Chapter 93 Forty-four Shotas

In the empty laboratory, the boy, who was originally tied tightly to the iron chair with a straitjacket and belts, suddenly shuddered as if he had been electrocuted, and then suddenly raised his head.

Cold sweat kept running down his face, and the piece of cloth against his back was about to get wet. In contrast, his dry lips were faintly pale. It was still that expressionless face, but even with the blood completely gone, one could still tell that he was shocked and shaken at the moment.

This expression stayed on A's face for a few seconds before being replaced by a blank expression. He lowered his head again obediently, stopping his trembling instinct. The hair on both sides of his face was stuck to his cheeks by cold sweat, which allowed the researchers outside the isolation window to vaguely see that he seemed to move his lips and say something.

"Granty..."

The researcher had just taken over A's experiment early this morning. He had no idea why this seemingly fragile child had become their research subject, but since it was a task, he didn't need to ask too many questions. Anyway, he would find out the reasons as the research went on.

The current situation is that he received instructions from that gentleman and has just injected A with some drugs developed by other research institutes within the organization. He is observing the effects of various drugs on A.

So in order to collect more information related to A, the researcher simply opened the internal and external communication channels and asked the boy inside: "What's the problem?"

The child sat motionless in the middle of the laboratory, like a corpse, causing the researchers to begin to suspect that something was really wrong with him... Could it be that there was some special poison in the medicine given by the gentleman?

The researcher was shocked by his own guess. He did not bother to call his companions who had gone out to slack off. He hurriedly opened the door of the laboratory and walked in alone in a hurry.

The panic of the important experimental subject suspected of having killed himself caused the researchers to forget one very important thing - something the gentleman had warned them before sending them over to take over the shift.

"A? Are you okay?" The researcher walked quickly to A, frowned, leaned over and pinched A's chin to observe the situation, "Is he really dead..."

The researcher and A made eye contact.

The deep and light red in those eyes now looked very intense, without a trace of light, and he couldn't even catch his own reflection.

The researcher blinked again, and the boy, who had gotten rid of all the restraints on his body, leaned forward, holding the pen that was originally hanging in the researcher's chest pocket, with the sharp end against his left temple. ——A stepped on the iron chair and controlled the researcher's vital point, and the advantage and disadvantage of the two people completely reversed at this moment.

"After killing someone, I can no longer love this world." A said suddenly, looking at the researcher as if he were looking at a piece of moving meat.

"Wait, wait! I was just transferred here from somewhere else!"

A continued to talk to himself: "But, I am very angry now."

"My brother is still waiting for me, so--" He applied a little force on his wrist, and the tip of the pen scratched the researcher's skin. Blood flowed down the pen, but his tone was not bloody at all, but rather polite. "Please don't move, okay?"

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Something went wrong with the operation here at Bourbon.

Or rather, something went wrong with their target, Bermode.

Bourbon stared at the blonde actress in front of him, wondering if he had heard wrongly. He hadn't said anything yet, so why did Bermode just glance at them and say "Follow me"? Did he skip some important plot?

He looked down and saw the extra-character next to him shrugged at him with an innocent look on his face. He looked so innocent that Bourbon even mistook him for A who was still imprisoned by Karasuma Renya.

[“In any case, Vermouth won’t be suspicious.”] Bourbon remembered what the extra individual said to him firmly on the way here.

...So the extra story's statement that they wouldn't be suspicious means that Vermouth was actually turned against them? Then why did the plan given by Granty mention coming to Vermouth to play a trick and fish?

What he didn't know was that Granti and his team were not 100% sure that Bermode would turn against them, and the plan was written that way just for the sake of safety.

Bourbon tried hard to control his facial expression, preparing to test Bermode a little more - anyone in his position would do the same. This Thousand-Faced Witch was not a good choice for an ally. Who knew if she was sincere or not.

Before Vermode could say anything, the extra-chapter individual explained succinctly: "The signal of the locator on Brother's body was deliberately revealed to us by her."

Bourbon's vigilance was somewhat reduced. He rubbed his forehead and said, "Shouldn't this kind of thing be said at the very beginning..."

The extra person pretended not to hear: "But actually I am also curious, why is she here."

The corners of Bermode's mouth twitched imperceptibly as if she had forgotten the conversation between the two people, and she glanced at the extra person vaguely.

They look the same, but their personalities are completely different... Turns out, he really is a clone of that child.

After leaving the manor that day, Bermode carefully checked the information related to the deceased Cherry Brandy, and also tentatively checked the information related to A twenty years ago.

However, although the former is rare, at least some of it can be found. But there is no trace of the latter, as if it had never appeared.

But this is impossible, because the existence of A and Kaluya was personally acknowledged by the boss, so the reason she couldn't find out was not because A didn't exist, but because the boss personally handled the information about A twenty years ago.

