Witch Special

"Yan meow~" Lin Zhenxi reached out and poked Yan Qing's cheek, saying with a smile, "Lying is not something a good child should do."

"I'm not a child." Yan Qing turned her head, trying to avoid Lin Zhenxi's fingers.

"If you are not a child, you should set a good example for the children." Lin Zhenxi poked Yan Qing's face persistently, and finally made this cat girl angry. She turned her head suddenly, opened her mouth and bit Lin Zhenxi's hand.

But Lin Zhenxi dodged it by retracting his hand.

"So Yan Miao, do you have any troubles now? You can tell me about it. The company probably won't send me out during this period. I have plenty of time to help you solve the problems you encounter." When Lin Zhenxi said these words, his eyes were fixed on Yan Qing, and his tone was gentle but firm.

Yan Qing looked at her own reflection in Lin Zhenxi's eyes, Lin Zhenxi's whispers echoed in her ears, and her attitude finally showed signs of wavering.

She sighed and finally began to confide her recent troubles to Lin Zhenxi.

She rubbed her feet against each other, kicked off her high heels, then curled up her legs, put her heels on the edge of the sofa, put her hands forward, hugged her legs, and rested her chin on her knees in a posture that only a slender and flexible person could do.

"Maki, can you guess which other world these beastman children in the resettlement center come from?" Her tone was filled with melancholy.

"I couldn't guess it at first, but now that you've said it, I know it now."

"Ok?"

"There are thousands of different worlds. Except for the one you come from, other different worlds should be the same to you. Since you ask me this, it means that there must be something special about that different world. The most likely possibility is that they just happen to come from the same different world as you." Lin Zhenxi explained his thought process.

Yan Qing didn't say anything, but leaned her body and rested her shoulder on Lin Zhenxi's arm.

Lin Zhenxi glanced sideways at Yan Qing and found that the two cat ears on her head were drooping to the sides. According to the habits of cats, this probably expressed fear, or feelings of loss and sadness.

"Indeed, it's not a difficult answer to guess." Yan Qing leaned on Lin Zhenxi and said in a low voice.

"Maki, I never told you anything about me, right?"

"Uh-huh, would you tell me?"

"Hate it... I've already brought it up, so I'm bound to tell you." Yan Qing paused, as if she had made up her mind, and then she started again, "Actually, I'm a clone, one of thousands of copies of someone. I'm a purely consumable product."

"Ah!?" Lin Zhenxi expressed his surprise loudly.

"Haha, it's rare to see you so surprised." Yan Qing laughed, her gloomy mood seemingly alleviated. "I had almost forgotten who I was. I am who I am. I am Yan Qing, a doctor, and... an independent person."

"You are!" Lin Zhenxi said firmly, "I am sure you must also believe that you are yourself, not someone else's thing."

"Yeah, I always thought so before. At least in this world, I was unique, once."

"But during this mass transfer, a replica was also teleported here."

"Unlike me, she is in a juvenile state and hasn't even completed the most basic knowledge indoctrination. She is confused and knows nothing, like a little fool." Yan Qing laughed softly, as if she was thinking of the time when she met that small version of herself, but Lin Zhenxi still could hear the deep sadness in her tone.

Indeed, no one wants to live as someone else's replacement. If even your own existence is artificially created, what's the point of living a life that is arranged by others from birth to death?

"But she and I look exactly the same. She is me, just our ages are different. We have exactly the same blood, genes, even abilities and potential. We are completely identical, like two products produced on the same production line. The difference is so small that it is undetectable."

"Her existence means that I am no longer a unique individual in this world. It means that Yan Qing will not only represent myself from now on, but also her. This feeling, Maki..."

"Do I really exist? Am I still myself? Can my life go back to the way it was before?"

Lin Zhenxi raised his arm and patted Yan Qing's shoulder.

"Yan Miao, I don't agree with that. Yan Qing is your name, not that alias of you. Since you've lived your own life in this world, I believe that you can too. All you need to do now is give her a new name to distinguish you from her. The rest is up to her. Haven't you adapted well to this world? Believe in yourself, and believe in her, you can do this too."

