Liu Qiao's voice was blocked by the mineral water bottle and sounded very weak, but Xiao Lou noticed the movement in the bottle for the first time. He took the mineral water bottle from Ye Qi's hand and asked softly: "Xiao Liu is awake?"
Liu Qiao swam around in the bottle and found that Xiao Lou in front of her seemed to be magnified dozens of times in her field of vision. His face looked like a wall to her. She finally reacted and said: "You are changing me into a
It’s about the size of a thumb and locked in a bottle? Is it the same as the 8 of spades locked up with Mr. Shao?”
Shao Qingge came over and asked, "Do you still remember the 8 of spades?"
Liu Qiao said: "Of course, Mr. Shao was infected by the Zerg to save Xiaoye. At that time, he was afraid that you would hurt his teammates, so everyone used my Thumbelina card to lock you in a bottle..." She paused and suddenly realized:
"I understand. You made me smaller and locked me in a bottle. Are you worried that I will hurt everyone? Do you suspect that I am a clone?"
After hearing this, Xiao Lou became less suspicious of her. After all, only his teammates knew that Shao Qingge was infected by the Zerg in order to save Ye Qi. Liu Qiao could accurately tell this, which greatly increased his credibility.
.
Yu Hanjiang asked in a low voice: "Do you still remember where we first met?"
Liu Qiao said: "At the mountain temple in Liuxi Village, I turned into Little Red Riding Hood and set off sky lanterns to lure you over, allowing you to discover the human bone pit behind the mountain temple."
Yu Hanjiang continued to ask: "What are the identities of us in the secret room of the war in troubled times?"
Liu Qiao replied seriously: "Captain Yu is the newly appointed prefect, Professor Xiao is your wife, Mr. Shao is from a rich family, Lao Mo is the master, Long Sen is the guard of the palace, Sister Qu is the princess's personal maid, and I am a doctor
Girl, Ye Qi is..." She turned back to look at Xiao Ye: "The top girl in the brothel."
Ye Qi couldn't help but raise his forehead: "Can you not mention that dark history... Captain Yu, can you change the dungeon?"
Yu Hanjiang immediately changed the question: "What disease did everyone get in the tenth level?"
Liu Qiao said: "Professor Xiao is the chief resident of the Department of Surgery. Team Yu was shot and sent to the emergency room; Xiaoye got pneumonia in the pediatric department; Professor Shao had a heart attack and had a stent operation; Long Sen broke his leg in the orthopedic surgery department; Lao Mo was sent to the emergency department because of intestinal obstruction.
I have to go for surgery; I have a blood disease; Sister Qu is pregnant and has lupus erythematosus..."
Lu Jiuchuan touched his nose and said, "It sounds like you were really miserable in the tenth level. You all got sick."
Ye Qi said: "The combination of the old, the weak, the sick, the disabled and the pregnant are really miserable. Professor Xiao is the only normal person... However, I think this level is more troublesome. The tenth level only has limited mobility for everyone, and the clues are very clear. This level
Until now, we don’t even know how many clones there are.”
Yu Hanjiang said: "Do you remember the plot of the 9 of Hearts?"
Liu Qiaodao: "In the murder case in the entertainment industry, the first murderer was psychologically twisted and killed the judge of the singing competition who gave him a red light, and the other was a body double who had undergone plastic surgery and killed his best friend."
Listening to Liu Qiao's fluent answers about the past copy situation, Xiao Lou finally breathed a sigh of relief. To be on the safe side, he continued to ask: "Xiao Liu, do you remember the library of the Medical University? There are materials related to traditional Chinese medicine on the 23rd floor.
"
Liu Qiao thought for a moment and said, "Yes, I often go to the 23rd floor to borrow books."
Xiao Lou was silent for a moment, then looked back at Yu Hanjiang and said, "No problem, this Liu Qiao should be me."
Everyone breathed a sigh of relief when they heard this.
Liu Qiao said: "That Xiao Lou, the pastry he brought me must have been mixed with drugs. I fainted after eating it. If Professor Xiao hadn't suddenly connected me with his intention, I would have never doubted his identity.
, he looks so much like Professor Xiao."
