Krafft's Anomaly Notes

"What is this?" the priest asked.

In his eyes, there is a kind of flame called confusion and curiosity, which ignites from the haze of emotions, like sparks encountering grease, and instantly fills the entire pupil.

A certain urgent thought drove him to seek information in order to stitch together the torn corner of his cognition.

The separation between the world view and what you see seems to be a wound in reality, a dull pain in the mind, more than the discomfort in the body.

"It's a long story." Under Green's gaze, Kraft finally had the nerve to put the things in his pocket, "But it's a long story."

"To explain it crudely, you can think of it as an 'artificial' animal, in every sense of the word."

“Everything in the world, including animals, plants, and people, is the creation of the Lord.” According to the Holy Scriptures, Heavenly Father indeed enjoys the patent rights of all living things, especially human beings, who belong to the unquestionable highest level among all creations.

Everything else is to serve this highest level of creation. Man is the meaning of the world, and he is born with the right to enjoy the rest of creation.

"I don't want to offend, then this is the extra material when creating a human being. It has been assembled in a different way, and it has become what you see now." The professor has no intention of questioning this. In his opinion, revisiting the scriptures is just an instinctive self. Protective responses stabilize the way we perceive the world.

"Of course, you can't say it's a human being. It's like demolishing a few houses and using materials to build a church on the original foundation. You can't say the church is the original house."

It must be explained in a more popular way. Even if this will lose some accuracy, it will not be able to accurately convey the weirdness of reconstructing tissues and organs into alien shapes.

At least as someone who had never had a background in biology, Greene understood the general concept and asked: "So the purpose is to find more 'building materials' and then expand?"

"From the logic of behavior, it is almost like this. What you encounter should be a 'baby version', which is close to insect larvae, pupae and the like."

"What about when you mature?"

"That's a whole other thing. It's got limbs, lots of limbs, like some sea creatures. Have you ever seen an octopus? Ever? It's like that, but much bigger and a little tougher new function."

"It's actually quite lucky. I can't imagine what to do when something big enough to block the waterway and move fast appears. There is no room to hide, and it may be over before the reaction."

Kraft placed the prism on the coffin board. The stone was still in an incomprehensible state of activation, and a circle of pale light and shadow faintly appeared around it.

"As for this stone, you can roughly understand it as its core, which is equivalent to the brain, heart, etc. It is easier to identify. After all, it is unlikely to find a second stone with similar texture and shimmer."

The priest nodded in understanding, trying to digest the information he received.It is still too difficult for people to accept the existence of an animal that is assembled from its own kind and whose core is a stone.

He tried to touch the stone, as if the gloom that had not been exposed to the sun for thousands of years rubbed against his fingerprints, and the cold light penetrated his memory and connected with something.

"Is the light of this thing so weak?"

"Yes." Kraft replied without hesitation. In my impression, both the prisms removed from the crawling creature's body and the source of these stones - the celestial body remained in a dark state. Exudes almost nothing shimmer.

A chill suddenly ran through his body along his arms. Green shuddered and suddenly had an unpleasant thought: "What if I told you that I saw this kind of light coming out from under that well? "

This question was directly asked by the professor in silence, and when Kraft realized that the other party was not asking casually, an extremely bad feeling also swept over him.

"Is there anything else going on?"

"The cracks, the same cracks as before, just appeared out of nowhere. It was as if there was a sword, a long invisible sword, splitting the stone."

It sounds very similar, the same experience happened on the other side not long ago, only scaled many times, small enough to be used by heretics as a deadly ambush.

"Oh, Father Green, then I have good news and bad news. The bad news is that, as you think, there may be something big down that well."

"What about the good news?" "This phenomenon is understandable and even controllable to a certain extent. For example, the paganism we are dealing with can reproduce it on a small scale." And this recurrence may not be the same as ever. first.

"You interpret good news differently than ordinary people."

"Believe me, this is definitely good news. Someone helped us do preliminary research and prove that there is a way to go. Is there anything better?" Kraft took out a piece of cotton cloth, wrapped the prism and handed it to Green, " Let’s store it with you temporarily, now go and see what I found.”

The things brought to Green have been taken care of most carefully, stored in a separate tomb in the upper tomb, and guarded by special personnel.

With the foreshadowing of last night's experience, when he opened the tightly packed package, the priest only showed a disgusted expression.

In this corpse that can no longer be defined as a human being, we can intuitively see how Heavenly Father’s most perfect creation has been gradually distorted and developed in a completely unfamiliar direction.

And the stone inlaid in the right palm confirms the statement that the pagans mastered unnatural means.

"I have to say, Professor Kraft, at least in terms of combat, I quite admire you. If you were born in the church, you would become the sharpest sword of Heavenly Father in the world."

"Come on, and then we go to the streets together every day to catch fake heretics who cheat middle-aged and old people of money?" Kraft doesn't feel a sense of accomplishment by solving an enemy that is still within a normal range. When the opponent's tricks can be perceived, Failure is inevitable.

"see this."

Holding the heathen's right hand and turning it over, Kraft showed Green the hollow on the back of the hand, where a corresponding thing should have been embedded, corresponding to the gray-white stone in the palm.

"There was another stone like that?"

"I thought so too at first." He rolled up the sleeves of the corpse, the black veins on his overly pale arms were more prominent than last night, swollen and deformed, like nematodes parasitic under the skin, "Guess what's inside?"

"Blood clot?" Although he said that, Green didn't think it was possible. The veins with dried up blood should be shriveled and nothing.

Kraft cut open a small section of vein along an already opened opening, exposing the black substance inside that almost broke through the blood vessel wall, in the form of tiny ice crystals, solidified in the blood vessel, and seemed to be something of a rocky or mineral nature.

"It wasn't like this yesterday, and part of it is liquid, which can flow out of the blood vessels."

"what do you mean?"

"This is what was originally embedded in the back of the hand. It melted under certain conditions and flowed back along the vein. And when it was liquid, you paid attention to it before."

Green stared blankly at these things frozen in his blood vessels, and couldn't remember when he had anything to do with them anyway.

"Think about it, if this kind of gray and white stone will lead to endless demand and growth, then you need a strong and inhibitory thing in relative balance." When seeing the black solid-liquid mixture, Kraft recognized some of them.

"When it is a liquid, take a drop and dilute it into water, and you will get something that is colorless and odorless, with a very low concentration but enough to temporarily inhibit consciousness and life activities."

[Perhaps we can call it clarity]

"For discussion, this arm will be kept for a few days. I need to study and understand under what conditions they will melt. Let's just say that the right hand is cut off and can't be found. You can take the rest back to scare the bishop, the presiding judge and so on. Don't expect There is a second person who can help with this."

"Okay." Green agreed.As long as he has something that is enough to scare people, it doesn't matter whether the thing lacks an arm or not.

"Speaking of which, what are you going to do with that armor? Even if no one notices the sign, you can't hide its existence."

"It's okay. The situation is urgent. It's normal for the breastplate pattern to peel off during transportation, right?"