Krafft's Anomaly Notes

Chapter 59 Mansion
The next day, Liston sent Kraft and Lucius to Elm Street, and left first under the pretext of purchasing items on the list.

Before leaving, Kraft did not say goodbye to him, but picked up the beak mask and put it on his head in advance. There was a disturbing coughing sound under the mask, as if he had accidentally inhaled a mouthful of roasted wine in Gris' tavern. Secret powder on fish.

Perhaps it was close to the salt tide area, so that the bad miasma there spread to this place. After approaching this area, Kraft's cough has not stopped for a long time. It always makes people suspect that there is something in the air that other people can't smell. Stimulating his windpipe.

When Liston walked out for a while and looked back, Kraft finally stopped coughing and waved to him to express that there was no need to worry.Lucius gave him a hand, and persuaded the guy who seemed to be coughing up his lungs to talk another day, but he was firmly rejected.

"Ahem...I'm fine, I just got choked." Kraft reached out to wipe his face and tapped his hand on the lens.Instead of taking it off, he tightened the mask tightly and pressed it firmly to his face.

This action was obviously covering up something, maybe only someone as dull as Lucius would believe it.Liston didn't know what this meant. The distance between him and the truth was far more than just the mask, so he could only figure it out by himself.

Start by going to the market near the port, divide up your paper purchases and give them to friends and acquaintances who know far more about these things than you do.

And Liston himself went to change out of his black robe, put on a new suit that hadn't been used in the academy, and held down his hair with a hat.After crossing half of the city, I found a rather secluded street based on my memory. Professor Kallman's house is on this street.

Yes, he has a bold idea.

Liston wanted to confirm his conjecture in person.Clarifying Potion is something that can change the course of the entire history of surgery. If a person with rich medical knowledge and great influence leads it astray, the consequences will be immeasurable.

It can be seen that Kraft and Lucius are not the ones with malicious intentions. They are lucky and feel that there is still room for maneuver in the matter, and there may be some misunderstandings and twists in it, so they dare not make a conclusion.

Bystanders can tell that Liston doesn't care what kind of role Kalman plays in it. Anyway, the professor must be the key link, and he has to figure out what the logic is.

It's not for morality or other illusory ideas, but the kind of unknown shrouded in mist that drives him to think and pursue. If he can't get an answer, he can't be freed from the fear of the unknown truth.

It's like being in the darkness where you can't see your fingers, and there are sounds that don't look like human beings. Enduring this unknown is really a huge torment. It's better to take the initiative to light a fire to see it clearly than to let it be fermented into the most terrifying by imagination The stuff of nightmares torments the mind.

When he came to his senses, Liston had climbed over the backyard wall, fear overwhelmed the last trace of his inner struggle.

He can be regarded as someone who experienced the plague more than ten years ago. He witnessed an invisible and unstoppable force sweeping past, harvesting lives, and brought an indelible impact on him when he was still young.

If, as Kraft said, Clarity is used in this way, the effect will be tantamount to a man-made epidemic.

"I have to figure out how this thing came about." Liston said to himself, shaking off the ashes from his hands.

It is not a secret that the professor lives in the college. It is normal for colleagues to visit each other. Most people who have been in the college for a long time know their addresses. A small part comes from their donations.

Thinking of this, Liston snorted coldly.After Kraft's surgery last time, he wanted to donate the money to the students who provided the spider silk.

That's because he didn't know it at all. Ever since abdominal surgery became famous, the originally expensive and useless spider silk was given the name of "rich in vitality" by the merchant family, and took advantage of the limelight to make a fortune in Wendeng Port.

Distract your attention a little and let the tension fade away.Liston looked around the deserted backyard, and found that the owner here was really not the kind of person who was happy to take care of life.

At least in places like Wendeng Port, where there is abundant rainfall, it should be relatively rare for weeds to grow poorly in the yard.

After buying the house, Professor Kalman obviously didn't bother with the flowers and plants. In the dust-covered yard, only the outlines of the past remained, and half-dead weeds and strange vines crawled among the sand and stones, giving off a crunchy sound under their feet. rustle.

The owner of the mansion, who devoted himself to academics, never married for half his life, and had never had any ambiguous rumors of the opposite sex or the same sex. Naturally, there was no delicate and picky hostess to reconcile the living space of the residence, and teach his own life style... …can only be described as rough.

He didn't even remember to lock the back door. With a light push, Liston opened the small door in the backyard of the house and entered the room.

Houses that haven’t been cleaned for a long time are full of dust, and the airflow created by the door pushes them up, flowing through every inch of the space, sticking to the water film on the surface of the eyeballs, and drilling into the nose and throat.

Liston closed his eyes, covered his mouth and let out a suppressed cough. This place was even older than the visit he remembered.

The lack of light in the interior furnishings is dim and difficult to discern. It seems that the professor at least remembered to close all the windows before leaving.Liston concealed the door behind him and walked into the room.

