Alien Knights

Seeing that the visitor was about to rush into the crowd, the guard standing in the front row knocked him to the ground with a shoulder bump, and then drew out his long sword and pointed it at the person's throat.

"Please stop! He's a scholar at Muxi University!" Terrence rushed forward and quickly stopped the guards.

Todd looked carefully at the people on the ground.

This man was about thirty years old, his body was thin due to long-term malnutrition, and his skin was white due to the lack of sunlight all day long. The ten fingers of his hands were slender and long, which looked like bamboo joints.

Terrence explained to Todd: "This scholar's name is Wayne Dunlop, a professor of physiology. He unlocked the secret of "human blood circulation" and registered related patents, ending the thousand-year-long "blood aura theory" of the church."

Discordant whispers came from the surrounding scholars.

"This guy has no systematic education at all."

"He used to be a veterinarian, and I bet he's not much smarter than those pig butchers."

"I heard that he was with the dead body all day long, and the bottles and jars in the room were full of human organs."

"I really don't know how this kind of person got into the university..."

Todd frowned. It seemed that the guy lying on the ground was not welcomed by other scholars.

Wayne got up from the ground, grabbed the corner of Master Terrence's clothes with one hand, and said loudly: "Master Terrence, please follow me, my experiment will start soon!"

"Wayne Dunlop! Pay attention to your words and deeds, His Majesty specially came to visit the university today, you must not be rude..."

Before finishing speaking, Terrence suddenly opened his eyes wide and stammered, "Wait...wait a minute, you said...experiment?! That experiment, are you still continuing?!"

Terrence, who was angry and annoyed, was about to reprimand Wayne loudly, but found that Todd was looking at this daring scholar with great interest, and for a moment didn't know what to say.

Todd said, "What kind of experiment is it? Can I have a look too?"

Only then did Wayne turn his gaze to the speaker: "Your Majesty? You are Your Majesty?! Great! If you can come and visit my experiment, it will be a lifetime honor!"

Terrence covered his forehead with his hands, and whispered to Todd: "Your Majesty, there are still many places to visit in the university, and it is not necessary to watch Wayne's experiment."

Todd waved his hand indifferently: "What does it matter? This visit itself has no set route or goal. My plan is to see where I go."

Seeing that there was no way to persuade the king, Terrence gave up trying to stop him and followed Wayne to the basement of the laboratory building.

During the march, Terrence introduced the life of Wayne Dunlop to Todd.

Wayne Dunlop was born in a family of serfs. Since his father was a veterinarian on a ranch, he followed this path under the influence of his ears and eyes.

Wayne, who was unable to receive education due to his family’s poverty in his childhood, sought every opportunity to learn knowledge and enrich himself through the opportunity of treating livestock, borrowing books from the homes of farmers or nobles, and determined to be a clerk of the church.

However, the good times didn't last long.

When he was sixteen, a plague that spread across the Moonbrook Plain killed most of his family members. Since then, Wayne's temperament has undergone a dramatic change, and he has developed an interest in pathology and anthropology.

He has traveled all over the world, and it was not until more than a year ago that he finally settled in Muxi City and studied microbiology courses in Muxi College for several months. Later, he spent all his savings, bought a microscope, and sneaked into the Silver Ring City under the control of the barbarians, dissected and studied the dead bodies of the victims, and finally discovered the secret of blood circulation.

"At the beginning, I took the initiative to invite Wayne to join Muxi University and become a member of the professor." Terrence walked on the road, his face full of tangled expressions: "This child has infinite enthusiasm and desire for the truth. When others are still asleep, he has already got up from the bed and started to organize the report. When the others returned to the residence with a yawn, he was still fighting in the laboratory."

"This time to raise funds for Muxi University, Wayne was the first to donate all his property and transferred his patent rights to Muxi University for free."

Todd nodded while listening: "Sounds like a very good scholar."

Terrence grabbed his beard in distress: "As a follower of the truth, he is undoubtedly excellent; but as a human researcher, many of his behaviors are full of controversy, and can even be said to be deviant."

Hearing the words "deviant", Todd was about to ask what was going on, but the team had already arrived at the door of Wayne's laboratory, and the scene in front of him temporarily made him forget his question.

More than a dozen men, women and children with plain clothes and pale faces stopped at the door of the laboratory, looking inside with sad faces.

Todd asked, "Who are these people?"

Terrence sighed: "These people are the family members of the experimental subjects."

