"Long time no see, two!" Leo greeted the two of them on their own initiative.

Lawrence nodded slightly at Leo, without responding.

"Long time no see, Mr. Leo." Jean Valjean responded.

Then Leo was not polite and directly pointed out the topic: "I came here this time for two purposes. One is to visit the laboratory and see if there are any places that need to be supplemented and modified. By the way, it can also see if you can help you solve some projects that have encountered difficulties and have no progress. The other is to ask if you Rupert Fitz is still alive."

After hearing Leo's words, Lawrence's face did not change much, but his eyes flashed slightly and revealed some things, while Jean Valjean seemed a little panicked and turned his eyes to Lawrence from time to time.

Emily, who was standing next to Leo, was stunned for a moment when she heard this, then her face became extremely gloomy. She took two steps forward, walked to the front, and looked back and forth on the two of them with an extremely strict vision, and a very sharp fluctuation of power was emitted from her body. This fluctuation of power instantly enveloped the entire platform and expanded to the entire mountain top laboratory.

Leo couldn't help but look at Emily, because Emily's performance of power surprised him.

He had previously discovered through the Spiritual Network and other means that Emily's witch power is not outstanding in Sylvia's No. 1 Witch Group, and in terms of the size of energy fluctuations alone, it is not even comparable to the top ten.

However, now he found that his judgment was wrong. Although Emily's power was not particularly powerful, her power was very special. She could actually create an energy field similar to the spiritual field. Moreover, her power in this energy field did not weaken due to the expansion range, and still maintained the initial energy fluctuation. That is to say, her power was constant. If her mental power was strong enough, she might be able to create an energy field covering the entire world, and in this energy field she was a god-like existence.

Obviously, Sylvia should also know Emily's strength characteristics, so she was sent to become one of the top managers of the laboratory, because as long as she opened the energy field, everything that happened in the laboratory would be under her control, including some accidents caused by the failure of the experiment.

Now, the reason why she acted so angry was probably because of Leo's questioning that made her realize that her control over the laboratory was not absolute. The other two colleagues actually had some contact with the outside world under her supervision, which made her feel that she was dereliction of duty.

At this moment, Emily's actions made the atmosphere around her tense. Although the guards of the laboratory not far away did not hear what was going on here because of the distance, they also knew what might have happened here. They were also hesitant to go forward to do something. However, in the end they chose to stand still, and even did not glance at this side. They knew very well that such high-level affairs were not qualified to interfere.

Although Lawrence still seemed very calm, he knew that some things could not be hidden, because based on his understanding of Sylvia, since Leo had asked him to come over and ask in person, it means that this matter was already a fact in Sylvia's mind. Leo did not come here to know the answer, but decided how to deal with this matter based on their response.

Faced with this situation, the only solution he could think of was to answer honestly. After all, this incident did not harm the Dodd Group, and he did not betray Sylvia.

"He is still alive." After thinking, Lawrence replied calmly: "It's just that life is not very good. Jean Valjean and I did not do things for him. We just helped him make a body and prepare some potions because of our past relationship."

Jean Valjean, who was standing beside him, breathed a sigh of relief, and nodded in cooperation, saying, "Yes, we are doing well here and we didn't even want to go and leave here."

"Let's go! Let's find a place to talk about this specifically." Leo did not show any thoughts, but just signaled to Emily, and then walked into the laboratory.

Seeing this, Emily also withdrew her strength and followed her, but glared at each other when she passed by her two colleagues, while Lawrence and Jean Valjean smiled bitterly and followed quickly.

Although Leo was here for the first time in this laboratory, he was not unfamiliar with it, because the architecture of this laboratory was completely built with reference to the laboratory construction plan in his notes, and even the functional layout of each laboratory was not modified. So even without Emily leading the way, he easily found the conference room in the laboratory.

After coming to the conference room, Leo asked Emily to take the relevant information of all the experimental projects carried out at the beginning of the establishment, and then signaled Lawrence and Jean Valjean to continue the topic just now.

On the way to the conference room, Lawrence had already thought about what to explain, so after hearing Leo's instructions, he naturally told everything about it.

In fact, at the beginning, both Lawrence and Jean Valjean thought that Rupert Fitz was dead because they saw with their own eyes how Rupert Fitz and his guards were swallowed up by a tide of mutant monsters. In their opinion, only gods could survive in that situation.

Afterwards, Lawrence and Jean Valjean followed the fugitives to the Mosan continent, and were invited by Sylvia to join Dodd Group and hold important positions in the laboratory.

Until three years ago, when the two went to Hope City to attend a regular meeting, they met Rupert Fitz's confidants and learned that Rupert Fitz was not dead.

They were very suspicious of the news at that time, and it was not until they met Rupert Fitz himself that the fact that Rupert Fitz was still alive.

However, Rupert Fitz is in very bad condition now. He is just like the old man Rembrandt, even worse than the old man Rembrandt. Not only is the lower body lost, but most of the organs in the upper body are lost. He can only rely on some special mechanical devices, potions and magical techniques to maintain the normal operation of the body.

The purpose of his visit to Lawrence and Jean Valjean was not to make them his supporters in the Dodd Group, nor to let them break away from the Dodd Group and join his current power, but to want them to use the Dodd Group's current technology to help him make a body.

