Coroner Coroner

"And your little girlfriend is eating an improved version of atx4869 developed by herself."

"Then did you find out..."

"Are the two versions of atx4869 different in efficacy?"

Different, and completely different.

It's like two drugs:

Belmode did not shrink after taking atx4869, but his biological age remained at the time when he took the drug.

But Miyano Shiho turned into a primary school student after taking the medicine.

According to Miyano Shiho's own research and judgment, her body after shrinking is actually no different from that of a normal person. The drug will not stop her body from growing, stop developing, and make her stay at the age of 8 forever.

"Yes, this is the biggest difference between the two drugs:"

"The first-generation atx4869 I took is an elixir."

"And the new version of atx4869 that the organization later let Miyano Shiho take charge of the research is actually a rejuvenation drug with completely different effects."

Chapter 521 Elixir and Rejuvenating Medicine

At first glance, the elixir seems to be more powerful than the rejuvenation drug.

Belmode took the elixir and directly remained youthful and permanently frozen.

But Miyano Shiho just reverts to a child, and what should be old will still be old when he grows up.

Looking at it this way, the rejuvenation medicine is just helping her to prolong her life for a few years, which is far from the effect of immortality.

But people's physique cannot be generalized.

Whether this medicine is effective or not depends on the patient himself.

For Belmode, who was still a young girl when taking the medicine, the elixir that can freeze the age is of course better than the juvenile medicine.

But for Renye Karasuma...

"He was already 122 years old when he took the elixir."

"Drugs do help him stop aging, keep him from dying, but so what?"

"He's still a 122-year-old man."

"He can only be trapped in that withered body, lingering on to live."

The elixir can only keep you young, not rejuvenate.

Karasuma Renye's body is still the original body that is sickly, weak, rotten, and half of her body has been buried in the ground.

And when people get old, high blood pressure, high blood sugar, high blood fat, rheumatism, coronary heart disease, cerebral infarction, senile dementia, all kinds of problems will come.

With such a useless body, he might have to slip and wrestle on the gangway of the plane.

Any casual flu could kill him.

So Karasuma Renye survived "forever".

But he lived under the torment of illness and the fear of death all the time.

"That's why Renye Karasuma is frantically looking for a way to save her life."

"The rejuvenation drug that your little girlfriend is in charge of developing is the life-saving straw in his eyes."

"And the reason why the organization is keen to collect those talented software engineers is also his backup plan prepared after the development of rejuvenation drugs in order to save his own life."

Karasuma Renye's mind is wide open in order to live healthily:

One is to change the focus of drug research and development of atx4869, and shift the primary goal of research and development from "not getting old" to "rejuvenating".

The second is to keep up with the changes of the times, stand firm on the trend of computer science, and focus on the research and development of "consciousness uploading" and "data immortality" technologies.

The first one to succeed, he is Tianshan Child Elder.

The second one is done, he is Saburo Arasaka.

If it fails, he will continue to be Matou Zouken, lingering like a disgusting old bug.

"I see…"

Lin Xinyi couldn't help sighing a little.

It turned out that this was the boss of the organization, his greatest enemy in the future.

To be old and not die is to be a thief. This Renye Karasuma is 140 years old, and it is estimated that she is almost alive.

"This guy must be difficult to deal with, right?"

Lin Xinyi asked rather nervously.

But Belmode shook his head disdainfully: "No."

"Renya Karasuma was indeed scary before, but now she is old."

"He has been suffering from constant illness and poor physical condition over the years, and has not come forward to manage organizational affairs for a long time."

"If you just want to deal with him alone, I'm enough."

She raised the corners of her mouth triumphantly and jokingly:

"You know, I'm good at acting."

"Despite such cruel and merciless treatment, I can still suppress the resentment in my heart and show enough fanatical loyalty in front of him."

"Plus this old guy loved me very much before."

"So after 18 years, although Renye Karasuma has always been wary of me, my granddaughter who has a blood feud, I still regained his trust step by step."

"Relying on this trust, we plan to get rid of this bastard..."

"Although it is difficult, it is not something that is completely impossible."

When Belmode said this, his tone was extremely cold.

She has obviously rehearsed the plan to eradicate Renye Karasuma countless times in her mind over the years.

Judging from her tone, she seemed to be very sure of getting rid of this demon.

But she didn't make a move for a long time.

"Because it's not that simple."

"After Renye Karasuma was seriously ill for a long time and was unable to manage the organization, he handed over most of the power of the organization to his confidant, who is the second in command of our organization."

"If the No. [-] person is not eradicated, even if the boss Renye Karasuma dies, the organization will not suffer any serious damage."

The Karasuma Group has adopted an advanced management model of decentralization, which avoids the rigidity of the system caused by excessive concentration of power, enhances the enterprise's ability to resist risks, and prolongs the life cycle of the enterprise.

It's like the West Rome is gone and there is East Rome.

Even if Renye Karasuma dies, as long as the No. [-] person is still there, the organization will not collapse.

And if the organization does not fall, the traitors like Belmode, who assassinated the king, will inevitably be hunted down by the organization with all their strength.

Even if you are lucky enough to survive once or twice, you will never want to live a peaceful life for the rest of your life.

"I understand…"

Lin Xinyi heard Belmode's overtones:

"Because you know Renye Karasuma so well, Renye Karasuma is not our primary enemy."

"Our most troublesome opponent is the number two person in the organization!"

"That's right." Belmode nodded approvingly.

"Then who is the No. [-] person?"

"I do not know."

Belmode answered very neatly:

"I only know his code name is Rum."

"I don't know anything else."

"This..." Lin Xinyi was a little stunned: "You are so familiar with the boss, how come you don't know anything about that No. [-] character?"

"This is the cleverness of Karasuma Renya."

"Although he doesn't manage organizational affairs very much now, he won't leave anyone with an opportunity."

"As Karasuma Renye's granddaughter, relying on the favor of this lord boss, I have enough information and power to threaten him."

"So he deliberately supported another confidant, Rum, to become the number two figure in the organization, and kept Rum a mystery in front of the members of the organization, preventing me from having any possibility of grasping his information."

To put it bluntly, this is the emperor's mind that has been written badly in the history books.

Its core is checks and balances and decentralization.

Just like Dameng has Jinyiwei and Dongchang, and Dami has FBI and CIA.

Japan has the Public Security Investigation Department under the Ministry of Justice of the judicial system, and a Ministry of Public Security with almost completely overlapping functions in the Metropolitan Police Department of the police system.

The power of this secret police agency must not be too concentrated.

Otherwise, the boss will not be able to sleep easily at night.

The same is true within the organization. Karasuma Renye "regardless of previous suspicions" allocated part of the power to Belmode's granddaughter, and at the same time very shrewdly handed over a greater part of the power to Rum.

Now Belmode wants to rebel.

She immediately encountered a huge problem because of this system design of mutual checks and balances.

And this is also an inevitable step in Belmode's "organizational collapse plan":

"If you want to break the organization, you have to get rid of Rum."

"We don't know anything about this, the most mysterious opponent in the organization."

"Hmm..." Lin Xinyi frowned when he heard this:

The objective of the mission is quite clear, just kill Rum.