Searching for Treasures in the Clouds

Chapter 368 The Secret to Immortality

At this moment, Yu Ru opened her eyes.

"Madam!" Sister Shan exclaimed with delight, "Is it uncomfortable to hold you like this?"

Yu Ru shook her head. "I'm fine. I feel... still alive." She braced herself on the ground as if to get up. "Sister Shan, help me up."

"Hey, okay."

Yu Ru stood up, turned to look at Liu Bujing, and walked unsteadily toward him. She stopped in front of Liu Bujing and said, "Liu Bujing, thank you. I will find someone to treat you, I will cover the medical expenses, and I will find someone to take care of you 24 hours a day."

After saying that, she turned and walked in another direction.

The immortal man had been tied to a pillar by the bodyguards, but he was still restless, trying to break free of his ropes. Yu Ru approached him with a large iron nail and a hammer, her expression serious, her eyes filled with murderous intent, sharp enough to slowly tear the man apart. "You didn't kill me today, but there's plenty of time. I'll slaughter your entire family in the future."

"You son of a bitch! You think someone as lowly as you can kill me? Let me tell you, no way!" the man roared.

"Then let's see if I can kill you. I've already discovered your weakness. Just wait to die."

Yu Ru raised the large iron nail in her hand, aimed it at the man's left eye, and smashed it down with the hammer. The man immediately stopped moving, but could still speak.

"I……"

Just as he was about to curse, Yu Ru smashed the nail into his right eye again.

Now, the man is completely ruined.

The video ends here, and the next video begins to play.

At the beginning of the video, Yu Ru is in her room, sitting in a chair, looking in the mirror. In this video, her hair has turned quite a bit whiter, and if you only look at her head and not her face or body, she really looks like an elderly person in her twilight years.

"Madam." Sister Shan has arrived.

Yu Ru looked up and asked, "Is there something you need, Sister Shan?"

"Madam, Xiao Guang just deciphered some data; it's on this phone." Sister Shan approached Yu Ru and handed her a phone. "The razor and hat were also bought." Sister Shan then placed a plastic bag on the table.

"Okay, thank you." Yu Ru took the phone and put it down again, then went to unpack the new razor she had bought. She opened the box, took out the razor and examined it for a while, then held it up in front of Sister Shan and said, "Sister Shan, please shave my head, make it bald."

Sister Shan took the razor blankly and asked incredulously, "Madam, why are you shaving your head all bald? What happened? Your hair is so beautiful and long, it's such a waste to shave it off."

"How do you look now?" Yu Ru smiled and picked up a strand of hair. "It's all white, like an old lady. I should shave it off and let it grow back. I've thought about it for a long, long time and I've made up my mind."

……

Yu Ru was determined to shave her head.

Standing beside Yu Ru, Sister Shan carefully shaved her head. Thinking about what had happened recently, she couldn't help but ask, "Madam, there's something I'm curious about. Was that man from the other day considered human or not?"

"Theoretically speaking, he counts as a person, but logically speaking, I don't think so."

Yu Ru had already killed the man once, but she still considered him human and didn't pay much attention. Little did she know he was only half-human, not truly dead, but feigning death, waiting for an opportunity to kill her. Because there were too many corpses, she couldn't deal with him immediately, allowing him to escape and wreak havoc. Finally, after completely "killing" him, Yu Ru disassembled him, only to discover that his interior was actually a robot.

This robot possesses human thoughts and memories, and its surface has flesh and blood with warmth. Most surprisingly, it also has most of the organs that humans typically have, except that its internal skeleton is made of some kind of composite material, and its brain is mechanical. It is precisely this hybrid structure that prevents anyone from doubting that it is a robot.

"Madam, what is he then? Can a robot be made so realistically? It even bleeds. Did they cut open a person's body, take out the bones, and then put those titanium alloys back in as bones?"

Two days ago, Yu Ru was choked by a mecha, causing severe congestion and swelling in her throat. Fortunately, Sister Shan had also been choked and suffered severe congestion before, so she had some experience and brought medication with her to give Yu Ru in time. This prevented Yu Ru's throat from being ruined, otherwise she would have truly become mute. However, her throat injury was severe, and she would need to take medication for several more days to recover, so she dared not speak too much.

Knowing that explaining the mecha would be a bit complicated and involved a lot of words, she connected her phone to a small keyboard, typed in her response, and had it read aloud by AI to communicate with Sister Shan. She typed very quickly, finishing her response in just a few seconds.

"He should be a product of a higher level than a robot, a bio-mecha, or you could say a clone. I've heard before that our people secretly researched this kind of mecha in order to more thoroughly plant spies among us. They used gene editing to transform an ordinary cell into a pluripotent cell, enabling the cell to regenerate all the tissues and organs of the human body. So, he has flesh and blood, not because the original owner was dissected and stuffed into a titanium alloy skeleton, but because everything about him was extracted from the original owner's genes, built from scratch according to the original owner's appearance, and even replicated the original owner's memories. This kind of mecha with memories, thoughts, and the ability to speak is impossible to detect without special methods; it probably wouldn't even pass through security checks."

Sister Shan paused in her shaving motion. "Madam, then... if this mecha has the original owner's memories and thoughts, and can't be killed no matter how you cut it, wouldn't that be considered immortality?"

Yu Ru typed on the keyboard again: "It's possible, but the price to pay is becoming a puppet. I haven't figured out how they transferred the original owner's memories into the mecha yet, but one thing is certain: all the mecha's behaviors and ways of thinking are simulated by algorithms. They can imitate and rewrite. The people who created the mecha tampered with the mecha's memories and implanted an irresistible mission program into it. They can only accept their fate."

"Still controlled by those inventors? Then this isn't a robot, it's not human." Sister Shan continued shaving Yu Ru's head. "Madam, now that you mention it, I feel that this isn't immortality, it's just a fake living in place of the original owner. Although it was made using the original owner's genes, it's more like having a test-tube son, except that the son grows fast. It takes others eighteen years to grow up, but he grows up in eighteen days."

Yu Ru smiled and typed on the keyboard: "Sister Shan, your analogy is quite apt."

"Madam, where did all those replicas of the mecha go? I think... like the one who died a couple of days ago, he looked quite young, and didn't seem like he was going to die, so how come he got a different mecha body?" Sister Shan asked again.

Sister Shan was shaving Yu Ru's head, combing her hair after each shave. This made Yu Ru feel so comfortable that she became drowsy. She couldn't help but close her eyes and start typing blindly. Fortunately, she had modified the input method on her phone, which could automatically correct inaccurate words, so even with incorrect words typed blindly, it could still convey her meaning.

"They're either dead or imprisoned. From what I know, a few are dead. This thing was created by the Wo people, so those who want immortality have to go to the Wo country to make their own mecha bodies. The Wo people probably killed them all because they were afraid they would be difficult to control later. Anyway, it's inconvenient to investigate in a foreign country, and when another identical mecha goes back, no one will suspect that the real one is already dead."