Our family is in decline

The appearance of this passage entrance confirmed Lance's conjecture, and he also understood the reason for the collapse area.

A section of the passage happens to be located underground under the new road. Because the road construction construction destroyed the original structure, Lance's sacrifice of invisible flesh and blood happened to cause a large collapse, which caused a huge impact underground and shook the place.

Just when he was about to complete his guess, he had dug out most of the hole, immediately grabbed the torch and walked up.

There are similar masonry passages, and there are torch holders in some locations. There is no obvious rust in the enclosed space inside.

It's a pity that Lance rummaged around and found nothing more except some spare torches.

The passage was shallower than Lance imagined, and he soon came to a corridor. On both sides were small prison-like spaces, built with heavy stones and thick steel as the skeleton, with iron plates riveted on top. The door reminded Lance of something.

"The configuration of the sanatorium, this is the place where the ancestors kept the experimental subjects..."

Most of it was still locked, but in front of one of the open metal doors, a riveted metal plate fell off, essentially causing structural damage to the entire door.

Lance handed over the torch and observed it. There were obvious traces of corrosion, and he said it was not you, the Devourer!

Lance became even more curious about what was ahead, and quickly stepped through the door that had lost its function.

After passing through the corridor, Lance entered a relatively larger space, which was like a cave in a beast's cave. He could see stone pillars piled with bricks and stones as supports, but the real surprise was the various objects placed in the room. Plant something.

Books piled randomly, drafts like waste paper can be seen everywhere, as well as the hideous and weird steel props, and the unknown ritual patterns on the empty ground...

Although everything was covered with a layer of dust, it added an indescribable weirdness, giving Lance the feeling of being filled with fog.

Have you found your ancestor’s original laboratory?

Lance didn't care so much, put the torch on the torch stand nearby, and then went up to check the dust-covered books.

Judging from the titles and quality of the covers, most of these ancient books have nothing to do with the ancestors, but they contain a lot of occult knowledge, and the weird contents in them may drive ordinary people into madness.

Lance had no choice but to put these things away with a frown and wait until he had time to study them again. Maybe he could find something useful here.

As for the scattered manuscripts, they explained to Lance what kind of research the ancestor was doing here.

Human experiments.

If Lance approved Paracelsus to do this, it would only be limited to research on human body structure and diseases. At most, it would be testing drugs and the like without intentional torture, and the ones used would be heinous "dead people".

But the ancestor has no worries at all. As long as he catches people, he will conduct experiments. All kinds of research make him feel uneasy even just looking at the recorded data on paper.

The simple human body has no secrets for the ancestors, and in the later period, they began to study "flesh and blood" from the human body.

There were too many people missing at this time, so the ancestor could only use similar pork instead.

Among these studies on flesh and blood, there are many strange and extraordinary rituals involved, which involve a lot of occult knowledge.

It's just that in Lance's opinion, these rituals should be classified as taboo rituals and should not be seen.

Because the old ancestor has been asking for nothing from the void without any scruples, even crazily.

Pidianpidian even took the initiative to create a body for those indescribable things to come to reality, which is the [Pig God].

Fortunately, the "container", the Pig God, failed, otherwise Lance wouldn't know what kind of messy monsters he would have to deal with.

Of course, Lance found out about the failure of his ancestor’s experiment on the Pig God, and thus came up with the conjecture of [Heart of Flesh] in order to further improve the ritual.

Lance knew that the ancestor was doing all this in preparation for stealing the power of the ancient gods, but why did you provoke those weird things?

What's the difference between holding a torch and shouting into a church auditorium shrouded in darkness?

The statues of gods placed in the auditorium are not important, what is important is the strangeness behind the statues.

When you are watched by one existence, it means that countless existences have also discovered you at the same time. We call it the law of the dark auditorium.

Originally, this planet was full of shit. I couldn't sleep well just to wipe my ass for you, old man. Now you tell me that it has attracted the attention of those extraterrestrial beings, and there are more than one or two. You wish I died, right?

