Heaven's Formula

"No, I'll go with you." Qian Yan said suddenly.

This was the first time that the other party offered to participate in an operation after arriving at the Holy Wing Islands.

Xia Fan looked at the living dead in surprise, "I thought you preferred staying in your room."

"House?"

"Uh... I mean stay in the room."

"If it's not necessary, I really don't want to run around, but I also don't want to see you die in a foreign country." Qian Yan crossed his arms and said, "Your magic power is not bad, but your self-protection ability is almost zero. At this time , you need the living dead to resist attacks for you, and this is what I am best at."

When she mentioned being good at two characters, Xia Fan thought of Qianzhi for a moment.

"I never thought of using you as a shield—"

"The living dead are not the shields of alchemists. The two sides are partners fighting side by side." Qian Yan interrupted angrily.

Speaking of this, Xia Fan couldn't think of any words of refusal.

"In that case, let's go together, the three of you." He nodded and said, "It's seven o'clock in the evening, and it will be completely dark in an hour. Then we will set off!"

Chapter 6 and Nine Under the Sanatorium

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An hour later, the three of them took a rented carriage and headed straight to the sanatorium on the east side of the city.

This area belongs to the relatively rugged section of Azure Fort, and the gradually rising mountains can be seen further away. Neither the lower city nor the upper city include this area.After entering the sloping land, the houses also become scattered, replaced by vineyards covered with pergolas.

And that sanatorium is located in a forest, only a stone road is connected to the street outside.

If you want to put it in another world, this is definitely a good place for recuperation and treatment. It is quiet and surrounded by mountains and rivers, and there are farmhouses based on vineyards around. The grade is definitely not low.

But in this era, the nature is somewhat different.

Being away from the core of the city means that the quality of life is reduced and the cost of supplies is increased. Even if it is only a few miles away from the city, it will not be favored by the rich.

The main service population of this hospital is mainly the people in the lower city and the harbor area.

According to Lathein, Dr. Gaota still has a good reputation among these people, because before Durin, Azure Castle didn't even have a clinic for ordinary people.He also built up the nursing home step by step by opening a small clinic in the downtown area.

It was only later that big businessmen discovered that treating people was a good business, and the number of medical clinics in Azure Fort gradually increased.

In order to avoid being discovered, Xia Fan did not enter the nursing home along the stone road. He stopped the carriage at the entrance of the street, and then he and Li and Qianyan escaped into the woods, groping towards the destination quietly from the side.

This time he changed into a navy blue night suit again, just like during the trial in Qingshan Town.Qian Yan doesn't have any special clothes, but fortunately she is small in size and has amazing strength, she can jump like flying while dragging a long dark dress.

The outer wall of the nursing home is a fence that is less than half a person high, and there is no sign of anyone patrolling in the yard. It is not difficult for the three of them to sneak into this kind of place.

Soon, they quietly entered the main building in the center of the nursing home.

"Strange." Li muttered, "Does it feel a bit too quiet here? It's only around 08:30, and even the employees don't go to bed so early."

"You say that...it seems a bit deserted." Xia Fan nodded slightly.It can be seen that there are fire lights shaking in the halls and corridors, which cannot be explained by the lack of lighting costs in the nursing home.

"Forget those patients, can you find the location where the wild cat stopped tracking?" Qian Yan whispered.

Li nodded, and led the two of them towards the inner room in the form of a fox.

After passing through several long corridors, she suddenly stopped, turned her head and warned, "Someone is coming ahead!"

Xia Fan's heart froze slightly.

They didn't come early or late, but they came at this time—they were in a long corridor with no windows or doors around them, and the roof was still boarded up, so there was no hiding place at all.The only way to escape is to go back the same way, but the sound of footsteps from the front has indicated that the opponent is close at hand.

"Li!"

In this case, only the second set of options can be used.

"Leave it to me." Although he still hated Xia Fan for dragging his feet before, but when it came time to solve the trouble, Li transformed into a human form instantly without any hesitation, and was ready to perform the operation.

"Have the people in Room [-] and Room [-] been given medicine?" A deep voice came from around the corner.

"Don't worry, I just checked and they all slept well."

"That's good. There have been a lot of people sent to the hospital recently. It's better not to let them meet."

"What about today? No one will send it again?"

"Well, Dr. Du has completed the experiment, and will not need it in a short time—who are you!?"

The talker looked at the woman who suddenly appeared in front of him in astonishment, and immediately touched the whistle on his chest with his right hand!

A thief has sneaked into the nursing home!

But he could only do so much.

