Chapter 132: Gateway to the Microcosm

Chapter 132 – The Gate of the Microcosm

After the knocking ended, a “Come in” came out from inside.

The two female advisors pushed their way into Paul’s office to find the young Earl fiddling with a strange object.

He was so absorbed that he was oblivious to their entrance and didn’t even raise his head.

The strange thing the count was fiddling with was cylindrical in shape and seemed to be made of metal, it was fixed to a pedestal on the desktop by two spacers, looking at the structure it should be able to adjust the angle of pitch like a cannon, the front end of the metal cylinder was getting thinner and thinner, it was facing a transparent piece of glass.

And Paul was putting his eyes to the back end of the metal cylinder, seemingly scrutinizing what was inside it.

“Count Graiman!”

Irene reminded him in a disgruntled voice, “It’s rude behavior to ignore two ladies like that.”

“Ah …… wait for me for a moment, it will be ready soon. Well …… the microbes in both worlds feel similar.”

Paul said words that puzzled the two female advisors.

Soon he looked up and said excitedly, “The two of you are just in time, come and see my new gadget – microscope.”

“What’s this weird thing?”

“Something that can magnify what’s on that piece of glass in front of it hundreds of times, and through the microscope you can see a microscopic world like you’ve never seen before.”

Paul’s heavily paid lens maker lived up to his name and finally honed lens lenses suitable for making early microscopes.

In the beginning, because of the grinding out of the mirror surface is relatively rough, so the effect is very unsatisfactory, as the lens master constantly try to improve the skills, coupled with bring out a group of apprentices also participated in the experiment, the fineness continues to improve, and finally obtained Paul’s more recognized convex mirror lenses.

Fortunately, this world’s glass manufacturing technology has been more mature, otherwise he still has to make a big headache for how to make high-quality glass.

After countless failures, Paul and the lens division assembled a “microscope”, I do not know and Levine Hooker invented the early microscope compared to how.

Irene came to the table, followed Paul’s example and put his eyes to the back end of the lens barrel.

“Yelp…”

Erin made a noise of feeling nauseous and hastily turned her head away.

Her almond eyes were rounded and she stared angrily at Paul, “Are you teasing me, Paul Graiman?”

Finally she pronounced Paul’s name almost word for word, through gritted teeth.

Yet Paul was looking at her with a wicked grin on his face.

“What the hell?” Lardy tugged at her friend’s sleeve, although after such a long time together she knew that this count was a generous man, he was after all a lord of the party, and it was a bit of an overstep for this colleague of hers to speak to him in such a tone.

“Just take a look, he put some nasty bugs in this cylinder to scare us.”

“Ms. Diaz” huffed.

Lardy padded up to take a look and she too was taken aback.

There were tiny “worms” inside, too small to see, but they were moving and squirming, which meant they were alive.

“Lord Earl?” She forced herself to hold back her discomfort and turned a questioning, slightly annoyed gaze on Paul.

Paul immediately changed to an aggrieved look and shrugged his shoulders, “You guys have wronged me, I didn’t go and intentionally look for some worms to scare you guys, and they aren’t in this metal cylinder, they’re here.”

Paul pointed to the sheet of glass directly in front of the microscope.

The two female counselors looked together, and there was nothing on the glass slide but a smudge of water.

“There’s nothing on it!”

“Think about what I just said, and you can see a ‘microcosm’ like you’ve never seen before.” “‘Microcosm’? You mean their bodies are so tiny that we can’t see them with our eyes and must use this ‘microscope’ of yours to see them?”

“Ms. Diaz” asked out loud, her scholarly curiosity overriding her anger from a moment ago.

“That’s just it, the microscope works by refracting light using two convex lenses.”

“Convex lenses?”

“The telescope you used before had a convex lens on it, and the magnifying glass we used to burn ants with when we were kids was also a convex lens.”

“I didn’t have any of those cheesy, vicious hobbies when I was a kid.”

“Ah …… sorry.”

They scrutinized the microscope, and indeed, in addition to a lens at the back, a very small lens was mounted at the front end of the cone-like stout.

Paul described it, “The front piece of lens I call ‘objective’ because it’s pointed at the object being observed, and the back piece of lens I call ‘eyepiece’ because it’s pointed at the person’s eyes.”

LaDee asked him, “How did you get these little bugs onto this glass piece?”

“Little bugs? I think it would be more appropriate to call them ‘microbes’ – tiny organisms that are invisible to the human eye. As for how I got them onto this glass piece, I just dipped a little drop of clear water into it at random.”

Because most microorganisms, including bacteria, were transparent, it was still not too easy to observe them directly with an optical microscope, and they needed to be stained in order to be recognized more clearly, but he was not yet able to make artificial stains like gentian violet solution or magenta acetate solution, fortunately he could also use natural stains like litmus, hematoxylin, and other natural stains, and the alchemists he recruited from the royal capital helped him to solve this problem.

“I see.” The two female scholars nodded, and they took turns using the microscope to observe it again.

“There’s still a lot we don’t know about this world!”

“To diligently inquire into these unknown mysteries is precisely the duty of my generation.”

The two scholars talked in whispers.

Suddenly, they realized something.

“You mean …… this is a drop of fresh water taken at random ……” A look of horror appeared on Lardy’s ever-steady face.

“That means …… we use it for washing on a regular basis ……” Erin’s tongue began to wag.

“Jeez!” Paul had a bad smile on his face, “Congratulations on discovering the truth about this world.”

“Ah–“

“Touch-“

As a scream spread throughout the lord’s mansion, a large group of guards and chief secretary Bernard broke through the door.

As soon as they entered, they asked sternly, “Assassin! Is there an assassin?”

But all they saw were two green-faced counselor ladies and an earl who looked like he was in the middle of a joke.

Paul waved his hand at them and explained, “Gentlemen, nothing has happened, I was merely discussing something with the two counselor ladies regarding small life.”

Things on the small life side? Discussing with a lady …… or with two beautiful ladies?
The crowd exclaimed that the young earl had grown up while exiting the room with heartfelt expressions on their faces.

“The two ladies, there’s nothing to worry about. As long as we don’t drink raw water into our stomachs, these little things won’t be harmful to our bodies, and I’ve also found out that if we boil the water, we can kill them.”

Seeing the two female counselors scared like this, Paul spoke out to calm them down.

Boiling the water would kill them, and the two female counselors kept that in mind.

(End of chapter)