85 Heart of Iron (2/2)

The cloning process described here was much different than the classical method; though I couldn't understand much of it, it was clearly way more advanced than asexual reproduction. The method didn't just create organisms with exact same genetics, but it also allowed multi-cellular organisms to be reacreated as exact replicas almost instantaneously. Exact replicas of people, perhaps more look-alike than twins...

I continued turning the pages, and noticed that there was a paper for every person that has been cloned. Every page was containing the photo, name, gender, height, weight, age and health information of an individual. And, at the bottom of the page, the number of clones and the locations they were sent.

There weren't many pages, so I had enough time to take a look at every one. I turned the page, trying to recognise people.

I finally recognised one of them. It was the man I called 'The Librarian'. Supposedly, he had one clone that was located in another lab section. But it didn't matter anymore, since both instances were already dead.

I kept turning the pages. After the facility personnel's pages, I started seeing test subjects. As far as I could tell from their photos, I could tell that they certainly didn't have good times.

”Come on.” the deep voice of The Community said. ”We have to go.”

”Just let me look at this for a minute.” I said.

”No. It doesn't matter. These things already happened, and the longer you look at that folder... you will only find more pain.” she told me. ”We are on the verge of victory.”

”I have to see.” I said. She didn't reply. I turned a few more pages, and encountered pages about failed cloning attempts on some subjects.

”Are you done yet?” the voice said.

”Hold on...” I said.

I turned a few more pages, and suddenly, I dropped the folder. I was startled by what I had seen. Idil was on that list; like some other subjects, she was also cloned once... The clone was supposedly located in Cell Block B, where I have encountered her the first time!

I rushed out of the archive room, with the folder in my hand.

”Wait!” the voice yelled. I didn't know what to say. I was going to retrace my steps all the way back to where she was killed.

As soon as I got out of the room, I saw a gun in my face. With that panic, I dropped mine.