Chapter 25 Juzi Chapter Thirteen

There was a knock on the door, and it was still the assistant Ozaki who entered, holding a large corrugated box. "Let me know if you need anything else." He put the carton on the ground while talking, his tone was very cold. There are brand new casual clothes and T-shirts in the box. To my surprise, there are even underwear. Could it be that this assistant bought it?Thinking of this possibility, I really don't want to wear these clothes on my body. I rummaged through the bottom of the suitcase and found a change of clothes and small sundries that were in my travel bag, but something seemed to be missing.

"We didn't put in the things we didn't think you needed." The assistant seemed to see through my thoughts. "Where are those things?" "We've dealt with it." The assistant said coldly and left the room.His attitude was more rude than before, perhaps because the ultrasound examination could not be carried out smoothly.Just before the examination, my menstrual period came. Since it was much earlier than expected, I was also taken aback. Of course, the man in the white robe was also very depressed, but for the time being, there was no need to endure the pressure of the bladder. Feeling uncomfortable, I was actually relieved.

The sound of the assistant's footsteps gradually disappearing has not completely disappeared, and I have already dumped all the things in the cardboard box on the bed.These are the things I carried with me yesterday, but now I look at them and feel very nostalgic. Even a comb is like a treasure.I saw the lemon I bought in Tokyo rolling out from the bottom of the box, and I felt an inexplicable sadness in my heart. I don’t know where the lemon that fell at Chitose Airport is now? Among them, the one I can't take my eyes off is a library copy of "Annie the Red Hair". When I saw this book, my mood suddenly became much brighter.

Until the evening, I was immersed in the world of "Annie the Red Hair". Reading this book can make me temporarily forget the painful reality. Every word Anne said always makes me feel happy. The only unpleasant thing is But every time the assistant came in, it would interrupt my happy mood. Not long after the assistant packed up the dinner and walked out of the room, someone knocked on the door again. I was puzzled and asked who it was. There was a woman outside the door who greeted me and opened the door. It was a woman I had never seen before.No, I've seen her, she was the one standing by the bed last night when I was brought here.The woman was about thirty years old, slim and beautiful.

"Could you excuse me?" she said. "I want to talk to you." "I don't mind, but..." "Don't worry about that assistant, he has no right to manage me." "Okay, come in." I was still sitting on the bed. She pulled the iron chair to the side of the bed and sat down, looked at the book in my hand and asked, "What are you reading?" "This." I held the book cover in front of her eyes. She just said "Oh", "Does it look good?" "Well, it looks good." I said with certainty, and after thinking about it, I lowered my eyes: "But everyone has different preferences."

"Well, that's right." She responded casually, then looked at me with a sigh and said, "Aren't you afraid?" I didn't understand what she meant, I just stared at her blankly. Seeing that I was silent, she asked again: "I don't know how I will be treated next, aren't you afraid?" "Scared, scared to death." I answered honestly, and then I asked her, "Why are you here?" "Just like you, to save someone." "Then will your body be tampered with by them?" "Yes, but my mission is different from yours."

"Task?" "My job is to conceive and have a baby, but it's not my own," she said flatly. I don't understand, "What do you mean by not being your own child...?" "It's a surrogate mother. Through medical technology, a fertilized egg that has no blood relationship with me will be implanted in my uterus. After ten months of patience, I will give birth to a healthy baby safely. This is my mission." "In other words, in vitro fertilization...?" "Well, that's what happened." "Whose child is that?" When she heard my question, she almost blurted out the answer, but she stopped in time and shook her head and said, "I can't tell you."

"Could it be..." A conjecture appeared in my mind, but I didn't have the courage to say it out. If she didn't deny it after saying it, I couldn't imagine the consequences of this conjecture becoming true. I adjusted my breathing and asked, "They said they brought me here to treat someone's illness. What about you? They let you act as a surrogate mother to give birth to the baby. What does this have to do with medical treatment?" Her lips were slightly parted, and she stared at me with slightly tea-colored pupils. After a while, she still shook her head.

"Sorry, they told me that I can't tell you the details. If you are frightened, it will definitely increase their troubles." "I probably know it in my heart." I took several deep breaths to try to calm myself down, "The fertilized eggs that are about to be transplanted to you are obtained from me, right?" She was a little surprised, staring at me for a while, with a slight smile on her lips. "So you know all about it." "Other than that, I can't think of any other possibility." "Since you know all about it, I don't have to beat around the bush." ​​She crossed her legs, "You're right, they're going to use your eggs to make fertilized eggs and put them in my body, but it doesn't seem like pure in vitro fertilization , but I don't know the details."

Not just in vitro fertilization... "So I want to come and talk to you." She said: "I will raise your things on your behalf, so I should know something about you." "Things on me..." It's a strange feeling, my egg should turn into a life in the body of a woman with whom I have no relatives, no matter how you think about it, this is not normal. I looked at her pretty face and asked, "Aren't you against such things?" "Rejection?" She frowned slightly, "It's not just rejection, I hate it. Why do I have to put a child who has nothing to do with me into my belly? I haven't even had my own child yet." How could I not reject such a terrible thing."

