"How to deal with these three hunters?" Xiao Lou turned back to ask Yu Hanjiang for his opinion.
Yu Hanjiang stepped forward, looked at the miniature version of Xiao Lou in the bottle, and asked in a low voice: "How did the Hunters come to this world? Where did you find out about our experiences in other secret rooms?"
Xiao Lou said coldly: "Of course we have a source of information, otherwise how could we kill you?"
Yu Hanjiang asked: "What benefit does killing the challenger do to you? Can you live in the card world for a few more years?"
The other party suddenly fell silent, his pale face expressionless, as if he had turned into a statue.
Yu Hanjiang frowned and softened his tone: "If you tell us the information about the Hunter organization, I can consider not killing you because you and Xiao Lou look exactly the same."
"Ha..." Xiao Lou suddenly curled up the corners of his mouth, as if he had heard a big joke. He let out a strange laugh in the bottle, laughed for a while, and then said lightly: "Anyway, I will survive even if the mission fails.
No, just give me a break." After saying that, he closed his eyes and put on an indifferent expression of "die calmly."
Yu Hanjiang looked at Xiao Lou and shook his head.
Xiao Lou had no choice but to force the three hunters back to the Peach Blossom Spring and set them on fire.
These predators are simply stubborn.
Until now, we have encountered many hunters. What they have in common is that they would rather die than reveal any secrets about the organization after failing the mission. It is as if they have been collectively brainwashed.
Their loyalty to the organization even exceeds the most instinctive desire of human beings to survive? Why?
People who are not strong-willed enough are likely to betray their friends and relatives when death is imminent. Not all hunter-killer organizations are strong-willed and tough guys who regard death as home. But every time, even if you put a knife on their neck, you can't find out.
To any news about the organization, this is too strange.
Xiao Lou said softly: "No one is afraid of death. I don't believe that all the people in the Hunter organization regard death as home. I guess if they leak the secrets of the Hunter organization, they may be more sad than death, so they would rather
Choose death without saying a word."
Yu Hanjiang thought about it carefully and agreed: "It makes sense. Those who leak the secrets are likely to be worse off than dead? When the mission fails, many hunters simply commit suicide by taking poison."
Xiao Loudao: "This organization has its own rules, such as the 'head bounty system' and the method of traveling between different secret rooms to replace some special plot characters. I now wonder if the hunter organization... is a gatekeeper.
An organization created by the attackers to fight against our challengers?”
When Ye Qi heard this, he suddenly slapped his forehead, walked to Xiao Lou and said excitedly: "Professor Xiao's suspicion is very likely! If there are no gatekeepers involved, how can these hunters enter the secret room world?
How about becoming a key plot character? Whether it’s Mr. Shao’s adoptive mother in the tenth level or the clone in this level, it would be too coincidental to suddenly appear, right?”
Shao Qingge said: "If this is the case, maybe the hunters also have to travel to different worlds to complete tasks?"
Lu Jiuchuan said solemnly: "While I was undercover in the Hunter organization, I often received mission instructions from my superiors. The mission had only one goal - to kill foreigners. However, because I was not a real Hunter, every time
Zhou Chang asked Hua Ying to help with the cover. They didn’t know that I failed the mission, and they didn’t punish me. I don’t know what kind of punishment a hunter who actually failed the mission would receive.”
Tang Ci said: "In other words, it is very likely that from the moment we entered the card world, there was a force that was always opposing us. Our goal is to clear the secret room, and their goal is to kill us?"
After hearing Tang Ci's words, the teammates looked at each other.
At first, everyone thought that this force was organized voluntarily by the "aboriginals", like a "cult" targeting outsiders, but now it seems that the Hunters can not only find out all their cards, but even know who they are.
Experience in the secret room in the past? How could the aborigines have such great abilities?!
After all, aborigines are limited to one world. For example, the princes and princesses of the ancient world of 8 of Hearts cannot appear in the entertainment world of 9 of Hearts, so they cannot know what is happening in the entertainment world.
