Sherlock was silent, his tongue licking between his teeth, his upper and lower lips grinding repeatedly, as if trying to squeeze a little smoke between his lips and teeth.

Professor Darwin has contracted a third-order archdemon.

A second-order contractor who controls a third-order demon?!!

This kind of cognitive refresh made Sherlock feel a little uncomfortable, he knew that his special, those fields covered with hell, the sun in the sky, and countless tentacles that could breed through demons, these were all situations that had never been seen in the Holy See's records about demons.

You can even summon more than one demon yourself!

But fundamentally, these demons are just parasitized by the tentacles, so they can only act in the realm of the tentacles, which is an ability, just like the old priest's demon spider can use silk threads to hallucinate people.

Although it is still very incredible and unbelievable, even so, it is impossible for a second-order contractor to cross the level and control a third-stage demon.

And that demon is simply wild!

The silence lasted for a full 10 seconds, and Catherine did not interrupt Sherlock's musings, because when she learned the news, she was even more shocked than the other party at this time, and she didn't even hold the note steadily, and fell directly to the ground.

finally

"Did you read anything else?" Sherlock spoke slowly.

Catherine also stabilized her mood:

"There are a few others, but most of them are about the experimental process.

Judging from the diary, in fact, for more than two years, my father has been using that third-order demon to test the stability of artificial contract technology, and he wants to avoid vicious situations such as: the contract is suddenly interrupted, the control is too low, and the contractor is suddenly counterattacked, and so on.

And the method of testing was very straightforward, he simply let the big demon under his control fight against another demon of the same third order, and in the most intense practice, he tested this stability.

As a result, nothing malignant happened.

Even on the contrary, in practice battles after practice, he found that his contractual relationship with that demon became closer and closer, at first, he could only struggle under the attack of that sparring demon, and after a few months, he was able to let his contracted demon fight back, and by the later stage of the test, he could even completely suppress the other party.

It sounds incredible, but after a period of hard practice, my father has been able to completely control a third-order archdemon as a second-order contractor.

Although this may be due to the fact that the old guy himself has a high enough understanding of demons, if he is an ordinary person, he should be able to reach a level that is not too bad. ”

"So, it took your father nearly three years of theoretical practice before he finally decided that this experiment was feasible, right? And he couldn't trust others, so he directly regarded himself as an experimental subject

Sure enough, those who engage in research are more or less crazy. Sherlock muttered, and the 'madness' in his mouth was not the slightest disparagement, but some kind of strange compliment:

"That's right, that. What about the demon that killed Dean Darwin? It can't be the one he's been using as a sparring partner for the past few years. ”

Catherine's eyebrows lowered, but she still nodded: "That's right, it's the demon who has been fighting with him for nearly three years.

The demon had been transported from the Demon Breeding Farm, and its own contractor was an officer of the Holy Cult. In fact, this officer was a well-known combat hero on the front lines of Hell's Gate, but for some reason, he never appeared in the newspapers, so you should not have heard of his name.

In short, the dean selected his demon to test back then, and it must have been well thought out, after all, this kind of experiment can't just find a wild demon to accompany the practice, otherwise it won't be possible to get feedback from its contractor afterwards, so you must find someone with a high degree of compatibility with its demon, the higher the better!

And the officer. He is one of the few people in the entire empire who has been praised by Lord Dante in terms of contractual ability. ”

Speaking of this, Sherlock couldn't help but be stunned, in fact, when he mentioned the officer just now, he keenly noticed that Catherine's expression seemed to have become a little complicated, and now he learned that this officer had been recognized by Lord Dante in terms of contract ability!

What a surprise!

What kind of person is Dante? It was the only person in the world who had slain the evil god of hell with the Holy Light, and had raised the contract level to level four.

In fact, his contract level may not be level four, but level five, six, or even a dozen, but because there is no frame of reference, one person is alone above all others, so he is classified as level four.

In short, in a sense, his status in the hearts of the people of the empire should be second only to the ubiquitous holy light.

Then, a person who can be recognized by his old man in terms of contractual capacity. How powerful that would be.

The death of the dean of the Academy of Life Sciences, this case alone is enough to excite Sherlock, and now it involves such a powerful contractor, and experiments that can change human cognition, as well as the entire social system, and the process of future reproduction and development.

The combination of the elements made Sherlock feel his scalp tingle.

"But."

Sherlock said with a slight hesitation:

"Such a powerful contractor, then his contract demon must also be extremely powerful, Dean Darwin has always used this level of demon as a sparring partner, and in the end, can he win?"