Seeing her speak angrily, I panicked a little. "In this case, why..." "I have no choice but this method can save that man's life, and I don't want to hand over this task to other women." She scratched her hair roughly, "But anyway, I came here voluntarily , much better than you who were caught." "It's not that you caught me, it's just that I can't refuse..." "They threaten you? You really deserve to be Dao, you can do this kind of thing to such a young girl." "Who is Dao?" When I asked this, she froze for a moment, as if regretting that she had slipped her tongue, but then regained her composure, "It's the short guy who brought you here, he is the number one subordinate of the person we are going to save." "On the way I came here, besides him, there were two other people, one with my father, and the other to help us drive." She nodded and said, "The man who brought your father didn't know the details, and he has already left. Now there are only Dao Dao and Sakamaki left here." "That man with a strong citrus scent...is his name Sakamaki?" She couldn't help laughing. "It really stinks, right? I heard that he has body odor, so he always likes to cover up the smell with strong perfume or hair lotion, but the smell is so strong, maybe it's better not to wear anything at all." Then she He said solemnly: "You'd better be careful about this man. Although I don't know his background, he always said that Dad has treated him like a mountain, and he would sacrifice his life for Dad." "Father?" "That's the one we're trying to save." "Oh……" My head started to hurt, and everything felt unreal. I only knew that I was involved in a huge vortex, but my head couldn't even judge how big the vortex was. "I should go." She looked at the clock and stood up. "Excuse me. I feel much more relaxed after talking with you. I'm going back to my room." I silently watched her off, but when she walked to the door, she turned around and asked me, "I heard you're on your period?" I was startled, did that assistant tell others about this? "I hope your period lasts longer." She said this and left the room. I was dazed for a while and then got into the bed. The "Anne with the Red Hair" that was originally placed on the edge of the bed fell to the ground, but I was not in the mood to pick it up. The man in the white robe didn't tell me what they were going to do with my eggs, but I had a very scary assumption in my head - since I was born into this world via clone technology, they took me The eggs must be for making replicants. What the woman said just now made me affirm this conjecture. I must stop this. I must not be their accomplice. Human beings should not do this kind of thing. Besides, I understand better than anyone how painful it is to be a replicant. I turned my head and looked at the window. This is the second floor, and there are no iron windows installed. It is not difficult to escape as long as you have the heart, so I began to seriously think about the steps to escape.Get out of this house first, then avoid their sight and run to the national highway to stop passing cars, please drive me to a nearby village... However, when I think about what may happen next, I find that this plan is actually full of loopholes.Even if I managed to escape alone, it would be meaningless. They would find me immediately and threaten me again to be obedient. At that time, I would still be unable to disobey. What's more, my father is still here, and I can't escape alone without confirming his safety.I have a hunch that if I don't meet my father here, I'm afraid I'll never see him again. After thinking about it for a long time, I decided to stay.I can't move forward, and I can't retreat, maybe this is my fate.Eighteen years ago, I was born as an experimental product through the technology of replicating human beings to welcome the arrival of this day, so I cannot resist fate, just like it is impossible for a white mouse used in an experiment to stay away from the experiment and return to nature. I lay on the bed and wanted to cry, I felt endless despair, but I couldn't shed a single tear, there was another extremely calm me in my body that kept whispering in my ear: "No way, who taught you to be a white mouse What?" I realized once again that I shouldn't exist in this world at all... I think of the student dormitory in Hakodate, I really want to go back there, I don't want to contact the outside world anymore, I just want to live quietly by myself.I wonder if everything is fine with Sister Hosono?I believe that even if she finds out that I was born against the will of God, she will still treat me tenderly. I really want to be like Anne Shirley who doesn't care about my own background and live cheerfully and strongly. I propped up my heavy body and climbed out of bed to pick up my most precious book. I flipped through the page I had just read halfway, hoping to continue reading this book to bring myself some cheerful mood. I flipped through the pages one by one, and suddenly stopped, because I saw a line of pencil writing in the blank space of a certain page: "Read the back of the book jacket." The back of the jacket? I opened the book jacket of the novel and looked at it, and I couldn't help being stunned. A lot of words were densely written on the back of the book jacket. My heart was beating more and more intensely, and my ears were buzzing, so I read it line by line. It begins with "To Juzi", which is my father's note. "To Juzi. I know you have many questions in your heart, and I also know that you went to Tokyo to seek answers. I have been hiding many things from you all this time. At this moment, I am obliged to tell you the truth." Each of the small blue ink characters is neatly written. Thinking of my father's appearance when he wrote this message, my chest can't help but feel hot.My father must know that this book is my only pleasure here, so he thought of sending me a message through this method. My father’s message started from the clone research project he had participated in. He first told me about the visit of the Takashiro couple, and explained that Ms. Akiko was his love object when he was a student, and then briefly described Ms. Akiko’s nuclear transfer egg production and The process of cryopreservation of embryos. Next, the father mentioned the torment the frozen