When Yu Hanjiang tested the fake Liu Qiao, she was able to answer fluently the information on the eighth, ninth, and tenth levels, which shows that she is very aware of the experiences of Xiao Lou and his group in different worlds.
Thinking of this, everyone felt shuddering.
It's like there is a pair of eyes always watching them from behind.
In the card world, there are only four people who know everything that happens in each secret room - the ace of hearts, the ace of diamonds, the ace of spades, the ace of clubs, and the four gatekeepers!
The gatekeepers can freely control the time flow rate of each card world. They are the real leaders of the card world. Behind them are kings and kings. Perhaps as Xiao Lou speculated, the hunter organization itself is them
They personally created a camp, but from the very beginning, they selected a group of people to stand on the opposite side of the challenger?
Ye Qi gave an analogy: "It's like when playing online games, there are two official camps. For example, World of Warcraft has two camps: alliance and tribe. When players meet in the wild, they have red names and can attack each other. Put them on the card
The same thing works in the card world, Hunters vs. Challengers, are they two opposing camps?"
Xiao Lou was not sure about the origin of the Hunter organization before, but after this time, the Hunters had more and more information about them, and he had to doubt the intentions of these gatekeepers.
The feeling of being toyed with and applauded is not pleasant, but since the camp is an official setting, the mission will not be a lie. The way they want to leave here is to clear the secret room. It is just more difficult.
At this time, Liu Qiao had already spent ten minutes informing His Majesty the causes and consequences of the clone incident.
His Majesty, the mermaid clan, looked horrified. He couldn't believe that the killed elder Karen was actually secretly researching clones and had produced version 2.0.
In order to convince him, Liu Qiao took him through the maze and found a large number of petri dishes similar to glass coffins in the laboratory at the end of the fish, in which many identical "human specimens" were indeed soaked.
When His Majesty saw so many specimens, his face turned as black as the bottom of a pot.
Liu Qiao suggested: "Father, the clone plan is too crazy. We must stop it as soon as possible. Otherwise, if a large number of identical tribesmen appear in the future, the order of our mermaid tribe will be completely disrupted." She paused and added.
He said: "Moreover, after gene duplication, our bloodline will no longer be pure."
The last sentence is the key. The mermaid clan attaches great importance to bloodline. If the mermaid clan in the future is mixed with genes of humans and bugs, this is something that His Majesty will never tolerate.
His Majesty made a decisive decision: "Destroy all specimens in these laboratories!"
Liu Qiao nodded: "Father, don't worry, the aftermath of this matter will be handled by my brother and me."
The specimens should have genes from the Zerg, humans, and mermaids. They were soaked in the nutrient solution and have not yet awakened. The mermaid palace was deep in the ocean and could not be lit. Liu Qiao told Xiao Lou this matter with a clear heart: "Father, the king
Agree to destroy all human clone experimental products and ask Mr. Xiaoye and Shao to help and carry away the petri dishes in the laboratory."
The [Teleport] cards in the hands of Ye Qi and Shao Qingge can not only carry people, but also carry 200 kilograms of things. The two swam back into the deep sea maze again and used the teleport cards to move hundreds of petri dishes in batches.
Back to the Peach Blossom Spring.
Looking at the hundreds of "glass coffins" placed under the peach blossom tree, the teammates looked solemn.
Yu Hanjiang and Lu Jiuchuan looked at each other, and the two brothers stepped forward in tacit agreement, took out the clones one by one from the glass vessels, and stacked them together. Yu Hanjiang did not hesitate to pour a few bottles of alcohol on them and set them on fire.
Lose.
This scene made the teammates feel a little psychologically uncomfortable.
Especially when he saw that the burned replica looked exactly like himself...
Ye Qi resisted the urge to vomit, and his face turned slightly pale. Shao Qingge put his arm around his shoulder with one hand, covered his eyes with the other hand, and whispered: "Don't think too much, these clones are not
Without consciousness, you just think they are inflatable dolls made in our image."
