Chapter 223: I will protect you

According to Yu He, Cuizhen Duan was born in the 1930s in Duanjia Village, Qingli County, and was a chemistry major at Huzhou University. She probably had some experience on Huzhou University's Fantasy Island when she was a student, so she later rebuilt her Dela Man Island as an expanded version of Fantasy Island.

Cuizhen Duan is not in good health, and she rarely shows her face in front of Dela Man members, not to mention talking about her past, and Wen Duan does most of the work for her.

"When I first came to the island," Yu He said. Yu He said, "Like you, I thought Wen Duan was the biggest leader of the whole organization, but later I found out that the people on the island were more afraid of the 'granny' than Wen Duan. I waited for a long time to see the true face of the granny, but I never met her. I tried to ask, but the islanders had very little trust in me, and they treated me while controlling me."

Qingcheng Xie is completely understandable when he says this.

Yu He was rescued by Wen Duan's organization after the shipwreck.

In the naval battle, Yu He disguised himself as a defector to Wen Duan, even using a heart chip to gain Wen Duan's trust.

As a result, the first time Wen Duan was pitted so badly that the artificial island of Dela Man, which had been undiscovered for decades, was exposed to the police system, and Yu He became a sharp sword that pierced into the headquarters of Dela Man.

Under such circumstances, Wen Duan did not kill Yu He is considered to be broad-minded and cherish talent, and how can not guard and not restrain him?

"It took me a long time and a lot of ideas on his behalf, and slowly the island's restrictions opened up to me, and they came to see me as half of their own." The key to Wen Duan's willingness to accept me, Yu He says, "was what happened after they took me to the castle's underground testing grounds - where I saw my mother."

Qingcheng Xie, although still exhausted from his love/affair, listened very carefully and pondered as he listened.

Yu He's voice is soft as he brings Qingcheng Xie into his memories.

"My mother was cryogenically frozen in liquid nitrogen after they died and kept in a special slumber bin. Twenty years have passed and she is still exactly the same as before, time has stopped completely in her."

"The moment I saw her was devastating." Yu He said, "I never thought before ...... that one day I would see my mother again, that I would see the person who lived in the description of others, who had stubbornly protected me and loved me. I stood outside the biobarn and watched her, the feeling was amazing, I seemed to really feel what real affection was in that moment. Even though she had closed her eyes and would no longer look at me or talk to me ...... I could instantly think of her when she was alive, I could even imagine her calling me Yu He."

He said this and calmed down for a while before continuing his words.

"I know this is my mom. The real one. The one who has protected me with her life."

Qingcheng Xie couldn't help but think that if Zhishu Lv hadn't separated their mother and son, and then took over their son's nest and cheated the He family for twenty years by claiming to be Yu He's biological mother, then Yu He would have had a perfect home.

His mother and father will love him, and he can grow up healthy and happy like a normal boy.

He coughed softly, he was so emotional, imagine how Yu He would feel when he saw Weian Wei's body.

"Wen Duan was standing next to me at that time and took in my reaction," Yu He said. Yu He said, "He knew I was very, very desperate, I was very sick and badly injured, and I could not find any reason to live when I could not easily recover a life. And he showed me my mother ...... my mother was sleeping there, and Wen Duan asked me, he said, "Do you wish your mother would wake up and come back to you."

Qingcheng Xie eyes slightly dark: "But she has ......"

"I know." Yu He picked up without letting Qingcheng Xie finish his sentence, "I know she is no longer around. But Wen Duan gave me a blueprint at the time, and I have to say, it was very tempting."

"He told me about Dela Man's meta-universe project, gave me the concept of mind disassociation, and said that the reason they didn't destroy Weian Wei's corpse was because she was actually a mother body that fit their organization's requirements perfectly. They analyzed her genes and concluded that she was a rare and valuable human body that fit their research needs very well, so they have maintained her corpse undamaged for all these years at a high cost. When Dela Man's technology matures, her body, and her mind, will be activated and reawakened." Yu He said, "My mother will be able to come back to life."

The idea of liquid nitrogen cryopreservation awaiting resurrection is not unique to the Dela Man organization, there are already cases in the world where scientific organizations undertake this business for a high fee, they quickly complete the cryopreservation after the death of the deceased, leaving the remains intact and waiting for the day when future technology will revive them, thus giving a chance to people who do not want to face death.

