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【Chapter 435, Legend】

Xiao Lou still has a lot of doubts in his heart, for example, the emperor brother who died at the age of one year that His Majesty mentioned to him, and the invisible man who sneaked into the twin wombs on the day of the birthday party, does my sister know these things?

Just as he was about to ask, he heard the conversation between Professor Edwin and Prince Herman outside the door.

Herman's voice sounded anxious: "How long will the inspection take?"

Edwin said: "Princess wants to have a comprehensive physical examination. She just said that she has tightness in her chest. I arranged for a doctor from the cardiology department to examine her heart carefully, and also draw blood to check hormone items... Don't worry, the doctor is all me. I contacted the specialist in advance, just now the nurse took the princess to draw blood, and she will return to the color ultrasound room after the blood is drawn."

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 running out, so he had no choice but to make a long story short: "Sister, I still have a few questions I want to ask you."

Xiao Rou nodded: "Well, you can ask."

Xiao Loudao: "Father told me that I used to have a brother Wang who was assassinated when he was less than one year old. My father experienced the pain of bereavement. Is this true?"

Xiao Rou's face turned slightly pale: "There was indeed a prince before you, who died before he was one year old, and his mother was hit hard by it. She happened to be pregnant at the time, and she was recuperated in the hospital for more than half a year. I gave birth to you. As for whether he was assassinated or not, I don’t know, the father announced that he died of illness.”

It seems that His Majesty did not lie to him about this matter.

Xiao Lou continued to ask: "Father, the queen, and the queen gave birth to you within two years of their marriage. Why didn't they have another child in the next thirteen years? Is there something wrong with their relationship, or something wrong 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 pair of children miscarried 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 recuperating for the next few years. They did not have children in those years. The key should be the reason why the mother's body is relatively weak. Thinking about marrying again."

Xiao Lou took the time to ask: "Is the invisible man who sneaked into the double womb on my birthday sent by my sister?"

Xiao Rou was stunned: "Invisible man?"

Xiao Loudao: "Yes, you can't see the entity, it's like it's transparent."

Xiao Rou shook her head resolutely and said: "It's not me. I married into Azure Empire when I was 20 years old, and it's very difficult to leave the palace. There are no more than five people I trust here, so I can't send anyone to find you at all..." She After a pause, he seemed to have thought of something, and suddenly said: "By the way, I have heard some legends about invisible people.

"What legend?"

"The blue planet is a planet inhabited by humans, but not all humans are on this planet, and there are nearly 50% of the ocean. I heard that there is a magical creature in the ocean that humans cannot see. People call this creature transparent. people."

"Since they are transparent and cannot be seen at all, how can we prove their existence?" Xiao Lou asked doubtfully.

"It is said that fishermen by the sea occasionally hear strange singing at night, but they can't see who made the sound. After I married into the Azure Empire, many elders would scare 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 seen the so-called 'invisible man'. I only thought of this when I heard you talking about invisible people. 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 saw a trace of surprise in each other's eyes - strange singing, didn't this coincide with the mysterious figure who saved Brother Nine?

Xiao Lou asked: "The seaside that my sister mentioned, which sea area is it, is there a specific place?"

Xiao Judao: "It's all rumors like fairy tales, and no one has witnessed it with their own eyes."

Prince Hermann's footsteps sounded outside again.

They had met privately for more than 10 minutes, and if it dragged on any longer, in case Prince Herman directly broke into the examination room under suspicion, it would be difficult for two interns to give the princess a prenatal examination, which would be difficult to explain clearly.

Xiao Lou walked up to Xiao Rou, pressed her shoulder lightly, and said softly, "Sister, protect yourself and your children. I will come to see you again after I settle these matters."

Xiao Rou's eyes turned red in an instant, and she choked up and said, "I'm doing well. But you... how many of those princes who are exactly like you are still alive? What if they try to confuse the real with the fake? If necessary , my sister can testify to you that you are the real prince."

Xiao Lou smiled: "Is there a difference between real and fake?"

Xiao Rou was stunned: "What do you mean?"

Xiao Lou said calmly: "For King Father, all of us are his descendants, whether it is a copy or the real person, anyway, we are all called Xiao Lou, and we are all his sons, and our genes are similar."

Xiao Rou's eyes widened in disbelief: "How could he do this? Mother labored so hard to give birth to you for ten months of pregnancy, and he actually used your blood to make more than a hundred replicas! If mother knew, she would definitely Will be mad!"

Xiao Lou said helplessly: "Mother has passed away, no one can control him..."

Xiao Rou's face was full of disappointment: "Then what should you do?"

