Chapter 223: I will protect you.

According to He Yu, Duan Cuizhen was born in the 1930s in Duanjia Village, Qingli County, and was a senior chemistry major at HU. She probably had some experience on HU's Neverland when she was a student, so she built her own Mandela Island as an enlarged version of Neverland.

Duan Cuizhen, who is not in good health, rarely shows her face to members of Mandela's organization, and does not talk about her past, leaving most of the work to Duan Wen.

"When I first came to the island," He Yu said. He Yu said, "Just like you guys, I thought Duan Wen was the biggest leader of the whole organization, but later I found out that the one the people on the island feared more than Duan Wen was the 'granny'. I waited a long time to see the real face of the granny, but I never met her. I tried to make inquiries, yet the people on the island had very little trust in me at that time, and they controlled me while healing me."

Xie Qingcheng understands completely when he says this.

He Yu was rescued by Duan Wen's organization after the shipwreck.

During the naval battle, He Yu disguised himself as a defector to Duan Wen, even going so far as to implant a microchip in his heart to gain Duan Wen's trust.

As a result, the first time Duan Wen was so badly victimized, Mandela's man-made island, which had been undiscovered for decades, was exposed to the police system, and He Yu became a sword stabbed into Mandela's headquarters.

Under such circumstances, Duan Wen's refusal to kill He Yu was considered to be a generous heart that cherished talents, so how could he not be on guard or restrain him?

"It took me a long time and a lot of ideas on his behalf, and slowly the limits of the island opened up to me, and they came to see me as half of their own." He Yu says, "And the key to getting Duan Wen to take me in was what happened after they took me to the castle's underground testing grounds - where I saw my mother."

Xie Qingcheng Although he was still exhausted from the affair, he still listened very carefully, pondering as he listened.

He Yu's voice was soft as he brought Xie Qingcheng into his memories.

"After my mother's death she was frozen by them in liquid nitrogen in a hurry and preserved in a special slumber bin. Twenty years have passed and she's still exactly the same as she was before, time has come to a complete stop on her."

"The moment I saw her was devastating." He Yu said, "I never thought before ...... that one day I would still be able to see my mom, still be able to see the person who lived in other people's descriptions and stubbornly protected me and loved me. I stood outside the biological warehouse and looked at her, the feeling was very wonderful, I in that moment as if I really feel what is the real affection. Even though she had closed her eyes and would no longer look at me or talk to me ...... I could instantly think of her as she was when she was alive, I could even imagine her calling me He Yu."

He said this and calmed down for a moment before he went on to finish his sentence.

"I know this is my mom. The real one. The one who has protected me with her life."

Xie Qingcheng couldn't help but think that if there hadn't been Lv Zhishu, if Lv Zhishu hadn't separated mother and son, and then taken over the nest, seized the heir and lied to the He family for twenty years by claiming to be He Yu's biological mother, then He Yu would have had a perfect home.

His mother and father would love him and he could grow up healthy and happy like a normal boy.

He coughed softly. He was so emotional that he could imagine how He Yu felt when he saw Vivian's body.

"Duan Wen was standing next to me at the time and took in my reaction," He Yu said. He Yu said, "He knew that I was very, very desperate, that I was very sick and very injured, and it was hard to get my life back, but I couldn't find anything to live for. And he showed me my mom ...... My mom was sleeping there, and Duan Wen asked me, he said, do you wish your mother would wake up and come back to you."

Xie Qingcheng's eyes dimmed slightly, "But she has ......"

"I know." He Yu took over without letting Xie Qingcheng finish his sentence, "I know she's gone. But Duan Wen drew me a blueprint at the time, and I have to say, it was very tantalizing."

"He told me about Mandela's meta-universe project, gave me the concept of thought disembodiment, and he said that the reason they hadn't destroyed Vivian's body was because she was actually a Matrix very much in line with their organization's requirements. They had analyzed her genes and concluded that she was a rare and precious human body that very much met their research needs, so they had been maintaining her corpse at a high cost all these years without any damage. When Mandela's technology matures, her body and her mind will be activated and awakened." He Yu said, "My mom will be able to come back to life."

The idea of liquid nitrogen cryopreservation for resurrection is not unique to Mandela's organization. There are cases around the world where scientific organizations have taken on the business at a high cost to rapidly cryopreserve the dead and leave their remains intact, waiting for the day when future technology will wake them up, thus giving a chance of life to those who do not want to face death.

