In Todd's soul space, the office on the second floor of the institute.
Sitting on a comfortable swivel chair, holding a bag of potato chips in one hand and a Coke can in the other, Rachel looked at the memory clips of last night's banquet played on the computer, laughing so hard that she couldn't hold back her joy.
Todd, who was busy dealing with things, glanced at the woman beside him, shook his head and said, "I really envy you. You can still eat food when you look at such things."
Seeing the scene of people fleeing for their lives, Rachel laughed and held her belly while twitching on the table. She said intermittently: "I can't believe I missed this yesterday! It's such a pity!"
As if he could still smell the lingering stench in his nose, Todd's stomach was churning, and he quickly reached out to stop Rachel: "Let's change the topic."
"Okay." Rachel raised her eyebrows and complained to Todd: "When can I return to Twilight City?"
Todd was stunned and gave Rachel an apologetic look: "The barbarian camp has just been established, I need your help."
"I knew you would say that." Rachel, with a displeased look on her face, stretched her arms back, revealing the perfect curves of her upper body.
Todd was stunned, suddenly remembered something, clicked several times with the mouse, and said to Rachel: "Open the mailbox icon on your computer desktop and look at the email I sent you."
With a puzzled expression, Rachel clicked on the Outlook icon, opened the email and saw that the text of the email was a drawing of a unique small building.
Different from the complicated designs and religious structures commonly used in medieval buildings, the design style of this small building embodies the word simplicity, simple wooden furniture, simple room design, bright visual sense, and eye-catching potted plants.
Rachel flipped through the architectural design drawings and conceptual images and asked curiously: "What is this?"
Todd tapped the table with his fingers and said excitedly: "Everything needed to build this house, including craftsmen, drawings, and cement, has been arranged on the ship. I believe it will be transported to Froststone Camp soon."
Rachel glanced at Todd and said half jokingly, half seriously: "Looking at this attitude, are you planning to let me stay here forever?"
Todd smiled and said nothing, but Cumberland's words suddenly came to mind.
Your Majesty, can you say that there is no hidden secret behind this woman?
Todd slowly lowered his head and said softly to the woman: "Rachel."
"Um?"
"What do you wish for?"
"Why do you suddenly ask this? If you really want to talk about your wish...to eat all the delicious food, see all the beautiful scenery, and enjoy every day of your life, does this count?"
As you wish, Your Majesty, do you want to make her your queen?
Todd clenched his fists, and his palms were pale and bloodless: "Rachel, regarding the future, have you ever considered settling down one day?"
"Settle down?"
Rachel's smile slowly disappeared from her face, and various expressions of surprise, hesitation, worry, and sadness kept changing on her face. Finally, she closed her eyes and said quietly: "I am not a person suitable for stability.
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Todd frowned: "Why?"
"There are many reasons that I can't explain to you right now." Rachel looked at the cozy little building on the computer screen with the corner of her eye, a look of yearning and longing flashing through her eyes.
When she looked at Todd again, Rachel returned to her normal appearance. She smiled and said, "Your Majesty, I hope you won't think too much. One thing is for sure, my loyalty to you is unquestionable."
Todd sighed deeply.
Returning to his bedroom in the real world, Todd sat at the table, looking at the bright sunshine and beautiful gardens outside the window, but there were dark clouds and strong winds in his heart.
During the conversation in the soul space, Todd believed that with Rachel's intelligence, he must have heard the meaning behind his words, but the answer he gave made him extremely frustrated.
Todd always thought that there was some kind of invisible bond between himself and Rachel. It was precisely because of this that when Rachel and Karin used their bodies as conditions to ask for the continuation of the Alien Alliance, he
He was so angry that he became furious.
At that time, he stubbornly believed that Rachel's move was an insult to the relationship between the two. He hoped that Rachel would cherish this emotion more, instead of measuring it with interests or even trampling on it.
But...everything that happened in the soul space today began to make Todd completely question his judgment.
In the past, a woman proposed using a child to tie up the relationship between the two, but now she has implicitly rejected the possibility of going further. Isn't this a sign of regression in the relationship between the two?
but why?
Todd, who was puzzled, stood up from his chair and walked towards the underground passage of the palace.
When Huggins was supervising the construction, he specifically requested that an additional room—a laboratory—be built for the king under the palace.
Microscopes, glass test tubes, petri dishes, incubators... Walking into this laboratory and looking at these familiar items, Todd was inexplicably reminded of the memories of his previous life.
