After seeing the photo that took up the entire screen of his phone, Albert showed a confused expression.

Fang Ziyu was equally confused, but not puzzled by the photo presented by Bailey, but by Albert's confusion.

The person in the photo is extremely similar to Albert, not only his facial features and skin color, but also his temperament and eyes and some imperceptible facial features are completely consistent, no matter how you look at it, he looks like Albert himself, not like his immediate family, not to mention that Albert's father has long since died, and he himself has never married, and he has no children under his knees.

Venture to assume that if the nude man in the photo is Albert himself, why would he be confused by the photo? It's certainly not because of his memory loss due to age, judging by Albert's performance, his intelligence and memory are not far off, if not at their peak.

So, who could be the person in the photo?

Albert's clone?

Or......

An idea flashed through Fang Ziyu's heart, and he turned his gaze back to the mobile phone that Ouyang Jie held in his hand, carefully examining the photo, capturing as much detail as possible of all the hidden information, such as the hair of the naked man in the photo.

Those gray hairs don't look like they've been dyed white with fading agents and hair dyes, but rather like gray hair that has formed with natural aging.

But the wrinkles on his face are obviously much less than Albert in the back seat, and there are enough toned muscles that most women are obsessed with, each of which seems to contain amazing explosiveness and vitality, and if you cover your face and only look below the neck, it is hard to imagine that these muscles will appear in the elderly.

What's even more bizarre is the unknown decay attached to the muscles, they are of different sizes, diverse in color but not bright, generally dark in color, looking like thick phlegm mixed with rotten flesh and blood, it seems to be integrated with the skin and subcutaneous tissue, staring at it for a long time, there is a strong sense of physical discomfort.

Fang Ziyu poked his index finger on the screen twice, and then gave Ouyang Jie a look.

Ouyang Jie understood and asked on his behalf: "What is this?" Who is the person in the photo? ”

Jiang Lan, who was sitting in the passenger seat, opened his mouth slightly, and looked at Ouyang Jie's eyes full of surprise, he didn't know that Ouyang Jie had made a request to buy a drone, so he couldn't understand why Ouyang Jie suddenly became "well-behaved and sensible".

"It's Albert's picture." Bailey put down the photo and said something that made Albert laugh, "A photo in five years." ”

"Bailey, what are you talking about? Five years from now? You ......"

Common sense made Albert subconsciously question, but he immediately thought that his cognition had been subverted many times today, and he couldn't help but shut his mouth.

"Confused? Incomprehensible? ”

Although the mobile phone camera was blocked by Ouyang Jie, Bailey couldn't see Albert's frowning and contemplative appearance, but from the abrupt end of the voice, one or two can be inferred.

"Twenty years ago, you were a little-known character, why did I find you and believe that you could be successful? In the fifteen years since the company was founded, why has I, the so-called 'amateur', always inspired you again and again when you hit bottlenecks and obstacles? Why are there so many coincidences that our products can always be approved and listed at the most appropriate time to earn the most benefits for the company? ”

"They say I'm a visionary business wizard, but haven't you ever thought that even if you are a visionary, you can't make the right choice in the uncertain pharmaceutical industry? In fact, the facts have always been in front of you, but you only have your research in your eyes. ”

"And the reason why you have chosen to ignore the magic I have shown is because I don't agree with your research direction! You guessed that I could see the future, but I didn't face up to this possibility, stubbornly believing that Caesaro's success was nothing more than a combination of wisdom and chance! Stubbornly thinking that I could make mistakes too! Stubbornly believe that your research will not produce bad results! ”

"I've never thought of it that way!" Albert jumped up in his seat, hit his head on the roof of the car, he seemed to lose his sense of pain, craned his neck to stare at Bailey on the screen, and shouted hysterically, "From five years ago to two years ago, I told you more than once that what you said was a false proposition!" Any technological progress can be used astray for evil, and it is the people who use the power, not the power itself, who is evil! ”

"I admit it! With the large-scale application of microbial gene interception and modification technology, it is not only possible to cultivate microorganisms that are beneficial to the human body, but also to create microorganisms that are harmful to the human body, and that the similarity of microorganisms in the body is extremely low in people in different regions, different races and different living habits, so making bioweapons with precise pointing is no longer as complicated as before, and it is cheaper and more difficult to protect ......."

Hearing this, Fang Ziyu finally understood Albert's decision.

In the safe house, before the identity of the attacker is known, Albert chooses to kill himself with a gun immediately after the bodyguards fall, presumably because he fears that he will fall into the wrong hands, leading to the leakage of classified information and the creation of microbial weapons.

"But you know! There are pros and cons to everything! Nuclear bombs can be used to destroy a nation, a country or even a civilization, but the sentence is equally true if you replace 'destroy' with 'rejuvenation'! You know what we can do with microbes! We can change the world! This is my only chance to change the world, and I can't think of any reason to turn it down! Bailey, tell me! Why refuse? Wouldn't this technology have been born without me! ”

Albert shouted every word with great force, his eyes focused on the screen, his eyes determined, as if he had forgotten about the others in the car, and was fully engaged in the debate.

Fang Ziyu could see that his opponent was not Bailey Oldman, but himself. In the depths of Albert Amos's heart, the two villains must have started a protracted battle, and this is the time for a decisive battle.

"You're right." Bailey didn't play his cards according to common sense, and actually nodded in agreement, "Without Antonio Meucci, Eliza Gray and Alexander Graham Bell, without Julius Robert Oppenheimer, and Paul Hartke, the birth and progress of a technology always belongs to the elite group of an era rather than to individuals." ”

After a pause, Bailey made another surprising statement: "But you are different, you have wisdom, experience, teamwork, capital, and a friend who can help you pass a new bill in Congress." You may well be the only person in the world today who has all the conditions to develop the 'elixir of life' at the same time, and without you, that nightmare would not have come so quickly, at least twenty years later, and perhaps the outcome would have been completely different. ”

Including Xiong Wei, who had the steering wheel in his hand, all the awake people in the Ford forgot to breathe at this moment, except for Albert.

"Immortality?"

After the shock, Albert muttered under his breath.

"It's impossible, I've tried lighthouse jellyfish, turtles, mussels, right whales, glass sponges, lobsters, hydras, tardigrades, flatworms...... Over the years, we've tried all the long-lived species on the planet that we can capture and experiment, but we haven't been able to find any inspiration in or out of them......"

"Bang!"

Bailey slapped the long table with both hands and said in a deep voice, "Yes, so you set your sights beyond the earth!" ”