Card Room - 309. No. 453-454

【Chapter 453, Return to the Palace】

“What should I do with these three hunters?” Xiao Lou turned around to consult Yu Hanjiang’s opinion.

Yu Hanjiang stepped forward, looked at the reduced version of Xiaolou in the bottle, and asked in a low voice: “How did the hunter come to this world? Where did you find our experience in other secret rooms?”

Then Xiao Lou said coldly: “We naturally have a source, otherwise how can we kill you?”

Yu Hanjiang asked: “What good is it for you to kill the challenger? Can you live in the card world for a few more years?”

The other party fell silent suddenly, his pale face showed no expression, as if it had become a statue.

Yu Hanjiang frowned and slowed down his tone: “If you tell us about the hunter organization, since you and Xiao Lou look exactly the same, I can consider not killing you.”

“Heh…” Xiao Lou suddenly curled his mouth, as if he had heard a big joke. He let out a weird laugh in the bottle. After laughing for a while, he said faintly: “I will live if the mission fails anyway. No, please have a good time.” He closed his eyes after he said, putting on an indifferent expression of “death 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 a fire.

These hunters are simply stubborn.

Everyone has passed through the barrier and has encountered many hunters. What they have in common is that they would rather die than reveal any secrets about the organization after the mission failed, as if the collective was brainwashed.

Their loyalty to the organization even exceeds the most instinctive desire for survival of human beings? Why?

People who are not determined enough are likely to betray their friends and relatives when they die. The hunter organization is not all tough guys who are determined and regard death as their home, but every time they put a knife on their neck, they can’t even inquire. To any news about the organization, this is too strange.

Xiao Lou whispered: “Everyone is not afraid of death. I don’t believe that everyone in the hunter organization regards death as home. I guess if they leak the secrets of the hunter organization, they might be more sad than death, so they would rather Choose to die without saying a word.”

Yu Hanjiang thought for a while, and agreed: “It makes sense. The leaker is likely to live worse than to die? When the mission failed, many hunters simply took poison and killed themselves.”

Xiao Loudao: “This organization has its own rules, such as the’reward system for heads’, and the way to shuttle between different rooms and replace some special plot characters. I now doubt that the hunter organization… will it be a gatekeeper? An organization created by the creators and confronting our challengers?”

Hearing this, Ye Qi suddenly patted his forehead and walked to Xiao Lou and said excitedly: “Professor Xiao is very likely to be suspicious! Without the participation of gatekeepers, how can these hunters enter the secret room? How about becoming a key plot character? It’s a coincidence that Mr. Shao’s foster mother in the tenth pass, or a copy of this pass, suddenly appeared, isn’t it?”

Shao Qingge said: “If this is the case, maybe the hunters have to shuttle in different worlds to do tasks?”

Lu Jiuchuan said with a stern face: “During my undercover hunter organization, I did often receive mission instructions from my superiors. There was only one mission goal-to kill foreigners. However, because I am not a real hunter, every time Zhou Chang always asked Huaying to help cover. They didn’t know that my mission failed, and they didn’t punish me. I don’t know what punishment the hunter who really failed the mission will receive.”

Tang Ci said: “In other words, it is very possible that from the moment we entered the card world, there will be a force always opposed to us. Our goal is to clear the secret room, and their goal is to kill us?”

Hearing Tang Ci’s words, the teammates looked at each other.

At first, everyone thought that this force was spontaneously organized by the “indigenous people”, like an “evil-religion” aimed at outsiders, but now it seems that the hunters can not only find out all their cards, but even know them. Experience in the secret room in the past? How can the aborigines have such a great ability? !

After all, the aborigines are confined to one world. For example, the princes and princesses of the ancient world of Hearts 8 cannot appear in the entertainment world of Hearts 9, so they cannot know what happened in the entertainment world.

At that time, Yu Hanjiang tried to fake Liu Qiao, and she was able to answer all the information on the eighth, ninth, and tenth levels.

Thinking of this, everyone just shuddered.

It’s like having a pair of eyes watching them all the time.

In the card world, there are only four people who know everything that happens in each secret room-the ace of hearts, the square ace, the ace of spades, the ace of clubs, and the four gatekeepers!

Gatekeepers can freely control the time flow of each card world. They are the real power holders of the card world. There are big kings and little kings behind them. Perhaps as Xiao Lou speculated, the hunter organization itself was a camp they created themselves. From the very beginning, they selected a group of people to stand on the opposite side of the challenger?

