Enforcer Manual

Chapter 848 - 831: Beware of Human Traffickers

Chapter 848: Chapter 831: Beware of Human TraffickersFrom any perspective, the founder of Kolo Film Industry was dead, and his death was thorough. Judging by the remains of the explosion on the scene, Catherine felt that not even if he had transformed himself into a Transformer, could he escape the punishment of a miniature tactical nuclear bomb.

"Maybe it was a standin who died?"

Lu Xiang thought of a possibility.

This was a new term she had learned while watching a movie with Song Lan over the weekend. The term originated from the pre-war world, where, according to some ancient historical records, some important figures often cultivated look-alikes as standins to counter assassinations, letting them replace the actual targets when necessary.

She still remembered the movie was called "Shadow Warrior," an early work of Kolo Film Industry. The protagonist in the film was one of the standins for an important figure, but ultimately, due to a poor market response, the series was not continued.

However, the existence of these standins gave Lu Xiang some new ideas.

In 2167, the costs of cultivating standins had been greatly reduced. They no longer needed years of training; Dr. Bai Zhu had said that all it took was to upload their consciousness to the network and download it into each clone, thereby mass-producing a large number of standins.

What Lu Xiang found quite strange was that the Chairperson of the Council and those important councilors had not used this technique during the incident in The First Region.

Catherine’s eyes lit up, "Are you talking about clones?"

Her student always brought her new ideas, "The technology of clones indeed had its days in the core areas for a while. It was the elite’s first attempt at immortality."

Theoretically, as long as the technology was used properly, it could indeed allow human consciousness to continue, even providing the possibility for councilors to revert to youth, leading re