Chapter 216 Twin Mirror Lake
Chapter 216 Twin Mirror Lake
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He didn't even struggle and just accepted it?
Faced with the Aquarius director who directly laid down and confessed his guilt, the six branch directors who stood up to identify him were all stunned at the same time.
Although they collected so much evidence with the goal of making it impossible for Director Aquarius to deny his guilt and directly dragging him to have his memory read, Director Aquarius's direct and frank confession still caught everyone by surprise.
"But~"
After glancing at the six branch directors, Director Aquarius grinned slightly and said slowly:
"Although I did all these things, they cannot be attributed entirely to me. Although I am indeed guilty, I am not guilty enough to be dragged away for memory reading."
"Director Aquarius, please make your words more clearly."
Upon hearing this, the director of the Cleanup Bureau frowned and warned:
"Besides, my time is limited, so please don't talk nonsense like this.
If I still don't understand what you're saying before the flow of time in the Old Earth is restored, then I can only assume that you're stalling for time so that I don't have time to vote, and I'll vote directly for the party that wants to remove you."
"Sorry, I'm old and my brain is slow, so I always like to speak more carefully, haha."
Faced with the director's ruthless threat, Director Aquarius smiled and apologized casually, then said slowly:
“Everyone, I am not as frank as Lord Taurus, and I am not used to being noticed by many people, so I have never revealed my true identity.
But now that I’ve been pushed to this point, it seems I can only reveal the truth myself… In addition to being the director of Aquarius, I am also the former director of the Gemini Branch.”
……
The previous director of the Gemini Branch? !
After hearing what Director Aquarius said, all the branch directors immediately looked at the director of the Gemini branch, hoping to get the confirmation of the current director. After a moment of silence, the director of the Gemini branch asked expressionlessly:
"According to the records of the bureau, the previous director was driven into a large rift on the bottom of the Changyang Sea while mediating a war between the sea tribe and the crustal creatures. He got lost and accidentally entered the depths of the earth's core. He should have died."
"I am indeed dead, but not completely dead... But this has nothing to do with what I want to say. In order to avoid the director voting to remove me, I'll save these things for later."
After waving his hand to dispel the mist blocking his face and clearly showing his originally blurry facial features, Director Aquarius said calmly:
"Just like the Virgin Bureau's branch chief is responsible for guarding the Thirteen Ant Nests, the Gemini Bureau's chief is also responsible for guarding a numbered anomaly. The name of that thing is the Twin Mirror Lakes, and its file number in the General Bureau is 021.
As the previous director of the Gemini Branch, I am the guardian of the Twin Mirror Lakes. You should be able to find out all this, right? You should also have an impression of my face. "
The director of the Gemini Branch was silent for a while again, then nodded and said:
"Yes, that's true."
"It will be easy if you can find it out."
Director Aquarius nodded slightly, and then continued to explain:
"Each drop of water in the Twin Mirror Lakes is made up of two crystals of almost non-existent thickness. Twenty billion water drops stacked together are only as thick as a human thumb nail, so they can be kept close to the body. When I went to perform the mediation mission, I brought this thing with me.
That mission was indeed very dangerous. Before I escaped into the Great Rift, I thought I was dead. If my body fell into the hands of the sea people, once they opened the container containing the Twin Mirror Lakes, the 20 billion drops of water inside would merge with the ocean and slowly spread throughout the world with ocean currents and evaporation. "
At this point, Director Aquarius paused for a moment, then looked around at the expressions of the people around him, and said with some regret:
“I just said that every drop of Twin Water in the Twin Mirror Lake is a natural mirror, but what I didn’t say is that any intelligent creature illuminated by these mirrors will immediately split into two identical individuals. If these 20 billion drops of Twin Water merge into the ocean, the consequences will be disastrous.
So in a hurry, I could only choose to drink all the twin water, rush directly to the deepest part of the trench, and move all the way to the center of the earth, wanting to make this thing disappear with me, but unfortunately I failed to do so in the end..." "No need to say more, I already understand what you mean."
After interrupting Director Aquarius's narration, the Director of the Cleanup Bureau frowned and said:
"Are you trying to tell us that after you drank the twin water, you created another you, and that it was that other you who did all those things?"
"Although it sounds like an excuse, it is indeed the truth."
After nodding his head in agreement with the director's statement, Director Aquarius said helplessly:
“After all, this was my dereliction of duty and a personal shame, so I never reported it to the bureau, but instead pursued it privately, hoping to make up for this mistake in my own way.
Unfortunately, the other me that was copied by Twin Water has the same strength as me. I have been chasing him for so many years, but have never succeeded.
But seeing that he acted very covertly, and the harm he caused in previous years was not great, and even the abnormal objects he created could bring more 'income' to the bureau, I concealed this matter out of selfish motives.
I'm sorry, I did violate the regulations of the bureau. As atonement, I am willing to resign, step down as the director of Aquarius, and continue to lead people to hunt down the other me. Is this punishment enough? "
"..."
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Bullshit! Aren’t you just cheating?
After hearing the reasons given by Director Aquarius, the red-haired director couldn't help but look gloomy, and the Leo director Beverly was so angry that her lungs were about to explode. She couldn't help but stand up and shouted:
"If this can be considered an explanation, then no matter who did something, as long as they say they have a copy, they can blame it on him, right?
Also, you were the only one present in all the situations you described. How can we know whether what you said is true or false? If I go to your house and kill you, does that mean I can get away with it by having a copy of you? "
"It's not impossible."
After patiently waiting for Beverly to finish speaking, the Aquarius director, who had a crying face, replied with a smile:
"As long as you can take out a second Twin Mirror Lake and create a clone that is powerful enough to kill me, then even if I am killed by someone named Beverly, I will firmly believe that the murderer must be the clone and not you. Are you satisfied with this answer?"
"you!!!"
"Besides, there are other ways to prove what I said."
Director Aquarius smiled and said:
“Everyone can turn on the equipment used to seal the town in the underground of the Twin Bureau and see if the Twin Mirror Lakes have disappeared.
In addition, the directors who took the lead in questioning me may wish to compare their respective records to see if there are any conflicts in time.
Is it possible that when you find me, the real me is actually somewhere else doing something else? "
"No need to check."
After rejecting Director Aquarius' proposal and stopping Beverly who was about to say something, the red-haired director couldn't help but sigh inwardly as he looked at Director Aquarius who was smiling at him and seemed confident.
There is no point in checking. Since Director Aquarius dares to mention these things, he must have an "alibi". Among the hundreds of records of Director Aquarius's whereabouts, as long as there are two or three times that can confirm the location of another Aquarius, the rest of the records will be wasted.
If my guess is correct, Director Aquarius must have thought about how to deal with it when it was discovered before producing abnormal objects on a large scale. He might even have prepared this reason in advance 20 or 30 years ago.
In the past twenty or thirty years, he only needs to think of some way and deliberately appear in two places at the same time a few times, which is enough to prove the existence of the "copy" he proposed.
Given the director's position in the bureau, it would be impossible for him to drag him to have his memory read if he didn't have solid evidence. As for the consequences caused by the so-called clone, he had already resigned voluntarily. What else could he do?
It seems that we lost this questioning due to insufficient preparation.
Beverly and I only spent a month collecting evidence for the questioning, but Director Aquarius has been preparing for today for at least twenty years. How can the two be compared?
(End of this chapter)