Krafft's Anomaly Notes

"Actually, I missed one more thing." During the dinner, Kraft picked up a piece of lettuce and talked about another thing, "How do you deal with Lecturer Petrie's belongings?"

Holding the wine glass, Martin took a sip of the slightly sour red wine in it, and recalled with a frown: "It should be that the room where he is temporarily staying has been sealed up. When the news is sent to Dunling, the appropriate person will receive it, or We'll send it over there. Why do you ask that?"

"It stands to reason that every party invitee needs to make an academic report on their main research progress. Lecturer Petrie is no exception." Kraft put down the knife and continued, "The report is not a temporary improvisation. Yes, it should have been written long ago.”

"Well, I guess no one thought to check it at the time, but we still have it, as you say."

"Yes, I want to take a look at this manuscript." Although I don't hold out much hope, it is also an idea to indirectly understand the content of Petrie's recent research.

The small bottle containing the light black liquid found from the heretic is still in the package. Once you have seen it once, you should not forget the hidden subtle sense of temptation.

The will to experience so many things is no longer what it used to be. In front of this substance, the false whispers in his brain can no longer move him, and some content that was only considered as irrelevant associations at that time are clearer.That pool of pure black liquid looked like a bottomless wellhead, leading to the dark depths.

【Black liquor】

It is not surprising to see another black liquid, but it is self-evident that Westminster is close to Dunling, and the black liquid was found on the heretics who were active here.

Coupled with the fact that Petrie is from the University of Dunlin, and there are so many connections that can be associated, it is hard not to think of something.

"Professor?" Martin approached from behind, followed his line of sight curiously, the overwhelming night swept in, and dunked the forest wall, pasture and people into the zenith of the starry sky with the sound of insects.

"To be precise, it should be considered hunting. It will be very frequent when the Duke is in good health." Martin leaned on the door frame with his glass in his hand, and took a sip in disgust. There are few things that taste good."

"But hunting is different. The surrounding nobles will participate in it. It is a very fun activity and an opportunity to show off their abilities. The Duke's favorite fur comes from the prey he hunts with his own hands. Don't you have this kind of activity over there? ?”

"It's really lingering." Kraft picked up the lettuce and put it in his mouth. It was already a little cold, but the taste was not bad.He finished dinner hastily and left the table.

It's just that now it's replaced by another larger life form - the forest is infected by a fungus that grows wildly, and its death should be longer and more gorgeous.

Kraft has only participated in practical hunting, and when it comes to carnivores, he mainly uses very unscrupulous traps and bait first.

"It can be said that." Kraft no longer looked at the invisible forest wall, turned around and walked back to the warm light at the door. The last moment his thoughts were still wandering in the boundless world, and suddenly the only meaningful things left were the few around him. Step visible distance, "What we can directly see is very limited, too little."

"Thank you, but I don't drink too much." Kraft declined the invitation. Drinking at a party is the most annoying part. "Speaking of which, where do we start tomorrow?"

They are wooden barriers erected like horses on the multi-water plains, or winding city walls, with tree trunks as skeletons, branches and leaves as walls, filled with appendages such as shrubs, climbing vines, and parasitic ferns, denying all prying eyes look.

"Are you worried that our progress will not go well?"

"Look for traces, trap them, and give them a fatal blow. It's almost like hunting. It depends on whether they have the ability to counterattack like a wild beast, or find a chance to escape." Martin raised his glass to Kraft and drank it in one breath. Wine that tastes like sour grape juice, "Wish us all the best."

"..." In fact, there should be some, but the Wood family has always been far away from this kind of social circle, and the location is remote. Old Wood didn't think that a group of people fully armed to drive and hunt wild animals could show any martial arts, so he didn't participate. Tradition.

"Uh, what a headache."

But the clues in his hand now point to this, and stepping into the forest may be an inevitable choice.

"Oh? You used to go to the forest to find things?"

Seemingly in a slightly drunk state, he casually said, "The wine here tastes average. When we get back to the port, I suggest that we try the honey beer near Rivers University. My treat."

However, he can understand that it is roughly equivalent to the role-playing of war games in the virtual world by souls from other worlds in their limited spare time.

For a person who has never seen it, it is difficult to imagine the picture information conveyed indirectly by language. It can only be compared to standing inside the dissected infected corpse, stepping on the lungs that are blooming and collapsed under the canopy, and the top of the head is The dome of the sternal rib is covered with gills, and the hyphae in the adjacent subdiaphragmatic solid viscera take root and form a network.

If necessary, Kraft thought, these things can also multiply on a larger scale, and the dense forest supports and covers them until they cover the entire ground and even the ground like a meadow, eating the dead skin and rotten wood of trees to grow , eventually forming the ubiquitous "fungus forest" described by Martin.

"It's true that finding anything in the woods is hard work. In the past, we would hire local hunters or other people who are familiar with the terrain."

But this time it was much better. They were a professional armed force of thirty or so people, not a lineup of scholars or logistics practitioners. The main threat they faced could be identified as human beings, and they had a record of being killed.

The hyphae of fungi digest the remnants of this huge life group in the old humus layer under their feet, and support all kinds of bright and beautiful mushrooms.

When I came outside, the sunset glow was completely obscured, and at the distance of the manor, I could clearly see the forest wall across the open grassland.

In the endless forest, he didn't really expect that the kerosene he brought would cause any storms in the wet season. What's more, he didn't bring these things to set fire to the prison, but to guard against someone who liked to be in the prison. Old acquaintances of deep activity.

"Go to the lumberyard along the river. They are not like people who only work on the fringes. Sometimes they have to go a little deeper to find specific wood. The steward needs to supply them to the manor, so they recognize people." When it comes to business, the Duke's knight is still clear.

"That couldn't be better." This entry is considered thoughtful, and Kraft agreed, "But speaking of it, I have always had a question. It's just a personal curiosity. It doesn't matter if it's not convenient to answer."

"Have you or the church encountered such things in the past? I mean things that are obviously abnormal and cannot be explained by common sense like this time, and involve paganism or other groups or organizations?"

"During the time I worked for the Duke, the answer was no." Martin replied generously, without any intention of avoiding taboo, "However, I have heard many similar things, which may not be true, and most of them are tricks and tricks in the end; very If you don’t figure it out, you don’t need to spend too much energy to deal with it and it will end inexplicably on its own. Maybe people who trade souls with demons will suffer their own consequences sooner or later, right?”

"Indeed, sooner or later you will reap the consequences." Kraft nodded in agreement, "Go to bed early, and let me and Kupp take turns on duty tonight. Don't worry, I have always been full of energy."