Rule Strange: Urban Legends That Don't Exist

Chapter 81 Living Specimens
Blood like ink droplets splashed out, staining half of the window red.

Chen Yan was so frightened that she almost quit the Spirit Vision camera.

This venerable sorceress is going to kill someone if she disagrees with her!
Is he crazy?Have homicidal tendencies? !

In the screen of the spirit vision camera, Xanthium pulled out a short-handled sickle, and then slashed his neck with the sickle...

Cocklebur easily lifted the man's head.

Cocklebur was facing its head, and seemed to be looking at it carefully.

As his lips opened and closed, his voice came out of the phone's microphone.

"There is a power beyond the extraordinary in that knife wound, and that power restrains the blood of the extraordinary, so the wound will not heal no matter what.

Early death and late death are death, why not let me study it carefully.

As long as I get results, you can be regarded as having made a contribution to imperial medicine, and your life is not in vain. "

What on earth is cocklebur doing? !

Medical Research?Isn't he a witch?What does studying medicine do? !

There was a knocking sound in the room, presumably it was Xanthium cleaning up the scene of the crime.

Chen Yan didn't hesitate anymore, and immediately exited the camera, put away the phone, and turned to leave.

But the next moment—after Xanth was cleaning up the house, but only a few seconds later, he suddenly heard footsteps.

He had already turned off the Spirit Vision camera, and the sound of footsteps did not come from the phone's microphone.

The sound of footsteps came from the door of the room!

Cocklebur is coming out!
Chen Yan's face turned pale.

Looking up, Xanthium had already opened the door.

Standing in the corridor, Chen Yan saw the cocklebur standing inside the door through the wind and snow blowing into the corridor.

Although it is said to be a "witch", the cocklebur is not a woman, but a middle-aged man who already has white hair.

He was wearing a light brown Chinese medicine uniform, with a neutral face and bright eyes. He looked like a wise man with an excellent temperament, and he didn't look like he had just killed someone.

"Awaited."

Cocklebur knew he was outside all the time!

Chen Yan's heart skipped a beat.

Does he know that I just saw what happened in the room?

A thought quickly flashed through Chen Yan's head:
No, he couldn't see that what happened just now happened in spiritual vision, that is to say, Xanthium used some kind of extraordinary power to shield everything in the room.

And I am a mortal, how can mortal eyes see the existence of the extraordinary?
Chen Yan forcefully forced a smile: "Master, I'm here to look for Third Uncle."

Xan'er said: "brother Ansheng is not at the hall."

Chen Yan kept his tone as normal as possible: "That's it, then I'll visit another day."

Xan'er's gaze remained unchanged, and his tone was irresistible: "Since you can come here, it is destiny, how about I make a fortune for you?"

Chen Yan groaned in his heart, not knowing what Xanthium was planning.

He is a mortal who is nothing, what is there to calculate?
But he didn't dare to refuse casually. Cocklebur just killed someone, if he wanted to leave in such a hurry, wouldn't it mean that he saw something just now?
Besides, this is Tai Shenghe's hall!When the third uncle was not around, it was Xan'er who had the final say—as long as Xan'er didn't want to, he wouldn't be able to get out even a single step.

Chen Yan complained endlessly.

It's over, the sheep are in the mouth of the tiger.

He could only bite the bullet and said with a smile: "Then I would like to thank Master."

Xanthium turned and went into the room: "It's cold outside, come in and talk."

For the first time, Chen Yan felt that the ice and snow outside was much warmer than the house where the cocklebur was burning with a stove.

That's all, I can't run anyway.

He entered the house in silence.

As soon as I entered the room, I saw in front of the door to the right, on a half-square-meter display stand, a complete brain was being soaked in a cylindrical glass vessel filled with pale yellow liquid.

Seeming to have noticed Chen Yan's gaze, Xanth turned around and said in a slightly happy tone: "Hey, you are also interested in anatomy?"

Chen Yan stammered and replied: "Ah, yes... no! I just know that this seems to be a solution of formalin."

When it comes to formalin solution, a hint of surprise appeared on Xanthium's face: "You know formalin!"

Chen Yan nodded, and a thought came to his mind:
Could it be that the brain soaked in formalin solution came from the extraordinary person who was killed just now?

But it was only a few seconds just now, how did Xanthium take out the brain and put it in the glass container in these short few seconds?
Before he had time to panic, he heard Xanthium continue to say:
"It is difficult for most Asians to learn the tongue-twisting Imperial language, and there are even fewer who can speak professional medical terms fluently... How long have you been in the Empire?"

Chen Yan was vague: "Not long..."

Xanthium nodded: "Not long after you came to the empire, you will be trusted by Li Cha and put in Ansheng's hall... Are you Chen Yan?"

Chen Yan's guess about Xanthium was not surprising. The capable people in Taisheng and Li had good eyesight and ears, and most of them were the top talents in society.

Chen Yan nodded, his eyes wandering.

The cocklebur's room...it is said to be a reception room, but in fact it doesn't look like a reception room at all.

Various specimens are hung on the walls.

There are withered limbs and feathers of various colors that have been processed and dried.

There are also living tissue-like balls soaked in small bottles.

Some of these specimens are clearly seen as birds and small mammals.

Others look like body parts of larger animals.

And...a chimpanzee-like overall skeleton.

Chen Yan didn't take a few glances, and the voice of cocklebur appeared in his ear with interest.

"Are you interested in these things?"

Chen Yan subconsciously shook his head.

Xanth turned around with a smile, picked up the boiling kettle on the wall stove, poured hot tea into two white ceramic cups, and handed it over to Chen Yan.

Chen Yan took the tea and thanked him, but he didn't dare to take a sip, for fear that there might be something strange in the tea.

He casually asked, "Is Master a doctor?"

Xanthium nodded slightly: "It's a doctor, I study medical classics and imperial surgery; but I'm not a doctor, because I never treat people."

Xanthium seemed to be interested in Chen Yan's question, pointing to the brain soaked in formalin solution on the display case by the door, said:
"After coming to the empire, I found that the medical classics of Asians and the medical science of the empire are actually complementary."

"Formalin solution can only be used to make lifeless animal specimens."

"After I tried to add some other things to it, the formalin solution changed—this new type of reagent can already maintain the activity of biomass to a certain extent."

When Xanthium came here, it mentioned a rather professional term:

biomass.

The empire's medical science has only just developed for decades, and it will cost a lot to learn relevant knowledge.

Even in universities, the popularity of medical terminology is still not high.

Where did cocklebur know the term 'biomass'?Is it completely self-taught?This is too powerful...

Xanthi's next action interrupted Chen Yan's thinking.

(End of this chapter)