Chapter 740 Scientific ethics
Li Shentan’s clone was dead.
Just as Li Shentan had speculated, there was no doubt this imbecile of a clone would die if he went to look for Ren Xiaosu.
It was not that Li Shentan’s clone was not powerful. According to what Li Shentan himself had said, even if the clone was just an inferior version of him, he would still be the inferior version of Li Shentan. Therefore, he would definitely be much more powerful than other supernatural beings.
When Li Shentan said this, Zhou Yingxue rolled her eyes at the side. She wondered how a narcissistic person like him could become friends with her master.
But no matter how much Vanilla, Zhou Yingxue, and the others rolled their eyes, what Li Shentan said was the truth.
When Li Shentan’s clone was here earlier, he had somehow placed a psychological suggestion on them unknowingly. They did not even realize they had been hypnotized.
Therefore, if most supernatural beings in this world encountered the clone of Li Shentan, they would end up getting defeated.
But of course, Ren Xiaosu was not most supernatural beings.
When a great hypnotist encountered someone who was not afraid of hypnosis, the great hypnotist would instantly be relegated from cavalry to footman and lose all his outstanding abilities.
Moreover, when it came to carrying out a sneak attack on others, Li Shentan’s clone still paled in comparison to Ren Xiaosu.
A move like backstabbing someone while facing them was definitely not something a decent person could think of.
Actually, from the moment Li Shentan’s clone appeared, Ren Xiaosu had already noticed something was off. That was why he tested him out by talking about typhoons and magic.
First of all, Li Shentan would never try to hypnotize him or Yang Xiaojin.
Next, just as Ren Xiaosu had said, Li Shentan’s craziness was engraved deep in his bones. Usually, he would get along well with people just like a normal person. But the moment he opened his mouth to speak, you could feel a madness rolling like a turbulent wave deep inside him.
Ren Xiaosu and Li Shentan did not interact much with each other or spend much time together. But for some reason, Ren Xiaosu felt he understood him. Just like how Li Shentan understood him as well.
But when Ren Xiaosu looked at Li Shentan’s clone in front of him, his thoughts rested more on how he was created.
Was he cloned by the Pyro Company? Who else did the Pyro Company clone?
Ren Xiaosu did not have a reliable source of information, so he was unable to make any further deductions. He could only be certain that if they continued to venture deeper into the Sacred Mountains, they would definitely encounter more people like Li Shentan’s clone. Moreover, they would be even more troublesome to deal with than Li Shentan’s clone.
As he looked towards the Sacred Mountains, the rising sun was just casting a rosy hue on them from over the top of the mountains. No matter what was in there, he had to go in and have a look.
Then Ren Xiaosu noticed the others were still asleep. He woke Yang Xiaojin up first and told her about what had happened.
Yang Xiaojin thought for a moment and said, “It’s not surprising that someone stole Li Shentan’s DNA since the Li Consortium did not have the psychiatric hospital under strict supervision back then. It would be a piece of cake for the Pyro Company to get their hands on his DNA.”
“Mhm.” Ren Xiaosu nodded. “It’s just that I don’t know who else they might have cloned.”
Yang Xiaojin looked calmly at Ren Xiaosu. “You don’t know, or you don’t want to believe it?”
Ren Xiaosu fell silent.
“Actually, the two people in this era who are closest to reaching the level of the G.o.ds are closely related to you. And coincidentally, both of them came out of a psychiatric hospital.” Yang Xiaojin looked at Ren Xiaosu. “I know you’re avoiding the issue, but you’ll have to face it sooner or later. The Pyro Company is definitely not able to clone unlimited superhumans. Otherwise, you would’ve come across many different superpowers when you were facing the T3-ranked combatants. They’ve collected much more DNA samples than you can imagine.”
Yang Xiaojin continued, “So if they have to choose the DNA of the people they want to activate the superpowers of their clones with, they’ll definitely choose the strongest ones.”
Who were the strongest ones? There were only a few powerhouses that had been validated through time in this era. Among them, Li Shentan and Chen Wudi were the strongest of
all.
Since the Pyro Company possessed a DNA sample of Li Shentan, they would definitely have Chen Wudi’s as well.
Although these two people were not from the same psychiatric hospital, there was no need to a.s.sume the best-case scenario had happened. If the Pyro Company could steal the DNA sample from one psychiatric hospital, they could steal from a lot more other places.
Yang Xiaojin was probably the person who understood Ren Xiaosu the best, so she knew full well why he did not dare to make certain a.s.sumptions.
Ren Xiaosu sighed and said, “I suddenly feel a little disgusted by the Pyro Company. In the past, people always said that the Pyro Company was against scientific ethics. I was still wondering what scientific ethics were. In this world, some people don’t even have ethics anymore, so why would they still care about scientific ethics? But it wasn’t until this thing happened to me that I realized how horrible such unscrupulous research is.”
To the Pyro Company, they were just pursuing new leads in their scientific fields. But for people like Ren Xiaosu, a small part of their most precious things had been defiled.
“Let’s not think about that for now.” After Ren Xiaosu moved Li Shentan’s clone to the middle of the campsite, he signaled to Yang Xiaojin to pretend like they were hypnotized like the others.
The others just sat there asleep until noon before slowly waking up without any external intervention.
Soon after, Cheng Yu’s puzzled voice rang out in the campsite, “Isn’t this Li Shentan? Who killed him?”
Ren Xiaosu said sleepily, “Eh, did y’all do it?”
Ren Xiaosu had wanted to move Li Shentan’s clone in front of Cheng Yu so he would get greeted by this surprise when he woke up. After all, Cheng Yu had been annoying him with his sarcastic remarks throughout the journey.
However, Ren Xiaosu thought he did not have to go overboard with his actions either since their relations.h.i.+p had not deteriorated to that level. Once the expedition to the Sacred Mountains was over, everyone would go their separate ways and might not even see each other again for the rest of their lives.
Everyone at the campsite was left bewildered as they looked at the corpse of Li Shentan’s clone.
Cheng Yu subconsciously glanced at his satellite phone to see if the boss had provided any new, vital information. However, there was no signal.
As Li Shentan did not really bother hiding his whereabouts, many of the people here knew what he looked like. If this matter were to get out, it would probably cause quite a sensation throughout the world. The legendary Demon Whisperer was actually dead?
However, they did not even know who had done this. Everyone had just fallen asleep and actually missed out on something this important?
“So it was because of Li Shentan that all of us slept until noon?” Cheng Yu wondered. “But who here is capable of killing him?”
Cheng Yu’s a.s.sistant said, “Is it possible that he committed suicide?”
Ren Xiaosu stood next to Li Shentan’s corpse and said firmly, “I’ve already checked the wound. He was probably stabbed in the back with a saber. Since this is not something that he can do to himself, one of you must’ve done it!”