Chapter 75 Twenty-six Shotas

When Scotland left the house, it was already getting dark. He casually told Bourbon by email that he had found new clues related to Granty, and then turned and walked in the other direction.

He was temporarily unable to obtain the specific information about the case witnessed by the ambush teacher 20 years ago, and could only think of a solution with Bourbon later. However, there was a more important piece of information that he could get immediately.

——The secret code notebook that was hidden by Xiao Ju.

The diary mentioned that the hiding place of the notebook was "a place where I could see the teacher every day", which seemed to be incoherent and difficult to unravel.

However, Scotland has its own guess.

He now knew the growth environment and identity background of the Grantis. As a group of lives produced in batches, no matter how old they looked, their actual age was no more than seven days.

If Scotland's idea was correct, the organization would probably assign some assassination missions that require more covert operations to those Grantys who appear younger.

For example, Xiao Shi, who is 'seven years old' in the diary.

The diary also mentioned some things that Scotland had a vague impression of. He guessed that what Xiao Shi said to Teacher Zhufu about "having a conversation with my brother" was the "accident" that A mentioned when he confessed to them in the hotel yesterday.

That is to say, if nothing unexpected happens, the Grantis from Xiao Shi onwards will know the relationship between themselves and the door between A through the notebook left by Xiao Shi.

Therefore, there must be something in the notebook that is important for solving the current situation!

And through the diary found in his parents' bedroom, Scotland has almost figured out the truth of that year.

Twenty years ago, Xiao Ju, who had just been created by the organization, accidentally met A and had a conversation with A that is not yet known to the public. The next day, Xiao Ju should have received a mission and came to Nagano accompanied by his parents, who were probably the surveillance personnel in the organization.

The first meeting with Mr. Zhufu should really be just an accident. Scotland remembered that A was very curious about everything outside when they first met. Even Granty, who was more free to move than A, must have been full of curiosity about the outside world when he was just born.

A said that the common sense of humanity acquired by the Grantis was instilled by researchers through implanted chips. In order to prevent the Grantis from developing obvious self-awareness, the organization has done a lot of defense and will hardly instill in them any "knowledge" that is irrelevant to the mission they are to perform.

Because ignorant people are the easiest to control, knowledge brings desire, and desire breeds resistance.

As long as they have desire, the Grantis will no longer be experimental rabbits who can obediently be pressed on the experimental table and have their hearts and stomachs cut open. Like A, they will yearn for the outside world and freedom, and yearn to kill their enemies one after another.

These researchers who created clones, a existence that goes against the bottom line of humanity, are obviously well aware of the abilities of the Grantis they created.

Because they knew this clearly, they did not dare to let the Grantis awaken their self-awareness.

Despite all their precautions, they had lost their defense from the very beginning, starting from Xiao Shi.

When you think about it this way, these people's behavior is really funny.

All in all, it is not difficult to understand why Xiao Shi, who had just said goodbye to A and came to the unfamiliar Nagano, would curiously follow him to the vicinity of the school. After all, the word "school" generally represents knowledge in common sense.

Scotland guessed that Xiao Shi might have watched Teacher Zhu Fu's class from outside the window more than once that morning, but in the end, the only one who turned back and talked to Xiao Shi was Teacher Zhu Fu.

Teacher Zhufu might be the first person that Xiaoshi or all the Grantis met who regarded them as independent beings.

In the diary, Xiao Shi narrated his important experiences to Teacher Zhufu. Based on Scotland's understanding, if Xiao Shi had not recognized Teacher Zhufu from the bottom of his heart, as a clone of A, it would be impossible for him to tell so many things to ordinary people.

The fourth diary entry is also the one that moved Scotland the most.

He saw the diary when he already knew that his father had witnessed a case at that time, so he immediately reacted to what scene was mentioned in the fourth diary. He also recognized that the 'he' in the fourth diary was Xiao Shi by combining the previous three diaries.

But when he looked for clues in his diary again, he found that if he took out the fourth article alone, it would only be a confusing text.

Teacher Zhu Fu did not write any sentence related to the case. Even Xiao Shi’s name was not mentioned in the fourth article, and the scene he described was also very vague.

