Alien Knights

Soul Space, an office on the second floor of the Institute.

Sitting on a comfortable swivel chair, with 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 and laughing.

Todd, who was busy dealing with affairs, glanced at the woman beside him, shook his head and said, "I really admire you, looking at this kind of thing, you can still eat food."

Seeing the scene of people fleeing for their lives, Rachel hugged her stomach and twitched on the table with a smile, and said intermittently: "I can't believe it, I missed this yesterday! It's such a pity!"

As if the lingering stench could still be smelled in his nostrils, Todd's stomach was overwhelmed, and he quickly reached out his hand to stop Rachel: "Let's change the subject."

"Okay." Rachel raised her eyebrows and complained to Todd, "When can I go back to Muxi City?"

Todd was taken aback, and gave Rachel a "sorry" expression: "The barbarian camp has just been established, and I need your help."

"I knew you would say that." Rachel stretched her arms back with a displeased face, and she could see the perfect curve of her upper body.

Todd was stunned, and suddenly remembered something, clicked several times with the mouse, and said to Rachel: "Open the mailbox icon on your computer desktop, and check 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 blueprint of a chic small building.

Different from the complex design and religious structure commonly used in medieval buildings, the design style of this small building embodies the word "simplicity" everywhere, simple wooden furniture, simple room design, bright visual senses, and eye-catching plant pots.

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, blueprints, and cement, has been arranged on board, and I believe it will be transported to the Froststone camp soon."

Rachel glanced at Todd, and said half jokingly and half seriously: "Look at this posture, you plan to let me live here for a long time?"

Todd smiled and said nothing, but Cumberland's words suddenly came to mind.

"Your Majesty, can you tell me that there is no hidden secret behind this woman?" 』

Todd lowered his head slowly, and said softly to the woman, "Rachel."

"Um?"

"Do you have any wishes?"

"Why do you ask this suddenly? I really want to talk about wishes... eat all the delicious food, see all the beautiful scenery, and enjoy every day of life, does this count?"

"Listen to you, Your Majesty, do you want to make her queen? 』

Todd clenched his fists, his palms were pale without a trace of blood: "Rachel, regarding the future, have you considered that one day you will settle down?"

"settle down?"

Rachel's smile slowly disappeared from her face, surprise, hesitation, worry, sadness, all kinds of expressions were constantly changing on her face. Finally, she closed her eyes and said quietly: "I am not a person suitable for stability."

Todd frowned: "Why?"

"There are many reasons, and I can't explain it to you right now." Rachel looked at the warm little building on the computer screen from the corner of her eye, and the look of longing and longing flashed in her eyes.

When she looked at Todd again, Rachel returned to her usual look. She smiled and said, "Your Majesty, I hope you don't think wildly. One thing is for sure, my loyalty to you is beyond doubt."

Todd sighed deeply.

Returning to the bedroom in the real world, Todd sat at the table, looking at the bright sunshine and the beautiful garden outside the window, but his heart was covered with dark clouds and the wind was blowing.

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 given by the other party made him very frustrated.

Todd always thought that there was some kind of invisible bond between himself and Rachel, and because of this, when Rachel brought Karin to use his body as a condition to ask for the continuation of the alien alliance, he became so angry and furious.

At that time, he stubbornly believed that Rachel's move was an insult to the relationship between the two. He hoped that Rachel could cherish this emotion more, instead of measuring or even trampling it with interests.

But... everything that happened in the soul space today made Todd completely question his judgment.

A woman proposed to use children to bind the relationship between the two in the past, but now she implicitly rejects the possibility of going further. Isn't this a sign of the regression of 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 to build an additional room for the king in the underground of the palace - a laboratory.

Microscopes, glass test tubes, petri dishes, incubators... Walking into this laboratory, looking at these familiar objects, Todd inexplicably recalled the memories of his previous life.

Whenever he is unhappy, he will always go back to the laboratory of the university and use the world of biology and chemistry to temporarily forget his sadness.