The living room occupies most of the area on the first floor, where the professor receives occasional visitors.

The reason why I came here last time in my memory has been forgotten. I only remember that the professor made barley tea for himself at the tasteless and generous table. The honey added in it tastes good. It's even better.

But now, the square table and chairs have been moved to the corner, and the entire main hall has been cleaned up, as if to make room for rearrangement, but the new furniture has not yet arrived, and the space is uncomfortably empty, giving rise to a sense of emptiness and lack of support.

Liston walked back and forth in the dim living room, but the ground here was clean, without stepping on anything.

The lack of light made him regret that he didn't bring lighting, and he didn't want to open the window at the risk of attracting unnecessary attention, so he walked towards the stairs in the dark in the dim light.The bedroom and the study are probably upstairs. If there are any clues, these two places are the most likely.

As in most houses, the second floor is divided into several single rooms, and in addition to three doors, there are ladders leading to the attic.

Liston pushed open the door closest to him, which might be Kallman's bedroom, with a large bed against the wall and a desk with drawers in front of the sunny window.

The dust here has been reduced a lot, replaced by a faint smell of ink.

When he walked to the desk, Liston belatedly remembered that he must have left footprints. Fortunately, he also changed his shoes before coming here.

There are several thick books spread out on the table, which can be seen through the sunlight leaking through the cracks of the window. The middle one is one of the books Liston is most familiar with. He copied "Human Structure" by hand and turned to the chapter "Bones" page of .

Around the beautiful and accurate hand-drawn drawings, in addition to the original content, there are also supplementary summaries transcribed by the professor himself in small print, which are the research results when he first came to Wendeng Port in the early years.

Today, the research on skeletons has actually become perfect, and many of the added details are from Kalman. Since then, the new "Human Structure" made under the name of the original author Edward is actually quite different from the first edition. A small difference, the one in Kraft's hand.

These achievements are the pride of Professor Kalman. He believes that it will be a matter of time before the temple of anatomy is completely built on a solid foundation. Determine the location of structures in the body.

But why did the professor suddenly open the old book and look up the knowledge he already knew?Out of curiosity, Liston took a closer look.

Under the open book was a piece of yellow paper with a corner exposed. The jagged edges were ragged due to tearing, and it was temporarily embezzled from a certain booklet.Liston has only heard of some artists treating paper like this when their inspiration strikes, but he has never seen Kalman in such a hurry.

Carefully lifted the book and pulled out the broken page, the things described on it were no more formal than the paper itself.

Scrawled and flying letters, coupled with sketches drawn with lines of uneven thickness, the hasty records are only for the normal reading of the writer himself, and he has to identify the original meaning of the missing letters one by one.

During intermittent reading, Liston skipped a few strange words that were completely incomprehensible, and he roughly saw that this passage was about Professor Kalman's belief that the connection between muscles and bones is completely different from the previous cognition.

"Can such a thing still happen?"

If this holds true, the whole of anatomy may be threatened with a reshaping on a scale as large as it has gone from a purely conjectural structure a century ago to an object-based theory today.

The current "Anatomy of the Human Body" is all confirmed from actual secret anatomy.Even Liston himself has witnessed its correctness many times. Even if there are small differences among individuals, it is not enough to subvert the correctness of the whole.

Curiosity about this novel point of view made him forget the purpose of his visit, and his eyes couldn't help but continue reading.

Kalman proposed that he observed a new way of combining the human motor system, and it was not less efficient than the original structure, and it might even be higher, as an example is the sketch drawn below.

If it is not for the text content, it is really not easy to associate this group of lines with skeletal muscles.

Several double straight lines are connected end to end, and one of them may refer to the femur from the small angle of the port and the round head. The femoral neck and femoral head are drawn too abstractly.If it weren't for the unique shape of the long bone, Liston would never have recognized it.

The tangle of threads, perhaps muscles and tendons, arranged in a never-before-seen arrangement defied all the combinations Liston knew.As if the creators had never seen human limbs, they combined them on the bones as materials such as ropes and cloth.

Cysts and nodular-like organs and tissues are mixed into the gaps, filling the vacant parts of the complex structure. It is impossible to imagine what kind of body would need such an arrangement.

On the periphery, two curved lines covered with bumps and burrs outline the approximate boundary, leaving a section open, indicating that this is a part of a certain whole.

At first glance, it looks chaotic, even children's paintings are more orderly than this, but after careful consideration, it is found that there is another set of logic that goes against common sense in the chaos, showing the feasibility that Liston never imagined.

Just like another solution to a problem, a new way of thinking opened up in an instant, and he was so happy that he couldn't wait to see the whole picture of it.

Turning over the paper, he poured a basin of cold water on the empty back. This is a draft that was written impromptu, with no text.

Liston stuffed the paper back in place.

"Could it be that the professor has been researching these things recently, and there is someone else related to the clear potion?"

(End of this chapter)