In the underground cave where the dream arena evolved, Vic's eyes were cold and focused, and he stabbed his waist and abdomen with a fine iron dagger. The sharp blade penetrated from the right waist side, severing the liver, intestines, and abdominal blood vessels. , then penetrated the body and stabbed out from the left waist side.
In order to complete this dream experiment, Victor greatly reduced his own pain, but retained complete physiological reactions.
As the dagger was pulled out, the wounds on both sides of the waist immediately spurted blood, and the abdominal cavity was filled with plasma due to the rupture of the blood vessels.
This kind of injury is fatal enough. An ordinary half-elf will die in a few seconds, and a strong professional can only live for a few more minutes.
Even though Victor had the gift of self-healing and could avoid death caused by massive blood loss, the severe injuries caused extreme weakness, making him unable to move and paralyzing his lower limbs. It would take half a month to recover.
If he fought forcefully, the wound would re-open, and he would really be dead. The life form of flesh and blood is ultimately fragile, and the self-healing talent is not as powerful as imagined.
Hot blood gurgled out of the wound. Victor frowned and used the lake-shaped ointment prepared in advance to block the two large holes in the flesh mold on his waist, and stuffed the ointment into his body in a rough way.
The ointment became extremely viscous when it came into contact with the blood, stopping the bleeding almost instantly and spreading inside the abdominal cavity.
Later, Victor tried to move his body and was surprised to find that the horrific injuries did not hinder his movement much.
Immediately, he used his thoughts
"Looking through" the situation inside the abdominal cavity, one can see that the lake-shaped ointment absorbs congestion and broken organs at an astonishing speed, and then interpenetrates with the flesh and blood tissue to form a whole.
The lake-shaped ointment shows very obvious living properties. It can assimilate blood and flesh, connect damaged blood vessels, nerves and visceral systems, and maintain normal physiological functions.
Over time, the lake-like ointments gradually lose their activity, and they are absorbed and differentiated by the flesh and blood tissue, eventually repairing Victor's blood vessels, intestines and liver, as well as muscles and skin.
In just twenty minutes, the horrific injury healed without even leaving any conspicuous marks on Victor's skin.
"It's incredible!" Victor said to himself. With the knowledge of pharmaceuticals in his mind, he knew very well where the limits of pharmaceuticals were. Even the top secret medicine could not achieve such a healing effect that was beyond common sense.
He even believed that the lake-shaped ointment was disguised as the outer shell of a medicine, but the inside was no longer a medicine, but belonged to some kind of special living creature.
For so many days, Victor ostensibly led people through the town in order to track down thieves and lost property. Secretly, he had fully evolved the environment of Water Snake Town, including the surface and underground caves.
It can be said that no one is more familiar with Water Snake Town than him now. Based on the time difference between each evolution, Victor had a basic judgment on the signs of biological activity in the cave, and was able to determine that Butler Yin Sonnier and Christine were hiding somewhere inside.
Christine is a demon-born half-elf, and Yin Seniel and the private guards have probably undergone special transformations by doctors. Coupled with the mysterious monster, they are all very dangerous.
However, the underground caves are vast and the environment is complex, so it would be easy for Victor to avoid them. However, if he wanted to get the life distortion purification potion concocted by Middleton, he would need someone to deal with the demonic half-elf on his behalf.
Bounty hunter Lai Yin and his companions are all part of Victor's plan. When they take action and enter the underground cave to track Yin Seniel, it will be Victor's turn to follow them to see if there is any chance to take advantage of the chaos. Take profit.
Regardless of whether there is an opportunity to seize the purified medicine for life distortion, in short, the escape route out of Water Snake Town has been arranged, and Victor now has sufficient time to test Dr. Middleton's research results.
Middleton's test notes describe in detail the preparation method, characteristics and required tests of the life distortion purification agent.
The paranoid and twisted professional doctor took out the fetus from the belly of the demon half-elf, and used a secret medicine to reverse its growth process, greatly weakening the demon's flesh and blood will, and reducing it to a liquid with extremely rich life energy.
Middleton uses this medicinal solution as a powerful catalyst. Combined with specific drug formulas, it can theoretically be used in three applications: transplantation, powerful regeneration, and ordered distortion.
For example, Dr. Middleton tried to transplant a cat's eyes into a blind half-elf test subject, and succeeded.
Unfortunately, the test subject regained his sight and gained the sharp gaze of a cat, but his behavior became more and more like that of a cat, and he eventually lost his humanity and reason.
This was certainly not a successful experiment, and there were many, many similar failures. There are actually only two examples of successfully finalized medicines, orderly distortion and powerful regeneration.
