The Middleton family used natural caves to open two stone chambers. There is a small, sturdy iron box stored in the first stone room. Victor struggled to break it open, revealing the gold and silver jewelry inside.
He visually estimated that this batch of hidden gold was worth 20,000 to 30,000 gold pagodas, and most of them were high-quality gemstones that were easy to carry. If the sale went smoothly, there should be a 30% to 50% premium.
Seeing the dazzling treasures all over the floor, Victor was inevitably disappointed. The Dream Arena evolves into things perceived by the wind element, but some details still require Victor to observe personally, such as the words in books or the things in containers.
He originally thought that this small iron box was placed in the most conspicuous position, and there must be something good hidden in it, but he did not expect that it was just some useless treasure.
Victor immediately moved his gaze to the weapon rack aside, on which were displayed short armor-piercing spears. They were made of fine iron materials and were heavy. The tip of the spear was a one-foot-long alloy single-edged blade. It could be used with a shield or at close range. To fend off enemies, it can also be used as a javelin to throw an iron alloy sword from a distance. The blade is four fingers wide, and the blade is sharp and flashes with a cold blue light. The heavy battle ax has two edges, so it is not just for chopping. The stupid guy also has the function of reverberating and sweeping. If you don't have enough strength, you can't use it... In addition to these, the stone room also stores armor, bucklers, spears, recurve scimitars, thin rapiers, war bows, etc. Waiting for weapons and equipment, Victor even found two complex-structured repeating crossbows.
The weapons and protective equipment here are all high-quality, enough to equip 12 warriors. There are shield spearmen who can fight at close range and attack from a distance; heavy axemen with amazing destructive power; scimitar scouts who are good at backstabbing and sneak attacks; and frontal resisters. Spearman; a crossbow archer who can support his companions.
This stone chamber is obviously a supply point set up by the Middleton family in the underground cave, and it is regularly maintained, because there are several large wooden barrels placed on the other side of the stone chamber, which contain clean fresh water and wine brewed with pecans. Wine, dried mud melon cubes, cured meat, salted fish and other food and drinks. Although they are properly sealed and stored, they still need to be replaced regularly in the damp and cold cave.
Victor judged based on the experience of top chefs that the dried mud melons stored here by the Middleton family were not more than 40 days old. This shows that they visited the cave forty days ago and left at least one bucket of sun-dried mud melons.
Evolutionary functions cannot present organisms that can move autonomously, but traces of biological activities will not be missed. Victor carefully surveyed the environment around the stone chamber and found an iron chain more than ten meters long. One end was nailed deeply into the rock with an iron drill, and the other end was a collar with a diameter as thick as his waist.
The Middleton family kept a beast in the cave to guard his supply point. This beast is huge, with no hair on its body, but is covered with a layer of scales, and has huge sharp claws. It has carved deep claw marks on the ground.
However, the beast has disappeared.
There was a large pool of dark red blood on the ground next to the collar. Victor crouched down and touched the blood stains with his fingers. He was not sure what kind of beast it was, but the traces at the scene showed that the beast suffered a terrible attack. Perhaps because it was chained, it tried to fight back, but failed, and was eventually killed by the attacker. In addition, the attacker was much smaller than the beast, otherwise it would have left its own traces. However, Victor only found the paw prints of one kind of beast on the rock.
To put it simply, a medium-sized attacker killed the underground beast raised by the Middleton family. What is puzzling is that after the underground beast died, the stone house it guarded was not invaded by other underground creatures, and the materials inside were still neatly stacked and well preserved.
There are two possibilities. In addition to the beasts guarding the supply point, there are professionals from the Middleton family stationed there; the second possibility is that the attackers took over the supply point after killing the beasts.
Victor favors the second possibility. If the professionals of the Middleton family are capable of guarding the supply point, there is really no need for them to raise an underground beast.
If you look at it this way, the attacker should be an intelligent half-elf?
Does he still consciously protect the supplies of the Middleton family?
However, the second speculation is contradictory to the first. If the attacker was a member of the Middleton family, why would he kill the underground beast raised by his family?
Victor was very confused. He only knew that the attacker dragged the beast's body away to the area where the Dream Arena failed to evolve.
On the other hand, Victor carefully searched the surroundings and found no traces of life left by the attackers, such as excrement, embers from the campfire, food residues, etc. The attackers did not even use the supplies stored at the supply points. He was like a ghost who didn't need food, drink or warmth, silently guarding the stone chamber opened by the Middleton family. Any underground creature was afraid of him and did not dare to approach this area.
