Alien Knights

Looking at the figure of Cumberland going away, Todd felt that the burden on his shoulders was getting heavier and heavier.

Trying his best to bring the people around him and live together has consumed too much of his energy. If it is a country, if he wants to maintain a country, he doesn't know if he can do it.

Putting aside the distracting thoughts in his mind for a while, Todd walked out of the headquarters of the Knights Order and came to the street outside the door. Looking at the bustling crowd, he put down the hood of his robe and came to the "Sister Hotel" for dinner.

Rachel spent most of her time and energy on the biochemical factory, and rarely cared about the business of the hotel. Therefore, the usual manager here became Karin Foreman.

The girl who was originally a circus star has long lost the childishness of the past. She has left behind her playfulness and self-willedness. Karin directs Pamela and several other girls of different races to serve food, clean up, close the station, and register...to manage the entire hotel in an orderly manner.

Todd looked at the other people in the hotel. Most of the customers were gourmets or wealthy residents of the town. To his surprise, he saw Cosette, an "electromagnetic girl" who was at a loss behind the bar.

Compared with the first side in the cave, Cosette cut off her messy white hair, washed her small face covered in plaster, and put on a clean and tidy maid outfit. Due to albinism and long-term life without the light of day, her naked skin was so white that it made people feel dazzling. With her delicate face and pink pupils, she undoubtedly became the most eye-catching presence in the entire hotel.

Karin, who was so busy, saw that other people had things on hand, so she pointed to the barley tea on the tray and asked Cosette to pick it up and give it to the guests. The girl looked at the room full of guests in fear, and shook her head desperately at the acting store manager.

Karin pointed to Maicha again, with an anxious look on her face, and urged Cosette to start working again.

The trembling girl picked up the teacup, lowered her head, avoiding other people's eyes, ran quickly with her feet, and spilled tea on the guest's table in a panic. Cosette frantically wiped the water stains with a dry cloth, but her nervousness caused the blue "coil" under her skin to become brighter and brighter.

Todd snorted inwardly.

Accompanied by the sound of crackling electric currents, dazzling electric arcs hit the table, and guided the overflowing tea to the guests.

Screaming, falling to the ground, cracking, and the smell of burnt human flesh, the entire lobby of the "Sister Hotel" suddenly became a mess.

Twenty minutes later, an exhausted Karin was sitting on the bench in the back kitchen, looking up at the sky through the open window, and beside her stood a dejected Cosette.

"You almost killed one of our guests!"

Hearing this accusation, Cosette lowered her head even lower.

Todd walked in, smiled at the two girls and said, "The guests are fine."

Karin stood up from the bench and gave him a grateful look, but Cosette's look at Todd was much more complicated.

Karin looked at Cosette and sighed helplessly: "First you burned the bed while you were sleeping; then you electrocuted Pamela who was helping you half to death while washing the dishes; today, you almost killed a guest again."

"I didn't mean to..." Cosette whispered.

Karin turned her head to Todd: "We need your help regarding her abilities."

Todd looked at the blue coil under the albino girl's skin, and touched his nose with a headache: "To be honest, this ability is very dangerous, and I don't know how to deal with it."

Seeing Cosette lower her head again, Todd said a little unbearably, "But maybe you can try."

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In Todd's small experimental building, the instruments and bottles on the experimental table were cleaned up, and the table was assembled into a temporary operating table.

Rachel, Karin, and Pamela stood by, watching the nervous Cosette on the operating table, and comforted her that everything would be fine.

Todd put on a mask, put on cotton gloves, adjusted the concentration of ether, walked up to Cosette, and said to her: "Wait a while, I will give you general anesthesia, and you will lose consciousness briefly within three hours. During this time, I will use minimally invasive surgery to extract part of the "generating coil" in your body to find a way to control the ability."

"Let me ask you, are you ready now?" Todd looked into Cosette's eyes and said calmly, "Don't worry, it's just a minor operation and there won't be any danger."

Cosette turned her head and cast her eyes on Rachel.

The woman nodded slightly and gave her an encouraging look.

Cosette took a deep breath and said, "I'm ready."

Todd put the ether-stained cloth on the albino girl's mouth and nose, and after tens of seconds, the latter fell into a deep sleep. He first nodded towards the three people behind him, then used a sterilized knife to cut a small incision in his leg, and finally used sterling silver pointed pliers to try to clamp the foreign matter under the skin.

Just when the pliers touched the blue line, a huge current radiated from Cosette's body, burning a small hole in Todd's cotton glove, and burning a black mark on the stone platform under him.

In desperation, Todd could only use touch first to consume as much electrical energy as possible in Cosette's body.

After nearly ten minutes of discharge, the color of the blue line under the skin gradually faded. Todd tried a few times with the pliers, and finally decided to try again.

Another small incision was made, and the foreign body under Cosette's skin was clamped. Todd resisted the high temperature from the clamps and pulled it out desperately. Under the exclamation of the surrounding people, a 60 cm long blue nematode was pulled out from under the skin.

Todd threw the worms into the prepared mica culture tray, bandaged Cosette's wound, then sat down on the ground and let out a long sigh of relief.

Handing over the task of taking care of the girl to Rachel, Todd rushed into the laboratory with the parasite capable of discharging electricity.

Through dissected sections and microscope observations, Todd discovered a new species of parasite that had never been seen before.

This parasite is divided into four layers in the structure of the parasite, the outermost layer is the stratum corneum that can secrete insulating mucus, the second layer from the outside to the inside is the muscle layer, the third layer is the medulla layer, and the innermost layer is the nervous system.

The mystery of its power generation lies in the third layer—the medulla layer. In the tube body of the parasite, there are a large number of power generation cells, which are similar to small laminated batteries. When it is excited by the host’s nerve signals, it can make electric ions pass through the cell membrane and gather.

There are such cells throughout the parasite, like many laminated batteries stacked on top of each other. When electricity is generated, all these "batteries" are connected in series so that a high voltage is generated between the parasite's head and tail. Many of these battery packs are then connected in parallel so that a large enough current can be generated outside the body.

In addition, this kind of parasite that can discharge has an even more peculiar function-broken body regeneration.

When the parasite is divided into two with a sharp instrument, the muscle layer on the cut surface will shrink immediately, and a part of the muscle will quickly dissolve to form a mass of new cells. At the same time, the cells will gather on the cut surface to form an embolism and quickly close the wound.

At the same time, the cells of the nervous system, medullary tube and other tissues in the body can undergo rapid budding and reproduction through a large number of mitosis. In this way, with the continuous proliferation of cells, a new head will grow on the section lacking the head; a tail will grow on the section lacking the tail. This way one parasite becomes two complete parasites.

In the end, Todd gave this kind of parasite that can generate electricity and regenerate, a wonderful name-"Tesla".

In the second update today, some readers reported that some chapters have too many principle explanations and theoretical introductions. I will pay more attention to it in the future and try to reduce it when it comes to these contents.