Pale Emblem

Chapter 116 Activation

In the underground cave that evolved from the dream arena, Victor's eyes were stern and focused, and he stabbed his waist and abdomen with a fine iron short sword. The sharp blade penetrated from the right waist, severing the liver, intestines, and abdominal blood vessels. , and then through the body, piercing from the left waist.

In order to complete this dream experiment, Victor greatly weakened his own pain, retaining a complete physiological response.As the short sword 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 plasma due to the rupture of the blood vessels.

This kind of injury is fatal enough. Ordinary half-elfs will die in a few seconds, and professionals with strong physiques can only live for a few more minutes.Even though Victor has the talent of self-healing and can avoid death caused by hemorrhage, he is extremely weak due to heavy injuries, unable to move, and paralyzed in his lower limbs. It will take more than ten days to recover.

If he fights forcefully, the wound will re-open, which is really dead.

The life form of flesh and blood is fragile after all, and the talent of self-healing is not as powerful as imagined.

Hot blood gurgled out of the wound, Victor frowned, blocked the two big bloody holes with the paste ointment prepared in advance, and stuffed the ointment into his body in a rough way.

The translucent ointment became extremely viscous when it came into contact with the blood, it stopped the bleeding almost instantly, and spread to the inside of 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 "penetrated" the inside of the abdominal cavity with his mind, and saw that the paste ointment absorbed the blood stasis and broken organs at an astonishing speed, and then penetrated with the flesh and blood tissue to form a whole.

The paste ointment exhibits very obvious properties of living things, it can assimilate flesh and blood, connect damaged blood vessels, nerves and internal organs, and maintain normal physiological functions.Over time, the paste ointments gradually lost their activity, they were absorbed by blood tissue, differentiated, and finally repaired Victor's blood vessels, intestines and liver, as well as muscles and skin.

In just 10 to [-] minutes, the terrible injury healed without even leaving any conspicuous marks on Victor's skin surface.

"It's incredible!"

Victor said to himself, relying on the knowledge of pharmacy in his mind, he knew too well where the limit of pharmacy was, even the top-level secret medicine could not achieve such a healing effect beyond common sense.

He even believed that the pasty ointment used the shell of the medicine, and its inside was no longer medicine, but a special kind of living thing.

For so many days, on the surface, Victor led people to swagger through the town in order to track down thieves and lost property. In secret, 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.

According to the time difference of each evolution, Victor has a basic judgment on the signs of biological activities in the cave, and can determine that Butler Yisenniel and Christine and his party are hiding somewhere inside.

Christine is a demon-born half-elf, and most of Yisennier and the private guards have undergone special transformations. In addition to that 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.It's just that, if he wants to get those life-distorting purification potions, he still needs someone to deal with the half-elves of the demons for him.

The bounty hunter Rhine and his companions are all in Victor's plan. When they take action, enter the underground cave, and track down Yisenniel, it will be Victor's turn to follow behind to see if there is any chance to take advantage of the chaos. profit.

Regardless of whether there is a chance to snatch the life distortion purification potion, in short, the way out of Water Snake Town has been arranged, and Victor now has sufficient time to test Dr. Middleton's research results during the evolution of the dream.

Middleton's experiment notes describe in detail the production method, characteristics and application tests of the life distortion purified potion.

The paranoid and distorted professional doctor took out the fetus from the demon-born half-elf's womb, used a secret medicine to reverse its growth process, greatly weakened the demon's flesh and blood will, and restored it into a medicinal liquid with exceptionally strong life energy.

Middleton used this liquid medicine as a powerful catalyst, and combined with specific drug formulas, it could theoretically develop three types of applications: transplantation, strong regeneration, and orderly distortion.

For example, Dr. Middleton tried to transplant the eyes of a cat to a blind half-elf test subject, and succeeded.The test subject regained his eyesight and gained the sharp gaze of a cat's eyes, but his behavior and habits became closer and closer to that of a cat, and eventually he lost his humanity and reason.

This is certainly not a successful experiment, and there are many, many similar failures.

There should only be two cases of successful finalization of potions, orderly distortion and strong regeneration.Butler Yisenniel's participation in the experiment of orderly distortion is still the most successful example.