Xiao Lou said helplessly: "The genes of the clones are 99% similar, almost like twins, and it is really difficult to tell them apart in appearance. What you see is Xiao Lou No. 5. He is a fusion of human, Zerg, and mermaid genes, plus
He is a hunter and knows our team inside and out, so it is really difficult to deal with him."
Liu Qiao wondered: "Hunter? Why do clones become hunters?"
Xiao Loudao: "I guess hunters, like challengers, can travel through different secret room worlds. We can come directly to this world and be assigned different identities. Hunters can naturally be assigned identities, and hunters are assigned to
The more important your identity is, the more difficult it will be for us to pass the level."
Shao Qingge thought thoughtfully: "For example, in the tenth level, my adoptive mother is a hunter?"
Ye Qi couldn't help but feel frightened when he thought of that scene on a rainy night: "If Mr. Shao and I hadn't reacted quickly enough, his mother would have almost killed us at the last moment!"
Xiao Lou glanced at his teammates and said meaningfully: "So, the hunter in this level is assigned the identity of 'Xiao Lou clone', which will also greatly increase the difficulty of our clearance. If we are not vigilant enough,
, maybe I fell into that person’s trap.”
Yu Hanjiang said: "We can avoid him first and investigate the shipwreck incident."
Xiao Lou agreed: "Okay, we will dive into the deep sea as soon as daybreak."
Liu Qiao swam around in the bottle and asked, "Can you let me out? I am a princess of the mermaid tribe. I am familiar with the paths of the palace. Maybe I can help."
Xiao Lou winked at Yu Hanjiang, who nodded, walked over to unscrew the bottle cap, and poured the finger-sized fish out of the bottle. At the same time, Gui Yuanzhang put away the [Thumbelina] card, and Liu Qiao immediately
Restored to its original shape.
Her tail is the longest among all, over 2 meters long. The silver-white tail shines brightly under the moonlight, making her even more beautiful than the mermaid heroine in the movie.
Lu Jiuchuan glanced at her tail: "Is this the mermaid tail with royal blood?"
Guiyuan Zhang nodded: "The sign of royal blood is very obvious, the tails are all silver, and there are fewer and fewer mermaids with this kind of pure blood. The mermaids believe in racial concepts and believe that those with silver tails are the most noble and can inherit the throne.
, and must also be descendants of silver-tailed mermaids with pure bloodline."
Xiao Lou thought for a moment and said: "The current prince of the mermaid clan is artificially cultivated using genetic technology. As long as when making a clone, the gene fragment that determines the color of the mermaid clan's tail is extracted and integrated into the cells of Xiao Lou No. 4.
The cultivated Xiaolou No. 5 will automatically have a silver tail symbolizing the royal bloodline?"
Yu Hanjiang said: "Then if we find an excuse like 'an illegitimate child living abroad', the people of the mermaid tribe will not doubt the identity of this prince. After all, he has a pure silver tail."
Ye Qi looked at Xiao Lou: "Can we distinguish Professor Xiao from the clone based on the color of his tail?"
Xiao Lou smiled and said: "My tail is the blue color of ordinary tribesmen, and his is the silver color of the royal bloodline. It can indeed be distinguished. However, in the palace, the mermaid tribe has to walk on two legs and does not expose its tail. On the surface, it is still difficult to distinguish.
.Everyone should try not to get separated when taking action tomorrow, so as not to be taken advantage of by the clones."
Gui Yuanzhang said cautiously: "If we get rid of that clone, we can naturally make the mermaid princess Liu Qiao the new generation king of the mermaid clan."
Liu Qiao was stunned for a moment: "Me? King?"
Ye Qi patted her shoulder and said, "It's a lot of pressure, isn't it? Professor Xiao also has to inherit the throne. At this stage, you two have a special status."
Liu Qiao thought for a while and nodded seriously: "Okay, I will cooperate with everyone."
It was already 4:30 in the morning, Xiao Lou said: "Let's all rest for a while and set off at dawn."
Everyone was really tired after staying up all night, so they lay on the rocks and took a brief nap.
Xiao Lou did not fall asleep. He lowered his head and seemed to be thinking about something. After a long time, he secretly held Yu Hanjiang's hand and quickly wrote a few words in Yu Hanjiang's palm. Yu Hanjiang raised his eyebrows in surprise, and then gave
Xiao Lou gave an "I understand" look and said warmly: "Let's rest for a while."