embryo had brought him. "At that time, Jinghui, your mother, and I had a blind date and married for five years. I still can't forget Akiko Takashiro, no, in my heart she will always be a single woman named Akiko Abe. The embryo of a beloved one It was in my hands, and I cried bitterly. I kept telling myself not to have evil thoughts, but there was an idea that kept circling in my mind: If this embryo was bred and grown up safely, it would become a woman exactly like her... At that time, my husband and I were urged by our parents because we had no children. They suggested that since I was doing research on in vitro fertilization at Hokuto Medical University, why not try to have a child through in vitro fertilization.At the beginning, Jinghui's willingness was not high, and then I gradually felt that I might as well give it a try. But at that time, this technology was still in the research stage, and I was opposed to it. It was not until Jinghui's mind was made up that I decided to give it a go with her. . At this time, I had no evil thoughts in my mind, and I just planned to carry out a simple in vitro fertilization.We made a strict itinerary and decided on the day of egg collection. But maybe it was a trick of fate. The doctor in charge of the egg harvesting operation anesthetized Jinghui and cut open the ovary before discovering that her eggs had been released. As a result, the doctor did nothing and did not explain to Jinghui. I explained the situation while I was in another room preparing to collect semen for fertilization. Hearing what he told me, a terrible idea appeared in my head. I knew it was absolutely impossible to do, but I couldn't resist the temptation.As long as that frozen embryo implants in Jinghui, I can have Akiko forever....The demons in me kept egging me on. So I said to the doctor, leave it to me to deal with it, and I will explain it to my wife in person.I then thawed Akiko's frozen embryo and implanted it in Jinghui's uterus without telling anyone.I kept praying in my heart for a successful pregnancy, and Jinghui was also praying, but what she prayed for was a smooth birth of her and her husband's child. And just like that, she was pregnant.I won't go into details about the process from pregnancy to delivery. In many senses, Jinghui and I have reached the pinnacle of happiness, and we have been blessed by everyone. You didn't have any problems in the first few years after you were born. As I expected, you look exactly like my beloved when I was a child. Every time I see you, I feel so happy. Of course, Jinghui also loves you deeply, after all, you are her child who was born in October of her pregnancy. Although your appearance is completely different from hers, she doesn't care, she believes that when you grow up, you should be more similar. But as you grew up, Jinghui's doubts grew, and she began to seriously think about why you look nothing like her. But at this time, I was holding another kind of trouble.You look more and more like Akiko Abe. When I see you, my heart cannot be calm.Every time I think that you will grow up one day, the anxiety in my heart is always greater than the expectation. I can't predict how I will react at that time. I am very afraid of myself, because I can't treat you as a daughter. I have been troubled for a long time and decided to send you to a far away place, so I let you live in school.Maybe you always thought it was Jinghui's idea, but in fact everything was my decision. I believe that Jinghui never hated you, she always blamed herself, thinking that she shouldn't care so much about whether her daughter resembles her or not, she feels that she is a neglectful mother. Just because she loves you so much, I can easily imagine how shocked and sad she was when she saw the photo of Abe Akiko in my old photo book.Jinghui went to Tokyo alone and found out that Abe Akiko was my former love object. She immediately believed that the fertilized eggs she received were fertilized by her husband's sperm and other women's eggs.It is reasonable for her to infer this, because she has absolutely no knowledge about replicants. Full of despair, she chose the most tragic path, which is to kill me and you before committing suicide.In this way, the three of us ushered in that terrible night that will never be forgotten. Sleeping pills were given to dinner that day, I believe you also noticed it afterwards.Not long after you fell asleep, I also fell into a deep sleep, but before I fell asleep, Jinghui told me her plan and motives in detail. She said that she was tricked by me and gave birth to someone else's child She also brought up the child until she had no energy left to live, and she also said that she hated me from the bottom of her heart.I can't argue with that because she's right.Just like that, I fell asleep and lost consciousness. When I woke up, I found myself lying on the floor of the living room. Maybe I was used to taking sleeping pills so I woke up earlier.I immediately noticed the strong smell of gas and ran upstairs, but at this moment, a big explosion happened, and the whole house was engulfed in flames. You should remember this scene. Speaking of which, you may have a doubt in your mind - I didn't mention the matter of carrying you outside the house at all. That's right, I wasn't the one who carried you outside the house before the explosion, so who saved you?There is only one possibility, it is Jing Hui, Jing Hui who originally wanted to kill you took you out.At the last moment, her love for you overcame other thoughts, even if there is no blood relationship, she is your mother after all. I have always wanted to tell you about this incident, and I know you have faintly realized that it was not a simple accident, but that my mother wanted to take us to commit suicide together.It is also because I know that you know it in your heart, and I hope that I can confess everything to you, but if I say this, I will pull out those terrible and dark pasts, and I still can't muster up the courage. " After reading this, my tears wet the words. Mother…… It turns out that my mother doesn't hate me. She often shows a sad expression not because I don't look like her, but because she blames herself for always caring about it.My mother's love for me has never changed. Even if I don't have her genes in me...