Ye Qi was stunned for a moment: "Inflatable doll... Mr. Shao, you know so much."
Shao Qingge chuckled and rubbed his hair: "Of course, otherwise, how can I be your father? I will teach you slowly in the future."
Ye Qi was choked to the point of being speechless.
The original discomfort of the teammates was instantly relieved when they heard Shao Qingge's words. If these experimental subjects were treated as unconscious dolls and burned to death, it would indeed feel much better psychologically.
Lu Jiuchuan joked: "Today's Peach Blossom Spring is simply a crematorium. Wouldn't Tao Yuanming have any objections?"
Xiao Lou said helplessly: "You can't light a fire in the sea, you can only bring it back to the Peach Blossom Spring and burn it. Fortunately, the Peach Blossom Spring will disappear automatically after 3 hours of existence. It will be a new space that will be opened again tomorrow, and there should be no traces or smell left."
At this time, the ground under the peach blossom tree was covered with black ash, and there was a strange burning smell in the air, which was really uncomfortable.
Xiao Lou glanced at the Taohuayuan, which was used as a temporary crematorium, sighed, looked at his teammates and said: "Let's go to find your Majesty. After all, my tail was dyed by Lao Mo, and it won't be good if it fades."
Everyone imagined that Xiao Lou was swimming in the sea, and the silver tail suddenly faded. They would probably be shocked by the mermaid clan members - the prince's tail was actually dyed? This is okay!
In the palace, Liu Qiao and Xiao Lou had a close connection and stayed with His Majesty to comfort the agitated old man.
His Majesty patted her shoulder and said sincerely: "Although your brother is the illegitimate son of his father who is living abroad, you are brothers and sisters after all. My father hopes that you can live in harmony and never kill each other..."
The old king still has lingering fears about the tit-for-tat scene between Xiao Lou and Liu Qiao. He is really afraid that one day the brother and sister will kill each other for the throne. The last thing a father wants to see is this scene.
"Father, don't worry, I have always respected my brother. However," Liu Qiao looked up at his father in front of him, his eyes were calm, and he said slowly word by word, "it is more appropriate for me to inherit the mermaid clan."
"What?" His Majesty stared at Liu Qiao in disbelief, "Did you...have you always had ambitions?"
"Father, my brother does not want to be the leader of the mermaid tribe. He has already communicated with me privately that he wants me to succeed him. I respect his decision and am willing to shoulder this burden for him. If you don't believe it, you can personally
Ask him." Liu Qiao lied and didn't draft, and his acting skills are already perfect. Of course, this is what Xiao Lou told her through telepathy.
Xiao Lou's tail is dyed, so he cannot stay in the mermaid tribe and become the king. What's more, Xiao Lou's true identity is still the prince of the Luoke Empire, and he must go back as soon as possible to solve their own country's problems.
"This...I have to discuss this with your brother." His Majesty looked worried.
At this moment, Xiao Lou just finished handling the clones and returned to the palace. He walked up to His Majesty, bowed, and said respectfully: "Father, those experimental subjects have been processed."
"Your sister said that you don't want to inherit the throne. Is this true?" His Majesty asked with doubt on his face.
"Yes, father." Xiao Lou looked extremely serious, "Although I am your child, my mother has never been found. Many people in the tribe think that my origin is unknown. I am afraid that I will not be able to convince everyone if I succeed. On the contrary.
"Liu Qiao is the only daughter of you and the queen, and her bloodline is the purest." After he said this, he turned his head and looked at Liu Qiao gently, "Besides, my sister has been smart since she was a child, and she must be the best to succeed the king.
The perfect choice.”
"..." His Majesty's face was full of confusion, as if he was hesitating to whom to pass the seat to.
"Why don't you make a decision after your father discusses it with the elders?" Xiao Lou suggested.
"Okay, I'll invite some elders to hold a meeting." His Majesty turned and left.
There are a total of 7 elders of the mermaid tribe. Karen has been eliminated. Of the remaining 6 elders, Guiyuan Zhang can vote for 3 of them. In other words, there are at least 4 votes on Liu Qiao's side.