Xiao Lou closed his eyes and fell asleep for half an hour.
Not long after, a glimmer of light gradually appeared on the sea level in the east. It was already dawn. Xiao Lou woke everyone up and said: "Get ready, there are still 5 hours left for the mermaid princess to transform."
The living habit of the mermaid tribe is to stay up during the day and come out at night. It will be safer to act at dawn.
In order to facilitate underwater communication, Xiao Lou opened the [Team Voice Headphones] card and gave each person a headset. He pressed the bulge on the headset and said: "Xiao Liu, please lead the way. I'm with Captain Yu.
After the break."
Liu Qiao nodded and dove into the sea, his silver fish tail drawing a beautiful arc in the air.
Gui Yuan Zhang, Lao Mo followed closely, and Mr. Shao, Xiao Ye, Lu Jiuchuan, Tang Ci and others also jumped into the deep sea one after another.
Yu Hanjiang and Xiao Lou followed at the end, and the group swam quickly towards the location of the sunken ship.
After adapting to the setting of "legs turning into fish tails", everyone swam faster and faster in the sea.
Ye Qi has been a landlubber for more than ten years. He is afraid every time he goes into the water. He never thought that one day he would be able to swim freely in the depths of the ocean and even see colorful fish schools in the ocean.
The deeper you dive into the sea, the more beautiful the scenery becomes.
A magnificent undersea painting slowly unfolded in front of everyone. Corals of various colors covered the entire sea area like large undersea flowerbeds. Schools of fish shuttled through the corals. Colorful schools of deep-sea fish opened up for everyone.
The door to another world.
This is a mysterious, quiet, yet dangerous seabed.
There are cute little fish here, as well as ferocious giant whales. The ocean is a place that always follows the rule of "survival of the fittest". Big fish eat small fish, small fish eat shrimps, and the weak have no right to survive at all.
It’s no wonder that the mermaid tribe is interested in the Noah’s Ark project. If the mermaid tribe really merges the genes of humans and bugs and inherits them, then the mermaid tribe will have few opponents and become the overlord of the entire ocean.
Liu Qiao said: "The sunken ship is just ahead."
A group of people followed, and not long after, a military spacecraft appeared in their field of vision.
The workmanship of this spaceship is very good and of high quality. Even though it is old, there are no obvious signs of rust on the metal shell of the spacecraft. Lu Jiuchuan swung his fish tail, quickly stepped forward, grabbed the hatch, and entered the cabin first.
Others quickly followed.
Lu Jiuchuan walked into the control room, looked at a bird-like mark on the console, and whispered: "This spaceship should be the 'Egret' starship that was decommissioned 25 years ago in the southern theater. This bird-shaped mark
, represents the Egret.”
Tang Ci was slightly startled, then walked to Lu Jiuchuan, looked at the complex control console and said, "It is indeed the control mode from more than 20 years ago. If I remember correctly, the Egret is..."
Lu Jiuchuan said: "General Lin's starship."
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[Chapter 446, Major General Lin Zecheng]
The current commander-in-chief of the southern military region of the empire, one of the few generals, Lin Zecheng, Lin Yan's biological father, and Xiao Lou's nominal father-in-law.
Hearing this name, Xiao Lou immediately cheered up: "Brother Ninth, can the starship be used again after it is decommissioned?"
Lu Jiuchuan shook his head: "No. According to the rules of the military department, decommissioned starships must be sealed. The Egret starship was decommissioned 25 years ago. All the emperors know this."
Yu Hanjiang said: "So, this group of people secretly drove the Egret to escape from the capital planet? Since Egret is General Lin's starship, this escape plan must be related to General Lin." He looked at his teammates: "Let's work together in pairs.
, search for clues carefully, and use headphones to communicate if necessary."
Xiao Lou asked: "Did No. 5 bring you here? Did he damage the scene?"
Liu Qiao said: "No, he only examined the bones and said that the crime scene must be protected."
Xiao Lou nodded: "Where is the body?"
"This way." Liu Qiao led the way, and Xiao Lou and Yu Hanjiang quickly followed.
After passing a long corridor, a silver-white hatch appeared in front of them. Liu Qiao opened the hatch. As expected, Xiao Lou and Yu Hanjiang saw ten human bones appearing in the room. These people had obviously experienced struggles before their death.
The posture is extremely distorted.
