Hearing Liu Qiao's words, a chill ran down Xiao Lou's spine. Thinking of the adult versions of Xiao Lou who looked exactly like him in the dream, he suddenly realized that the Xiao Lou Liu Qiao saw was probably——
Replicant.
Whether it is Xiao Lou No. 4, or No. 5 or No. 6 copied from No. 4...
In short, Xiao Lou is sure that he has never met Liu Qiao, but Liu Qiao is very sure that he has met Professor Xiao. This means that the clone next to Liu Qiao is very similar to Xiao Lou himself, and can even be faked to hide the real thing from Liu Qiao.
Bridge's eyes.
Xiao Lou's pupils shrank and he hurriedly asked in his mind: "Xiao Liu, where did you see him? What did he say to you?"
Liu Qiao was confused. Just as he was about to answer, there was a knock on the door outside.
She got up and opened the door.
The moment he opened the door, Liu Qiao suddenly met a pair of dark, clear eyes, which were full of smiles and looked at her with an extremely kind and gentle look.
Xiao Lou stood in front of him and Wen Yan asked, "Are you still asleep?"
Liu Qiao: "...Well, I can't sleep."
Xiao Lou walked into the room, put a plate of snacks on her table, and said, "I just came from Gui Lao's place and brought some of your favorite snacks."
Liu Qiao stared at the snacks on the table and said, "Thank you... I'm not hungry."
She was a little confused and tried to communicate with Xiao Lou through mental connection: "Professor Xiao? Aren't you sitting across from me? Why are you talking to me telepathically?"
Sitting opposite?
Thinking that someone exactly like him was face to face with Liu Qiao at this moment, Xiao Lou felt the hairs on his back stand up, and said hurriedly: "Xiao Lou, be careful, the Xiao Lou you saw is not real, he is a clone!"
The matter was too complicated. Xiao Lou summed it up as quickly as possible: "My identity is the prince of the Luoke Empire. In order to select the best successor, my father launched the Noah's Ark project twenty years ago and made hundreds of copies.
There are four Xiaolous that are known to be alive at present. The one you encountered is probably No. 4. We are not sure if there will be more copies in the future."
Liu Qiao: “…………”
At this moment, Xiao Lou, who was sitting in front of him, sighed softly, his tone full of helplessness: "If my card package hadn't been stolen, I wouldn't have been unable to contact Han Jiang and the others until now. Xiao Liu, why not
You go out to sea as soon as possible, find the others first, and bring them back to the Mermaid Palace. We will figure out a solution after everyone is gathered together."
Who should you believe?!
Liu Qiao's heart tightened, and she gently clenched her fists under the table to keep herself calm.
She heard herself say calmly: "Let's discuss this matter with Senior Gui and the others. I don't know where to find them alone. Wouldn't it be even more troublesome if I got lost too?"
Xiao Lou smiled slightly: "Yes, we will discuss it tomorrow."
Liu Qiao's mind was very messy. The Xiao Lou in front of him was exactly the same as Professor Xiao in his memory. His movements, voice, even the expression when he smiled, the tone when he spoke...how could it be fake?
If Xiao Lou hadn't suddenly used "telepathy" to connect with her today, she would never have doubted the authenticity of the Xiao Lou in front of her.
On the first day she entered the secret room, she met Xiao Lou.
According to the setting, Xiao Lou is her brother and the successor of the mermaid kingdom, while Liu Qiao is the mermaid princess.
Because several human bones were found on a sunken ship in the depths of the ocean, they launched an investigation into the case. The investigation is currently in trouble, and they only found out that the sunken ship does not belong to the Blue Empire...
But now, another Xiao Lou told her that there are replicants in this world?
Liu Qiao's mind was confused, and she continued to communicate with Xiao Lou with heart and soul: "How can I trust you?"
Xiao Loudao: "I have the Qin Guan card, and I can establish a telepathic connection with you. Isn't this proof enough?"
Liu Qiao said calmly: "Professor Xiao I know said that on the first day he came to the secret room, when he went to investigate the sunken ship on the seabed, the card package was stolen, so he could not contact Captain Yu."
Xiao Lou: “…………”
Liu Qiao's words made Xiao Lou feel as if he had fallen into an ice cellar.
This clone actually knows the card pack and Yu Hanjiang’s name? It’s impossible for people in the secret room world to know their team so well. The only explanation is——
Xiao Lou next to Liu Qiao is most likely a hunter!
