“Are you kidding me?”

I felt like I had just heard the funniest joke in the world.

Tonight, I watched her dispose of a corpse with my own eyes.

But she actually said that everything was for me?!

Lin Jia laughed neurotically, caressing my face with both hands.

“I knew the day I moved in that you had installed a camera in my room.”

“But what you don't know is that I moved in for you.”

“You felt so familiar to me. I tested over and over again, just to know if you were the one I was looking for...”

There was a repressed madness in Lin Jia's voice. Her cold hand rubbed my face, feeling like a slippery snake.

I didn't know what this lunatic was planning. I watched her with high alert and tried to untie the ropes behind my back.

“I know you don't believe me. Then look at this.”

Lin Jia took out a photo from her close-fitting pocket.

The photo was sealed in plastic, looking extremely cherished.

When I saw the photo clearly, I gasped, and all the blood in my body seemed to boil in an instant.

On that photo—there were countless images of me.

“What does this mean?” I couldn't control my trembling.

“These are all clones.”

Lin Jia moved closer to me, her hot breath hitting my face, making my hair stand on end.

“We were childhood sweethearts, both researchers. We loved each other so much!”

“Creating our own clones and transferring memories to achieve immortality was our common goal.”

“Don't you remember any of this?”

“I became like this to save you! How could you forget me?!”

Lin Jia screamed hysterically, her veins bulged on her face, her expression ferocious.

She became extremely violent, showing signs of losing control.

At this moment, the hand behind my back touched a piece of glass—

It was a fragment of the glass medicine bottle that Lin Jia had smashed earlier.

“How could I forget you? I just lost my memory because of the fire.” I soothed her while secretly hiding the glass shard in my palm.

“Why are there so many clones?” I tried to change the subject.

Lin Jia became much calmer. The bulging veins on her face slowly disappeared.

“Because the experiment failed.”

“Clones must have conscious minds to transfer memories, but we couldn't create conscious clones.”

“So, those you killed were failed clones?” I tried every way to stall for time, bit by bit cutting the rope.

Lin Jia was too close to me, any bigger movement would be discovered.

“Correct. We intended to give up, but after you got a terminal illness, I restarted the research plan.”

“This time, the experiment succeeded. Experiment 021 had its own consciousness.”

“But the experiment also failed. The clone's intelligence and physical fitness were terrifyingly high, and it was evolving rapidly.”

“No matter what method we used, we couldn't control it.”

“We created a monster.”