In short, underground caves are not safe and there are many strange underground creatures. But the Middleton family already controls a piece of land in the underground cave.
Victor hopes that there will be more clues in the second artificial stone chamber.
The Middleton family built the second stone chamber on the top platform of a huge stone pillar, which is 7 or 8 meters high from the ground. The location is quite hidden. There are many such stone pillars inside underground caves, and it is not easy for ordinary explorers to find them. Unfortunately, the wind element's perception is not limited by the field of vision, and Victor found the location of the stone room very accurately.
He summoned the airflow to surround his body, stepped on the bulges on the surface of the stone pillar, and climbed to the top quickly and dexterously. A small, artificially built camp appeared in front of Victor.
The Middleton family's semi-open building built of stones and wood is very similar to the simple shacks in the water snake town drying yard, but it covers an area of about 90 square meters and has an ingenious and sturdy structure. It is divided into upper and lower floors, with various Living facilities are also relatively complete. The first floor is the storage room, which contains dozens of large and small square wooden boxes and round wooden barrels, most of which are moisture-proof wooden barrels specially used to store medicinal raw materials.
Victor opened all the wooden boxes and barrels without any scruples. He had the joy of opening a blind box, but he didn't find anything that surprised him.
There is a dazzling array of medicinal raw materials stored in moisture-proof wooden barrels, which is in line with Mayor Middleton's status as a professional physician. Moreover, the mayor can easily obtain these medicinal materials from the passing caravans.
Victor knows every medicinal ingredient here, but to understand Dr. Middleton's refining results, these medicinal ingredients alone are not enough. So Victor climbed to the second floor of the big shed and saw the doctor's alchemy room, which contained a complete set of alchemy tools. On the other side were tables, chairs and a bed, which seemed to be the doctor's resting place.
The stone bed caught Victor's attention. He walked over and found that the stone bed was covered with soft cotton mattresses, and there were very obvious traces of the human figure. The sunken lines of the cotton mattress outlined the enchanting curves of a half-elf woman. She was tall, with a slim waist and plump hips, and she lay flat on the bed with her legs bent. There were shocking blood stains on the cotton mattress on both sides of her buttocks.
Victor's mind pictured a graceful woman lying flat on the bed. Her lower abdomen was cut open by a knife. Blood overflowed from the wound and fell down the sides of her body onto the cotton mattress, outlining a plump buttocks. picture of.
Her lower abdomen was cut open while she was awake. There were slender and slender fingerprints on the edge of the stone bed, which showed that she was in great pain at the time. She grabbed the sides of the bed with both hands and dug out deep finger marks on the stone.
This woman's strength is simply astonishing, and her bones and skin are also extremely tough, able to withstand rocks. Victor thinks that his strength and physical strength are not as good as hers, unless he changes to the elemental affinity state and gets additional physical attribute bonuses.
In terms of life level alone, she should be at the third level, and may even have reached the fourth level.
So, why did she appear here, having her belly cut open while still alive without resisting?
With his mind full of questions, Victor turned his gaze to the alchemy room, and finally landed on a row of cabinets against the wall. The owner here probably didn't expect that his alchemy room would be invaded, because the cabinet was not locked. Victor opened the cabinet door and took out a jar. It is crystal clear and is carved from a whole piece of crystal. It is filled with viscous and transparent medicinal liquid, and occasionally exudes a vague green brilliance.
Some rare medicinal materials have the property of being element-friendly, and medicinal materials that are compatible with the water element will emit green brilliance. This is called the light of life in occult medicine, representing rich vitality, and the crystal container can block the natural dissipation of water elements to the greatest extent.
There is also a row of identical crystal jars in the cabinet, five in total. There is actually a fetus soaked in the crystal jar on the far left? !
Victor couldn't help but open his eyes wide. He was sure that the fetus soaked in the crystal container was a humanoid intelligent species, but it was definitely not the fetus of a known half-elf, barbarian, half-orc or alien orc. Although the fetus is not yet formed and curled up into a ball, only the size of Victor's fist, its translucent skin has strange patterns, a pair of tender bumps on its forehead, and a small spiny tail trailing behind its butt. .
Thinking of the traces of a half-elf woman on the stone mattress, Victor finally knew why her belly was cut open.
Could it be that the doctor of the Middleton family used the pregnant half-elf female as a living body for secret medicine, and took the fetus in her belly to prepare a mysterious medicine rich in vitality?