Seeing Xiao Lou's face suddenly turn pale, Yu Hanjiang hurriedly held his hand and asked in a low voice: "What's going on?"
Xiao Loudao: "I connected with Liu Qiao, but she said that Professor Xiao was sitting opposite her. That person knew the situation of our teammates very well, and made up an excuse that the card package was stolen so he couldn't contact Hanjiang."
Ye Qi's mouth opened wide, and his jaw almost dropped: "It means that there is another Xiao Lou beside Liu Qiao?! She believes in that Xiao Lou, doesn't she believe in you?"
Xiao Lou shook his head: "No, she is now suspicious of both of them. After all, Xiao Lou's excuse can be explained. The card package was stolen, and it might have been stolen by me... More importantly,
That person knows all the information about our team, and I suspect that No. 4 Xiao Lou is the hunter."
Lu Jiuchuan's face looked ugly. He clenched his fists hard and gritted his teeth: "Have the Hunters already figured out the situation of our team?!"
Tang Ci said: "Last week's square piece Zhou Chang's Tomb of the Headless General, they sent people to follow us all the way. Although Xiao Liu and I became the size of thumbs at that time, Long Sen and Qu Wanyue used chameleon cards to blend with the environment...
But before that, maybe they have figured out the configuration of our team in a way that we don’t know?”
Lu Jiuchuan added: "Do you even know most of our cards?"
Tang Ci's eyes seemed to be frozen. He looked at the dark sea in the distance and said word by word: "The information from the Intelligence Bureau has probably been leaked."
Everyone gasped.
Tang Ci's intelligence agency database contains information on all challengers, including teammates on their team.
When Lu Jiuchuan found Yu Hanjiang and Xiao Lou, he relied on Tang Cineng, the information network of the Intelligence Bureau, to invade the official household registration office of Card World, find out the ID numbers of all "outsiders", and follow the clues to find the challengers.
Tang Ci said expressionlessly: "In order to reorganize the team, Ninth Brother once again challenged the S-level secret room and returned to the real world. After seeing the news that 'Yu Hanjiang and Xiao Lou broke the 3 Hearts world record,' he asked me to follow them closely.
Therefore, on the day you two arrive in Moon City, I will send someone to pick you up at the airport."
Xiao Lou naturally remembered this. At that time, they suspected that there was something wrong with Gui Lao, but later they found out that Senior Gui was Ninth Brother’s teammate. Xiao Lou looked back at Tang Ci and asked, "Mr. Tang, what you mean is that you have
What are the details of Han Jiang, me, and all the teammates in our contract?"
Tang Ci nodded: "Yes."
Otherwise, Lu Jiuchuan would not be able to form a team with them with confidence.
Lu Jiuchuan smiled bitterly and said: "Sorry, I can't blame Xiao Tang for this. It was all my idea. Han Jiang and Xiao Lou have broken world records many times. I naturally believe in your abilities, but I am not familiar with the other teammates after all, so
, I have also checked the information of other people in your contract in detail..."
Ye Qi said: "Brother Ninth's idea is right, right? Check the situation of other teammates before forming a team. This is also the responsibility of the team. If you just form a team to pass the level, if there is a cheat in the team, it might drag everyone down.
, let everyone be destroyed."
Lu Jiuchuan patted Xiaoye on the shoulder: "As long as you understand, last time we were almost wiped out in Plum Blossom J. This time I have to be more cautious when reorganizing the team, so I asked Xiao Tang to sort out your detailed information...including the draws.
cards, as well as your identities and jobs in reality."
Shao Qingge narrowed his eyes: "So, Mr. Tang suspects that this information was obtained by the hunter?"
Tang Ci said: "I was worried that the data would be leaked, so I deleted it after reading it with Brother Jiu. But since I am a hacker and can invade other people's computers, similarly, my computer may also have viruses implanted by others." He said lowly.
He raised his head and said softly: "I'm sorry, this is my negligence."
Lu Jiuchuan gently hugged his shoulders and said nothing.
Tang Ci experienced the most terrifying nightmare in the secret room. He watched helplessly as his legs were cut off, and he sat in a wheelchair with limited mobility for half a year. His pain was difficult for those who had not personally experienced it to understand.
He has strict requirements for his teammates who form a team again and wants to find out everyone's true identity, which is human nature.
As for the data leakage, it was not the result he wanted.
