Alien Knights

After the Battle of Muxi, with Todd's approval, the camp of the town guards expanded and remodeled the underground space. Hundreds of tons of food, arrows and herbs were transported there for centralized storage in case of another war.

But after a period of observation, the war situation around Muxi Town has gradually eased, and the possibility of being attacked is getting smaller and smaller. As a result, the underground combat readiness warehouse was transformed into an underground testing ground.

Some sensitive and secret research is carried out here.

Although it was mid-October and the temperature wasn't too low, Todd still wore a thick sackcloth and entered the underground warehouse.

Every corridor and every room in the underground space has ventilation ducts built above it, and the dormouse injected with "frozen" bacteria are placed together, and the cold air is blown to every corner of the ground by the hydraulic fan driven by the groundwater.

Therefore, the sun may be shining brightly outside, but the wind is biting cold underground.

Under the guidance of the "Successor" team, Todd walked through a long bend and came to a room full of marble coffins.

The body of a sturdy man lay flat on the stone platform in the center.

Huggins stood beside the corpse, and when he saw Todd's appearance, he bowed his head in shame.

Kendi stood by the stone platform, carefully cut open the skin of the deceased with a sharp blade, extracted the blood and muscle tissue, put them under a microscope, and observed them carefully.

Without disturbing Kendy, Todd first walked up to Huggins and asked in a low voice, "We lost six people?"

Huggins nodded, eyes down on the ground.

"There are only two people on the other side, and the alien species that caused our casualties, I heard it ran away?"

Sweat was dripping from Hudgens' brow.

Todd sighed, walked towards Kendy without saying anything else.

Kendi was lying in front of the operating table, looking at the bones at the joints of the deceased with interest, and said to Todd behind him: "In my hometown, some scholars once studied earthquakes. They discovered an interesting thing. Earthquakes can transform solid soil into liquid soil. We also call this phenomenon "soil liquefaction."

As it involves geological structure and physics, Todd, who is not very proficient in this, humbly asked Kendi for details.

The latter picked up some dust from the floor of the room, brought it in front of Todd and said: "The soil we usually talk about is not gravel and soil particles in the full sense, but this kind of wet mud mixed with a lot of water. When the soft sand full of water is stimulated by external forces, and the water is surrounded by soil particles and cannot escape, the water and soil form a liquid soil that cannot bear weight. In short, solid soil becomes liquid soil."

Listening to Kendy's explanation, Todd got an important word—external stimulation.

Kendi clapped his hands and said: "The external force we are talking about must be a high-intensity, fast, and continuous force, just like a laundry stick hitting clothes, but it is just as strong as an earthquake. Of course, ordinary people cannot achieve this kind of external force, but in this alien body, the impossible has become a reality."

Kendy motioned Todd to the microscope, who saw through the eyepiece a strange microbe: a tubular organism with a cell wall and cytoplasm, colorless. Has rather long hypha with many septa. This microorganism parasitizes on nerve cells and spreads between or through the cells of the host in the form of mycelium.

"These are fungi..."

Kendy was stunned by Todd's words, and the latter asked: "Sorry, my lord, I have never heard of the term you just said, can you please say it again?"

Todd glanced at Kendy, repeated what he said just now, and then asked, "Tell me about the results you observed."

Kendy nodded, pointing to the samples in the petri dish and said: "These little guys called fungi parasitize near the nerves of the human body. They can use very fast frequencies to stimulate the nerves of the human body, and cause the human skin to emit high-intensity vibrations, thereby simulating the environment of an earthquake, and finally triggering "soil liquefaction". This is why he can easily turn the soil into a sphere and cause a burst effect."

Todd nodded while listening. There is a kind of fungus in the body of this barbarian alien, which is attached to the nerve cells. Through high-frequency stimulation, the human body can be stimulated to simulate the effect of miniature earthquakes.

"My lord, have you ever thought about what the discovery of this microorganism means?" Kendy said to Todd excitedly.

Todd didn't react for a while, and looked to Kendy for an answer.

"This means that castles and city walls will completely withdraw from the stage of history!"

Todd was a little confused, he was talking about fungi, why did he suddenly jump to castles and city walls?

Kendi moved his body closer: "I've heard about the siege method of the Knights. The most common way to deal with those tall walls and solid castles is to dig a tunnel to the bottom of the wall, then bury gunpowder, and blow up a gap. But, what should I do when I encounter a fortress with a moat on the outside..."

Todd was silent. Thinking about it carefully, it seems that those novels and movies in the previous life, when talking about hole explosion tactics, only mentioned the matter of burying explosives, but never mentioned how to deal with the moat.

Kendy continued: "The general method is to put explosives at the base of the wall and detonate, but this method causes negligible damage to the city wall, and it is easy to blow out the fuze. But with the "soil liquefaction" ability, everything can be solved easily. Because the stone is soil after all, but the sand and gravel are arranged more closely, but there is still water in it, especially those stone walls next to the moat. Using the earthquake-like attack caused by this fungus, the stone can be broken down and crumbled."

Todd smiled and patted Kendy on the shoulder: "There are two problems. First, you have to find a way to reach the city wall safely; second, you have to have enough earthquake strength to destroy the city wall."

The latter blinked: "The first problem is not my business, the second problem we can solve through experiments."

Todd looked at the southern scholar wearing a turban and said with emotion: "Kendi, I have to say that compared with the church area, the Southern Empire is really much stronger academically..."

After thinking for a while, Kendi said: "The Southern Empire absorbed the academic essence of Taylor's period, and advocated learning from others' strengths in doctrine; but relatively speaking, the church is more conservative..."

Todd was about to discuss something with Kendy when a member of the "Successor" team hurried to Huggins and whispered something.

The latter nodded while listening, and then said to Todd: "My lord, we have just captured a member of the Legion of Discord."

Todd turned around, his eyes lit up: "Oh? Is that the guy who got away?"

"No, it's another person. We found the mark of "Legion of Discord" on his back, and the serial number shows "9"."