After the Battle of Twilight, the town's guard camp was expanded and renovated with Todd's approval, and hundreds of tons of food, arrows, and herbs were transported there for centralized preservation in case of another war.

However, after a period of observation, the war situation around Twilight Town gradually eased, and the possibility of being attacked became less and less. As a result, the underground combat readiness depot was transformed into an underground testing ground.

Some sensitive, covert research has been placed here.

Although it was the middle of October and the temperature was not too low, Todd still wore a thick linen coat and entered the underground warehouse.

Every corridor and room in the underground space is equipped with ventilation ducts, and dormice injected with "frozen" bacteria are placed together, and the cold air is blown to every corner of the underground through a hydraulic fan driven by groundwater.

Therefore, the sun may be shining on the outside, but the wind is biting underground.

Todd, guided by the Inheritors' team, walked through a long bend to a room full of marble coffins.

The corpse of a sturdy man, lying flat on a stone platform in the center.

Huggins stood next to the corpse, spotting Todd's presence, and bowed his head in shame.

Kendi stood beside the stone platform, carefully cutting the skin of the deceased with a sharp blade, extracting blood and muscle tissue, placing it under a microscope for careful observation.

Without bothering Kendi, Todd first walked up to Huggins and asked in a low voice, "We lost six men?"

Huggins nodded, his eyes on the ground.

"There are only two people on the other side, and the xenomorph who caused our casualties, I heard that he also ran away?"

Beads of sweat were dripping from Huggins' forehead.

Todd sighed, didn't say anything more, and walked over to Kendi.

Kendi lay in front of the operating table, looked at the bones at the joints of the deceased with interest, and said to Todd behind him: "In my hometown, there were scholars who studied earthquakes. They found an interesting thing, earthquakes can transform solid soil into liquid soil. We also call this phenomenon "soil liquefaction". ”

Due to the involvement of geological tectonics and physics, Todd, who is not very proficient in this, humbly asks Kendi for details.

The latter grabbed some dust from the floor of the room, brought it to Todd and said, "When we talk about dirt in the usual sense, we don't mean gravel and soil particles in the full sense of the word, but this wet mud mixed with a lot of water. When these soft sediments filled with water are stimulated by external forces, and the water is surrounded by soil particles and cannot be discharged, water and soil form liquid soil that cannot bear weight. In short, solid soil becomes liquid soil. ”

Todd listened to Kendi's explanation and acquired an important word—stimulus from an external force.

Kendi clapped his hands and said, "The external force we are talking about must be high-intensity, fast, and continuous force, like a laundry stick slapping clothes, but with the intensity of an earthquake." Of course, ordinary people can't realize this kind of external force, but in this alien body, the impossible has become a reality. ”

Kendi motioned for Todd to come to the microscope, and the latter saw through the eyepiece a strange microorganism: a tubular organism with a cell wall and cytoplasm, colorless. It has a fairly long hyphae and many septums on the hyphae. This microorganism lives on nerve cells and spreads in a mycelial manner between or through the cells of the host.

"These are fungal ......"

Todd's words stunned Kendi, who asked, "I'm sorry, my lord, I've never heard of that term you just said, can you please say it again?"

Todd glanced at Kendi, repeated what he had just said, and then asked, "Tell me about your observations." ”

Kendi nodded, pointed to the sample in the petri dish and said: "These little guys, known as fungi, parasitize near the nerves of the human body, and they can use very fast frequencies to stimulate the nerves of the human body, and cause the human skin to emit high-intensity vibrations, thus simulating the environment of an earthquake, and finally triggering 'soil liquefaction'. This is also the reason why he can easily turn soil into spheres and cause a burst effect. ”

Todd nodded as he listened, this barbarian xenomorph had a fungus in its body that clinged to nerve cells. Through high-frequency stimulation, the human body can be simulated to simulate the effect of a miniature earthquake.

"My lord, have you ever thought about what the discovery of this microorganism represents?" said Kendi to Todd with an excited face.

Todd didn't react for a moment, and looked at Kendi for answers.

"This means that the castle and the city walls will completely retire from the stage of history!"

Todd was a little confused, talking about fungi, why did he suddenly jump to the castle and the city wall?

Kendi leaned closer: "I've heard of the Knights' siege method, the most common way to deal with those tall walls and solid castles is to dig a tunnel under the wall, bury the gunpowder, and blow up a gap. But what to do when you encounter a fortress with a moat on the perimeter......

Todd was silent, thinking about it carefully, it seems that those in the previous life and the film and television, when talking about the tactics of cave explosions, only mentioned the matter of planting explosives, but never mentioned how to deal with the moat.

Kendi continued: "The general method is to place explosives at the base of the wall and detonate them, but this method causes negligible damage to the wall and can easily extinguish the fuse. But with the ability of "Soil Liquefaction," it all came to light. Because the stone is also soil after all, but the sand and gravel are more closely arranged, but there is still water in them, especially the stone walls next to the moat. Using the fungus's earthquake-like attack, the stone can be broken down and disintegrated. ”

Todd smiled and patted Kendi on the shoulder: "There are two problems. First, you have to think of a safe arrival in front of the walls, and second, you have to have enough earthquake strength to destroy the walls. ”

The latter blinked: "The first problem is not my thing, the second problem we can solve through experiments." ”

Todd looked at the southern scholar with a turban and said with emotion: "Kendi, I have to say that the Southern Empire is really much stronger academically than the Church Region......"

Kendi thought for a moment and said, "The Southern Empire absorbed the academic essence of the Taylor period, and doctrinally advocated the learning of others, but the church was relatively more conservative......"

Todd was about to discuss something with Kendi when a member of the Inheritor team hurried over to Huggins and whispered something.

The latter nodded as he listened, and then said to Todd, "My lord, we just captured a member of the Legion of Discord. ”

Todd turned around, his eyes lit up, "Oh? Is that the guy who ran away?"

"No, it's another person. We found the 'Legion of Distortion' mark on his back, and the serial number was '9'. ”