Krafft's Anomaly Notes

Chapter 34 Just once, just this time

"What?" Kraft didn't follow Lucius' train of thought.His mind was still stuck on how fast the operation should be done, and he didn't get over it.

"I mean that Lecturer Romolo is wrong. He is very familiar with the theory of four fluids and pharmacology, but that is already in the past tense."

Lucius glanced at the door again.He didn't want to say it himself, this statement should be enough for Carat to understand what he meant.

Yes, in the traditional theory of four liquids, red liquid or white liquid must be exhausted in order to lose consciousness, of course it is true.But didn't they have a liquid that they never found?

He raised his hand and put it in front of Kraft. A few days ago, there were several red spots on this hand, which were traces left by a certain reckless experiment.

"You mean black liquid?" Kraft woke up suddenly, his eyes focused on Lucius's face, "I thought I had made it clear enough that we shouldn't touch that thing."

"Why?" Lucius looked at Carat uniquely without hesitation, as if he wanted to dig out the reason why he was so afraid of black liquid from his eyes.

Kraft felt that Professor Kalman's experiment was unreasonable, and Lucius also felt that Kraft's excessive caution was unreasonable.

In his opinion, the black liquid fully meets the needs of the present. Only a little diluent is needed to make people lose consciousness for a whole day, and the pain of needle pricks cannot be awakened, and they have no idea what happened afterwards.

"Because it...is not safe." Carat was at a loss for words for a moment, and the explanation couldn't even convince himself, "We haven't confirmed that it is really 'black liquor', is it just called that?"

He couldn't explain to Lucius what his intuition and inspiration were telling him.Do you want to say that you have discovered that a small liquid is related to something incomprehensible to humans, and can also lure living things to touch it?It's good to keep this kind of words in your stomach, and speaking out will only make you more untrustworthy.

"It cannot be ruled out that it may have a longer time to show bad effects. Professor Kalman also said that it should be kept absolutely secret?" Kraft added.

He instinctively felt that there must be some deeper reason for its external manifestations, and he didn't dare to touch it more until he had a chance to figure it out.For this reason, he did not hesitate to bring out Professor Kallman to block Lucius' mouth.

Lucius disagreed with this statement. He pointed to his nose, "Only living people have the opportunity to worry about the long-term effects. If I am not an exception, we will discuss this issue at least ten days later."

"I know that now is not the time to let this great discovery into the light, but isn't the original intention of discovering it for the development of medicine? Is it just to keep it secret?"

Lucius spoke a little excitedly. He misunderstood Kraft's meaning, and felt that Kraft's disapproval of his suggestion was more due to the professor's request than the inexplicable fear of black liquid.

"No, of course I didn't mean that..." Kraft subconsciously never thought about taking the black liquid out of the basement again.

When he was thinking about anesthesia just now, he only thought about what anesthetics he knew could be made immediately, or what plants could be used as natural anesthetics. Lean on something.

Thinking about it now, what Lucius said actually made a lot of sense.

Provide long-term effective anesthesia, the pain cannot be awakened, and there will be no awareness during the operation. Lucius did not show any sequelae for more than ten days after drinking it.

With this thing, the success rate of the operation has risen in a straight line, from almost impossible to somewhat certain.

As for the sequelae in the future?We can talk about it "later". The worst thing is death, and the worst thing is to die on the operating table today.In the best case, the dose does not reach the limit of causing any special effects. From Kraft's observation of Lucius, it is entirely possible.

Lucius watched Kraft's expression gradually loosen, his eyebrows gradually stretched, from nervous to thoughtful.

"Once, just this once," Kraft said.To Lucius, but also to himself.

He remembered that night a few days ago, he firmly wrote down "Keep a distance, keep closed; do not contact unless necessary".I didn't expect it to be "necessary" so soon.

Kraft sighed. After this time, there may be a bunch of bad things that need to be dealt with after this time. "How to explain the origin? No one will be curious about this kind of thing."

"It's a family secret medicine?" Lucius opened his mouth and said, "I don't know which generation passed down the orphan product, the formula is lost, and this is the only one."

The familiar saying is probably inspired by Kraft's "family medicine", but this excuse is really bad.A family treasure-level secret medicine from a noble family, the last bit was given to the tavern owner's daughter, which felt like an insult to everyone's intelligence.

"I suggest you think of another one." Kraft raised his forehead, "But you can think about it after the event. Now let's prepare the diluent."

"Together?"

"As soon as possible, we have to prepare other things after we are done, it may not be simpler than this stuff."

