The road is still the dark corridor, and the door is still the iron door with proverbs.
At the end of the underground hall, Huggins stood in front of a closed iron door and took out a strange key from his waist, opening a new world for Todd.
The hand-polished floor of "Wulian Red" granite covers the entire room. Four huge marble slab tables are placed in the center of the room, with iron stands, asbestos nets, alcohol lamps, beakers, and test tubes placed on them.
, gas collecting bottles, reagent bottles, mortars and other tools. Although the alcohol has long evaporated and the iron mesh has long been rusty, the long-term storage makes these items at least look undamaged.
Three fir glass cabinets are placed side by side against the wall. Inside are various bottles and jars of various sizes, some containing specimens soaked in liquid, some containing unknown dry powder, and some with broken seals or even growths.
Fungi and mildew. Todd used the torch in Edgar's hand to carefully examine the faded and deformed labels on the bottles and cans. After removing the difficult and difficult symbolic symbols, what remained was the things described in Latin characters. He
Unheard of.
A circular picture made of cloth is hung on the wall directly opposite the gate. It depicts an octagonal pattern similar to a magic circle. The directions of southeast, northwest and northwest are respectively marked with water, earth, fire and wind; southeast, southwest, northwest,
The directions of northeast read cold, dry, hot, and wet respectively.
Todd stood in the center of the room, turning his steps and looking at the vast underground room of nearly two hundred square meters. He couldn't help but sigh in his heart. He really didn't expect to see such a medieval chemical experiment in a place like this.
room.
Seeing the satisfied look on his face, Huggins raised his eyebrows and said with a smile: "You think this is the end? I guarantee that your jaw will drop when you see the next one!"
The man walked to the end of the room, opened a hidden compartment on the wall with his hand, grabbed a hand crank, and turned it carefully.
The sound of gears spinning and shafts rolling came from the basement ceiling.
After a while, a huge natural crack slowly opened in the dark rock wall of the roof. The sunlight at noon passed through the many bronze mirrors and glazed stones installed above the crack, using the principles of light reflection and scattering to instantly
The whole room is illuminated transparently and brightly; fresh air slowly flows in from above, driving away the filth and dullness in the closed environment, making people feel refreshed and refreshed.
"Fuck..." (Chinese)
Todd raised his head, widened his eyes, and opened his mouth unconsciously. He couldn't help but praise, and thought: "The person who designs a room like this must not only be proficient in alchemy, basic chemistry, and physiology; he must also understand engineering."
, optics, mechanics. Such a person must be a genius..."
The intoxicated expression on Todd's face gave Huggins great psychological satisfaction.
Throwing the key on his waist to Todd, the man first whistled towards the room and then said: "It took us a lot of effort to open this room. Originally, I wanted to take these things out and sell them...
…”
"no!"
Without thinking about it in his mind, he opened his mouth and directly expressed his objection. When Todd came back to his senses and saw the narrow expression on the other person's face, he laughed sheepishly.
The Slavic man patted him on the shoulder: "Then I thought, maybe you can discover the true value of such a place."
"This is the best gift I have ever received in my life..."
Todd looked into the other person's eyes, opened his arms, pursed his lips and said sincerely.
Huggins, who was wearing gloves, raised his hands, took two steps back, shook his head and said: "There is no need to hug. I'd better leave my time to you and this room."
The man who was about to turn around and leave with Edgar turned around and saw Jerry who was staying beside Todd with a curious look on his face. He sighed, walked over and grabbed the other man's clothes, pulled him out, and said to himself
: "You kid, stop joining in the fun here! Don't forget, it's been three days since you last went crazy today. Just follow us and take a dip in the cold water!"
Looking at the tall young man with a reluctant expression on his face as he spoke pleading words, Todd shook his head helplessly.
Since the last attack, he and Huggins developed a "stress relief plan" for Jerry:
Every time he "furies", his body is immersed in cold water. The low temperature will cause the parasite to slow down its peristalsis speed, thereby slowing down the discharge rate of adrenaline. Although the total discharge amount remains unchanged and the discharge time becomes longer, the pain the body endures
It will be greatly reduced and there will be no sanity collapse.
Both of them understand that this plan only treats the symptoms but not the root cause, but at least it is the best choice for now.
After seeing off the three people, Todd closed the door and came to the room excitedly, touching here and looking there.
Soon, several places caught his attention.
One is glass products for experiments, which are different from modern glass craftsmanship. All glassware has a metallic luster, and the mouths of some large vessels are also marked with some strange writing, which looks a bit like Arabic writing.
One is the powder in the bottles and jars in the cupboard. Todd can probably guess what some powders are based on their appearance and smell, such as calcite (calcium carbonate), obsidian (silicon dioxide), cassiterite (tin oxide), and alum.
(potassium aluminum sulfate) and so on, and some others are unclear.
The last one is those strange specimens, some of which can be seen as animal tissues, some of which look like plant roots, and some of which resemble mutated organs of humanoid creatures.
Temporarily suppressing the curiosity in his heart, Todd thought that the most important task at the moment was not to identify the items.
Todd felt the sticky floor under his feet and felt the thick accumulation of dust on the stone table. A sentence that was often hung on the wall in the laboratory of his previous life came to mind.
"Keeping hygiene is everyone's responsibility!"
After finding a mop and rag from the storage room in the underground hall, and then carrying a wooden bucket to the underground river to fetch water, Todd rolled up his sleeves and began to conduct a thorough inspection of the laboratory that had not been visited for many years.
of general cleaning.
The floor was mopped, the stone table was wiped until it was reflective, the bottles and jars were polished until they were shiny 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 from the zenith slowly turns golden, which means that the day is over and night is coming soon.
Todd poured the last bucket of sewage on the ground deep in the corridor outside the door. When he returned to the experimental room, he looked at the bright and clean room with the setting sun and nodded with satisfaction.
"Maybe it's a bit ridiculous to think this way, but this may be the starting point for me to live in this different world and create a legend in the future..."
Todd turned the handle and closed the crack in the roof. He reluctantly closed the door and took one last look at everything in the room before leaving, thinking this in his mind.