Of course Lu Jiuchuan would not blame Tang Ci, but he was afraid that other teammates would have opinions about Tang Ci. After all, the information was probably leaked from Tang Ci...
Yu Hanjiang whispered: "Now is not the time to hold people accountable. Even if the information in Mr. Tang's computer is not stolen by hunters, the hunter organization still has other channels to find our information. You are not the only hacker in this world.
, if you can find it, others can also find it. You don’t have to blame yourself, no one will blame you."
Tang Ci felt warm in his heart and looked up at Yu Hanjiang: "Thank you."
Lu Jiuchuan gave his younger brother an appreciative look and said, "That's right. Hunters always have ways to find out our information. Let's think about it first, how to solve the current problem?"
"If Liu Qiao doesn't believe Professor Xiao and trusts the clones, it will be terrible!" Ye Qi scratched his hair anxiously, suddenly his eyes lit up, and he turned to look at Shao Qingge: "By the way, don't we still have one?
Is Zhang Qin watching the cards? We also connected with Liu Qiao and used the spiritual channel to tell her that Professor Xiao who is with us is the real one!"
Shao Qingge nodded, took out the Qin Guan card he had copied before, and established spiritual communication with Liu Qiao.
However, a prompt suddenly appeared in his floating box: "The card skill release failed, and the card skill shielding magnetic field appeared within 10 kilometers." Almost at the same time, Xiao Lou also received a prompt: "The telepathic connection has been interrupted, 10
Card skills appear within a kilometer range to shield the magnetic field."
Xiao Lou's expression changed: "Our connection with Liu Qiao may have been discovered by the other party. The 'Xiao Lou' next to Liu Qiao has a very powerful card that can block the skills of other cards in a wide range.
"
Everyone: "..."
When they were in the Imperial Palace, Xiao Lou and Yu Hanjiang could still connect with each other outside the palace - the palace only prohibited the use of new cards, and the skills that had already been used were still effective.
But now, the card shields the magnetic field and actually makes the activated skills lose their effect?
This is the strongest hunter they have ever encountered. The key is that the opponent also has the face of Xiao Lou...
Ye Qi said worriedly: "It's over. The other party noticed that we were using cards. Is something going to happen to Liu Qiao?"
Xiao Lou said calmly: "The stronger the skill, the more restrictions it will have. The magnetic field shielding of a large range of cards will definitely not last too long. Otherwise, the Hunter can destroy all our cards with this card."
Cards, we have no chance of winning."
Lu Jiuchuan agreed: "Skills with large range and strong effects should last within 10 minutes."
Shao Qingge looked at the telepathy on the Qin Guan card that turned gray, and said regretfully: "Unfortunately, the release of telepathy failed. The cooling time is 24 hours, and it cannot be used again until early tomorrow morning..."
Xiao Loudao: "Me too, this skill is released once every 24 hours. If it is interrupted and released again, it will have to wait until early tomorrow morning."
Within 24 hours, what should we do if "Xiao Lou" takes action against Liu Qiao and the others?
Liu Qiao should be wary of this Xiao Lou now, but after all, he has Xiao Lou's face and is hard to guard against. What's more, if Senior Gui and Lao Mo are also in the mermaid tribe, they don't know that Xiao Lou is a clone yet.
If Xiao Lou, who has already won their trust, stabbed him in the back, wouldn't Gui Yuanzhang and Mo Xuemin be at their mercy?
The more Xiao Lou thought about it, the more anxious he became.
For every second of delay, teammates may be in greater danger.
what to do?
Xiao Lou lowered his head and thought carefully, and suddenly his eyes lit up: "I almost forgot that I still have Su Shi."
Ye Qi said: "Su Shi? I remember that he has a skill called Dongpo Pork. The Dongpo Pork he makes is particularly delicious?"
Apart from Dongpo Rou, Su Shi’s strongest skills are actually skills 1 and 2.
Skill 1: When will the bright moon appear? It turns the current scene into a full-moon night, forcing everyone in the scene to enjoy the moonlight for 1 hour, and the full-moon night will last for 8 hours before dawn. This is currently the only scene change card.
2. Skill: Eternal Romance Character - All character cards within 100 meters around you will immediately reset their skill cooldown.
Su Shi is equivalent to the captain of character cards, and can refresh the skills of all character cards.
Qin Guan's telepathy has cooled down at this time, and he can no longer establish mental communication with Liu Qiao, but Su Shi can immediately refresh Qin Guan's skill cooldown.