Almost at the same time, a pair of extremely huge eyes enveloped him, and there were countless smaller eyes in those eyes, ranging from human beings to cattle, sheep, insects... and even the pupils of hell demons.This huge fear instantly crushed his will, making him unable to move anymore!

Li's illusion is obviously much more refined than before.

However, such a deterrent effect will not last for a long time. After the brain adapts to the fear, it will slowly break free from the illusion, so Xia Fan needs to make up the last step.

He ignited a little mixed herbal powder and blew the smoke directly into their noses.

Inhaling the drug at such a close distance made the effect of the drug onset extremely quickly, and within less than ten breaths, the eyes of the two of them lost their eyesight, and they shook twice and fell to the ground.

"That's enough." Li put away the technique, "In this way, when they wake up, they will forget the memory of the moment of coma, and it is impossible for them to remember that we have been here."

While the alternative is not as ideal as the perfect dive, taking out everyone who might find you is still a classic way to sneak.

Qian Yan easily dragged the fainted two people to a corner and piled them up, and found a bunch of keys from the middle-aged man's waist.

After eliminating the accident, the three continued to move forward.

"I'm a little concerned about what they said just now." Li said as he led the way, "Shouldn't all the patients sent to the nursing home be sick? Why doesn't Du Lin want them to meet?"

"Probably because I don't want others to notice, some people never go out after coming in." Qian Yan said casually.

This sentence made the fox demon tremble.

"...will never go out again?"

"You have also heard that Dulin wanted people for experiments. As for what kind of experiments it is, it is difficult to determine." Qian Yan's tone was flat, as if he was discussing an ordinary matter, "Well, he If you want to improve your medical skills, at worst, there are many situations..."

A silence followed.

Half a quarter of an hour later, Li came to the location where the wild cat found Du Lin "missing" - a slightly shabby pharmacy, and through the distribution of smell, he found a locked trap door under the dirty carpet.

Qianyan took out the keychains and tried them one by one, and found that one of them could be inserted into the keyhole just right.

The three looked at each other, Xia Fan and Li nodded slightly.

When the latter turned to the right, the lock cylinder suddenly clicked.

Open the trap door, and there is a steep staircase below, and there is no trace of fire in the depths.This design is quite different from conventional underground storage. It is built in this style. The only advantage is that when foreign enemies invade, people in the underground can use narrow passages to defend, so as to achieve the effect of one against ten. .

Li took the lead in entering the underground to investigate the situation.

After confirming that there was no mechanism in the secret passage, Xia Fan and Qianyan followed closely behind and walked into the basement in the dark.

The moment he stepped over the threshold, an indescribable stench hit his face.

Chapter 6 Ten Dead Fog

"This is..." Xia Fan frowned.

"The corpse stinks," Qian Yan said, "but it's not caused by corruption."

"What's that for?"

"The smell that comes out naturally after being stored for a long time is often found in morgues and tombs." She replied.

"No traces of living people were found," Na Li had already completed the search, "Du Lin is not here."

Xia Fan lit the portable torch, and the darkness faded away, revealing its original appearance in the basement.This place is really quite spacious, with a length and width of at least thirty feet, and many compartments are separated by low walls.A fire seemed not enough to illuminate every corner. Fortunately, there were many candlesticks in the room. He lit them one by one, and the room became much brighter.

The most striking thing is the seven or eight bed frames placed in the basement—but the beds are not covered with bedding and other fabrics, but are covered with chains and iron shackles.Bloodstains can be seen around it, and there are various tools such as pliers, knives, and handsaws on the low table beside the bed.

However, the medical skills of this era are still in the stage of exploring the curative effect of herbal medicine, and some techniques have excellent healing effects, so the concept of surgical treatment is far from being formed.Therefore, when he saw these blood-stained and rusty instruments, Xia Fan immediately understood that Du Lin would never be a doctor who broke through thorns in pursuit of medical skills. The people here are used as guinea pigs to carry out some dark experiments.

"It seems that we did not find the wrong person." Qian Yan said coldly.Although she was used to all kinds of deaths and experienced many absurd things, it didn't mean she had accepted it silently, "Durin is not an ordinary tower doctor."

"You're right." Xia Fan agreed.If you want to say that this guy is just a rampant pervert, it would be a little underestimating him.

There are not only torture instruments in the room, but also various experimental equipment - such as retorts, glass flasks, heating furnaces, etc... There are more things that Xia Fan can't name, but they are all neatly arranged The iron frames placed on both sides of the wall seem to have been carefully maintained.

A psychopath obviously wouldn't waste energy on such things.

More importantly, those large appliances are not cheap at first glance, and nine out of ten are specially made by craftsmen according to the drawings.With Du Lin's ability and financial resources alone, it is really difficult to decorate the basement to this extent.

