luo jia shan ju
Chapter 115 Resurrection Truth?
Strange replied, "The researchers suspect that this person was killed by some unknown type of radiation. In fact, everyone involved in this research, he, his assistant, and his subordinates, all died in this accident. It's just that his body was most severely affected by the radiation, so they dissected his remains first."
"Radiation..." Han Yu felt a strong sense of familiarity with the word. She immediately associated it with the Sena brothers who died from the meteorite's influence in England.
Han Yu became increasingly curious about Strange's research, and she asked directly, "What exactly are you researching?"
Strange gestured for Han Yu to continue forward. They walked past the dissection lab and continued down the corridor.
As they walked, Strange explained Han Yu's question, "I might as well tell you that their project is about studying Zhao Chenguang's blood. The researcher who was dissected used high-energy lasers to bombard a special substance in Zhao Chenguang's blood. After being bombarded, this substance unexpectedly activated the regenerative abilities of Zhao Chenguang's blood cells. We successfully cloned Zhao Chenguang using this method."
Hearing "clone Zhao Chenguang," Han Yu stopped in her tracks, looking at Strange with an incredulous expression. A question immediately popped into Han Yu's mind: why would Strange clone Zhao Chenguang?
Strange saw through Han Yu's thoughts, and he told Han Yu about the process of cloning Zhao Chenguang, and also told her that Zhao Chenguang retained all his memories from before he came ashore from the fishing boat.
After listening to Strange, Han Yu stood there in deep thought for a long time, contemplating Strange's description of Zhao Chenguang's memory.
After some thought, Han Yu asked Strange, "The memory is divided by the time of blood collection. The memories before the blood collection exist, while the memories after the blood collection disappear?"
Strange shook his head. "Rather than disappear, it's more accurate to say they don't exist. The researchers in the lab made a strange hypothesis: they said that Zhao Chenguang's memory might exist in some form within his blood, but the researchers couldn't determine whether his memory was stored in cells or in the special substance, because the two were so closely intertwined that they couldn't be physically separated."
Han Yu and Strange walked to a security gate. Strange went through a series of verifications, opened the gate, and the two entered one after the other.
Behind the gate was another laboratory. Inside the laboratory were two special transparent cabinets, somewhat like glass cabinets, each containing a corpse - both corpses of Zhao Chenguang.
Zhao Chenguang's two corpses were completely naked. The edges of the cabinets emitted an eerie blue-purple light, which made the corpses look particularly strange.
The first corpse had obvious signs of old age, with a hunched back and snow-white hair and beard. Age spots and wrinkles covered the entire body, making it look like it was seventy or eighty years old.
The second corpse was much younger. Judging by its appearance, it was probably around thirty years old when it died. There were many scars on the body, with multiple fractures, and several fingers were broken, but they had been reattached later. Upon closer inspection, burns and scratches could still be seen on the body, and one arm was stitched back on after being broken.
Strange pointed to the two corpses and said to Han Yu, "Dr. Han, allow me to explain the origins of these two corpses."
Strange pointed to the elderly corpse and said, "This corpse is the first clone created by the laboratory using Zhao Chenguang's blood. We internally call it Clone One. Clone One was very wary of us. He said he wouldn't communicate with us unless he saw Rou Yi. During this period, we provided him with good food and drink and tried to counsel him, but he was unmoved. His aging progressed rapidly. In just over ten days, he grew from an infant to this appearance, and eventually died of old age."
Then, Strange pointed to the broken young corpse: "This is the second clone, Clone Two. His initial reaction to us was the same as Clone One. He said he had to see Rou Yi, but this time we changed our strategy. If soft tactics didn't work, we'd use hard ones. The wounds on his body were basically all inflicted by us. This guy was really tough. He refused to yield even in death, and was eventually beaten to death by us."
The Z organization had a long history of brutality, but hearing this made Han Yu feel severe psychological discomfort.
After explaining the origins of the two corpses, Strange faced Rou Yi: "Dr. Han, I might as well tell you a truth: Zhao Chenguang's blood contains a certain trait of the meteorite. We've determined that the triggering of this trait requires external energy stimulation. The moment the trait is triggered, it emits intense radiation. Although the laboratory here has radiation protection designs, and the radiation didn't leak out, it still killed several researchers who were closest to the radiation. This radiation is extremely terrifying. Through the autopsy of the corpses who died from the radiation, we found that all the cells in their bodies were killed in a very short period of time."
"However, what's strange is that after this trait was activated, it didn't kill Zhao Chenguang's cells. Instead, it awakened Zhao Chenguang's cells. The red blood cells in his blood reverse-developed into embryonic stem cells. This is simply unheard of. Although we don't know the principle behind it yet, from what we see now, Zhao Chenguang may have an inextricable link with the meteorite," Strange said extremely seriously.
The "trait" described by Strange aroused Han Yu's attention and curiosity.
In Han Yu's memory, the Young Master was the only person who came into close contact with the meteorite and successfully survived. Han Yu vividly remembered the scene of the Young Master being shot by Daniel in the Himalayan underground palace and then resurrecting.
As Strange said, if the Young Master's memory did exist in his blood, then all the previous resurrection processes of the Young Master were actually equivalent to self-"cloning".
The real Young Master might have already died at the hands of Daniel. The resurrected Young Master might just be a clone who survived with the Young Master's memory. Thinking of this, Han Yu felt a chill down her spine and felt a little at a loss.
But Han Yu couldn't tell Strange her guess, because she didn't know what Strange was going to do with the truth about the meteorite. Since the Himalayan scientific expedition, the Z organization seemed to be obsessed with the existence of some kind of power, and would not hesitate to make a big fuss and sacrifice the lives of innocent people in order to pursue power.
If the meteorite really had some special power, and Strange got it, the consequences would be disastrous.
Han Yu couldn't help but fall into deep thought.