Alien Knights

Soul space, conference room.

Rachel put a piece of tiramisu into her mouth and asked Todd, "How did you answer her?"

Todd took a sip of beer: "I didn't reject her, I just said I needed time to prepare the materials."

Rachel shook her head: "You know she won't give up."

Todd looked at the ceiling and let out a breath: "If Eleanor is told all about the Crusade's transformation ritual and the principles of the Tyrant, the harm it will bring will be no less than the threat of the undead."

Rachel held up her fork and nodded: "Yes, after we solve the problem of the undead, Eleanor will come to solve our problem."

Rachel returned her attention to the body in the holographic projection: "Is this really Theodore's work? Can it control the undead? Is it possible?"

Todd said: "This body does use a variety of biochemical technologies, and there are indeed undead parasites in the culture tank. It does look like Theodore's work."

Rachel was puzzled: "But how can it control the undead? I mean, can it use one corpse to control more corpses?"

Todd looked at the scene in his memory carefully: "I think I can probably guess something. Theodore should be using hive parasites to control undead parasites... In principle, keel parasites are a kind of superparasitism. It can fuse with any parasite, bacteria and virus, and the hive parasite can use the mother worm to control the daughter worms. So if the undead successor can use the keel parasite to take advantage of the control function of the hive parasite... "

Todd thought carefully and finally sighed: "We cannot achieve the results of Theodore's experiment because we cannot know the original structure of the undead parasite, so we cannot use the hive to control it at all."

Rachel suddenly said: "Todd, if I said I had a way to steal that body out of the Presbyterian Church..."

Todd immediately rejected the plan: "It's too dangerous. The Oracle Stone is the most mysterious location in the entire Presbyterian Church. It must be tightly guarded, and only Eleanor can open the door at the door."

Rachel put down the fork in her hand: "Actually, when I was little, I used to sneak in."

Todd said in surprise: "Have you ever gone in? Eleanor said that she is the only one in the entire Presbyterian Church who has the key."

Rachel replied: "Did she put her hand into a hole when she opened the door, and the mechanism inside the door drilled a small hole in her hand."

Todd nodded: "Yes, I remember such a thing."

Rachel continued: "You should know that my original body, I mean the body before the spirit transformation ceremony, was a copy of Eleanor. When I used that body, I Used it to sneak into the Presbyterian sanctuary.”

"However, after Mia died, Eleanor transferred my soul into Mia's body, and since then, I can no longer enter that holy place."

Todd fell into deep thought: "In other words, when your body is a copy of Eleanor, you can freely enter the Oracle Stone, but when you use Mia's body, you can no longer enter that place. "

Rachel said: "So, I think the key to that door is actually Eleanor's body. Maybe to use what you said before, it's her inheritance...that..."

"Heredity."

"Yes, that's it."

Todd said while thinking: "Your analysis makes sense... It seems that it is not difficult to enter that door, but where can we get Eleanor's genetic genes in the first place."

Rachel said: "There is someone who can help us."

Todd guessed what the other party meant: "Are you talking about Iliad? I doubt he will help. He is not even willing to join forces with us to fight against the undead."

Todd continued: "I repeatedly stressed to him the dangers of the undead, but he was unwilling to respond to me directly. I don't understand, if Eleanor has Theodore's body as her support against the undead, then What kind of trump card does Eliade have?”

Rachel remembered something at this time: "Notes about Iliad..."

Todd asked, "What happened to Eliade's notes?"

Rachel said while recalling: "There seems to be a missing part in Eliade's notes."

"Missing a part?"

“There seems to be a deliberate omission in Eliade’s notes regarding the description and analysis of the beacon tower.”

Todd was puzzled: "About Jingsu's beacon tower?"

Rachel said: "Iliad's goal is to awaken the sage Sutherland, and then let Sutherland lead all alien species to fight for freedom and independence. But why did he deliberately conceal the matter of the Beacon Tower? The Beacon Tower and Sutherland What does it have to do with Seran?"

Todd rubbed his forehead with his palm: "Eleanor's goal is to use the tyrant and the Crusaders' transformation ritual to build a powerful army and control the entire continent. But what Iliad wants to do, I can't even guess. Less than... So, what do we know about the beacon tower now?"

Rachel said: "According to the North Island documents, the Conlino Ancient Text, the Dead Sea Documents and the Iliad Notes, there are currently three beacon towers. One is located underground in the Valkyrie Village on the North Island, and the other is located on the bottom of the Kingdom of Shadows. There is also one at the base of…Supha volcano.”

Todd frowned and asked: "The beacon tower at the bottom of Mount Supuha is the one under the Presbyterian Church? Is the sage Sutherland sleeping there?"

Rachel replied: "That's right."

Todd was silent for a moment and said, "Why did Eliad place Sutherland next to the beacon tower?"

Rachel shook her head: "Iliad must have his reasons."

"Anything else about the beacon tower?"

"In the documentary records, I counted a total of eleven changes in time and space related to the beacon tower. Ten of them were related to miracles. That is, God once used the beacon tower to open the time and space tunnel, and Traveling between two worlds.”

Todd asked, "What about another time?"

"About 5,500 years ago, there was a tribe leader named Muayyed. Members of his tribe accidentally discovered a huge black tower deep in a cave. The tribe leader, guided by his tribe, I walked down the giant tower for seven days and seven nights, experienced a series of near-death encounters, and finally came to a room-like place deep underground."

"In that room, he saw many luminous crystal barriers, and he also saw flashing symbols and pictures in the barriers. Muayyed tried to touch those crystal barriers, and under random clicks, his soul Suddenly entered a strange world."

"In that world, there were giant steel birds flying in the sky, and steel houses floating on the sea. All the buildings were made of stone. When you look up, you can't see the roof at a glance."

Todd listened and said, "I heard Meredith tell this story once."

Rachel opened the holographic image and displayed an ancient manuscript, with some strange and incomplete symbols appearing on the paper.

The first character has a horizontal line at the top, a circle in the middle, and another horizontal line at the bottom.

The second character has a circle on top and two horizontal lines on the bottom.

The third character has two circles at the top and a horizontal line at the bottom.

Todd nodded while looking at it and said, "These are binary codes commonly used in my original world. Meredith also told me this."

Rachel hid the image and said: "I bet that Meredith has never mentioned the next picture to you about the Muayyed clan leader. I found this from Eliade's notes. Yes, 5,500 years ago, someone seemed to have drawn a portrait of the patriarch."

Rachel released a profile portrait in the holographic projection.

Todd looked at the middle-aged man with beard and turban in the portrait, and said slowly: "Meredith really didn't show me this."

After staring at the screen for a few seconds, Todd suddenly stood up straight.

He used gestures to control the image software in the holographic projection, and kept changing and scribbling on the portrait of Chief Muayyed.

The beard was removed, then the turban was removed, and finally the age setting of the portrait was adjusted in a smaller direction.

Looking at the final revision of the portrait, Todd was so shocked that he forgot to speak.

The Muayyed patriarch looks very similar to Todd!