"What exactly do you want me to do?" Xu Qian asked.
"It's simple. Just pretend nothing happened. Forget about tonight. I can even help you keep looking for the stalker. All I need is nine days. After nine days, you can contact G7Z and report what happened to me. Tell them I realized I'm a Clone. Tell them I killed more than thirty people on the First Layer. Say whatever you want. As long as they don't suspect you, you can stay with that rich boyfriend of yours, get engaged to him, even marry him, and go to the Fourth Layer to live as a wealthy lady."
"That's impossible. The moment you're caught, they'll know I was lying. Didn't you hear what I said before? This can't be covered up," Xu Qian said despairingly.
"Yes, but that assumes I get caught," Zhang Heng said calmly.
"No Clone has ever avoided capture after escaping. I told you, almost every Clone was caught and brought back within twenty-four hours of escaping."
"Not everyone. I know someone who was still alive and well and never got caught," Zhang Heng said.
"How is that possible?" Xu Qian looked incredulous. "Of all the Clones who escaped, the most successful only lasted three days. The only exception was a female Clone named Tang."
"Tang?"
"Of course that wasn't her real name. It was only her stage name online. She belonged to the same entertainment company as me. You could say she was half a senior to me. But even at my peak, I didn't have one percent of her popularity. Although the company deleted all information related to her after that incident, I still found photos of her online.
"It was said that when the company created her, they searched the entire Federation for the hundred