"One night, I secretly followed Leonid to the outskirts of the countryside in an attempt to expose his tricks, but when I sneaked into the empty house and saw the bloody scene in front of me, I was so shocked that I almost fainted on the spot." Recalling the scene, Matvey's voice couldn't help but tremble, as if he had palpitations.

"What kind of evil research is Leonid doing?" Nikita couldn't wait to ask.

"Leonid's research is not based on Natalia's corpse, his research is even crazier than I imagined......" Matvey was silent for a long time, and finally spoke with difficulty: "In fact, he used living people as materials, cutting off his hands and feet alive and then attaching prostheses, and then observing how long the other party could live......"

Roland couldn't help but gasp, "In other words, he is still haunted by Natalia's death, and wants to prove that the prosthetic leg he invented is not the main cause of Natalia's death by repeating experiments?" ”

"Who knows what the kid thinks? He didn't communicate with anyone, including me, at all and didn't explain. Matvey sighed and said quietly: "When I saw him experimenting with living people, I was so angry that I was about to go crazy, and I couldn't hold back my anger and rushed up to beat him, and scolded him for being a ghost and doing such a cruel deed, not only is he not worthy of being my son, but he is simply unworthy of being a human being!" ”

"You must have deeply broken Leonid's heart when you said that." Roland sighed.

"I was so mad that I could not care what this rebel thought, and I beat him so hard that I was still angry, and on the spur of the moment I told the sheriff everything I saw, and when the sheriff surrounded the house, I learned the truth from the mouths of those who had Leonid amputated their limbs, and it turned out that they were all terminally ill."

"Terminally ill patients...... That is, they voluntarily cooperated with Leonid's research? Nikita's eyes widened.

Matvey nodded with difficulty, his eyes full of remorse: "Leonid posted a notice under a pseudonym, claiming that he was conducting medical research and needed the cooperation of volunteers, and he would pay the other party's family a sum of money for this, and also made a note with the volunteers, the other party knew very well that he was going to be amputated, and he also knew that he was going to test the prosthetic leg of the agency, this matter was my misunderstanding from the beginning, Leonid was afraid that I would oppose it, so he hid it from me, and then stubbornly disdained to defend it, and when I learned the truth from others, this tragedy was irreparable...... Leonid escaped wounded in a clash with the vigilantes, while three police officers were seriously injured by his mistake, one of whom died that night. ”

"The situation has deteriorated to this point, and it doesn't matter whether Leonid's research is legal or not, he accidentally killed the police officer, and the town mayor and the vigilante will probably not let him go." Roland smiled bitterly. What is a mistake? That's it.

Matvey nodded heavily: "After that day, Leonid became a wanted criminal, and he did not show up in the town for more than ten days, and the police asked me many times to question his whereabouts, and I had nothing to say, until one night, when I returned home from work, I unexpectedly found that Leonid had returned, hiding in a wide cloak, and his tone and tone of voice were a little strange...... Just when I wondered what had happened to him, the sound of horses' hooves suddenly sounded outside the window, and the security team surrounded my house, it turned out that the police had been sending people to spy on my house, and when they found that Leonid had returned, they immediately went out to round up, but Leonid did not think it was a coincidence. ”

"He thought you took the initiative to call the police again this time?" Roland asked.

"He did think so, that is, this misunderstanding broke the relationship between our father and son, Leonid refused to listen to my explanation, and went straight out the door, and the officer tried to subdue him by shooting him in the leg with a crossbow arrow, but the arrow hit her body with a piercing spark, and not a drop of blood was shed." Matvey recalled the scene with tears in his eyes, "Leonid took off his cloak, and only then was I shocked to find that he had transformed himself into a construct. ”

"It turns out that since that day six years ago, Leonid has been transformed into a machine man......" Roland said suddenly.

"Leonid's invulnerable metal physique scared the vigilantes away, and that was the last time he asked me to meet, and before he said goodbye, he said something to me that still makes my heart ache to think about it......," Matvey choked up.

"What did he say to you?" Nikita asked curiously.

"He said to me, 'Father, I am no longer a man,' ......" Tears rolled down the old man's cheeks, and he couldn't stop crying.

Roland and Nikita stared at each other, speechless.

On that night six years ago, Leonid saw his father for the last time, just to tell his only relative in the world that he no longer wanted to live as a human being. Leonid made such a decision, it can be seen that he was completely desperate for his life, family and even the whole world at that time, which of course has the factor of his extreme character, but the early death of his lover and the lack of father's love are not the straw that breaks the camel's back.

Where did Leonid go after that? What kind of life do you live after giving up your human identity? Matvey didn't know.

Now, six years later, Leonid returned to his hometown and appeared to his father as a Mithril Machineman. Matvey waited for his son for many years, so he did not hesitate to refuse Roland's invitation to give up the railroad career that he cherished all his life, but in the end, he did not wait for the prodigal son to return, but an unexpected disaster.

Also caught up in this disaster is Isabel. If there is room for self-blame for what happened to Matvey, then Isabel really suffered an unjustified disaster.

Listening to Matvey's account of their son's past, Roland and Nikita were speechless, sympathizing and regretting for the fallen genius Trap Warlock. After a long time, Roland Fang broke the silence with a sigh.

"Mr. Matvey, it's not all his fault that Leonid has fallen to where he is now, but now there is no point in distinguishing between right and wrong, the priority is to catch up with him and Natalia and rescue Isabel from them, otherwise we will all be shameless to face Mayor Ferdinando's family."

"That's exactly what I want to do, Your Highness the Prince, I failed to educate my son well, so that I got into today's catastrophe, it has nothing to do with you and Miss Nikita, I myself will try to enter the film world to find Leonid and persuade him not to hurt Isabel."

Roland noticed that Matvey's stubborn demeanor resembled that of his fallen son, and that Leonid had inherited his father's eccentric personality and was more extreme paranoid, which was the root cause of the father's inability to get along.