Su Shi's two limited skills can only be released once in each secret room, and now they have reached the most critical moment.
Xiao Lou said decisively: "When the card's magnetic field shielding ends, I will summon Su Shi."
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[Chapter 440, How many clones]
How long does the magnetic field shielding last? This is the opponent's card. No one knows the specific effect, but everyone can try it.
Ye Qi took out his musical instrument card [Flute].
The flute can control a single target, putting the locked target into a brief 3-second coma. The cooling time is only about 10 seconds. He can play the flute once every 10 seconds. The inability to release the skill proves that the card's magnetic shielding effect has not ended yet.
If the skill can be released, the effect of the opponent's card will be terminated.
Once every 10 seconds, Ye Qi kept playing the flute to make Shao Qingge fall asleep.
No effect…
Shao Qingge is still very conscious.
While Ye Qi was testing with his skills, Xiao Lou was timing the time silently in his mind, so that he could accurately judge the duration of the [Card Magnetic Field Shield] card in the hunter's hand. In case of encountering it again in the future, it would be good to have one
Mental preparation.
When Ye Qi tried it for the 30th time, Shao Qingge suddenly fell asleep. Yu Hanjiang hurriedly reached out to support Mr. Shao to prevent him from falling into the sea. Ye Qi said excitedly: "The card skills can be used!"
Xiao Loudao: "It seems that the shielding magnetic field lasts for 5 minutes."
For 5 minutes, all card skills are blocked in a wide range. This card is already strong enough.
Lu Jiuchuan said solemnly: "If we encounter a large number of hunters and the opponent plays this card during a team battle, we will be completely at a disadvantage."
Xiao Loudao: "Fortunately, it's just a skill shield. Weapons like knives and guns should be able to be used, right?"
No one can predict what will happen in the future, we can only adapt to circumstances.
Xiao Lou said solemnly: "Let's connect with Xiao Liu first."
He summoned Su Shi——
The bold and unrestrained poet waved a fan in his hand and chanted loudly: "The great river goes eastward, and the waves are gone, and the romantic figures of the ages..."
As the familiar words were spoken, the skills of all the character cards were refreshed, and Qin Guan's "Heart to Mind" changed from unusable gray to "usable" green status.
Xiao Lou hurriedly established a link with Liu Qiao, but...
The other party didn't respond at all.
Before Shao Qingge could activate his skills, Xiao Lou hurriedly said: "Don't even bother Liu Qiao, something happened to Xiao Liu!"
If there is no response, there is only one possibility - the other party has lost consciousness.
In the previous tenth level, when Ye Qi was knocked unconscious, Shao Qingge was unable to communicate with him because Ye Qi lost consciousness at that time. Just now Xiao Lou could talk to Liu Qiao through the spiritual channel, but at this time Liu Qiao did not.
If there was no response, then there was only one explanation - the copy "Xiao Lou" noticed that they were using cards, quickly came to Liu Qiao's side, and controlled Liu Qiao.
I wonder if Xiao Liu is in danger?
Xiao Lou immediately opened the contract. Fortunately, "Liu Qiao"'s name on it had not been erased, proving that she was still alive.
Lu Jiuchuan suggested: "Mr. Liangui."
Shao Qingge hurriedly invited Gui Yuanzhang to establish a spiritual connection. Soon, he remembered Senior Gui's hoarse voice in his mind: "Mr. Shao? What's the matter?"
Shao Qingge quickly said in his mind: "Senior, the Xiao Lou you and Liu Qiao met is a fake! The real Xiao Lou is with us, and I, Han Jiang, Xiaoye, Brother Jiu, and Mr. Tang can all prove it.
Xiao Lou’s identity, you must be careful about the Xiao Lou who is around you, he is a hunter! Also, something may have happened to Xiao Liu..."
In Gui Yuanzhang's impression, Shao Qingge always had a lazy and leisurely attitude, but now, the voice in his head spoke as fast as if he was being chased by a wolf, and every sentence was filled with tension.
Gui Yuanzhang got out of bed and said with confusion: "Mr. Shao? Aren't you and Xiaoye going to have dinner with us at noon today?"
Shao Qingge: "..."
At this moment, he really wanted to say a curse word like Brother Ninth: Holy shit!
Have lunch together? How is that possible?
Today at noon, he was clearly driving a hover car and leading his teammates around to look for the "singing invisible man."