Xiao Lou said: "Sister, don't worry, I will live well, take care of yourself."

Xiao Rou hurriedly said: "Take care too! Although I can't help you too much, if one day you need to prove your identity, my sister will definitely testify for you without hesitation!"

Xiao Lou nodded to her and gave Yu Hanjiang a wink. Yu Hanjiang sent a signal to Brother Jiu with an earphone, and Lu Jiuchuan immediately opened Taohuayuan to transmit.

Seeing Xiao Lou and Yu Hanjiang disappear instantly, Xiao Rou's eyes were full of reluctance and worry.

At this moment, Prince Herman opened the door and came in. Looking at the empty room, he frowned and said, "The inspection took so long?"

Xiao Rou pressed her temples, pretending to be weak: "I had my heart checked just now, and the nurse took me to draw a tube of blood... Where is Professor Edwin? Let him take me for a color Doppler ultrasound."

Herman squinted his eyes and scanned the room, but found nothing suspicious, so he helped Xiao Rou and turned to leave.

**

In Peach Blossom Spring, six people from Xiao Lou gathered together.

Tang Ci stepped forward and asked: "How is it? Is there any gain from meeting the princess?"

Xiao Lou roughly told his teammates what his sister knew.

After hearing this, Lu Jiuchuan couldn't help cursing: "Fuck, what the hell is this Majesty doing? Duplicating a hundred sons? This is simply mass production!"

Xiao Lou said solemnly: "We speculated before that the reason why His Majesty duplicated the prince was because the queen was unable to have another child. In addition, the eldest prince died at the age of one and he suffered the pain of bereavement. He was worried that no one would inherit the throne after the prince's accident. Copying a few can be regarded as a bit more protection."

Lu Jiuchuan rubbed his chin: "I'm worried that no one will inherit the throne. It's almost enough to copy two or three copies. One hundred, won't it be messed up?" He looked at Tang Ci: "Xiao Tang, you won't copy so many backup data. Bar?"

Tang Ci said expressionlessly: "Even if the data engineer backs up the most core data, he will only copy two or three copies at most. No one will copy 100 U disks in idleness. Fundamentally speaking, backing up data is for safety reasons , if the original data is damaged, there are backups that can be replaced. Once the number of backups is too large, it will be counterproductive.”

Lu Jiuchuan agreed: "That's the reason. For example, I copy 2 copies of important information in my computer for safety, but once I copy 100 copies, wouldn't it be easier to lose or be stolen?"

Ye Qi scratched his head and said, "That's right, Your Majesty duplicated 100 princes. If a few of them are used by someone with a heart, wouldn't that be causing trouble for yourself? Also, what if those clones become self-aware and start fighting for the throne?" What? This is even more exaggerated than the nine dragons fighting for the throne in the Kangxi era in history. One hundred dragons fighting for the throne, or 100 identical princes vying for the throne? Movies don’t even dare to shoot like this!”

Everyone: "..."

Xiaoye's description makes people dumbfounded.

It is not as simple as 100 princes winning the throne, not to mention that these 100 princes still look the same?

Yu Hanjiang said lightly: "Your Majesty will certainly think of what we can think of. Don't forget, Xiao Lou's father has been sitting on the throne of the Luo Ke Empire for decades. It is impossible for him to foolishly create 100 princes for himself. Trouble."

Xiao Loudao: "My sister saw the 100 princes, not what we see now."

When everyone heard this, their faces changed slightly.

Shao Qingge, who had been silent all this time, narrowed his eyes and said, "You mean, most of the princes may have died?"

Xiao Loudao: "Yes. Hanjiang is right. His Majesty must have thought of all the things we can think of. Naturally, he didn't copy 100 princes to raise them all to cause trouble for himself. 100 princes competing for the throne will destroy the entire palace. Make a mess, how could he do such a thing that harms others and benefits himself? Perhaps from the very beginning, he planned all of this, he copied so many princes, just to pick the best princes to raise."

Ye Qi looked at Xiao Lou in a daze, and blurted out: "It's like planting potatoes, first plant a large piece, then pick a few that grow the best and keep them, and throw away the rest?"

Xiao Lou closed his eyes, it was hard to imagine beings exactly like himself being copied and killed one by one.

But the conjecture in his heart told him that it was true.

The replicant project is so cold-blooded and cruel.

When Xiao Lou opened his eyes, his face had regained his composure, and he said, "Survival of the fittest—mass production first, select the best to keep, and destroy all defective products. Isn't this the principle of many companies producing high-end products? "

Yu Hanjiang also thought of this: "In the palace, including Xiao Lou, there should be three replicants. The other two are probably the elites selected from the Noah's Ark project."

