Chapter 525 The Elixir of Ageing and the Elixir of Rejuvenation (Part 1)
Interrupted by Lin Xinyi, the haze in Belmod's eyes unknowingly faded a lot.
But when the topic returned to the past, her face inevitably turned gloomy.
Especially when it comes to the Miyano couple who led those experiments:
"Boy, you should understand now"
"Why do I hate the Miyano family so much and object to you being with that girl?"
"." Lin Xinyi nodded silently:
From Belmod's perspective, the appearance of the Miyano family can indeed be said to be the beginning of her pain.
Without the research results brought by the Miyano couple, Karasuma Renya, the devil, might have long since passed away, and there would not have been a series of tragedies that followed.
Similarly, if the Miyano couple's experimental research did not require the blood of the Karasuma family, Belmode and her family and relatives would not have become experimental materials like mice.
Even though none of this came from the wishes of the Miyano couple themselves.
They are also forced to act under organizational pressure.
But objectively, they were still the black hand that pushed Belmode into the abyss, and the bullet that took away the lives of her family.
Therefore, she has always had hatred for the Miyano family, and this hatred continues to this day.
If it weren't for Lin Shinichi's mediation, Belmod might still be thinking about killing Miyano Shiho every day and every night to relieve the long-suppressed hatred in his heart.
"Sister, actually you should understand"
Lin Xin thought for a while, and then whispered comfort:
"What Shiho's parents did was out of necessity."
"What you should really hate is."
"I know!"
Belmod snorted angrily:
"The one who is really responsible is Karasuma Ren!"
"But I just hate the Miyano couple and these two bastards who brought me bad luck, but it's you."
"You are quite generous."
She stared at Lin Xinyi with great interest:
"What did that uninteresting little girl feed you to make you turn towards her like this?"
"Have you forgotten what I just said?"
"Your biological parents both died on the Miyano couple's experimental bench!"
"This" Lin Xinyi looked a little embarrassed:
He really couldn't sympathize with Belmod on this matter.
After all, it was "Lin Xinyi"'s biological parents who died. What did they have to do with him?
It doesn't matter if you hang up high, standing and talking really doesn't hurt your back.
Lin Xinyi can naturally look at problems completely rationally, and can also persuade people to be more generous in an understatement.
But Belmode is obviously not a generous person:
"When you didn't lose your memory, you basically had no impression of your biological parents. It's normal that you can't feel my hatred."
"Then let me use an analogy."
"Don't you really like being a policeman now?"
Belmode looked at Lin Xinyi with burning eyes and pointed his finger at himself:
"In a way, I'm like Mr. and Mrs. Miyano."
"I have been trained by that demon as his most trusted minion since I was a child, and my hands are stained with the blood of the organization's enemies."
"None of these people I would kill."
"But if I don't kill, I will become a traitor to the organization and my life will be threatened."
"So."
"As a police officer, do you think that a witch like me, with blood on my hands, is a clean and innocent good woman just because I am forced to kill someone?"
She rudely asked Lin Xinyi a difficult problem.
Unexpectedly, Lin Xin didn't even hesitate.
Because in Belmod's view, this is a philosophical question.
From the perspective of a forensic doctor who studies both law and medicine, it is a very simple legal question:
"If you are completely forced to kill someone, then of course you are innocent!"
"Because the murderer no longer has freedom of will at this time and has completely become a tool of the coercer, it can be concluded that he has no intention to kill and should not bear criminal responsibility. The coercer is the perpetrator of the murder, which is an indirect crime."
“Furthermore, Article 1 of the Criminal Code
Lin Xinyi promptly shut his mouth about violating the domestic laws of his previous life.
Then he completed this sentence silently in his heart:
Article 28 of the Criminal Law stipulates that anyone who is coerced into participating in a crime shall be given a reduced punishment or be exempted from punishment according to the circumstances of his crime.
Belmode: "."
"However." Lin Xinyi analyzed it to himself: "Theory belongs to theory, and practice belongs to practice."
"In judicial practice, cases where coercion accomplices are acquitted are almost non-existent."
Because this matter is difficult to clarify in court:
You said you were forced to kill someone, but who can prove that you were forced to kill someone?
And the degree of coercion is also very different.
Like the Miyano couple, the whole family is locked up in a secret laboratory, their personal freedom is completely deprived by criminal organizations, and their life safety is constantly threatened. Only then can they barely be considered "completely without freedom of will."
As for a higher-status organizational killer like Belmode.
From time to time, I would go on separate missions, and there was no "supervisory team" nearby to monitor the whole process.
She still has free will and has other choices.
Even if you give up the assassination mission, you will definitely be hunted down by the organization afterwards, but then...it's not 100% sure that you will die, right?
This is just like the need to know the right moment to kill someone in legitimate defense. The legal conditions for determining "killing under duress" are very stringent.
To put it a bit exaggeratedly, as long as no one puts a gun directly to your head when killing someone, it doesn't count as "complete lack of freedom of will."
Based on this calculation, neither the Miyano couple nor Miyano Shiho, who was later forced to conduct human experiments, can be said to be completely innocent.
After all, strictly speaking, they could have chosen not to do the experiment at that time.
Anyway, if you don’t do the experiment, you won’t be shot on the spot.
