[You open your eyes and discover that you and Rona are already inside a laboratory…]

[The laboratory is bustling with people coming and going. There are not only transplant doctors wearing black coats and bird-beak masks, but also many Knowledge Scholars.]

[What makes you feel strange is that every single one of them is expressionless, their eyes devoid of even the slightest emotional fluctuation. Even you and Rona, who have just entered the painting and appeared so abruptly, cannot attract even half a bit of their attention.]

[They are focused only on the work in their hands, meticulous to the point of resembling machines. If not for the fact that, with Flesh Authority, you can sense that they are all living people and all possess mortal flesh-and-blood bodies, you would have thought they were Refined Copper Dolls wearing human skin.]

[Seeing the content of the transplant doctors’ work makes your scalp go numb, and at the same time fills your heart with uncontrollable fury!]

[On the operating tables lie many human children along with the corpses of high-ranking demons and star spirits. The transplant doctors lead the operations, dismembering the children’s bodies, the demons’ internal organs, and the star spirits’ eyeballs, dissecting out what is needed and placing it onto the Refined Copper surgical trays at the side.]

[The Knowledge Scholars are responsible for assisting nearby, taking care of the dirty and laborious work. Once the Refined Copper trays beside an operating table are piled full of materials, one of them is sent out carrying the heavy surgical tray to the next laboratory…]

[Those children are all very young. The youngest are only five or six years old, and the oldest are probably no more than ten. When the transplant doctors dissect their bodies, you can even see their muscles and fascia still twitching and pulsating…]

[It is very clear that before being sent into the laboratory, these children were still living beings.]

[Rona beside you also frowns. She knew that the school had been secretly conducting some kind of hidden experiment, but she had never imagined the experiment would be this cruel… cruel to the point that it would stir heaven’s wrath and humanity’s fury.]

[There are no guards here, nor is there anyone stopping you two or caring about your presence.]

[You and Rona pass through one laboratory after another. The scenes you witness are all like this, while those materials, after passing through laboratory after laboratory, become increasingly refined and pure…]

[Finally, when you reach the last laboratory, you see that familiar figure.]

[Although he is still wearing the bird-beak mask that hides his face, you recognize at a glance that he is Bennett!]

[Bennett stands at the head of the five raised platforms in the deepest part of the laboratory. Together with four other lead doctors, he directs the many operating tables as they carry out the final step of surgery, the stitching and assembly.]

[The final step of the surgery is to stitch together children’s limbs of all kinds into a complete body, then stuff the internal organs of a high-ranking demon embedded with star spirit eyeballs into its abdominal cavity. Those dense lines of stitching make the new body look like a rag doll that has been torn apart and sewn back together.]

[Bennett repeatedly scolds the other four lead doctors from time to time, looking every bit like the highest person in charge of the laboratory.]

[The moment you and Rona push open the door and enter, Bennett notices…]

[Following the sound of the door opening, he casts his gaze over, and when he sees the familiar face beneath the brim of the female scholar’s hat, he freezes all at once.]

[He reveals a look of wild joy, immediately throwing aside the other four lead doctors and striding over quickly, saying, Rona, you finally came to see him!]

[Those damned Scholars all said you were a heretic who betrayed the true Lord, but he never believed them!]

[Rona nods and says that she has already cleared the suspicion of heresy, and that the Chairman of the Erudite Council has also agreed to release him. She came to save…]

[Before she can finish, Bennett solemnly shakes his head and says that he cannot leave, that he must remain in the laboratory and continue the transplant surgeries.]

[Rona is startled, then immediately furrows her brows…]

[After seeing those miserable scenes just now, she too feels a great deal of indignation in her heart. But considering that Bennett had only done these things under coercion from the school, his actions were at least understandable.]

[Even without Bennett, the school would still have forced other transplant doctors to carry out these heaven and humanity-outraging deeds.]

[The guilt lies not with the blade, but with the murderer holding the blade.]

[Bennett does not explain immediately, but instead says that it is inconvenient to talk here, and asks you to follow him…]

[He is just about to move when he suddenly looks toward you and asks in puzzlement, Who is this?]

[Rona thinks for a moment, then says that this is someone who fought side by side with her.]

[Upon hearing this, Bennett seems to realize something. He stares at you blankly like that, his hands and feet trembling with excitement, and stands frozen in place for a long while…]

[He suddenly snaps back to his senses, forcibly suppresses his excitement, and says in a trembling voice, quickly follow him…]

[Bennett swiftly leads you and Rona through the laboratory and into a separate lounge.]

[He turns around, locks the door tightly, and immediately asks Rona to confirm once again, Rona, is this person really the one he has always been longing for?]

[Before Rona can speak, you nod and say, Bennett, long time no see.]

[Bennett’s lips tremble as he murmurs, It really is you, True God’s Envoy, True God’s Envoy…]

[Only after calming down for a long time does he finally ease the excitement and joy in his heart, feeling only that today is the luckiest day of his life. Not only has Rona cleared her name and come to see him, but the long-awaited reunion has also suddenly arrived.]

[He takes several deep breaths and slowly tells you about the situation in the laboratory…]

[After Rona defected, he too was branded with the charge of pursuing the stars and was imprisoned in the Imperial Capital prison.]

[He absolutely did not believe that Rona would betray the true Lord, because no one could be more devout in faith than they were. He knew Rona must have had her own bitter reasons, and he also firmly believed that sooner or later Rona would clear her name.]

[He had only been imprisoned in the Imperial Capital prison for three days before the school secretly transferred him here, where he saw the filth and darkness hidden beneath the school’s righteous surface.]

[The Chairman of the Multivision Headquarter, that Chairman of the Erudite Council, did not tell him the purpose of doing this, and only told him what he could do for it.]

[The Chairman said that this laboratory had existed for many years, even far longer than the Chairman’s own tenure…]

[The school searches everywhere and conducts layer upon layer of selection for children who meet specific conditions. Then it removes the diseased organs and limbs that have mutated from years of inhaling the Veil of Knowledge, in order to create qualified bodies.]

[Because the Veil of Knowledge is everywhere, even very young children have flesh and blood within their organs and limbs that carry diseased tissue to a greater or lesser extent.]

[Thus, it often takes several children’s corpses, or even more than a dozen corpses, to piece together one qualified body.]

[The children’s bodies serve as the outer shell, while the inner demon organs and star spirit eyes are also indispensable parts.]

[This is because human organs are the tissues most commonly affected by disease, and the first tissues to become diseased. Even if a large amount of materials is available, only very few qualified bodies can be made.]

[Only the Abyss demons in the underground abyss and the spirits of the stars in the outer void, outside the range of the Veil of Knowledge, can possess qualified organs and eyeballs that have not yet become diseased.]

[Only by combining the three can one obtain a qualified body, a powerful body completely free of diseased tissue.]

[But in combining the three into a body, there is one technical problem that is extremely difficult to overcome, the heart.]