But the scientific research is highly controversial, with a significant portion of the population believing that the resurrection of the dead is never possible, including a large number of people in related academic disciplines.

Xie Qingcheng : "Did you believe then."

"I was moved, and if you had seen her body, you would have hesitated, because she looked like she was just sleeping." He Yu says, "Duan Wen and the others were hoping for the same kind of feedback I got. But I didn't have a deeper understanding of Mandela's scientific capabilities at the time, and I told Duan Wen that there hadn't been any successes with liquid nitrogen-frozen dead people, not to mention mind transplants, and how long it would take."

"What did Duan Wen say?"

"Duan Wen didn't say anything, and after I asked him that, I heard the sound of clacking heels walking from behind me." He Yu said, "I thought it was a staff member of the underground lab and looked back without much concern. Then I saw 'him' for the first time."

"Who?"

"A little boy, eight or nine years old. I've never seen such a creepy little kid before, and he was wearing a customized little red suit dress, with a pair of women's high-heeled leather shoes, looking at me with his hands behind his back with a smirk, his eyes like a ninety-year-old crone's." He Yu said, "I asked who he was. Duan Wen told me that he was a testament to Mandela's scientific ability and, I'm afraid, the only successful mind transplant in the world."

He paused, "It wasn't until then that I realized that the boy in front of me was the 'taiyoukai' they were talking about."

Xie Qingcheng was under the warm bedding, but got goosebumps: "So Duan Cuizhen did transplant his mind into a boy's body?"

"Yes." He Yu said, "As they say, Duan Cuizhen completed a brain transplant and was reborn with a new body, and this surgery, it wasn't even her first surgery anymore."

He continued, "But at that time, I only knew that he was a successful brain transplant case and the leader of this island, but I didn't know his true identity before the body swap, and I didn't know that he was the ' Hui Zhen ' in the police officer's portrait. But I was clear that he must be the key to the problem, so I've been secretly investigating in secret, and a while ago I finally found out the whole truth - he is ' Hui Zhen ', real name ' Duan Cuizhen '."

"As far as I know, Duan Cuizhen herself was contaminated by radiation in her lab and developed cancer, and in 2000, her body couldn't take it anymore. But she didn't want to succumb to death, so she asked the scientists on the island to do her first crazy brain-swapping experiment. The experiment was good, but the donor was not easy to find, and Duan Cuizhen sent people to test a lot of samples, but the success rate of the simulation was very low. Until finally, someone found her half-sister in Duan Jia Village."

"Her sister was already over seventy at the time." He Yu said, "She was not in good health either, and had been living in Cheongnyi County. We've been to Cheongnyi before. Do you remember Lu Yuzhu's daughter, Yi Awen?"

"Remember." Xie Qingcheng frowned, "I also remember that we met someone who looked a lot like Lu Yuzhu in Qingli County, and she's the one who gave us the school archive we were checking out at the time, which was ......"

"That was sent by Duan Wen to send us information in order to kill people with a borrowed knife, except for Huang Zhilong.I have also investigated her situation clearly, I will talk to you later." He Yu was methodical and proceeded to tell the story of Duan Cuizhen, "That place in Qingli County, decades ago, was even more closed and backward with more chaos than when we probed it. Duan Cuizhen's sister married two men and had six children, but only one boy survived. That boy contracted a vice that many men in Qingli County have - gambling. When he ran out of money from gambling, he forced both his wife and his old mother to go out and sell ...... Very absurd, but true."

"By the time Duan Cuizhen found her sister, her sister's son had already been decapitated because he couldn't pay his gambling debts, and her daughter-in-law had died a few years before. She was all that was left of their family, riddled with maladies, flabby skin and flesh, and her lower body emitting the stench of gynecological maladies....... You can imagine Duan Cuizhen's disappointment when she learned that this was the only donor who was a ninety percent or more match for her."

He Yu adjusted his sleeping position, straightened the goose down comforter covering the two of them, and continued, "But she didn't have a better choice at the time, her sister was the only donor she'd found in Zero Zero, and her own cancer was deteriorating so badly that, in the end, she'd had to resign herself to her fate, and allow the researchers to transplant her mind into her sister's body. "

Xie Qingcheng: "Then her sister--"

He Yu: "Remove the brain. Kill."

"......"

