The weather was getting colder, and Pornia was about to cool down, and the fog turned into crystal clear dew, condensing on the vertical and horizontal pipes, and the sunlight reflected colorful light like glass beads.

Jiang Chenchuan fell asleep in his dreams, sometimes frowning slightly, and he didn't know what he dreamed of, Yulia was guarding by his side, draped in a small blanket, and fell asleep on the table.

Ethan left early, took the first steam tram in the morning, left Yulia's house, the oncoming cold wind woke him up, and he passed by the Cathedral of Dawn on the way, the burned church was pitch black, like the dead body of a giant, and he heard the exclamations of the people on the tram of varying degrees.

Uninformed people are talking.

It wasn't until the tram passed through the Setvina district that, accompanied by the familiar whistle, Ethan stepped off the tram.

The Polonia Museum stands as far as the eye can see, but Ethan's destination is not here, but to another place.

It was a small and inconspicuous building in the Setvina district, which looked only two stories high, and the heavy iron gate was so thick and rusty that it looked like it was rarely moving.

Instead of the dilapidated environment outside, the building is powered by Pornia's most expensive energy supply, with a cobweb-like complex and dense system that extends all the way down to envelop the nest-like underground facilities.

This is a secret research base of the Atlas Alchemy Academy, and Ethan of the Department of Mechanics is also a member of this secret laboratory.

The elevator door slowly opened, Ethan walked in, pulled the metal iron door, pressed the button on the floor, the air was filled with the unique smell of the laboratory, the number in front of his head jumped, and the elevator began to start.

Send him deeper underground.

There are many secrets hidden in this world, some of which are not known to the world to protect the world, and some are not known to the world for a better future.

As the floor descended, the shadows and lights kept changing, until the light fell on him,

"Ding—"

The elevator arrived.

When the door was opened, a new scene appeared in front of Ethan, with researchers in white coats busily shuttling in front of various instruments, occasionally someone looking up to say hello to Ethan.

"Is Professor here?"

Next to a large instrument, Ethan asked.

"Professor? He's not here today, but Professor Erwin is here, and you're looking for him in his lab? ”

The busy researcher looked up and replied, apparently an old acquaintance of Ethan and knew what Ethan's purpose was.

"Yes."

Ethan made a "very good" gesture and turned to walk towards Erwin's laboratory.

It was a big, empty room.

In the center of the room was a large container in the shape of a glass jar, with a huge pipe on top of it, pouring something into it, filled with a yellowish liquid, and every now and then a figure appeared and disappeared.

The white-clad scholar walked back and forth in the room, fiddling with the instruments in front of him, as if recording something.

"Professor Erwin!"

The door to the research room was slammed open, and Erwin shuddered as he turned his head, and sure enough, it was his whimsical student, Ethan Manstein.

"Did you get the thing?"

"Got it, give it."

Ethan handed over the vial containing the blood, Erwin didn't take it directly, but took a thermostatic container and put it in, and somewhere he pressed a button, and another door in the research room slowly opened.

Ethan strode in, and in another room there was only a special operating table, on which lay a person, or rather, a corpse.

The corpse's chest cavity was opened, and countless catheters were inserted into it, and upon closer inspection, the corpse's muscles twitched slightly, and its chest rose and fell at an extremely slow pace, as if it were still alive.

"Has he always been like this? Professor. ”

"Yes."

Professor Erwin also walked in.

"It's just that the number of corpses has changed a little recently, so I'm worried about what will happen to the living body."

"What's the problem? For example, if you have a unique combat ability, but you are still injured, or you are obviously injured but you are strong, and you almost faint because of excessive blood loss? ”

Thinking of the figure galloping in the dark, he felt that he was really stupid and helpless, Ethan shrugged, he didn't expect that the biggest harvest last night was actually those monsters of the Church of Dawn.

"Professor, there's something wrong with the Church of the Dawn."

"We have no right to intervene in the land of the gods."

Erwin was busy with his hands and replied without raising his head, but he regretted it when he answered, he knew his student's personality and temperament, but it was not that Ethan would not do it if he said no.

"Professor, I now have serious suspicions that someone in the Church of Dawn is trying to create a catastrophe."

"Disaster?"

Professor Erwin stopped what he was doing and looked up at Ethan.

"A beast that looks like a human, with a small body, but it is agile, and its jumping ability has been greatly improved compared with humans, it has an ugly appearance, has no intelligence, cannot understand human language, has no fear, and does not know if it can be controlled, like a human who has mutated after being infected by something."

"Last night...... Experience? ”

Erwin's expression turned serious.

"yes, what a bonus, Professor Erwin."

Ethan had a happy expression, as if last night's life and death were not a bad experience.

The Knights of the Dawn wanted to burn down the church and erase the evidence, but the traces of the past were still there, no matter how much they were wiped down.

"I think I have a new goal, Professor Erwin, and I'd like to take a leave of absence to investigate."

“……”

Erwin was silent for a while before he sighed helplessly.

"Stay safe, Ethan."

"Don't worry, Professor, don't forget, I'm the best mechanical alchemist you've ever had."

Ethan replied.

He looked at the operating table, where the corpse still looked dead, eyes closed and a calm countenance, as if it were asleep.

When he first saw the corpse, he felt that it was different from all the experiments he had been through, as if he would sit up from the operating table and smile and say "good morning" to him if he wasn't looking.

"It's like the hellish perverted super soldier created by the biochemical department next door."

still remembers that Ethan complained like this at the beginning, of course, he also added:

"Thankfully, those bastards didn't succeed, otherwise the world would have suffered."

Under the instrument, the corpse still maintained the appearance of the dead, the standard Xia Realm human appearance, but the scar on the cheek added a bit of wild and chaotic atmosphere to this delicate face.