His voice was dry and hoarse like sand rubbing against glass. It was slightly uncomfortable and it was obvious that his vocal cords had yet to fully recover.
Once again, Luo Yuan did not object to being called father. He nodded calmly and asked, "What's your name?"
"My name is B1E32!"
"Who gave you this name?"
Luo Yuan frowned at the strange name. Although the name was just a code, as a human with intelligence, even if he was a clone, it was too much.
As the person in charge of the project, Luo Yuan could roughly guess the meaning of the code. B1 was the ability code for Body Fusion and F3 was a type of flame ability. He was not sure about the number behind it but he guessed that it was the serial number of the same group.
"Change your name! My surname is Luo. Since you're calling me father, my surname will be Luo too. Since your ability can emit flames, you'll be called Luo Lie! "Luo Yuan thought about it and said.
"Thank you, father. Luo … Luo Lie. I'll be called Luo Lie from now on." He looked excited as he repeated his name.
Luo Yuan was infected by his pure joy. He smiled and said, "You must be hungry!"
Considering that the child was afraid of him, Luo Yuan did not expect him to answer. He said to the rest of them, "Jiahui, go and prepare some food."
These were Luo Yuan's clones. Perhaps they could not be measured by common sense. Before they left, Huang Jiahui asked, "How many do you want?"
"The more the better!" Luo Yuan looked at the skinny clones. Apparently, they needed nourishment.
Even with Body Fusion, water could not solve everything. Many of the essential elements in the human body could not be synthesized through cold fusion. They needed to be supplemented with food.
At that moment, the remaining four clones woke up one by one. After asking for their names, Luo Yuan found out that one of them only had the ability of Body Fusion while the other three had two different abilities. One of them was the one that Luo Yuan had cloned before.
He had the ability of Body Fusion and Teleportation.
As for the other two, they were from the same group. They had the ability of Body Fusion and laser, but they were of different genders.
The five clones consisted of four males and one female. Apart from Luo Lie, they were named Luo Kong, Luo Fan, Luo Guang and the only female, Luo Yan.
The few of them were a little shy in front of Luo Yuan. They did not have the desire to show off like children. Instead, their attitude was intimate and respectful.
Luo Yuan frowned as he looked at them. He knew very well that this emotion had existed since they were embryos. They shared the same Will as him and that was the reason for their closeness. However, at the same time, when they were facing this terrifyingly powerful mother, they could instinctively feel that they were being controlled.
Just like the legendary new vampires who had received The Embrace, they were in awe of the previous generation. This was the innate awe of the child to the mother!
However, this kind of excessive reverence and even fear was not good for him. In the end, it would only lead to alienation and vigilance.
These people were not ordinary people. Each of them was a super evolved human who was far more powerful than a super evolved human. If they were to be tricked by someone with ulterior motives, Luo Yuan would have a headache.
Fortunately, they were still children and it was easy to shape their minds. The environment they were born with was usually easier to influence than the environment they were born with. At this moment, he had decided to bring the little girl who was still on her way to live together with him.
To ease their nervousness, Luo Yuan gently asked them about their lives in the laboratory and how they managed to survive the disaster.
In the crowd's reply, one sentence after another.
Luo Yuan roughly understood what happened and why there were the corpses of the clones that did not have Body Fusion in the cave.
As Luo Yuan's clones, they were much more sensitive to danger than ordinary humans.
Before the disaster happened, many of the clones felt that they were going to be in big trouble.
Some of them did not know what to do and started crying. Some of them were frustrated and started destroying everything. There were also clones that started running away from the laboratory due to the intense anxiety. It was a mess.
There were more than 4,000 clones in this batch. With such a large number of clones, it was impossible for all of them to stay in the same dormitory. They were lucky as there were a few normal clones that had the ability to burrow into the ground.
These clones might not be strong and their bodies were much smaller than their clones that had Body Fusion. Compared to the other powerful clones in the dormitory, they were not eye-catching. However, under such a destructive attack, no one had a better ability to survive than them.
