Chapter 61: The Clone of Transmigrator

  After listening to what I said, he silently pulled me into the car and drove to a dilapidated three-story building.

  I was thinking about Liu Ke and Chen Yan's 'Lu' matter, as well as that scaly person. I didn't notice how Shen Zhong drove the car.

  The small building is very old, under the sunlight, the yellowish white ceramic tiles emit a musty smell, several faded big characters, rusty steel frames stand on top of the small building.

  "Research Institute." Three simple words, yet they exude a sense of isolation from the world.

  This is my direct feeling, after getting off the bus and walking closer, that kind of feeling was most obvious.

  There is a courtyard in front of the small building, which is empty and has nothing inside. The courtyard wall is an iron fence, and the gate is also an old-fashioned iron gate that has rusted.

  The iron gate is connected by two white stone pillars with two large white lampshades on top.

  Even under the gaze of others, a pale and cold aura seeps out, warning outsiders to keep their distance.

  Heavily, I narrowed my eyes and pushed open the courtyard gate, cold sweat dripping down from my forehead.

  It's not because the gate wasn't locked, but because there were no other buildings around this one, which is simply impossible in our city.

  The heavy invitation urged me to hurry up, I moved my feet, and as soon as I stepped into the iron gate, I felt that my body and consciousness were separated, a daze.

  The door of the small building was an old-fashioned anti-theft door, with black rust spots revealing its years of neglect. He frowned heavily and pressed the doorbell.

  I found that the "door" has eight cat eyes, and all four corners of the entire "door" have cat eyes, which means that people inside can see everything in front of the "door".

  Half a day passed without anyone coming to open the 'door', I was getting impatient, just about to ask Shen Zhong if there was no one inside when Shen Zhong suddenly made a silencing gesture.

  I heard a faint sound of footsteps.

  Ouch.

  The door opened.

  An old man with a head of 'flower' white hair, but still spirited and vigorous, looked at us two in surprise, then stared at Shen heavily furrowed his brow and said: "How did you come here, and bring an outsider?"

  His heavy expression suddenly turned strange, and then his voice was a little cold as he said: "I bumped into him."

  The old man's face changed greatly, and he immediately pulled us two into the house, then closed the door with force.

  My mind was a complete blank, and before I could even understand what had happened, the old man suddenly pressed me down onto the sofa.

  "Where? Who? Is there a gene?" The old man asked three questions in a row.

  He furrowed his brow heavily and said, "He killed my wife. The hospital still has the records. I don't know if there's any blood left, but it should be from the original body."

  I was somewhat dazed and didn't understand the conversation between the two people.

  He looked at me heavily and said: "I didn't see another one, it was all her who saw it."

  The old man's gaze suddenly focused on me, just like a vulture spotting rotting flesh. I actually saw a hint of excitement in his eyes.

  "Little girl, just call me Pei Lao, come on."

  I stared blankly at this old man called Pei Lao, whose face had long since lost the stern expression he had when he opened the door, replaced by an extreme excitement.

  His heavy face sank down, collapsed on the sofa, staring at the ceiling and saying nothing.

  Does he remember Bai Mei?

  My nose suddenly felt a little sour, I thought of Chen Yan's 'Lu', he sacrificed too much to save me.

  His name is still on the wanted list. There are more than a dozen police lives accounted for on his head.

  I felt a bit dizzy. A large hand was constantly waving back and forth in front of my eyes.

  "Hey, little girl?" Pei Lao's face was anxiously calling out to me nonstop.

  I shook my head violently and pulled my thoughts back.

  Then looking at Pei Lao, gritting his teeth and saying: "I'm still not quite clear what you're talking about."

  Pai Lao Meng slapped his thigh heavily and said in a hateful tone: "Look at me, I didn't even think of it. Oh right, Shen Zhong, what did you say earlier? Your wife was killed?"

  My eyelids twitched violently twice, and indeed, the heavy air of despair grew thicker. The whole person seemed to want to shrink into the sofa.

  I pulled at Lao Pei's sleeve and he looked embarrassed, then blinked twice.

  I almost couldn't help but burst out laughing, this old man is a hypocrite, on the surface he looks like a serious scholar, but in reality he's an old rascal.

  Shen Zhong suddenly said in a low voice: "Pei Lao is the director of this institute for this generation, he will tell you everything, I'll go back to the car and wait for a while."

  I stared blankly at the heavy figure leaving, the 'door' creaked twice, opening and closing.

  Grandpa sat down on the sofa beside him, his eyes suddenly becoming somewhat dim and his voice hoarse.

  "Little girl, what's your name?"

  "'Lù' rice." I looked at Pei Lao somewhat unnaturally, his face changed faster than a woman flipping through a book.

  Pai Lao seemed to have fallen into ancient memories, closing his eyes and beginning to ponder, the wrinkles at the corners of his eyes revealing his age.

  He sighed and said slowly: "Thirty years ago, I took over here."

