In the underground cave where the Dream Arena evolved, Victor'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 side of his waist, 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 weakened his own pain and retained complete physiological reactions. As the dagger was pulled out, the wounds on both sides of the waist immediately spurted blood, and the inside of the abdominal cavity was also filled with blood due to the rupture of the blood vessels.
Full of plasma.
This kind of injury is fatal enough. An ordinary half-elf will die within seconds, and a professional with strong physique can only live for a few more minutes. Even though Victor has the talent of self-healing and can avoid death caused by hemorrhage, the serious injury will cause
He was extremely weak, unable to move, and his lower limbs were paralyzed. It took more than ten days to recover.
If he fights forcefully, the wound will re-open and he will 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 prepared paste ointment to plug the two large bloody holes, then stuffed the ointment into his body in a rough way.
The translucent ointment became extremely viscous when it came into contact with the blood, stopping the bleeding almost instantly and spreading into the abdominal cavity. Afterwards, 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 mind to "see through" the inside of the abdominal cavity, and saw that the paste-like ointment absorbed the congestion and broken organs at an alarming speed, and then interpenetrated with the flesh and blood tissue to form a whole.
Paste ointments show very obvious living properties. They can assimilate flesh and blood, connect damaged blood vessels, nerves and visceral systems, and maintain normal physiological functions. Over time, paste ointments gradually lose their activity, and they are absorbed by flesh and blood.
The tissue absorbs, differentiates, and ultimately repairs Victor's blood vessels, intestines, and liver, as well as muscles and skin.
In just twenty minutes, the horrific injury was healed without even leaving any conspicuous marks on Victor's skin.
“It’s incredible!”
Victor said to himself, relying on 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 paste-like ointment was disguised as a medicine, but the inside was no longer a medicine, but a 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 has fully evolved the environment of Water Snake Town, including the surface and underground caves. It can be said that no one is better than him now.
Get to know Water Snake Town.
Based on the time difference between each evolution, Victor had a basic judgment on the signs of biological activities in the cave, and was able to determine that Butler Isenil and Christine and their group were hiding somewhere inside.
Christine is a demonic half-elf, and Ethaniel and the private guards have probably undergone special transformations. Coupled with the mysterious monster, they are actually very dangerous.
However, the underground caves are vast and the environment is complex, so it is easy for Victor to avoid them. However, if he wants to get those life distortion purification potions, he needs someone to deal with the demonic half-elves on his behalf.
Bounty hunter Rhine and his companions are all part of Victor's plan. When they take action and enter the underground cave to track Ethaniel, 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 a chance to snatch the life distortion purification potion, 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 in the evolution of dreams.
Middleton's test notes describe in detail the preparation method of the life distortion purification agent, its characteristics and application tests.
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 medicinal solution with extremely rich life energy.
Middleton uses this medicinal solution as a powerful catalyst. Combined with specific drug formulas, it can theoretically develop three types of 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. The test subject regained his sight and gained the sharp gaze of a cat, but his behavior became more and more like a cat, and eventually
Loss of humanity and sanity.
This was certainly not a successful experiment, and there were many, many similar failures.
There should be only two cases of successfully finalizing the potion, orderly distortion and powerful regeneration. Butler Iseniel's participation in the experiment of orderly distortion is the most successful example.
He regularly took the distortion potion prepared by Middleton, and a distortion organ grew in his chest, similar to the devil's heart core. This heart core has two main functions. One is to passively improve Iseniel's physique. As he grows older,
, he will become stronger; secondly, Iseniel can actively release the distorted energy contained in his core, gain several times more strength than usual, and even change his appearance.
Theoretically, the core is not damaged or withered, and it is difficult to kill Isenil. Because the core has a function similar to strong regeneration, it will repair the host's damage, but at the cost of shortened lifespan and out-of-control distortion.
On the other hand, the host must take distortion drugs regularly to maintain the stability of the core. Once the drug is stopped, the consequences will be disastrous. There is a high probability that the core will be infected and completely deformed into an inhuman monster.
The most important thing is that the side effect of the heart core is to shorten the host's lifespan. No matter whether he activates the heart core or not, the result cannot be changed.
In fact, the side effects of transplantation and ordered aberration are exactly the same, both at the expense of reducing lifespan. And strong regeneration has no effect of 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 Iseniel was considered a failed test subject.
According to Middleton's estimate, Ethaniel only has 13 years left to live, and this is based on the premise that he no longer stimulates core energy.
Victor can experiment on himself unscrupulously in his dream. The strange thing is that the ordered distortion experiment has no effect on him, and the transplant experiment is temporarily unavailable, but the powerful regeneration experiment just now is enough to prove that Middleton's research results are true.
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Victor deduced that the focus of the experiment was on the demon's flesh and blood will, and even though they were greatly weakened, they still remained surprisingly active.
