Chapter 2176: Brand-New Cells
After closing his eyes and enjoying Shanamia's head massage for a while, Xiao Ran raised a hand to hold hers, signaling that she did not need to continue.
Once Xiao Ran opened his eyes, Lacus, who had remained silent and waited for a long time, finally voiced the question in her heart. "What exactly did you learn just now? Have those clones begun appearing on a large scale?"
Xiao Ran shook his head. He had not learned anything from that fake Master Asia's memories about clones appearing on a massive scale. That fake was merely an idiot who had been brainwashed and controlled. There were indeed some clones, but nowhere near as many as he had imagined—only a very small number. More importantly, he had learned who the mastermind behind it all was.
"There wasn't much valuable intelligence. I only confirmed that the person controlling that guy from behind the scenes was Kihara Masaki. As for that clone, the memories in his head were basically all fake, entirely manufactured."
"That fake didn't know whether more clones existed, but with this information, we can at least confirm that the chaos and problems appearing around the world are most likely connected to Kihara Masaki."
"More crucially, how long did Kihara Masaki spend cultivating a clone? From what I know, raising a clone to maturity definitely takes more than a year or two. Yet that fake possessed roughly a year's worth of memories of his own."
"If we subtract that year from the present, then account for the time Kihara Masaki needed to escape and prepare, there isn't much time left in between. I'm wondering whether Kihara Masaki has now mastered some completely new method of rapidly creating clones. Can this method be used on a large scale? If