However, it is impossible for an ordinary half-elf woman to have the power to crack rocks. Looking at the alien fetus in the crystal container, Victor thought to himself:
Is she really a Disa half-elf?
Doctors usually keep notes when preparing new medicines. Victor opened a row of drawers on the medicine cabinet and finally found a thick stack of animal skin notebooks in the third drawer. Victor was so amazed by the test content recorded above that he spent more than six hours carefully reading the test notes from beginning to end.
With a "pop" sound, Victor closed the animal skin notebook. After reading the contents of the note, he was filled with mixed emotions and found it difficult to calm down.
An occupational physician's experimental notes are not diaries and do not have a coherent story. The context recorded by Victor through experiments is not difficult to discover an event full of tragedy, sin, twists and turns, bizarre and heinous events.
The owner of the note is indeed the mayor of Water Snake Town, Middleton, and the mother body that he regards as the living secret medicine is his wife, Mrs. Christine.
However, Christine recorded by Middleton is a rare "demon half-elf". At least, she is now a "devil" and has many life characteristics beyond imagination.
Middleton did not describe how Christine was transformed from a noble girl into a "demon half-elf". He only paid attention to the value of Christine, and used the fetus of the "demon half-elf" to conduct experiments and prepare a "life distortion purification potion."
Middleton has presided over nineteen similar experiments. Every time Christine was pregnant, he would cut open the other woman's uterus and take out the fetus. Because Middleton discovered that if the child in Christine's belly was allowed to continue to grow, the fetus would completely drain Christine's vitality until she died.
"Green Gourd Sword Fairy"
Of course, Middleton's mind is on the verge of madness and he has no mercy for Christine. He treats her completely as a test tool instead of his beloved wife. Otherwise, he would not let Christine get pregnant again and again and suffer the pain of caesarean section.
At the beginning, Middleton himself was the father of the first few fetuses, and gradually became the manservant of the family. The last father who made the "Life Abnormality Purification Potion" a success was their butler-Ethaniel.
The cause of Middleton's death was clear and he deserved to be killed.
Victor must also admit that although Middleton was a paranoid lunatic, his pharmaceutical experiments were full of incredible imagination and he almost single-handedly opened up a new field of occult medicine.
The knowledge contained in it moved even Victor. However, the development of any academic discipline cannot be achieved overnight. It requires accumulation over a long period of time and exploration and progress step by step in the footsteps of predecessors.
In his notes, Middleton mentioned several ways for the secret medicine to change life forms, including absorption, implantation, gestation, and pollution distortion. Among them, the incubation method and the pollution distortion method were things Victor had never heard of. Middleton also mentioned the "life furnace", and the "life distortion purification potion" is part of the life furnace.
It can be seen from this that the wonderful knowledge that Middleton possesses must have its source!
With great curiosity, Victor opened the last drawer. It was still full of animal skin paper scrolls, but they were carefully wrapped in moisture-proof moth silk cloth.
Victor took out the top animal skin scroll, tore off the moth silk cloth, and after unfolding the scroll, he was excited to find that the text on it was the cursive letters he was most familiar with - the founder of the Disa Alliance, the great sage Mar My husband’s secret message!
"...Lisa is missing. I told everyone that the ancient ruins in the Dark Land are full of unpredictable dangers, so don't stay too far away from Philumate. However, everyone seems to be more afraid of Philumate? Me Rowan, the most loyal guard captain, secretly told me that they suspected Philumat had eaten Lisa. Because Lisa always flattered me and wanted to stay in my tent. She made Philumat unhappy. , Philumat found an opportunity when no one was around to swallow her up, leaving no trace behind, just like she disappeared..."
"Haha, Rowan is talking nonsense. I admit that Philumat looks a bit scary now, but she is still an obedient child... Well, a young dragon, maybe a young dragon? She has indeed grown a lot in the past ten years... ...In short, she will not eat Lisa just because she is jealous. Because, I, the devout Malv, have already dedicated everything to the supreme Lord of Glory. After I heard the devil's ravings, I purified myself , to prove my loyalty to His Majesty the Great Pope, and I will never have any interest in women from now on... I am pure in body and mind, and was inspired by the Lord, so I traveled thousands of miles to the wild southern continent to save you, the remnant sinners of the Pantheon. You actually Doubt my character? Philumat will not doubt it..."
"...June 11th, Year 5279 of the Glorious Calendar."