Seeing that Shao Qingge's face turned extremely ugly, a bad premonition suddenly arose in Xiao Lou's heart. He asked in a low voice: "Senior Gui, don't you believe me?"
Shao Qingge said with a dark face: "He said that he just had dinner with me and Ye Qi at noon today."
Everyone: “…………”
Lu Jiuchuan scolded him directly: "Fuck! Mr. Shao and Ye Qi also have clones? Those who had dinner with Mr. Gui at noon must be pirates."
Ye Qi was stunned: "What the hell? Did I also participate in the Noah's Ark project?"
Xiao Lou felt chill in his heart.
Only now did he realize how difficult the secret room was this time.
If only Xiao Lou was copied hundreds of times, leaving a few surviving clones, it would be an easy solution. After all, everyone only needs to identify the genuine Xiao Lou.
But now, Shao Qingge and Ye Qi also have clones?
Is what’s happening around me real?
Xiao Lou turned back to look at Shao Qingge and Ye Qi. He believed that Mr. Shao and Ye Qi in front of him were real. They had been together for such a long time. Mr. Shao was very proficient in using [Rich and Willful] to copy cards. That was not piracy.
It can be imitated. Similarly, Ye Qi, his music conservatory students will habitually play nice melodies when playing the flute, which cannot be imitated by ordinary people.
Shao Qingge's temples were pounding and he said in a deep voice: "The Morse code my father left behind only recorded the first Noah's Ark plan. But my father did not have time to leave any clues about the restart of the plan."
Tang Ci said: "That is to say, for the second time, when the Noah's Ark project was restarted in 2980, your father might have added your cells to the experimental group again?"
Shao Qingge nodded seriously: "After all, he signed the plan and allocated 3 billion star coins to invest in this project. Although the first plan made him uneasy and went to the laboratory to destroy my specimens, but
There is no guarantee that he will be convinced again for the second plan, otherwise how could he sign it?"
Xiao Lou also thinks this speculation is reasonable: "Since Mr. Shao has signed the plan, whether it is voluntary or forced, he has the possibility of using his son's cells for experiments again."
Ye Qi murmured: "I remember that my biological father, General Ye Bowen, also signed the plan, right? So, my cells were also used for experiments?" Thinking that there are people like him in this world
After copying the version, Ye Qi felt goosebumps all over his body.
Shao Qingge asked in the spiritual channel: "Senior Gui, besides me and Ye Qi, who are your other teammates?"
Guiyuan Zhang said: "Xiao Lou, Lao Mo, Liu Qiao, Lu Jiuchuan and Tang Ci."
Shao Qingge: "..."
Lu Jiuchuan met his gaze and couldn't help but trembled: "What's going on? Is it me?"
Shao Qingge nodded: "Gui Lao has seen your and Mr. Tang's clones."
Lu Jiuchuan frowned: "But Tang Ci's and I's parents didn't participate in the Noah's Ark project?"
Yu Hanjiang said with an ugly face: "Brother Ninth, don't forget that you and Mr. Tang had an accident on the Zerg planet. You heard the strange singing at the end. You should have been rescued by the mermaid tribe at that time. After they rescued you two, they might be able to rescue you."
Taking your cells and creating clones... Is this the key reason why you lost your memory?"
Lu Jiuchuan's expression changed: "It makes sense. We really can't remember what happened after we were rescued."
Xiao Loudao: "In other words, the mermaid clan is still secretly researching clones. They don't want this matter to be known to outsiders, so they saved Brother Jiu and Tang Ci, and after taking the cells, they hypnotized you and made you forget
Will this memory be used to put you back on the Arrow starship?"
Lu Jiuchuan clenched his fists hard: "It's possible."
Yu Hanjiang looked at Xiao Lou: "If Xiao Lou No. 4 is a hunter, why didn't he just kill Brother Jiu and Mr. Tang, but hypnotize them and let them return to the capital planet?"
Xiao Lou speculated: "Probably for the long-term purpose of catching big fish? If he kills Ninth Brother and Mr. Tang and lets the clones replace them and return to the capital planet, you and Ninth Brother are brothers. The clone will be very difficult without Ninth Brother's memory."
It’s easy to expose the secret. Only by putting the real person back will we be able to dispel our vigilance.”
Yu Hanjiang said clearly: "Does he want to wait until we come to find Liu Qiao and the others, and then simply kill us all?"