Krafft's Anomaly Notes

Chapter 220 Rubbing
Although the current work of the Tribunal is quite different from what you imagined, being a member of it still has a special advantage—the entire Dunling, including the surrounding villages, towns and manors, except for a few areas, there are few places that clearly express that they are not welcome to enter.

Most of this should be attributed to the strong atmosphere that the church has accumulated in the local area for many years. Residents generally respect the priests, and they often get extra trust and preferential treatment when they wear white robes with wings and rings.

As a man of faith, Green never takes it for granted, returning a religious greeting to a stranger's greeting.

The foundation of the church comes from this. The Gospel of the Heavenly Father is difficult for ordinary people to understand, but the attitude of the Heavenly Father who treats people equally is reflected by the communicators on earth.

But for those who are stubborn, kindness and gentleness will not only fail to influence them, but will encourage their arrogance.

Of course, that doesn't mean doing something risqué.Just lifting up the burqa slightly to reveal the weapons that ordinary clergy would not carry with them, the operator who had just turned cold-eyed quickly corrected his attitude.

An antique shop located in an alley, two turns away from the street.The transcript that Morrison purchased in the informant's report came from here.

Obviously, it didn't think about attracting customers through normal channels, but came from a small circle of word-of-mouth among people in need.

Vadin glanced at the boss unexpectedly, and followed Green into the cramped interior.

Two rows of three-story wooden frames against the wall occupy most of the space, and a thick long table is placed in the middle.Numerous objects are scribbled and piled up on the tabletops and shelves, and the common feature is that they all look old.

Uncommon pottery bottles, blue-red rusty metal castings, large and small stone sculptures, rough-polished gem ornaments, and box storage, have not been cleaned or are intentionally kept in an old state of dust, floating in the breath A choking smell of a dusty tomb.

Probably the most valuable are a few individual tomes, surrounded by bags of lime to dry.

Ignoring the store owner's hesitation to stop, Green took out a book and opened it.

The scorched yellow paper almost broke due to this rough action, and the spine of the book made a slight cracking sound, and some pages were stuck together and could not be separated, or were so dry that they could not be bent.

It's about dealing with diseases, and it can't even be called medicine, because in addition to various drugs drawn from various forced correlation imaginations, there are also sustenance through such as "candles lit at a fixed time and placed in a specific position" Acts of forces outside of nature.

If it was to attract clients from the medical school, it would be completely wrong, and based on what he knew about those professors, he might not be interested.

This undoubtedly belongs to the scope of "superstition" that the church opposes, and it is on the edge of only giving verbal warnings. If it is not brushed against the edge of medicine, it will sometimes be confiscated and sealed.

It is probably for this reason that the operators are reluctant to allow the clergy to enter.

In fact, it is more than that. They know some similar stores, as long as they are likely to arouse buyers' interest in collecting things that look old, they will collect things with a sense of age, and the sources of a wide variety of products are suspicious.

And the most direct and guaranteed source of goods comes from underground.

For the blasphemer who disturbed the dead's resting place for money, a lot of stolen goods came here after changing hands, and they were put on the counter in a grand manner, and the seller would argue that he didn't know the origin.

Picking out a ring at random, Green explained to the boss in detail the unswept soil residue between the gemstone and the ring setting, the inevitable connection between this soil quality and a certain cemetery, and that it was too fresh.

The other party's heart rate soon began to rise, and sweat dripped from the disgusting little businessman's face.He repeatedly wiped his forehead with a silk handkerchief, and tried to hint that he could donate some money to the Heavenly Father to prove his piety.

Perhaps many people would gladly accept this offering, including some colleagues in the Tribunal.But Green is by no means included.

He just needs to provide a little motivation for the shop owner to try to recall the motivation to sell the goods.This is information that ordinary informants cannot obtain.

As in previous experience, after the second rejection of money, the other party's nervousness is already visible.Green made a timely request, expressing his desire to find out what the medical school professors bought from here.

At first, the boss may have planned to pretend that he didn't remember at all, but when he was warmly held hands and invited to live in a place suitable for awakening memories until he remembered, he quickly asked for a little time to sort out what he could provide. information.

As the handler, it is necessary to look through the manuscript when evaluating the value of the manuscript.He confirmed the informant's statement about the content of the manuscript, that the pages of the book that were bought all came from the same book, and the main content was the author's notes on architectural research.

Rating is average value.As an early city, Dunling has a huge span of old and new buildings, both above and below ground. It is so easy to find the content to write a book, so much so that scholars who study architecture begin to prohibit students from using this as a topic to pass the exam.

The collation of the folk is even worse than that. Many of them only record a certain style and lack of historical research.

It stands to reason that it is almost enough to find this kind of situation, and then we can temporarily let this affected small shop go after a warning, and go to the medical school to face the main target.But the doubts in Green's heart were not dispelled by this, but aggravated.