But this scientific research is highly controversial, with a significant portion of the population believing that the resurrection of the dead is never possible, including a large number of people in related academic disciplines.

Qingcheng Xie : "Did you believe at that time."

"I was moved to say that if you had seen her body, you would have hesitated too, because she looked like she was completely asleep." What they wanted from Wen Duan was the same kind of feedback they got from me," Yu He says. But I didn't know much more about Dela Man's scientific capabilities at the time, and I told Wen Duan that there hadn't been any success in bringing back the dead from liquid nitrogen freezing, even with mind transplants, and when that would happen."

"And what did Wen Duan say?"

"Wen Duan didn't say anything, and after I asked him that, I heard the sound of high heels walking from behind me." Yu He said, "I thought it was the underground lab staff and looked back without much concern. Then, I saw 'him' for the first time."

"Who?"

"A little boy, eight or nine years old. I'd never seen such a weird little kid before, wearing a custom-made little red suit dress and a pair of women's high-heeled shoes, looking at me with a smirk on his back and eyes like a ninety-year-old crone." Yu He said, "I asked him who he was. Wen Duan and I said that he was a testament to Dela Man's scientific ability and, I'm afraid, the only case in the world where a mind transplant has been successfully performed."

He paused: "I didn't know until then that the boy in front of me was the 'grandma' they were talking about."

Qingcheng Xie got goose bumps under the warm bedding: "So Cuizhen Duan did transplant his mind into a boy's body?"

"Yes." Yu He said, "As they say, Cuizhen Duan completed a brain transplant and was reborn with a new body, and this surgery, it wasn't even her first."

He continued, "But at that time, I only knew that he was a successful brain transplant case and the leader of this island, but I didn't know his true identity before the body swap, didn't know that he was the 'Zhen Hui' in the police officer's portrait. But I knew for sure that he was the key to the problem, so I had been secretly and secretly investigating, and a while ago I finally found out the whole truth - he was 'Zhen Hui', real name 'Cuizhen Duan'."

"As far as I know, Cuizhen Duan herself had been contaminated with radiation in the laboratory and suffered from cancer. But she did not want to succumb to death, so she asked the scientists on the island to give her the first crazy brain replacement experiment, the experiment is good, but the donor is not easy to find, Cuizhen Duan sent people to test many samples, the success rate of the simulations made are very low. Until finally, someone found her half-sister in Duan's village."

"Her sister was already in her 70s," Yu He said. Yu He said, "She was not in good health either and had been living in Qingli County. Do you remember Awen Yi, Yuzhu Lu's daughter?"

"Remember." Qingcheng Xie frowned, "I also remember we met someone in Qingli County who looked a lot like Yuzhu Lu, and she was the one who gave us the school records we were checking out at the time, which were ...... "

"That was sent by Wen Duan to send us information to lend a hand, except for Zhilong Huang. I have also investigated her situation, I will talk to you later." Yu He methodically went on to tell the story of Cuizhen Duan, "Qingli County, that place, decades ago, is more closed and backward than when we explored, and there is more chaos. Cuizhen Duan's sister married two men in succession and had six children, but only one boy survived. The boy had taken up a vice common to many men in Qingli County - gambling. When he ran out of money gambling, he forced his wife and mother to sell ...... very absurd, but it is true."

" Cuizhen Duan found that sister of hers when her sister's son had been decapitated long ago because he couldn't pay his gambling debts, and her daughter-in-law had died a few years earlier. She was the only one left in their family, full of maladies, with loose flesh and skin and the stench of gynecological maladies emanating from her lower body ...... You can imagine how disappointed Cuizhen Duan was to know that this was the only donor that matched her upwards of ninety percent."

Yu He adjusted her sleeping position, straightened out the goose down comforter covering the two of them, and continued: "But she had no better choice at that time, the only donor she found in year zero was her sister, and her own cancer had worsened so much that in the end, she had to resign herself to her fate and let the researcher transplant her mind into her sister's body. "

Qingcheng Xie : "Then her sister-"

Yu He : "Remove the brain. Kill."

"......"

"Cuizhen Duan and her sister did not have any relationship and did not grow up together," Yu He said. Yu He said, "Besides, she is inhumane, and taking the life of a 70-year-old woman is no more difficult for her than killing a chicken. She conducted an experiment on her sister to put herself to death, and the result of that experiment was that she succeeded."

