Krafft's Anomaly Notes

Chapter 321 Evil Curse
"..."

The team gathered around the remains. It seemed that thorns had grown out of their jawbones, piercing their tongues and fixing them into stiff specimens, making them unable to make any sound.

Even Kraft was unable to make any meaningful comment on this.

The restrictions on osteogenesis are completely lifted, and a large amount of calcium salts, woven protein fibers, and polysaccharides are mobilized here to build spires in the body like reinforced concrete, breaking through the fragile skin and flesh.

The red layer attached to the surface of the bone appears to be extremely fine choroid retina when viewed closely. It is the micro-vessels that are temporarily proliferated and transport the required substances. A large amount of calcium is delivered here and deposited.

This suggests that the reason for his collapse may not be excessive blood loss, but low calcium.

As calcium is rapidly deposited to form bone spurs, the level of free calcium in the plasma drops dramatically.

At first, it was a strange numbness and tingling that moved through my fingers and face, which seemed minor compared to the rest of my injuries.

This is followed by weakness in the limbs and dizziness, which may be mistaken for excessive physical exertion during running.

Until I discovered with horror that my limbs were out of control, epileptic-like convulsions replaced normal activities, breathing became difficult, and my spasming throat seemed to be strangled by an invisible hand reaching out from my lungs.

Before complete suffocation, the precipitous drop in blood calcium levels had already caused central neuron dysfunction. When consciousness was lost, the only feeling in the chaos was the gradually fading pain growing under the skin.

The calcium in the blood alone was far from enough to support this amount of growth, so the other half of his bones showed obvious brittleness, with small holes all over the surface and the inside as loose as if it had been fermented.

Uncontrolled osteogenesis and osteolysis occur simultaneously, which is a manifestation of some malignant bone cancers, but it is countless times faster.

Of course, he himself cannot see the second half of the process, which should be regarded as a kind of mercy of the physiological mechanism.

"From a medical point of view, he probably wasn't in too much pain before he left." Losing consciousness and dying was over in a short period of time, at least not as scary as it seemed.

For the sake of rigor, Kraft added, "Theoretically."

"Although I don't like them very much, this kind of meeting is still too bad." Brother Wadin felt uncomfortable all over. Just looking at this scene, he felt something growing under his skin.

"I wouldn't wish this on anyone except...I mean, even Theodore."

Green silently put the torn cloth back into place, barely covering the skeleton, drew a ring on his chest, and whispered a short sentence that was probably a prayer.

He looked around and didn't find what was missing, so he took off the double-winged ring amulet on his chest, tied a knot with the rope, and wrapped it around his ribs covered with spikes.

"It will bless his soul. Go on, we should be careful."

The amulet pendant swung between the empty skeletons, but the contents that had originally filled it were missing. Perhaps the thing that killed him took this part away.

The gravel ground and the surging water meant there were no footprints here, so it was impossible to infer the creature's movement pattern and size, but since it could carry away most of the weight of an adult, it must not be small.

Following this line of thought, they carefully checked the surroundings again and found several shallow pits, which seemed to have been under a lot of weight and the gravel was compacted and concave.

Because they were too scattered and the distances between them were large, they were not noticed at first. Even if they were found, it was impossible to determine whether they were traces of something, and it was difficult to infer how they moved based on their distribution direction.

Kraft, on the other hand, was thinking of other things.

The distortion of biological structure is not uncommon in contact with anomalies, but that is all based on close, zero-distance, or even negative-distance contact with the medium. And if contact has already occurred, will the thing chasing the victim really give him the chance to run so far?

The specificity of this skeletal deformity is particularly obvious. Unlike previous observations that are related to functionality, it is completely for the purpose of killing.

This is designed.

A program that was deliberately selected and filled with malicious intent was not very similar to the style of the deep creatures. "A suggestion." Kraft suppressed his discomfort and quickly chased to the head of the team, "Don't underestimate what we are facing."

The priest couldn't quite understand how he could overestimate what he was about to encounter, and what could be worse than a living lake.

"What do you mean?"

"I feel like it might be able to think. Anyway, be as careful as possible, just as if we are fighting against a smart devil who can cast evil spells, not a powerful beast. Do you understand?"

"There doesn't seem to be any reason to refuse. I'll remember it," Green promised.

They were entering a stone jungle inhabited by some intelligent creature, and it was obvious that it was much more familiar with the place than the outsiders.

In fact, the traces on the ground disappeared very quickly, as if its movement was not restricted to the ground. Some scratches suspected to be fulcrums were found on the surface of the rock cluster, appearing at several places, high and low, far and near.

The team could only move forward blindly in the general direction, and what really guided them was the posture of the rocks.

The rising rock cluster widened and tallened, becoming a rock wall that tilted outward, like ripples that were thrown high into the air and solidified in the air. These ripples have never subsided since the arrival of a stone that fell from a high altitude.

The monks hoped that the professor could express more extensive knowledge and analyze what kind of unique conditions formed this landform.

They were disappointed. Since making the suggestion, the professor had become silent and unusually serious.

The shrill human voice tore apart the last bit of hope.

After only a moment of surprise, Green quickly turned his head to identify the source of the overlapping sounds echoing between the rock walls, and after a little thought, he started running.

Without further thought, the entire team was led by him in the emergency and chased after the source of the sound.

"Damn it!" Kraft really wanted to stop this reckless behavior, but when the guy who made the sound was still alive, he couldn't find a reason to stop it, so he could only grit his teeth and follow.

Especially that voice, although painful, it still sounded strong and there was hope for survival.

The source of the sound was moving, which undoubtedly revealed its location to what was chasing him and also pointed the direction for the team.

After going around countless stone walls, they noticed a flickering light not far away. The other party obviously noticed them as well and immediately accelerated to run towards them.

The flames reflected a face full of fear and panic. Yes, it was the face I remembered from another ship.

His scabbard was empty, and his left arm was fixed to the side of his body in a very stiff posture, like a gear stuck in thorns, unable to move. Every time he shook while running, his expression became more distorted with pain.

When the "rescue" saw that it was a church team, the joy of being saved temporarily suppressed the unbearable pain, and the irrational conditioned reflex made the body squeeze out precious lung capacity to call for help.

As soon as Green spotted him, he stopped at the place closest to the retreat route and waited for him to run over. He drew his sword from its sheath, his eyes fixed on the darkness behind the person, waiting for that thing to appear.

"Save" the same syllables were repeated again, and the remaining half of the word was stuck together with the body.

Kraft sensed something and caught up with him in the instant he called for help and slowed down his pace.

There are no fangs or teeth, no muscles or bones, just something invisible, as soft and empty as the breeze, delivering the "wave" to the victims who see hope.

The expression of surprise twitched unnaturally, and the limbs suddenly became weak, as if they had suddenly gained independent consciousness and joined a fast-paced and extremely high-frequency dance - Kraft called it a spasm.

The red dots expanded and protruded like dense pores, and after a few seconds, the red color flooded every inch of skin within the visible range.

I haven’t been in a very good mental state recently. I’m taking sertraline and hope I can get these things sorted out as soon as possible.