"Fucking ancestor!"

There was no one around, so Lance didn't even bother to pretend and just let out a hysterical wail.

"I'm going to kill you Kouga!"

Lance immediately burst out, and all kinds of insults echoed in the room, but he soon calmed down, because he knew it was useless, and it was a bit of a show-off.

After venting his anger, Lance re-read the manuscript left by the old man.

I can only say that this guy Lao Anzu, no matter how much Lance scolds him for being abstract and working hard every day, it is undeniable that he is indeed a genius.

But everything stopped in an accident.

Lance's expression suddenly became strange, and his originally scattered attention suddenly became focused, and he began to read the remaining things in detail.

I even found the corresponding book "Postpartum Care for Sand-Wandering Worms" from among those books.

"Found it..." Lance could not help but smile as he held the book.

He found a unique worm that his ancestor discovered from the things from the [Mother of Worms Sect], which was the Sand Worm, and then transformed it into a flesh-eating worm.

This discovery allowed Lance to master the prototype of Devourer. He may not be able to make docile worms that have the same effect.

At this time, Lance's condition was also visibly improving. He was looking irritable just now, but now he just said one word.

happy!

I also realize that those things may not all be taboo, but as long as they are used properly, they can still benefit the world.

For a moment, I sped up the movements in my hands and quickly sorted these things out. At the same time, I could roughly guess an experimental accident that happened here based on the information I have now.

This place used to be part of the sewer, and was regarded as a laboratory by the ancestors.

Instead, he still studied strange creatures like the Flesh Devourer, until one day he ignored the Devourer's powerful corrosive ability, causing it to escape.

Then the passage was destroyed, causing a collapse to bury these underground, thus cutting this place out of the sewer.

If it hadn't been for this coincidence, I'm afraid all this would have been buried underground forever.

The beast cave is a new experimental place opened later, which can explain all this.

The beast cave was originally opened by the ancestors, but was later used to raise pigs and was further transformed by the pig people.

But all this is meaningless...

Soon Lance climbed up from the collapse again, and the surrounding situation was also under martial law due to the previous incident. The guards and Leonard were already busy dealing with the follow-up matters.

At this time, Lance received the feedback from the reconnaissance team.

The turmoil in the ruins alarmed the skeletons, and they had even spread, but their movement was relatively slow, and they couldn't get through within a few days.

"Lord, do we need to send out the army?"

"No need." Lance didn't care about this. He turned around and ordered, "Blow up the bottom completely, restore the road as soon as possible, and prepare to open the ruins."

The cost of dispatching the army is huge. Hamlet should not be consumed with the ruins. These skeletons are left to the adventurers to play with.

"yes!"

Those people didn't know why, and they didn't need to know. They just needed to follow the lord's instructions.

In the past, there were still conflicts and battles between the Ascension Sect and Hamlet's army in the fringe area, but this time Lance picked peaches and the ancestors were anxious, causing the Ascension Sect to gather the cultists to launch a final counterattack.

Although Hamlet's team's strategy changed at first, the situation soon reversed.

With the end of the battle on the front line, it was announced that the final road from the wilderness to the ruins had been opened.

When everyone started to get busy, Lance took this opportunity to review the construction of the new town and the armament of the outpost.

Although there won't be any problems, after learning about Bastia's major case, he still has to be careful not to test human nature, but to establish a good system.

Fortunately, we just caught a batch of Mickey Mouse not long ago, but no one dared to make a fuss about these aspects. What Lance saw was similar to what he knew.

Soon Lance returned to his loyal town of Hamlet. After understanding Baldwin's operation, Lance took advantage of the situation and claimed that Hamlet's army defeated the terrifying enemy and completely opened the way to the ruins.

And an accurate time was set, that is, it will be completely opened in two days. At the same time, the news was released that guns are not allowed in the ruins, and you can buy supplies with money.

