After the Great War, the wasteland seemed so calm that even the wind had stopped.

After resting for a while, Rosen stood up and beckoned to John, the coachman: "Come and pack up our things, let's spend the night in another place, it stinks too much here." ”

There were nearly a hundred ghoul corpses lying under the position, and the bloody smell of monster blood and the putrid smell of ghoul bodily fluids were mixed together, almost choking human tears.

"Yes, yes, sir." John had no opinion at all.

Rosen, Anne, and John worked together to quickly take all the things on the ground back to the carriage, and then, as Rosen and Anne stood on the tripod outside the carriage, John, the coachman, whipped his whip, and the carriage 'gurgling' down the slope.

In the previous battle, the weeds on the slope had been burned clean, and the carriage was much lighter than before.

"John, go to the Ghoul Lord."

"Okay."

The carriage made a slight turn towards the corpse of the giant ghoul lord, and when it reached the corpse, the passengers of the carriage looked at the huge corpse.

The corpse, with its left arm gone, had a large hole in its chest that was transparent from front to back, more than 20 centimeters in diameter, the muscles next to the bloody hole had become meat sauce, and the hard shell was filled with cobweb-like cracks.

Two shots shattered the body of a powerful giant ghoul lord.

Upon closer inspection, the terrifying power of the weapon became more and more shocking, and everyone in the carriage, including the user Anne, had a thrilling sense of horror in their hearts.

Anne whispered to Rosen, "You say, there will be better ones in the future." It's so powerful, can it be improved? ”

Rosen smiled: "It's not easy. You think, I'll add explosives to the bullet head, and wait for the bullet to hit the opponent and explode when it enters the opponent's body......."

"Huh? I'm afraid that even a dragon can't stop such a bullet, right? Anne's eyes widened, with horror in her eyes, but there was also a hint of anticipation.

Rosen laughed and pointed to the monster corpse on the ground: "Annie, the hard shells and spikes on the giant ghoul lord's body are very good materials and cannot be wasted. ”

"It's nature."

Anne jumped out of the carriage, picked up a dagger, and began to shell and pluck the ghoul lord, with Rosen on the side and John the coachman on the side.

Anne was very sharp with her hands and feet, and after seven or eight minutes, she removed the whole hard shell of the ghoul lord's belly armor, leg armor, arm armor, and so on.

Lawson was tidying up and observing the hard shells.

The material of this thing is not gold or wood, the feel is somewhat similar to frosted ceramic, the two hard shells touch lightly, making a crisp sound of 'ding ~ ding ~', each hard shell is about 6 mm thick, the texture is very elastic, but when Lawson breaks it by hand, he can easily fold the hard shell in half.

After folding in half, as soon as you let go, you will hear a soft sound of 'bang~', and the hard shell will return to the same as before, and there will be no trace left at the fold.

Rosen exclaimed: "It's a good thing to be bulletproof, soft and light." ”

He used the power of alchemy again to push various molecules in the air to hit the surface of the hard shell, and after a few hits, Rosen couldn't help but let out a 'huh'.

"What's wrong?" Anne asked.

Rosen didn't answer, he took out a whole piece of abdominal armor, spread it on the ground, and then picked up the spiral troll and smashed it the abdominal armor with the butt of his gun.

"When~"

With a crisp sound, the abdominal armor that was hit did not show the slightest softness, and it showed a toughness like steel.

Rosen said: "In the ordinary state, it is flexible and elastic, and the moment it is violently impacted, the strength is immediately increased tenfold and hundredfold, and it becomes like steel, a good thing!" What a good thing! ”

On Earth, there are also polymer materials with similar physical properties, but when Rosen crossed over, this material was still in the laboratory and had not yet reached the application stage, and it was far less good than the hard shell of the giant ghoul lord. When he had time, he had to study the material of this thing.

Anne said happily: "Legend has it that the hard shell of the giant ghoul lord is an excellent material for making armor, I didn't believe it originally, but now it seems that the legend is true." ”

After brushing the hard shell, she plucked the ghoul lord's spikes one by one.

Rosen took one and looked closely, each of these spikes was half a meter long, nearly a centimeter in diameter, empty in the middle, and there were many pores on the head, each weighing about 200 grams.

If this thing were to pierce the body, it would be a great bloodletter, and if it wasn't pulled out in time, it would bleed to death, even if it didn't hit the vital point. ’

'Hmm~ This thing is also very strong, it looks like an iron pipe, and it is also a good thing, and it may be of great use in the future. ’

'No, why did the Ghoul Leader evolve such a powerful hard shell and spikes?' ’

Rosen was puzzled.

His scientific basis was the theory of species evolution pioneered by Charles Darwin.

As far as he knows, in nature, all life can obtain a limited amount of energy, and every bit of energy is very precious, and there is no room for waste. Unless it is faced with some kind of existential pressure, life will never consume energy to evolve a completely useless ability.

Because nature is cruel and ruthless, survival of the fittest, survival of the fittest.

Of course, history is not without wayward species, but these wayward species must not compete with those species that are energy-conscious. Once the competition fails, the first consequence is that you can't find food, starve to death, and be eliminated.

This is the law of nature discovered by Darwin, an iron law verified by countless lives in the long river of time, and it is so powerful that even human beings on the earth, with extremely developed science, cannot be completely exempted.

'Is the giant ghoul lord so powerful to hunt?' No, it's not, the ghoul staple food is carrion. Is that to deter opponents? No, ghouls have no natural predators at all, their blood and body surface putref are poisonous, and no beast will hunt ghouls covered in putrid fluid. Those beasts, even ferocious griffons, would take a detour when they saw an ordinary ghoul, for fear of poisoning. ’

'The hard shell on the ghoul's body must have taken a huge amount of energy to synthesize, and it doesn't seem to be used at all in normal times, but it is an excellent armor against bullets. Could it be that this thing is used for bulletproof...... No, no, no, this speculation is ridiculous and unfounded. ’

Just as he was thinking about it, Annie's voice came to his ears: "Rosen, what are you thinking?" ”

"Huh?" Rosen came back to his senses: "I wonder why the giant ghoul lord is so powerful? ”

"What's there to think about here?" Anne shrugged her shoulders, "The Great Ghoul Lord has been so powerful for as long as it was recorded, and it was born that way. ”

"Since the beginning of the record? How long? ”

"The earliest record is more than 2,000 years ago. A giant ghoul lord with an army of ghouls has stormed a city and killed everyone. What does this do, you ask? Anne asked curiously.

"Oh~ It's nothing, I'm just curious." Rosen smiled, and suddenly asked again, "Annie, does the giant ghoul lord have an opponent?" ”

Anne shook her head in disbelief: "It should be...... No, I've never seen it anyway. There is no relevant record in the logs of the predecessors, it is a kind of overlord-level monster. ”

Rosen was even more puzzled, and after a dozen seconds of silence, he suddenly asked, "Annie, how did you say these monsters appeared?" ”

Anne shook her head: "I don't know. The Cult of the Flame God says that these monsters come from hell, and that the gods release them to punish mortals for their crimes......"

Rosen smiled wryly when he heard this, and he continued: "As long as you believe in the eternal fire, you can purify your sins and have the power to resist monsters. Isn't that what the Flame God Cult says about attracting believers? Do you believe it? ”

Anne shrugged: "Who believes who is a fool?" No one knows where the monsters came to be, anyway, they seem to have suddenly appeared in the world. ”