He regularly takes the distortion potion prepared by Middleton, and a deformed organ grows in the chest cavity, similar to the devil's core.This core has two main functions. One is to passively improve Yisenniel's physique. As he grows older, he will become stronger and stronger; secondly, Yisenniel can actively release the distortion energy contained in the core. Gain several times the usual strength, and even change your appearance.

Theoretically, the core is not damaged or withered, and Yisenniel is very difficult to kill.Because the core has a function similar to powerful regeneration, it will repair the damage of the host, but the price is 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 unimaginable. 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 core is to shorten the lifespan of the host, no matter whether he activates the core or not, the result cannot be changed.

In fact, the side effects of transplantation and order distortion are exactly the same, both at the cost of reduced lifespan.And strong regeneration has no effect on extending life.

Dr. Middleton believes that his drug development experiment has not been successful. What he pursues is to maintain youthful vitality and longevity, and the growth of extraordinary strength is secondary.

Therefore, Middleton did not use the life-distorting purification potion on himself, and even Yisenniel was considered a failed test subject.

According to Middleton's estimate, Yi Senniel only has 13 years of life left, and this is based on the premise that he no longer stimulates the core energy.

Victor can use himself as an experiment unscrupulously in the dream. The strange thing is that the ordered distortion experiment has no effect on him, and the transplantation experiment is temporarily unavailable, but the strong regeneration experiment just now is enough to prove that Middleton's research results are true .

Victor deduced that the focus of the experiment was on the will of the demons' flesh and blood, which, even though they were greatly weakened, remained astonishingly active.

For example, the Potent Regenerative Potion can be treated as a special living creature.Its survival time is short. After infiltrating the half-elf's body, in order to resist death, it will absorb the blood and broken organs of the host, grow rapidly, repair the host's damage, and enable the host to survive, so that it can survive.It's a pity that parasites have a short lifespan, and they will eventually be absorbed by the host, and there will be no serious side effects before more severe distortions occur.

According to this thinking, the distortion-core is also the living life.It reaches a balance with the flesh and blood will of the host itself, forming a symbiotic relationship.If the flesh and blood will of the core is higher than that of the host, the overall distortion will be irreversible.But if the host's flesh and blood will is higher than the core, then the core has no chance to develop.

This seems to be explained by the fact that Victor's will of flesh and blood is higher than that of a half-elf professional. The mayor butler Yisenniel underwent a distortion test and could grow a core in his body, but he just didn't.

Why this happened, Victor himself was at a loss.

In any case, the life-distortion purification potion has an activation effect, which has gone beyond the field of occult medicine, touched the lower-level law of life, and there are wider types of due types waiting to be discovered, which is of great significance and has inestimable research value!
Victor was deeply fascinated by the activation experiment, and almost forgot 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 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 ordered not to disturb him if there was no important matter.

Harvey and Max are torn between obeying orders and waking Victor.It happened that 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 call, Victor finally opened his eyes and got up to sit up, but his face was a bit unsightly. He glanced at his subordinates and asked, "Is there any news from the white-haired Rhine?"

The so-called important things include setting up eyeliner to track whether the white-haired Rhine has sneaked into the secret passage of the mayor's mansion. When the bounty hunter takes action, it is the moment for Victor to enter the underground cave.

Seeing that Victor was safe and sound, Harvey breathed a sigh of relief, shook his head again and again, and said in a low voice: "My lord, it's not the news from the hotel. It's the thief we put a reward on who was brought here, that little girl named Stephanie." girl."

Victor curled his lips, cleaned up his bad mood, and said impatiently: "Okay, I'll go down and see her."

Stephanie was wearing gray clothes and a straw hat, covering her half-length hair. She looked like a thin boy.She was neatly dressed, her eyes were bright, 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, twisted her clothes with her fingers, and looked obedient and pitiful. Xixi look.

"My lord." The old scout Max left the little girl behind, walked towards Victor quickly, and said bently: "At noon today, the old wolf from the Thieves Guild personally brought Stephanie. The child has already confessed, she is Under the instigation of the thief leader Pim, he came to touch our bottom..."

Victor didn't expect that the thief he offered a reward for would be sent over.