Ye Qi made an analogy: “Just like when playing online games, the official two camps are set up. For example, World of Warcraft has players from the Alliance and the Horde camps. When they meet in the wild, they are red names and can attack each other. The same works in the card world. Hunter vs. Challenger, are 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 played with applause is not good, but since the faction is officially set, the mission will not be deceiving. The way they want to leave here is still to clear the secret room. It’s just more difficult.

*

At this time, Liu Qiao had already spent ten minutes telling His Majesty the causes and consequences of the copying incident.

His Majesty of the Mermaid tribe was full of horror, and he couldn’t believe that the killed Elder Karen was secretly studying clones, and what version 2.0 had been produced.

In order to convince him, Liu Qiao took him through the maze, and found a large number of petri dishes like glass coffins in the laboratory at the fish tail, which were indeed immersed in many identical “human specimens.”

His Majesty saw so many specimens, his face suddenly became as dark as the bottom of a pot.

Liu Qiao suggested: “Father, the duplication plan is too crazy, and we must stop it as soon as possible. Otherwise, if there will be a large number of identical clansmen in the future, the order of our merman tribe will be completely chaotic.” She paused and added. One sentence: “Moreover, after the gene is copied, our blood is no longer pure.”

The last sentence is the key. The merman tribe attaches great importance to blood lineage. If the future merman tribe is also mixed with human and zerg genes, this is absolutely unbearable to your majesty.

Your Majesty made a decisive decision: “Destroy all the specimens in these laboratories!”

Liu Qiao nodded: “Father, don’t worry, my brother and I will handle the aftermath of this matter.”

The specimens should have genes from the Zerg, human, and mermaid tribes. They have not awakened after being immersed in the nutrient solution. The mermaid palace is in the depths of the ocean and can’t be set on fire. Liu Qiao carefully told Xiao Lou about this matter: “Father King” Agree to destroy all replica experiment products, let Mr. Xiaoye and Mr. Shao help, and take away the petri dishes in the laboratory.”

The [Teleport] card 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, using teleport cards to move hundreds of petri dishes back to Taohuayuan in batches.

Looking at the hundreds of “glass coffins” placed under the peach blossom tree, the teammates looked solemn.

Yu Hanjiang and Lu Jiuchuan glanced at each other, and the two brothers walked up tacitly, took out the replicas from the glassware one by one, and piled them together. Without hesitation, Yu Hanjiang poured a few bottles of alcohol on it and burned them in a fire.

This picture made the teammates feel a little psychologically uncomfortable.

Especially when I saw the burned copy look exactly like myself…

Ye Qiqiang resisted the urge to vomit, his face turned pale. Shao Qingge put his arm around his shoulder with one hand, and put the other hand in front of his eyes, and whispered: “Don’t think too much. These clones are not conscious. Just take it. They are just like us. Inflatable doll made.”

Ye Qi was stunned for a moment: “Inflatable doll… President Shao, you know so much.”

Shao Qingge chuckled and rubbed his hair: “Of course, how else can you be your father? I will teach you slowly later.”

Ye Qi was choked and speechless.

The original discomfort of the teammates was instantly relieved when they heard Shao Qingge’s words. If you treat these experimental objects as unconscious dolls and burn them to death, you will feel much better psychologically.

Lu Jiuchuan joked, “Today’s Taohuayuan is a crematorium. Wouldn’t Tao Yuanming have any opinions?”

Xiao Lou helplessly said: “You can’t ignite in the sea, you can only pull it back into the Peach Blossom Spring and burn it. Fortunately, the Peach Blossom Spring will automatically disappear after 3 hours. It will open again tomorrow in a new space, and there should be no traces and flavors.”

At this time, the peach blossom tree was covered with black and gray, and the air was filled with a strange burning smell, which was really uncomfortable.

Xiao Lou glanced at the Peach Blossom Spring which was temporarily used as a crematorium, sighed lightly, and said to his teammates: “Let’s go, go to your Majesty. After all, my tail is Lao Mo Ran’s, and it will be bad if it fades.”

Everyone imagined Xiaolou swimming in the sea, swimming, and the silver tail suddenly faded. It is estimated that the mermaid tribe will be shocked-the prince’s tail is actually dyed? It all works!

*

In the palace, Liu Qiao and Xiao Lou are connected with each other, and they have been with His Majesty to comfort this exciting old man.

His Majesty patted her on the shoulder, and said earnestly: “Although your brother is the illegitimate son of your father, you are brothers and sisters after all. My father hopes that you can get along with each other in peace and don’t kill each other…”

The copy of the picture of Xiao Lou and Liu Qiao tit-for-tat just now, the old king still has lingering fears. I’m really afraid that one day these brothers and sisters will kill each other in order to fight for the throne. The last thing a father wants to see is this scene.