Lu Jiuchuan and Tang Ci glanced at each other. For some reason, they suddenly remembered the scene when they saw those Zergs merging on the Zerg planet. The low-level Zergs merged into high-level ones, and finally became the queen.

Lu Jiuchuan's face darkened: "Why does this plan sound like..."

Xiao Lou said in a low voice: "Nurture Gu."

Ye Qi gasped: "Isn't this also an inspiration from the Zerg?"

Xiao Lou nodded with a pale face: "The scene of the low-level Zerg merging into a high-level Zerg was witnessed by the military officials who went to the Zerg planet. It is very similar to raising Gu; and the legend of Gu King should also have 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 can survive to the end are extremely poisonous. Gu King."

Yu Hanjiang's voice was low: "On the day of the birthday party, the invisible man who sneaked into the twin wombs once said a word to Xiao Lou. I have never understood the meaning of that sentence. Now it seems that his

The sentence is implying to us that the replicator plan is actually a plan to raise Gu. "

"He said—the one who survives to the end is the winner."

*****

【Chapter 436, Raising Gu Project】

Xiao Lou suddenly had a splitting headache.

Something in the back of his mind seemed to be awakened suddenly, like a seed bursting out of the ground, quickly sprouting and breaking through the soil, the severe pain seemed to pull his nerves away one by one, he closed his eyes in pain, Pressing his temples hard with both hands, the shirt on his body was instantly soaked in cold sweat.

Seeing his pale face, Yu Hanjiang hurriedly hugged him, and his voice was a little hoarse from worry: "What's wrong with you?"

Xiao Lou shook his head frantically with a pale face: "There are many messy pictures in my mind..."

There was a lot of blood, a face that was exactly the same as his own, and the cries of children.

It was a place scarier than hell.

Xiao Lou's eyes were blood red, those identical people pulled each other, and the children's claws turned into the sharpest knives, stabbing the bodies of the same kind.

There was blood everywhere in the house.

He was so tired that he was out of breath, his physical strength was gradually exhausted, the wounds on his body were constantly oozing blood, and his consciousness gradually became blurred, but he knew that once he fell down, he would die immediately.

what to do? Why did the king ask him to come to this place that was more terrifying than a nightmare? Who are these people? Why does he look the same as himself, and his father asked him to find a way to survive, what should he do?

Seeing children falling down one after another around him, he suddenly came up with an idea.

Xiao Lou saw himself running to a corner, lying down and pretending to be dead, and covering himself with a child's corpse.

The pungent smell of blood made him almost unable to breathe.

He raised his head and met a pair of eyes, which were the eyes of a 5-year-old child. The unrepentant child had a face exactly like his.

Xiao Lou: "..."

When he suddenly woke up from the nightmare, Xiao Lou found the familiar glass skylight of the hotel above his head. Through the window, he could see the sky full of stars. He stared at the sky blankly until a familiar voice sounded in his ear: "Are you awake? Your head still hurts." ?"

The voice was deep and gentle, it was Yu Hanjiang.

Xiao Lou came back to his senses, frowned and wanted to get up, Yu Hanjiang immediately supported him, and put a pillow on his back to make him more comfortable.

The other teammates were not there, this was his and Yu Hanjiang's bedroom in the hotel, Xiao Lou asked doubtfully, "I fell asleep?"

Yu Hanjiang said: "To be precise, it should be a coma. You fainted from the pain, I was worried about you, and carried you to the bedroom to sleep, and 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, and it was already 3:30 in the morning, and he passed out for 10 hours. Yu Hanjiang didn't even change his pajamas, just sat on the edge of the bed and watched over him. Xiao Lou's heart warmed, and he gently held the other's hand and said, "I remembered the incident when I was five years old, maybe it was because we reasoned out that raising Gu With this key message, the gatekeeper restored my memory."

Looking at his still pale face, Yu Hanjiang asked in a low voice, "Is it really so?"

Xiao Lou nodded, his voice trembling slightly: "Out of 100 clones, only 4 survived in the end. The father put all the children together and let everyone compete for survival based on their strength. I saw so many children who are exactly like me , I was shocked at the time..."

That memory was as real as if Xiao Lou had experienced it himself.

Competing with 100 "selves" for the right to survive is even more cruel than a battle royale in a horror movie.

Yu Hanjiang hugged Xiao Lou lightly: "How did you survive? You don't have Zerg genes in your body. With hand-to-hand combat, you shouldn't be able to beat those clones, right?"

