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Chapter 674: Clones?
Chapter 674: Clones?Returning to the London police station, Bai Hecheng was "invited" by the waiting Allen to be investigated, while Liu Xing and the others first went back to their office to rest and wait for Sergei to provide them with information.
It was more than two hours before Sergei finally arrived.
"Sergei, what’s the situation with that Vite now?" Liu Xing couldn’t help but ask.
Sergei shrugged and said, "After our professional examination, we found that Vite is no different from a normal person now, and the wounds on his body have all healed. However, he has indeed lost his memory, so Allen has him temporarily staying at the police station, waiting for his family members to come and claim him... But to be honest, I can confirm that I had dissected Vite at the time, but he has no problems now. This is really strange."
"Could it be twins? Is this Vite actually the brother of the corpse you dissected?" Leon said with an open mind.
Sergei shook his head and said, "That’s impossible. I can confirm that this Vite and the corpse I dissected are the same person, because their birthmarks are exactly the same. So I think this Vite is more likely to be a clone."
Clone? Clone!
Liu Xing suddenly had an epiphany. Bai Hecheng might indeed be a clone!
After all, in the year 2000, cloning technology was still a hot topic. Almost every news about cloning would be hyped up by the media, and those cloned animals had become the stars of the time.
However, at this point in time, although cloning technology was relatively advanced, cloned humans were still being rejected by the public due to ethical issues. Most scientists were forced to stop due to public pressure, but for secret cults like the Cult of the Cadaver, ethics were just a bunch of nonsense. As long as there was profit to be made, they would do it. Moreover, the scientific technology mastered by secret cults like the Cult of the Cadaver might be far more advanced than that of humans, and creating clones would be easy for them. If that didn’t work, these secret cults could even use magic spells to create replicas.So Liu Xing felt that Bai Hecheng was very likely a clone created by the Cult of the Cadaver, and might even serve as a "food" source.
If Bai Hecheng was a clone, then everything would make sense.
"How could Vite be a clone? You know, those cloned organisms also have to go through a ten-month gestation period and then slowly grow over time. Unless this Vite was being cultivated at the same time as his original body, it’s impossible for them to look exactly the same," Jill said.
Sergei shrugged and took out a stack of photocopied papers, saying, "We can’t figure out Vite’s situation, so let’s just temporarily give up discussing this problem. However, I did manage to get a copy of Vite’s personal file."
Bai Hecheng’s personal file?
Liu Xing quickly took the file and started reading.
According to the description in the file, the current Bai Hecheng was named Veit Revo, and he had immigrated from China to England six years ago to attend university. Bai Hecheng’s Chinese name was naturally Bai Hecheng, but since the English police had not yet contacted the Chinese police, the details of Bai Hecheng’s situation in China were still unknown.
Nowadays, the Bai Hecheng in England could be considered a loner. He had been living in England for six years, but since Bai Hecheng was quite wealthy, he had been doing well in England and had good relationships with many local rich second-generation youths, including Locke’s son. That’s why Bai Hecheng was invited to attend Locke’s son’s wedding.
However, Bai Hecheng’s social circle was actually not very large. Apart from attending some necessary parties, he was often elusive, so no one knew what he was doing in his daily life, and no one knew what industries Bai Hecheng owned in England. At least in the official records in England, Bai Hecheng did not own any businesses, but he received a large monthly remittance from China.
At the end of this file, there was a note suggesting that Bai Hecheng might have connections with the Chinatown mafia, because Bai Hecheng had once sought help from the Chinatown mafia when he got into a conflict with someone during his early university days, and he also often went to Chinatown for meals.
After reading Bai Hecheng’s file, Liu Xing became even more convinced that Bai Hecheng was a "tool person" created by the Cult of the Cadaver, because Bai Hecheng’s file was rather simple, with many key information missing, and his reclusive behavior was somewhat inconsistent with his displayed personality.
Moreover, the most important thing was that according to this file, Bai Hecheng had no relatives or friends in England, and it seemed that he didn’t even have a girlfriend.
"This file is the result of the investigation conducted by Allen’s people, so I think the credibility of this file is still worth questioning. However, Allen is now planning to contact the Chinese police to confirm Bai Hecheng’s situation in China, and to notify Bai Hecheng’s relatives in China to come and take care of him... But speaking of which, don’t you think today’s incident is very strange? Why did the attackers take away all the corpses from the Funeral Home, and they just happened to strike when Bai Hecheng and the other two corpses were being sent back to the Funeral Home?" Sergei asked with some confusion.
Liu Xing nodded and said seriously, "The incident that happened today is indeed strange. But it seems that the two groups of people who robbed the corpses were not working together. The second group should have come specifically for Bai Hecheng and those two corpses. They took away the other corpses from the Funeral Home just to cover their tracks. However, I’m not sure whether Bai Hecheng was intentionally left behind by them, or if he was hidden by the first group."
As soon as Liu Xing finished speaking, Wesker’s phone suddenly rang.
Wesker took out his mobile phone and his expression immediately became grave. "According to the report from nearby residents, there was a shootout incident just now in the Rose Manor where we responded earlier. They not only used automatic rifles and machine guns, but even RPGs and hand grenades were used. Fortunately, the exchange of fire has now ended, and the attackers seem to have all retreated. Allen wants us to go to the scene to check the situation."
"What’s going on? Has Bin Laden already sent people to infiltrate England? Why are there all kinds of shootouts these days, and the weapons are getting more and more advanced. If this continues, we might even see a tank battle in London," Leon couldn’t help but comment.
