When he saw the person coming, he was about to rush into the crowd. The guard standing in the front row bumped him with his shoulder and pushed him to the ground. He then drew his sword and pointed it at the person's throat.
"Please stop! He is a scholar from Muxi University!" Terrence rushed forward and quickly stopped the guard.
Todd looked carefully at the people on the ground.
This man was about thirty years old. His body was thin due to long-term malnutrition, and his skin was white from not seeing the sun all day long. The ten fingers on his hands were long and thin, and they looked like bamboo joints.
Terrence explained to Todd: "The scholar's name is Wayne Dunlop, a professor of physiology. He unlocked the secret of 'human blood circulation' and registered related patents, ending the church's long history of
Thousand-year-old "blood aura theory"."
Discordant whispers came from the scholars around him.
"This guy has never received a systematic education at all."
"He used to be a veterinarian. I bet he's not much smarter than those butchers who kill pigs."
"I heard that he stayed with corpses all day long, and the bottles and jars in his room were filled with human organs."
"I really don't know how this kind of person got into the university..."
Todd frowned. It seemed that the guy lying on the ground was not well received by other scholars.
Wayne climbed up from the ground, held Master Terrence's clothes with one hand, and said loudly: "Master Terrence, please follow me, my experiment will begin soon!"
"Wayne Dunlop! Pay attention to your words and deeds. His Majesty came to visit the university specially today. You must not be rude..."
Before he finished speaking, Terrence suddenly opened his eyes wide and stammered: "Wait...wait a minute, you said...experiment?! Are you still continuing that experiment?!"
Terrence, who was angry and annoyed, was about to reprimand Wayne loudly, but found that Todd was looking at this bold scholar with interest, and for a moment he didn't know what to say.
Todd said: "What kind of experiment is it? Can I see it too?"
Wayne then turned his attention to the speaker: "Your Majesty? Are you your Majesty?! That's great! If you can come and visit my experiment, it will be my lifelong honor!"
Terrence covered his forehead with his hands and whispered to Todd: "Your Majesty, there are many places to visit in the university. You don't have to go to watch Wayne's experiment."
Todd waved his hand carelessly: "What does it matter? There is no set route or goal for this visit. My plan is to see wherever I go."
Seeing that there was no way to persuade the king, Terrence gave up on trying to stop him and instead followed Wayne to the basement of the laboratory building.
During the march, Terrence introduced the life of Wayne Dunlop to Todd.
Wayne Dunlop was born into a family of serfs. Since his father was a veterinarian on the ranch, he was influenced by what he saw and heard and embarked on this path.
As a child, Wayne was unable to receive an education due to family poverty. He looked for every opportunity to learn knowledge and enrich himself by giving medical treatment to livestock, borrowing books from farmers or nobles' homes, and determined to become a church secretary.
.
However, the good times did not last long.
When he was sixteen years old, a plague spread throughout the Moon Creek Plain, killing most members of his family. Since then, Wayne's temperament has undergone a huge change, and he has begun to develop an interest in pathology and
Interested in human body science.
He traveled to many countries until more than a year ago, when he finally settled in Muxi City and studied microbiology courses at Muxi College for several months. Later, he spent all his savings and bought a microscope.
And sneaked into the Silver Ring City under the control of the barbarians, dissected and studied the corpses of the victims, and finally discovered the secret of blood circulation.
"I was the one who took the initiative to invite Wayne to join Muxi University and become a member of the professors." Terrence walked on the road, the expression on his face was full of tangles: "This child has infinite enthusiasm and desire for the truth. When other people
While he was still asleep, he had already gotten up from the bed and started compiling reports. When others returned to their residences yawning, he was still working hard in the laboratory."
"This time to raise funds for Muxi University, Wayne was the first to donate all his property and transferred his patent rights to Muxi University for free."
Todd nodded as he listened: "Sounds like a very good scholar."
Terrence grabbed his beard in distress: "As a follower of the truth, he is undoubtedly excellent; but as a human researcher, many of his actions are full of controversy, and can even be said to be deviant."
Hearing the words "deviant", Todd was about to ask what was going on. The team had already arrived at the entrance of Wayne's laboratory. The scene in front of him made him temporarily forget his question.
A dozen men, women, and children in simple clothes and disheveled faces stopped at the door of the laboratory, looking inside with sad faces.
Todd asked: "Who are these people?"
Terrence sighed: "These people are all family members of the experimental subjects."
"Family of the experimental subject?!"
