Alien Knights

When the short and fat man actually sat on the chair and saw the priest walking towards him holding a black thing that looked like a sharp needle, he immediately regretted his decision to agree to cooperate with the experiment just for a barrel of ale.

"Can I...?"

Before Walton finished speaking, Leslie, who was standing beside him, exhaled through his nostrils, and said firmly, "No!"

Adelina, a woman in white robe, looked a little worried: "Father, are you sure you'll be fine if you do this?"

Todd lifted his sleeve, and a small needle hole was still faintly visible on his forearm. He said in a confident tone: "Don't worry, I have tried it several times myself. It hurts a little when I first stuck it in, like an ant bite, and then there is no pain. And in terms of alchemy, I have never made a mistake."

"However, I've never heard of it. Alchemy requires drawing blood..."

Leslie interrupted Adeline again: "It doesn't matter, it's just a little blood. In the tavern, our brave and fearless Lord Walton said countless times that he once fought against the barbarian army for seven days and seven nights. The sky was dark and the blood flowed like a river. Naturally, he wouldn't care about this small wound, right?"

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

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

Huggins rubbed his chin with a glove, looked at the syringe with a sharp needle, recalled his experience of refining silver and making glass in the past, and said uncertainly: "I've seen it, but it didn't seem so complicated in the past..."

Todd came in front of Walton, rolled up his sleeves, first wrapped his arms with a leather strap, and then used the perspective ability to find the location where the needle fell.

The short and fat man struggled and twisted his body. Seeing the needle getting closer to his skin, he shook his head desperately and shouted incoherently: "You are lying to me! This is definitely not alchemy! I swear, I swear! I will never go to the tavern again!"

The needle pierced the skin and blood spattered.

Walton passed out.

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After putting Walton's body fluid sample under the microscope and magnifying it 400 times, Todd specially invited everyone to come and watch.

A moment later, huge admiration and exclamation echoed in the laboratory.

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

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

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

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

For the next few days, Todd simply lived and ate in the laboratory. Even in the dead of night, his laboratory was brightly lit.

The experiments on Todd's side were not all smooth sailing. Injecting the liquid mixed with Sutherland bacteria into the experimental body was the first problem.

Any living thing exposed to Sutherland bacteria has a high probability of dying immediately, and mice are no exception. The first few experimental animals died directly due to the excessive amount of Sutherland bacteria. After that, Todd reduced the dose repeatedly, and finally found the margin of safety of the dose.

Then, for the living observation of the mice, due to the lack of electronic monitoring equipment and medical diagnostic equipment, Todd had to use the power of perspective to observe the state of the experimental subjects at regular intervals. 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 experimental subject were normal.

From the third day, through the ability of perspective, Todd found that the heartbeat, nerves, blood circulation and other functions of the mice all had problems of varying sizes.

On the fourth day, some organs and body cavities of the experimental subjects were damaged, and some of the experimental subjects vomited blood.

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

On the sixth day, the nervous system was necrotic and was occupied by a strange splinter, and the various organs of the experimental subject's body were dissimilated. The alienation state is related to abilities. For example, the ability to weaken will lead to the formation of venom sacs and poisonous bubbles, the ability to see through will cause the eyeballs to become compound eyes, and the ability to speed will change the muscle form and bone arrangement of the lower body.

On the seventh day, the appearance of the experimental subject changed, the nails became longer and sharper, the mouthparts were connected to the venom sac, the throat was connected to the poisonous air bubbles in the lungs, the upper limbs degenerated into small claws, the lower limbs became multi-legged like a centipede, spines appeared on the chest, spikes grew out on the back, the tail became longer and barbed, the head resembled a sharp-billed praying mantis, with huge sharp-edged blades, and compound eyes that could rotate 270 degrees. The originally dead nervous system began to become active again due to the dense dendrites, but it lacked basic neuron connections. The organism has lost the most basic thinking consciousness at this time, and has become extremely aggressive.

When he got here, Todd had to forcibly interrupt the living experiment, injected a large dose of ether into all the experimental subjects, and implemented painless euthanasia. And just in case, the head was decapitated.

Through multi-stage living observations of the experimental subjects, he finally pieced together the puzzle of the alienation of Sutherland's relics piece by piece.

Sutherland archaea are able to 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, and anything that is beneficial will gradually show its harmful side.

The key is that the number of Sutherland archaea has remained constant. These archaea have no way to divide and regenerate, while those heterogeneous bacteria have been growing geometrically.

When the ratio of the two reaches a critical point, when Sutherland Bacteria judges that the situation is out of control, it will change from the role of "policeman" to "butcher". From the original "blockade" to "phagocytosis", it swallows and digests foreign bacteria. When the heterogeneous bacteria have been phagocytized, the Sutherland bacteria will transfer the attack target to normal cells and become malignant bacteria that attack indiscriminately. This situation will gradually spread in the host body, first blood vessels, then organs, and finally nerves, and gradually change the shape and function of the host, turning it into an irrational monster...