"The family members of the experimental product?!"

Todd was taken aback for a moment, then he pushed through the crowd and walked to Wayne's laboratory.

A huge glass screen separates the laboratory into two spaces.

In the space inside, there is a strangely shaped metal bed, on which lies a dry, emaciated, naked old man who is about to die.

Todd frowned, and asked Wayne who was busy transcribing data in the room: "What's going on?!"

While recording the old man's life symptoms, the latter said without raising his head: "This is an experiment about life and soul."

Todd made a questioning voice, but Wayne was completely immersed in the experiment and never cared about the outside world.

Master Terrence stood up at this time: "Your Majesty, let me explain."

"The dying old man you see behind the glass is the subject of this experiment, and the people waiting outside are the old man's family."

"The general principle of Wayne's experiment is as follows: first create a room that is isolated from the outside world, and remove the interfering elements in the room to the greatest extent, such as air, humidity, temperature, noise, etc.; then create a whole set of precision instruments that can detect changes in the room."

Speaking of this, Terrence pointed to the metal bed behind the glass, and said to Todd: "A watertight device was made under that bed, which can measure the weight change of the experimental subject on the bed, and the maximum accuracy can be down to grams; the long vertical glass column set in the room is a pressure gauge, which is used to detect changes in the air pressure in the room. In addition, there are magnetic field compass instruments, mercury thermometers, light intensity topometers, etc..."

Looking at the dying old man on the bed, trembling all over, and making loud noises from his mouth, Todd asked Terrence, "So what exactly is this experiment trying to do?"

"As Wayne said just now, this is an experiment about life and soul." Terrence glanced at Wayne Dunlop, who was in a state of academic frenzy, and shook his head: "He found some dying people from the immigration area, and let them enter this room to spend the last period of their lives. He was responsible for recording the changes of all the data in the room at the moment of death of the experimental subject, and using this to confirm whether there is a soul that will overflow the body after death."

"This is, this is..." Todd shook his head, trying to find a suitable adjective to describe this ridiculous experiment, but in the end, he took a deep breath and asked, "These experimental subjects, are they willing to cooperate with Wayne's experiment?"

Terrence knew what the king wanted to ask, and explained in a low voice: "These dying people all come from poor families in the immigration area. Wayne promised them a generous reward, and the price is that they have to die in this laboratory."

"There's something wrong with this approach..." Todd rubbed his temples with his fingers.

Huggins stood beside Todd, looked at everything behind the glass, and said softly: "This practice desecrates life and slanders death."

While speaking, the old man on the metal bed was breathing like a broken bellows, his hands were scratching at his sides, and he wanted to say something, but he couldn't say anything.

Then, the old man's body movements gradually slowed down, his pupils expanded, and his chest no longer rose or fell.

Todd has seen soldiers who died on the battlefield, as well as the same kind struggling in the fire, but the process of turning from life to death in front of him is so calm that it is almost cruel, making his thoughts tremble like a knife.

The accompanying scholars, from the initial shock, to the later anger.

Someone rushed in front of Wayne who was recording the numbers, grabbed the opponent by the collar, punched him in the face, and cursed loudly: "You bastard! You use the truth as a cover to defile the last trace of human dignity!"

Looking at Wayne who was knocked down to the ground, Master Terrence's face was full of sorrow and worry: "Mr. Dunlop, follow my advice and stop your experiment immediately!"

Wayne protected his precious experimental data with his body, endured punches and kicks from others, and shouted loudly: "You keep adoring the truth and staying away from God, but you still have old ideas in your mind!"

Terrence stopped people's atrocities, supported Wayne with his body, and said to him: "Young man, this has nothing to do with truth and God. What you have done has touched the bottom line of human beings."

Wayne looked at Terrence and said sadly: "What is a human being?! If there is a God, did he consider his own bottom line when he created human beings?!"

Pausing for a moment, the bruised and swollen Wayne looked at Todd with expectant eyes: "Your Majesty, my Majesty! Do you also hold such a narrow view?! Why can't we do what God can do?! Why use human thinking to bind the existence of truth!"

In Todd's ears, the weeping voices of the family members of the deceased came, and the voices of scholars were discussing. Some people cursed this kind of indignity experiment loudly, and some people discussed in a low voice whether it should be such an unscrupulous method to find the truth.

Todd said to Wayne: "Mr. Dunlop, I can understand your mood, but what I want to tell you is that your thinking is correct, but your method is wrong."