156: Chapter 156 Number Eighteen has been found.
Yun Zhuo looked at Di Zhenzhen. "So your birthday is June 20th."
"Your mother told me a long time ago." Di Zhenzhen turned to look at him.
"Actually..."
"I know." Di Zhenzhen interrupted him. "The next five sisters your mother created should be Jingjing, Nana, Yunyun, Wenwen, and Xuanxuan."
Yun Zhuo nodded, no longer bothering to explain that Qiu Min wasn't his mother.
He reached out to close the experimental log window and check the next folder.
Di Zhenzhen grabbed his hand. "Don't close it yet. I want to take a look; there should be clues about Number Eighteen in here."
Yun Zhuo moved the playback window to the side for Di Zhenzhen and began checking other folders himself.
"Why are you so obsessed with finding Number Eighteen?"
"Because she is our sister."
"You can select a specific time, like starting from seven years later. Watching it day by day like this is too slow."
Di Zhenzhen nodded. Just as she reached out to select a time, a scene of Qiu Min throwing darts in her office suddenly appeared on the screen.
The target in front of her was a wall covered in writing. She stood with her back to the target and threw the darts backward.
Then, five darts hit five characters: Na, Jing, Xuan, Wen, and Yun.
Yun Zhuo was stunned by the sight and said to Sister Zhenzhen, "Sister Zhenzhen, your name wasn't chosen like this too, was it?"
"Does it not sound good?"
"Uh, that's not it. It's just that this person is way too lazy; her naming method is so abstract."
"She is technically your elder. It's impolite to talk about her like that."
"Sorry, just a slip of the tongue."
Di Zhenzhen smiled slightly and reached out to select a log time. "Don't mind me, you go ahead and look at yours."
Yun Zhuo opened a folder containing technical data on androids. These might be treasures to Su Jingzhou, but to Yun Zhuo, they were completely incomprehensible.
He opened another one, which was Qiu Min's life vlog, recording her daily life in Nun Village.
Just as he was about to close it and open the next folder, he swiped across the screen, and his hand froze the next moment.
That random swipe actually brought up Ling Xiangjun.
Ling Xiangjun in the video was still very young, looking to be in her early twenties at most.
After watching for a while, he saw she was there to deliver goods to Qiu Min—specifically, the two types of Materials for making test-tube babies.
Seeing this, Yun Zhuo realized that Di Zhenzhen and the others, the so-called androids, were actually test-tube babies grown in cultivation pods.
The difference was that their genes had been edited by Qiu Min. They had no mother; if one had to find a mother for them, it would be those cultivation pods.
"Dr. Qiu, I'd like to ask you for a favor."
"Why so polite all of a sudden? You're not here to borrow money, are you? If so, you've come to the wrong person."
"I want a child."
"Hmm?" Qiu Min looked her up and down. "What do you mean?"
"I just want a child, nothing else." As she spoke, she took a small box out of her bracelet and handed it to Qiu Min.
Opening it revealed two cryovials inside.
Qiu Min's eyes lit up instantly, and the corners of her mouth curled up secretly. Her irrepressible interest in the gossip was written all over her face.
"Is it you who can't, or is it him?"
"We are both very healthy." Ling Xiangjun glared at her. "But you must keep this a secret for me."
"Oh~ You want to use a child to secure your position."
"That's none of your business. Can you help?"
"Hmph, don't be naive. Do you really think you can handle someone like Su Jingzhou with just a child?"
"I can't, but I have other ways."
"That guy is no good. You'd better think this through."
"I just want to get what I deserve."
"But the child is innocent."
"Just tell me if you're going to help or not?"
"I'll help. But after I help you this time, we'll be even."
Yun Zhuo quickly flipped to the next video. It showed a white laboratory where Ling Xiangjun, wearing a loose surgical gown, was lying on a gynecological-style chair.
Qiu Min, wearing a white mask, sat in front of her, with several medical instruments laid out nearby.
"Alright. If nothing goes wrong, in 40 weeks, you'll have a healthy baby."
"Are you sure it's a boy and that his talent is at least Heaven Rank High Grade?"
"Don't worry. If not, I'll compensate you with another one."
"I don't have that much time."
"It can be detected by the 28th week. If you prepare some more equipment for me, I'll build another cloning pod and clone a baby. Ten weeks will be enough."
Yun Zhuo set the time directly to 28 weeks later and retrieved the videos from that period.
"Sister Zhenzhen, take a look at the logs after August 20th, Year 166."
"What did you find?"
"Ling Xiangjun asked Dr. Qiu for a child."
One day, 28 weeks later, Ling Xiangjun indeed arrived at Nun Village to deliver Materials, sporting a large belly.
After Qiu Min finished the tests in the lab, the results were unfortunately a failure. The talent of the child in her belly was not Heaven Rank High Grade, and it was also a girl.
"How can this be?" Ling Xiangjun questioned Qiu Min. "Did you do this on purpose?"
"Why would I bother? This was an accident."
"So what do we do now?"
"Abort it. I'll make you a new one."
"Abort it?"
Ling Xiangjun suddenly raised her hand to protect her lower abdomen, her movements as gentle as if she were afraid of breaking something.
When she looked up at Qiu Min, her eyes were full of conflict. Her lips moved several times before she asked, "Is there... really no other way?"
"You've only been a mother for a few days, and you're already reluctant? What will happen once she's actually born?"
"I..." Ling Xiangjun stroked her large belly. "You don't have children; you wouldn't understand."
"Then what do you suggest? Give birth first and then start over? That would take at least another year. Are you willing to wait?"
"Haven't you already built the cloning pod?"
"You'd better think this through. To Su Jingzhou, a girl doesn't carry as much weight as a boy.
And as for you, if you've decided to clone, what about the one in your belly?"
"I've thought it through. I'll have them be sisters. They'll be twins."
However, in the experimental log that Di Zhenzhen was reading, Qiu Min said something else entirely.
According to the intelligence Qiu Min obtained, on the eve of the Great Cataclysm in the old world, a 'superhuman project' was launched as a means of self-preservation.
The ancestors of today's Twelve Families were products of this superhuman project.
The gene-editing technology she obtained also came from the superhuman project, but the technology she had was incomplete; she hadn't obtained the full genetic map.
She believed it must exist within the genes of the descendants of the Twelve Families.
Her cooperation with the Su Family, one of the Twelve Families, was also aimed at obtaining the complete genetic map.
But she soon discovered that the genes of the descendants of the Twelve Families had been diluted, so she could only piece them together one by one.
She then pieced together Di Zhenzhen and the others, but she still felt it was incomplete and didn't meet the standards of the superhuman project.
It wasn't until she was making the test-tube baby for Ling Xiangjun that she discovered a brand-new gene chain within Su Jingzhou's genes.
Therefore, the accident she mentioned to Ling Xiangjun was indeed an accident, but it was also intentional.
She intentionally created a female infant with the goal of fulfilling her promise to Su Jingzhou—to create a world-class divine weapon for him, so they would be even from then on.
With such a child, she could repay the favors of two people at once.
Unfortunately, there wasn't enough time the first time, and the gene editing failed due to an error.
The second time, by extracting the fetal genes for cloning, she succeeded.
Having seen this, Yun Zhuo already had an answer in his heart. The Number Eighteen Di Zhenzhen spoke of should be his sister, Su Qingtang.
Because she had ten inlay slots, more than anyone he had ever seen.
But Di Zhenzhen had a different opinion.