“Father, rest assured, I have always respected my elder brother. It’s just that,” Liu Qiao raised his head to look at his father in front of him, his eyes calm, and said slowly, “Mermaid tribe, it is better for me to inherit.”

“What?” His Majesty stared at Liu Qiao incredulously, “Don’t you…you have always had ambitions?”

“Father, my brother didn’t want to be the leader of the mermaid clan. He had already communicated with me privately and wanted me to succeed. I respect his decision, and I am willing to bear this burden for him. If you don’t believe me, you can personally Ask him.” Liu Qiao lied and didn’t write drafts. His acting skills were already perfect. Of course, this was also what Xiao Lou told her through his heart and soul.

Xiao Lou’s tail is dyed, so naturally he can’t stay in the mermaid clan to be the king. What’s more, Xiao Lou’s true identity is still the prince of the Loco Empire, and he has to go back to solve their own country’s problems as soon as possible.

“This…I have to discuss with your brother.” His Majesty looked worried.

At this moment, Xiao Lou just finished processing the clones and returned to the palace. He walked to his majesty, bowed, and said respectfully: “Father, the experimental products have been processed.”

“Your sister said, you don’t want to inherit the throne, is this true?” His Majesty asked suspiciously.

“Yes, Father King.” Xiao Lou’s expression was extremely serious, “Although I am your child, my mother has not been found. Many of the people think that my origin is unknown, and I am afraid that I will not be convinced if I succeed to the throne. On the contrary. Liu Qiao is the only daughter of you and the queen. Her blood is the purest.” When he said this, he turned his head and looked at Liu Qiao gently, “Besides, my younger sister was smart and smart since she was a child, and she must be the most pure one to inherit the king. A good candidate.”

“…” His Majesty was entangled, as if hesitating to pass the seat to.

“Why don’t you make a decision after discussing with the elders?” Xiao Lou suggested.

“Okay, let me ask some elders to have a meeting.” His Majesty turned and left.

There are 7 elders of the Mermaid tribe. Karen has been killed. The remaining 6 elders, Gui Yuanzhang can handle the votes of 3 of them. In other words, there are at least 4 votes on Liu Qiao’s side. .

That night, His Majesty convened an emergency meeting with the elders. More than half of the elders believed that Xiaolou’s origin is unknown, and it would be easier to convince the public if it was the mermaid princess who was born to him and the queen to inherit the throne.

The next morning, His Majesty announced the result in front of all the people.

Liu Qiao walked through the palace in a formal dress, took the crown from his father, and officially became the heir of the mermaid tribe. Xiao Lou smiled slightly while standing beside him, his expression quite relieved.

Liu Qiao is his student in reality. After so long in the card world, the girl’s care, reason, and courage have risen to a higher level and become more and more outstanding.

This time the mermaid tribe’s branch mission can be successfully completed. Although Xiao Lou is the commander-in-chief, Liu Qiao’s vigilance and self-rescue practices must definitely give a thumbs up. In case she is really stunned, and the teammates are bound to do everything, it must not be so easy to solve the hunter team.

After the succession ceremony, Xiao Lou said goodbye to Liu Qiao and the old king.

He explained to His Majesty: “Father, when I was young, I was taken back to the palace by Elder Karen. I left my mother. I want to find her. Next, I have to leave the palace for a while. You must take care of it. Own.”

Your Majesty sighed slightly: “Go, since this is your obsession, my father has no reason to stop you.”

Xiao Lou and Liu Qiao looked at each other, and Liu Qiao said with a heart and soul: “Professor Xiao, our mermaid tribe can’t help too much with the Luo Ke Empire. You must be careful.”

It is fine for the mermaid to stay on land for one or two days. Long-term operations on land will be very uncomfortable. Moreover, now Liu Qiao’s heir is not easy to leave the Mermaid Palace without authorization.

Xiao Lou nodded to her: “Don’t worry, you three will stay in the Mermaid Palace and wait for our good news.”

Gui Yuanzhang, Lao Mo and Liu Qiao personally sent them off.

As soon as Xiaolou and his group of six were about to leave the sea, Gui Yuanzhang suddenly said, “We can’t help, but the cards are OK. Let’s take our three card packages, Professor Xiao.” As he said, he spread his palms like a trick. , Took out three card packs. Obviously, the three of them had already negotiated to give the card packs to Xiao Lou.

Xiao Lou looked at Senior Gui with a little surprise.

Delivering such an important thing as the card package to his teammates shows that he has achieved absolute trust in Xiao Lou.

Xiao Lou said: “You don’t keep self-defense?”

