"Jason, protect Miss Catherine."

Leo, who had been prepared for a long time, gave Jason instructions and immediately rushed out of the room, lit the robe in his hand, and rushed towards the monster.

When the monster saw someone rushing out, it screamed again and moved much faster.

When the two were so close that they were about to collide, the crack that looked like a big mouth opened instantly, as if it wanted to swallow Leo in.

However, Leo moved like a cheetah, and his body was so flexible that every bone could twist. He moved away from the mud monster with a movement and twist that ordinary people could not do, and just avoided the opponent's devouring.

At the same time, he also took off the flintlock hand cannon on his back, and without hesitation put the muzzle of the gun against the monster's body and pulled the trigger.

A loud "boom" echoed throughout the cave space and spread into the distance. Many people in this underground city heard it and stopped what they were doing and looked towards the place where the sound came from.

past.

Whether the sound of the flintlock hand cannon will alert everyone who enters the underground is not something Leo is considering right now. All he wants now is to kill this monster and survive.

After the hand cannon was fired, the fireworks ejected from the barrel instantly ignited the mud monster's body. At the same time, the rapidly shot steel balls tore apart the monster's already weak body, leaving a big hole in its body.

It passed through the other side and hit the rock on the ground, creating a small crack.

The mud monster doesn't seem to feel any pain. Even if its body is torn open, its attack movements are still slow.

It didn't turn around at all, it directly produced six tentacle-like limbs from the part of the body closest to Leo, and swept towards Leo like an octopus.

For Leo, who was in a state of perfect control, this attack method that left ordinary people nowhere to dodge was like slow motion in a movie. He easily dodged through the gaps in the attack, and he also

While dodging, he threw the completely burned robe in his hand into the wound that was gradually healing on the monster's body.

Different from the surface part of the monster's body that is ignited by the hand cannon fireworks, the burns on the body surface have no hindrance to the monster and can be recovered quickly through self-healing. However, the flame burning directly in the body is enough for the monster.

fatal.

Leo had just thrown the fireball made of the burqa into the monster, and the next second the monster immediately turned into a burning fire, as if the monster's body was entirely made of flammable oil.

After seeing that the monster was completely ignited, in order to prevent the monster from retaliate before death, Leo immediately retreated quickly and retreated to a safe area before stopping.

But he soon realized that he was overthinking it. It was obvious that the moment the monster's body started to burn, the monster was already dead, and what was burning now was just the monster's body.

"What is this? How could there be such a monster in the world?" After Leo signaled that it was safe, Catherine quickly walked out of the stone house and stood next to Leo. She looked at the fire in front of her and said with a pale face.

"I also want to know what kind of monster this is. I think the higher-ups of the Aknaya Church should know the answer." As Leo spoke, he asked Jason for another box of Jean Valjean's special ammunition as he walked over.

, stuff it into the hand cannon and carry it behind your back.

Now, Leo found that the power of ordinary pistols could no longer deal with such monsters. As for the king and queen, he had not mastered the real method of using them, and there were very few special bullets, so he did not consider using them until it was absolutely necessary.

On the contrary, the flintlock hand cannon that he had given up before was able to exert a good effect in this situation, and the flintlock handcannon had more than fifty pieces of ammunition, which was enough for him to use.

"You mean these monsters were created by Major and the others?" Catherine didn't want to believe it.

"Actually, you already have your doubts, don't you? Think about the location of this place and who controls it, and the answer will be easy to find." Leo directly revealed the thoughts that Catherine wanted to hide and let her

Face directly the things you least want to face.

Although Leo showed that he knew nothing about the origin of this monster and only made guesses based on the current situation around him, in fact he knew very well where this monster came from.

In the underground space not far from here, after passing two large urban ruins, you will see an area cleared by the Aknaya Church. There are dozens of these in a deep well chamber more than ten meters deep.

It looks like a genetically collapsed monster.

The reason why Leo knew that the way to deal with this kind of monster was to use fire to ignite the inside of its body was because when he was constructing a terrain map on the ground, he saw through the spiritual network that the priests of the Aknaya Church in that area were attacking.

He extracted bodily fluids from a captured monster and accidentally ignited the fluids, instantly burning himself into a ball of fire.

The monster killed by Leo now is probably the monster whose body fluids were extracted before. It should have escaped during the commotion, but it was very unlucky to meet Leo who knew everything about it.

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However, through the battle just now, Leo became a little interested in the body fluids of this monster. Not only is this body fluid more flammable than the common oils in this world, but the heat released by burning is also much higher than those oils.

All the oils used in the world are extracted from the fruits of the Fotan tree. The extracted vegetable oil will be deeply processed three times to make oils for different uses.

Among them, the most processed oil will become the industrial oil needed by some special machinery, the second one will become the smokeless oil used by nobles and wealthy businessmen, and the final oil and water residue will become the oil for daily lamps.

As for the first oil extracted from plants, it was used as mechanical lubricant because of its non-flammable properties.

However, no matter how much the scientists in this world refine this oil, the ignition point of this oil is somewhat high, and it takes a while to completely burn. The heat released is also very average, not even comparable to the heat of burning some charcoal.

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Just like when Leo lit the burqa soaked in smokeless lamp oil in his hand, he also needed to struggle with the monster. After the oil was completely burned, he could ensure that the flames would not burn when he threw it into the monster's body.

weaken or extinguish.

Now, the burning characteristics of this monster's body fluid are very similar to the gasoline commonly used in the oil era of the old earth in Leo's memory. Just a little spark can completely burn it.