Perhaps the Inquisition is not the most knowledgeable group of people in the world in medical schools, but there is definitely a place for them in the second understanding.This is a person who is running wildly on the forbidden road at great risk. It makes no sense to buy some irrelevant books when focusing on new directions.

This kind of answer was not satisfying, so he decided to give it a try, and there was no loss anyway.

Green shook his head in disappointment, turned and left. Brother Vadin knew how to support the owner of the shop and pushed him outside. The hard armor and excessive force made him cry out in pain.

Compared with the physical pain, the psychological panic is more serious. Obviously not everyone can hang themselves for profit.

This broke his last line of psychological defense, and he took out a few pieces of paper from the storage room in the back room as quickly as possible, and handed them over without any hesitation.

According to him, this is the scattered paper that was collected later and was going to take the opportunity to increase the price and sell it to the professor. The damage to the cutting edge is obviously different from those scattered and rebound old books in the church collection. It is obviously from the binding. Damage caused by removal.

This is to split and sell one product twice.Even if this profiteer's little action just happened to provide convenience for himself, it still made people angry.

Carefully picking up the page, Green even had a rare curiosity about what content deserves Professor Morrison's attention.

Their preservation is surprisingly good, and you can feel the toughness of the light and thin paper at the beginning; the writers also use Norse language, which is only different from the present in some vocabulary and grammatical habits, and the readability is basically guaranteed. It is estimated that they are older close, which limits its value.

The difference in this book is that it not only collects ordinary buildings, but also includes many functional buildings into the research scope, including river embankments, diversion channels, bridges, quarries, and even sewers.

He collected these common and often overlooked parts of the city, and narrated them for himself, occasionally mixed with some scribbled hand-drawings, and there were pieces of unsightly black ink, just like paper pressed against an ink bottle and overturned. on the ground.This makes the pages that are not clean in the first place even more confusing and affects typesetting.

After reading carefully, Green understood the meaning of these things.The author felt that he could not just describe it in words, so he pasted the paper on the stone surface, wiped the ink and rubbed the pattern, and hoped that readers could touch the bricks and stones everywhere in Dunling without leaving home.

For this reason, he also condescended to drill into the ground, digging out sewers that few people are willing to understand, and said that it is as intricate as the streets above the ground.

Among the various rubbings, there is one page that will undoubtedly catch the reader's attention.

Different from other rubbings that can recognize the square outline, it is a pattern with only obtuse angles. The intermittent white lines are connected in the ink to form a shape that would never be considered a masonry at first glance, but a black one. What kind of alien creation floated in the water.

Several regular hexagons that fit together are suspended between the text traces, and the extended lines show that they are not isolated, and occupy a width that cannot be covered by rubbing paper somewhere underground.

Even though he grew up here and has read the collections of the Holy See, Green has never seen this style of architectural structure, whether it is on the foundation or the walls.Like accidentally opening a splint and finding a hive built in a home that I thought I was completely familiar with, and the buzz of the swarm has never sounded.

The "hive" has a pattern that is almost integrated with the stone pattern, but due to water erosion or the author's inexplicably poor rubbings, it cannot be distinguished from reality. Part of the beeswax is softened like melting, and some of them have geometric pattern-like straight lines and curved arcs.

Through rubbing, they are truly and inexactly brought to readers, together with the conflicting ideas of the craftsmen, trying to copy and reproduce something, switching back and forth between incompatible patterns, and never forming a complete shape.

And the remnants of contradictory designs, such as the bee pupae that can never break out of the cocoon, are not completely dead, struggling to maintain solidification in the hexagonal prism hive.

Green clamped the pages of the book abruptly, realizing that he was confused by a rubbing and ignored the written narrative.

The patterns in those hexagonal rubbings live in the pages of the book, and they seem to be more than that, breaking free from the shackles of the form, and conveying the inexhaustible information after the second distortion.

Spreading it out again, with difficulty avoiding the graphics, I read the few sentences left by the author, and made a far-fetched connection with the decoration style with little similarity, as if self-persuading, I concluded that it was a kind of design after construction work. Passing the time works.

Based on personal experience, such abstract and seemingly allegorical symbols are often highly related to a behavior worthy of vigilance.

【Pagan Worship】

Switching his thinking from the miscellaneous books he had read to the records of paganism, Green searched the paganism that the church had dealt with as quickly as possible.

Generally speaking, except for those small troubles that are purely fooled by fools, large-scale heretical beliefs often have a system, and they inherit and learn from each other, and even simply copy the holy scriptures, and most of them can find similar products.

The rubbing pattern was definitely not done by hand, but after searching in my mind, there is no information for comparison and reference—this is a pagan system that has never been recorded by the church.

Green realized that he might have caught the tail of something, a potentially excellent but perhaps premature opportunity to cast a long line for a big fish.

The order passed to the most critical informant when the two returned to the church, and they began to wait patiently.

Half a month later, he waited for the result——

A fire and the death of an informant.

(End of this chapter)