Butler Yin Seniel was also a test subject who participated in ordered distortion, and was the most successful example. He regularly took the distortion potion prepared by Middleton, and a distortion organ grew in his chest, resembling a devil's heart core.
This core has two main functions. One is to passively improve Yin Seniel's physique. As he grows older, he will become stronger; secondly, Yin Seniel can actively release the distorted energy contained in the heart core. Gain several times your usual strength and even change your appearance.
Theoretically, the core is not damaged or withered, so Yin Seniel is difficult to kill. Because the core core has some functions similar to strong regeneration, it can repair damage to the host, but at the cost of shortened lifespan and out-of-control distortion.
On the other hand, the host must take distortion medicine regularly to maintain the energy of the heart core. Once the medicine is stopped, the consequences will be disastrous. There is a high probability that the heart core will be infected and completely distorted into an inhuman monster.
The most important thing is that the side effect of the heart core is to shorten the life of the host. Regardless of whether he stimulates the energy of the heart core, the result is the same.
In fact, the side effects of transplantation and ordered aberrations are exactly the same, both reducing lifespan. And strong regeneration has no effect on extending lifespan.
Dr. Middleton believes that his pharmaceutical research and development experiments have not yet been successful. What he pursues is immortality that maintains youthful vitality, and the growth of extraordinary strength is secondary.
Therefore, Middleton did not use the life distortion purifying agent on himself, and even Yin Seniel became a failed test subject.
According to Middleton's estimate, Yin Sonnier only has 13 years left to live, and this assumes that the core energy has not been stimulated.
Victor can experiment on himself unscrupulously in the Dream Arena. The strange thing is that the ordered distortion test has no effect on him, and the transplant test is not available for the time being, but the powerful regeneration test just now is enough to prove Middleton's research results. true.
Victor deduced that the focus of the experiment was on the demon's flesh-and-blood will, which even though it had been greatly weakened, still remained surprisingly active.
For example, a powerful regeneration ointment can be used as a special living body. Its survival time is extremely short. After infiltrating into the body of a half-elf, due to its instinctive resistance to death, it will absorb the congestion and broken organs and grow rapidly. Repair the host's damage so that the host can survive and it can survive.
Unfortunately, the life of the parasitic biochemical is short, and it is eventually absorbed by the host, without enough time to cause distortion or serious side effects.
According to this idea, the aberrant core is also a living being. It reaches a balance with the host's own flesh and blood will, forming a symbiotic relationship.
If the heart core's flesh-and-blood will is stronger than the host's, the total aberration will be irreversible. But if the host's flesh and blood will is higher than the heart core, then the heart core will have no chance to develop.
This seems to be explained by the fact that Victor's flesh and blood will is higher than that of a half-elf professional. The mayor's butler Yin Seniel underwent a distortion test and could grow a heart core in his body, but he just didn't.
Victor himself was at a loss as to why this was the case, but the life distortion purification potion had an activation effect, which went beyond the realm of esoteric medicine and touched the underlying laws of life. There were also wider applications waiting to be discovered, which was of great significance. It has immeasurable research value!
Victor was deeply fascinated by the activation experiment, almost forgetting the passage of time in the outside world, and concentrated on studying the content of life abnormalities in the Dream Arena.
However, he slept for a little too long this time and did not wake up for two days and one night. Harvey and Max were inevitably worried, but because Victor had given an order not to disturb him unless there was something important.
Harvey and Max were torn between following the instructions or waking him up. An accident happened today, and Harvey finally found a reason to try to wake up the sleeping Victor.
"My lord, my lord, wake up... something happened." Under Harvey's persistent calling, Victor finally opened his eyes, stood up and sat up, but his face looked a little unsightly. He glanced at his men and asked: " Is there any news about Baifa Laiyin?" The so-called important things include arranging eyeliners to track whether Baifa Laiyin has sneaked into the secret passage of the mayor's mansion. When the bounty hunter takes action, it is the moment when Victor enters the underground cave. .
Seeing that Victor was safe and sound, Harvey quietly breathed a sigh of relief, then shook his head repeatedly and whispered: "Sir, it's not the news from over there... It's the thief we put a reward on, who was sent here. Stephanie’s little girl.”
"What?" Victor curled his lips, cleared up his bad mood, and said impatiently: "Okay, I'll go down and see her." Stephanie wore gray clothes and a straw hat, covering half of her long hair. With short hair, he looks like a thin little boy.
She was neatly dressed, her eyes were lively, and she had obviously not been beaten or abused. She was standing in the corner of the living room. When she saw Victor coming down the stairs, she quickly lowered her head, twisting the corners of her clothes with her fingers, looking obedient and pitiful. The appearance of Xi.