  I furrowed my brow, unsure what connection Liu Ke had with thirty years ago. He's only twenty this year, isn't he? I'm a bit fuzzy on his age now.

  But I didn't interrupt Old Pei.

  "Actually, we have two successors, one is an administrator and the other is a R&D staff. I am in charge of management, but my level is not as good as that of my partner, who was also our former director."

  But one day he suddenly went mad, hugging me and crying out that he had developed the latest achievement.

  But disaster struck from the sky. That night, the laboratory was stolen and all the data inside was taken away.

  He collapsed and said there must be a traitor here.

  Here it's just me and him, how could there be any traitor?

  I furrowed my brow, somewhat unable to understand what Old Pei was saying anymore.

  "We've searched countless times, turning the entire institute upside down, and we actually found no less than twenty needle holes." Old Pei said this with a hint of excitement.

  I know, it's about to get to the point, hold your breath.

  Old Pai waved his arm and spat: "We live under the surveillance of others every day. So, as soon as the research results come out, they are stolen by that person."

  I frowned and said, "What research results."

  Pai Lao stopped in his tracks, a look of intoxication appearing on his face, before he let out a dejected sigh and said: "Turn to the clone."

  I widened my eyes and started breathing rapidly, immediately understanding why Shen Zhong had directly brought me to this place.

  Old Pai suddenly stood up, grasped my shoulders tightly, and excitement flashed in his eyes again. He said word by word: "Thirty years have passed, I no longer hate that person for stealing the data, because we didn't know if it would be successful, but you guys really saw it."

  My shoulders ached and I gritted my teeth: "How did you know it wouldn't be twins?"

  Pai Lao shook his head, widened his eyes and looked at me saying: "Do you know why Shen Zhong came to find me?"

  I didn't understand, so Pei Lao continued: "He is the son of that companion of mine back then."

  The sentence was spoken lightly, but it was like a thunderclap that exploded loudly in my ears.

  "Have you ever seen people or animals that have undergone mutations?" Pei Lao suddenly asked.

  I broke out in a cold sweat on my back.

  Suddenly felt that this institute was filled with formalin all at once.

  Pai Lao shook his head and sighed: "The data was not backed up, and my companion was hit by a falling object from the sky the next day and became a vegetable."

  "Didn't you say Shen Zhong is his son?"

  "Listen, I'll tell you something, but you mustn't tell Shen Zhong. You have to promise me that you'll help me find the original body of that clone."

  I hesitated, and he said the person was Liu Ke... Pei Lao continued: "Shen Chong came to find me, wanting to know how to deal with him. I thought of it with my toes, you must have suffered a great loss."

  I nodded palely and said, "Many people have died."

  He looked thoughtful for a moment, then said: "So will you agree or not?"

  My reluctant nod.

  Old Pei chuckled and said: "Little girl, you know there's a technology called test tube?"

  My face changed, and Pei Lao continued to sigh: "This old thing lies in bed every day with someone serving him, wiping his ass and urinating, but he leaves me a mess. I have to find materials, take care of this institute, how can I let him be so relaxed? So...I directly gave birth to a son for him, the old man is happy underground."

  I looked at Pa Lao who was laughing loudly, and my ears were buzzing. The heavy family background was too pitiful, and this Pa Lao must have a problem with his nerves.

  I feel like escaping from here.

  Pai Lao seemed to have discovered my intention and suddenly grabbed my shoulder, saying: "Speak up, tell me everything you know, I can help you."

  I furrowed my brow, and Pei Lao suddenly let go of his hand, then sat back on the sofa. His face returned to its original stern expression.

  Biting my lip, I started from the principal's death...

  After finishing speaking, Pei Lao's eyebrows were about to wrinkle into a river character. With a somewhat heavy tone, he said: "You're saying that those creatures are all cloned?"

  I nodded, and indeed I had seen no one except for Liu Ke.

  Pai Lao's face looked very unsightly, gritting his teeth, he said word by word: "This is a conspiracy."

  I was taken aback, and he continued: "That person is too clever, also too ruthless. He used the genes of Liu Ke that you mentioned as a source to cultivate another Liu Ke."

  The original didn't know he had a clone, that person took all the data stolen from the research institute and 'handed' it over to the clone. It took so much effort to cultivate this person, from waiting for him to grow up until today, I don't even know how much heart and soul was put into it. As for his goal, I have no idea what it is anymore.

  I looked at Old Pe with some anxiety, he didn't know either, who else could know?

  "However, Pei Lao furrowed his brow and said: 'There is a purpose, I know.'"

  I'm like grasping at the last straw.

  "Transforming one's body won't kill it, and the original body will continue to live on."

  "Impossible!" I blurted out. Clones may exist, but once life is independent, how can one person die and the other not?

  "Exactly," said Pei Lao coldly with a smile. "This idea, we have just begun to study it roughly. His goal must be this."

  I remembered another Liu Ke, with a huge scar on his body.