Maybe after being imprisoned by criminals in a gas chamber, you can still rely on God to take care of you, take medicine, shrink in size, and escape from the garbage tunnel!
so.
"Sister, to say that you are completely innocent would be even more difficult."
"You are legally considered an accessory under coercion. If you can present evidence in court that you were coerced into committing a crime, your punishment can be reduced to a certain extent."
"But considering the seriousness of your crime, the punishment will be reduced."
Lin Xinyi analyzed by himself:
"I guess I have to be sentenced to life, right?"
Belmode: "."
She originally wanted Lin Xinyi to empathize with her.
Unexpectedly, Lin Xinyi sentenced her directly.
"enough!"
Belmod interrupted him angrily:
"If I give you a life sentence, you will have to give it at least ten years."
"." Lin Xin, who was explaining today's speech, instantly fainted.
And Belmod snorted softly at him, but he no longer had the interest to speak ill of the Miyano family in front of him.
She dropped the topic angrily, and after thinking about it for a while, she continued to say to Lin Xinyi:
"Let's continue talking about what happened back then -"
"The drug research conducted by Mr. and Mrs. Miyano at that time finally achieved a breakthrough in my experimental subject."
"The elixir specially designed for the Karasuma family's bloodline, the first generation APTX4869 was born."
"Renya Karasuma managed to survive under the influence of medication."
"He gained what he dreamed of, the power of immortality."
Belmode paused slightly, then sneered mockingly:
"But this guy is too greedy."
"It's not enough for him to live forever, he also attempts to further expand his ambitions."
The first generation APTX4869 was specifically designed to target the genes of the Karasuma family and was of no use to others.
Karasuma Renye has been tried with good results.
And I deeply feel that such a good medicine should not be enjoyed by just my family.
So Karasuma Renye made a decision to give back to the society and decided to improve the prescription and expand production and put it into the market so that the general public can enjoy the benefits of immortality.
in short.
It is Karasuma Renye who hopes to upgrade the "Karasuma Special Edition Elixir" into a real elixir of life.
Then use these elixirs to control those high-ranking dignitaries and aristocratic families who also seek immortality, integrate them into the organization's interest network, and make them the organization's protective umbrella.
In order to achieve the huge ambition of indirectly controlling Japan and even the entire world.
Karasuma Renya's plan is actually very feasible.
But as the boss of the organization, Lao Zibenjia, he still forgot one thing:
Tool people are people after all, not tools.
They also have free will and a spirit of resistance, and will bite when pushed hard.
In the final analysis, the Miyano couple, the ultimate tool men, must be responsible for upgrading and improving drugs.
But the Miyano couple had had enough of being controlled and squeezed by the organization, without any freedom or hope.
At the same time, they are also clearly aware of what kind of disaster it will bring to the world if their research is further used by Karasuma Renye, a madman, to control the world.
So the Miyano couple bravely chose to resist.
And the result of this resistance is
"Eighteen years ago, not long after your little girlfriend was born, they both died in a fire in the laboratory due to an 'accident'."
"In fact, the Miyano couple committed suicide."
"Seeing that there was no hope of resistance, they destroyed APTX4869's drug development data as much as possible before they died, hoping to use their own sacrifice to stop Karasuma Renye's ambitions."
"The research and development of elixirs has also come to a standstill with their deaths."
"But even though Karasuma Renya felt sorry at first, she was not very worried:"
"Because he feels that he already has the ability to live forever. Even without the help of the Miyano couple, he has unlimited time to promote the progress of drug research."
Having said this, Belmode once again showed a sarcastic smile:
"But he soon learned that he had been happy too soon."
"What's wrong?" Lin Xinyi pricked up his ears curiously.
Unexpectedly, Belmode only gave a very ordinary answer:
"Karasuma Renya is sick."
"Sick." Lin Xinyi was confused: "What's so strange about being sick?"
It is an elixir of life, but it is not a cure-all.
Renya Karasuma was an old man in his 120s at the time. Even if he was old and not dead, his body would still be that of an old man.
Isn't it normal for an old man whose body functions have completely deteriorated to fall ill by chance?
"etc."
Lin Xinyi quietly realized something.
And Belmod also showed a playful smile.
She pointed to her face, which was still as young as ever after twenty years, and reminded Lin Xinyi meaningfully:
"What I was taking was the first-generation APTX4869 developed by the Miyano couple."
"And what your little girlfriend eats is an improved version of APTX4869 developed by herself."
"Then have you noticed?"
"Are there any differences in the efficacy of these two versions of APTX4869?"
Different, and totally different.
It’s like two kinds of medicine:
Belmode did not become smaller after taking APTX4869, but his biological age remained at the time he took the drug.
But Miyano Shiho turned into an elementary school student after taking the medicine.
According to Miyano Shiho's own research, her shrunken body is actually the same as that of a normal person - the drug will not stop her body's growth or development, causing her to stay at the age of 8 forever.
"Yes, this is the biggest difference between the two drugs:"
"The first-generation APTX4869 I took is the elixir of life."
"And the new version of APTX4869, which the organization later asked Miyano Shiho to be responsible for researching, is actually a 'rejuvenation drug' with completely different efficacy."