Chapter 229: The Old Mine Camp
Just now, Leo suddenly figured out one thing, he found that while his body and soul had changed, it had also caused a change in his personality, affecting some of his ways of doing things. In fact, the things he is facing at the moment are very simple, he just needs to deal with them according to the previous way of doing things.
His purpose is to find the Plague Ring, as for whether Ljungberg is related to the medical school's experiments, what kind of forbidden experiments the medical school is doing, what the blood wizard is going to do in this, and what is the attitude of the French Empire and the United Kingdom in Miria City, these have nothing to do with him, he doesn't need to pay attention to these things at all, as long as he finds the plague ring.
Leo, who understood this, didn't even think about finding other external help, and went directly to the old mine on the northern outskirts of Miria City. Although, there is no direct evidence that the Ring of Plague is really in the hands of the medical school, but from various circumstantial evidence, it is speculated that it is the most likely in the hands of the medical school.
Now, the members of the medical school who were in charge of all the experiments have probably left Miria City, but it is impossible to take the places where they will conduct the experiments with them, and they are in a hurry, and they will definitely leave something that can be used as clues at these test sites, so it is the most appropriate course of action to investigate these test sites directly.
The old pit mentioned by Roger the Wild Dog is not very far from the city of Miria, and it was originally just a quarry for the buildings of Miria. However, some precious metal ores were discovered here, so its function also changed.
It's just that the easiest part of the mine has been mined, and if you want to continue digging, you need to go deeper underground, and at that time, the excavation depth of the old pit had reached the limit, and if you continue to dig, the possibility of accidents during excavation is much greater.
Therefore, the mine owner had to stop mining, and could not start quarrying again, in addition to the city construction has found a new and better quarry, more importantly, the city has been expanded to this area, and if you continue to mine and quarry, it will affect the lives of the people in the city, and finally the mine owner can only buy the old mine pit into the Miria City Council, and the mine is completely abandoned.
Although the pit became a public resource and was abandoned by the city council, the mining did not end there. Many people who have a hard life in Miria will come to the depths of this pit to dig up some precious metal raw ore and sell it to the city to make jewelry or blacksmith shops in exchange for some money necessary for survival.
The most hungry ore in this pit has been dug up, and most of the remaining ore is scattered, and it is almost impossible to find a complete vein of great value in the pit and then fill your stomach overnight. The miner's harvest in a day, if you are lucky, you can get a little rich, and if you are unlucky, you can just make a living.
Because most of the miners are not professional miners, the excavation process is very rough and there are not many protective measures, which makes accidents in the depths of the pit frequent.
I don't know if it's because there are too many people dying in the mine, which has changed the environment there, all in all, many miners will always see the ghosts of some dead miners when they enter the depths of the mine, and they will mix with the miners and mine together. The miners didn't have any unusual feelings about it at the time, knowing that they would only find out that something was wrong when they left the mine tunnel and returned to the surface, and most of these people who encountered the miner's ghost would have a serious illness afterwards, and even if they were cured, their physical condition would not be the same as before.
After the news spread, a rumor quickly spread in Miria City, which said that those miners who encountered ghosts were actually sucked away by ghosts, and even if they seemed to be cured now, in fact, the loss was not made up at all, and the loss of life force would not only affect physical health, but also affect lifespan.
Perhaps to prove this rumor, all those who encountered the ghosts of the miners in the pits were invariably sick and died within a few years, the oldest of whom was only thirty-six years old.
It was because of this that the pit was completely abandoned, and it was not until this time that the Imperial army entered Miria City and began to use it again.
The area around the old pit was chosen by the Imperial Army of France as a camp station, not only because of a large train transfer station built to transport stones, but also because it would be easy to control most of the railway lines at the north and south ends.
What's more, there are still barracks built in the old quarry, when it was still a dense primeval forest, and there were many fierce beasts roaming around, so the barracks walls at that time were built of the best and strongest stone, even if they had been well preserved for so many years, they could be used directly.
It took Leo about four hours to walk from the city to the city where the old mine was located, and the reason why it took so much time was because he sent some spies who followed him along the way.
It's a pity that these spies sent by him are just some of the lowest-level eyes and ears, they were just ordinary residents of Miria City a few months ago, but now they have to be hired by some people to be eyes and ears for a bite to eat, so they can't help but not know who the force belongs to, and even the person who assigned them the task is not clear.
Leo knew from them that the people who hired them all hid their appearances, shapes, and voices, and could not tell the identity or even gender of the other party from their appearance, the only thing that was certain was that the eyes and ears who were used as consumables should be employed by at least two different forces.
Leo didn't plan to track down what forces were spying on him, because he knew very well that the moment he appeared at the medical school aid medical clinic without concealment, he would definitely be targeted by some well-intentioned people, plus he had no contact with the blood wizard without any cover-up, so it was not a strange thing to be watched.
These eyes and ears were not killed by Leo, but let them go, not because Leo was kind-hearted, but because he felt that killing these people was useless.
However, when these people were released, these people who escaped gave him some surprises, the biggest of which was that the blood wizard's guess might be true, because one of the people who let them go had seen an aid doctor who had treated him appear on the black market not long ago. Although the doctor was not directly seen being sent to a smuggling ship on the black market, judging by that time, it is very likely that the doctor left on the smuggling boat.
Upon arriving at the old mine, Leo did not immediately enter the mine to search for clues left behind by the medical school, as someone had already helped him do so.
