But just when John was about to explore the secrets of the laboratory, he heard the faint sound of a carriage outside, so he had to give up for the time being.
After several servants drove the carriage to the door of the laboratory, they began to take down items one by one as if they were moving.
These were all items that were collected from the laboratory back then. Now they were brought by servants from the warehouse on a horse-drawn carriage, and then they were placed in their original approximate locations in accordance with the steward's instructions.
John patiently waited for the Burns servants to finish all this before ordering them to leave. After only one person was left, he did not go to explore the possible secret passages or chambers first, but took all the things in the laboratory.
Checked everything again.
The desk, dissecting table, test tube rack, basically everything was left out, but in the end I came to the conclusion that these are common items used by doctors.
The only thing that interested him was a painting hanging on the wall that was covered with a thick layer of dust.
This is a one-foot-square oil painting, a portrait of two people, a middle-aged man and a smiling teenage boy standing next to him.
The young man's appearance is vaguely similar to that of a middle-aged man. He is quite handsome just like the younger version of a middle-aged man, but his appearance is a bit naive.
John naturally had no impression of Dr. William because he had never seen him before.
But without asking, John could guess that the middle-aged man inside should be Dr. William, the owner of the laboratory, and the young man was his child Frank Stryker.
According to the records in Swick's diary, Frank is the only son of Dr. William and his late wife. He is five years older than Swick. When Swick studied under Dr. William, he was already fifteen years old.
, it is a pity that Frank suffered from congenital intellectual disability. The reason why Dr. William transformed from a scholar to a doctor was to cure his own son.
However, young William and this silly big man were good friends for fun.
It’s just that when Frank was seventeen years old, he ran away from the doctor’s laboratory and ran into the forest alone. He was attacked by wild beasts and died. Even the body was mutilated. Swick was very sad because of this. These are also the things that Swick said in
A portion of the content recorded in the diary.
It can be seen that Swick obviously felt very regretful and missed the death of his friend, so much so that he could not forget it even after many years.
Dr. William's research on resurrecting corpses with the power of lightning began at that time. However, Swick left William soon due to family reasons and did not understand the subsequent research process.
Thinking of this, John couldn't help but think of the plot of a famous science fiction horror novel in his previous life.
So he became even more curious about this doctor's experiments.
Walking to the back wall, John checked around and found no mechanism as before.
"That's weird, it should be here?"
Puzzled, John opened the door again and climbed up to the roof, but still found nothing. It wasn't until he climbed up from the front of the tower, stood on the top of the three-meter-high stone tower and looked behind him that he solved all his doubts.
"So that's it..."
In fact, the secret of the laboratory lies behind the wall where the tower is located. Because it was intentionally built, no matter whether one stands on the roof or looks down from the narrow window in the tower, he can only see the mountains and forests opposite.
The scenery, but due to the visual gap, you cannot see the protruding stone wall below the tower. There is a recessed part here, with an iron gate embedded in it.
Since the experiment was built on a raised highland, with cliff-like faults and forests on the other side, no one could see what was going on here from the direction of the forest. This secret has existed under the noses of the Burns family for so many years.
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Now that he discovered the secret, John no longer lingered in the laboratory below. He directly found a rope from inside, tied it to the root of the "lightning rod" on the tower, and climbed along the rope to the back of the laboratory.
"Do you think that Dr. William got here the same way? It's a bit troublesome, but the confidentiality is really good."
After coming down, John took out a hammer he had picked up in the laboratory from his belt, smashed the rusty lock on the iron door, and then pulled the door knocker hard, only to hear a sharp grinding sound, which had been dusty for a long time.
The iron door of the secret room was opened by John.
After the turbid air inside dissipated, John curiously got into the iron door.
Although there is no light in the secret room, John, who has turned on his spiritual vision, can see in the dark by relying on the object's own weak spiritual light.
The secret room passage is not long, it is about three or four meters deep into the ground diagonally, and it should be directly underneath the laboratory.
Pushing open a slightly decayed wooden door again, you will see an underground secret room that is about half the space above.
The most conspicuous thing about this secret room is an arm-thick iron pillar inserted from the top of the thick stone. It is connected to a birdcage-like device in the center of the secret room. On the platform in the center of the "birdcage", there is a quiet
Lying quietly is a humanoid existence, exuding a rich and strong spiritual radiance.
"This is?"
John stepped forward curiously, but the spiritual light in front of him was too strong, so he could only turn his head temporarily, and then found a candlestick on the experimental table nearby, with several half-burned candles on it.
He lit the candle with a fire stick that he carried with him that looked like a primitive match product, and now John could clearly see the situation in the entire underground secret room.
I saw that the birdcage-like device was actually made of golden metal. It was probably made of gold, because copper will oxidize and change into other colors when exposed to the air.
Under normal vision, the humanoid aura within it is a naked "person" that looks a bit scary, but is full of strange beauty, or a human body.
The reason why John is called a human is because the chest of the body is slowly rising and falling slightly, visible to the naked eye. People with sensitive ears can also hear the subtle breathing. However, this kind of breathing is very long, taking about a few minutes.
It will be converted once.
"Still alive?"
John stepped forward tentatively and touched the opponent lightly with the hammer in his hand, but there was no reaction.
When you get closer, you can see that this "person" is covered with hideous surgical suture scars, and it looks like a broken doll that has been put back together again.
The amazing thing is that although the various parts of the body come from different people, the combination is exceptionally harmonious and beautiful. If you ignore the different skin colors and sutures, it feels like this is a perfect male body.
The appearance of the leader on top of the body is the most shocking, because John himself has seen this face just now. He does not have memory impairment or Alzheimer's disease, so he naturally recognizes that the face of the head in front of him is the same as the one in the portrait just now.
Dr. William's son Frank is exactly the same.
It was just that the mentally retarded boy who had been dead for many years suddenly appeared in front of John like a living creature, which made him feel very frightened.
"What is going on? Is it like Frankenstein that Dr. William's experiment was successful? Did he really resurrect his son?"
John said in surprise.
Although he was already a person in the extraordinary realm, John, who had just touched the threshold, could not help but be frightened when he first saw this situation that reversed life and death.
But then I thought about it and it was wrong.
"It's impossible. Even if Dr. William really resurrected Frank, how could a person, even a vegetative state, survive in a closed chamber for at least four or five years without eating or drinking, close to each other?"