Krafft's Anomaly Notes

"The environment in Dunling has not been much better since the church tightened the noose." Velen followed Kraft unhurriedly, walking side by side among the obelisks like pillars of salt, "After most of the deaths are discovered, the final The first to be notified is the relatives of the deceased, and the second is the church. For those who have no relatives, the order of the church will be mentioned first."

"People with status will be buried in churchyards, and ordinary cemeteries are also patrolled by gravekeepers hired by the church to ensure that there will be no desecration of grave robbery that peeks at the funeral objects of the deceased."

"I'm curious how you got the 'research subject'." Kraft disconnected his spiritual senses, and stopped while holding on to the nearest tombstone to maintain his balance.

Dun Ling's colleagues rubbed their fingers with deep meaning, "There is no research object, at least no one has admitted that there is a research object. All our achievements are obtained through the interpretation of the great works of our ancestors and the observation of the body surface. There is no research object."

"Of course, there is no such thing as spending money to bribe the tomb guards, or inviting 'people' to come to the college as guests for eight silver coins for tea. Sometimes when the believers of the Heavenly Father come to visit, they happen to run away in a panic after being discovered by the tomb robbers, and abandon the corpses It’s reasonable to be nearby.”

"Very reasonable."

"It's good that you feel the same way, we've been struggling with our inability to reach a settlement with the Inquisition. It's been especially difficult lately."

"It's always difficult for people to understand each other. Let's take a look at the academy's instruments." It was still early in the day, and it was a good time to find more information while the iron was hot, so that the other party would not realize that the motive was not pure after a long time.

This is not difficult, Velen made a gesture of "this way please", and brought several Rivers VIPs into the instrument storage room without thinking twice.Because they behaved so naturally, the students who managed the warehouse didn't even ask who these new teachers who hadn't seen them were.

Many metal instruments and glass instruments are stored on huge solid wood cabinets fixed to the wall, and the upper floors need to step on special stairs whose shape is suspected to be inspired by siege ladders.

It is almost a glass pavilion, gathering several generations of technological changes.From thick round bottles with thick translucency to new instruments with thin walls and solid colors, there is a place for creations of all levels, including some extremely transparent and incompatible small pieces.

Seeing that Kraft was curious, Velen took one and handed it to him. The small ice cracks walking in it showed that it was hollowed out from a whole piece of natural crystal.

"It's a luxury, right? You probably won't see something like this anywhere else, and you won't have it again in the future."

They came to the latest white glass instrument storage cabinet, which should be the product of the unlucky alchemist before he died in the mine.At this time, there are many vacancies on this shelf, like the gums of children during the period of changing teeth. The dead have gone and the new batch has not been filled.

"The previous raw materials were out of stock, so we haven't been able to replenish them for a long time. We only got news this year, but there was a fire again, and a lot of damage occurred. Because it was customized in the name of Professor Morrison, there were some delivery problems. The rest are currently available, just register here."

"Great." His eyes scanned the various containers on the shelf, and he could see the level of glass craftsmanship from the church windows. The craftsmen here are not much better than those in Comfort Port. He saw many challenges A play of imagination and skill.

Some oddly shaped bottles simply melted the fittings and the container together because of the lack of a rubber joint that was airtight enough.Including a condenser tube, which is made of a beaded inner tube inside the outer tube, sealed at both ends, and welded directly to the flask, God knows how they cleaned it.

"Can I see the list?" He actually didn't care much about what was left here, what was more important was what was missing.

The student took out a thick booklet from the drawer. Half of the booklet was registered and signed by items with different handwriting. Kraft couldn't believe that this book might reflect most of the recent experimental activities of the medical school. Things are in your hands.

Things come too fast and too easy, there is a sense of unreality.

Kraft turned sideways to block the pages calmly, and the date separation carefully marked by the manager provided a great help for reference, and it was easy to go back to more than half a year ago.

However, a new difficulty arose. He saw strange names all over his eyes. Some people used cursive script and abbreviated initials instead. Don't try to understand what is written, it's hard to say that it doesn't have some anti-audit function.

The idea at the beginning was too simple, and there was another problem. As a professor of the college, Morrison might not have to condescend to come to the warehouse to borrow signatures.

After turning a few pages, when Kraft was going to spend time memorizing the second half of the book and comparing it slowly, an outstandingly gorgeous signature saved him.

【Kalman】

Perhaps there are people named Kallman everywhere in the world, but among them who happen to have a good handwriting and will appear here again, I'm afraid there won't be a second one.

The first letter is capitalized with silk, leading to long and sharp serifs like branches, and the rest of the letters are arranged on top of each other like falling perching birds.The smooth continuous strokes make people feel that they are signed at the end of a formal letter, carefully designed and brewed, rather than daily signatures.

According to the date of this record, about half a year ago, when Kraft was thinking about the origin of the ore in Comfort Harbor, Professor Kalman arrived in Dunling as scheduled.

It may be earlier, after all, he arrived as quickly as possible after receiving the news, and he had already taken on the job of helping Morrison handle the experimental affairs when he signed the contract, and borrowed several knives, clamps, tweezers, and a few Quantitative measuring cup.

The beginning and end of the signature are coherent and completed in one go.

【He seems to be in good shape】

It is not at all obvious that it is the same person who left a box of difficult and incomprehensible experimental records, as if returning to the high-spirited time, willing to devote energy to everything the instructor ordered.

Turning down two pages, he saw Professor Kallman's borrowing records again. Instead of returning them, they borrowed several quantitative containers, as well as medicaments that seemed to be used for surgery far more than for drug treatment.

After half a month, with the same signature, Lieming Lab returned the original glass container and surgical equipment—in the form of funds, he asked the equipment room to find the original craftsman's shop for replenishment in the name of the college.

The reason was that the equipment that came into contact with patients with severe infectious diseases could not be reused. Karman’s own handwriting even seriously supplemented the report, saying that he had undergone tumor resection for syphilis patients who were ineffective in mercury therapy and honey smearing.

Probably because he realized that the disappearance of batches of instruments was a bit abnormal, the next behavior was quite restrained, and only a few pieces were missing in a batch, such as reimbursement for two small knives for incision and drainage of abscess and fever patients.

Over the past few months, only a few pieces of precision glass instruments used for distillation, boiling, and extraction have been borrowed temporarily, and those with complex structures will remain in the name of Kalman’s loan forever, or none of them will be returned due to damage compensation. , until a fire sent everything to the forever lost list.

From the beginning to the end, each beautiful signature, which was never written by hand, was like a neatly copied and pasted lamppost on the no-man's road in the middle of the night, finally in the middle of the wasteland.

"Professor Kraft, have you found what you need?"