For example, a powerful regeneration ointment can be used as a special living body. Its survival time is short. After infiltrating into the half-elf's body, in order to fight against death, it will absorb the host's congestion and broken organs, grow rapidly, and repair the host's body.
Damage allows the host to survive, so that it can also survive. Unfortunately, the life of the parasitic biological creature is short, and it is eventually absorbed by the host, and there is no time for more violent distortion to occur, so there will be no serious side effects.
According to this idea, the distorted heart 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 flesh and blood will of the heart core is higher than that of the host, the comprehensive distortion will be irreversible. But if it is the host's flesh and blood.
If the 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 Ethaniel underwent a distortion test and could grow a heart core in his body, but he just didn't.
Why is this happening? Victor himself is at a loss.
In any case, the life distortion purification agent has an activation effect, which goes beyond the field of occult medicine and touches the lower level laws of life. There are a wider range of proper types waiting to be discovered. It is of great significance and 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 a little longer this time and did not wake up for two days and one night. Harvey and Max were inevitably worried about his physical condition, but Victor had given an order not to disturb him unless there was something important.
Harvey and Max were repeatedly torn between following the instructions or waking up Victor. 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 and stood up, but his face looked a little unhappy. He glanced at his men and asked, "Is there any news from White-haired Rhine?"
The so-called important things include arranging spies to track whether White-haired Lain 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 the hotel. It's the thief we put a reward on, the one named Stephanie.
girl."
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 her half-length hair. She looked 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 upright.
In the corner of the living room, I saw Victor coming down the stairs. He quickly lowered his head and twisted his clothes with his fingers, looking obedient and pitiful.
"Sir." The old scout Max left the little girl behind and hurried towards Victor, bending down and said: "Today at noon, the old wolf of the Thieves Guild personally brought Stephanie. The child has already confessed that she is
Under the instruction of the thief Pi Mu, he came to touch our bottom..."
Victor didn't expect that the thief he had put a reward on 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 the news of the mayor's death spreads, the town will
The guards framed them as bandit spies, and he used 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, and she should have been silenced long ago.
What happened was unexpected. Not only did Stephanie not die, the Thieves Guild handed her over to Victor. The reason is 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 barely became interested.
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"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, and you were scared and angry. Just then, the thief ordered you to search
Our package, looking for mithril weapons and a triangular metal emblem, so you thought we were here to deal with Mayor Middleton, so you deliberately left handprints to remind us of the Goldfinger gang. This way you were killed.
, when we investigate the clues about Goldfinger, we can always find the thief Tom and Mayor Middleton?"
Victor's cold gaze fell on the little girl's face, and he heard her weakly say, "Yes."
Stephanie's heartbeat rate was quite stable, and she was not as panicked 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 investigate.
Victor suspected that the bounty hunter Rhine was a member of an organization that specialized in hunting demon descendants. Rhine once made a triangular gesture to Harvey at the Adventurer's Guild Hotel. This unique gesture was obviously closely related to the triangular emblem in Stephanie's mouth.
This side proves that Middleton and his group knew something about the Stalker organization. However, Middleton found the wrong person and mistakenly thought that Victor was the Stalker.
It can be inferred from this that the real stalker Rhine appeared at the gathering place in the small garden, and the mayor's butler Ethaniel made a decisive decision, killed 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 Rhine could not find enough evidence of the crime. Under the pressure of the city-state council, he would probably give up on tracking down the demon descendants, and he might even be transferred by his superiors to accept organizational questioning.
Ethaniel and Christine escaped this period and were 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 did not 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 for help."
Please be kind and give her a way to survive."
The old scout has lived on the border for more than twenty years. Raising and training the children abandoned by the Taku tribe has become a moral habit he believes in. What's more, Stephanie has outstanding talent and is a good prospect to be a hidden hunter.
Max is cursed and feels that he has no chance of being promoted to the fifth level of Dark Hunter, but as a spellcaster, he can also train apprentices. With Stephanie's conditions, it may be able to satisfy his psychological expectations of being promoted to a venerable.
Victor could understand the old scout's thoughts, just as he was happy to see Ruth and Jessica, and regarded them as observation materials for the mutation of the mental body, and was unwilling to abandon those two burdens no matter what.
It has to be said that Stephanie's teenage age is quite confusing, and 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 corroborated with the facts.
, and Victor is now full of ideas for testing the life distortion purification potion, so he nodded and said: "Okay, she can stay for the time being, and you are responsible for keeping an eye on her. We will discuss Stephanie again in a few days.
The problem... Now, I want to continue to sleep. If there is nothing important, please don’t disturb me."
Max was overjoyed and patted his chest and promised: "Don't worry, Sir, Harvey and I will keep an eye on Stephanie and never cause any trouble to you... Harvey, don't you think so?"
"Ah? Oh... ok."
Harvey shrugged his shoulders indifferently, thought for a moment and added: "However, if she wants to stay, she has to work. Ruth and Jessica will be taken care of by her from now on!"