The town of Twilight entered a state of intense military readiness, and food, arrows, explosives and other materials were transported to the army garrison one by one, and the sound of drills from the training ground was non-stop day and night. Although the residents of the town knew that the Knights of the Dusk West used troops frequently and had never been defeated, it was the first time they had seen such a big battle preparation. There is rumor among the people that the Knights are going to make a big deal lately.

The troops were busy training, the farmers were busy farming, and the scholars were busy experimenting. In the entire Twilight Town, there is only one person, but he is idle and has nothing to do.

From the Battle of the Twilight, to the North Island Tour, to the start of trade, Todd has been busy for months. Now, at last, there is a rare time to relax and rest.

However, the chief regiment commander, who has become accustomed to being busy, once he is idle, he is uncomfortable and at a loss.

Todd went to the biochemical plant today, the construction site in Twilight tomorrow, and the day after tomorrow he was a guest at the Holy Order Tribunal. As a result, it turned around and did not help everywhere it went, but it attracted people to worship each other, which made the town's originally good operating order become chaotic.

In desperation, Todd simply stopped wandering around, and simply stayed at the headquarters of the Knights.

One morning, after reviewing the long-standing backlog of official documents, Todd walked to the garden of the Knights' headquarters and stretched out in the direction of the sun.

A fierce argument woke him from his calm and serenity.

Following the voice to the main hall of the Knights, Todd found the soldiers guarding the gate lying on the crack of the door looking inside, and he couldn't help frowning and coughing twice.

"Captain of the Corps!"

The soldier turned his head to see who it was, and was so frightened that he almost sat down on the ground.

Signaling that they should not be nervous, Todd gently pushed open the door to the synagogue.

The Great Hall of the Order was built in imitation of the church of the Monastery of San Sidro, with a huge pulpit, hundreds of benches, and a towering Holy Cross. There were no less than a hundred people seated in the synagogue, but Todd's presence did not draw any attention from the others, as all eyes were on the pulpit in the synagogue.

Huge wooden planks on three sides were fan-shaped on a high platform, and they were all filled with calculations and numbers written in charcoal. Seven or eight monks stood in front of the first plank, a group of students stood in front of the second, and only a man with a white turban in front of the third.

Todd squinted his eyes and tried to look ahead, he knew the leaders in front of the plank, Monk Joe, Ulysses, and Kendi, and the three factions were having a heated discussion about electricity and magnetism.

There is a glass trough on the high platform, in which are placed some small magnetic needles and a "Tesla" parasite, as the parasite wriggles and shines, the magnetic needle follows the direction of the insect's movement, constantly changing direction.

"Lord Todd has told us about the existence of electricity and magnetism. In terms of the form of energy, I believe we have agreed that now the key is the relationship between electrical energy and magnetic energy. Look at this electrified bug, it can change the direction of the magnetic field around it......"

Kendi's eloquent talk surprised Todd a little.

The monks, led by Joe, took out the books in the monastery and began to refute the claims of the southern pagans: "The book in my hand, 'The Celestial Doctrine of the Holy Source', was written by Master Ansubalco in the year 255 of the A.D., and it explains the generation of lightning from the perspective of aura transformation. ”

Kendi laughed: "The ideas of that book, one hundred and thirty years after its publication, have been proven wrong by another book......"

Joe glanced at the book in his hand and asked suspiciously, "Wrong? I've never heard of such a thing, which book is it?"

Curtis Leonel, a member of the Papal States, wrote a book entitled 'The Theory of the Origin of the Atmosphere,' which should have been published in the year 492 A.D., according to the time of the Church of the Father. ”

The monks looked surprised and said in disbelief, "Is there such a writing, why have we never heard of such scholars?"

Kendi put down the charcoal in his hand and looked at the church painting on the top of the synagogue, his eyes full of regret and pathos: "Mr. Curtis, is a great physicist, astronomer, and mathematician. When he finished the book and wanted to make it public, his teachers, friends, and relatives tried to discourage it. Between truth and life, he chose the former. He was then convicted of heresy and burned at the stake after three years in prison. ”

As soon as these words were uttered, the synagogue was silent. The monks and students had different expressions, and in the sanctuary of the Knights of the Church, they listened to a Southern heattic talk about a tragedy caused by the Church, and these people did not know how to respond.