At that time, Lawrence and Jean Valjean both made leap-by-tech breakthroughs in their respective fields. For example, Lawrence almost perfectly restored the cloning technology and cell regeneration technology mentioned in Leo's notes through his blood magic. He even cloned a common squirrel in the forest. Although the squirrel only survived for a few days, this creature-like effect still caused a great sensation in the laboratory.

Although the relevant news was immediately blocked, it was more or less leaked. This incident even attracted the attention of the True God Church and sent people to inquire about the relevant matters, but they were all blocked by Sylvia.

As for Jean Valjean's mechanical manufacturing, he also made breakthroughs. For example, he also found inspiration to create steam-powered armor like interstellar war armor in Leo's conception of steam-powered armour, and conducted actual combat experiments. Ordinary warriors wearing steam-powered armor can actually kill dozens of mutant monsters one by one in battle, and their combat power is even greater than that of ordinary offensive extraordinary people.

However, this type of armor also has defects, and is a huge defect. One is that the parts are complex and not resistant to wear. Usually, after one use, nearly 80% of the gear parts on the armor will be worn to the point where they are almost impossible to use again, and even fall apart during use. With the current metallurgical level of the Dodd Group, it is impossible to manufacture mechanical parts that can cope with such high-strength operation.

Another disadvantage is that there is no heat dissipation device that is effective enough. In that actual combat performance, there was only one steam armored warrior who died in the hands of the mutant monsters, and most of the others were directly steamed by the heat that could not be dissipated inside the armor. The death was very tragic. Even in the roar of countless mutant monsters, they could hear their shrill screams before death. For a long time, these screams became Jean Valjean's nightmare.

Just like Lawrence's creation, Jean Valjean's steam-powered armor test also failed to completely block the news and spread.

It is obvious that Rupert Fitz should have heard these two news, so he came to find the two, hoping that they could help him create a body.

Although the two are no longer subordinates of Rupert Fitz, Rupert Fitz did not treat both of them badly before and had some kindness, so it was hard for them to refuse.

More importantly, Rupert Fitz can provide some precious materials that they have longed for. Although Dodd Group has also found these materials in the past, it has never found them. This has also caused the two to stagnate their research on certain projects. Now that Rupert Fitz can provide these materials, their research projects can also make progress. In their opinion, this is also beneficial to Dodd Group, so they agreed to help Rupert Fitz create a body.

It is not very difficult to create the body that Rupert Fitz needs. The real difficulty of this is that the body organs cultivated by Lawrence through blood magic, muscles and skin need to be fused with the armored bones created by Jean Valjean, which is the biggest difficulty they encountered.

Another two difficulties are that when Rupert Fitz provided the body tissues to Lawrence, he also provided another unknown organism. He wanted Lawrence to integrate the two tissues together to form a new tissue, and then use this new body tissue to cultivate the body's muscles, internal organs and other organs.

As for Jean Valjean, he asked him to use an unknown metal ball to replace the steam power of the armor. The unknown metal ball has a huge gap with the steam power machine designed by Jean Valjean, and it is very difficult to replace the steam power machine.

However, in the end, all these difficulties were solved because Rupert Fitz also had some people under him who had already designed various plans to provide reference for the two. The two also solved the problems through some related technologies provided in these references, and finally completed the body tissue that Rupert Fitz needed.

After handing over the body to Rupert Fitz, their contact with Rupert Fitz was not cut off. In recent years, they still had some contacts one after another. But every time they contacted, they were talking about technology. However, Lawrence and Jean Valjean also knew the severity of the matter. The communication technology was all technologies that the Dodd Group could disclose and did not involve secrets in the laboratory. At the same time, they also obtained some useful things from these almost communications, which helped their projects to achieve some breakthrough development.

It is precisely because they did not see the harm of this kind of technical communication that they did not think it was a bad thing deep in their hearts and did not take the initiative to cut off contact. It was not until now that they were questioned by Leo that they realized that there might be some problems with this matter.

After listening to the two of them's narratives, Leo did not express doubts about what they said, nor did he repeatedly determine the truth or falsehood of the matter. Instead, he was silent for a moment and asked, "Are you still there when you created your body for Rupert Fitz and the research materials you communicated over the years?"

Jean Valjean and Lawrence looked at each other, nodded, and replied almost at the same time: "Everything is still there."

Leo said, "Take them over and show me."

After hearing this, the two of them turned around and walked out of the conference room. When they left the conference room, they happened to see Emily who brought boxes of research project materials with people, and Emily glared at him.

This made the two of them smile bitterly, knowing that even if they passed Leo's level, they would probably be targeted by Emily in the future. After all, they had such a big deal under the surveillance of Emily, the security manager. It was reasonable that she needed to bear certain responsibilities. Even if Sylvia and Leo would not hold her accountable, she would probably not have less anger and ashamed, and the two culprits who caused her such dereliction of duty would naturally not be let go.

However, even though they knew that they would definitely be targeted by Emily in the future and might not be able to gain as much trust as Sylvia as before, they still did not think about leaving Dodd Group.

Over the years, life in this laboratory has made them accustomed to the current environment. If they want to conduct any experiment here, they just need to submit an experimental project report. They don’t need to think too much about everything after that. Whether it is an experimental assistant, experimental materials, etc., everything will be prepared according to their ideas. In their minds, the current life is the most suitable life for them.
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