As a human being in this life, since he ascended the throne of the king, he has been overwhelmed by the endless government affairs and countless things. Now that he thinks about it, it has been more than a year and he has never set foot in this world again.

Gently touching the smooth marble countertop, looking at the dazzling array of glassware on the shelf, Todd took a deep breath, and said softly with a volume that he could only hear: "I'm back..."

Todd first returned to the bedroom, and took the well-sealed "Amber Stone" from the box under the bed.

Then I went back to the laboratory and began to organize the equipment and prepare the reagents.

After finishing all this, Todd opened the notebook and began to follow the experimental habits of his previous life. On the top of the first sheet of paper, he wrote the six characters "Tyrant Research Log" in Chinese.

The first thing to do is organize the information you already have at hand.

Todd wrote on the paper while recalling the characteristics of "Tyrant":

1. "Tyrant" only exists in an environment with high radiation intensity, and the degree of dependence on pressure, oxygen, temperature and moisture is still unclear.

2. In the surrounding places where "Tyrant" appears, there are a large number of abnormal creatures, such as manticores, griffins and so on.

3. "Tyrant" can inhibit and reverse the mutation of "Sutherland Bacteria", and can even freely transform the mutant form of the infected person through the command element of the human nerve center.

After writing these three items, Todd put down the charcoal pencil, put on the experimental clothes, and after performing routine disinfection and exhaust procedures, he used a sharp iron drill to make a hole in the "Amber Stone" to facilitate sampling.

After five minutes of hard work, the skin of the sample was intact, but the drill was bent into a half-moon shape.

Putting down the discarded iron drill in his hand, Todd sighed with a headache, and suddenly looked at his right hand, thoughtfully.

Stretch out the five fingers of your right hand in front of you, and watch the skin on your fingers gradually disintegrate, finally turning into iron claws.

Todd sterilized the mutated iron claw, put it on the skin 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 in the sample's epidermis.

The first hurdle of the experiment—sampling—was finally over.

Take out a drop of black liquid in the "Amber Stone" with a dropper, press it tightly with a glass slide, and put it under the microscope.

Todd put his eyes on the eyepiece, just glanced at it, then shook his head and straightened up.

Although this microscope was built by famous experts in Muxi City, the magnification is still too low, only about 800 times.

In the lens, only black spots can be seen, but it is impossible to see what it is.

Using the ability of "Eagle Eye", Todd moved his eyes to the lens again, and 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.

"Eagle Eye" can magnify the objects in the line of sight by 5 to 7 times, and with a microscope, the final magnification can be increased to about 4000 to 5600 times, but it seems that to observe the "tyrant", a higher magnification is required.

what can we do about it?

The first thing that came to Todd's mind was the "Powerful Electron Microscope" that was assembled by everyone in the past. That instrument can increase the magnification to about 20,000 times.

But after a little thought, Todd still denied this option.

There are several key factors that determine that the crude "superior electron microscope" is useless here.

First, the imaging method of that electron microscope is too primitive. It uses paper to display the magnified results, and it can only show the general state of the microorganisms, and it is impossible to confirm the 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 the physiological research of microorganisms.

Third, the imaging time is too long, and it often takes several minutes to generate a zoomed-in result, which is really too slow.

Is there any way to achieve a suitable magnification while overcoming the limitations of the electron microscope?

Touching the worried Todd on his forehead, his eyes suddenly lit up.

If you transform yourself into a monster form, wouldn't the mutated eyeballs greatly enhance the "Eagle Eye" ability?

Then the original magnification of 5 to 7 times of the "Eagle Eye" ability can be enlarged to between 100 and 120 times in an instant, and coupled with the 800 times eyepiece of the optical microscope, the final magnification will be fixed at between 80,000 and 100,000 times, which is enough to observe any microorganism.

After Todd transformed his head into a monster form, he looked at the lens of the microscope. This time, he finally saw the true face of the "tyrant".