Liu Xing grinned. If it was really Bin Laden who sent people to enter England, then his first target would not be London but Manchester, because Bin Laden is a fanatical Arsenal fan, so he had threatened to blow up the home ground of Manchester United, Old Trafford.
However, Liu Xing felt that the shootout incident at Rose Manor was most likely caused by two secret cults, because Rose Manor had been confirmed to be related to the Blood Hand Print Killer, which is connected to Locke, indicating that Rose Manor should be under the control of the Cult of the Cadaver.
And at this point in time, the only ones who would choose to trouble the Cult of the Cadaver would be the secret cults participating in the battle for the possession of the "Sacred Book" projection.
Of course, Liu Xing felt that this shootout incident was most likely due to the bodies in the Funeral Home.
Soon, Liu Xing and the others boarded a car and rushed to the suburban Rose Manor again, but this time there was an additional person, Sergei, on the car.
When Liu Xing and the others arrived at Rose Manor, the special police force had already arrived at the scene, and coincidentally, these special police officers were the same group they had encountered at the Funeral Home that morning.
In addition, Liu Xing also saw several cars that were still smoking and only had their frames left, it seemed that these cars had been blown up by RPGs.
Because Wesker had a good relationship with the commander of this special police force, Wesker quickly learned from his friend about the recent events at Rose Manor.
Just an hour ago, the local residents near Rose Manor saw more than ten off-road vehicles coming, and importantly, some of the open-top off-road vehicles had machine guns mounted on their roofs!
Because the previous attack incident had already caused a huge uproar, these ordinary citizens were worried that these off-road vehicles were heading towards the city of London, so they decisively chose to call the police, but before they could even make the call, they heard intense gunfire coming from the direction of Rose Manor, and even the sound of hand grenade explosions.
It must be said that foreigners just love to court death, and in this situation, there were even a few fearless young people who managed to sneak into the bushes next to Rose Manor to closely observe the intense gunfight.
But it was precisely because of these fearless young people that Liu Xing and the others were now able to understand the specific details of the recent gunfight.
According to the descriptions of those young people, the attacking force had around 50 people, all of whom were dressed in camouflage uniforms and bulletproof vests, and their weapons were various types of assault rifles, and there were indeed several machine guns mounted on the off-road vehicles they were riding.
Furthermore, one young person with better eyesight noticed that the attackers all had a shoulder patch on their arms, with a "Monsters" pattern on it, and the tactical proficiency of the attacking force seemed very high, their movements were coordinated, and they didn’t even need to communicate verbally.
As for the defending force, they took up positions in the various buildings of Rose Manor, and although their numbers were unclear, in the eyes of those young people, their firepower was no less than the attacking force, and they even had RPGs as heavy weapons, so after more than 10 minutes of fighting, the attacking force, having suffered heavy losses, chose to retreat, and the defending force, knowing the police were about to arrive, also left Rose Manor in their vehicles.
It is worth noting that among the vehicles driven away by the defending force, there was a hearse from the Funeral Home, so this proves that the defending force was the same group that attacked the Funeral Home earlier in the day and took away all the bodies inside.
As for the target of the attacking force, it was most likely also to seize those bodies.
After understanding the situation, Liu Xing couldn’t help but feel a cold sweat.
From the current situation, Liu Xing believed that the defending force was likely the Cult of the Cadaver, while the attacking force was most likely the followers of Gralki, because only the followers of Gralki could truly coordinate their movements and not need verbal communication... because they had already become Gralki’s puppets.
And unsurprisingly, the ones who initially stole Bai Hecheng and the other two bodies were probably the followers of Gralki.
If this was the case, then the reason why Bai Hecheng was able to be resurrected had another possibility, which was that Gralki had intervened to "revive" Bai Hecheng.
But what was the purpose of this?
Liu Xing couldn’t figure out for the moment why Gralki would send people to steal Bai Hecheng and those two bodies, and then give Bai Hecheng a "resurrection" as well.
However, Liu Xing still wanted to criticize the fact that the Cult of the Cadaver and the followers of Gralki were fighting in a way that was not very "Cthulhu-like". After all, both of them were well-known secret cults in the martial world, couldn’t they choose to use magic to fight each other? Why did they have to play with guns like a bunch of terrorists? Even using RPGs and armed off-road vehicles.
If this continued, Liu Xing even suspected that in the battle for the possession of the "Sacred Book" projection, these secret cults would actually play a tank battle in the city of London...
In that case, what would he himself play? He was worried that his ghost would be blown to smithereens by a shell or shot in the head at any moment.
While thinking about this, Liu Xing followed Wesker and the others into Rose Manor.
At this time, Rose Manor was a complete mess, with bullet holes and shell casings everywhere, as well as traces of hand grenade explosions, making Liu Xing wonder if he was actually playing Call of Duty instead of a Cthulhu RPG game.
But the most important thing was that he himself didn’t have a gun, and he couldn’t use the "breathe and heal" technique, so how was he supposed to play?
Since the followers of Gralki knew their bodies were no longer the same as ordinary people, Liu Xing and the others did not find any bodies of Gralki followers, but they did find many bodies of Cult of the Cadaver members.
However, these bodies of Cult of the Cadaver members had also been processed, so their faces had been disfigured by sulfuric acid, and there was nothing on them that could prove their identity.
But Liu Xing and the others still had some gains.
Possibly because the Cult of the Cadaver members were in a hurry when they retreated, they didn’t have time to restore the scene, so when Liu Xing and the others entered the main building of Rose Manor, they saw an entrance to a basement in the living room.
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