Stephanie is just a small character who can't help himself, and Victor uses her to make a fuss, just to confuse the view, accusing the captain of the guard in charge of the town's security for sending thieves to steal his identity papers.If word of the mayor's death spread and the town guard accused them of being spies for bandits, he would use this as an excuse to throw dirt on Husserl.

Logically speaking, Husserl would not let Stephanie fall into Victor's hands, she should have been silenced long ago.

Things were unexpected, not only did Stephanie not die, but the Thieves Guild handed her over to Victor.The reason for this is worth pondering.

Victor sat on the sofa and listened absently to Max's report.Until Max talked about Stephanie's theft mission and her intention to leave a handprint on the closet in order to get rid of the gang of thieves, which barely made Victor a little interested.

"You mean, Pym, the thief, works for the mayor of Middleton, and they killed the 'good friend' who brought you into the den of thieves... You found out about this, and you were frightened and angry, when the thief ordered you to search Our package, looking for mithril weapons and a triangular metal emblem, so you think we are coming to deal with the mayor of Middleton, so you deliberately left your fingerprints to remind us to pay attention to the Goldfinger gang. In this way, you will be killed , when we investigate Goldfinger's clues, we can always find the thief leader Pim and Mayor Middleton?"

Victor's cold eyes fell on the little girl's face, and she heard her say weakly, "Yes."

Stephanie's heart rate was quite stable, not as panicked and helpless as she appeared.

This child is not simple, Victor thought secretly, but Stephanie's rhetoric did confirm some of his guesses.

The mayor of Middleton secretly engaged in taboo experiments, so there may not be no one to track down.

Victor suspects that the bounty hunter Rhine is a member of an organization that specializes in hunting down demons.Rhine once made a triangle gesture to Harvey at the Adventurer's Union Hotel. This unique gesture is obviously closely related to the triangle emblem Stephanie said, and it also proves from the side that Middleton and his group know something about the hunting organization.It's just that Middleton found the wrong target, mistakenly thinking that Victor was the stalker.

From this, it can be inferred that the real stalker Rhine appeared at the meeting place in the small garden, and the mayor butler Yisenniel immediately made a decisive decision to kill Middleton, and then took the demon hostess to escape into the most hidden underground cave.

The mayor was murdered, and Rhine couldn't find enough criminal evidence. Under the pressure of the city-state council, he probably gave up on tracking down the clues of the demon descendant, and maybe he would be transferred away by his superiors to be questioned by the organization.

Yi Senniel and Christine escaped this period, and they could basically get rid of tracking and stay away from danger.

They had been prepared for a long time, and Victor just happened to bump into this incident, which caused a series of misunderstandings.

The cause and effect are roughly like this, but Victor has no patience to explain clearly to his subordinates.Max carefully observed his expression, then suddenly half-kneeled down, and said earnestly: "My lord, Stephanie is just a poor orphan. I want to ask you to show kindness and give her a way to survive."

The old scout has lived on the border for more than [-] 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 seed to be a dark hunter.

Max is cursed, and he feels that he has no chance to be promoted to the fifth level of the shadow hunter, but as a preacher, he can also train apprentices.With Stephanie's conditions, it may be possible to satisfy his psychological expectation of being promoted to the Venerable.

Victor could understand the thoughts of the old scout, just like he was delighted to see Ruth and Jessica, and regarded them as observation materials for mental body mutations, and he was unwilling to abandon those two burdens no matter what.

It has to be said that Stephanie's ten-year-old age is quite confusing, and Victor doesn't think that such a little girl will pose much threat to him.Even though she may have concealed something, at least what she said is corroborated by the facts, and Victor is now full of thoughts about experimenting with life-distorting purification potions, so he nodded and said, "Okay, she can stay for the time being." Next, you are responsible for keeping an eye on her. After a few days, we will discuss Stephanie's problem... Now, I will continue to sleep, if there is nothing serious, please don't bother me."

Max was overjoyed, and patted his chest to assure: "My lord, don't worry, Harvey and I will keep an eye on Stephanie and never make trouble for you... Harvey, don't you think so?"

"Huh? Oh... ok."

Harvey shrugged his shoulders indifferently, thought for a while 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!"

(End of this chapter)