"Duan Cuizhen had no bond with her sister and didn't even grow up together." He Yu said, "Not to mention that she has no humanity whatsoever, taking the life of a seventy year old woman would be no harder for her than killing a chicken. She conducted an experiment on her sister that put her to death, and the result of that experiment was that she succeeded."

"This is the first human brain transplant we know of, and Duan Cuizhen has abandoned her terminally cancerous body to be brought back to life on her sister's flesh and blood. She was overjoyed, but so upset."

Xie Qingcheng is baffled: "She's not willing?"

He Yu: "She's not happy. You mustn't forget that her sister is older than she is, and has all sorts of maladies, maladies that can be contained or even cured with the medical care on the island, but that would certainly be torture for Duan Cuizhen. After the successful brain transplant, she wonders when she can get a second transplant. Since she can do it to her sister now, one day she will be able to overcome the medical hurdles and transfer her mind to a younger, healthier body that will allow her to enjoy life."

He paused and continued.

"She started going around collecting genetic samples to find a suitable donor for her own second surgery ...... then ...... " He Yu's eyes darkened. "She looked at my mother."

"!!!"

"Yes." He Yu coldly said, "Duan Wen lied to me when he said that they only discovered that my mother was genetically special after her death. They found out that her genes were rare first, and only then did they plot to move!"

"Duan Cuizhen needs my mother's body ...... In her measurement report, my mother, although not related to her in any way, is genetically suited to her, with a match of over seventy."

This was something Xie Qingcheng hadn't even imagined, as if he had been dipped into a glacier, he couldn't help but cough again, "So ......"

He gasped, "Back then, it was actually Duan Cuizhen who wanted your mother's life, and then deliberately lured Wei Rong into setting up a trap?"

"Yes. Back then, Wei Rong's use of drugs to harm my mother was not a scheme Wei Rong came up with alone, but was instigated by Duan Cuizhen. But neither of them is innocent, both of them want her to die." He Yu said woodenly, "Without Duan Cuizhen, Wei Rong would have tried to harm her. Without Wei Rong, Duan Cuizhen would also have plotted to take her life, it's just that the two of them clicked at this time, and Wei Rong's brain is not as good as Duan Hui Zhen's, so he made a knife for her to kill two birds with one stone."

Creepy ......

It's amazing how it's all been set up like this.

But--

"They organized the killing of your mother and still believe you would actually help her?"

"She never believed I would help her willingly." He Yu said, "Duan Wen never believed it either. It's just that they all thought I had no choice."

"......"

"I had nothing left at that point, I ...... was left with nothing after the shipwreck."

When Xie Qingcheng heard this, his face turned slightly white. People's trust can't be betrayed, human life is most important, this is where he always felt he owed He Yu, even if He Yu doesn't care about it anymore, he still feels bad when he hears about it.

He Yu was gradually getting into the mood, not realizing that he had touched on Xie Qingcheng's sadness. His expression became somewhat morbid as he continued, "I was lonely...a fact that even Duan Wen saw. So, on one side was despair, and on the other was the chance for my mother to be reborn. As long as she lives, I won't be alone, I'm going to have a new life, I'll have a home."

"......"

He Yu's voice was close to a sigh, "They made me such promises, promising me that Mandela would try to save my mother's life in the future, as long as I cooperated with them. They didn't think I would have a better path to take."

"But ......" Xie Qingcheng said softly, "Didn't Duan Cuizhen murder your mother in order to transplant it into her? If she revived your mother, wouldn't it be a wasted effort?"

He Yu : "She did 'once' want to move into my mother's body. But then something happened and she gave up that idea many years ago, otherwise she wouldn't have appeared to me as a little boy, but would have used my mother's body in the second transplant."

This is indeed a problem.

Duan Cuizhen performed his first transplant in 2000, then began searching for a spare human body and teamed up with Wei Rong to murder Vivian.

Then on the second transplant, she's perfectly capable of using Vivian's body, but instead of using her straight away, she does save it first, and when she can't delay the first body any longer, she still doesn't use the Vivian she went through the trouble of getting in the first place, instead choosing a nine year old boy, which is bound to have some sort of twist to it.

Xie Qingcheng: "What happened?"

"Rejection of perversion." He Yu said.

Normal organ transplants are subject to rejection, and brain transplants are naturally more treacherous.

Two or three years after Duan Cuizhen's successful body-swap, almost as soon as she laid hands on Vivian, this reaction emerged.