"This is the first human brain transplant we know of, and Cuizhen Duan has abandoned her own terminally cancerous body to reclaim life in her sister's flesh and blood. She was overjoyed, but so unhappy."

Qingcheng Xie was puzzled: "She is not willing?"

Yu He: "She is not willing. Don't forget, her sister is older than her, with such and such maladies, those maladies can be contained or even cured with the medical conditions on the island, but that is certainly a torture for Cuizhen Duan. When the human brain transplant was successful, she wondered when she could have a second one. Since she can now move to her sister, one day she can overcome the medical hurdles and move her mind to a younger, healthier, more enjoyable flesh/body."

He paused for a moment and continued.

"She started going around collecting genetic samples to find a suitable donor for her own second surgery ...... and then ......" Yu He eyes darkened. "She had her eye on my mother."

"!!!"

"Yes." Yu He said coldly, " Wen Duan was lying to me when he said they found out that my mother was genetically special only after she died. They found out that her genes were rare before they conspired to do it!"

" Cuizhen Duan needed my mother's body ...... In her dating report, my mother, although not related to her in any way, was a good genetic match for her, with a match of over seventy."

This is Qingcheng Xie did not imagine at all, he seemed to be dipped into the ice river, and could not help coughing again: "So ......"

He took a breath: "Was it actually Cuizhen Duan who wanted your mother's life and then deliberately led Rong Wei to set up a trap?"

"Yes, when Rong Wei hurt my mother with drugs, it was not a scheme that Rong Wei came up with alone, but was instigated by Cuizhen Duan. But neither of them is innocent, they both want her dead." Yu He said woodenly, "Without Cuizhen Duan, Rong Wei would also try to harm her. Without Rong Wei, Cuizhen Duan would have plotted to take her life, but the two of them hit it off at this time, and Rong Wei was not as smart as Duan Zhen Hui, so he gave her the knife to kill two birds with one stone."

Creepy ......

It's amazing that it was all arranged in this way.

But -

"They organized the killing of your mother and still believe you will actually help her?"

"She never believed that I would willingly help her." Yu He said, "Wen Duan didn't believe it either. It's just that they all thought I had no choice."

"......"

"At that time I had nothing left, I ...... was left with nothing after the shipwreck."

When Qingcheng Xie heard this, his face turned slightly white. The trust of people can not be disappointed, human life is the most important, this is what he always felt he owed Yu He, even now Yu He no longer cared, he still felt sorry when he heard it.

Yu He said he was getting into the mood, not noticing that he had touched Qingcheng Xie's heartbreak again. His expression became somewhat morbid as he continued, "I was lonely...a fact that even Wen Duan saw. So, on one side was despair, and on the other was the chance for my mother to be reborn. As long as she lives, I'm not alone, I'm going to have a new life, I'm going to have a home."

"......"

Yu He's voice was almost a sigh: "They made me this promise, promising me that Dela Man would try to save my mother in the future if I cooperated with them. They didn't think I would have a better path to follow."

"But ......" Qingcheng Xie said softly, " didn't Cuizhen Duan murder your mother in order to transplant it into her body? If she brought your mother back to life, wouldn't it be a waste of effort?"

Yu He : "She did 'once' want to move into my mother's body. But then something happened and she gave up on that idea many years ago, otherwise she wouldn't have appeared to me as a little boy, but would have used my mother's body in the second transplant."

This is really a problem.

Cuizhen Duan performed his first transplant in 2000, then began scouting around for spare bodies and partnered with Rong Wei to murder Weian Wei.

Then the second transplant, she could have used Weian Wei's body, but she did not use her directly, but saved it first, and when the first body could not be delayed, she still did not use the Weian Wei that she had taken the trouble to get, but chose a nine-year-old boy, which must be some twist.

Qingcheng Xie : "What happened?"

"Rejection of metabolic reactions." Yu He said.

Rejection can occur with normal organ transplants, and brain transplants are naturally more dangerous.

This reaction came two or three years after Cuizhen Duan's successful body swap, almost at the same time as she laid hands on Weian Wei.