.
That night, His Majesty called the elders for an emergency meeting. More than half of the elders believed that Xiao Lou's origin was unknown, and that it would be easier to convince the public that the mermaid princess born to His Majesty and the Queen would inherit the throne.
The next morning, His Majesty announced the result in front of all the clan members.
Liu Qiao walked through the palace in a formal dress, took the crown from his father, and officially became the heir of the mermaid clan. Xiao Lou stood beside him and smiled slightly, looking quite pleased.
Liu Qiao is his student in reality. After so long training in the card world, this girl's carefulness, rationality, and courage have all improved to a higher level, becoming more and more outstanding.
This time the mermaid tribe's side mission was successfully completed. Although Xiao Lou is the commander-in-chief, Liu Qiao's vigilance and self-poisoning and self-rescue methods must be given a thumbs up. If she is really stunned, what will her teammates do?
With their hands tied, it will definitely not be easy to deal with the hunter-killer team.
After the succession ceremony, Xiao Lou said goodbye to Liu Qiao and the old king.
His explanation to His Majesty was: "Father, I was brought back to the palace by Elder Karen when I was young. I left my mother and I want to find her. Next, I have to leave the palace for a while. You must take good care of me."
Own."
His Majesty sighed softly: "Go ahead. Since this is your obsession, father has no reason to stop you."
Xiao Lou and Liu Qiao looked at each other, and Liu Qiao said thoughtfully: "Professor Xiao, our mermaid tribe can't help much with the Luoke Empire, so you must be careful."
The mermaid clan can stay on land for a day or two, but it will be very uncomfortable to move on land for a long time. Besides, now that Liu Qiao is the heir, it is difficult to leave the mermaid palace without permission.
Xiao Lou nodded to her: "Don't worry, you three will stay in the Mermaid Palace and wait for our good news."
Guiyuan Zhang, Lao Mo and Liu Qiao went to see them off in person.
Xiao Lou and his group of six were just about to leave the sea when Gui Yuanzhang suddenly said: "We can't help, but the cards can. Professor Xiao, bring the card packs of the three of us." He said and spread his palms like a magic trick.
, took out three card packets. Apparently, the three of them had already agreed to give the card packets to Xiao Lou.
Xiao Lou looked at Senior Gui with some surprise.
Handing something as important as a card pack to a teammate shows that he has absolute trust in Xiao Lou.
Xiao Lou said: "Don't you stay for self-defense?"
Gui Yuanzhang said: "The problem of the mermaid tribe has been solved. The three of us checked carefully last night and found no fish slipping through the net. All the clones have been destroyed. In addition, Liu Qiao is now the distinguished heir, and there is no one else."
can hurt us."
But Xiao Lou was still worried. He thought about it and said, "Leave the invisibility cloak and the dyeing card, just in case."
The dyeing card can be used to dye tails in the mermaid tribe. It is of little use when returning to the Luoke Empire. The invisibility cloak can be used to escape at critical moments. Gui Yuanzhang nodded and took the card handed back by Xiao Lou: "Take care."
Xiao Lou looked at them: "Take care, you three, and see you again after leaving the secret room."
The six of them said nothing more, quickly swam back to the sea level, put away their tails and became normal people.
Shao Qingge drove the newly purchased hover car over and took his teammates out of the fishing village. At the intersection of the aerial lane, Shao Qingge stopped and asked: "Where to go next?"
Xiao Lou said decisively: "Go back to Luoke Empire."
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[Chapter 454, video information]
Only Shao Qingge and Ye Qi could pass the security check of space stations in various countries, and Xiao Lou had no choice but to use the Peach Blossom Spring teleportation method again.
On a new day, the card skills refreshed and cooled down. Shao Qingge and Ye Qi bought the spaceship tickets back to the empire openly. After passing the space station, they did not board the passenger spaceship. Instead, they boarded Chu Huaying directly to meet everyone.
