Krafft's Anomaly Notes

Chapter 71 Plaque
"What is this?"

When he came to Kraft's attic, Lucius found one after another mottled color block diagrams nailed to the wall, from the corner to the door.

The black-and-white picture is dotted with tiny squares that fit together, with narrow zigzag gaps running through them, but most of them are still almost glued together.However, if you distinguish carefully, you can still find the difference from the density of the diagonal lines filled in the squares.

Kraft heard the words and showed him a large stack of paper in his hand, which was the result of their past half a month. "I filled these on the map. It may be more intuitive to represent them with images."

"White means better?" Lucius looked at the map for a while and asked a question.

"No, on the contrary, the black part is the better part."

Kraft handed the chart to Lucius, and pointed to the little crosses and horizontal lines on it, "I call the crossed ones a positive effect, and the single horizontal line is a negative one, or ineffectiveness. But it doesn't matter what you call it." , you just need to remember that the former is blacked out on the map to indicate the degree of improvement."

"Every time there is one more, I will draw more diagonal lines in the corresponding small box and blacken it. Since they don't have accurate timing tools, they rely on subjective judgments, so the reliability of these materials..."

Lucius scratched his head, he felt that there might be nothing more accurate than the patient's subjective feeling.According to the simplest point of view, I know my body best, don’t I?

Kraft turned over a few pages of the information, and pointed out to him one by one the stranger records in the previous few days, "Especially these few that change a lot every day and jump back and forth. It is not ruled out that there are indeed Possibly, but too much."

"Look at this. When we went yesterday, we all came back with water, and told us that we had just woken up. Obviously, the nearest water point is far away."

Lucius continued to scratch his head. The new well hadn't been completed yet, and it took quite a long time to go back and forth to the nearest water source. Of course, there was a problem.It's just that he doesn't understand why anyone would do this.

"If he lied, I don't understand why he would do it. What's his name?" Looking at the record on the paper, he couldn't make out what the name Kraft wrote was for a while.

Kraft seldom reads the first-hand records. Usually, most of them read the paper that has been transcribed and sorted out for the second time. It is hard not to suspect that it is because of the scribbled handwriting, which is only for the writer to rewrite after the reference.

Kraft glanced at it, and replied without hesitation, "It's Kupp."

"Huh?" Lucius was puzzled, and looked at the highly artistic name with flying strokes again, but he still couldn't pronounce it.

"For those that are not quite the same, I made a separate sheet of paper and marked it blue. This one is just the most outrageous." Kraft has nothing to do about this situation, "The best The solution is to spend more time."

Lucius weighed the paper in his hand, he couldn't believe the weight was obtained by visiting them little by little, "Can you spare time?"

"It's too difficult. Maybe they all have their own reasons. I can't figure out why one by one. If I figure it out, it won't be solved in a while."

Looking at the maps on the wall, the black parts are expanding and thickening at a relatively uniform level.

After the well water was stopped, the first survey only added sporadic grids with sparse lines on it.On the third day, the map has changed significantly, like a small handful of black beans sprinkled on it.

Later, this trend becomes obvious, and the whole area is slowly getting better, and most of the grids are filled with a little slanted line and become plump.For the first time, black is so pleasing to the eye.

"So the existence of black liquid in the human body is indeed not permanent. If it is poured into the well water to such a degree of dilution, the effect will diminish after a period of time after stopping use. By analogy, those who have used ordinary diluent have long enough After time, this possibility will probably be completely eliminated.”

As expected, an evenly spread improvement is taking place, and most people can see a clear trend that the recovery time is gradually moving forward.

This also makes Kraft and Lucius' trust and popularity in the salt tide area grow day by day.They don't get paid anything substantial, but the change in attitude is visible.

From obedience to authority brought about by force and status, to true respect.Some people are willing to share some more details with them, talking about the position of the sun when they woke up last time, and comparing the height of the opposite roof.

Admittedly, much of the information was not particularly useful, but much of it effectively helped Kraft calibrate his own investigations when converted.

"This is good news," Lucius said.He watched Kraft pick up a pen and fill in a few grids in the new map, and took the information on the table to compare the numbers, and found that there was no discrepancy.

"It's terrifying..."

"what?"

