Chapter 168: The Death Den of the Clone (Part I)

"My request is simple." Seeing Robin's willingness to negotiate peacefully, Ao95 secretly breathed a sigh of relief and smiled, "The soldiers under my command and I have lost the reason to continue fighting, so ...... Our only request was to leave. ”

"Leave?"

Ao95 would make this request Robin was not surprised, as early as when he annihilated the main force of the Emperor, he guessed the intention of the remaining Emperor ** from the move of the main force of the Emperor ** to withdraw from the H-1 fortress defense area.

"Yes, we fight for Baron Vernal. But now that the baron is dead, there is no point in us continuing to fight, so there is no need for us to be against you again......"

"I will not allow the warships of the Empire to enter the starfields under my rule." Robin interrupted Ao95 without hesitation.

For the emperor, Robin has a kind of instinctive jealousy. The cloning technology used by the empire makes it impossible for Robin to judge the population of the mysterious and powerful Hoffman Empire, and it is impossible to calculate how huge the empire's national power is.

But for now, the strength of the empire must be far greater than that of the Reminmen G-German Federation and the Nine-Star Republic combined. With such a behemoth peeking on the sidelines, Robin's pressure can be imagined.

Now, the reason why Robin was able to suppress the remnants of Ao95's emperor ** on the planet Wendini was not by the army, but by his own warships cruising in space. Only by continuing to maintain the overwhelming xìng advantage in space will Robin be able to gain the upper hand in the dialogue on the ground. But the problem now is that Robin's space fleet is not powerful, and the only one that can be called the main battleship is the "Assemble" frigate. The only reason why they can dominate the entire system at the moment is that there are no enemy fleets in the Barnard system.

Robin didn't have much confidence in holding the system with just one Knife frigate. Therefore, his purpose in refusing the Emperor ** battleship to enter the Barnard system is actually to cover up the truth about the lack of strength of his space fleet, so as to avoid the true situation of Robin's military strength when the Emperor ** battleship receives the remnants.

"Imperial warships?"

Robin didn't understand these thoughts, Ao95 didn't understand, he didn't understand why Robin mentioned the Imperial warship, so he said with some surprise: "We don't have any warships to enter the Barnard system. ”

"Huh?"

Ao95's answer surprised Robin, who asked suspiciously, "If there is no spaceship to respond, how can you retreat?" ”

"......" Ao95 let out a wry smile when he heard this, and shook his head helplessly: "If there is a spaceship to meet us, why should I risk the total annihilation of the army to negotiate with you." ”

"There's no spaceship to pick you up, so to speak......" Robin looked at Ao95 in surprise and said tentatively, "So...... Are you outcasts? ”

Desertions are not uncommon in warfare, and when the battle is stalemate, commanders often have to abandon some units that they are unable to rescue because of the overall situation. When Kuiper was under siege, Robin and his fleet were outcasts in the eyes of the Marseille Space Fortress. However, according to the practice of warfare, most of the abandoned soldiers were some logistics baggage troops that were intercepted by the enemy, or some ground garrisons that were not strong in combat and had no time to retreat. It's rare for an elite unit to become an outcast, let alone a knight with incredible combat power.

Although Robin had realized that Ao95 and his army were just a ragtag army of the Hoffman Empire after Nong had recently become aware of the Hofman Empire's clone hierarchy, he still couldn't imagine that a force of two hundred knights would become worthless outcasts in the eyes of the rest of the Empire.

"Yes, we are outcasts. When our employer, Baron Vernal, died, we had no belonging, and the Marquis of Timos would not send a ship to pick us up, so we were left to fend for ourselves. Compared to Robin, Ao95 is very open-minded, as if he has long been used to all this.

"Employer?" Robin noticed the word employer, which immediately gave him a taste of something hidden behind it.

"So, Baron Vernal's sudden attack on Barnard is an act of arms on his people, not an order from the state?"

"Baron Vernal is carving out his own personal territory, and we are employed by him."

"You're mercenaries?" This time Robin was even more surprised, he never thought that the army in front of him was not even a ragtag army, but a mercenary army without a number.

"According to the thinking of the Federation, we can count as mercenaries."

"Since you are mere mercenaries in the service of your employer, you will not need to return to anyone after the death of Baron Vernal. That being the case, why rush to leave at such a risk? Robin stomped on the ground under his feet: "If I were you, I would run far away with my troops, the planet Wendini is very big, and I don't have time to chase you down." ”

"......" faced Robin's questioning, Ao95yù stopped talking.

"Do you want to serve Ansel?" Robin's eyes narrowed, and invisibly, a huge sense of oppression enveloped Ao95 in it.

"Time, we lack time." Raising his head with a pale face, Ao95 gritted his teeth and told the truth.

"When?"

"Yes." Ao95 knew that Robin didn't know much about clones, so he explained in detail: "Replicants are replicas made based on the blood body DnA, which looks exactly like the blood body, and has basically the same talent and growth space. However, because they are artificially created organisms, replicants, like other clones, do not have the innate gene pool of protists. As a result, there is little resistance to the volatile and complex environment of space, and only a biennial serum injection can avoid the collapse of the gene chain. ”

Replicants are born with a gene pool defect, Robin had heard about it from 1ù Kia. The DuPont family, which is committed to human cloning technology, was forced to terminate the research precisely because the cloned gene chain was unstable and lacked room for growth.

However, according to Ao95's current statement, it seems that the Hoffman Empire used the DnA of the blood body to produce some kind of serum, and through regular injections to make up for the lack of the innate gene pool of the clones, and while continuing the life of the clones, it firmly controlled the huge group of clones through this means.

"What about ability advancement? When the ability is advanced, the gene lock will be turned on, and there will be no new gene fragments from the gene pool to replenish it, how is your gene chain formed? Leona, who had been silent, said suddenly.

"Serum gives us antibodies and new gene fragments that we need to advance. Therefore, the ability advancement also requires the serum of the blood body, but our ability growth trajectory must completely replicate the blood body, and it cannot exceed the current ability range of the blood body, otherwise the blood body's serum will no longer work. ”

"So...... The life and death of you people are all decided by blood? Robin thought of Anse Air, and if the truth was as he thought, then the hidden strength of Anse Air was undoubtedly extremely terrifying.

Ao95 understood what Robin was worried about, and hurriedly explained, "The blood body only provides the bone marrow needed to make the serum, and how the produced serum is disposed of is not under the jurisdiction of the blood body itself. ”

"Huh? How is that distributed? ”

"In the Empire, all technology related to cloning and serum is controlled by the Royal Academy of Sciences. The replicants and serums produced will be different depending on the individual's title. [This chapter is not finished, please click on the next page to continue reading!] ］