Arknights is too real, right?

Hair or anything else doesn't matter, as long as the person is fine.

Getting up from the ground in disgrace, Xia Feng immediately looked in the direction where the pillar of fire had just come from, wanting to see what kind of super weapon this damn thing was.

However, the expected mechanical flamethrower did not appear.

In the position where the Originium Beast was running, a thin figure was walking towards this side step by step. For some reason, all the passing Originium Beasts did not attack this "person."

Xia Feng narrowed his eyes and stared carefully at the thin humanoid walking towards him in the distance.

"That's...a little girl?"

At this time, Shuangxing's voice came from the communicator again. His voice was calm, but filled with joy.

"Xia Feng, Xia Feng, I found Hemo. Everyone is safe."

"Very good!"

This news made everyone feel happy. It seemed that such a long period of hard work was not wasted.

Soon, Hemo's voice came from the communicator. Unlike Frost Star, Hemo's voice was filled with anxiety.

"Xia Feng, Xia Feng, are you there? Can you hear me?"

Hearing Hemo's long-lost familiar voice, Xia Feng still felt warm in his heart even though he was still in a dangerous battle.

"Hemo, I'm here. I'm outside the base now. We will meet soon and let Froststar find a way to bring you out."

"Don't worry about me yet. Is Ifrit with you?"

"Ah, there she is."

Helmer suddenly raised his voice and scolded loudly.

"Didn't I tell you not to come back again? Why did you bring her back again? Xia Feng, what are you doing? Do you want all my efforts to be in vain?"

"I"

Xia Feng was speechless for a moment.

Although Ifrit came on her own initiative, he was After all, Ifrit's formal "guardian", and Helmer handed Ifrit over to him out of trust.

Looking at it now, he did break his original promise.

"Hemo, if you want to scold me, you can wait until you get back. Anyway, you come out to join us first, and then we will find a way to evacuate together."

"This is a trap!"

"I know it's a trap, but I've become stronger now and want to retreat. These Origin Stone beasts can't stop us yet."

"It's not just Source Stone Beast, it's part of the SP plan!"

"What?"

Homer's voice was anxious.

"Rhine Life cloned your genes, created a replica of the Ancient Stone, and lured you here just to verify the results of the experiment!"

Hemo's words came out word by word from the communicator, echoing in Xia Feng's ears.

He was stunned, unable to understand the huge amount of information in this sentence for a while.

Gene cloning? Imitation?

? ? ?

Suddenly, Xia Feng seemed to remember something, and he quickly cast his gaze in the direction of the figure that was slowly walking towards him from a distance.

At this time, this "person" has reached a position less than 30 meters away from him. From this distance, the outline can be clearly seen.

This is a little girl who is about 14-16 years old. Her limbs are so thin that she seems to be malnourished, and she has crystallized horns on her head.

After seeing the little girl's appearance clearly, Xia Feng finally understood what Hemo was just talking about.

This little girl's facial features are almost 90% similar to Ifrit's.

Recalling the pillar of fire that passed through the battlefield just now, Xia Feng understood that this was the trump card of Rhine Life.

A replica of [Balrog] created through genetic cloning.

Then, Hemo's voice continued to come from the communicator, and the little girl's appearance gradually overlapped with Hemo's words.

Rhine Life's SP experiment is not over, and the Balrog Plan is only part of the SP experiment.

In other words, the ultimate goal of the SP experiment is not simply to fuse the Fire Demon Stone with the experimental subject, but to create a war tool that meets standards.

Even if the Balrog Project failed, Rheinland Life did not stop the SP experiment. In scientific research work, there is no complete failure, and all relevant data of the failure will become the basis for the next experiment.

In this way, half a year after the defection of No. 019 and No. 020, Rhine Life started another dark experiment.

The name of this experiment is called.

【Black Flame Plan】

Following 019 and 020, SP-021 and SP-022 came into being.

Using special biotechnology, Rhine Life created embryos that could develop rapidly and almost perfectly replicated the genome sequences of 019 and 020.

In just 3 months, the embryo can develop into the physical characteristics of an ordinary person who is about 15 years old.

After selecting experimental subjects whose organs and cell structures match, the first awakening of consciousness is activated.

Subsequently, the language ability and thinking mode were written into the brain like a program, and the perfect replica was successfully born.

Of course, a replica will always be a replica, which has its own fatal flaws.

The copy of No. 019 has been extremely compressed due to its growth cycle. The cell structure is completely built to adapt to the Fire Demon Stone, and the organs in the body are not capable of growth and durability.

Her lifespan is up to 2 years after she first awakens to consciousness.

The copy of No. 020 is even more special.

After the first use of emotional manipulation and Source Stone material simulation to trigger energy fission, No. 020 entered a 30-day period of irreversible self-destruction.

Rheinland Life has no intention of keeping these two clones alive for a long time. Their birth is just to verify the feasibility.

Based on the information that Rhine Life currently has, regardless of the form of power, they know that the four ancient stones all have a common inheritance characteristic.

As long as the successor dies, the ancient stone fused with the body will also disappear, and a few years later, it will quietly form in a random corner of the world.

In other words, the so-called inheritance is uncontrollable.

Rheinland Life's experiment is to make the uncontrollable controllable through a kind of speculative biotechnology.

Using genetic duplication, they created individuals with nearly identical cellular structures to their successors.

In this case, if the current successor comes into contact with it at the moment of death, the ancient stone may be misleadingly introduced into the same individual.

Just like a candle that is about to burn out, at the last moment when it is about to go out, another candle wick that comes into contact with it will continue the fire without having to strike the match again.

Of course, the mystery of the Ancient Stone is beyond common sense. This theory has no scientific basis, so it is just a conjecture that needs to be verified.

At this moment, Rhine Life set up a trap to lure the defecting experimental subjects back, just to test this theory.

If the clones could not inherit, the theory would have failed, and for them, it would just be the end of an experiment.

But if the inheritance is successful, Rheinland Life will completely open the door to a new world.

Even if the life span of each clone is very short, as long as this inheritance method can be realized, they are equivalent to having unlimited refills of coffee.

Experimental subjects are just tools. As long as their power can be controlled and inherited, they gain unlimited research time and options.

After that, just find a way to make the clone live longer, and even copy it together with the ancient stone, and even mass-produce it.

The high temperature on the battlefield has not dissipated, and the air is somewhat distorted by the heat wave.

Xia Feng stared blankly at the little girl not far away who looked very similar to Ifrit. The voice in the Hemo communicator was gradually ignored by him.

He couldn't understand the complex biological experiments, but he already roughly understood the purpose of Rhine's life.

In his values, this is undoubtedly a dark experiment that destroys human nature and breaks the principles of human ethics and morality.

And he himself was a part of the experiment from beginning to end.

The little girl not far away is only wearing a white dress. She has no name. In the archives of Rheinland Life, she is only called No. 021.

There were large amounts of Origin Stone crystals scattered on her exposed limbs. She stood still, holding an Origin Stone in her hand.

"Pass!"

Red flames rose in the other palm.

No. 021 quietly looked at the weak Ifrit who fell beside Xia Feng.

Perhaps because of her unfamiliar language system, her tone was a little strange, but she could still tell what the distorted voice was saying.

"Sister, you are finally here."