Chapter 449: Demon-loving Bacteria
Qiumu Island, Mechanical Palace.
In a laboratory on the second floor of the side hall, Shilov was sitting in a wheelchair, holding a wooden pad and writing on the experimental record according to time.
The surroundings of the laboratory were painted with white lime, and in the center was a thick iron bed. There were many scratches with dark red blood on the edges of the bed.
At this moment, the man who was firmly fixed to the bed by several belts, chains and iron nails was twisting his body with a ferocious face, his muscles were trembling, and his whole body was covered with a sickly blush.
The knight who once brutally massacred a family of fourteen farmers was tied to an iron bed and gagged. He looked at Shilov imploringly and moaned for help.
But Shilov, who was sitting next to him, showed no expression. He just shook his tail lightly and looked at the proliferated tissue and tumor balls on his skin, and the bulging blood vessels bursting the skin.
Blood spurted out like a small fountain. The knight's eyes widened and he finally couldn't bear it anymore and stopped breathing.
Afu next to him stepped forward, laid his head on his chest and listened for a long time before shaking his head at Shilov.
"Oh, it's the ninth one." Over this period of time, Shilov's classical pronunciation tone has disappeared a lot, and only some weird tones can be heard at the end of the sentence.
After scratching the report of the ninth experimental subject, Shilov lowered her tail in disappointment.
This is already the ninth death row inmate, but her efforts to reduce the witch's virality still failed.
Since Horn left, Shilov has been thinking about the mystery of the infection of the Holy Family. If Giles hadn't forced Shilov to go to the yard for activities every day, she would not have even planned to go downstairs.
As for the infection of the Holy Beloved, Shilov made great progress in his research after having the crystal cover and microbial theory given by Horn.
With a snap of his fingers, several Chekas at the door automatically opened the door and walked in, carrying the body of the condemned prisoner out of the room.
With her back to the maid and Ah Fu who were cleaning up the room, Shilov turned her wheelchair to the wooden table.
On the wooden table in front of her, there was a lampstand.
This lampstand is made of a cypress wooden tube. The wooden tube is filled with fluorite. There is a hole the size of a fingernail on the top of the wooden tube, and the bright white light is emitting from the hole.
Dropping two drops of skin flakes mixed with slime liquid into the crystal cover, and adding a drop of the turbid liquid next to it, Shilov closed the cover and placed it on the lampstand. .
Picking up the eye drops and putting a few drops on her eyes, Shilov leaned back, raised her head, rested her head on the soft woolen cushion of the backrest, and looked at the ceiling aimlessly.
But in just a blink of an eye, a faint white light shot out of her originally black and white eyes, and she suddenly lowered her head to look at the crystal cover on the table.
Staring fixedly at a focus, in her original vision, everything outside the focus was blurred.
The next second, she was clearly sitting still, but in her eyes, the surrounding environment seemed to be passing by quickly, and the focus in front of her eyes was constantly enlarging, as if she herself was shrinking infinitely.
Until the blur gradually faded away, Shilov could still feel her hands holding the crystal cover, but her soul seemed to be in an ocean.
Around her, countless ghost sea monsters were swimming and twisting their bodies wantonly. Some of them were oval-shaped with octopus-like tentacles, and some were rectangular with crab-like pincers.
Without exception, they were all like ghosts, with translucent bodies glowing with blue light. Shilov could clearly see their empty internal organs through the skin.
Although their internal organs are different from any normal creatures.
Behind these countless ghost sea monsters, there is something like a floating island, with several intertwined transparent fleshy trees growing on it.
According to Horn's explanation in the letter, this thing is the peripheral nerve cells under the human skin.
At this moment, these nerve cells are being attacked by a group of spider-like microorganisms.
Compared with the ghost sea monsters around it, this spider-like microorganism is as big as an ordinary sea fish, but it is more ferocious than ordinary microorganisms.
They frantically pounced on those nerve cells and injected the red toxin in the translucent body. After the toxin was injected into the body, those nerve cells began to twitch and tremble continuously. This group of spider-like microorganisms is the source of the witch disease infection. A microorganism that only exists in the body of witches and will degenerate from generation to generation in a low-magic environment - witch witch-loving bacteria.
The reason why Shilov named it the magic-loving bacterium is because it is a bacteria that can only survive in an environment rich in mana.
Explained using traditional wizard theory plus Horn's microbial theory, this is a microbial monster.
This kind of magic-loving bacteria will die quickly after coming into contact with an external low-magic environment, but there is a certain probability of survival after coming into contact with the human body, especially the tissue under the skin.
In an environment where ordinary mortals have low mana, the magic-loving bacteria will have the original impulse to save themselves.
They release a toxin that is injected into the creature's nerve cells.
Although I don’t understand what happened next, it was this action that caused various distortions in patients with witch disease and produced more mana.
The magic-loving bacteria themselves will also divide and reproduce, giving birth to the next generation that requires less mana to survive.
This is the entire process of witch disease infection.
It is undeniable that there are still many unresolved problems.
Why does this kind of demon-loving bacteria only appear in witches?
Why can toxins change the entire human body by changing only nerve cells?
Why do deformed patients produce more mana?
So far, these questions remain unknown.
But at least the millennium mystery of how witch disease is transmitted has been solved in the hands of Shilov, a witch with rare divination spells.
Hilov's biggest achievement in the past three months is to discover a way to stably spread the witch disease.
Even in the past two weeks, Shilov has made new discoveries.
That is, when the magic-loving bacteria and a kind of pale golden spherical bacteria are mixed together, the survival rate of the magic-loving bacteria can be greatly increased.
In one fell swoop, it solved the problem of witch disease being highly lethal but weakly transmissible.
Since this research only started after Jeanne and Horn left, Shilov has not yet started the next step of the plan.
Shilov has a conjecture that the magic-loving bacteria in each witch's body may be different, causing the witch disease patients infected by them to have different types of magic powers.
Horn is a male witch, and his patients with witch disease, that is, the holy ones, have very little reaction to the disease.
Does this mean that his magic power is milder or that his magic-loving bacteria is a rare low-toxic magic-loving bacteria?
It would be nice if Horn came back. Shilov held her face with her left hand, and the quill in her hand slid unconsciously on the table.
Of course, this is not because Shilov is looking forward to meeting Horn, it’s just that the research has reached a bottleneck.
“Dong Dong——”
“What’s the matter? I didn’t say don’t disturb me while I’m doing experiments.” Shilov’s cold voice made the Chekas at the door tremble. Shivered.
He has seen with his own eyes how many tough guys burst into tears or became frightened and became incontinent after entering this small room. So far, no one has survived.
The corpses of dead rabbits, pigs, sheep, and mice were even more numerous.
"No, I didn't mean to disturb you." Chika swallowed and swallowed the fear. "There is news from the outpost ahead that His Majesty Sheng Sun will arrive at Qiu Mu in the near future. Island inspection."
"When?"
The tail that was originally hanging started to rotate like a propeller.
(End of this chapter)