Even after this bodily fluid is burned, the released gas can be burned again, just like natural gas.

What role did the emergence of oil play in the technological evolution of the earth's age? Even biological weapons like Leo, who only know how to fight, are very clear. Once this body fluid can be mass-produced, it will represent the end of the steam age in this world.

From the mental network's previous perception of that area, it was not difficult for Leo to find that the Aknaya Church also noticed the body fluids on these monsters, so it fed these monsters regardless of the cost to keep them alive, and extracted these from time to time.

The bodily fluids in a monster's body.

This made Leo, who was very curious, unable to help but want to explore that area to see what other secrets the Aknaya Church, which had deviated from its teachings, hidden.

However, the problem is that the location of that area is completely opposite to the location where Nelson and his group left, which makes Leo a little difficult to make a choice.

Just when Leo was thinking about things, the monster's body was completely burned to ashes. This ashes were real ashes, with no remains left.

Although he thought it was impossible to find anything useful from the ashes, Leo still rummaged through the pile of ashes habitually.

Soon he realized that his habit was really good, because he discovered two things from the ashes.

One of them was a pendant carved from ordinary stone, with the emblem of the Aknaya Church engraved on it. Leo felt that this might be a clue, so he took it out from the ashes.

"Wait! Let me see!" Catherine, who still had a shocked expression on her face, saw the stone pendant in Leo's hand and immediately stopped him. Then, without waiting for Leo to respond, she took the stone pendant away.

He walked over and looked at it carefully with the light of the wall lamp in his hand. Then with an unbelievable expression on his face, he murmured: "How is it possible? How could it be here?"

"What is this?" Leo asked.

"When the church was first founded, there were no people and no money. In order to give church members an identity mark, Martin asked someone to make fifty badge pendants out of stone. The front of the pendants was Ark.

On the back of Naya's badge is the person's name and the title of his position in the church. I am considered the first non-staff member." Catherine tried her best to calm down. As she spoke, she took out a similar stone pendant from her neck.

Put it in your hands and compare the two pendants. Although there are some differences in shape, judging from the way of carving the badges, they should be made by the same person.

"Whose is this badge pendant?" Leo asked in a deep voice.

"It belongs to little Jack. His position in the church at that time was as a preacher." Catherine said with a strong look of sadness on her face: "Little Jack is one of my best friends. When he died, I was

While studying in medical school, Martin wrote in a letter and told of an accident. Apart from me, among the original fifty people who founded the church, only he and the three brothers Mason survived. The other forty-five people died, including little Jack.

"Martin said that they have all been buried," she said, showing doubts: "It stands to reason that their badges should also be buried together. How could they appear in this monster's body?"

"Forty-five people?" After hearing this number, Leo was stunned for a moment, and immediately ordered the assistant brain system to call up the exploration data records of the mental network, and quickly found what he wanted.

There were exactly forty-four monsters in that underground secret room, and the current one was forty-five.

Leo, who discovered this situation, could hardly regard it as a coincidence. According to Catherine, it was obvious that when Catherine was studying abroad, Martin and others discovered something from this underground city and encountered some things. Martin and the three

One high priest survived, and the rest became monsters.

At this time, Leo suddenly thought of something, so he asked Catherine a little abruptly: "Miss Catherine, have you used the perfume you made yourself before? That was before going to medical school."

Catherine didn't understand why Leo suddenly asked such a question, but she still nodded and replied: "I have always used it. My mother passed it to me when I was very young, saying it is the family's secret recipe."

Hearing this, Leo had a strange look on his face and looked down at the pile of ashes.

Although it was just a guess, Leo vaguely felt that the monster that rushed over just now was not trying to attack them, but smelled the unique perfume smell on Catherine's body, which evoked his memory and wanted to come over to look for Catherine. However, his appearance later changed things.

Made a turn.

At this time, Leo asked another more incomprehensible question, saying: "How was the development of Aknaya Church before you went to medical school?"

Catherine frowned, and the look of doubt on her face was much thicker, but she still answered truthfully: "It's very bad, there were many gangs in Cage City at that time, and it was not what it is now. Our appearance was a big surprise to them.

We were a group of enemies who divided their territories, so something would often happen. Martin and the others were also worried that the gangs would target me, so they pooled their money and found connections to send me to medical school to study medicine. I also thought at the time that if I succeeded in studying

Medical skills are also helpful to them, so they agreed."

Hearing this, Leo already had the answer in his heart.

It is not difficult to deduce from Catherine's age how many years it took for the Aknaya Church to develop into the church with one million people today.

Under normal circumstances, it would be absolutely impossible for Martin and other powerless young men at the bottom of Cage City to accomplish such a feat in a short period of time, but the fact is that they succeeded, and they succeeded perfectly.

So in Leo's opinion, Martin and the others must have used some extraordinary means. For example, he discovered his abnormal vision and psychic ability in Catherine's clinic, and his extraordinary affinity for ordinary people.

etc.

These extraordinary means related to psychic skills should have been obtained by them from the so-called accident. It's just that some people were lucky enough to gain some abilities, while some people were unlucky and turned into monsters.

Thinking of this, Leo clenched his right hand tightly and felt the second object he had just found from the ashes - a bone-like object. He felt that this bone-like object might be one of the causes of the accident.

, so he issued an analysis command to the accessory brain system, and the analysis results came out quickly and were directly displayed in his eyes.
Chapter completed!