But if you want to enter the town, you have to store your guns and ammunition, and there is even a delivery service. If you want to leave the Hamlet range, you can take your guns and ammunition with you.

Of course you need to pay a small storage fee.

Lance's decision was simple. He couldn't control them after leaving the town. At the same time, the ruins were dangerous and they needed to clear out the monsters. Increasing their strength was also for their lives.

Of course, the more important thing is that guns require ammunition, and Lance has a monopoly on all supporting equipment for those.

Every time you fire a gun, Lance hears it not as a gunshot, but as the sound of gold coins falling into a bag.

Moreover, the development of firearms requires market feedback. The research institute has many strange guns, but testing them under experimental conditions is not enough. It can just open the market and sell them to them.

Firstly, the research results are converted into income to cover the huge consumption of the institute, and there are also a lot of self-funded experiments.

Everything is business...

But this news did not excite those greedy adventurers. The news spread by Baldwin before was still working.

Those people even more doubted whether the army had failed, and they wanted to trick them into going to the front line to die. After all, it was too fast.

This was a funny misunderstanding, but Lance didn't care. After all, time would tell them the answer.

After Lance came back, he did not interfere in Baldwin's affairs. It must be said that Lance felt much more relaxed after the consul and the trained affairs officers got together, and he finally had time to deal with some special matters.

In addition to Paracelsus in the sanatorium, there were also Lance and Greendale. The appearance of the three of them here was naturally not an ordinary thing. They all set their sights on the turbid liquid in the vat.

The [Pearl of the Deep Sea] obtained from the bay can be transformed into a potion containing magical power through some special rituals.

“It’s amazing that even after the flesh and blood has been digested, there’s no smell or other strange smells.”

Compared to these, Greendale cares more about another thing, and that is...

"Who drinks?"

"Don't look at me!" Lance noticed that both of them were looking at him and refused directly.

Others don't know, but can he not know what the raw materials of this thing are?

He is not an ancestor who likes to drink weird things.

If no one is willing, they can only drag a death row prisoner over and drink a bottle of it.

The effect started immediately, and several people observed it. Lance's mastery of the power of flesh and blood allowed him to spy on some interesting situations.

"Although the flesh and blood have been digested, this thing is easily contaminated by various germs left in the flesh and blood. It must be disinfected before use, otherwise the user will also be infected."

"Will filtering and then high-temperature sterilization destroy the effect?"

"Using herbal medicine to disinfect is also a way."

"Do you think increasing the concentration through distillation will improve the effect?"

Research is still a long process, and one thing can be divided into too many projects that need to be verified.

The launch of the product is the culmination of their countless efforts. Lance couldn't help much before, but now he can finally find time to help.

Because this project cannot be known to too many people, at least until Lance really has the right to speak.

You can still use heinous death row prisoners as a fig leaf when conducting human experiments, but using flesh and blood as raw materials is something only evil wizards in knight novels would do.

Not to mention that Lance has been forcing the cremation of corpses. If you are known to do this, I'm afraid...

Anyway, this thing cannot be known to ordinary people, let alone the church, otherwise it will definitely be hyped and attacked.

The more he thought about it, the more wrong he became. Lance suddenly realized that the risks seemed a bit high, but the benefits were average. Should he stop?

It is still too early to say this now. At least it will be difficult to complete the research and get out of the laboratory in a short time. It is better to wait until complete data is obtained before considering other things.

After a series of research, Greendale took the lead in giving a summary.

"I have come into contact with the church's holy water. Although the effect is similar, it is not the same thing as this."

The Lushou Tribe studies herbal medicine and various medicines, and they are familiar with the church's classic products.

"It doesn't matter if it's true or not, as long as it works." Lance is a pragmatist, so you can't tell him this.

But these words also reminded him of something, and he couldn't help but ask and answer himself.

"I remember those two people in the church are still locked up, right? I almost forgot."