When the short, fat man actually sat down on the chair and saw the priest walking toward him with a black pointed needle, he immediately regretted his decision to agree to cooperate with the experiment for a barrel of ale.
"Can I...?"
Before Walton finished speaking, Leslie, who was standing next to him, breathed out through his nostrils and said decisively: "No!"
Adelina, the woman in white robe, looked a little worried: "Father, are you sure nothing will happen if you do this?"
Todd lifted his sleeve, and a small needle hole was still vaguely visible on his forearm. He said in a confident tone: "Don't worry, I have tried it several times myself. It hurts a little when it goes in, like an ant."
After one bite, there is no pain at all. And I have never made any mistakes in alchemy."
"But, I have never heard that alchemy requires the extraction of blood..."
Leslie interrupted Adelina again: "What does it matter? It's just a little blood. In the tavern, our brave Lord Walton said countless times that he once fought against the barbarian army for seven days and seven nights.
, the sky is dark, the earth is dark, and the blood is flowing like a river, naturally you won’t care about this small wound, right?”
Walton gave the red-striped boy a smile that was uglier than crying.
Alfonso glanced at the utensils and bottles on the table, raised his chin towards the priest, and exchanged glances with Huggins beside him: "Have you seen him use alchemy before? Is it safe?"
Huggins touched his chin with his glove, looked at the syringe with the sharp needle, and recalled his past experience of refining silver and making glass, and said uncertainly: "I have seen it before, it didn't seem so complicated in the past..."
Todd came to Walton, piled up his sleeves, first wrapped his arms with leather ropes, and then used his clairvoyance power to find where the needle fell.
The short, fat man struggled and twisted his body, watching the needle getting closer and closer to his skin. He shook his head desperately and shouted incoherently: "You are lying to me! This is definitely not alchemy! I swear, I swear! I will do it again."
I won’t go to the pub anymore!”
The needle pierced the skin and blood spattered.
Walton fainted.
————————————
After putting Walton's body fluid sample under the microscope and adjusting the magnification to 400 times, Todd specially invited everyone to come and watch.
A moment later, huge admiration and exclamations echoed in the laboratory.
Alfonso, Leslie, Adelina and Huggins saw a world in the microscopic world.
Walton used his "Eagle Eye" power to magnify the microscopic world several times more than the original 400 times, reaching about 3,000 times. He was able to see the whole picture and local characteristics of the bacterial world.
And when Todd used a syringe to inject the bacteria with the "Eagle Eye" power into his body, and when he used the skills of "Eagle Eye" and "Perspective" at the same time under the microscope, what he could see was the life movement inside the bacteria.
and complete construction.
Finally, the last condition for the "Sutherland Archaea" alienation experiment was met.
In the next few days, Todd lived and ate in the laboratory. Even in the dead of night, his laboratory was brightly lit.
Todd's experiment was not all smooth sailing. Injecting the liquid mixed with Sutherland bacteria into the experimental body was the first problem.
Any living thing that comes into contact with Sutherland bacteria is very likely to die immediately, and mice are no exception. The first few experimental subjects died directly due to the excessive amount of Sutherland bacteria. After that, Todd
The dose was repeatedly reduced and the safety margin of the dose was finally found.
Next, for the in vivo observation of the mice, due to the lack of electronic monitoring equipment and medical diagnostic equipment, Todd had to use clairvoyance to observe the status of the experimental subjects every once in a while. This process was long and boring.
The experimenter cannot sleep peacefully, and must use fluoroscopy to record the state every three to four hours to prevent abnormalities.
In the first few days of the experiment, all the numerical values of the experimental subject were normal.
Starting from the third day, through the power of clairvoyance, Todd discovered that the mice had various problems with their heartbeat, nerves, blood circulation and other functions.
On the fourth day, some organs and body cavities of the experimental subjects were damaged, and some subjects vomited blood.
On the fifth day, the experimental subject's nerve centers, including the brain, were damaged, and their response to external stress reflexes became dull.
On the sixth day, the nervous system was necrotic and occupied by a strange bacterial protrusion, and various organs of the experimental subject's body were alienated. The alienated state is related to superpowers. For example, weakening superpowers will lead to the formation of venom sacs and poisonous bubbles.
The clairvoyance power will cause the eyeballs to become compound, and the speed power will change the muscle form and bone arrangement of the lower body.
On the seventh day, the appearance of the experimental subject changed. The nails became longer and sharper, the mouthparts were connected to the venom sacs, the throat tube was connected to the poisonous bubbles in the lungs, the upper limbs degenerated into small claws, and the lower limbs became centipede-like.
Many legs, spinous processes appear on the chest, spikes grow on the back, the tail becomes longer and has barbs, and the head is similar to
It resembles a mantis with a sharp beak, a huge sharp-edged organ, and compound eyes that can rotate 270 degrees. The originally dead nervous system has become active again due to the dense protrusions, but it lacks basic neurons.
Contact. The organism has lost its most basic consciousness at this time and becomes extremely aggressive.
At this point, Todd had to forcibly interrupt the in vivo experiments, inject large doses of ether into all test subjects, and perform painless euthanasia. Decapitation was also performed as a precaution.
Through multi-stage in-vivo observation of experimental subjects, he finally pieced together the jigsaw puzzle of the alienation of Sutherland's relics piece by piece.
Sutherland archaea can block and imprison heterogeneous bacteria, digest the toxic substances they release, and only release them when the nervous system allows it.
However, nothing is perfect, and anything that is beneficial will always gradually show its harmful side.
The key is that the number of Sutherland archaea has remained constant. These archaea have no way to divide and regenerate, while the heterogeneous bacteria have been growing geometrically.
When the ratio between the two reaches a critical point, when the Sutherland bacteria determines that the situation is no longer controllable, it will change its role from "police" to "butcher". It will change from the original "blockade" to "devour".
, swallowing and digesting the heterogeneous bacteria. When the heterogeneous bacteria are completely swallowed, Sutherland
Bacteria will shift their attack targets to normal cells and become malignant bacteria that attack indiscriminately. This situation will gradually spread within the host's body, first to blood vessels, then to organs, and finally to nerves, and gradually change the host's appearance and appearance.
Function, turning it into an irrational monster...