"I'm actually curious about this, so just before you came, I asked Steward Maud to bring over an experiment record, and thanks to my identity and the inheritance of some of the Dean's permissions, otherwise, this record is basically impossible for anyone to see."

As she spoke, Catherine took a report from the table and handed it to Sherlock.

"I've finished reading the report, but fortunately, I've been paying attention to my father's experiments in the past few months, and I have more or less a little relevant knowledge, otherwise I wouldn't be able to understand these things at all." She spoke:

"Actually, this demon must be injected with demonic tranquilizers for a long time because it is far away from its own contractor, otherwise it will cause a backlash to its summoner because of the distance from the control, as is the case with all demons on the island of Austilia.

The demon sedative itself has a series of effects that make the demon weaker, dull in thinking, and drowsy.

In this experimental record, it can be clearly seen that the sedative injected by the sparring demon has been changing, from the first large measurement, to the later four-fifths, and finally, until one-half.

In other words, in the final stage of the experiment, the demon controlled by my father could already reach half the strength of that demon.

Of course, this was when the demon was far away from its summoner, and everything was done by its own muddy instincts, but even that was enough to prove that the old man's experiment had succeeded. ”

Sherlock flipped through the records in his hand and looked at the dense data, he was not a scientific researcher, so he couldn't understand these complex data, but fortunately, after the data came into his sight, it presented a note in his mind that he could understand.

The note does state that on the day the test results were presented, the demon was injected with one-half of the demonic sedative.

It is the same as the measurement used in the usual test.

And at that time, the third-order great demon that Darwin taught the artificial contract was by his side.

If this demonstration of results is successful, if Professor Darwin can really win this test, then the whole empire, the whole history of mankind, will be changed by it!

But the result was that all of a sudden, through the window of the laboratory, everyone clearly saw that the demon of the sparring partner suddenly pounced in front of Professor Darwin!

At that time, the demon he controlled was beside him, but it didn't move!

Or maybe it was moved, but it didn't work at all, under the opponent's offensive, it was simply vulnerable, and it was directly overturned to the ground, and immediately after, Professor Darwin was arrested

Torn in two.

Then he was thrown to the ground miserably.

The whole process lasted only a few seconds, and no one could react, and some even thought that it was some kind of joke that Professor Darwin was playing with everyone who came to see the results. It wasn't until the staff began to panic, poured a large amount of sedatives into the experimental site, and then rushed in to carry the dean's body out, that everyone found out.

Professor Darwin is dead.

The experiment failed.

Although the wild demon could indeed be artificially contracted, it did not show any combat power at all, and in front of a demon that had been injected with a tranquilizer and no one controlled it, it was defeated in one face, just like a child who could not control his behavior.

Then this kind of contract has no meaning.

Sherlock flipped through the pages of the last period of experimentation, his brow furrowing deeper and deeper, because if everything was according to the above, then it really seemed that the old dean's experiment was the result of death.

"How's it going, do you think of anything?" Catherine asked.

"If you look at the records alone, you can only make the most superficial guesses. For the time being, if you want to kill your father in this situation, there are at least three ways.

First: Someone did something to the demon next to your father, such as pouring tons of demonic tranquilizers or something the night before, so that it was completely incapacitated the next day. ”

Catherine shook her head: "It's unlikely, your contract demon hasn't been sedated, so you don't know what that feeling feels like. Actually, I haven't been injected either, but after all, I've been in the Holy See for so many years, and I've definitely heard people say it.

If your own demon is sedative, then the contractor can clearly perceive the weakness and weakness of the other party, so if that is the case, my father will not be able to detect it. ”

"I see." Sherlock nodded: "Then the second is the other way around, someone did something to the sparring demon, for example, the night before, he didn't inject it with enough sedatives at all, and the next day, it was naturally alive and well, and your father's demon couldn't beat it, which is also reasonable." ”

"Probably not." Catherine said: "That old guy spent more than 30 years on this experiment, the day before the results were shown, he will definitely do all the preliminary work to the best, I also know from some records before, that the injection of sedatives, he operated it himself, soaked in the laboratory for a lifetime, and will not get the injection ratio wrong." ”

"Good. As I expected. Then get rid of the obvious tricks first, and the rest will be much easier. Both of Sherlock's conjectures were dismissed, but instead of showing the slightest bit of annoyance, he felt that this was normal.

Originally. It is estimated that the new staff of the Security Department of the Academy of Life Sciences can come up with such a low-level method, and how can they use such a large amount of effort to search for talents throughout the empire.

"Then there's the third one," Sherlock held out three fingers, and his expression finally became a little more focused: "That's when . . . The demon who was only used as a sparring partner was not following his instincts to fight at all.

Someone is manipulating it! ”

(End of chapter)