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Wearing the beak mask they used last time, the two returned to the secret laboratory.As soon as he entered the door, Kraft first opened the closet and checked the position of the liquid level in the bottle relative to the scratch, and there was no change.

Lucius took out an egg-shaped ceramic cup from the lower floor, which was the kind of cup they used to prepare the dilution before.

A cup with a large body and a small mouth is not easy to clean, but it is not easy to shake out the liquid inside. There is also a small triangular structure similar to a beaker mouth at the mouth of the cup, which is convenient for transferring liquid.

Fill the cup with water to four-fifths, shake the pottery cup lightly to confirm that it will not splash out during stirring, and then use a small metal rod to dip a little black liquid into the water.

"Just take this, just dip it in a little bit, don't have the amount that the liquid drops hang on the stick." Lucius handed the stick to Kraft, "Do you want a little more? After all, we only tried needles before. prick."

"No, children are not miniature adults, especially if they are only three years old, it would be too much if they don't reduce their dose."

Kraft peeled off the wax seal on the top of the bottle, pulled out the cork, inserted the thin rod into the vial, and approached the liquid carefully.

Looking down from the mouth of the bottle, in the blurred vision, the liquid at the bottom of the bottle is silent, and the candlelight through the glass is engulfed on its surface.The smoothness of the liquid surface is not shown, replaced by a matte deep black.

It picks out an abrupt and stubborn defect in the field of vision, weakly but continuously sending invitations to those who are watching it to touch.

From this perspective, Kraft began to feel that it was a deep hole, and an indistinct sound came from the other end.He squeezed the thin stick tightly in his hand, feeling that it would fall into this entrance and fall into another world as soon as he let go.

The end of the thin rod pressed against the liquid, shattering the dark surface and creating tiny, fleeting ripples.Uncontrolled force makes it hit the bottom of the bottle with a frighteningly crisp sound.

"Be careful, I don't think it's that strong." Lucius moved the clay cup to the table in front of Kraft. He almost thought that Kraft had pierced the glass bottle.

"Sorry, I missed it for a while." Kraft lifted the thin stick, shook off the excess black liquid in the bottle, and inserted the stick with the last layer of extremely thin liquid into the clay cup.Then re-cork the glass bottle tightly, and seal the gap in the bottle mouth with wax.

"So just stir it?" The metal rod was stirred a few times in the pottery cup, and a small amount of black liquid was completely dissolved in the water, and now it was what they wanted.

"Yes, this stuff dissolves easily in water."

Looking at it by candlelight, the water in the glass is still very clear, without any color change, absolutely impossible to distinguish with the naked eye, and the original induction feeling is gone, just a glass of ordinary clear water.

But it has indeed become the core of the world's first anesthesia operation.Lucius would pour a small amount into the prepared "family heirloom" vial, and let Liz drink it all in one gulp without leaving any evidence.

This small copper vase is a collection contributed by Lucius. The body of the vase, which is less than half the size of a palm, is inlaid with a decoration that looks like turquoise. As an "ancient family heirloom", no one in Wendeng Port Will have time to identify it.

"What was this bottle originally used for?" Kraft habitually wanted to touch his chin in thought, but only touched the bird's beak on the mask.

"I bought spices to carry around with me, but I couldn't find a suitable one, so I kept empty." Lucius tilted the pottery cup and transferred the amount of "one sip" in his mind into the copper bottle, "I think it's half an antique, I'll use it later."

"In the future? There is no future, Lucius. Just this time, I swear the next time I do such a stupid thing, I will go to the tavern and drink three glasses of handstand."

"Which one do you mean? Agree to accept Liz, or the black liquid?" Lucius put a cap on the copper bottle and finished his work.

"It's hard to say." It stands to reason that neither of these two things should be involved, whether it is taking over this case that can only be solved by special methods, or violating the previous decision never to touch black liquid.

Kraft put the glass bottle and the covered clay cup back into the closet, closed the door, and sighed.Today, the number of sighs in half a day can be equivalent to half a month, and he has a hunch that there will be more in the future.

Things in this world have always followed such a rule, zero or countless times, just tell Lucius "just this time", you can't fool yourself.

There has never been any accident, everything happens must have its internal reasons.Without Liz, without Lucius, sooner or later, I would meet another patient who needed surgery, and then think of the role of black liquid.

"I am determined to do my best to eradicate human suffering."

"Huh?" Lucius heard Kraft muttering to himself, his voice was like a mosquito, and his pronunciation was not like Norse.

"It's nothing, it's just a vow I made before." Kraft seemed to have become firmer again, "Don't worry about me, go prepare other things now. If there is a god of medicine or other gods, hurry up and bless them while there is still time me."

(End of this chapter)