After leaving the matter of spreading rumors to Huggins and leaving the matter of making glass to Karin, Todd ducked into the laboratory again.
During this period, external pressure and inner uneasiness prompted him to start thinking of ways to improve his chances of survival in a different world.
Muxi Harbor's crazy plan involved too many links, so he was not very sure. Any mistake in one step would cause the entire plan to completely collapse.
Once the plan fails, finding a way to survive becomes the top priority. Besides, putting eggs in one basket is not his style.
Therefore, designing and completing backup survival plans has become the top priority of the current work.
And Todd's alternative is to expand his abilities.
The inspiration for this idea came from that experimental accident.
Since Sutherland bacteria can block heterogeneous bacteria and reduce their poisoning effect, why not inject several more bacteria into your own body to gain more supernatural abilities in order to protect yourself?
There are two options on hand, Huggins' "Weak Bacteria" and Edgar's "Fast Bacteria".
After comparison, Todd is more inclined to the latter.
Although the weak supernatural power can play a great role in close combat, for a research character like Todd, there are very few opportunities to fight with people, so it is not practical.
The ability of speed is much more important.
Thirty-six strategies: walking is the best strategy. If you can't beat it, you have to outrun it. Increasing your speed is very beneficial to saving your life.
But how to inject the bacteria from Edgar's body into his own body is another problem.
First of all, if the number of fast bacteria entering the body is too small, not only will it be impossible to acquire supernatural powers, but it will even disappear directly under the attack of the body's immune function.
Secondly, in a different world with medieval technology, there is no way to make a syringe for modern medicine. Without a syringe, is it possible to dig a small hole in your leg with a knife and pour the bacterial liquid into it?
Finally, the disinfection conditions are too backward. Although the Sutherland bacteria in his body can block the germs, there is no guarantee that other messy pathogens will not appear in this era. Todd does not want to have his limbs amputated or even lost because of a single injection.
Little life.
Let’s solve the first problem first, how to obtain a large number of fast bacteria? The idea of extracting more pathogenic bacteria from Edgar’s body was completely rejected as soon as it appeared in Todd’s mind. He didn’t want to see the little one again.
Damn boy, that pitiful look with snot and tears during the last live sampling.
Of the remaining methods, the best option is bacterial culture.
The so-called bacterial culture is to inject culture fluid into a petri dish where bacteria are placed, and adjust the temperature, pressure and pH value in a timely manner to create the most suitable culture environment for bacteria and achieve the purpose of artificially propagating bacteria.
The culture medium selected was "broth medium" commonly used in bacterial culture experiments.
After placing the petri dish properly, Todd began to make a syringe. Due to the low technology of making micro-instruments in the Middle Ages, syringes did not appear as practical items made of brass until the seventeenth century (Todd did not know that in the medieval communist countries,
In fact, there are already prototypes of hypodermic syringes).
The liquid tank and thruster are very simple. The former can be made of sterling silver or brass as a round tube, and the latter can be made of a rubber balloon or wooden push rod.
The biggest trouble is the needle.
Among the medical devices in the previous life, the thinnest medical needle was 0.33 mm, and the thicker ones were 0.55 and 0.6 mm. However, making them requires precision machine tools, which is obviously unrealistic at this stage.
Todd thought for a long time and finally remembered that he had watched a program on the Discovery Channel that mentioned natural hollow needles.
Sea urchin spines.
The spines on the surface of sea urchins are generally about 1-2 cm long, 1 or 2 mm thick, conical in shape, hollow and fragile. However, after cleaning the lumen, they are then plasticized to make the spines pliable and difficult to break.
It can be used as a syringe needle.
After solving the first two problems, the third problem seems simple.
Medical alcohol and high-temperature sterilization can fully meet the disinfection needs.
When everything was ready, Todd sat on the ground, rolled up his trouser legs, and used his clairvoyance ability to look at the blood vessels and nerves in his calf. He picked up the syringe with one hand and used pressure with the other hand to help tighten the nerves.
The leg muscles are fully relaxed.
When inserting the needle, he hesitated.
The next thing to do is to conduct bacterial experiments on your own body.
Moreover, a pathogen from a copper pipe is actively injected into the body. This kind of behavior has gone far beyond the scope of scientific research. To put it nicely, it means you dare to try; to put it worse, it means your brain is watery.
Taking a deep breath, Todd murmured to himself: "I might really be crazy..."
The needle pierced the skin, blood spattered out, and the wooden push rod was pushed forward, and the transparent liquid filled with bacteria slowly entered the subcutaneous tissue.
Pain and burning sensations came from the wound at the same time. Todd gritted his teeth and watched the wooden pusher slowly sinking into the copper pipe while observing his lower body through fluoroscopy.
The bacteria enter the thigh along the calf, enter the pelvic cavity, and then enter the lower limb on the other side.
The muscles in the legs began to tremble violently, the nerves slowly lost their function, and the calves seemed to disappear out of thin air from the body.
Todd used a disinfectant cloth soaked in medical alcohol to cover the wound tightly. His lips became pale and bloodless due to excessive tension.
I don’t know how long it took, but the paralysis in my legs dissipated like an ebbing tide, and my nerves came back online and brought me sensation.
Todd looked at the rocks on the roof, tried to move his toes, and slowly stood up while holding on to the wall.
He used clairvoyance to look inside his legs again. The rapid bacteria formed a gray torrent that slowly flowed through the body.
"Succeeded? Or failed?"
He tried to walk forward with his legs and kicked off the ground with the soles of his feet. The huge reaction force caused Todd's body to rush forward four or five meters and directly hit the table in front of him.
Holding his chest that was hurt by the impact, Todd opened his eyes wide. He suddenly realized that the heterogeneous bacteria experiment... was successful.
My body already possesses two superpowers at the same time.
After opening the door of the laboratory, Todd felt so happy that he wanted to sing loudly. With a little force on his feet, his body could bounce into the distance. It felt as if the earth's gravity had completely moved away from him, and every step felt like he was in space.
Just like walking in the middle.
Ignoring the surprised looks of the monks, he ran through the underground passage and passed through the monastery corridor. The scenery around him quickly flew behind him, and the road under his feet seemed to be shortening infinitely.
I ran all the way to the smelting field, found the other people, and was about to speak.
Huggins released a homing pigeon and handed over a note with a solemn expression: "Pirates have appeared."