"Sir." The old scout Max left the little girl behind and hurried to greet Victor. He nodded and said with a bow: "Today at noon, the old wolf of the Thieves Guild personally brought Stephanie. The child has already confessed that she was the target of the thieves. It's Pi Mu's instructions to get to know our bottom..." Victor didn't expect that the thief for whom he had a reward would be sent over.
Stephanie is just a small character who can't help himself. Victor's making a fuss about her is just to confuse the situation and accuse the town's captain of the security guard of sending thieves to steal his identity documents.
If news of the mayor's death spreads and the town guard falsely accuses them of being bandit spies, he will use this as an excuse to throw dirty water on each other with Husserl.
Logically speaking, Husserl would not let Stephanie fall into Victor's hands. She should have been silenced long ago.
What happened was unexpected. Not only did Stephanie survive, but the local thieves' guild handed her over to Victor.
The reasons are worth pondering. Victor sat on the sofa and listened absently to Max's report.
Until Max talked about Stephanie's theft mission and the fact that she deliberately left a fingerprint on the closet in order to get rid of the gang of thieves, Victor finally became interested.
"You mean, the thief Tom was working for Mayor Middleton, and they killed the 'good friend' who brought you into the den of thieves... You found out about this, feeling scared and angry, and the thief just ordered you Search our packages for mithril weapons and a triangular metal emblem, so you think we are here to deal with Mayor Middleton, so you deliberately leave your fingerprints to alert us to the Goldfinger gang. This will count you as killed Well, when we investigate the clues about Goldfinger, we can always find the thief Tom and Mayor Middleton?" Victor's cold eyes fell on the little girl's face, and he heard her say weakly,
"Yes." Stephanie's heartbeat rate was quite stable, and she was not as scared and helpless as she appeared.
This child is not simple. Victor thought secretly, but Stephanie's statement did corroborate some of his guesses.
Mayor Middleton is secretly conducting forbidden experiments, so no one may be able to trace him. Victor suspects that the bounty hunter Lai Yin is a member of an organization that specializes in hunting down demons.
Lai Yin once made a triangular gesture to Harvey at the Adventurers Guild Hotel. This unique gesture is obviously closely related to the triangular emblem in Stephanie's mouth, which proves from the side that Middleton and his gang understand the characteristics of the hunting organization.
However, Middleton found the wrong person and mistakenly thought that Victor and the others were the stalkers. It can be inferred from this that the real stalker Lai Yin appeared at the gathering place in the small garden. Yin Seniel, the mayor's butler, made a prompt decision to kill Middleton to silence him, and then took the demon hostess to escape into the most hidden underground cave.
The mayor of the town was murdered, and Lai Yin couldn't find enough evidence of the crime. Under the pressure of the city-state council, he might have to give up on tracking down the demon descendants, and he might even be transferred by his superiors to be questioned by the organization.
Yin Seniel and Christine escaped from this period, basically able to escape tracking and stay away from danger.
They were well prepared, but Victor just happened to run into this incident, which triggered a series of misunderstandings. The cause and effect were roughly like this, but Victor didn't have the patience to explain it clearly to his men.
Max carefully observed his expression, suddenly knelt down and said sincerely: "Sir, Stephanie is just a poor orphan. I want to ask you to be kind and give her a way to survive." The old scout has lived on the border for two years. For more than ten years, raising and training children abandoned by the Taku tribe has become a moral habit that he believes in.
What's more, Stephanie has outstanding talent and is a good candidate to be a hidden hunter. Max is cursed and feels that he has no chance to advance to level 5 Dark Hunter, but as a spellcaster, he can also train apprentices.
With Stephanie's conditions, he might be able to meet his expectations for being promoted to a venerable person. Victor could understand the old scout's thoughts, just like he was very happy to see Ruth and Jessica, and regarded them as observation materials for the mutation of the mental body, and he was unwilling to abandon those two burdens no matter what.
It has to be said that Stephanie's teenage age is quite confusing. Victor does not think that such a little girl will pose much of a threat to him. Even if she may have something to hide, at least what she said is inconsistent with the facts. In addition, Victor's mind was now full of experimental ideas for life distortion purification potions, so he nodded and said: "Okay, she can stay for the time being, and you are responsible for keeping an eye on her. In a few days, we will discuss Stephen again. Ni's way out... Now, I want to continue to sleep. If there is nothing serious, please don't disturb me." Max was overjoyed, patted his chest and promised: "Don't worry, Sir, Harvey and I will keep an eye on Stephanie, absolutely not To cause trouble for you...Harvey, don't you think so?"
"Huh? Oh... ok." Harvey shrugged indifferently, and added after thinking for a while: "But if she wants to stay, she has to work. Ruth and Jessica will be taken care of by her from now on!"