"Brain transplant rejection is called rejection anomaly by Mandela because it is not only a normal rejection, but it also has some symptoms that are unique to brain transplants. After the brain transplant, Duan Cuizhen had a lot of mental problems because some of the donor's nerves were preserved during the surgery. She didn't tell us exactly, but judging from her behavior, she must have been in a lot of pain. The pain was even beyond her normal range of tolerance." He Yu said, "And the pain was so severe that it was beyond her ability to cope. He Yu said, "The lower the body's match, the greater the rejection reaction, Duan Cuizhen used her sister's body, and had already suffered from such torment with over ninety percent of the matches, so she cowered in the face of my mother's seventy percent of the matches."

"She knows she must not be able to stand it." Xie Qingcheng said.

He Yu: "Yes."

"Then the boy ......"

"That boy is her great-grandson."

Xie Qingcheng frowned, "You just said that Duan Wen should also be her grandchild."

"Well, I'm guessing because I once heard Duan Cuizhen talking about her genetic match to Duan Wen." He Yu said, "It's about sixty, so normally they would be related."

"But sixty's fitness is still too low, or she must not have even let Duan Wen go. And that boy was a child of her sister's line, an outcast, and it took her a great deal of effort to find him. His fitness was eighty-five percent, leaving her barely satisfied. So when the first body ran out of gas, she didn't activate my mom's body, but more conservatively, chose the great-grandson she found, and then ...... she completed the second brain transplant."

There was silence within the futon for a long time.

"She killed her sister and then her great-grandson?"

"Yes, she'll do anything for her own purposes." He Yu said, "In her opinion, as long as the metaverse plan is finally implemented and successful, there is nothing in the world that cannot be recreated and replaced, and she is perfectly capable of using the metaverse to create another datatable sister, great-grandchild,...... On this path, she will not put anyone's life in her eyes. However, she is still very upset today."

Xie Qingcheng : "What else is she not willing to do? A nine year old child is enough for her to live her whole life over again!"

"Rejecting the mutation." He Yu said softly, "It hurts, and I've heard that she sometimes feels as if she's dying. And she doesn't seem to like men's bodies. She wants to overcome this limitation of donor selection fitness, and wants complete relief from the ailments she's experiencing due to her inability to adapt to her new body. She wants relief."

"It might seem impossible to anyone else, but she sent people around the world a long time ago to collect medical cases and state-of-the-art scientific research. The American biology lab that developed rn-13 contained a researcher she recruited, and she engineered an accidental death so that everyone else would think the researcher was dead, when he wasn't at all. He became her henchman, and she used this to invent the more potent rn-13 ......"

"Duan Cuizhen believes that there is nothing in the medical field that she can't overcome, so she has been constantly trying and finding the perfect solution since she first realized she was having rejection, which has lasted nearly two decades now."

At this point, He Yu stopped, his breath lingering between Xie Qingcheng's nostrils, he looked at Xie Qingcheng's eyes and felt that Xie Qingcheng had actually guessed something he had not said.

Frustrated, Xie Qingcheng whispered, "She found a way, didn't she?"

"...... That's right. You've got it."

The supreme adaptability that no one in the world can match, the ability to accept serums, transplants, and to adapt to experiments that no one in the world can withstand ......

Xie Qingcheng said, "She's looking for the First Emperor."

"...... Right." He Yu said, "As long as she has the Primordial Emperor data, she can theoretically use any human body for transplantation. This set of data can solve a lot of problems on her path to immortality. Giving her unlimited freedom of donor choice."

He raised his hand and touched Xie Qingcheng's cool face.

This futon was their warm place, the place where they told their secrets, and the nest where they both housed themselves.

Heaven and earth were so big, but the two of them only had the chance to face each other like this without disguise in this tiny bed, between the pillows and covers.

He Yu's voice was as light as a mosquito, ''This is why your secret must never be known by her. She used virtual reality to mislead the Dream Breakers, but she herself was misled by Professor Qin with lies, she always thought that the First Emperor was a set of data, so back then, she was the one who sent people into your house to search through those notes....... If she were to know that there is a person like you in this world... ..."

His voice was lower, almost inaudible against his ear.

"The magic box of Pan Duola, then, is about to be completely opened."

"......"

"So as long as I'm around, I won't let her find you." He Yu's fingertips brushed over Xie Qingcheng's eyelids, "No matter what happened before us, Xie Qingcheng. this time, I will protect you."

Lips almost pressed to lips.

Like a magic spell.

"And only I, can protect you."