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Chapter 21 Juzi Chapter Eleven

doppelgänger 东野圭吾 2808Words 2018-03-22
"As you said," the man said in a deep voice, "we need you because you are a replicant. Let me tell you one more thing, you will be born and we have a great relationship, so we have everything to you If you know it in the palm of your hand, it may be better than you in a certain sense." The man's words made something want to rush out of my body, sadness and despair welled up in my heart again, although I had already awakened, this dark force still completely crushed me.Only then did I realize that even though it was a fact that I was a replicant, I still secretly hoped that someone would tell me it was not true, and I still fantasized that all this was just a misunderstanding.

Tears almost overflowed my eyes, and I looked out the window and wiped them away with my fingertips. "Miss Kobayashi Futaba...is that also?" "Yes, she is also a replicant." The man replied very simply. "Are we all clones of Ms. Akiko Takashiro?" The man was stunned and speechless when he heard this sentence, and laughed in a low voice after a while. "It's amazing, you can find out so many things." I looked directly at the man and said, "You just said that you guys know me better than I do myself." "yes." "Then please tell me why I was born? What is the secret behind the birth of Miss Kobayashi Futaba and me?"

The man slowly closed his eyes and opened them again, "Why are you asking this?" "I just want to know the facts." He sighed helplessly, "Simply put, it was a mistake." "mistake?" "Well, the ones who made the mistake were Miss Kobayashi Futaba's mother and the teacher of the Uji family. Our original plan was perfect, and this kind of mistake shouldn't have happened. It's all because of their rash actions that caused today's situation. But..." The man's crossed legs changed sides, "The mistakes they made back then have helped a lot now, thanks to the fact that you were born in the first place."

The man's words weighed heavily on my heart. Although I still couldn't let go of the many doubts in my heart, I didn't have the courage to continue asking. I was afraid that the more I knew, the closer I would be to the abyss of eternal doom. Simply put, it was a mistake... Only this sentence keeps echoing in my ears. After entering Sapporo, the car was still driving on the Douyang Expressway and continued towards Asahikawa.I am not surprised, the place we are going to must be the place where my father and Professor Jiuneng conducted demon research together and created me, that is Beidou Medical University.

But the car didn't drive all the way to the end of the expressway, but on the way, Takikawa got off the interchange and drove into the normal road. I looked at the man and asked, "Aren't we going to Beidou Medical University?" "It's right to go there." The man said. "But this way..." "Sit obediently and don't need to ask more questions." The man smiled strangely. I turned to look behind the car. The headlights of another car followed ours. My father must be in that car. "Can I talk to my father when we get there?" I asked the man.

"Well, it depends on the situation. To be honest, we are running out of time." "It's all right now, please let my father and I talk alone." I begged. The man stared blankly at the darkness ahead, his profile was like a puppet. "Okay, I'll think about it." There was no emotion in his tone, and I knew he meant "no". I stared at his profile and said, "I... haven't promised to help you, if I'm not allowed to talk to my father..." The man's sharp eyes glanced at me, and I shrank back and dared not speak further. "It seems that you still don't understand your situation." When he said this, the man still used honorifics, which sounded more threatening. "I just said that we have an inseparable relationship with your birth. In other words, we are in the same boat as you. It is impossible for only one side to be happy or only one side to be unhappy. You help us It's like helping yourself."

"But……" "You just have to obediently do what we say." The man said, "Unless you don't want to be a normal human again." He put emphasis on the word "normal", and would say something like this, indicating that he didn't think I was a normal human being at all, and he must think that it doesn't matter how much I hurt me. I understood what this man was saying—— If you don't want the world to find out that you are a replicant, just do as we say. I looked at the car behind me again, and my father must have been threatened by this sentence to let them have whatever they want.

