Chapter 1155: Control
On an island.
Amid a stretch of jungle, defensive fortifications stood in great numbers. Suddenly, a noise came from the innermost room of a secret bunker.
Thud, thud!
In hurried footsteps, someone opened the long-sealed door.
Then they saw Barton, naked, crawling out of some enormous eggshell.
"Did I die again?"
Barton accepted a towel without expression and began wiping the slime from his body. "What time is it now? When was I here last?"
"Director, the date you left your memories behind last time was the year 400 of the Black Iron Calendar. It's now the year 401, in the Month of Aries..."
Several Investigation Department members answered respectfully.
"Looks like I died again..."
Barton remained expressionless. "Where did the original me go?"
"According to the latest message, he was preparing to deal with the Dark Ritual in Kimbert City... but..."
While the members stammered through their report, several urgent alarms suddenly rang out.
"Has another one of the Director's life-bound eggs awakened?"
One of the members who had stayed behind gaped. "Could the Investigation Department headquarters have been attacked this time?"
"Compared to that, I'm more interested in the Dark Ritual in Kimbert City..." Barton got dressed and went outside, where he saw several other senior investigators. "Gentlemen... We have trouble. But before that, let's all go for examinations and treatment..."
"What a bizarre ability!"
Fang Yuan's gaze reached far beyond the horizon; he had seen this long ago. He couldn't help exclaiming, "It isn't resurrection, but something like cloning and copying, storing, and transferring memories. They managed it through supernatural means? It's a low-spec version of rebirth..."
In truth, the real Barton had died countless times already.
Those who had survived afterward were his clones, carrying reproduced memories.
Though they were only copies,