When the antimatter bomb was about to hit the ground, the four clones pulled their companions that they had a good relationship with and burrowed into the ground.
However, no one had expected the disaster to be so terrifying. The ground was shaking and everything was vaporized. The destructive force even penetrated the ground. Under the threat of death, they had to dig deeper and deeper into the ground.
Eventually, they suffocated and stopped. The rest of the normal clones died one after another, leaving only five clones that had Body Fusion alive.
Listening to their description, Luo Yuan sighed and felt a little emotional at the same time.
In fact, it wasn't that the five clones didn't have the ability to leave. With their powerful bodies, they wouldn't be trapped even if they were 1,500 meters underground. Even if they took turns to dig up a few hundred meters every day, they would be able to escape in less than ten days.
However, perhaps it was because of the brotherhood between the clones that they did not want to escape alone or perhaps they were frightened by the power of the antimatter bomb, they did not even think about escaping to the surface. All they did was expand their shelter and did not do anything else.
If Luo Yuan did not notice them in time, they would have died.
…
Luo Yuan stayed at home for half an hour. Before he left, he asked the women to take care of his sons and daughters.
After all, the search had just begun and he might be able to find more clones.
When he returned to the original spot, the hailstorm had stopped. There was a layer of ice that was a meter thick on the ground. Under the extreme cold, the ice had stuck to the layer of ice, forming a spectacular yet strange scene.
He continued to search around the giant pit as planned. However, his luck seemed to have run out as he could not find any clones even when it was almost evening. He continued to search for another hour patiently but to no avail. He had no choice but to return and continue the search the next day.
…
Luo Yuan did not go home directly. Instead, he walked to the city hall.
Today was the official start of the ice mining project. Such a super project was complicated and involved many departments and aspects. Furthermore, with the expansion of the project tomorrow, there were countless preliminary works that had to be completed before then. Since he had been away for half a day, there were probably many documents that needed his approval.
The city hall was brightly lit and everyone was busy.
"Mayor!"
"Hello, Mayor!"
…
Luo Yuan nodded as he walked back to his office. As expected, the documents were piled up like a mountain.
He took a sip of the tea prepared by his secretary and started to deal with the documents.
His sharp mind allowed him to deal with the documents at an astonishing speed. In less than 10 minutes, he had already dealt with half of the pile of documents.
Luo Yuan took out a document and glanced at it. He was stunned. It was about the university's temporary enrollment expansion.
Currently, the population of Hope City was more than five million. Most of them came from other cities and many of them were students from their original schools. However, with the migration, they had no choice but to suspend their studies. This proposal was to recruit these students again and place them in various universities in Hope City to continue their studies.
As a strategic city, Hope City had many higher education institutions. There were Hope University, Reconstruction Area University of Technology, Hope University of Electronics, Hope City Computer University, Hope City Medical College and many other vocational and technical colleges.
Among them, there were only 90,000 university students. They were a group of talents.
Unfortunately, the Reconstruction Area had only existed for slightly more than two years. The large-scale construction of higher education was delayed by a year. Therefore, many students who had not graduated before the apocalypse had to give up their studies and join the workforce.
As a result, most of the students were low-level undergraduates. There were only a few who were close to graduation. As for postgraduates and doctoral students, there were even fewer of them.
There was an obvious gap in the training of talents. Whether it was the Reconstruction Area or the current Hope City, they were basically overdrawn from the remnants of the pre-apocalypse research.
Fortunately, the interruption was not long, so it could be made up for.
Luo Yuan sighed and took out a pen to write his consent on the document.
He took a sip of tea and regained his composure. He picked up another document and continued to approve it. Soon, all the documents had been processed.
Luo Yuan called his secretary and asked him to send the documents back to the relevant departments.
"Mayor, Mayor Tian came to report to you. Do you want to inform him now?" The secretary asked respectfully.
"Let him come!"
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