[Image] [Name: Meng Chuan (deceased)] [Cause of death: sudden death (suspected)] [Family members: none] [History: ...]
All the records on this deceased Meng Chuan had been brought up. They were remarkably detailed. Not everything had been recorded, but few important details were missing.
Most important was the photograph. Calling the resemblance 99.99 percent was conservative; the unknown lifeform looked no different from the person in the picture.
It was a major discovery, one that sent another shock through the people of the Ancient Kingdom.
"They look alike. They really do."
"Why does the unknown lifeform look exactly like a human? Is it a coincidence, or was it deliberate?"
There were indeed cases among humans of two people who had no blood relation and had never met, yet looked astonishingly alike.
Such cases were hardly rare. Under ordinary circumstances, people would have marveled at the coincidence and moved on.
But for an unknown lifeform suspected of being an alien to look exactly like a human from Earth...
Was that possible? Was it normal? Did it make any sense?
"And why does the human Meng Chuan have no family members listed?"
Even if both his parents had died when he was born, that should have been noted under family members.
Even if he had been abandoned as a baby and grown up an orphan, the entry should not have read "none."
Whoever raised him would have been registered. Even if he had grown up in an orphanage, its staff would have been listed.
What did "no family members" mean?
Were they supposed to believe this human Meng Chuan had lived alone since infancy, without ever having a guardian or anyone to raise him?
What was he, born of heaven and raised by earth?
"I investigated the human Meng Chuan further.