Alien Knights

　　 The road is still the dark corridor, and the door is still the iron gate of the motto.

　　 At the end of the underground hall, Huggins stood in front of a closed iron door, took a weird key from his waist, and opened a new world for Todd.

The hand-polished granite floor of "Wu Lianhong" covers the entire room. Four huge marble slab tables are placed in the center of the room, on which are placed similar iron stands, asbestos nets, alcohol lamps, beakers, and test tubes. , Gas cylinders, reagent bottles, mortars and other tools. Although the alcohol has long been exhausted and the iron nets have long been rusty, they have been sealed for a long time, so that these objects at least appear to be undamaged.

Three cedar glass cabinets are placed side by side close to the wall. Inside are placed various bottles and jars of various sizes. Some are filled with specimens soaked in liquid, some are filled with unknown dry powder, and some of the seals are broken or even growing. Fungus and mildew. With the torch in Edgar's hand, Todd carefully checked the discolored and distorted labels on the bottles and jars, and removed the difficult and incomprehensible symbolic symbols, leaving behind things described in Latin words that he had never heard of.

A cloth circle picture is hung on the wall directly opposite the gate. It depicts an octagonal pattern resembling a magic circle. The directions of the south, east, north and west are marked with water, soil, fire, and wind; southeast, southwest, northwest, The directions to the northeast are written as cold, dry, hot, and wet.

The monk apprentice stood in the center of the room, turning his steps, looking towards the vast underground room of nearly two hundred square meters, and he couldn't help but sigh. I really didn't expect to see such a medieval chemical experiment in such a place. room.

　　 Seeing the satisfied look on the boy's face, Huggins raised his eyebrows and said with a smile: "Do you think that's the end? I promise you will drop your jaw when you see the next one!"

　　 The man walked to the end of the room, opened a hidden cell on the wall with his hand, grabbed a hand crank, and turned it carefully.

　　 The sound of gears spinning and shafts rolling was heard from the ceiling of the basement.

　　 After a short while, a huge natural crack slowly opened in the dim roof rock wall. The sunlight at noon passed through the many copper mirrors and glazed stones installed above the cracks, using the principle of light reflection and scattering, instantly illuminating the whole room transparently and brightly; fresh air also slowly flowed in from above, expelling it. The filth and dullness in the enclosed environment makes the spleen and lungs cool and refreshing.

　　 "Fuck..." (Chinese)

Todd raised his head and opened his eyes, his mouth wide open unconsciously, he couldn't help but praised, and thought: "A person who designs a room like this must not only be proficient in alchemy, basic chemistry, and physiology, but also know engineering. , Optics, mechanics. Such a person must be a genius..."

　　 The intoxicated expression on the apprentice's face greatly satisfied Huggins' psychology.

He threw the key from his waist to Todd. The man first blew a whistle toward the room, and then said, "It took us a lot of time to open this room. Originally, I wanted to sell these things... "

"no!"

　　 Without thinking about it, he opened his mouth and directly expressed his opposition. When the boy recovered and saw the narrow expression on the other's face, he first smiled embarrassedly.

　　 The Slavic man patted him on the shoulder: "Later I thought of a place like this, maybe you can discover its true value."

　　 "This is the best gift I have ever received in my life..."

　　 Todd looked at each other's eyes, opened his arms, and said sincerely with his lips pressed.

　　 Huggins, wearing gloves, raised his hands, took two steps backwards, shook his head, and said, "The hug will be avoided. I'd better leave time for you and this room."

The man with Edgar who was about to turn and leave, looked back and saw little Jerry who was staying beside Todd with a curious look. He sighed, walked over and grabbed the other's clothes, pulled him out, and said to himself. "You kid don't join in the fun here! Don't forget, today is three days after you went crazy last time, honestly follow us to soak in cold water!"

　　 Looking at the tall young man with a begging word in his mouth, Todd shook his head helplessly.

　　 Since the last attack, he and Hudgens have developed a "pressure relief plan" for Jerry:

　　 Every time he is "violent", he immerses his body in cold water. Low temperature will reduce the parasite's peristaltic speed, thereby slowing down the adrenaline emission rate. Although the total amount of discharge remains the same and the discharge time becomes longer, the pain suffered by the body will be greatly reduced, and there will be no mental collapse.

　　 Both of them understand that this plan treats the symptoms but not the root cause, but at least it is the best choice for now.

　　 sent away a group of three people, Todd closed the door, and came to the room excitedly, touched here, took a look there.

　　 Soon, several places caught his attention.

　　 One is an experimental glass product, which is different from modern glass craftsmanship. All glassware has a metallic luster, and the bottle mouths of some large appliances are also marked with some strange characters, which are a bit like Arabic characters.

　　 One is the powder from the bottles and cans in the cabinet, UU reading www.uukanshu. com has some powders to look at the appearance and smell. Todd can probably guess what it is, such as calcite (calcium carbonate), obsidian (silica), cassiterite (tin oxide), alum (potassium aluminum sulfate), etc. Some are unclear.

　　 The last one is those strange specimens, some can be seen as animal tissues, some are like plant rhizomes, and some are like humanoid mutated organs.

　　 temporarily suppressed the curiosity in his heart, Todd thought, the most important task right now is not to identify objects.

　　 The apprentice felt the sticky floor under his feet, touched the dust accumulated on the stone table, and could not help but think of a sentence that was often hung on the wall in the laboratory of the previous life.

　　 "It is everyone's responsibility to maintain hygiene! 』

I found a mop and a rag from the storage room in the underground hall, and then carried the wooden barrel to the underground river to draw water. Todd rolled up his sleeves and began to conduct a thorough investigation in this laboratory that had not been set foot for many years. Cleaning.

　　 mopped the floor clean, wiped the stone table to reflect the light, wiped the bottles and jars bright and transparent, buckets of black dirty water were transported out of the room, and baskets of useless waste were poured out of the room.

　　 Several hours passed.

　　 The light cast by the zenith slowly turns golden, which means that even if the day is over, the night will soon arrive.

　　 Todd poured the last bucket of sewage onto the ground deep in the aisle outside the door. When he returned to the experiment room, he looked at the bright and clean room in the afterglow of the setting sun and nodded in satisfaction.

　　 "Maybe it's ridiculous to think so, but maybe this is me, the starting point for my life and creation in this different world in the future..."

　　 The boy turned his handle and closed the crack in the roof. He closed the door reluctantly, and took a last look at everything in the room before leaving, thinking like this in his heart.