“Hello, Mr. Corneion.”

Trist pulled up the brim of his hat and took a quick look around the house, finding no trace of Stone.

"You should knock first."

Seeing this, Cornell was not in a hurry. He took his hand off the cup and placed it on the book. With his other hand, he quietly opened the drawer, revealing a pistol.

"Sorry, maybe some of your men don't know how to be polite, so we've taught them a little etiquette."

Drizzt glanced at the thug lying at his feet.

Although he looked very handsome now, he didn't want anyone to see how he ran away and hid behind Xia when the typewriter rang him.

"Mr. Corneion, I don't know if there is a traitor in your family. We came here with good intentions, but someone just tried to attack us. It's really terrible."

He said as Drizzt walked into the room.

"There are many traitors around me."

Cornell smiled.

"Thank you for helping me eliminate the traitor. I think a nice reward should belong to you."

"Mr. Corneion, you are playing with fire."

Lu Ban didn't want to play guessing game with Cornell, so he spoke.

"You can't control that monster. It can't give you immortality. It can only turn you into a walking corpse."

After hearing Lu Ban's words, Cornell's eyes became a little colder. He closed the book and smiled.

"I don't know what you are talking about. If there are monsters in the Wasteland, they should only exist in the sewers of the slums."

Cornell said.

"Don't worry. Let me explain it to Mr. Corneone."

Drizzt took the pipe from his lips and continued.

"Many years ago, when Mr. Cornell was still making his fortune, he gained some knowledge, some knowledge about foreign lands, and knowledge about summoning foreign creatures. This knowledge overturned his cognition. Since then, Mr. Cornell has been thinking about it and has never forgotten it."

"But ordinary people cannot touch foreign lands at all. The monsters in the wilderness are terrifying enough. Even though Mr. Corneon has a very large organization, he still cannot touch the extraordinary. He has many children and grandchildren, and his organization is growing strong, but these mundane things can no longer touch his heart. Only things from foreign lands are what he pursues. Such empty buildings will only collapse with his aging and death, until he met Dr. House."

"Dr. House is a doctor who runs a private clinic. More importantly, he is the descendant of the Heming School who is stranded in the abandoned city. Unlike those charlatans, he showed Mr. Corneion the true extraordinary miracles and made him believe that he can also possess the method that allowed Heming Taoist to ascend to heaven and gain immortality."

"Mr. Corneone provided Dr. House with a house, materials, money, and experimental subjects. It is very difficult to conduct such experiments in the Wasted City. Although the wealthy people in the Upper City are incompetent, if someone touches their interests, then an iron fist will follow. This is why the Catania family, even though it has the power it has today, still has to make friends with those upper-class people, has to kowtow, and has to clean up its own industry."

"The pollution caused by the factories that have sprung up in recent years just meets Dr. House's needs. He opened a clinic in the border area between the rich and the poor, and treated those workers with kindness. He provided drugs at low prices, but in fact he was conducting experiments. Those drugs were essentially inducers that caused people to continue to become alienated. As the foreign pollution those workers endured became more and more serious, ordinary industrial waste gas pollution could no longer cause them any more damage."

"Of course, these rituals to summon foreign monsters cannot be performed with drugs alone. Doctor House searched for a long time and finally found a suitable carrier. It was the companion of the girl Liz. He was suffering from a disease, and the drugs were expensive. Doctor House provided the drugs, which eroded the other party's body bit by bit, and relied on regular checkups to slowly perform the ritual."

"Doctor House told Mr. Cornell that this alien monster can transform the human body, give people eternal life, and give him unlimited power. Mr. Cornell does have a group of useless children, and he does think that if he lets these children inherit the family, the family property will be squandered. So, his idea is to gain immortal life and rule this eternal throne for a thousand years."

"But accidents are always the main theme of the Wasted City. According to Dr. House's plan, the experimental subject should have transformed into a monster in Dr. House's basement after a period of time. However, an accident broke everything. Flora, as Tucker's woman from the Sharp Knife Gang, chose to inform the Catania family because of her jealousy of Liz and her disappointment in Catania, revealing the information about Tucker's hiding place and when he would appear here."

"And there are always some people in the Catania family who are eager to make a contribution. One of them is McGee, a distant relative of Mr. Corneone. He led his men to attack the Happy House Apartments and killed Tucker, which also affected Liz and the experimental subject who lived next door to Tucker."

"Liz was fatally injured on the spot, and the experimental subject was born prematurely due to the catalyst of death."

"That day, in the Happy Home Apartment, the sludge-like monster completed its transformation and came into this world ahead of schedule. He devoured Liz and merged with her last remaining consciousness. The two of them achieved fusion, and from then on, they would never be separated again."

"The monster was secretly contained. It showed amazing strength and grew as it continued to kill people. Mr. Corneon discovered that it seemed to have a fondness for Stone and could move around with Stone. Therefore, he disguised it as a dog and had it accompany Stone."

"Mr. Corneon wanted immortality and wanted to make the monster grow, but the monster seemed to have its own consciousness. It killed Dr. House, who wanted to conduct a second experiment, and the experimental subject Flora, and also killed McGee of the Catania family. They knew very well that the monster was seeking revenge, and Liz and the experimental subject's will were gradually influencing the monster. They wanted to find a way to control it, so they entrusted me to investigate the truth behind it."

After saying this, Drizzt picked up his pipe and took another breath.

"Mr. Corneion, do you find my story satisfactory?"

After hearing this, Cornell's expression remained unchanged.

"That's a great story. So, Detective Drizzt, have you found a way to control that monster?"

He asked.

"No, Mr. Corneion. The monster will only keep on devouring until the very end. You can't control it."

Drizzt replied.

The next moment, a bit of mud fell from the ceiling.