The Dark Night starship, and then started the Peach Blossom Spring teleportation in the cabin.
A group of people appeared on the Dark Night starship. Seeing that everyone looked tired, Chu Huaying poured everyone a glass of water one after another, walked over and asked: "Is everything going well with the mermaid clan?" Regarding the mermaid clan, Lu Jiuchuan had previously said
I had communicated with her when I was pretending to be Chu Huaying, so she also knew the general situation.
Lu Jiuchuan smiled and said: "It went very well. All the hunters and clones were eliminated, and Xiao Liu became the only successor. Moreover, we also found the information about the Noah's Ark project from Elder Karen's laboratory.
Details."
Tang Ci said: "This information, combined with the cases left by Ye Qi's father, can clearly understand what happened that year."
He turned on the optical brain and called up a video.
The video was taken on July 15, 2975, the year 2975, the day when the Noah's Ark project was first launched.
In a spacious conference room, there were several experts, ministers, military officials, Shao Qingge's father, and His Majesty, who was very young at the time. His Majesty projected a plan on the LCD screen and said: "
Regarding the Noah's Ark plan proposed by Professors Qin Rong, Zhu Xingchen, and Palmer, you can express your opinions."
The three people named by His Majesty are the three escapees whose skeletons were found on the sunken ship at the bottom of the sea.
There was a heated debate in the conference room. Someone said: "Copying humans, isn't this too crazy?"
"I don't agree with such a plan. It makes no sense ethically at all. Once human gene duplication research is launched, the butterfly effect caused by it is likely to make humans unable to control it!"
"Professor Palmer, why do you propose such an incredible plan?" Ye Qi's father Ye Bowen asked.
Palmer explained with a smile: "Isn't it normal for the important data in the optical brain to be backed up with a chip? General Ye, I remember your father died of heart failure. If there was a backup replicator at that time, after his heart failure,
If you transplant an organ to him when the problem arises, he can still live for many years, don’t you deny this?"
Ye Bowen was stunned: "This..."
Palmer glanced across the audience and said: "What if your beloved wife or child gets a disease that is difficult to treat in the future? There is a replica of organs, tissues, skin, and blood that can be taken at any time. What will happen then?"
I’m not afraid of getting sick anymore.”
General Lin Zecheng frowned and said: "Birth, old age, illness and death are things that humans have experienced for thousands of years. According to you, by making clones to back up your own body's data, we can live forever?"
Palmer shook his head: "It's not as magical as immortality, but having an extra health guarantee is like buying yourself a health insurance. Aren't you afraid of death, or of your loved ones dying of disease?"
The conference room suddenly fell silent.
The young Zhang Shaohua said calmly: "The teacher is right. The technology of animal cloning has long been mature. Human cloning has never been approved by the Ethics Society. The key is that ethicists believe that once human cloning enters society, it will pollute mankind."
gene pool, and when they become self-aware, they are likely to conflict with the original body."
Lin Zecheng looked at his wife in surprise, as if he couldn't believe that she would support him.
Zhang Shaohua's expression was extremely calm. She stood up, walked to the LCD screen and gently swiped the page, opened the detailed plan, and said: "However, the replication plan proposed by Professor Palmer this time will not make the replication successful.
Experimental subjects are not added to human society, but they are placed in a petri dish for life. They have no consciousness and no human behavior. They are just stored in the hospital as a data backup."
Zhang Shaohua paused, looked at her husband and said: "It's like a 20-year-old woman going to the hospital to freeze a few eggs. When the quality of the eggs declines as she gets older, she takes out the frozen eggs from her youth to get pregnant. You can understand this as
"Clones are temporarily frozen organ banks cultured from our own cells. One day in the future, when we get sick, we can take organs, bone marrow and other needed parts from the clones."
Arguments erupted all around again.
At this moment, His Majesty suddenly said slowly: "I agree with this plan."
Everyone in the conference room turned to look at him, and the young His Majesty lowered his voice and said: "If this plan had been implemented earlier, my eldest prince would not have died. He was poisoned at the time and suffered from acute liver and kidney failure. There was no way he could find a cure.
