Alien Knights

After closing the door of the laboratory, the first thing Todd has to do is to confirm the state of his body.

He roughly calculated that there are more than ten kinds of abilities in his body, such as "perspective", "weakness", "Eagle Eye", "speed", "regeneration", "strength enhancement", "underwater breathing", "metal skin", "pain suppression", "soil control", "appearance change", "soul link".

Due to the body mutation caused by the Sutherland archaea, the body's tolerance environment was greatly strengthened, and the upper limit of the capacity of the supernatural bacteria in Todd's body was greatly increased, and the original limit on the number of supernatural powers was broken.

Mutations caused by archaea can evolve the body into a monster form that matches its abilities. For example, metal skin can transform the mutant's outer skin into a solid semi-metallic armor; rapidity can make the limbs evolve into a monster form that is more suitable for running and jumping. However, mutation can also cause all cells in the body to be attacked indiscriminately, eventually reducing the organism to a mindless monster.

The tyrant virus is mainly active in the nervous system, and its benefits lie in that, on the one hand, it can strengthen the supernatural bacteria, and on the other hand, it can force the mutation in the body to stop. Its harm is that if there is no mutated Sutherland archaea in the organism, the tyrant virus will attack the entire nerve center.

The current task is to find a way to allow them to have the ability of the evolved tyrant on the basis of maintaining the consciousness of the successors. Based on this premise, Todd wrote down words such as "Sutherland archaea", "supernatural bacteria", "tyrant virus", and "monster form" in his notebook.

The first is the dosage of "Sutherland Archaea". At present, Sutherland archaea has entered the stage of mass production. In the power factory, there are more than fifty volcanic environment simulators used to produce archaea, and about sixty successors can be artificially cultivated every month. There are now more than 800 successors in the entire Muxi City. So, the production of archaea is not really a problem.

Todd put a cross on "Sutherland Archaea".

Then there is the issue of "supernatural bacteria". In Twilight City, the kingdom regularly organizes different species to sample and extract supernatural bacteria, and builds a special place to cultivate and store bacteria, so the stock of supernatural bacteria is not a problem.

Todd put another cross on "Bacteria".

Then there is the "tyrant virus", which is essentially a special bacteriophage that can multiply and expand by swallowing bacteria, so there is no need to worry about the number of viruses at all.

"Tyrant Virus" was crossed out.

Todd looked at the phrase "monster form" in his notebook, lost in thought.

If it is an unmutated heir who is exposed to the tyrant virus, the nerve center will lose its function due to the virus; but if it is a mutated heir who is exposed to the tyrant virus, although the attack of the virus can be suppressed, all the organs and tissues in the whole body will be destroyed and changed due to the mutation, and then become a monster without thinking.

These problems put the use of Tyrant Virus in a dilemma.

If you don't mutate, you will die; if you mutate, you will become an unconscious monster...

Todd threw away the pen in his hand, looked at the last word "Monster Form", and scratched his hair in distress.

Is there no way to protect the consciousness of the successor from being destroyed during the mutation process?

Thinking of this, Todd opened his mouth slightly and froze in place.

He suddenly remembered that there is indeed a successor who has completed the mutation and retained consciousness after being exposed to the tyrant virus, and this person is Todd himself!

Todd rubbed his forehead vigorously with his hands, and muttered to himself: "Think about it, think about it carefully, how did I come into contact with the tyrant virus?!"

Memories of the past flooded into Todd's mind like a tide.

The life and death battle with Clarence.

The subterranean temple of the Shadowlands.

A huge vortex beneath the island.

The dark door in the depths of the sea.

Finally, Jingsu's Blackstone Beacon Tower...

Todd frowned, thinking secretly, could it be that the reason why he was able to preserve his consciousness during the mutation process was because of the mysterious beacon tower?

If true, applying tyrants to successors would be an almost impossible task.

Because if the kingdom wants to cultivate a tyrannical successor, it must let him go through a "trial of fate" that is close to death. This approach is simply a fantasy.

Todd thought for a while, and then remembered that in the ruins of the North Island, there was an identical beacon tower. Can it be used to complete the mutation of the successor?

Later, Todd rejected the proposal.

Jingsu once said that the beacon tower on the North Island has exhausted its energy and is no longer in operation. Moreover, letting the consciousness of others enter the space of the beacon tower means meeting Jingsu. Next, no one can predict what will happen, the uncertain risk factor is too great.

Todd leaned back hard, looked at the ceiling, and let out a long sigh.

It seems to be a difficult solution to use the beacon tower to complete the mutation of the successor.

As a last resort, Todd had to use other methods to achieve the tyranny of the successor.

The first thing that came to Todd's mind was the quantitative control commonly used in biochemical experiments. To put it simply, it is to strictly control the number of archaea and viruses injected into the organism to control the variation and evolution process of the organism, and to achieve the purpose of successor evolution by means of time difference and alternate reactions.

Next, Todd conducted experiments with forty-nine mice, repeatedly experimenting with the dosage and addition time of Sutherland archaea, supernatural bacteria, and tyrant virus, and finally came to a depressing conclusion.

It is basically impossible to realize the evolution of successors by means of quantitative control.

Of the forty-nine mice used for the experiment, thirty-one died, thirteen completed the mutation but became "walking corpses", and only five survived with their consciousness preserved.

But these five mice are not completely mutated, that is to say, some of their bodies have completed the mutation, but other parts are still in the state of normal mice, just like Jerome, the seventh in line of "Legion of Discord", has become a half-tyrant successor.

Todd, who had been experimenting for eleven hours in a row, opened his sore and astringent eyes, looking at the rat corpses all over the ground in the experiment box, and had a splitting headache.

Putting a dead mouse on the dissecting table, Todd opened its skull with a scalpel, looked at the brain tissue that was slowly swallowed up by the black reticular membrane, and closed his eyes disheartened.

So far, the results of the experiment are obvious.

The collapse of consciousness caused by the mutation of the successor and the destruction of brain tissue caused by the tyrant virus are like a pair of poisonous snakes biting each other's tails. There is no perfect way to solve this deadlock.

If you really want the tyrant virus to be applied to the successor, unless you can unlock the secret behind the beacon tower. But the latter, from the current point of view, is undoubtedly a dream.

Helpless, Todd threw the scalpel on the table, got up from the chair, and walked helplessly to the living room next to the laboratory, intending to take a break. When passing by the temperature-controlled warehouse, I suddenly caught a glimpse of the wooden barrel storing the "keel" parasite.

Suddenly, a flash of light flashed through Todd's mind.

Tyrant virus attacks brain tissue and neurons in living organisms, but what happens if you inject it into a parasite that has no brain at all, but only the most primitive nerve fibers?