"Studying monsters isn't our ultimate subject, and while I admit that there are many short-sighted people in this institution, I'm sure you're not one of them, Dr. Tao. They are really superficial and completely skewed, and the last wish of the founders of the Musa Consortium is to redefine the connection between humans and monsters, and I firmly believe that we are already standing before them. ”

With that, Addick pushed open a door.

The structure of the room is very similar to that of the laboratory upstairs, except that when she enters, Ella's pupils shrink - it's not monsters floating in the nutrient tank, it's humans. They were naked, men, women, old people and babies, and in Addick's laboratory, there was only data from the study of humans.

Even at this sinful base, Addick still considers himself lonely, and most of them are wanted for cultivating monsters as weapons of destruction, except for his research on humanity and has been put on the church's bounty list.

Ella was chilled when she entered the door, and in addition to being tested on humans in the room, the most striking thing was the church bounty hanging on the wall.

Addick.

Hazard Level: S

Wanted for multiple murders.

Bounty: Archduke Obio.

Ella had seen a lot of S-class bounties, but most of them were extremely dangerous monsters, and she had never seen a human name on a bounty order at this level.

"Listen, I know you're a little hard at once, but I'm sure it's the right path. Those guys have studied monsters so much that they've all reached a dead end. He followed Ella's gaze and glanced at the bounty on the wall and shook it, "They define me as a murderer against civilization, but they are wrong, I love humanity more than they think. ”

It's just that Addick expresses his affection in a more "special" way, he likes to cut up or tear apart his favorite things since he was a child, and he tries to understand the source of this affection in a structural way. But the strange thing is that every time he figured out the reason, he suddenly felt that everything was boring.

So he gradually understands that what he needs is a puzzle that can never be solved, and finally one day, he finds it - human beings themselves.

"I'm so stupid, the real worthy of research has always been with me, and I squandered more than a dozen years to find it!"

Adik's eyes revealed indescribable fanaticism and yearning.

When he was young, Adik had a young and beautiful wife and a happy family. His wife was a knight, and he joined the fellows at a young age and was greatly appreciated by his mentors. The happy life did not last long, and the war inevitably affected them, and the wife of the knight was caught in a choice.

She is the eldest daughter of the Grand Duke of Obio and the royal knight of Helutia, and is supposed to fight for Herutia and her family. Despite her efforts, she still encountered a problem that was difficult to solve—engraving. She, like most knights, is unable to contain the Engraving, and not being able to contain the Engraving means that she cannot go further.

One day, his wife told Adik about her distress.

"Why?"

Addick turned his head and looked at Ella.

His tone was not a painful question, nor a cry of unfairness of fate, but pure curiosity. His eyes convinced Ella that the old man really wanted to understand the mystery.

"I looked through all the materials related to engraving in the institute, and all the answers I got were the same - talent. The book says that human beings are born with containers, and they carry different quantities, some are born to be hailed as geniuses, and some are born to be waste...... Hey, don't look at me like that, I'm not some cynical old man, what I hate is not 'unfair', but 'unknown'. There are so many talented researchers at the institute, but no one can answer my questions...... Or rather, they never even tried to explain it. ”

"So figuring out the puzzle, I had to start my own research. ”

Addick's research didn't go well.

He knew neither about monsters nor humans, and the researcher's large library was extremely vague about the interpretation of humans themselves, much to the displeasure of young Addick, who thought a person was a waste, but didn't know why they were a waste. Soon, his research hit a bottleneck, his applications to the institute were rejected one by one, the front line was in a hurry, and Addick's research was considered meaningless by the higher-ups.

Knowing how one turned into waste didn't help the battle game, not to mention that they didn't want to know why. This means that Addick has to figure it out on his own.

Until one day, his wife talked to him about the crisis at the front and her desire for engraving.

At that time, I looked into my wife's beautiful eyes for a long time, and I still remember that scene. I loved her more than anyone else, and it was at that moment that I figured it out – I had to open her up and make her a part of my career. I put the drugged in the water and tried to imprint every detail in my mind, I remember her frightened expression, and her questioning and sad eyes, but I believe that one day, he will understand my sacrifice. ”

After a long silence, Addick spoke: "The problem is in the heart. ”

"When I found out why, my wanted warrants were already hanging all over the imperial capital, but I was only halfway through my research, and I only figured out that the heart capacity would be more or less inherited from my parents, but in rare cases, mutations would occur, such as a couple of peasants giving birth to a genius. After leaving the Imperial Capital, I will not only have to evade the Church and the Knights of the Obio Family, but also find different ...... Uh, volunteers. ”

In times of war, it only takes a few gold coins to bury a child from an adoption center.

"It was a very difficult time, I was wandering around, and one day a man who called herself Sindora came to me, and the woman said that she was from the Musa consortium and that she had followed my research, and that she had provided me with all the resources I needed – the laboratory, the equipment, the test subjects. ”

"Sindora told me something I didn't know - that there are not only countless marks in this world, but also the power to deprive and eliminate all them. She hopes that through my research, I can transplant this power and transfer it to others. Even for me, it was quite a challenge, I had only just deciphered the connection between the engraving and the heart, but if I wanted to transplant this power, I not only needed to open them, but I also had to make sure that after the transplant, they didn't die. ”

"More often I opened the people who were sent here to transplant them – they were all failures, except for one young man...... I can't vouch for how successful that transplant was, but at least he survived and gained some strange abilities. ”

Adik flipped through the thick sheets of information on the table, and it took him a moment before he pulled out one of them.

"Oberdeen – that's his name. ”