"The rejection of brain transplantation is called a rejection paradox by Dela Man because it has not only the normal rejection symptoms but also some symptoms unique to brain transplantation. Because some of the donor's nerves were preserved during the surgery, Cuizhen Duan had a lot of mental problems after the brain transplant. She didn't tell us exactly, but from the way she acted, she must have been in a lot of pain. The pain was almost beyond her normal tolerance." Yu He said, "The lower the body match, the greater the rejection. Cuizhen Duan used her sister's body, which had already suffered at over 90 percent match, and she was afraid to face my mother's 70 percent match."

"She knew she couldn't take it." Qingcheng Xie said.

Yu He : "Yes."

"So the boy ......"

"That boy is her great-grandson."

Qingcheng Xie frowned: "You just said that Wen Duan should also be her grandchildren."

"Well, I guessed because I once heard Cuizhen Duan talking about the genetic match between her and Wen Duan." Yu He said, "There are about sixty, so normally they should be related."

"But the suitability of sixty is still too low, otherwise she must not even have spared Wen Duan. And that boy was a child of her sister's line, an outcast, and it took her a great deal of effort to find him. His suitability was a whopping eighty-five percent, making her barely satisfied. So instead of enabling my mother's body when the first body ran out of gas, she was more conservative and chose the great-grandson she found, and then ...... she completed a second brain transplant."

There was silence inside the futon for a long time.

"She killed her sister and her own great-grandson?"

"Yes, she will do anything for her own purposes." Yu He said, "In her opinion, as long as the meta-universe plan is finally implemented successfully, there is nothing in the world that can't be recreated and replaced, and she can completely use the meta-universe to create another data-based sister and great-grandson ...... On this path, she won't put anyone's life in her eyes. However, she is still very reluctant today."

Qingcheng Xie : "What is she still not willing to do? A nine-year-old child is enough for her to live her life over again!"

"Rejection of the mutation." Yu He said softly, "It hurts, and I heard that she sometimes feels worse than death. And she doesn't seem to like the idea of a man's body. She wanted to overcome this limitation of donor selection suitability, wanted complete relief from the ailments she was experiencing because she couldn't adapt to her new body. She wanted to be relieved."

"It may have been impossible for anyone else, but she sent people around the world a long time ago to collect medical cases and the most advanced scientific research. The United States biology lab where rn-13 was developed included a researcher she recruited, and she engineered an accidental death so that everyone else thought the researcher was dead, when in fact he wasn't at all. He became her employee, and she used it to invent the more potent rn-13 ......"

" Cuizhen Duan believes that there is nothing in the medical field that she can't overcome, so she has been trying and finding the perfect solution since she first discovered she had a rejection reaction, which has lasted almost twenty years now."

When he said this, Yu He stopped, his breath lingering between Qingcheng Xie's nostrils, he looked into Qingcheng Xie's eyes and felt that Qingcheng Xie had actually guessed something that he had not said.

As expected, Qingcheng Xie whispered, "She found a way, didn't she?"

"...... is right. You've got it."

The supreme adaptability unmatched in the world, can accept serum that no one in the world can accept, transplantation, can adapt to experiments that no one in the world can bear ......

Qingcheng Xie said, "She's looking for the first emperor."

"...... is right." Yu He said, "As soon as she has the First Emperor data, theoretically she can use any human body for transplantation. This data set can solve many of the problems on her path to immortality. It gives her unlimited freedom of donor selection."

He lifted his hand and touched Qingcheng Xie's cool face.

This futon is their place of warmth, the place where they tell their secrets and the nest where they both live.

The sky and the earth are so big, but the two of them only have the opportunity to face each other in this small bed, between the pillows and quilts, without any pretense.

Yu He's voice is as soft as a mosquito: "That's why your secret must never be known to her. She used virtual reality to mislead the dream-breakers, but she herself was misled by Professor Qin with lies, she always thought that the first emperor was a set of data, so it was she who sent people into your home back then to search in those notes ...... If she is allowed to know that there is a person like you in this world... ..."

His voice was even lower, almost inaudible against his ear.

"Then Duola Pan's magic box is about to be opened once and for all."

"......"

"So, as long as I'm around, I won't let her find you." Yu He's fingertips caressed Qingcheng Xie's eyelids, "No matter what happened to us before, Qingcheng Xie. This time, I will protect you."

The lips are almost pressed to the lips.

As if a magic spell.

"And only I, can protect you."