Gui Yuanzhang said: “The problem of the mermaid tribe has been resolved. The three of us also checked carefully last night. We did not find any fish that slipped through the net among the tribe. The clones have all been destroyed, and now Liu Qiao is the noble heir. Can hurt us.”

But Xiao Lou was always worried, he thought for a while, and said, “Leave the invisibility cloak and the dyed card, just in case.”

Dyeing cards can dye their tails in the Mermaid tribe, but it is useless to return to the Loco Empire. The cloak of invisibility can escape at critical moments. Gui Yuanzhang nodded, and took the card handed back by Xiao Lou: “Take care.”

Xiao Lou looked at them: “The three of you also take care. Goodbye after leaving the secret room.”

The six of them didn’t say much, they swam quickly back to the sea level, and turned their tails away to become a normal person.

Shao Qingge drove the newly bought suspension vehicle and took his teammates out of the fishing village. At the intersection of the sky lanes, Shao Qingge stopped and asked, “Where to go next?”

Xiao Lou said decisively: “Go back to the Luo Ke Empire.”

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[Chapter 454, Video Information]

Only Shao Qingge and Ye Qi can pass the security check of space stations in various countries, and Xiao Lou can only use Taohuayuan transmission method again.

On a new day, the card skills were refreshed and cool. Shao Qingge and Ye Qi bought tickets for the spaceship back to the Empire. After passing the space station, the two did not board the passenger spaceship, but directly boarded Chu Huaying to meet everyone. The dark night starship, and then opened the Taohuayuan teleportation in the cabin.

When a group of people appeared on the dark night starship, Chu Huaying saw that everyone looked tired, and poured glasses of water for everyone one by one. He walked over and asked, “Is it going well with the mermaid?” Regarding the mermaid, Lu Jiuchuan had it before. When pretending to be Chu Huaying, she communicated with her, so she also knew the general situation.

Lu Jiuchuan smiled and said, “It went smoothly. All the hunters and clones were resolved, and Xiao Liu became the only successor. Moreover, we also found the Noah’s Ark project from Elder Karen’s laboratory. Details.”

Tang Ci said: “This information, together with the cases left by Ye Qi’s father, will give you a clear idea of what happened that year.”

He turned on the light brain and called up a video.

The video was taken on July 15, 2975, the day when the Noah’s Ark Project was first launched.

I saw a few experts, ministers, military officials, Shao Qingge’s father, and His Majesty who was very young at the time sitting in a spacious conference room. His Majesty projected a plan on the LCD screen and said: “As for the Noah’s Ark Project proposed by the three professors Qin Rong, Zhu Xingchen, and Palmer, you can express your opinion.”

The three people named by your Majesty were the three escapees whose skeletons were found on the shipwreck under the sea.

There was a fierce debate in the conference room. Someone said: “Is it too crazy to copy human beings?”

“I don’t agree with such a plan. It doesn’t make sense in terms of ethics. Once human gene replication research is carried out, the butterfly effect caused by it is likely to be out of human control!”

“Professor Palmer, why do you propose such an incredible plan?” Ye Qi’s father Ye Bowen asked.

Palmer smiled and explained: “Isn’t it normal to use a chip to back up important data in the brain? General Ye, I remember your father died of heart failure. Don’t you deny that if the organ is transplanted to him, he can live for many years?”

Ye Bowen was stunned: “This…”

Palmer glanced across the audience and said: “What if your beloved wife and child have a difficult disease in the future? There is a copy of organs, tissues, skin, and blood that can be accessed at any time. What will happen then? I’m not afraid of illness anymore.”

General Lin Zecheng frowned and said, “Birth, old age, sickness and death are things that human beings have experienced for thousands of years. According to you, making a copy of a person to make a data backup of our own body, so we can live forever?”

Palmer shook his head: “There is no such miraculous immortality. It’s just that one more health guarantee is like buying yourself a health insurance. Are you not afraid of death, nor are you afraid of the death of your loved one from disease?”

The meeting room suddenly fell silent.

The young Zhang Shaohua calmly said: “The teacher is right. The animal cloning technology has long been mature. Human cloning has not been approved by the Ethics Society. The key is that ethicists believe that once human cloning enters society, it will pollute humans. Gene pool, and when they have self-awareness, they are likely to conflict with the ontology.”

Lin Zecheng looked at his wife unexpectedly, as if she couldn’t believe that she would actually support it.

Angela Chang’s expression was extremely calm. She stood up, walked to the LCD screen and gently swiped the page, opened the detailed schedule, and said, “However, the copy plan proposed by Professor Palmer this time will not make the copy successful. The experimental products of the people are added to the human society, but they are kept in a petri dish for life. They have no consciousness, no human behavior, and are only used as a data backup and stored in the hospital.”