Xiao Lou smiled wryly: "I hid in a corner and pretended to be dead, and covered myself tightly with a child's corpse, so they stopped attacking me. Many duplicants have just been released from the nutrient solution, and they can't even speak Said, compared with them, my only advantage 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, the five-year-old Xiao Lou survived the "Gu Project" by relying on his IQ.

The others rely on their own physical advantages.

Although their genes are the same, but the culture medium is different, there will definitely be subtle differences after they are raised.

The replicants released from the laboratory had no human education, so their IQs were at the infant level, but the growth rate of their bodies was accelerated by the nutrient solution, and they turned into five-year-old children.

His Majesty put these children together to find the best ones to continue training, and the other defective products were directly destroyed...

It was indeed a cold-blooded and brutal plan to raise Gu.

Perhaps in the eyes of His Majesty, these children are just his private "items" raised by him, and he has the right to "select the best".

Although the group of 5-year-old children at that time had no emotions, Xiao Lou couldn't help but feel chills all over when he thought of the bloody scene of countless identical children competing for survival.

After that selection, Xiao Lou underwent deep hypnosis and forgot everything.

Yu Hanjiang didn't expect that His Majesty of the Luo Ke Empire was actually a lunatic! He said in a deep voice: "Your Majesty wants to put the replicas together to select the best ones to continue training, but why don't you even let your own ones go? What if you were killed in that selection? Perhaps Your Majesty thinks, A prince who can't even copy a baby's IQ, doesn't deserve to live?"

"Probably, after all, those 100 are indeed babies'

IQ, if I can't solve this difficulty, he will probably choose to abandon me. "Xiao Lou lightly 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 memories should be helpful to us. "

Yu Hanjiang said softly, "I'll pour you a glass of water, and your voice has become hoarse."

He got up and poured Xiao Lou a glass of warm water. Xiao Lou took a few sips to moisten his throat. Sure enough, his throat felt much better. Xiao Lou cleared his throat and continued: "First of all, the children who survived the selection, Including me, there are four in total, the princes we saw in the palace before added up to three, where did the remaining one go?"

Yu Hanjiang guessed: "Could it be hidden secretly by His Majesty?"

Xiao Loudao: "It's possible. But it's also possible that it was taken away by someone with a heart."

He paused, and then said: "In addition, human cells are still human after adding Zerg genes, and have not obtained the ability of Zerg to integrate and upgrade each other. , If you die, you are dead. However, the duplicants have obtained the healing ability of the Zerg, and the wounds on their bodies can heal after a period of time. It's very slow."

Yu Hanjiang frowned: "What about climbing and jumping?"

Xiao Lou shook his head: "No, human beings still have to walk upright. This may have something to do with the gene fragments screened when copying cells. Hybridization and fusion of species is inherently a very complicated technology, and mutations may occur."

Just the healing ability is already very powerful.

Normal human beings are injured and have to go to the hospital to be bandaged for treatment, while replicants are injured and can wait for self-healing.

Xiao Loudao: "What I'm worried about is that if the internal organs of the clones can heal themselves and the broken limbs can regenerate, it is equivalent to becoming an 'undead', never getting sick, and not needing to go to the hospital .Like Zerg, only afraid of fire?"

Yu Hanjiang said with a sullen face: "This is almost the same as the realm of ancient emperors who cultivated to become immortals."

"That's right." Xiao Lou said helplessly: "Currently the research on replicants is only limited to the first generation. No one knows whether the second generation born after replicants combine with normal humans will mutate again. I As I said before, the insertion of artificially modified genes into the human gene sequence is likely to trigger the butterfly effect and cause various genetic problems that cannot be solved."

Yu Hanjiang nodded: "We have to stop all of this."

Xiao Loudao: "What my sister saw was only my clone. And the Noah's Ark project not only took my own cells, maybe there are other clones. To stop all this, we must find all the clones. people."

Yu Hanjiang whispered: "What should we do with them after we find them? 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 replicas that already have self-awareness?

What's the difference between that and murder?

Xiao Lou took a deep breath and said, "Simply destroying is definitely not enough. There must be another way. Let's find all the replicants first. Stopping the Noah's Ark plan should be the way to pass the secret room?"

Yu Hanjiang also recognized this point: "Okay. You have one less copy, we must find 'No. 4 Xiaolou' as soon as possible. Secondly, we also have to investigate the legend about the invisible man that your sister said, and we must find it and save it." Brother Nine and Tang Ci's people, they must know something."

Xiao Lou frowned and said, "My sister said it was a sea creature. The ocean area of ​​this planet exceeds 50%. Where are the sea creatures?"

Yu Hanjiang said helplessly: "Let's look slowly. You can always find some clues by investigating along the seaside."

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