Xingtetsu: You are not included in Elio's script!

Chapter 738

"What's the heart rate?" Heita knocked on the monitoring screen of the nutrition cabin.

"Ms. Black Tower!" The assistant frantically adjusted the data stream, "The heart rate of replica No. 112 is beats per minute."

Heita scanned the green curve jumping on the holographic screen, and suddenly tapped the No. 68 cabin with his fingertips, "What's going on? The heart rate is only times, like a piece of cold jelly."

"Ah! That's..."

"She has remained in this position since a while ago and refuses to interact with other individuals."

"Interesting." Heita took out a micro-scanner, "The EEG shows abnormal β waves... like it's simulating a human's unrequited love?"

"Unrequited love?" The assistant dropped his pen. "But they are all copies of the original!"

"That's why I said it's interesting." Heita suddenly stuffed a lollipop into his assistant's mouth. "Go play Lin Yu's battle video or the video about March 150 for her and see if her heart rate can break . I want to record the mutation data of human emotions on the clones."

As the assistant ran away with the documents, Heita heard a "click" sound behind him.

She turned her head and saw that the replica that was just listless was suddenly sticking to the cabin wall, pressing the glass with its fingertips, staring at the terminal in her pocket with bright eyes.

The message that March 7 had just sent was displayed there: "Is there an idiot in the replica who is in a daze? Help me knock her head. I don't want all my replicas to be emotionless machines..."

"Oh, you are well-informed." Heita pulled out the terminal, spun it around his fingertips, and then knocked on the cabin.

The replica shrank back in fear, but still used its fingertips to scratch crooked lines of protest on the glass.

[I am not an idiot! ]

"Not an idiot?" Heita raised an eyebrow and moved closer to the glass, "Then why are you looking at the stars while others are doing things?"

The replica's cheeks suddenly turned red, and in the reflection of the glass, she saw her silly look as she held her chin in her hand and looked up at the starry sky.

At that time, she was staring at a twinkling star nearby, wondering if there was someone standing on the star, also looking here, waiting to meet her eyes.

Heita stared at the replica's red face and suddenly laughed, "Why are you blushing? Are you thinking -" She deliberately dragged out the ending, "someone is watching you on a certain star?"

【No way! 】

"A tough guy."

“Do you want me to throw you into the real starry sky and let you ask those stars face to face?”

"Oh, by the way, Lin Yu just said that he would bring a gift for the 'most special' March 7th."

In fact, this sentence has been revised by Heita.

Lin Yu’s original words did not include the three words “most special”.

The replica's breathing suddenly became rapid, and the heart rate curve on the monitoring screen exceeded 160.

【I am the most special! 】

"What do you mean? You're just a clone. Don't think that just because I implanted March Seven's cells into you, you are March Seven."

"You just look alike, you are not clones, do you understand?" Black Tower warned again.

The replica still stared at the black tower, the heat in its eyes almost penetrating the glass.

Of course she knew that she was a clone. From the moment her consciousness awakened, she knew that she was born in a cold incubator and was the product of March Seven's genes and special energy.

But when I heard the words 'most special', a strange and strong emotion surged in my heart.

It was an urge to be recognized and exclusive, hotter than the culture medium circulating in the nutrient chamber.

"If you continue to lose control like this, I will have no choice but to terminate your experimental period early." Heita said coldly, trying to suppress the other party's emotional fluctuations with threats.

However, the replica did not retreat. Instead, it raised its head stubbornly and wrote larger words on the glass.

[Even if it's a replica, it can have its own feelings! 】

These words made Heita's fingers pause slightly.

She thought of her countless "clones" and those questions about the "meaning of existence".

At this moment, this tiny replica is actually questioning the essence of life in its own way.

On the monitoring screen, the heart rate curve suddenly began to decline strangely.

The clone's eyes became empty, and it slowly sat back in the corner of the nutrition cabin, its fingertips unconsciously stroking the glass.

Heita stared at the data changes and suddenly felt a little annoyed.

She clearly just wanted to do a simple clone emotion experiment, so how could it involve such a troublesome philosophical proposition?

