Watching Cumberland's retreating figure, Todd felt the burden on his shoulders getting heavier and heavier.
Trying his best to bring the people around him and live together has consumed too much of his energy. If it were a country, if he wanted to maintain a country, he didn't know if he could do it.
Putting aside the distracting thoughts in his mind for the time being, Todd walked out of the Knights' headquarters and went to the street outside. Looking at the bustling crowd, he put down the hood of his robe and came to dine.
Rachel spent most of her time and energy on the biochemical factory and rarely took care of the hotel business. Therefore, the usual manager here became Karin Forman.
The girl who was originally a circus star has long lost the childish look on her face. She has abandoned her playfulness and willfulness. Karin directed Pamela and several other heterogeneous girls to serve food, clean, close the stage, and register...
Manage the entire hotel in an orderly manner.
Todd looked at the other people in the hotel. Most of the customers were gourmets who came here to visit, or wealthy residents of the town. To his surprise, he saw a bewildered person hiding behind the bar - Ke
Seth.
Compared with the first appearance in the cave, Cosette cut off her messy white hair, washed her face covered in mud, and put on a clean and tidy maid uniform. Due to albinism and long-term absence from the sun, Cosette
In her daily life, the exposed skin on her body is so white that it makes people feel dazzling. Coupled with her delicate face and pink pupils, she has undoubtedly become the most eye-catching presence in the entire hotel.
Karin, who was extremely busy, saw that everyone else was busy with things, so she pointed to the barley tea on the tray and asked Cosette to pick it up and give it to the guests. The girl looked at the room full of guests with fear and looked towards the agent
The store manager shook his head desperately.
Karin pointed at the barley tea again, with an anxious look on her face, and urged Cosette to start working again.
The trembling girl picked up the tea cup, lowered her head, avoided other people's eyes, ran quickly, and in panic spilled the tea on the guest's table. Cosette hurriedly wiped the water stains with a dry cloth,
Unexpectedly, the nervousness caused the blue color under her skin to become brighter and brighter.
Todd sighed inwardly.
Accompanied by the crackling sound of electricity, dazzling arcs of electricity hit the table and followed the overflowing tea to the guests.
There were screams, falling to the ground, cracking sounds, and the smell of burnt human flesh, and the entire lobby suddenly became a mess.
Twenty minutes later, the exhausted Karin sat on the bench in the kitchen, looking up at the sky through the open window. Next to her stood Cosette, who looked frustrated.
"You almost killed one of our guests!"
Hearing this accusation, Cosette lowered her head lower.
Todd walked in, smiled at the two girls and said, "The guests are fine."
Karin stood up from the bench and gave him a grateful look, but Cosette looked at Todd with a much more complicated look.
Karin looked at Cosette and sighed helplessly: "First you burned the bed while you were sleeping; then you electrocuted Pamela who was helping you until she was half dead while washing the dishes; today, you almost killed her again.
Got a guest.”
"I didn't mean it..." Cosette whispered.
Karin turned her head to Todd: "We need your help regarding her powers."
Todd looked at the blue coils under the skin of the albino girl and touched his nose with a headache: "To be honest, this kind of power is very dangerous, and I don't know how to deal with it."
Seeing Cosette lower her head again, Todd said unbearably: "But maybe we can try."
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In Todd's small experimental building, the instruments and bottles on the experimental table were cleaned up, and the tables were put together into a temporary operating table.
Rachel, Karin and Pamela stood nearby, looking at Cosette who was nervous on the operating table, and they all comforted her that everything would be fine.
Todd put on a mask and cotton gloves, adjusted the concentration of ether, walked up to Cosette, and said to her: "Wait a minute, I will give you general anesthesia, and you will briefly lose consciousness within three hours."
, During this time, I will use minimally invasive surgery to extract parts of your body to find a way to control your supernatural powers."
"Let me ask you, are you ready now?" Todd looked into Cosette's eyes and said calmly: "Don't worry, it's just a minor surgery, there won't be any danger."
Cosette turned her head and turned her gaze to Rachel.
The woman nodded slightly and gave her an encouraging look.
Cosette took a deep breath and said, "I'm ready."
Todd placed a cloth soaked in ether on the mouth and nose of the albino girl. Tens of seconds later, the latter fell into a deep sleep. He first nodded to the three people behind him, and then used a sterilized knife to cut his legs.
A small incision was made on the skin, and sterling silver needle-nose pliers were finally used to try to grasp the foreign object under the skin.
Just when the pliers touched the blue wire, a huge electric current radiated from Cosette's body, burning a small hole in Todd's cotton gloves and burning the stone platform beneath him black.
's imprint.
Todd had no choice but to use touch first to consume as much electrical energy in Cosette's body as possible.
After nearly ten minutes of discharge, the blue line under the skin gradually dimmed. Todd tried it a few times with pliers and finally decided to try again.
Then he made a small opening and clamped the foreign object under Cosette's skin. Todd resisted the high temperature from the clamps and pulled it out with all his strength. Under the exclamation of the people around him, a 60-centimeter long blue
The nematodes were pulled out from under the skin.
Todd threw the bugs into the prepared mica culture dish, bandaged Cosette's wounds, then collapsed on the ground and breathed a long sigh of relief.
Giving the task of taking care of the girl to Rachel, Todd rushed into the laboratory with this parasite that could discharge electricity.
Through dissection and microscopic observation, Todd discovered a new species of parasite that had never been seen before.
This parasite is divided into four layers in its body structure. The outermost layer is the cuticle layer that secretes insulating mucus. The second layer from the outside inward is the muscle layer. The third layer is the medulla layer. The innermost layer is
It's the nervous system.
The secret of its power generation lies in the third layer - the medulla layer. In the tube body of the parasite, there are a large number of power generation cells, which are similar to small laminated batteries. When it is stimulated by the host's nerve signals, it can
Causes the electrical ions to pass through the cell membrane and accumulate.
There are cells like this from head to tail in the parasite, like many laminated batteries stacked on top of each other. When an electric current is generated, all of these are connected in series, creating a very high voltage between the head and tail of the parasite.
.Many such battery packs are connected in parallel, so that a large enough current can be generated outside the body.
In addition, this parasite that can discharge electricity also has an even more peculiar function - regeneration of severed bodies.
When this parasite is cut into two parts with a sharp tool, the muscle layer on the section will immediately contract, and part of the muscle will quickly dissolve to form a new group of cells. At the same time, the cells will gather on the cut surface to form an embolism, which will damage the wound.
Close quickly.
At the same time, cells in the nervous system, medullary tubes and other tissues in the body can rapidly undergo budding and reproduction through a large number of mitoses. In this way, as the cells continue to proliferate, a section of the section without a head will grow.
A new head comes; on the section where the tail is missing, a tail will grow. In this way, one parasite becomes two complete parasites.
In the end, Todd gave this parasite that can generate electricity and regenerate a strange name -...