Richard didn't listen to Edward and appeared in the room of the independent laboratory.

What caught my eye was a large room of more than fifty square meters, the walls were painted white, and on the ground in the middle were several black walnut tables placed side by side, which looked like an operating table, on which were the corpses of pythons that soldiers had just brought in.

Around the table, there are many wooden shelves, some of which hold various instruments, experimental materials, knives, etc., while others are instruments themselves. Most of them are far beyond the current level of technological development in this world, and it took a lot of effort for Richard to make them.

To put it simply, the room where Richard is now is more than 300 years ahead of the entire era, and the scientific thinking contained in it is more than 7 or 8 centuries away.

His eyes narrowed, and Richard strode towards a wooden frame. There is a handle on the side of the wooden frame, and under the handle is a nozzle, followed by a barrel.

Richard stretched out his hand and pulled it under the nozzle, and after a short wait, a stream of colorless and transparent but pungent liquid flowed out of the nozzle and onto his hand.

It was 75% alcohol, which could act as a disinfectant, and Richard carefully scrubbed each finger to make sure that every part was cleaned, closed the nozzle, and shook his palm a few times, waiting until the remaining alcohol on his hand had completely evaporated, and walked towards another wooden frame.

He took out a set of knives that had long been poisoned by alcohol and came to the wooden table where the python was placed.

At this time, Richard's eyes fell on the corpse of the python, and he carefully observed this strange creature that could burn flames all over his body.

"The head proportions are relatively small. Richard measured the python's head with his hand and made a sound. He opened his mouth and looked at the absence of slender fangs, and said, "Non-toxic, flat snout." ”

"There are 3 pairs of lip sockets. Richard's eyes fell on the part of the python's upper lip, which resembled the upper lip of a human, and saw 3 pairs of depressions, knowing that this was a special structure of the python, similar to an infrared sensor. It allows the python to detect warm-blooded animals in its surroundings at night and determine the exact location of the animal, so that it can track and attack.

"Tan. Richard's gaze retracted from the python's head and fell on the python's entire body, as well as its back, "which is yellowish with arrow-like markings and a large number of irregular cloud-like markings." ”

"The abdomen is white. With a slight force, he turned the entire python over, and Richard looked at the lower body, where was the excretory cavity of the python, and then saw a pair of bulges, "There is also a pair of degenerated claw-like stumps." ”

"It looks like a Burmese python. Richard finished his observation and muttered to himself, and the data about the python flashed through his mind:

Burmese python, also known as Burmese rock python, qin snake, double-banded python, scientific name: Python bivittatus, one of the subspecies of the Asian rock python genus Python suborder python, the third largest python on the modern earth. Known for its huge size, it can reach a length of 7 meters and weigh up to 91 kilograms, and the world's longest Burmese python is 9.75 meters......

"7 meters?9.75 meters?" Richard said, looking at the python on the table, which was only more than 3 meters long, and thoughtfully, "So, are you not an adult yet?" However, if you are not an adult, you can emit flames of up to 1500 °C, so what effect will it be when you are an adult? ”

The next moment, Richard took a deep breath and grabbed a knife that he had prepared a long time ago and stabbed it towards the python's body. With a "poof", the sharp blade easily cut through the skin of the python, and with a slight force, it easily slashed downward, dissecting the entire body of the python, so that everything inside was presented in front of you.

Reaching out to rummage through his internal organs, Richard's eyes narrowed.

According to the descriptions of many entertainment novels on modern earth, a magical creature like the current python should have a "crystal nucleus" or "magic crystal" in its body to provide energy for the release of spells.

From a scientific point of view, since a python can burn flames all over its body, it must have some more special organs or glands than the rest of the pythons.

But Richard didn't find any of this.

Richard frowned slightly, and finally his gaze fell on the python skin.

With a purse of his lips, he held the knife and slashed down, quickly separating the python skin from the flesh, and soon Richard got a complete python skin.

Then underneath the python skin, Richard spotted a sticky, grease-like yellow substance.

"It's ......"

Richard didn't hesitate, quickly scraped off a little of this yellow substance, took an iron plate from a nearby wooden frame, and put it in to ignite.

With a "poof", I saw an orange flame rising into the air, and the air instantly warmed up, but the iron plate did not show any traces of being burned red, and it was extremely cold when I reached out and touched it. Looking at the slowly decreasing yellow substance in the iron plate, Richard had some understanding.

"This substance, which exists under the skin, can penetrate from the scales to the exterior and then burn to form a high-temperature flame that can be used to attack. At the same time of combustion, it takes away a lot of heat to ensure that the body surface is in a low temperature state and is not burned. ”

"In that case...... Richard's eyes lit up, "the so-called magical substance should be contained in it." If the grease and impurities are filtered out, then what is left should be pure magical substance. ”

"In that case......"

Richard didn't say any more, but quickly got to work.

Use a knife to scrape off all the golden grease-like substance inside the python skin, put it in a jar, and start distilling.

Richard did it himself, and naturally it was much faster than the unqualified ponytail maid outside.

It didn't take long for Richard to distill the excess water from the golden grease-like substance, separating the grease and the rest of the impurities, and finally obtaining a vial of a rose-colored liquid that looked like blood, but without the smell of blood.

"Is it really a magical substance?" Richard looked at the rosy liquid and narrowed into a slit, feeling that some of the answers he was looking for could be unraveled.

The next moment, Richard quickly disinfected and washed his hands with alcohol, picked up the liquid in the bottle and strode out of the laboratory.

By this time, hours had passed, and it was already dark.

Outside the door, Edward was still waiting, watching Richard come out, and opened his mouth to continue persuading.

Richard waved his hand and said, "Edward, you have someone to clean my laboratory, and then guard the palace gate." I have important things to do now, and no one is allowed to disturb me. I don't eat dinner either, and if there is any situation, I will wait until tomorrow. ”

"Forehead ......"

With that, Richard walked to the side of the hall, quickly ascended the wooden staircase to the second floor, entered his bedroom and the connected study, and slammed the door shut.

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