Alien Knights

Muxi University, third underground floor, alien research laboratory.

Todd, who had regained his human form, stood in front of a huge iron cage covered with black cloth, looking forward in a daze, without speaking for a long time.

Behind him, a group of scholars in lab coats and a group of heavily armed knights looked at each other in disbelief. No one dared to step forward and disturb the god's contemplation.

The huge laboratory was as silent as a cemetery, with only one or two low roars occasionally coming from the iron cage.

Finally, a voice came from the gate, making everyone let out a long breath.

"Your Majesty, the president of the Alien Association, Ms. Rachel, is here."

Todd took his eyes away from the iron cage and turned his head. A familiar figure slowly became clear in his eyes.

Wearing an emerald green robe, Fengyun Pinting's figure is swaying.

"haven't seen you for a long time."

Facing this all-too-familiar woman, Todd found that his voice was a little hoarse.

Rachel walked up to Todd. She smiled and stretched out her hand to wipe away the dust on Todd's shoulder. Her movements were gentle and natural.

"haven't seen you for a long time."

Hearing Rachel's words, Todd himself also laughed.

Rachel turned her head to look at the huge iron cage not far away and asked, "Did you find a sample of the black plague?"

Todd waved people to raise the black cloth and said to Rachel: "Do you remember? I once ordered the North Island Knights to sail southwest to search for traces of the black plague."

"Yeah, I remember."

"Later, there was no news about this expedition team and disappeared on the vast sea." Todd watched the black cloth being pulled up bit by bit and said in a deep voice: "Not long ago, the Valkyries found the boat and found a way to bring it back.”

The black cloth was completely pulled up, revealing the contents of the huge iron cage.

A huge humanoid creature covered with black parasites, its limbs imprisoned by four thick iron chains.

After sensing the light, the parasitic corpse immediately turned from quiet to violent.

His body slowly grew larger, and his limbs expanded as if inflated. His huge feet stepped on the ground, leaving shocking cracks and causing the entire laboratory to tremble slightly.

Rachel looked at the parasitic corpse, frowned and said slowly: "I seem to know him..."

Todd clenched his fists and said word by word: "Little Jerry, the deputy leader of the North Island Knights. I personally gave him the order to go to sea for investigation."

Rachel glanced at Todd's expression and whispered, "It's not your fault."

Todd shook his head slightly, and then said: "I asked you to come here because I want you to help me analyze some things."

"Well, tell me."

"As you can see, little Jerry became a victim of the black plague. Although his body is almost dead now, his soul is nowhere to be found."

Rachel asked: "The soul is missing? Can you give more details?"

"I once tried to contact his soul, and I also tried to ask Deirdre to recall his soul, but not only did he not return to the soul space, he also did not wander somewhere, as if he had disappeared."

Rachel frowned and said, "Like Karin?"

"Yes, just like Karin..."

Rachel pondered for a moment, then said: "There are several possibilities."

"1. The soul of a creature infected by the black plague will completely dissipate."

"Two. His soul will be pulled out of the body and imprisoned somewhere. It cannot be summoned by supernatural powers such as soul summoning or soul space."

Todd responded: "Both assumptions have certain problems."

"Why?"

"Let me give you an example. There was a Crusader soldier named Bulwer who was infected by the black plague while fighting in Tyro City. But after his death, his soul successfully returned to the soul space."

Rachel rubbed her forehead with a headache: "If this is the case, then the black plague will not destroy the soul, but it will extract and imprison the souls of some victims. The key question is why some people's souls are imprisoned, And some people’s souls can be free?”

Todd said: "I asked Mary to make statistics in the soul space. For all the people who completed the soul link with me, if they were infected by the black plague, about three-quarters of their souls would eventually return to the soul space."

Rachel asked: "Do these returned souls have something in common? Such as race, age, abilities, physique, etc.?"

Todd sighed: "Unfortunately, there is no common ground. It's more like a random result."

Rachel looked a little frustrated: "So, doesn't it mean there aren't any clues?"

Todd paused for a moment and said, "It's not that there are no clues."

"Um?"

"Some souls infected by the black plague told me their experiences after returning to the soul space. They could feel that they were first sucked into a dark and cold space by a powerful force. But , their constant struggle and strong will allowed them to escape from that space little by little, and finally escaped."

Rachel chewed Todd's words carefully and asked, "Do they have any other descriptions about that space?"

"They said the shape inside was like a shell, except that there was no warmth or energy."

"Husk...?"

Todd looked at the little Jerry in the cage who had completely lost his human features, and said in a serious tone: "Rachel, do you remember Boyle?"

Rachel nodded.

Todd said: "At first, Deirdre used her psychic powers to introduce Boyle's soul into my body, and the latter lived in my body for a long time."

Rachel somewhat understood Todd's thoughts: "You mean, if there is a person who has a superpower that can achieve the effects of a medium and a soul space at the same time, he can imprison the souls of others in his body?"

Todd nodded: "Yes, this person is the real culprit behind the black plague."

Rachel said in disbelief: "But, Todd, have you ever thought about it. It's such a huge burden to imprison thousands of souls in the body. Looking at the whole world, I'm afraid there are only a few such aliens." …”

At this point, Rachel suddenly stopped talking.

Todd said softly: "There are actually people like this."

Rachel held her chin with her fingers and said slowly: "Yes, there are indeed two such people in the Presbyterian Church."

Todd said coldly: "One is the mother goddess Eleanor, and the other is the sage Sutherland."