At this moment, the old mine pit has been tightly guarded by the Imperial army, and large tents are spread all over the bottom of the mine, some people dressed like scientists and scholars are going in and out of the tents, and there are also a large number of garrisons recruited by the Empire in Miria City to act as coolies, carrying large and small boxes into tents.
Using the Cloak of Shadows to hide in a tree not far from the camp, Leo then used his psionic skills and psychic web to observe the inside of the camp, and soon he discovered several interesting things.
First of all, the ordinary-looking tents in the camp at the bottom of the pit are actually not simple at all, and the fabrics used in those tents should be added with the interference metal that Leo got from that clinic before, because Leo's spiritual net cannot penetrate these fabrics, and the reaction produced when the psionic energy of the spiritual net is close to the metal plate is one by one.
In addition, Leo found a large number of dependents among the guards inside the camp, which accounted for almost two-thirds of all the guards, more than sixty, and most of them had obvious dependentization, such as some extra organs, some organs changed, and so on.
And among these dependents, nearly half of them have the same spiritual energy fluctuations, and the mutated organs on this half of the dependents are also similar, it is obvious that if they are divided according to the type of dependents, this general family should be the same family. And these same kind of clan Leo had seen before, the two clan soldiers he had seen chasing and killing the soldiers of the United Kingdom when he had just returned to the world of Veron.
In addition, the relationship between these clans also gave Leo some thoughts, because the clans with different mutated organs showed obvious contempt and disdain for those who were supposed to be the same kind of clans, and the gaze was as if they were looking at something disgusting.
Several clansmen clash in a camp not far from where Leo is hiding, and one of them calls the other a freak of man-made freaks, causing Leo to feel that his guess may be right, and that those clans with the same psionic abilities and similar mutations are clan races created by the Fran Empire.
Because of the experience of the dream world, he has been with the residents of the ancestral lake town for so long, so that Leo at this moment already has a certain understanding of the special group of dependents.
According to his understanding, the family is a person who has a higher life form gene in the blood or some organ in the body, and for some reason, the gene changes from recessive to dominant, and merges with the original human gene, and finally appears dependentization and ancestry.
However, judging from the current artificial dependents, Leo is obviously too one-sided and too scientific for the production of the dependents, after all, with the current level of science and technology and medicine in the empire, it is absolutely impossible to involve genetic modification, and it is also a fusion technology of higher genes and lower genes.
"I'm afraid that the manufacturing technology of these clans should still be derived from the technology of the alien cells, but this technology is more mature, safer, and has a higher success rate. Leo watched the process of fighting after the dispute between the clansmen, and muttered in his heart: "I just wonder if this kind of artificial clan still has the potential to evolve again?"
By watching the battle between these clans, Leo found that the strength of those artificial clans was almost the same as the strength of normal clans, but this was only in terms of physical strength, and the gap between the two in terms of spiritual energy became obvious, and even artificial clans could not use their spiritual energy normally.
If confirming that the Fran Empire does have the ability to create clans is a big gain, then what exactly is the experiment conducted by the medical school here, and the whereabouts of the True Eye, is another big gain for Leo.
However, after repeatedly confirming that he had not mistaken the medical school's experimental plan, Leo couldn't help but be surprised by the medical school's arrogance, because the medical school's experimental plan was to create gods, and the materials they used in Miria City were derived from the body tissue of the True Eye's body.
Although the psychic network and psychic vision could not detect the situation inside the tents, those tents could not block Leo's hearing, and through the extended control of the hearing organs, Leo's hearing coverage could easily encompass the entire pit camp.
By eavesdropping on casual conversations between the people in the tents, Leo easily gained access to a wealth of information that even the Blood Wizards couldn't grasp.
The secret experiment of the Gods-making Project for the medical school was heard by Leo from an undercover agent sent to the medical school by the Empire, who was currently in a heavily guarded tent, reporting the information he had gathered during this time to the people in charge of the camp.
It's just that this undercover agent is obviously not valued by the medical school, he spent a lot of energy and material resources, and he can still only wander around the periphery, and he can't enter the core of the experimental group of the god-making project at all, and even the name of this god-making project is what he heard at the cost of the lives of two colleagues.
As for the fact that the body tissue of the True Eye was part of the test material, he only heard about it, and did not have any real human or physical evidence, but after he said it, the man in charge of the camp did not denounce such remarks as nonsense, but snorted softly in agreement with this statement.
The attitude of the head of this camp is also Leo's affirmation that the True Eye is embodied in the hands of the medical school.
The reason why Leo affirmed this speculation based on the attitude of just one person was mainly because the identity of the head of this camp was different.
At the beginning, when chatting with the old man Rembrandt, he mentioned the people he admired the most in his life, and also took out the portrait cut out of the newspaper for Leo to see, and the head of this camp was Sir Barsack Darwin, one of the few people that the old man really admired.
This Sir was the editor-in-chief of the medical texts and various medical books of the medical school, and was the first of the most evil heretics in the list of heretics of the Orthodox Church.
The reason why Sir Darwin became the first heretic was not because he did anything evil and killed many people, but because when he was the editor-in-chief of the medical school, he published a book that he had planned for many years.
This book should be said to be an expanded version of Koroko's book of life, which not only describes in detail the various changes in life, but also affirms that humans were originally sea creatures, and that they are very weak and only food for other sea monsters.