Angela Chang paused and looked at her husband: “It’s like a 20-year-old young woman goes to the hospital to freeze a few eggs. When the egg quality declines when she gets older, she will take out the frozen eggs from her young age to get pregnant. You can understand it as The clone is a temporarily frozen organ bank cultivated from our own cells. One day we will get sick and we can take the organs, bone marrow and other necessary parts from the clone.”

There was a controversy around again.

At this moment, His Majesty suddenly said slowly: “I agree with this plan.”

Everyone in the conference room turned their heads to look at him, and the young majesty said in a low voice: “If this plan is implemented earlier, my eldest prince will not die. He was poisoned and had acute liver and kidney failure. For the organ transplanted to him, if a replicator provides him with an organ, he can now walk and call my father and king.”

Everyone: “…”

Seeing the sad expression on His Majesty’s face, the meeting room was silent.

His Majesty glanced across the audience and said: “Now we will start voting.”

The people in the conference room looked at each other, some raised their hands to agree, and some were silent. In the end, more than half of those who agreed, the plan officially started, and the video ended here.

Tang Ci opened the second video.

In the same meeting room, 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 the Zerg gene”, only said: “We improve With the culture medium, this time, it is guaranteed that the clones can survive.”

Zhang Shaohua added: “Furthermore, after we successfully cultivated this time, we will destroy all the extra experimental products, leaving only one or two as data backups and kept in secret laboratories. Wait for your children when they need it in the future. , And then remove the corresponding organs and tissues from the laboratory label itself.”

She also said: “If this research is successfully implemented, it will be a leap in human medical technology, and all children born in the future can automatically get a copy as their lifelong health protection.”

In the video, Shao Qingge’s father had a struggling expression on his face. He must have been contradictory at the time, but in the end, when everyone around him raised their hands, he also tremblingly raised his hands to agree.

Everyone signed the plan in turn.

*

Among the data chips found by the mermaid, the video is only the records of these two meetings, but it is enough to explain the problem.

The Noah’s Ark Project was originally led by His Majesty and was jointly proposed by the Imperial Academy of Sciences’ genetics, reproductive medicine, and genetics experts Palmer, Qin Rong, and Zhu Xingchen.

Zhang Shaohua is a direct disciple of Professor Palmer, responsible for data collection and experimental arrangements.

Their starting point at the beginning can actually make sense. They just want to keep the replicas as organ backups and keep them in the laboratory, so that the replicators will not have human consciousness, and the excess replicas will also be destroyed. The clones they want to make are actually more like “frozen organ banks” than humans.

In the two meetings, from the performance of Angela Chang, she was unaware of many things.

Xiao Lou speculated: “Zhang Shaohua was very young at the time, and she blindly worshiped her mentor, thinking that the mentor’s decision was right. She definitely didn’t know that the way her Majesty’destroyed’ the clones would be so cruel, so she directly released 100 clones. Survival of the fittest together?”

Yu Hanjiang said: “Palmer and others probably didn’t expect your Majesty to be so crazy. Therefore, after knowing all this, they realized the crisis and chose to escape, and took away a copy of the prince and a large number of copies in the laboratory. .”

Xiao Lou reluctantly said: “The plan has deviated from the original intention and completely out of control. His Majesty violated the original agreement of’not allowing clones to join the human society’ and personally cultivated Xiaolou No. 2 and No. 3 into adults. He wanted to raise the most. Excellent prince.”

The two videos recorded by the chip, as well as the genetic data and case data of a large number of replicators, as well as the experimental protocol handwritten by Professor Palmer, Professor Qin Rong, and Professor Zhu Xingchen, and the observation record of Zhang Shaohua in the laboratory…

There are even pictures of the clones they took when they escaped from the capital star.

The photos are marked with numbers, such as Xiaolou No. 4, Shao Qingge No. 1, Yeqi No. 7 and so on.

The information found from the mermaid tribe is really ironclad.

Yu Hanjiang said: “Now the material evidence is very complete. If this evidence is put on the empire’s network, it will definitely arouse public anger. Then we will find a way to get this crazy emperor to step down. The key now is to find a few A personal testimony sufficient to convince the public, after all, with today’s high-tech methods, videos can be faked.”

Xiao Lou thoughtfully: “If there is a witness, I can testify in person. My sister Xiao Rou might also be able to help. Another… Zhang Shaohua?”

Yu Hanjiang nodded: “We have to return to Capital Star as soon as possible to find her. If she is also killed, then it is not clear.”

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This copy enters the final stage, it’s almost over~!