The car kept moving forward, and I couldn't see the scenery clearly at night, but I could vaguely see that there were no buildings on both sides of the road, only a large stretch of vast grassland. I gradually grasped the current position. We passed Asahikawa and continued to walk south. So it should be in the Furano area. How far have you traveled since getting off the highway?Perhaps because of the emotional tension for a long time, I began to feel sleepy.Today, not only was the journey tiring, but also heard too many amazing news.It was today when I met Mr. Gaocheng, and it was also today when I learned that I was a clone, but those things seemed so far away. Even now, I still can’t accept these facts, and I always feel that everything is just a long nightmare.

Suddenly my body started to shake, and I couldn't help opening my eyes. It turned out that I just fell asleep unknowingly.I looked outside, the road the car was driving on was quite different from before, it seemed to be driving on a narrow agricultural road. "It's almost here," said the man beside him. Soon, a square white building appeared in the woods ahead. The car slowed down to the side of the building, and the tires made a sound when they were pressed against the gravel. As soon as the car stopped, the man who was driving quickly got out of the car and opened the door on my side. I stepped out of the car, and a gust of cold air pressed against my face. Only then did I deeply feel that I had returned to Hokkaido.

After a while, another car also arrived. As soon as the car stopped, the door opened quickly, and the father and the others also got out of the car. "Dad..." I wanted to run over, but the man driving the car held my arm tightly.My father seemed to have heard my call and turned to look at me, but my father was restricted in his movements just like me. I saw them walking towards the dark part of the building. "Miss, you have to go this way." The short man made a "this way please" gesture towards the entrance on the side, and the driving man pushed me on the back to urge me to move forward, and the strong citrus aroma hit me again.

I looked up inadvertently, and there was a woman standing by the window on the second floor looking down at me. Her long hair was braided and hanging down her right shoulder. Our eyes met, and the woman immediately closed the curtains. "Who is that person?" I asked the man driving, but he didn't answer, but just pushed me harder. The room smelled like hospital medicine, but there were no waiting rooms or halls, just a corridor lined with rooms. There was a sound of slippers rubbing on the floor from nowhere, and two white figures appeared in the depths of the dark corridor. A middle-aged man in a white robe and a terribly thin man walked over. "Thank you." The man in the white robe said to the little man beside me. "This is the long-awaited guest." The little man said. The man in the white robe stared at me with a strange look in his eyes. "Wow, it's a miracle, it's unbelievable." "Teacher, haven't you met Kobayashi Futaba?" "Well, the shocks brought to me by both sides are comparable." He looked at me intently. "I talked to her in the car, and she readily agreed to cooperate with us." The little man put his hand on my shoulder. "Very well, let's start tomorrow morning." "Then I'm counting on you, every second counts now." "I understand." The man in white robe turned to the thin man and said, "Ozaki, take this lady to the ward." The man called Ozaki took a step forward and nodded to me to go with him. I had no choice but to follow behind him. At this moment, the short man suddenly said, "Help the lady keep the luggage." The driving man rushed up and took it away. With the travel bag in my hand, I couldn't help but breathe out softly. "Just tell Ozaki what you need, and he will prepare it for you." The tone of the man in the white robe was chilling. I followed Ozaki in the empty corridor, went up one floor, and continued walking along the corridor. "Excuse me, where is this place?" I asked his back, but he just walked forward silently. Ozaki stopped in front of a door with "3" written on it.He unlocked the door and pushed it open, motioning me in with a push of his chin. The room is about five square meters in size, with a bed next to the bed. Other than that, there is only an iron table, an iron chair and a simple locker. Ozaki pointed to a small button next to the pillow and said, "Press this call bell if you need something." His voice was very hoarse, and he could hardly hear clearly. "Do you have any other questions?" "I want to... put on my pajamas, can I have my luggage back?" He thought for a while and said, "If the higher authorities allow it, I'll bring it over later. Is there anything else?" "nothing now." He nodded and walked out of the room. The moment he closed the door, I felt as if I was abandoned at the end of the world.
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