Alien Knights

　　 Throwing a piece of burning wood into the dark tunnel, Todd, who had just escaped from the dead, opened the door with the iron ring. After confirming that there was sufficient oxygen in the cellar, he stepped on the wooden steps to the bottom.

　　 lit the torch soaked in oilcloth on the wall, and the boy looked around first.

　　 The cellar is not big, five meters square. The stone walls on all sides were smeared with mortar and simply reinforced with wood, and the original ventilation ducts were also set up on the top wall. In such a hard limestone layer underground, such a large space has been dug out, and such a careful layout has been made. Obviously, the people who dug here must have spent a lot of work.

　　 But the things stored in the cellar disappointed Todd.

　　 cabbage, carrots, lettuce, potatoes, garlic and a bag of wheat flour.

　　 rummaged through the vegetables, but when he found nothing, he put his sight on the remaining bag of wheat flour.

　　 Such a time-consuming project should not be simply to store a bunch of vegetables, otherwise it would not be easy to choose to kill after being discovered.

　　 Unpacking the cloth bag with difficulty, leaning in with his hands, Todd touched a hard object. Grasping the corner with both hands, he lifted it up a few times, but the object buried in the wheat flour did not move at all.

　　 This thing is really heavy.

　　 Lay down the bag, and then take out the wheat flour in the bag by hand. The things inside finally revealed its true meaning, a small wooden box forty centimeters long and 20 centimeters wide. Wiping off the wheat flour remaining on the wooden box, a small keyhole appeared in front of the boy's eyes.

　　 Seeing Todd who was in a daze at the keyhole, sitting cross-legged and thinking about it for a while, suddenly thought of a possibility.

　　 followed the wooden steps and climbed onto the floor of the hut again.

　　 Todd bit his teeth and looked at the two corpses on the ground.

　　 The key to the wooden box is most likely on their body.

　　 Contacting or even dissecting cadavers was something he had done in previous lives, but it was purely academic research work, and now he has to reach out to the humans he indirectly killed, and he still feels a little bit conflicted in the end.

　　 After a psychological battle, Todd's curiosity finally prevailed.

　　 stretched his hand as far as possible, tilted his head back, and fumbled for a long time on the victim's body. The boy finally found a key to the iron ring on the waist of the hunched man.

　　 returned to the cellar, followed by the light of the torch, flipped the key over, and finally saw one that was about the size of the keyhole.

　　 Todd gently inserted the key into the keyhole and twisted it clockwise, only to hear a light click inside the lock, and the lock was unlocked.

　　 Looking inward, he finally understood why the wooden box was so heavy.

It turned out that not only the sandbags for buffering were stacked, but also a cylindrical black box made of lead blocks was placed. The box was divided into two parts, the upper and lower parts, tightly closed together, no keyholes were visible, only the front was installed with sixteen copper Six-sided rollers are made. Each side of the rollers has a letter, and the sixteen rollers are different.

　　 "C, r, h, d are English letters? There are English letters in this world too?...Look at this arrangement...Is the anagram lock?"

　　 Todd has seen similar objects in museums in his previous lives. Each wheel has a letter on each side, and it can only be opened by scrolling to the correct position and synthesizing a password.

　　 This kind of letter lock is very complicated in the eyes of ordinary people, but it is actually regular.

　　 For example, E, T, I, O, A, and N are the most commonly used letters with the highest frequency. The splicing of syllables and the composition of vowels and consonants are also traceable.

　　 But there is a prerequisite, the answer to unlocking can not be a piece of meaningless letters.

　　 In the last life, the soul called Xia Shang often lost time in academic research. In Todd's body, this characteristic has been vividly manifested.

Unconsciously, the charcoal on the stone walls on all sides was filled with the arrangement and combination of letters, and the boy had basically confirmed several characteristics of the answer: 1. The answer is a sentence or a combination of words; 2. From the letters In terms of arrangement, the text of the answer belongs to Latin.

"Casc...no, nascen...sixteen letters, this arrangement is familiar..." a sentence came out of Todd's mind: ""Nascentes_morimur"..."Living to death", a Latin proverb, but this sentence is marked What do you mean here?"

　　 Adjusted the roller to the correct position, and the upper half of the solid lead rod moved a few millimeters, cracking a small seam.

　　 moved the upper part again with both hands, and a shiny copper tube ten centimeters long with the thickness of a thumb appeared in front of the boy.

　　 Breaking through the barriers, Todd took out the "final result" carefully.

　　 I took a closer look at the light. The copper tube is very light and has almost no weight. The barrel material should be hand-polished and the workmanship is extremely fine. Under the light of the fire, a faint relief can be seen faintly.

　　『Once a person meets the lowest level of survival needs, curiosity will become the most terrifying thing in the world. 』

　　 This kind of curiosity can even make the soul in this body ignore the safety rules that he often chanted in his previous scientific research work.

　　 The first and most critical one: under any circumstances, treat all unknowns with a cautious and conservative attitude. UU reading www.uukａnshu.com

　　 With a click, he twisted the lid above the copper pipe, and Todd looked at the inside of the copper pipe.

　　 A puff of gray-white smoke was released from the inside, and hit his unprotected eyes.

　　 "Ah! Ah!!!"

　　 The burning sensation like a flame "burned" from the cornea of ​​the eyeball along the optic nerve into the brain.

　　 Throwing away the copper tube in his hand, Todd covered his eyes and wiped it hard, but there was no way to relieve the fiery head pain. It felt like putting the whole head into a furnace of thousands of degrees, burning it and then placing it on an anvil and being repeatedly beaten by a sledgehammer.

　　 slammed his head against the stone wall, his forehead cracked one after another, blood dripped down his cheeks to the ground, but there was no way to relieve the pain in his head.

　　 He kept groping with his hands on the ground, but his body was tripped to the ground by the debris. Todd's hand grabbed forward, accidentally caught a few garlic, subconsciously crushed it, and rubbed his eyes.

　　 The sour and painful sensation brought by the garlic clove juice brought a new source of pain to the boy's eyes, but it diminished a trace of the pain in the brain.

　　 In order to relieve the severe pain in his brain, Todd fumbled for more garlic from the ground, crushed the garlic cloves, dripped the garlic juice into his eyes, and stuffed the garlic paste into his mouth.

　　 I don't know how long this kind of action lasted. The boy, who was covered in flames, lost consciousness, and closed his eyes on the ground.

　　 When Todd woke up again, the darkness in front of him, his body lost all the ability to move, he felt someone moving his hands and feet in a daze.

　　 moved his lips with the last strength.

"Who?"

　　 There was a thick voice speaking to him.

　　 "Little guy, my name is Hudgens."