Xiao Lou leaned over and looked carefully, and quickly came to the conclusion: "There are 8 boys and 2 girls. This little girl is indeed about 5 years old. Most of the others are young adults, and there is only one elderly person over 50 years old."
At this time, Lu Jiuchuan and Tang Ci also came over. Lu Jiuchuan said: "A large amount of damage was found on the right rear of the starship. It should be that when the starship was involved in the whirlpool at sea, the defensive cover was shattered by the pressure of the deep sea water.
"
Yu Hanjiang said: "This starship is not a professional submarine ship after all. It is difficult for ordinary aviation ships to withstand the water pressure in the depths of the ocean. The damage to the defensive cover is almost instantaneous. They may not have time to react before they are hit by a huge
The water pressure crushed the internal organs."
At this moment, Ye Qi suddenly said in the earphone: "Huh? There seems to be a rag doll here?"
Xiao Lou turned around and came to Ye Qi, took the doll he picked up and looked at it carefully - it was a Barbie doll of good quality, wearing a cute pink cake skirt, and her golden hair was carefully combed into two parts.
Just a ponytail.
The rag doll is made of special waterproof material, which is why it is still intact after so many years.
Warships and ragdolls sound really out of place...
But Xiao Lou thought about it carefully and quickly came up with a key point: "It is impossible for adults to take a rag doll onto a starship when they are escaping. Rag dolls are generally toys that only little girls like. This starship
There is the body of a 5-year-old girl on it, and it is possible that the doll is hers."
Yu Hanjiang then asked: "Will anyone be kind enough to buy a doll for the clone?"
Xiao Lou shook his head: "Twenty years ago, all clones should have been in physical condition around 5 years old, but because they had not received human education, their IQ was still at the level of a newborn baby. The clones were still copies of the IQ of babies.
People definitely don’t need toys to coax them, so the greater possibility is that...the doll belongs to the little girl herself.”
Ye Qi's eyes widened: "The little girl who died here is Lin Yan herself?!"
Xiao Lou nodded solemnly: "Maybe there is also her biological father, General Lin Zecheng."
Lu Jiuchuan touched his chin and thought carefully, and said: "Twenty years ago, General Lin Zecheng was only in his thirties. He was not the commander-in-chief of the Southern Military Region, but a major general who led an army like me. This Egret
The starship is the starship that General Lin used to perform his mission. He is very familiar with this starship, so he took his daughter to escape from the capital planet at the critical moment?"
Xiao Lou returned to the cabin full of corpses and carefully looked at the distribution of corpses around him.
He found that there was a man next to the 5-year-old girl. The man's arms held the little girl's shoulders tightly, protecting the little girl in his arms in a protective posture. The man's bones did indeed behave like
Adult male in his 30s.
Xiao Lou pointed at the corpse and said: "This person should be General Lin Zecheng. When danger occurred, as a father, he subconsciously protected his daughter."
The hair on Ye Qi's spine stood up: "Then where did General Lin and Lin Yan from Capital Star come from? And where is Zhang Shaohua who has lost his memory?"
Shao Qingge said: "I'm afraid that family is all clones."
Everyone: “…………”
No wonder the mastermind behind the scenes killed all the people who signed the plan, but spared only Professor Zhang Shaohua. She looked stupid and stupid, and she didn't even recognize her own daughter. Maybe she didn't have amnesia, but she was...
Replicants have no memory of their husbands and daughters at all?
Xiao Lou said hurriedly: "Teacher Qu is in danger, please tell her to be careful!"
Shao Qingge wanted to notify the other party, but unfortunately, the signal in the deep sea was blocked and he could not contact Qu Wanyue at all. Shao Qingge looked at his communication device with no signal and could only frown and said: "Let's wait until we leave the sea. She has a chameleon."
The card can be integrated with the environment, so there shouldn't be any problems for a while."
Yu Hanjiang asked everyone: "Are there any other clues?"
Tang Ci asked: "Senior, did you open the starship's hatch when you came to investigate the case?"
Gui Yuanzhang said: "The cabin door was open when we first arrived."
Tang Ci said: "That means there are people who have been here before you, because the hatch of this kind of starship must be opened with a password. It is very likely that someone from the mermaid tribe came to the starship and took away materials related to the Noah's Ark plan.
