Alien Knights

The road is still the dark corridor, and the door is still the iron gate of the proverb.

At the end of the underground hall, Huggins stood in front of a closed iron door, took a strange key from his waist, and opened a new world for Todd.

The hand-polished floor of "Wulianhong" granite covers the entire room.

Four giant marble slab long tables were placed in the center of the room, on which were placed tools such as iron stands, asbestos nets, alcohol lamps, beakers, test tubes, gas collecting bottles, reagent bottles, mortars, etc. Although the alcohol had long since evaporated and the iron nets were already rusted, the long-term storage made these objects at least look undamaged.

Three fir glass cabinets are placed side by side close to the wall, and there are various bottles and jars, large and small, some containing specimens soaked in liquid, some containing unknown dry powder, and some with broken seals and even growing fungus and mildew.

With the torch in Edgar's hand, Todd carefully checked the faded and deformed labels on the bottles and jars. After removing those difficult and incomprehensible symbolic symbols, there were things described in Latin characters that he had never heard of.

A cloth circle map was hung on the wall directly opposite the gate. It depicted an octagonal pattern similar to a magic circle. Water, earth, fire, and wind were marked in the southeast, northwest, and cold, dry, hot, and wet directions in the southeast, southwest, northwest, and northeast directions, respectively.

Todd stood in the center of the room, turned his feet, looked at the nearly 200-square-meter vast room underground, and couldn't help but sigh in his heart. He really didn't expect to see such a medieval chemical laboratory in such a place.

Seeing the satisfied expression on his face, Huggins raised his eyebrows and said with a smile: "You think this is the end? I guarantee that your jaw will drop when you see the next one!"

The man walked to the end of the room, opened a hidden compartment on the wall with his hand, grabbed a hand crank, and turned it carefully.

From the basement ceiling came the sound of gears spinning and shafts rolling.

After a while, a huge natural crack slowly opened on the dark rock wall of the roof.

The sunlight at noon passes through the many bronze mirrors and glazed stones installed above the cracks, making use of the principle of light reflection and scattering, instantly illuminating the entire room transparently and brightly.

Fresh air also slowly flows in from above, dispelling the filth and dullness in the closed environment, making people feel refreshed and refreshed.

"Fuck..." (Chinese)

Todd raised his head and widened his eyes, opened his mouth unconsciously, and couldn't help praising, while thinking: "The person who designs such a room must not only be proficient in alchemy, basic chemistry, and physiology; he must also understand engineering, optics, and mechanics." Such a person must be a genius...」

The intoxicated expression on Todd's face made Huggins very satisfied.

Throwing the key at his waist to Todd, the man first whistled towards the room, and then said: "It took us a lot of work to open this room. I originally wanted to sell these things..."

"No! Don't sell!"

Without thinking about it in my mind, I opened my mouth to directly express my objection. When Todd came back to his senses and saw the narrow expression on the other party's face, he smiled embarrassedly.

Haji said that you patted him on the shoulder: "Later, I thought, maybe only you can discover its true value in such a place."

"This is the best gift I've ever received in my life..."

Todd looked into each other's eyes, opened his arms, and said sincerely with his lips pursed.

Huggins, who was wearing gloves, raised his hands, took two steps back, shook his head and said, "Hugs are unnecessary, I'll save time for you and this room."

Huggins, who was about to turn around and leave with Edgar, turned around and saw little Jerry who was staying beside Todd with a curious face. He sighed, walked over and grabbed the other man's clothes, pulled him out, and said in his mouth: "Don't join in the fun, you boy! Don't forget, today is three days since you went crazy last time, honestly follow us to soak in cold water!"

Looking at the tall young man who was saying pleading words with a face of reluctance, Todd shook his head helplessly.

Since the last attack, he and Hudgens have developed a "stress relief plan" for Jerry:

Every time he "raged", his body was immersed in cold water. Cold temperatures cause the parasites to slow down, which slows the release of adrenaline. Although the total amount of emission remains unchanged and the emission time becomes longer, the pain suffered by the body will be greatly reduced, and there will be no phenomenon of rational collapse.

Both of them understood that this plan would only treat the symptoms but not the root cause, but at least it was the best choice right now.

After seeing off the group of three people, Todd closed the door and came into the room excitedly, touching here and taking a look there.

Soon, several places caught his attention.

One is experimental glass products, which are different from modern glass crafts. All glassware has a metallic luster, and some large-scale utensils are marked with some strange words on the bottle mouths, which are a bit like Arabic characters.

One is the powder from those bottles in the cabinet. Some powders can be guessed by looking at their appearance and smell, such as calcite (calcium carbonate), obsidian (silicon dioxide), cassiterite (tin oxide), alum (potassium aluminum sulfate), etc., and some are unknown.

The last one is those strange specimens, some can be seen as animal tissues, some are like plant roots, and some are similar to mutated organs of humanoids.

Temporarily suppressing the curiosity in his heart, Todd thought, the most important task right now is not to identify objects.

Todd felt the sticky floor under his feet, touched the thick dust accumulated on the stone table, and couldn't help thinking of a sentence that was often hung on the wall in the laboratory in his previous life.

"Keeping hygiene is everyone's responsibility!" 』

He found a mop and rag from the storage room in the underground hall, and carried a wooden bucket to the underground river to fill it with water. Todd rolled up his sleeves and started a thorough cleaning of the laboratory that hadn't been visited for many years.

The floor was mopped, the stone table was wiped until it was reflective, the bottles and jars were polished and transparent, buckets of black dirty water were transported out of the room, and baskets of useless waste products were poured out of the room.

Hours passed.

The light cast by the zenith slowly turns golden, which means that even if the day is over, the night will come soon.

Todd poured the last bucket of sewage onto the ground deep in the aisle outside the door. He returned to the experiment room, looked at the room with bright and clean windows under the afterglow of the setting sun, and nodded in satisfaction.

"Perhaps it's ridiculous to think so, but this may be the starting point for me to live and live in this different world and create legends in the future..."

Todd turned the handle and closed the crack in the roof. Reluctantly closing the door, he took a last look at everything in the room before leaving, thinking so in his heart.