It was as if he was deliberately concealing the fact that Xiao Shi was the murderer.

Thinking about it this way, Scotland could now fully understand why the four diaries related to Xiao Shi were torn out and hidden away by Teacher Zhufu.

Even Scotland, who knew Xiao Shi's identity, could vaguely guess why the child ran away in despair.

The different meanings that Teacher Zhufu has for Xiao Shi represent how scared Xiao Shi would be if this teacher, who taught him and gave him hope and fantasies about the future, discovered that he was actually a demon with blood on his hands.

In this regard, Xiao Shi and A are the same.

But even Xiao Shi probably didn't expect that that day would be the last time they saw each other.

Scotland touched the torn pages of the diary carefully, which she had kept in her arms.

Granty was a clone with only seven days to live, but Teacher Zhufu occupied a full four days in Xiaoshi's life.

Apart from the first day of his birth, when he was found dead by his teacher, his parents died on November 16, and Xiao Shi's life also came to an end on November 17.

Whether Xiao Shi had known about the murder of his teacher before his death is unknown to Scotland.

What he knew now was that A and Granti would find him, and definitely not through Hagiwara as A said.

Since A had met Mr. Zhufu 20 years ago, Scotland, who felt that he looked like his father, did not think that A would not be able to recognize him by appearance.

Scotland's mood suddenly became a little subtle.

Wait, is this the legendary double? I am my dad's double?

He shook his head quickly to shake the bad thoughts out of his mind.

The mountain mentioned in the diary was behind the Xiaozhu City Elementary School where Mr. Zhufu once worked. It was also the place where Scotland judged that was most likely to have Xiaoshi's notebook hidden, and he was rushing there.

However, when passing the intersection, Scotland glanced to the side inadvertently, and his sight froze.

On the top of the wall next to him, there was a black-haired boy in a white shirt and suit shorts sitting there, with his hands on his sides and his calves dangling in the air, staring blankly at the sky with a bored look on his face.

A? No, that's not right. This kid looks a lot older than A.

So, this is clearly——

"Grandy?" Scotland murmured, and subconsciously took a step towards the boy.

As if startled by him, the boy glanced down at him sharply, then leaped down as lightly as a feather and disappeared into the crowd on the street outside.

Scots didn't hesitate and ran after him.

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"Well, you two can leave now, but in order to facilitate the investigation of the case, I hope you two will not leave Nagano for a short time."

Zhu Fugaoming stood in front of the police car, nodded to Bourbon and Ley, and said, "This is my number. If there is any progress in the case, I will notify you again."

"I'm sorry to trouble you, Inspector Fu." Bourbon sighed and said in a serious manner, "I forgot the child in the hotel. If I don't return, I'm really worried that something will happen to him... What a pity."

Normally at times like this, Bourbon was in charge of negotiations, while Rye was in charge of playing the cool and taciturn role, otherwise it would be easy for them to have unnecessary arguments over certain things.

So now, too, Ley remained silent while Bourbon was talking, but in fact, he was recalling things related to the dead person in the photo.

That person was indeed an extremely important informant for the FBI in the organization, but as far as Lei knew, he had lost contact with the other party a long time ago. The FBI once thought that the informant had died until four years ago when they resumed contact with him intermittently. In the following four years, the informant's contact frequency became even lower than before.

But if the informant was killed twenty years ago, who was the one who contacted the FBI and provided clues to the FBI over the years?

...Could it be Granty?

As for Bourbon, after saying goodbye to Zhu Fu Gaoming, he prepared to go back to the hotel to take A and then go to meet up with Scotland.

The police couldn't find a breakthrough in the case here, and there happened to be new clues in Scotland, so instead of waiting aimlessly, he might as well take action on the other side first.

As he was thinking this, Bourbon suddenly looked past the crowd outside the cordon and saw a figure chasing after them.

Scotland? Why is he here... Oops, Zhu Fu Gao Ming hasn't left yet!

But it was too late. When Bourbon realized this, Gao Ming, an ambush who had not yet gotten into the police car, raised his head for no apparent reason, and his eyes collided with Scotland's in mid-air.

There was a hint of surprise in both of their eyes.

Jingguang/Why is my brother here?