Todd was stunned for a moment, then he pushed through the crowd and walked to Wayne's laboratory.
A huge glass screen separates the laboratory into two spaces.
In the space inside, there was a strange-shaped metal bed, and on the bed lay a dry, emaciated, naked old man who was about to die.
Todd frowned and asked Wayne, who was busy transcribing data in the room, "What's going on?!"
While recording the old man's vital symptoms, the latter said without raising his head: "This is an experiment about life and soul."
Todd made a questioning sound, but Wayne was completely immersed in the experiment and no longer paid attention to anything outside.
Master Terrence stood up at this time: "Your Majesty, let me explain."
"The dying old man you see behind the glass is the subject of this experiment, and the people waiting outside are the old man's family."
"The general principle of Wayne's experiment is this: first create a room that is isolated from the outside world, and remove the interfering elements in the room to the greatest extent, such as air, humidity, temperature, noise, etc.; then create a complete set of devices that can
A precision instrument that detects room changes.”
Having said this, Terrence pointed to the metal bed behind the glass and said to Todd: "There is a watertight device under the bed, which can measure the weight change of the experimental subject on the bed, and the maximum accuracy can be down to grams; the watertight device set in the room
The long vertical glass column is a pressure gauge, used to detect changes in room air pressure. In addition, there are also magnetic field compasses, mercury thermometers, light intensity topologists, etc..."
Looking at the dying old man on the bed, trembling all over and making loud noises from his mouth, Todd asked Terrence: "So what exactly is this experiment trying to do?"
"As Wayne just said, this is an experiment about life and soul." Terrence glanced at Wayne Dunlop, who was in a state of academic frenzy, and shook his head: "He found some from the immigration area.
People who are about to die are allowed to enter this room to spend the last period of their lives. He is responsible for recording the changes in all the data in the room at the moment of death of the experimental subject. This can be used to confirm that after death,
, whether there is a soul that will overflow the body."
"This is simply, this is simply..." Todd shook his head, trying to find a suitable adjective to describe this ridiculous experiment, but in the end, he took a deep breath and asked: "These experiments
Are they willing to cooperate with Wayne's experiment?"
Terrence knew what the king wanted to ask and explained in a low voice: "These dying people all come from poor families in the immigration area. Wayne promised to give them a generous reward in exchange for having to die in this laboratory.
middle."
"There's something wrong with this approach..." Todd rubbed his temples with his fingers.
Huggins stood next to Todd, looked at everything behind the glass, and said softly: "This approach desecrates life and denigrates death."
As he spoke, the old man on the metal bed was breathing like a broken bellows. His hands were scratching at his sides. He wanted to say something, but nothing came out.
Then, the old man's body movements gradually slowed down, his pupils expanded, and his chest no longer rose and fell.
Todd had seen soldiers who died on the battlefield and similar people struggling in the fire, but the process of turning from survival to death before him was so calm that it was almost cruel, making his thoughts tremble as if they were being cut by a knife.
The accompanying scholars were shocked at first and then angry later.
Someone rushed to Wayne who was recording numbers, grabbed the other person's collar with his hand, punched the other person in the face, and yelled: "You bastard! Using truth as a guise, you have tarnished the last trace of human dignity."
!”
Looking at Wayne who was knocked to the ground, Master Terrence's face was full of sadness and worry: "Mr. Dunlop, follow my advice and stop your experiment immediately!"
Wayne used his body to protect his precious experimental data, endured the punches and kicks of others, and shouted loudly: "You keep saying that you respect the truth and stay away from God, but you still have outdated ideas in your heads!"
Terrence stopped the people's violence, supported Wayne with his body, and said to him: "Young man, this has nothing to do with truth and God. What you have done has touched the bottom line of mankind."
Wayne looked at Terrence and said sadly: "What exactly is a human being?! If there really is a God, did he consider his own bottom line when he created human beings?!"
After a moment of pause, Wayne, who was bruised and bruised, looked at Todd with hopeful eyes: "Your Majesty, my Majesty! Do you also hold such a narrow view?! Why can't we do what God can do?
?!Why use human thinking to bind the existence of truth!"
In Todd's ears came the cries of the deceased's family members, and the voices of scholars discussing. Some loudly cursed this undignified experiment, while others discussed in a low voice whether the search for the truth should be done by any means necessary.
.
Todd said to Wayne: "Mr. Dunlop, I can understand your mood, but what I want to tell you is that your thinking is correct, but your method is wrong."