Kendi continued: "Mr. Curtis's book is banned by the church, and naturally it cannot be seen in the diocese. In the same year, an Abbasid merchant bought a copy of the work at a high price and donated it to the Great Library of Basra. There are so many examples like this, where the Church of the Father and the Most Orthodox Church put fear above reality, and this is the biggest difference between the religions of the North and the South. ”

Todd sat in his seat, quietly feeling the silent solemnity in the synagogue, and remembered a sentence from the academic community about the medieval Arab empire - "the light in the dark ages, the cryostore of human knowledge and civilization".

Todd's ears were heard again as the scholars discussed, and as the head of the Knights of the Church, he quietly moved backwards. He did not intend to show up, but chose to leave this pure land of scholarship to those who still retain the heart of truth in front of him.

Back in his experimental building, Todd was full of thoughts. He looked at the room full of experimental equipment, and his mind thought about Kendi's speech just now, and then thought about the future of the Knights. Everywhere I looked, I suddenly saw something - Kendi's fossil box.

In exchange for his protection, Kendi deposited his treasured fossils and notes with Todd. Although the latter repeatedly stressed that such a move was pointless, Kendi still stuck to his approach.

Anyway, now that there was nothing to do, Todd simply began to study Kendi's fossils and notes.

The first is the fossilized bones, even though Todd is a layman in archaeology, but he knows a lot about living things, he can vaguely see two things from the fossils: first, the skeleton does not belong to humans, and second, the fossil may be older than human civilization (nonsense).

He took a sample from the fossil, put it under the microscope, put his eyes on the eyepiece, and at first glance, he thought he was dazzled, rubbed his eyes, and then looked at them, and forgot to speak in surprise, he saw a familiar thing in the fossil sample—Sutherland archaea.

That's impossible.

That was Todd's first thought.

Could it be that in his own laboratory, the fossil was contaminated with Sutherland bacteria?

To test this hypothesis, Todd scraped a second sample from the inside of the fossil and put it under a microscope to look at it again, and to his gasp, Sutherland archaea reappeared in the eyepiece.

If it appears on the surface of the fossil, then it may also be environmental pollution, and if it appears inside the fossil, then the most likely explanation is that the fossilized creature in front of it once contained Sutherland archaea in its body.

But a series of problems followed.

How did Sutherland archaea get into this organism? Is it natural or man-made? What is it?

The alchemist Sutherland discovered archaea a thousand years ago, but it is entirely possible that tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of years ago, there were creatures who discovered this bacterium one step ahead of him. But another speculation is that it was simply due to the movement of the earth's crust, which caused the displacement of continental shelf plates, triggering an underground magma eruption and releasing archaea.

Both of these explanations make sense.

As for what this creature is, Todd has a way to get a glimpse of it.

The clue is in the note, Kendi excavated the fossils near the "Sacred Forest" and recorded the shape and size of the fossils, and now he only needs to try to make these fossilized bones and put them together to know what the creature is.

This sounds a bit fantastical, but according to the order, depth, arrangement, and fit of the excavation, it is not very difficult for a biology teacher to stitch the bones together. But this process is not easy and time-consuming.

First, the fossils excavated in the notes are digitally marked and positioned, and then similar parts are cut out of thin wooden boards according to the size and shape of the notes, and finally the final thing is somewhat similar to assembling a model, with glue and nails to fix the parts.

It took Todd a total of 11 hours from labeling, to crafting, to assembling, and although some bones were still missing, the creature's rough skeleton had been built.

"This is the backbone. ”

"This is the tail vertebrae. ”

"This should be the mandible. ”

"This is the wing membrane bone...... Well, that's pretty much it......"

Todd looked at the creature skeleton made of wooden planks, and the more he looked at it, the more familiar it became.

From the tip of the skull to the end of the caudal vertebrae, it is about 65 meters long, with two thick leg bones like stone pillars, sharp foot and claw bones, thick and powerful upper limbs, a jaw that resembles the head of a crocodile, and wings that can reach 47 meters......

Todd's eyes widened, he couldn't make a sound, and the notebook in his hand fell to the ground.

After a long while, he squeezed a word out of his throat.

"It looks like a dragon, right?!"