When the stocky man actually sat down in his chair and saw the priest approaching him with a black needle-like thing, he regretted his decision to cooperate with the experiment for the sake of a barrel of ale.

"Can I ......?"

Before Walton could finish his words, Leslie, who was standing beside him, breathed through his nostrils and said categorically, "No!"

The white-robed woman, Adlena, looked a little worried: "Priest, are you sure that this will be fine?"

Todd lifted his sleeve, and a small needle hole was faintly visible in his forearm, and he said in a tone of nine out of ten, "Don't worry, I've tried it myself several times." It hurts a little when you just pierce it, like an ant bites it, and then it doesn't hurt much. And I've never made a mistake in alchemy. ”

"However, I have never heard that alchemy requires the extraction of blood......"

Leslie interrupted Adlina again: "What does it matter, it's just a little blood. In the tavern, our brave and fearless Lord Walton has said countless times that he once fought with the barbarian army for seven days and seven nights, and the sky was dark and the blood flowed profusely, so naturally he would not care about this little wound, right?"

Walton gave the red-striped boy a smile that was worse than crying.

Alfonso glanced at the table full of utensils and jars, raised his chin to the priest, and exchanged glances with Huggins beside him: "Have you seen him use alchemy before, is it safe?"

Huggins touched his chin with a glove, looked at the syringe with a sharp needle, remembered the experience of refining silver and making glass in the past, and said uncertainly: "I have seen it, but I have seen it, it seems that it was not so complicated in the past......"

Todd came up to Walton, rolled up his sleeves, wrapped his arms around leather ropes, and then used clair's clairing ability to find where the needle fell.

The pudgy man struggled and twisted his body, watching the needle get closer and closer to his skin, shaking his head desperately, and exclaiming incoherently, "You are lying to me! This is definitely not alchemy! I swear, I swear! I will never go to the tavern again!"

The needle pierced the skin and blood splattered.

Walton fainted.

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After placing a sample of Walton's bodily fluids under a microscope and magnifying it at 400 times, Todd invited everyone to come and see it.

A moment later, a huge exclamation of admiration and exclamation echoed through the laboratory.

Alfonso, Leslie, Adleine, and Huggins see a world in the microcosm.

Walton used his "Eagle Eye" ability to magnify the original microscopic world by a factor of 400 times, reaching about 3,000 times, and he was able to see the whole picture and local features of the bacterial world.

And when Todd used a syringe to inject the bacteria of the "Eagle Eye" ability into his body, when he used the skills of "Eagle Eye" and "Perspective" under the microscope, what he could see was the life movement and complete structure inside the bacteria.

Finally, the last condition for the alienation experiment of "Sutherland archaea" was met.

For the next few days, Todd simply lived and ate in the lab, with only Alfonso and Huggins occasionally visiting him during the day. In the dead of night, when his laboratory was brightly lit, Karin Foreman would stand alone in front of the window of the small building, watching his busy figure, not speaking or disturbing, and then standing and watching for a while, and then disappearing.

And Todd's experiment was not all smooth sailing. The first challenge was to inject a liquid mixed with Sutherland's bacteria into the experiment.

There is a high probability that any organism that comes into contact with Sutherland bacteria will die immediately, and mice are no exception. The first few test subjects died directly due to the large bacterial load in Sutherland. After that, Todd repeatedly scaled down the dose and finally found a margin of safety for the dose.

Then, due to the lack of electronic monitoring equipment and medical diagnostic equipment, Todd had to use the clairvoyance ability to observe the state of the subjects every once in a while. This process is long and tedious, and the experimenter cannot sleep peacefully, and every three to four hours, he must use fluoroscopy to record the state in case of abnormalities.

For the first few days of the experiment, all of the subject's values were normal.

From the third day, through the ability of perspective, Todd found that the heartbeat, nerves, blood circulation and other functions of the mice had problems of different sizes.

On the fourth day, some of the subject's organs and body cavities were damaged, and some of the subjects vomited blood.

By the fifth day, the subject's nerve centers, including the brain, had been damaged, and the stress reflexes from the outside world had become dull.

By the sixth day, the nervous system was necrotic and overtaken by a strange form of bacterium, and the subject's various organs of the body were alienated. Alienation is associated with abilities such as the debilitating ability that causes venom sacs and poisonous bubbles to form, the clairvoyance ability that causes the eyeball to compound into an eyeball, and the haste ability that alters the muscle form and bone alignment of the lower body.

By the seventh day, the subject's appearance had changed, the nails had become longer and sharper, the mouthparts had been connected to the venom sac, the throat had been connected to the poisonous bubbles in the lungs, the upper limbs had degenerated into small claws, the lower limbs had become centipede-like multi-legged, the chest had spines protruding, the back had spikes growing out, the tail had become longer and barbs, the head resembled that of the sharp-beaked praying mantis, the large sharp-edged mouthparts, and the compound eyes that could rotate 270 degrees. The nervous system, which had been dead and dormant, began to reactivate due to the dense bacterial processes, but it lacked basic neuronal connections. At this point, the organism has lost its most basic sense of thinking and has become extremely aggressive.

At this point, Todd had to forcibly interrupt the live experiment, injected all the subjects with a large dose of ether, and performed painless euthanasia. And just in case, the severed head was disposed of.

Through multi-stage living observations of the subjects, he finally put together the puzzle pieces of Sutherland's alienated relics, piece by piece.

Sutherland archaea are able to block and imprison xenobacteria, digest the toxic substances they release, and only release them if the nervous system allows it.

However, nothing is perfect, and anything that is advantageous will always gradually show its harmful side.

The point is that the number of Sutherland archaea is constant, these archaea have no way to divide and regenerate, and those xenobacteria have been growing exponentially.

When the ratio of the two reaches a critical point, the Sutherland bacteria will change from "police" to "butcher". From the original "blockade" to "phagocytosis", the engulfment and digestion of xenobacteria will gradually spread within the host, first blood vessels, then organs, and finally nerves, and gradually change the shape and function of the host, turning it into an irrational monster......