Chapter 83: The First

Seeing the syringe in his hand pierce into the veins of his arm, Todd slowly pushed the wooden pusher, and the "Perspective" and the ability of "Eagle Eye" allowed him to see with his own eyes a large amount of liquid filled with "Sutherland archaea" flowing into his veins.

For the next few days, he had to have a blood test every morning and evening. To his relief, there were no signs of archaeal deformation in his body. In addition, there is also an unexpected news, the reproduction rate of other xenobacteria in the body has actually decreased and finally stagnated.

Looking at a blood sample under a microscope, he also found the cause. The influx of a large number of "Sutherland archaea" caused all the xenobacteria to be locked and imprisoned, and naturally they could not continue to reproduce.

After confirming the effects of Sutherland Archaea, Todd gathered data and devised a plan to begin fulfilling his original promise: to help Huggins and Edgar solve the problem of xenobacterial poisoning.

When he left the laboratory and was about to go out, a large crowd gathered at the door of the church attracted his attention.

Someone spotted him and shouted, "Here comes the priest!"

The crowd swarmed him and surrounded him.

Todd looked at everyone's eager expressions and wondered in his heart. Although he did not appear in church for nearly three weeks, if he wanted to repent or pray, he could have gone to the priests and catechumens to find out what he was doing in such a hurry.

After a little inquiry, he understood what was going on.

These people came to him to register the trade in sacred bones.

As he said at the beginning, the relics worth 1 silver month can be bought and sold freely, but they must be registered at the church. But when he actually opened the register and started registering, he realized that something was wrong.

The trading price of these holy bones actually dropped from 1 silver month to 95 copper stars, and the lowest even dropped to 92 copper stars.

When Todd asked why he was selling the relics at a low price, the seller had a look of shame on his face, but he refused to say anything.

Todd, who still has two brushes, was stunned when he saw this scene. It turned out that these people saw that three weeks had passed, and the "Twilight West Mutual Aid Fund" had not returned anything, and they were anxious, regretful, and wanted to get rid of the holy bone in a hurry.

The priest didn't say anything in front of everyone, and calmly helped everyone complete the registration procedures. Then he left the church and rushed to the large warehouse in the town for the "moon grafting".

To his surprise, the town's guards treated the warehouse as a barracks. The perimeter was fenced off by rejecting horses, bell traps were set up at the entrances and exits, and wooden lookouts were built at the four corners, and anyone who approached them would be reprimanded to leave.

The only people who can enter are the farmers and the guards.

Thirty-two pots of grafted moon flowers were placed on the square outside the warehouse, bathed in the sun and enjoyed the breeze.

Thirty-two peasants, with their wives and children, stood or squatted beside each pot of flowers. Fertilizing, weeding, preservation, insect control, watering, careful movements, caring looks, looking at that appearance, it is almost like offering these flowers as ancestors......

Todd found Huggins here, and it seems that these days, this man, who was once a knight of the Silverring Kingdom, has been abiding by his duties and has not left the warehouse. In addition to being moved, the former motioned to the latter to go to the laboratory together a little later and have something very important to discuss.

Putting aside Huggins' matter for a while, Todd came to the side of each plant and observed the grafting. The survival rate of shoots is about 75%, which is neither good nor bad for the first attempt. Most of the shoots have begun to bud, and a few have already shown signs of budding, and it is believed that in another three weeks, the first bunches will bloom.

Todd then instructed the farmers to cut off all the branches that had failed to be grafted, and said several times but no one did. In desperation, he had to do it himself. The farmers who were in charge of taking care of the moon season saw the priest's actions, but they wept sadly, and some of them even used their bodies to protect the flower pots.

Todd really didn't understand, and he repeatedly explained that the remaining buds could only grow better if these withered branches were cut off.

Still no one listened to him, and in the end there was really no choice but to let the guards set up the farmers, and he took matters into his own hands and completed the pruning work.

Ignoring the grief-stricken farmers and peasant women, Todd and Huggins return to the lab.

Upon entering the lab's door, the former first untied the latter's gloves and observed the poisoning of the "debilitating" ability. Compared with the last time, the flesh poisoning and atrophy are more serious, and some bacteria have even invaded the vicinity of the shoulder joint.

There is no doubt that the use of Sutherland archaea can heal Huggins' arm and stop the spread of poisoning. But Todd was still hesitating because of two points.

1. Once Huggins is injected with archaea, it means that the other party will officially change from a xenomorph to a member of the "heir". Whether the other party will change values as a result, Todd does not know.

2. "Sutherland archaea" has the properties of lethal and mutating. Although the injection experiment was carried out on mice, the dosage experiment in humans was tried for the first time. If too much archaea are injected, Huggins may be unable to resist and die immediately, but if too little archaea are injected, the balance between Sutherland archaea and "weak" bacteria in Huggins' body may be disrupted, causing abnormal changes.

After telling the man about these concerns, the other party did not seem to have the slightest concern, just rolled up his sleeves and said this to Todd, who was holding the syringe.

"I've already died once, and even if I die again, I've only fulfilled the Grim Reaper's contract. 』

Looking at the other man's resolute eyes, Todd nodded and plunged the needle of the syringe into Huggins' skin.

The first batch of Sutherland archaea was injected into Huggins's body, and although the dose of bacteria had been reduced, the other party's painful struggles and wails were as if they were suffering eternal karmic fire in hell. For a while, Todd thought he was about to fail. However, the man eventually survived.

Over the next few days, Todd watched Huggins' blood and injected him with Sutherland archaea several times. In less than four days, the black qi in the palm of the opponent's hand gradually subsided, and the withered flesh and blood slowly showed signs of recovery.

After another three days, Huggins' blood numbers showed that his vital signs were normal, and Todd finally told him, "You're safe."

On this day, in the long course of history, Huggins became the first xenomorph to be rescued by the man-made "Sutherland archaea".