Todd first returned to his bedchamber and retrieved the well-preserved 'Amber Stone' from a box under his bed.

Then I returned to the lab and started organizing the equipment and preparing the reagents.

After finishing all this, Todd opened his notebook and began to follow his experimental habits from his previous life. At the very top of the first page, he wrote the six Chinese characters "Tyrant Research Log".

The first thing to do is to organize the information you already have.

As Todd recalled the characteristics of the "tyrant," he wrote on the paper:

First, the "tyrant" only exists in environments with high radiation intensity, and its dependence on pressure, oxygen, temperature, and moisture is currently unclear.

Second, in the area surrounding the 'Tyrant', there are a large number of creatures in abnormal states, such as manticores and griffins.

Third, the 'Tyrant' can suppress and reverse the mutations of the 'Sutherland bacteria', and can even freely change the mutated form of infected individuals through the instruction units of the human nervous system.

After writing these three points, Todd put down his charcoal pencil, put on his lab coat, and went through the routine disinfection and venting procedures. Then, he used a sharp iron drill to make a hole in the "Amber Stone" to facilitate sampling.

After five minutes of effort, the sample's surface remained intact, but the drill bit bent into a crescent shape.

Putting down the broken drill in his hand, Todd sighed with a headache, then suddenly looked at his right hand, lost in thought.

Spread your right hand outstretched and hold it in front of you, watching the skin on your fingers slowly transform into the shape of iron claws.

After disinfecting the mutated iron claws, Todd placed them on the surface of the 'Amber Stone' and rotated his fingers back and forth.

After another ten minutes of effort, he finally managed to drill a hole about five millimeters in diameter in the sample's surface.

The first hurdle of the experiment—sampling—has finally been overcome.

Use a dropper to take a drop of black liquid from the amber stone, press it firmly with a glass slide, and place it under a microscope.

Todd brought his eyes close to the eyepiece, but after only one glance, he shook his head and straightened up.

Although this microscope was made by a renowned expert from Muxi City, its magnification is still too low, only around 800x.

In the footage, only a dark patch can be seen, but it is impossible to tell what it is.

Using his "Eagle Eye" ability, Todd brought his eyes closer to the lens. This time he could see that the black "matter" was a cluster of tightly packed organisms, but he still couldn't make out the shape and structure of the organisms.

Eagle Eye can magnify objects in its field of vision by 5 to 7 times. When combined with a microscope, the final magnification can be increased to about 4,000 to 5,600 times. However, it seems that even higher magnification is needed to observe Tyrant.

What should we do?

The first thing Todd thought of was the "superpowered electron microscope" that they had built together in the past. That instrument could increase the magnification to about 100 times.

But after a moment's thought, Todd rejected this option.

Several key factors determined that the rudimentary "extra-powered electron microscope" was useless here.

First, the imaging method of that electron microscope was too primitive, using paper to display magnified results, and it could only show the general state of microorganisms, making it impossible to confirm specific details.

Second, due to technological limitations, that electron microscope could only display static images and could not show dynamic processes, which was not conducive to the physiological research of microorganisms.

Third, the imaging time is too long; it often takes several minutes to generate a single magnified image, which is simply too slow.

What methods are available to achieve a suitable magnification while overcoming the limitations of electron microscopes?

Todd, who was rubbing his forehead in worry, suddenly had a bright idea in his eyes.

If I transform into a monster, wouldn't the mutated eyeballs greatly enhance my "Eagle Eye" ability?

So, the 'Eagle Eye' ability, which originally has a magnification of 5 to 7 times, can be instantly expanded to between 100 and 120 times. When combined with an 800x eyepiece of an optical microscope, the final magnification will be fixed between 100 and 120 times, which is sufficient to observe any microorganism.

After transforming his head into monster form, Todd looked through the microscope lens again. This time, he finally saw the true face of the 'Tyrant'.