Chapter 60: The Humble Laboratory
If some people's sorrows can be comforted by telling others, but some people's sorrows can only be buried deep in their hearts and they dare not even touch themselves, what kind of life does a young boy need? Is it fine food or coarse tea and light food? In fact, no matter what, as long as there is the love of parents, it is enough.
It's a pity that this love was all transformed into hatred when it was abandoned by his biological parents, and finally destroyed such a small family.
Il didn't know what to do except sigh.
"Well, I've told you everything you want to know, but let's talk about you, how did you survive the fire in San Piedenola's prison?"
Nicholas was very interested in this matter, considering that the management of the prison could be said to be almost completely closed, with only enough food to sustain life, and a group of shift guards of paladins loyal to the church, he tried to rob the prison countless times but could not find a way to get out.
And his son survived the fire and appeared in front of him, I have to say that this is simply a miracle.
“...... Where to start, let's put it this way, I planted the fire of San Piedenola, so of course I will not die under the fire, and I have been planning my own escape from the day I was imprisoned. Of course, the most important thing is that I can use magic without a wand. ”
Ir pointed to the ring in Nicholas's hand, and Nicholas immediately understood what he meant and threw the ring back into Il's hand.
Il took the ring and immediately put it back on the middle finger of his right hand, this ring has been with him for seven years, and has never left his middle finger, just now I was really uncomfortable.
"I think I've seen the pattern on it in a book, but where did you get this ring? There should be no one on the continent today who can make such a magical prop, this must be a product of the most prosperous era of magic a thousand years ago. ”
Nicholas pondered, and Il became excited when he heard his words, could it be that the books left here record the events of a thousand years ago? Could there be more records of gnomes and demons, magicians, and gods?
"Father, I have to tell you something, something I've been holding on to my heart for a long time and I can't tell anyone, it has to do with a race that has vanished. ”
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When Il told Nicholas about Pyggs, Nicholas frowned again.
"Father, I would like to see where you have been researching under the guidance of your notebook, and perhaps you may be able to find something useful to me, and I want to help you to see if you can restore your human sense of taste. ”
Il looked at Nicholas firmly, this firm look made Nicholas feel that he could believe it, he thought about it for a long time, and finally made a decision, since his son wanted to take revenge on the church, then he could only fully support it.
Nicholas led Il into his underground lab, which had not been visited in a long time, and the test bench was covered in dust.
Il's oil lamps were lit all around, a workbench with scissors, tweezers, and a small balance on it, a stove for the fire next to it, and two side-by-side cabinets against the walls of the laboratory containing some unknown medicines and various glassware.
To the right of the cabinet was a table with a recess underneath a spring to shake the tabletop, and a trough on the floor of the lab for storing ice, but there was nothing there, and it was hard to imagine that such a humble lab could allow Nicholas to succeed in the transformation.
"If all this is really useful to you, you can use everything in the entire territory as you please...... And this notebook, I thought about it, I'll give it to you, the rest of the books are also in my study, you are smarter than me, you will definitely not do things like me that you regret. ”
With that, Nicholas took a worn-out notebook from his bosom and handed it to Il, then left the underground laboratory with a light sigh.
Sitting on a stool, Il flipped through the notebook that turned Nicholas into a vampire, and he finally had a basic understanding of the creation of vampires:
The owner of this notebook is called Ben, and the entire research recorded in this notebook revolves around the transformation of life and death, and he wants to make human beings break through the limitations of aging and death, so there are many hypotheses and conjectures.
Finally, in his thinking and research day and night, he came up with this idea: only the living will grow old and die, and after death, people will always stay at that moment of death, and their faces will never age again, and only dead people in this world will not die again.
Those complex thought processes involve too many areas to discuss for the time being, but after a period of research, Ben succeeded in making the first corpse that can move without relying on the control of magic, but the actions of this corpse that can move are random and aimless, which is far from the desired effect.
The second corpse becomes reactive to heat, but it is only the simplest reflex, and this corpse is also unable to possess consciousness of its own.
Ben tried a lot of things, but no matter what adjustments he made, he couldn't restore the dead to their original consciousness, which was not the result he wanted, he wanted to be able to 'resurrect' himself after death, this kind of corpse that only made a reflex was useless.
Ben realized that there might be something wrong with his research direction, and there was no way to 'resurrect' dead corpses, and he still had to start with the living, so he thought of a brilliant solution, and thus the prototype of the vampire was born.
A living brain can release magic, so even if the body is dead, this kind of 'person' still has its own consciousness, and can use magic to control its own blood all over the body to replace the muscles and nerves that originally controlled various parts of the body, and then Ben embalmed the human flesh and skin, just like a specimen will not rot.
And Ben chose blood as this 'human' way of obtaining energy, because blood is rich in nutrients, sucking blood can not only make the body healthier, but also can eliminate toxins from the body, blood can indeed become energy and be eaten, Ben calls this unique magic that can control blood called blood magic.
Therefore, vampires are rumored to be supernatural creatures, by drinking the blood of humans or other creatures, they can survive for a long time, have the characteristics of immortality, are afraid of light and only move at night, have strong physical fitness and can use mysterious and unique magic.
Ben solves the problem of immortality, but although the brain is invisible, it will slowly age, so the next thing to do is to let the brain survive forever, and it seems that it is much easier to study the survival of the brain than to make all the tissues and organs in the entire human body survive.
It is unknown whether Ben succeeded in finding a way to keep the brain and heart alive, and the notes were stopped in Ben's heart viability test.