This also raised a question in Xia Fan's mind.

What does his so-called experiment mean?

In some folk tales, the evil one would cobble together various corpses to create abomination-like monsters.It's a pity that in reality, this doesn't work at all, not to mention the profound rejection, it is difficult for ordinary people to build a sterile operating room.Cuts of meat are no different from steaks bought in the mall, and trying to combine them and keep them alive is no different from the Arabian Nights.

Unless with the power of magic.

But Ratherin made it very clear that Durin was just an ordinary person, not a demon possessor.He had been running the nursing home for so long, so he certainly wasn't planning to attack the church convoy.

"Xia Fan, Qianyan, come over and take a look at this!"

Li's low cry suddenly came from the other side.

The two followed the sound and came to the fox demon.

I saw that the other side of the basement was similar to a study room, but apart from common things such as long tables and bookshelves, there were two strange wooden barrels on one side of the wall - the classic black and yellow color scheme of the barrels and the skulls painted on them The head logo almost puts its danger on the face.But this is not what surprised Li the most. What really caught her attention was the sun pattern logo on the top of the barrel.

Only the Church of Hera is eligible to use such an emblem.

"Could it be that the church is leading this matter?" Li Fei explained, "The man in the mirror who talked to Azie is actually a member of the Church of Hera?"

Otherwise it's hard to explain why church stuff is in the basement of a nursing home.

"Perhaps we can't make a conclusion so quickly." Xia Fan noticed that there were several warning patterns painted on the wooden barrel. With his limited level of Western polar language and the content of the illustrations, he could roughly distinguish that it should be "handle with care." , "keep away from heat sources", "non-professionals should not touch", etc.

If the church wants to ship certain dangerous items into Azure Castle, there is no reason to write all the warnings on them.

It is more like a very rigorous packaging container, the kind that is mass-produced.

Using something like this to play tricks and tricks, aren't you afraid of being caught?

"Look around and see if you can find any new clues." He said calmly.

The three of them immediately started rummaging through boxes and cabinets, hoping to find some guidance.

Soon, Xia Fan was attracted by an experiment record on the desktop.

The handwriting inside is very neat, even he can understand a lot.

Turning to the next few pages, the other party's record became shorter and shorter. "Time is tight, and only consuming people in the hospital is likely to arouse suspicion. I can only collect people from the outside and carry out multiple comparative experiments at the same time."

"The effect of No. 20 No. [-] potion is too lethal. The blue irises cannot effectively reduce the poison. A total of two people were consumed. The test failed."

"Pharmaceutical No. 20 No. [-], failed."

"Pharmaceutical No. 30, the death time has been extended to six hours. This is a rare breakthrough, but there is still a certain distance from the target."

"The investigation by the jury was more sensitive than expected. The higher-ups have shortened the operation date again. I can only do two more experiments during the day. I hope there is still time."

"No. 30 No. [-] potion, the effect of the dead fog was greatly suppressed. The three experimenters persisted for a full twelve hours. No matter how corrupted the body was, the spirit was still clear. I felt that success was close at hand."

Then came the last page, with only one sentence on it.

"Pharmaceutical No. 30 No. [-], I have found the perfect formula."

Xia Fan's heart sank slightly.

Even through the paper, he could feel the urgency of the other party.According to this record, the "operation date" in Du Lin's mouth has been shortened to the point that he did not hesitate to risk being discovered to capture a large number of outsiders, and stayed in the basement for a long time to conduct experiments.Now that the experiment is over, when will he choose to do it?

Could it be... now?

At this time, Li also discovered two unusual things through the smell.

They were placed in a wooden box on the bookshelf, and the wooden box itself was not locked. It seemed that there was nothing rare in it, but Ke Li realized that these two things were by no means ordinary.

Because their smell is quite unique, and it looks incompatible with the blood and stench that filled the room.

It was a finely crafted gold and stone pendant, and a customs document.

"What's written on it?" Xia Fan noticed this different piece of paper.

After roughly scanning it, Li's eyes couldn't help but focus, "A delivery slip, which shows that the garrison of Shouwang Island was ordered by the church to deliver ten barrels of Dead Sea Dead Fog, as well as instructions on the precautions for Dead Fog itself."

"Dead Fog" - this word also appears occasionally in the test records.

She pointed to the rows of densely packed small characters below, "It was collected from the edge of the Absolute Sea, and its purity is extremely high. It has a very strong bone-eroding effect on any living creature and most demons. Once inhaled or injected into the body, the damage to the body will be Irreversible occurrence, ordinary treatment does not work, so it is necessary to wear a full set of protective equipment, and carefully extract and recover."