their own physical advantages.
Although their genes are the same, their culture medium is different, and there will definitely be slight differences after they are raised.
Since the clones released from the laboratory have not experienced human education, their IQs are at the level of infants, but their body growth has been accelerated by the nutrient solution and they have turned into five-year-old children.
Your Majesty will put these children together to find the best ones and continue to train them, and the other defective ones will be destroyed directly...
It is indeed a cold-blooded and cruel plan to raise gu.
Perhaps in His Majesty's eyes, these children are just private "properties" raised by him, and he has the right to "select the best."
Although the 5-year-old children at that time were emotionless, Xiao Lou could not help but feel chills all over when he thought of the bloody scenes of countless identical children competing for survival.
After that selection, Xiao Lou underwent deep hypnosis surgery and forgot everything.
Yu Hanjiang also didn't expect that His Majesty the Luoke Empire was actually a lunatic! He said solemnly: "Your Majesty wants to put the replicas together and select the best ones to continue training, but why don't you even let the biological ones go? What if you are there?
What if he was killed in a selection? Perhaps His Majesty feels that the prince who cannot even defeat a clone with an infant IQ is not worthy of living?"
"Probably, after all, those 100 are indeed the IQ of a baby. If I can't solve this problem, he will probably choose to abandon me." Xiao Lou gently pressed his temples, quickly regained his composure, and said:
"Leaving aside the ethical issues of this matter, some details I discovered from my five-year-old memory should be helpful to us."
Yu Hanjiang said warmly: "I'll pour you a glass of water, but your voice is dumb."
He stood up and poured a glass of warm water for Xiao Lou. Xiao Lou took it and drank a few sips to moisten his throat. As expected, his throat felt much better. Xiao Lou cleared his throat and continued: "First of all, the children who survived that selection,
Including me, there are 4 more in total. The total number of princes we saw in the palace is 3. Where did the remaining one go?"
Yu Hanjiang guessed: "Could it be hidden secretly by His Majesty?"
Xiao Lou said: "It's possible. But it's also possible that he was taken away by someone with intentions."
He paused and then said: "In addition, human cells are still human after adding Zerg genes, and they do not gain the ability of Zerg to fuse and upgrade with each other. In other words, if a clone kills a clone, it will not 'eat' the opponent's upgrade.
, dead is dead. However, the clones have gained the healing ability of the Zerg, and the wounds on their bodies can be restored after a period of time. This is what I also discovered during that selection. However, some clones heal quickly, and some heal quickly.
It’s very slow.”
Yu Hanjiang frowned: "What about climbing and jumping?"
Xiao Lou shook his head: "No, humans still have to walk upright. This may have something to do with the gene fragments screened when the cells were copied. The hybridization and fusion of species is inherently a very complex technology, and mutations may occur."
The healing ability alone is already very powerful.
Normal humans have to go to the hospital for bandage treatment when they are injured, but when a clone is injured, they can wait for self-healing.
Xiao Loudao: "What I'm worried about is that if the clones can even heal themselves internally and regenerate broken limbs, they will be equivalent to becoming 'undead' and will never get sick and will not need to go to the hospital."
.Like the Zerg, only afraid of fire?"
Yu Hanjiang said solemnly: "This is almost the same as the ancient emperors who cultivated themselves into immortals."
"Yes." Xiao Lou said helplessly: "Currently, the research on clones only stops at the first generation. No one knows whether the second generation will mutate again after the clones are combined with normal humans. I
As I said before, artificially modified genes inserted into human genetic sequences are likely to cause a butterfly effect and produce various unsolvable genetic problems."
Yu Hanjiang nodded: "We have to stop this."
Xiao Loudao: "What my sister saw was only my clone. And the Noah's Ark project not only took my cells, but there might be other clones. If you want to stop this, you must find all the clones."
people."
Yu Hanjiang whispered: "What to do with them after they are found? Destroy them?"
The scary thing is that most of today's replicants have become adults in their 20s. They have lived in human society for so many years and have their own thoughts and consciousness. There is no obvious difference between them and humans except for genes.
How to "destroy" these copies that already have self-awareness?
How is this different from murder?
Xiao Lou took a deep breath and said: "Simply destroying it will definitely not work. There must be another way. Let's find all the clones first. Stopping the Noah's Ark plan should be the way to clear the secret room?"
Yu Hanjiang also recognized this: "Okay. One of your clones is missing. We must find 'Xiao Lou No. 4' as soon as possible. Secondly, we also have to investigate the legend your sister said about the invisible man to find and save him."
Brother Jiu and Tang Ci's people must know something."
Xiao Lou frowned and said: "Sister said it is marine life. The ocean area of this planet exceeds 50%. Where are the marine life?"
Yu Hanjiang said helplessly: "Let's search slowly. If we investigate and visit along the seaside, we can always find some clues."