Psychics don't die from gunfire

Chapter 729 Returning Like Lightning
"Didn't you travel around the world? Why was your visa rejected?"

Song Shi leaned against the window.

Chu Tonglu on the other end of the phone had no intention of taking over the conversation.

"I'm rushing to Zhuguang City at full speed. What are your plans next?" There was a faint background sound that seemed to break through the sound barrier. The other party paused for a moment and said concisely: "Whatever you plan to do, count me in."

"Press conference?" Song Shi asked with a smile.

"The advertisements for Jade Pharmaceuticals have been put up all over the wasteland. I watched the live broadcast." Chu Tonglu said with an indescribable coldness: "Clones! Clones!"

"As early as the generation of pure white creatures, the clones had been castrated of their reproductive ability. Your father awakened his psychic powers, regained his fertility, and even luckily escaped the company's pursuit."

Song Shi narrowed his eyes and looked at the street. It was rare that the sun didn't come out in Zhuguang City today. The drizzle of rain floated down, but unfortunately it didn't bring any coolness. Instead, it turned into an irritating heat.

"It's hard to say whether you are unique or not, but you are definitely a rare clone descendant in the world." Song Shi said with interest: "At least you are half a clone. I want to interview you exclusively, Mr. Chu Tonglu, what do you think of clones?"

"My identity has little to do with clones."

As if he had thought about this question many times before, Chu Tonglu answered quickly.

"When I was a child, my parents raised me as a native of Donglu. I didn't know he was a clone at all. If it weren't for the previous family's intervention later - during the years I was in the Council of Knowledge, they didn't really treat me as a clone."

"So?" Song Shi asked.

"But my dad is a clone!"

Chu Tonglu said grimly.

"Emerald Pharmaceuticals, no, how can this company be a good thing? They just treat clones as consumables."

"No. Clones are not even consumables. Only talents are qualified to be consumables!"

"I'm not interested in social change. There's no way to stop cloning from being marketed." Chu Tonglu exhaled slowly, "But clones are also human beings. I can't accept picking them like fruits."

"The world is already rotten enough. If it continues like this, today we can turn a blind eye to clones being slaughtered like pigs, and tomorrow we can become alienated from natural people. That would be the end of us."

"Isn't this a bit of excessive worry?" Song Shi said nonchalantly: "Before the clones came out, everyone was still killing each other."

"It's different!" Chu Tonglu seemed to be organizing his words: "This is a change in concept. Do you understand? No matter how much we fought in the past, at least we had a consensus on 'humanity'. Damn it, wait a minute, let me think about what to say."

"Yes, killing people." Chu Tonglu thought of something and said quickly, "Song Shi, did you vomit the first time you killed someone? Was it disgusting?"

"I didn't vomit, nor did I feel sick." Song Shi answered truthfully: "The man wanted to rob me, and he showed a knife, and I chopped him on the spot. If I have to say, I was a little emotional at the time."

"I vomited. I felt sick." Chu Tonglu said, "At that time, the Institute of the Council of Knowledge brought out a death row inmate and asked me to fight him to the death. I cut his neck with my own hands, and blood splattered all over me. It was thick and pungent. When he fell to the ground, his sluggish eyes were bloodshot and he just stared at you."

"When I was a kid, I helped my family kill pigs. The pigs cried loudly. I couldn't bear to hear them, so I always tried to kill them with one blow, but I didn't feel disgusted."

Song Shi thought for a moment: "Empathy?"

"I don't know. I haven't studied psychology." Chu Tonglu took a deep breath and said solemnly, "I now understand the 'Science Ethics Committee' to some extent. Morality and ethics do have a bottom line that must be upheld."

“Besides, this is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.”

Chu Tonglu said.

"The rebellion of the omnics stems from the endless cruel oppression in the past. They rose up and gave birth to 'Yaoxing San', a fifth-ring psyker. But we are now standing at a historical turning point. The root of the clones' hatred may be disintegrated by our own hands."

"Do you really think that clones can break the rule of humans? Even if you create a clone version of Yaoxing III." Song Shi asked back. Hearing this, Chu Tonglu was silent for a long time, thinking about the major forces in the world, and had to admit: "Well, it probably can't be done."

"But what you said is correct." Song Shi looked at his hands and shook his head, "Even if the clones really rebel in the future, no matter how fierce the rebellion is, it will not have any impact on you and me."

He has already reached the fifth ring, [True Spirit]. Even if Yao Xing is resurrected three times, he dares to fight with him. Chu Tonglu has also reached the upper third ring and is a powerful psychic with a high status.

"But other people can't do it." Song Shi said: "A gun can easily kill people, and a clone can do the same by pulling the trigger. Most people can't afford the cost of a clone's rebellion."

"——Chu Tonglu, you guessed right, we do need to do something about the 'clones'."

"I will do my best." Chu Tonglu said in a deep voice.

"But why did you call me first?"

"It's faster to go with your connections." Chu Tonglu said bluntly: "Teacher Xu is in New Yalomen Bay, I guess he can't spare any time. I'm not familiar with Chakoro Vaughn, but I heard that you broke through the fifth ring recently, and now you must be the core of the Enlightened Ones - this relationship should be used in vain."

"Then I'm fine."

Song Shi suddenly laughed.

"But there is one thing I must explain in advance, Chu Tonglu. We need you for another aspect more than your psychic power in 'clones'."

Chu Tonglu was silent for a few seconds: "My identity?"

"Correct."

Song Shi stretched lazily.

"We are all from Donglu. You have heard of the saying that a master has a legitimate reason, right?"

He crushed a ball of flame and said, "Before we officially attack Jade Pharmaceutical, we need to build up momentum first."

Chu Tonglu was shocked.

He almost thought he had heard wrongly. This was more radical than the most radical action he had ever imagined along the way: "Are you crazy?!"

"The first bird to stick its head out gets shot, and the first to come out is the king. You are the first to jump out at this point in time. Even if other companies acquiesce in your defeat of Emerald Pharmaceuticals, the next step must be to launch a joint full-scale war to defeat Enlightened Ones!"

"Even if you have broken through the fifth ring, the giant enterprise still has far more [True Spirits] than you!"

"It doesn't matter. I won't do anything that's not radical."

Song Shi smiled and said, "I don't care about Dayuan, so how can you be afraid of Chaoyue?"

"This has nothing to do with fear or not. It's purely a matter of rational analysis."

Chu Tonglu said, spitting, and suddenly grinned: "Follow me! You are brave, but I am not a coward either!"

"Then see you in Forged Light City."

"Well, see you in Forged Light City."

The man hung up the phone, violent air currents swept through his body, and the vector nozzle spewed out dazzling beams, pushing him to break through to supersonic flight.

Human cloning, megacorporations, corporatism.
Damn you!
Chu Tonglu, thirty-three years old, has awakened!

(End of this chapter)