Therefore, Vermouth once thought that the development of the matter was that A died in the laboratory twenty years ago and was resurrected twenty years later. Until she compared the date of A's so-called meeting with Cherry Brandy with Cherry Brandy's information, she found that if that date was really twenty years ago, then A must have lied.

Twenty years ago, Cherry Brandy was busy with the anti-undercover mission sent by the police, and she did not appear in any of the base's entry and exit records! She actually went to a base on the same date eighteen years ago, which was two years after A had been "dead" in theory.

This made Bermode think of a possibility.

A was able to tell a lot of specific details about cherry brandy, but she was sure that they were the only ones who knew about it, so it was probably true that A had seen cherry brandy. Then it could only be that A was not sensitive to time and remembered things that happened eighteen years ago as twenty years ago.

Is this possible? What kind of person would get the year wrong? Would someone as smart as A really make such a mistake?

Vermouth withdrew his gaze from the extra-chapter individual, feeling heavy-hearted.

If A had been locked up in a research base without seeing the sun for the past twenty years and had never been exposed to the outside world, wouldn't it be reasonable that he couldn't even remember the year?

Following this guess, Vermouth carefully checked the base that was suspected to have been wiped out 20 years ago according to Karasuma Renya's vague description, and indeed found the base at the top of Chiba Base.

It has to be said that this operation of silencing everyone in name but actually continuing the experiment in secret is something that Vermouth has seen more than once or twice in the organization, so this time she believed in her own judgment without any doubt.

In addition, she found out that someone who looked exactly like A had appeared outside, and she followed the clues and found the whereabouts information that Grandi and others deliberately leaked (of course, most of it was fake)...

Before seeing the extra individual, Vermouth still doubted whether her guess might be too sci-fi. After all, she was a Hollywood movie star and vaguely smelled something wrong.

Then, she was completely misled by the simultaneous appearance of the extra individual and Bourbon.

In the week or so before this, Vermode and Rum took turns selecting several researchers for the boss to go to the research institute in the manor. She also accidentally saw the researchers conducting experiments on the unconscious (sleeping) A (to fool Karasuma Renya). With all the evidence added up, she now firmly believes it.

Look! She said that the organization and the boss would definitely do such a horrifying thing as locking up someone's child for twenty years and then creating countless clones outside!

In fact, Bermode didn't know that Bourbon was an undercover police officer, nor did she know what he was doing today. She still thought that the purpose of Bourbon and the extra individual was simply to rescue A from the base, so she had no pressure to lead the way.

If things got out, she would blame it on Rum - that was her plan.

Bourbon didn't know that after Belmode had a big misunderstanding, his brain circuits were connected to theirs. He thought that Belmode had been turned against by Granti and others, and was now taking them to fight the BOSS.

Although he was still very alert, Bourbon adhered to the belief of Granti's plan and followed him without any pressure. Of course, he did not forget to make sure that his position could be received by Scotland and others. If Bermode pretended to betray him, he would not be trapped here.

The only insider present was watching with great interest and felt sympathy for the two guys who just didn't communicate directly.

"I'll only take you so far."

Led by Belmode, the three arrived at a corridor deep in the underground industry of this unremarkable organization. Belmode stopped in front of a wall, turned around and said lazily to Bourbon: "From now on, you will have to rely on yourself, Bourbon."

She reached out and pressed the button fixed on the wall, and the hidden door opened in front of them: "Here."

The mystics, who had been partners, knew each other's personalities very well. They didn't have much to say at this time. Bourbon simply thanked him and walked past Bermode without looking back, heading towards the passage behind the hidden door.

In Bermode's eyes, this meant that Bourbon was sincere to A and wanted to rescue the child from the boss as soon as possible.

She guessed correctly, but she also guessed wrong.

Whatever she thought, it had nothing to do with Bourbon.

On the other hand, Bourbon, who successfully entered the research base through the passage, felt very strange.

"Why did Bermode bring us here?" he asked, "Isn't Mr. A in that manor?"

The face of the extra individual was uglier than ever before. He gritted his teeth and exuded murderous intent: "No, we are in the manor now. This is the underground base of the manor."

Even though his elder brother escaped the fate of being re-frozen and tortured, he still couldn't escape the fate of being used as a small-scale experiment.

Bourbon was thinking the same thing. He just hoped that they arrived in time and that Karasuma Renya was still at the stage of "worrying that A would die again" so he didn't take any ruthless action.

"Let's split up next." The extra individual sent a floor plan to Bourbon's mailbox, looked around with a vigilant look, and said to Bourbon without turning his head, "Here's the map for you. There's no surveillance here. You just need to avoid the inspectors."

Bourbon: “You…”

He spoke so quickly that Bourbon didn't have a chance to ask any questions.

"Anyway, I have other tasks to do, and I'll meet you later!" As the boy finished speaking, he had already run to the right corner of the fork in the road.

Bourbon: “…”

The abandoned adult stood there, sighing and feeling tired: "So, how much are you, Granty, hiding from us?"