Alien Knights

Todd chewed on Wayne's words repeatedly and said: "You are assuming that if the soul is a special particle, then according to the wave-particle duality, it can either present a particle state in the living body or a diffuse wave in the outside world. form."

Wayne said excitedly: "Yes, yes."

Todd continued: "Since the particle body has weight, but the band has no weight, it can be inferred that the resurrected insect modified by the tyrant virus, I mean the undead parasite, has a special ability. It allows the soul to freely switch between particle and wave forms according to the will of the host. Has it always caused the weight in Marcus's living tissue to rise and fall?"

Wayne nodded vigorously: "When the undead parasite encounters souls in the form of bands, it can capture them and store them in particle form; and when the undead parasite wants to, it can use the soul in the form of particles in the body to Transform into a band form soul and release it.”

Todd began to recall the words of the Forerunners Scathach and Leviathan.

Soul is a special kind of dark matter.

So, if the soul is a condensed particle in dark matter, then Wayne's explanation does make sense.

Todd held his cheek with his right hand and said after thinking hard: "If your hypothesis is true, I have many, many questions."

Wayne: "Your Majesty, I also have many questions, but I don't necessarily have the answers, but we can at least discuss them."

Todd: "First of all, if undead parasites have the ability to contain and spread souls, then where are these souls stored when they are contained? What will they eventually become when they are dispersed?"

Wayne: "I don't know."

Todd touched his forehead and smiled bitterly: "Of course you don't know..."

Wayne thought for a while and then said: "But Your Majesty, do you still remember what happened before? Some of the souls of living creatures killed by the undead will not be able to return to heaven."

Todd pondered: "I remember this. If a person who has completed a soul connection with the Kingdom of Heaven is killed in a war with the undead, there is a certain chance that his soul will not be able to return."

Wayne said: "If the undead parasite has the ability to send and receive souls, then everything can be easily explained. At the moment of death, it can capture those diffusion wave souls floating in the air and convert them into particles. way to store them. So, I guess, these souls are stored in the insect body by the undead parasite. As for what will happen to these souls in the end, the worst ending is that they will be digested in the parasite body, of course it may Move somewhere else.”

Todd: "So, you are trying to say that the undead parasites use souls as nourishment."

Wayne: "Yeah, that explains it all."

Todd: "Okay, second question, why can people like Marcus become undead with autonomous consciousness, while other living creatures killed by undead will only become soulless living things?" Corpse? Logically speaking, shouldn’t any creature that comes into contact with undead parasites be deprived of its soul?”

Wayne: "I can't give a definite answer to this question, but I can try to speculate. I once heard your Majesty mention the birth of Tyrant. First, Sutherland Archaea was used to improve cellular immunity, and then Tyrant was used to mutate Body tissue. According to this reasoning, when an organism becomes the common host of Sutherland archaea, tyrant virus and reanimator, then its nervous system will mutate into a tissue that can coexist with undead parasites ."

Wayne: "Even this mutated nervous system can resonate with undead parasites on certain occasions."

Todd thought for a moment and asked: "If a person has Sutherland bacteria, tyrant virus, and undead parasites in his body at the same time, will his nervous system mutate and be able to resist soul erosion?"

Wayne: "Judging from Marcus' current state, that's indeed the case."

Todd rubbed his forehead: "There is another question. The soul space, including the heaven created by the forerunners, can also store and disperse souls. Are these also related to undead parasites?"

Wayne was stunned, not knowing how to answer.

Todd glanced at him and shook his head: "I said too much. You can't answer this question..."

Wayne looked at Todd with a distressed face and didn't know what to say for a moment, and the two fell into a long silence.

Todd finally sighed, waved his hand and said to Wayne: "Forget about the academic issues of the soul for now, let's return the topic to Marcus. What are the results of the necrovirus antibody experiment?"

Wayne lowered his head and said, "Your Majesty, the result is not very good."

Todd: "Tell me about it."

Wayne: "After a long period of screening and separation, I finally selected more than 140 antibody samples. They all come from Marcus's nervous system. They are all immune proteins of plasma cells, but their shapes are different. It’s just a different function.”

Wayne: "Next, I classified different samples of necroviruses. Necroviruses from different locations, different environments, and different organisms, I made them one by one into virus control agents."

Wayne: "Next, I will fuse the more than 140 antibody samples with the Necrovirus control agent one by one to observe which antibodies have an immune response to the Necrovirus."

Todd leaned forward and said in a nervous tone: "What's the result?"

Wayne: "After fusion control, I found that among Marcus's antibody samples, the highest efficiency of immune response to the Necrovirus was only 53%."

Todd was surprised: "So low?"

Wayne looked a little embarrassed: "Your Majesty, I didn't expect it to be so low. The antibodies in Marcus' body can only produce immunity against 53% of the virus samples at most, which means that it is close to one-half of the undead. The virus can still cause harm to Marcus."

Todd felt incredible: "If half of the undead virus can poison Marcus, how did he survive until now?!"

Wayne: "Environment, ethnic group, and a little bit of luck... Let me explain it this way. The 53% of the necromancy viruses that Marcus's antibodies are immune to this time are mostly specimens collected on land."

Todd: "Collected on land?"

Wayne nodded and said: "Among them are virus samples from the undead in Tyro City, as well as those from Holy Acropolis, Silver Ring City, and some from the Southern Empire..."

Wayne: "However, most of the virus samples for which Marcus' antibodies cannot produce immunity come from the ocean, such as the undead samples provided by the Mermaid Tribe, the undead samples provided by the North Island Knights, and the Valkyrie patrolling the sea. The samples provided, as well as the undead samples caught by ocean-going caravans..."

Todd: "You mean, Marcus can be immune to the Necrotic Virus from land, but has no way to be immune to the Necrotic Virus from the ocean? How is this possible?"

Wayne: "Yes... Your Majesty, I have a theoretical hypothesis... It is possible, I mean it is possible, that the undead on land and the undead in the ocean do not have the same virus family tree."

Todd asked doubtfully: "Not the same branch? What do you mean?"

Wayne thought about it and decided to explain it this way: "Assume that the undead on land are infected with viruses from Marcus, so Marcus can be immune to most of them carrying virus strains; however, in the ocean, The virus they were infected with may have come from another Patient Zero, so the antibodies in Marcus’s body are ineffective against the marine undead.”

Todd was getting more and more confused: "Another Patient Zero?"

Wayne tilted his head while thinking and said: "Maybe the Necromancer virus mutated during its birth and split into two different genetic genealogies, creating two patient zeros; it's also possible that the Necromancers in the ocean died earlier than on land. Spirits exist, and the terrestrial Necrotic Virus is actually a sub-branch, or even a grand branch, of the Marine Necrotic Virus..."

Todd suddenly stood up from his chair and said, "Wait!"

Wayne looked at Todd confused: "Your Majesty, what's wrong?"

Todd stretched out his hand to stop Wayne, signaling that he needed to think.

After walking around the conference room twice, Todd turned his attention to Wayne: "You just said that the reason why the nerve center of the undead can resist the soul erosion of the undead parasite is because it is a common... Host?"

Wayne scratched his head: "The common host of Sutherland Archaea, Tyrant Virus, and Resurrection Bug?"

A flash of light suddenly shot through Todd's brain.

Todd looked shocked and couldn't believe his guess.

After a long time, Todd let out a long breath: "I think I understand what's going on."