"Okay, stop playing dead." Heita knocked on the cabin, "I say again, you are a clone, and it is San Yue Qi herself who awakened, not you."

"You can't be her, and it's impossible for you to be her."

"She is unique. No matter how much you clones imitate her, you can never become her or replace her."

"Don't be bound by the identity of March 7th. If you want to be 'March 7th', you can start a new life instead of this."

"Otherwise, Lin Yu would not have agreed to bring you back at that time."

"He did it out of sympathy, not out of pity for you."

The clone's eyelashes trembled violently, and Black Tower's words pierced into her consciousness like tiny star rays.

She stared at the genetic map jumping on the wall, and suddenly reached out and pressed on the blue line that overlapped with March 7th.

There is a tiny mutation point there, which is the only difference between her and the original body.

"If I had chosen a different life..." Her fingertips drew a question mark on the glass, "Who would I be then?"

“No one can define who you are.”

"You can have your own name. I remember... your name is Xingyao, right?"

"Listen, Xingyao." Heita knocked on the cabin, and a long-lost, non-joking smile appeared on the corner of his mouth. "Starting tomorrow, you can participate in the daily work of the space station."

Xingyao nodded vigorously.

"Then...what about them?" Xingyao turned her head to look at the adjacent nutrition cabin. Twenty-three pairs of eyes were staring at this place curiously.

"Them? They are different from you. They have long since regained their consciousness and are not bound by San Yue Qi's cells."

"You yourself gave birth to that emotion."

"It's not an exaggeration to say that you are special."

"but.."

"You're not as mature as them."

“They know how to coexist with their true selves, while you are still struggling with the question of ‘who to become’.”

"So, I will let you participate in the daily work next."

"They will come to work together later, so let you work with Estelle."

This is also something that Black Tower considered.

Let these twenty-four clones become Ester's helpers.

What if her family really forcefully takes Ester away?

These clones can also help Estelle.

After all, I can't really get involved in this kind of thing.

My previous threats were already too excessive.

This was the optimal solution that Black Tower had calculated all night long.

The family pressure on Ester is like a sword of Damocles hanging over her head. Once the other party uses the family authority to forcibly take her away, these clones can stay with her as scientific research assistants.

"But Station Master Esta..." Xingyao thought of the girl she had met on the space station, "Will she be willing to let us stay with her?"

"Don't worry."

"Besides, do you think she would refuse an assistant who can watch the aurora with her and won't blow up a Star Destroyer?"

"Remember, report to the main control room at 8 o'clock tomorrow morning." Heita pressed the unlocking button of the nutrition cabin, and the lock made a slight sound. "This nutrition cabin can be opened from the inside. You can tell them when you come out."

"Your physical conditions are all normal, and you can move freely."

Xingyao gently pushed the cabin door, and cold mist blew in her face.

It was the first time she stood on the laboratory floor with her own feet. The coolness of the metal coming from the soles of her feet was more real than the culture medium in the nutrient chamber.

Heita left without looking back, but a smile appeared on his face.

She took out the terminal and sent a message to Lin Yu: "Your little webmaster will receive twenty-four surprises tomorrow."

Soon, Lin Yu replied: "Surprise? Are you sure it's not twenty-four time bombs?"

Lin Yu said this because he was actually worried that something might happen to those clones.

But Lin Yu was still too worried.

I believe that in the near future, these clones will be able to help them again.

But Heita knew that some things were stronger than genes.

When all replicas voluntarily transfer energy to the original body, it has already gone beyond the scope of replicas.

They are all individuals with their own independent consciousness.

It's not just a clone or a replica.

"Maybe twenty-four stars." Heita said softly, looking at the screen, "Enough to light the way for some stupid stationmaster."

Alan exclaimed from the end of the corridor, "Miss! Why did you turn the space station's gravity system to trampoline mode again?!"

"See you tomorrow, stars." Heita said softly.

Xingyao took out the hairpin from her hair and turned it towards the light.

She didn't know what the future would be like, but at this moment, she could hear the breathing of the clones around her, like an irregular but warm heartbeat.

Perhaps, as Heita said, they are not anyone's shadow, but twenty-four brand new variables.

As for what kind of trajectories these variables will draw?

The future will tell.

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