Whenever he was unhappy or unhappy, he would always go back to the university laboratory and use the world of biology and chemistry to temporarily forget his sorrow.
As a human being in this life, since he ascended the throne of the king, he has done endless government affairs and countless things, which made him breathless. Thinking about it now, it has been more than a year and he has never set foot in this land again.
world.
Gently touching the smooth marble countertop and looking at the dazzling array of glassware on the shelves, Todd took a deep breath and said softly at a volume that he could only hear: "I'm back..."
Todd first returned to the bedroom and retrieved the well-sealed amber stone from the box under the bed.
Then I returned to the laboratory and began to organize the equipment and prepare reagents.
After doing all this, Todd opened the notebook and began to follow the experimental habits of his previous life. At the top of the first piece of paper, he wrote the six characters "Tyrant Research Diary" in Chinese.
The first thing is to sort out the information you already have on hand.
Todd wrote on the paper while recalling the characteristics of the tyrant:
First, Tyrant only exists in environments with high radiation intensity, and its dependence on pressure, oxygen, temperature and moisture is currently unclear.
Second, there are a large number of abnormal creatures in the surrounding areas where the Tyrant appears, such as manticores, griffons, etc.
Third, Tyrant can suppress and reverse the mutation of Sutherland bacteria, and can even freely transform the infected person's mutated form through the command element of the human nerve center.
After writing these three items, Todd put down the charcoal, put on his laboratory clothes, and after performing routine disinfection and exhaust procedures, he used a sharp iron drill to drill a hole in the amber stone to facilitate sampling.
After five minutes of hard work, the sample's skin was intact, but the drill bit was bent into a half-moon shape.
Putting down the scrapped iron drill in his hand, Todd sighed with a headache, and suddenly looked at his right hand, thoughtfully.
Open the five fingers of your right hand and stretch it out in front of you, watching the skin of the fingers slowly metamorphose, eventually turning into the shape of iron claws.
After Todd sterilized the mutated iron claw, he placed it on the surface of the amber stone and turned his fingers back and forth.
After another ten minutes of hard work, he finally drilled a small hole about five millimeters in diameter into the surface of the sample.
The first level of the experiment - sampling, was finally passed.
Use a dropper to take out a drop of black liquid from the amber stone, press it tightly with a glass piece, and put it under a microscope.
Todd brought his eyes to the eyepiece, glanced at it, then shook his head and straightened up.
Although this microscope was built by famous experts in Muxi City, its magnification is still too low, only about 800 times.
In the lens, I could only see a black spot, but I couldn't tell what it was.
Using the power of Eagle Eye, Todd brought his eyes to the camera again. This time he could see these black substances, which were clusters of closely arranged creatures, but he still couldn't see the shape and structure of the creatures clearly.
The eagle eye can magnify the objects in its sight by 5 to 7 times. When combined with a microscope, the final magnification can be increased to about 4000 to 5600 times. But it seems that if you want to observe the tyrant, you need a higher magnification.
Rate.
What to do?
The first thing Todd thought of was the powerful electron microscope that everyone had assembled in the past. That instrument could increase the magnification to about 20,000 times.
But after thinking about it for a moment, Todd still rejected this option.
There are several key factors that determine that the simple and powerful electron microscope is of no use here.
First, the imaging method of that electron microscope was too primitive, using paper to display the magnification results, and it could only show the general state of the microorganisms, and it was impossible to confirm specific details.
Second, due to technical limitations, the electron microscope can only display static images but cannot display dynamic processes, which is not conducive to physiological research on microorganisms.
Third, the imaging time is too long. It often takes several minutes to generate an enlarged result, which is really too slow.
Is there any way to achieve appropriate magnification while overcoming the limitations of electron microscopy?
Todd, who was feeling worried as he touched his forehead, suddenly his eyes lit up.
If I transform into a monster form, wouldn't my mutated eyeballs be able to greatly enhance the eagle eye ability?
Then the original 5 to 7 times magnification of the eagle eye can be instantly expanded to between 100 times and 120 times. Coupled with the 800 times eyepiece of the optical microscope, the final magnification will be fixed at 80,000 times to 100,000 times.
time, which is enough to observe any microorganism.
After Todd transformed his head into the monster form, he looked into the microscope lens again. This time, he finally saw the true face of the tyrant.