After the defense of Muxi, the town guard's camp underwent expansion and renovation of the underground space with Todd's approval. Hundreds of tons of grain, arrows and herbs were transported there for centralized storage in case of emergency.
The need for war again.
However, after a period of observation, the war situation around Muxi Town gradually eased, and the possibility of being attacked became smaller and smaller. As a result, the underground war preparation depot was transformed into an underground testing ground.
Some sensitive and secret research is conducted here.
Although it was mid-October and the temperature was not too low, Todd still wore thick linen clothes and entered the underground warehouse.
Every corridor and every room in the underground space has ventilation ducts built above it. Dormouse injected with frozen bacteria are placed together. Hydraulic fans driven by underground water blow the cold air to every corner of the underground.
Therefore, the sun may be shining brightly outside, but the wind is biting underground.
Under the guidance of the successor team, Todd walked through the long curve and came to a room full of marble coffins.
The body of a strong man lay flat on the stone platform in the center.
Huggins stood next to the body, noticed Todd's appearance, and lowered his head in shame.
Kendi stood next to the stone platform, carefully cutting open the skin of the deceased with a sharp blade, extracting the blood and muscle tissue, and placed them under a microscope for careful observation.
Without disturbing Kendi, Todd walked up to Huggins first and asked in a low voice: "We lost six people?"
Huggins nodded and looked at the ground.
"There are only two people on the other side, and the alien that caused our casualties has escaped, I heard?"
There were beads of sweat dripping from Huggins' forehead.
Todd sighed, said nothing more, and walked towards Kendi.
Kendi lay in front of the operating table, looking at the bones at the joints of the deceased with interest, and said to Todd behind him: "In my hometown, there were scholars who studied earthquakes. They discovered an interesting thing, earthquakes can
Solid soil is transformed into liquid soil. We call this phenomenon soil liquefaction."
Since it involves geological structure and physics, Todd, who is not very proficient in it, humbly asked Kendi for details.
The latter grabbed some dust from the floor of the room, brought it to Todd and said: "The soil we usually talk about is not gravel and soil particles in the full sense, but this kind of wet soil mixed with a large amount of water.
Mud. When these soft silts filled with water are stimulated by external forces and the water is surrounded by soil particles and cannot be released, the water and soil form a liquid soil that cannot bear the weight. In short, the solid soil becomes liquid.
soil."
Todd listened to Kendi's explanation and picked up an important word - external stimulation.
Kendi clapped his hands and said: "The external force we are talking about must be high-intensity, fast, and continuous. It is like a laundry stick that slaps clothes, but it is as strong as an earthquake. Of course, ordinary people cannot achieve it.
This kind of external force, but in this alien species, the impossibility has become a reality."
Kendi motioned Todd to the microscope, and the latter saw a strange microorganism through the eyepiece: a tube-shaped organism with a cell wall and cytoplasm, colorless. It had quite long hyphae with many septa on them.
This microorganism parasitizes on nerve cells and spreads in the form of mycelium between or through the cells of the host.
"These are fungi..."
Todd's words stunned Kendi, who asked: "I'm sorry, sir, I have never heard of the term you just said. Can you please say it again?"
Todd glanced at Kendi, repeated what he just said, and then asked, "Tell me what you observed."
Kendi nodded, pointed to the sample in the petri dish and said: "These little guys, called fungi, parasitize near the nerve lines of the human body. They can use very fast frequencies to stimulate the human body's nerves and promote the growth of the human skin.
It emits high-intensity vibrations to simulate an earthquake environment, and finally causes the soil to liquefy. This is why he can easily turn the soil into a sphere and cause an explosion effect."
Todd nodded while listening. There was a fungus in the body of this barbarian alien, which was attached to the nerve cells. Through high-frequency stimulation, it could trigger the human body to simulate the effect of micro-earthquakes.
"Sir, have you ever thought about what the discovery of this microorganism means?" Kendi said to Todd with excitement.
Todd didn't react for a moment and looked to Kendi for an answer.
"This means that the castle and city walls will completely withdraw from the stage of history!"
Todd was a little confused. He was talking about fungi. Why did he suddenly jump to castles and city walls?
Kendi moved his body closer: "I heard about the Knights' siege method. To deal with those tall walls and solid castles, the most common method is to dig a tunnel under the wall, bury gunpowder, and blow up a
Gap. But what should we do if we encounter a fortress with a moat on the outside..."
Todd was silent and thought about it carefully. It seemed that the novels and movies in his previous life, when talking about hole-burst tactics, only mentioned the matter of planting explosives, but never mentioned how to deal with the moat.
Kendi continued: "The general method is to place explosives at the base of the wall and detonate them, but this method causes negligible damage to the city wall, and the fuse can be easily extinguished. But with the exception of soil liquefaction,
Yes, everything is solved. Because after all, stones are soil, but the gravel is arranged more closely, but it still contains moisture, especially the stone walls next to the moat. Using the earthquake-like attack caused by this fungus, you can
Can break down and disintegrate stone."
Todd smiled and patted Kendi on the shoulder: "There are two problems. First, you have to find a way to reach the city wall safely; second, you have to have enough earthquake intensity to destroy the city wall."
The latter blinked: "The first problem is not my business. We can solve the second problem through experiments."
Todd looked at the southern scholar wearing a turban and said with emotion: "Kendy, I have to say that the Southern Empire is much better academically than the church areas..."
Kendi thought for a moment and then said: "The Southern Empire absorbed the academic essence of the Taylor period, and advocated learning from others' strengths in doctrine; but relatively speaking, the church is more conservative..."
Todd was waiting to discuss something more with Kendi when a member of the Successor team hurried up to Huggins and whispered something.
The latter nodded while listening, and then said to Todd: "Sir, we have just captured a member of the Legion of Discord."
Todd turned around and his eyes lit up: "Oh? Is he the guy who escaped?"
"No, it's another person. We found the mark of the Legion of Discord on his back, and the serial number is 9."