Alien Knights

　　 When the short and fat man actually sat on the chair and saw the priest approaching him with a black needle-like thing, he immediately regretted his decision to cooperate with the experiment for a barrel of ale.

　　 "Can I...?"

　　 Before Walton finished speaking, Leslie, who was standing next to him, breathed out through his nostrils, and said decisively: "No!"

　　 Adelina, a woman in white robe, looked a little worried: "Father, are you sure there will be nothing wrong with this?"

Todd lifted up his sleeve, and a small pinhole was faintly visible on his forearm. He said in a steady tone: "Don't worry, I have tried it several times. It hurts just to get in, just like an ant. After taking a bite, there is no pain. And in alchemy, I have never made a mistake."

　　 "But, I never heard that alchemy requires blood to be drawn..."

Leslie interrupted Adelina again: "What does it matter, it's just a little bit of blood. In the tavern, our brave and fearless Lord Walton has said countless times that he had fought against the barbarian army for seven days and seven nights. , The sky is dark and the blood is flowing into the river, so naturally I won't care about this small wound, right?"

　　 Walton gave the red-patterned boy a smile that was uglier than crying.

　　 Alfonso glanced at the table full of utensils and bottles, raised his chin to the priest, and exchanged glances with Huggins beside him: "Have you seen him use alchemy before? Is it safe?"

　　 Hudgens touched his chin with his gloves, looked at the syringe with a sharp needle, remembered his past experience in silver refining and glass making, and said uncertainly: "I have seen it, but it doesn't seem to be so complicated in the past..."

　　 Todd came to Walton's face, rolled up his sleeves, first wrapped his arms with a leather cord, and then used the perspective ability to find where the needle fell.

The chunky man struggled and twisted his body, watching the needle getting closer and closer to his skin, and while shaking his head desperately, he shouted incoherently, "You are lying to me! This is definitely not alchemy! I swear, I swear! I will again Don't go to the tavern anymore!"

　　 The needle pierced the skin and the blood splashed.

　　 Walton fainted.

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　　 Put Walton's body fluid sample under the microscope, after adjusting it to 400 times magnification, Todd specially invited everyone to come and watch it.

　　 After a while, huge admiration and exclamation echoed in the laboratory.

　　 Alfonso, Leslie, Adelina, and Hudgens see a world in the microcosm.

　　 Walton used his "Eagle Eye" ability to magnify the original 400 times the microcosm by several times, reaching about 3000 times. He was able to see the whole picture and partial features of the bacterial world.

And when Todd used a syringe to inject the bacteria of the "Eagle Eye" ability into his body, when he used the skills of "Eagle Eye" and "Perspective" under the microscope at the same time, what he could see was the movement of life inside the bacteria. And complete construction.

　　 Finally, the last condition for the "Sutherland Archaea" alienation experiment was met.

　　 For the next few days, Todd simply lived in the laboratory, only Alfonso and Harkins occasionally came to see him during the day. In the dead of night, when his laboratory is brightly lit, Karin Foreman will stand alone in front of the window of the small building, looking at his busy figure, without speaking or interrupting. After standing and watching for a while, she doesn’t know. Trace.

　　 And Todd's experiment was not all smooth sailing. Injecting a liquid mixed with Sutherland bacteria into the experimental body is the first problem.

　　 After any organism comes into contact with Sutherland bacteria, there is a high possibility that it will die immediately, and mice are no exception. In the first few experiments, due to the excessive amount of Sutherland bacteria, the direct death was caused. After that, Todd repeatedly reduced the dose and finally found the safety margin of the dose.

　　 Then, for the in vivo observation of the mice, Todd had to use the fluoroscopy ability to observe the state of the subjects at regular intervals due to the lack of electronic monitoring equipment and medical diagnostic equipment. This process is long and boring, and the experimenter cannot fall asleep peacefully. Every three to four hours, he must use fluoroscopy to record the state to prevent abnormalities.

　　 In the first few days of the experiment, all the values ​​of the subject were normal.

　　 From the third day on, through the ability of fluoroscopy, Todd discovered that the mouse's heartbeat, nerves, blood circulation and other functions have problems of different sizes.

　　 On the fourth day, some organs and body cavities of the test subjects were damaged, and some subjects had vomiting blood.

　　 On the fifth day, the nerve center of the subject, including the brain, was damaged, and the stress reflex to the outside world became slow.

　　 On the sixth day, the nervous system was necrotic and was occupied by a strange bacterial process, and the various organs of the subject's body were alienated. Alienation status is related to abilities. For example, weak abilities will cause the formation of venom sacs and poisonous bubbles, fluoroscopy abilities will cause compound eyes, and rapid abilities will change the form of muscles and bones in the lower body.

On the seventh day, the appearance of the experimental body changed. The nails became longer and narrower, the mouthparts were connected to the venom sac, the throat tube was connected to the poisonous bubbles in the lungs, the upper limbs degenerated into small claws, and the lower limbs became like centipedes. Many feet~www.readwn.com~ Spinous processes appear on the chest, spikes grow on the back, and the tail becomes longer with barbs. The head is similar to a pointed mantis, with a huge sharp-edged mouthpart that can be 270 Compound eyes rotated ten degrees. The nervous system, which had been dead, began to become active again due to dense bacterial processes, but it lacked basic neuronal connections. The organism has lost the most basic thinking consciousness at this time and has become extremely aggressive.

　　 At this point, Todd had to forcibly interrupt the in vivo experiment, injected a large dose of ether into all the subjects, and carried out painless euthanasia. And just in case, the head was decapitated.

　　 Through multi-stage live observation of the subject, he finally put together the puzzle pieces of the alienation of Sutherland's relics piece by piece.

　　 Sutherland archaea can block and imprison foreign bacteria, digest the toxic substances they release, and release them only when the nervous system allows it.

　　 However, nothing is perfect. Anything that is beneficial will always gradually show its harmful side.

　　The key is that the number of Sutherland archaea is always the same. These archaea have no way to divide and regenerate, but the heterogeneous bacteria have been growing exponentially.

　　 When the ratio of the two reaches a critical point, when the Sutherland bacteria judges that the situation is out of control, it will change from the role of a "policeman" to a "butcher". Changed from the original "blocking" to "swallowing", swallowing and digesting heterogeneous bacteria. When the heterogeneous bacteria are swallowed, the Sutherland bacteria will transfer the target to normal cells and become malignant bacteria that attack indiscriminately. This situation will gradually spread in the host, first blood vessels, then organs, and finally nerves, and gradually change the appearance and function of the host, turning it into an irrational monster...