The organs transplanted to him, if a clone provided him with the organs, he would be able to walk now and call me father."
Everyone: "..."
Seeing the sad expression on His Majesty's face, the conference room was silent.
His Majesty glanced across the audience and said: "Start voting now."
People in the conference room looked at each other. Some raised their hands in agreement, while others remained silent. In the end, more than half of the people agreed, and the plan was officially launched. The video ended here.
Tang Ci opened the second video.
In the same conference room, what is recorded here is the meeting during the second plan. The three professors Palmer, Qin Rong, and Zhu Xingchen who led this plan did not say "add Zerg genes", they only said: "We improve
We have prepared the culture medium, and this time, we ensure that the clones can survive."
Zhang Shaohua added: "Moreover, after we succeed in cultivating this time, we will destroy all the redundant experimental products, leaving only one or two as data backup, and keep them in a secret laboratory until your children need it in the future.
, and then remove the corresponding organs and tissues from the laboratory specimens."
She also said: "If this research is successfully implemented, it will be a leap forward in human medical technology. In the future, all children born can automatically obtain a replica as a lifelong health guarantee."
In the video, Shao Qingge's father had a struggling expression on his face. He must have been conflicted at the time, but in the end, when everyone around him raised their hands, he tremblingly raised his hand in agreement.
Everyone signed the plan one after another.
From the data chip found by the mermaid tribe, the video only contains the records of these two meetings, but it is enough to explain the problem.
The Noah's Ark Project was originally a "human data backup" project led by His Majesty and jointly proposed by Palmer, Qin Rong, and Zhu Xingchen, experts in genetics, reproductive medicine, and genetics from the Imperial Academy of Sciences.
Zhang Shaohua is Professor Palmer's personal disciple and is responsible for data collection and experimental arrangements.
Their initial starting point actually makes sense. They just want to use the replicas as organ backup and keep them in the laboratory. They will not let the replicators have human consciousness, and the excess replicas will be destroyed. What they want to make
Replicants are actually more like "frozen organ banks" than humans.
Judging from Zhang Shaohua's performance during the two meetings, she was unaware of many things.
Xiao Lou speculated: "Zhang Shaohua was very young at the time and blindly worshiped her mentor. She believed that the mentor's decision was right. She must not have known that His Majesty's method of 'destroying' clones would be so cruel, directly releasing 100 clones.
Survival of the fittest together?”
Yu Hanjiang said: "Palmer and others probably didn't expect His Majesty to be so crazy. So, after knowing all this, they realized the crisis, chose to escape, and took away a clone of the prince and a large number of replica specimens in the laboratory.
."
Xiao Lou said helplessly: "The plan has deviated from the original intention and completely lost control. His Majesty violated the original agreement of not allowing clones to join human society, and personally raised Xiao Lou No. 2 and No. 3. He wanted to raise the best clone.
Excellent prince."
The two videos recorded on the chip, as well as a large number of cloned genetic data, case data, as well as experimental plans handwritten by Professor Palmer, Professor Qin Rong, and Professor Zhu Xingchen, Zhang Shaohua's observation records in the laboratory...
There are even photos of the clones they took with them when they fled the capital city.
The photos are all marked with numbers, such as Xiaolou No. 4, Shao Qingge No. 1, Ye Qi No. 7, etc.
This information found from the mermaid tribe is really irrefutable evidence.
Yu Hanjiang said: "The physical evidence is now complete. If this evidence is put on the empire's network, it will definitely arouse public outrage. Then we will find a way to remove this crazy emperor. The key now is to find a few
Witness testimony that is enough to convince the public, after all, with today's high-tech means, the video can be completely faked."
Xiao Lou thoughtfully said: "If it's a witness, I can personally testify. My sister Xiao Rou might also be able to help. The other one... Zhang Shaohua?"
Yu Hanjiang nodded: "We have to return to the capital planet to find her as soon as possible. If she is also silenced, it will be unclear."