The Secret Chamber of the Card Game

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. I also need to draw blood to check hormone items... Don't worry, the doctor is all me. I contacted the experts in advance, the nurse took the princess to draw blood just now, 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 suffered a great blow. 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 went on to ask: "Father and queen mother gave birth to you less than two years after they got married, why didn't they have another child in the next 13 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: "To my father, all of us are his descendants, whether it is a copy or the real person, anyway, we are all called Xiao Lou, we are all his sons, and our genes are similar."

Xiao Rou's eyes widened in disbelief: "How could he do this? My mother worked so hard to give birth to you for ten months of pregnancy, and he actually used your blood to make more than 100 replicas! If my mother knew, she would definitely Crazy!"

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 brutal.

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 something to Xiao Lou. I have never understood the meaning of that sentence. Now it seems that his words are implying that we, the replicant The plan is actually a Gu raising plan."

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