"
Xiao Lou looked around and said: "Except for General Lin Zecheng and 5-year-old Lin Yan, among these 10 human skeletons, the identities of the other eight individuals cannot be determined yet."
Suddenly, Ye Qi walked up to a corpse and stared blankly at the semicircular necklace on the other person's neck. Shao Qingge hurriedly came to Ye Qi's side, gently grabbed Ye Qi's wrist, and whispered: "
What's wrong?"
Ye Qi said: "This necklace..."
He unbuttoned and took out the exact same necklace he wore around his neck: "It's a pair of mine."
Shao Qingge narrowed his eyes: "Could this corpse be your biological father, General Ye Bowen?"
Tang Ci said: "From the official records, General Ye died on the front line. In this way, General Ye actually escaped from the capital planet with General Lin with several clones and information about the Noah's Ark project.
Is the so-called 'sacrifice on the front line' a deliberately fabricated lie?"
Lu Jiuchuan said: "After all, it is difficult to explain clearly that a young general suddenly disappeared. How about using 'died on the front line' to explain it?"
Shao Qingge frowned and said: "It seems that some of the people who died with strange causes in the plan are probably on this starship. They must have realized that His Majesty wanted to kill them and silence them, so they collectively brought the clones and Noah's Ark plan
The relevant information escaped from the capital planet. Unfortunately, fate is not as good as fate. They encountered a whirlpool in the sea and the information was stolen by the mermaid tribe."
Xiao Lou looked back at Liu Qiao: "His Majesty, your father, is the mermaid clan. Do you think there is anything wrong with him?"
Liu Qiao shook his head: "My father is a very kind and kind man. It's not like I know about clones. In my eighteen years of memory in the mermaid clan, I have never heard of this news at all."
Xiao Lou then asked: "Does anyone in the mermaid tribe have a deeper understanding of genes and organisms?"
Guiyuan Zhang suddenly remembered something and said: "There is an elder of the mermaid tribe named Karen Geer who particularly likes to study this aspect. He has cultivated many deep-sea fishes that the mermaid tribe can eat."
Xiao Lou said: "Let's go back today and come back to check on this elder tomorrow. I'm worried that there will be problems with Teacher Qu."
Everyone had no objections and left the starship collectively.
After returning to the deserted island, Xiao Lou asked Shao Qingge to contact Qu Wanyue. Soon, Qu Wanyue's face appeared in the picture projected by Mr. Shao's communication device. She was at home and saw everyone wearing a face.
Tai Wei couldn't help but said in surprise: "How come you all turned into mermaids collectively? Did you use Xiao Liu's card?"
Xiao Loudao: "After searching for clues, we found out that the deep-sea mermaid tribe has just entered the water collectively. By the way, Teacher Qu, have you found any abnormalities in tracking Zhang Shaohua these days? The three of them may be clones."
Qu Wanyue was startled: "Clone? I just wanted to tell you that Zhang Shaohua always has dull eyes. He rarely communicates with Lin Yan and General Lin. He doesn't even know his daughter Lin Yan. He sits there every day.
She was basking in the sun in the yard and was in a daze, but last night, I hid the Chameleon card in her bedroom and observed her all night, and found that she had frequent nightmares!"
Xiao Lou and Yu Hanjiang looked at each other—a nightmare?
If Zhang Shaohua is a clone and has not received human education, then she should be a carefree fool. How come she has frequent nightmares?
Qu Wanyue said: "Moreover, when she woke up in the middle of the night, she still shouted 'Yan Yan'. Although it was only once, I heard it clearly... What happened? She didn't know Lin Yan during the day, so how could she dream
But Lin Yan’s name was called out?”
Xiao Lou took a deep breath and suddenly thought of a possibility.
People can control their emotions and even act stupid, but dreams are the only thing that cannot be controlled.
Therefore, Zhang Shaohua of Capital Star should be real.
Only two female skeletons were found on the starship. One was 5-year-old Lin Yan. Although the other's age matched that of Zhang Shaohua, she and Lin Yan were very far apart and did not look like a close mother and daughter.
Zhang Shaohua sensed the crisis and asked her husband to take their daughter away first. She stayed in Capital Star?
Or is it that she exchanged identities with the clone and has been pretending to be stupid for so many years, hoping to wait for an opportunity?