On the seventh day after the "Relief Society" dinner, Todd stood at the door of the Muxi Town Church with a group of residents watching the excitement, looking at a group of taciturn craftsmen pounding stones in the open space next to the church.
Laying the foundation.
Not far from the construction site, Rachel and Karin were standing aside, wearing wide pure white nun robes.
Karin's eyes lit up when she saw the priest. As soon as she took two steps, the abbess behind her grabbed her ear and whispered something.
Seeing this scene, Todd shook his head amusedly and helplessly.
Early the next morning after the dinner, Todd planned to return to Muxi Town immediately. He originally thought that Rachel would have to prepare for a few days before arriving. Unexpectedly, the other party just picked up a leather bag and took it.
He climbed into a small wooden box and jumped on the carriage.
The morning after the two arrived in Muxi Town, the group of craftsmen who were building the nunnery appeared next to the church, which made Todd speechless at Rachel's efficiency.
In addition, I don’t know what method Rachel used. Karin, who was originally free and unrestrained in the town, became obedient to Rachel in just a few days, and even put on the clothes that she had refused to wear before.
Nun's robe.
After leaving the door of the church, Todd returned to the small laboratory building and once again opened the "History of Sutherland" given to him by Theodore. There was a passage about the sage's research career in his youth that concerned him the most.
"Sutherland was twenty-six years old. When he was working at the Taylor Alchemy School, he built a hut in the Albano active volcano crater to conduct alchemical experiments and lived there for eight years. He brought clean water and dry food every morning.
, descending from the path of the volcanic cave to the depth of tens of meters, collecting and refining materials... At the age of thirty-four, he returned to the capital, and while continuing to study alchemy, he traveled around with the legion as a pharmacist...
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Todd slowly closed the book and thought carefully. After the "Sutherland Archaea" is injected into the human body, the number almost never increases or decreases. But if the heterogeneous bacteria exceed its carrying capacity and break the balance between the two,
Archaea will attack at will and turn the host into a monster. According to the church's records, in the past thousand years, almost all people who have been contaminated by the "Sutherland Legacy" have turned into monsters, with the exception of one person.
It was Sutherland himself.
Based on this reasoning, the alchemist Sutherland should have stably obtained a large amount of archaebacteria and stored them in his body through some channel. This suppressed the heterogeneous bacteria in his body, and no mutations occurred until he died in battle.
So, how did this archaea get into Sutherland's body?
According to the research results of the microbial world in the previous world, from the discovery of the species Archaea in 1977 to the year of time travel, there were only more than 100 types of Archaea discovered. According to their habits and places, they are generally divided into those living in volcanic craters.
"Thermophilic Archaea", "Halophilic Archaea" that live in highly concentrated salt water, "Acidophilic Archaea" that live in strong acid, and other minorities.
Judging from the records in the "History of Sutherland", Sutherland archaea are most likely the first type - "thermophilic archaea" near the crater.
So, there is only one last question left.
How to obtain a large number of Sutherland archaea and solve its own "successor" crisis?
Todd had no intention of imitating the alchemist from a thousand years ago and running to the crater to look for archaea. If he did that, he didn't know if he would be able to find it. He might mutate into the form during the journey back and forth.
A monster.
The best way is to artificially propagate "Sutherland Archaea", but this time the bacterial culture needs to simulate the environment of a volcanic crater.
After confirming all this, Todd could finally take a long breath at the experimental table.
The answer to the huge puzzle of "Sutherland Archaea" has a total of four puzzle pieces. They are: microbiological knowledge from past lives, experimental equipment that can observe bacteria, the secret history of the church's hunting of "successors" and the secret history of Sutherland's archaea.
Seran's life experience. So far, the puzzle pieces have been put together, the puzzle has been solved, and everything has finally cleared up and come to light.
After finding the drawings and tools, Todd began to write and draw. He quickly completed the design of a metal sealed petri dish used to simulate a volcanic environment. He put it into a wooden tube and planned to hand it over later.
Huggins for craftsmen to build.
After finally settling an important matter on his mind, Todd stretched out in his chair and looked at everything in the laboratory. Suddenly he couldn't remember how long it had been since he had gone to the town.
Putting down the pen in his hand, locking the door of the room, Todd walked onto the street of the town.
It was already around four o'clock in the afternoon, and people who had been working all day gradually returned to the streets. There were more and more people in the center of the town.
Around the location of the church is gathered all the prosperity of Muxi Town, with shouts and shouts coming from the tavern, various humming sounds from the livestock shop, as well as weaving and dyeing shops, linen shops, vendors, and snacks.
Cars, etc. Although it was lively, Todd glanced at the dust flying on the ground and the garbage littered on the street, and touched the bridge of his nose in distress.
The public management of Muxi Town relies entirely on residents' voluntary maintenance. Although this can significantly reduce municipal expenditures, it is far from reaching the proper health standards and planning levels.
"Control is not a good thing, but we have to rely on it?" Todd said hello to the residents passing by, while thinking about the complicated thoughts in his mind, walking farther and farther, gradually towards the edge of the town.
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For a medieval village to be upgraded to a town, the most critical and important part is the city wall. But now Muxi Town cannot do it, firstly because it is close to the sea. Although the town has defense forces, the armed forces on the sea are almost
Zero, no matter how good the city wall is, it is just a decoration; secondly, it is due to expansion. As the population of the town gradually increases and the extension increases, the planning and construction of the city wall is not a realistic matter.
Passing through the community of farmers' thatched houses at the outermost part of the town, Todd took advantage of the afterglow of the setting sun and saw one green field after another, separated by paths.
Farmers with depressed expressions and heavy steps passed by the priest. Some lowered their heads and some bent their knees. Todd made the sign of the cross on everyone's heads, prayed a few words, and then planned to turn around and walk back.
church.
The faint sound of crying not far away attracted his attention. Todd walked to the side of the path and pushed aside the grass on the side of the road.
A farmer in his twenties and his wife sat on the farmland, crying bitterly. Beside them were beans and chickpea seedlings, yellow and withered, drooping toward the earth.
Seeing the priest getting closer and closer, the farmer, who guessed the identity of the visitor through the priest's clothes, quickly picked up his wife and knelt down on the ground.
Ignoring them, Todd squatted down, turned over the soil under his body, glanced at the coastline at the end of his field of vision, and then at the lifeless vegetable seedlings, roughly understanding what had happened.
Muxi Town is close to the sea, and seawater can penetrate into the surrounding land through groundwater. As a result, most of the land around the town is saline-alkali land. It is okay to plant some alkaline-tolerant plants, but if you plant neutral crops, it will naturally
There will be no harvest.
The priest looked at the large area of dead seedlings in front of him, sighed, and said to the couple: "Change the crops to wheat, and start plowing the land again as soon as possible while there is still time."
"Father, we have no money. These seedlings were borrowed from the manor owner by mortgaging our last possessions."
The farmer's words stunned Todd. He thought for a moment and then asked: "How many farmers are like you who have failed to harvest their spring crops?"
The couple looked at each other and gave an answer that surprised Todd.