"At worst, you can just raise her as a daughter. They say a daughter is a stand-in for her mother, right? If you put yourself in the role of the mother, even if you look alike, people will at most compliment you on your strong genes, not think you're the same person."

Yan Qing tilted her head and looked up at Lin Zhenxi at a 45-degree angle that doubled her cuteness, her eyes looking a little helpless.

"Gene expression isn't as simple as looking alike. She and I are like clones number one and two. We're exactly the same person, but genetics can't explain it."

Lin Zhenxi shrugged and said confidently, "You know, I only have a high school education, and that's all we learned in high school biology. Multiplying Big A Big A by Small A Small A gives Big A Small A, and then self-pollinating the parents gives us a 3:1 ratio of different trait expressions. That 3 is one-third Big A Big A and two-thirds Big A Small A. I still remember this after all these years, so I think my memory is pretty good."

"You're not ashamed of this, you're proud of it. I've already told you, copying and inheritance are two different things... Anyway, as long as she and I appear together, no one will mistake us for mother and daughter." Having said this, Yan Qing sighed and said, "It seems that the only way to start is to dress us up. Use different clothes and makeup to maximize the difference between us."

Lin Zhenxi nodded vigorously and praised: "Yes, yes, there must be a way. Yan Miao, you are so good at dressing up, such a small matter will be easy for you."

"Besides, temperament is largely acquired, right? You also said that the new one doesn't have as much knowledge as you do now, so you can definitely train her in other directions. After all, as long as she avoids the field of medicine, it will be fine."

"Speaking of which, Yan Miao, your clone doesn't have the ability to accelerate growth, right? It's like if it's three today, five tomorrow, and eight the day after tomorrow, it'll grow to be almost as tall as you in just one week."

"What do you think I am, a balloon? Of course not." Yan Qing angrily nudged Lin Zhenxi's side with her shoulder, but then continued, "If we are in a nutrient tank, our growth process will indeed be accelerated. However, in order to have a brain that can fully understand the instilled knowledge, we often stay in the nutrient tank for several years. Only after we grow into an adult will we enter a deep dormant state, waiting to be awakened."

"That is to say, there are many people like you, Yan Qing, in your original world." Lin Zhenxi fell into the fantasy of being surrounded by cat girls.

“……我的生产编号是622-690-17，意思是第622号到690号这一批中的第17个，也就是说我在复制体当中排第638个。而这个新来的我，她的编号是863-879-3。”颜晴就像报身份证号一样，把自己和那个小号自己的生产编号念了出来。

There are hundreds of Yan Qings! Lin Zhenxi was surprised by this result, but also a little excited. She didn't think Yan Qing being a clone was a bad thing. After all, she lived her own life, so she was an independent individual, and her background had nothing to do with her. On the contrary, the fact that she had so many sisters made her already complicated label even more interesting.

But then, Lin Zhenxi thought of a setting that he often saw on TV, that is, the lifespan of clones generally has problems.

Could Yan Qing also have this problem?

When Lin Zhenxi asked this question, Yan Qing chuckled and said, "Don't worry. As part of the 'Preserver Project,' our lifespans are calculated in millennia. Furthermore, even if the lifespan of this body ends, we can continue our lives by replacing it with another 'me' that hasn't yet awakened."

"So, theoretically, my lifespan should be infinite. Well, at least I was once part of that 'infinity'. As for now, unless I mass-produce copies of myself like I did, I can probably only live for a thousand years or so."

Lin Zhenxi:......

She's still worried about Yan Qing from the market for a thousand years! She should worry more about herself.

Although theoretically speaking, Lin Zhenxi is now a witch, and a witch's life is their magic power, as long as Lin Zhenxi does not use up her magic power, she will not die. However, given the nature of Lin Zhenxi's work, who knows when she will be finished. How can it compare to the safety and stability on Yan Qing's side.

Regardless, the lifespan theory seemed to be a deadlock that didn't exist for Yan Qing. This was definitely a blessing in disguise for Lin Zhenxi, who was already beginning to worry about the impact of the passage of time on his interpersonal relationships in the main world.

At least, she found someone in the main world who could always accompany her, and she didn't have to worry about becoming a lonely person in this world as time went by.