"Your memory." Lucius sighed, "I thought you memorized those books word for word because you memorized them for long enough, but I didn't expect your memory to be so good."

Kraft couldn't answer these words, so he could only say "probably talent", which made Lucius tsk tsk enviously.

Since Kraft looked like he didn't need help, Lucius was bored by the side and looked at the drawn map by himself.

The things presented in the form of diagrams do have a different feeling, which is more intuitive and easy to understand.He understood this when he read about the anatomy of the inguinal canal.

The author took a few minutes to explain where the aponeurosis and fascia come from, and how they form the front, rear, upper, lower, and four walls that are extremely difficult to memorize, and then explain how the things in the stomach come from this structure. ran out.

All together, there is no picture that is simple and straightforward.So everyone likes pictures, especially simple and clear pictures, and Lucius is no exception.

He started from the corner of the wall and looked at it one by one, watching the black gradually spread, from less to more, and reversely wrapped a few areas with lighter colors.

The few light-colored areas can be seen to shrink obviously in the next picture, and then they are divided and resolved by the newly-appeared black blocks.

There are also some inconspicuous blue paint dots in some completely untouched white blocks, presumably for those patients who Kraft said could not be sure of the truth of the statements, and received special attention.

Some of the blue dots have been removed over time, but there are still many stuck in various places. It feels uncomfortable to see too much, and people want to pick them out.

Some things, once noticed, cannot be removed from the mind.Lucius' attention drifted involuntarily to the blue dots, noticing the changes around them.After watching it for a long time, he really found out some rules.

Logically speaking, the overall black staining order should tend to be uniform, so there will be no light spots that exist for too long.

But there is a difference near the blue dot, not the difference caused by one or two survey differences, but persistent.

At the beginning, it was not obvious when there were many white spots, but after most of them were painted black, it was gradually highlighted.

"uh-huh?"

For the sake of rigor, Lucius went back to the first few photos and compared them repeatedly to affirm his findings.

The speed of the color block around the abnormal blue spot seems to be lagging behind, at least it is about two days slower than the approximate average rate of change, which is the time between investigations.

"Strange?"

I went to the table and took a few sheets of tissue paper, traced the outline of the light-colored area, and marked the position of the blue dot in this area.

"Kraft, can we draw this area first in this map?" Lucius pointed to the area he found near the center of the map, and roughly circled a range, "I have an idea, but I can't affim."

Kraft, who was interrupted, glanced at the corresponding data on the plot he circled, and seemed not so surprised, "Do you also think the color change of this plot is different?"

"You already knew?" Lucius was a little disappointed, he thought he had discovered something extraordinary.

"You can't say that. In fact, it's not just here. There are several places where this phenomenon has happened." Kraft walked along the wall, casually pointing out several small areas on the map that Lucius hadn't discovered just now. There are lighter ones, and there are not a few with blue spots.

"However, most of them didn't last long, and disappeared in a few days. It turned out that the neighbors liked to communicate with each other about the disease, which affected both subjectivity and expression. And this has only recently become apparent."

"Well, it's because I'm so rare." Spreading his hands, Lucius put down the paper.

The paper was taken by another hand, "You take that blue dot as the center?"

"Yes, because I was looking around the blue dot. I know that the two probably have nothing to do with each other. If you want to blame them, they are too conspicuous."

Kraft bent down to observe for a while, then continued to write on the map, and quickly completed the new map of this area alone.

"It's not without reason, Lucius."

A new rough stroke for the light-colored area is drawn, superimposed on the previously drawn paper, and aligned by the middle point.

Kraft held up several sheets of paper to the sun, and the intense light shone through the thin, jerry-built paper, stacking the figures together.

"It's true that this area is shrinking, but it's basically shrinking around this point...it doesn't seem to be easy to explain?" I drew a pen, and the progress in all directions has a similar trend, and there is no center blooming. black block.

"Because this person not only doesn't believe you, but also speaks ill of you to the people around you?" Lucius draws inferences from one instance, and immediately draws the answer from the interpersonal relationship, with excellent learning ability.

"I'm glad you learned one of the important factors affecting survey bias, but it's not advisable to force an analogy. Next time, remind me to ask more questions there?"

"You are too humble. I don't know anyone who can remind you of things you have forgotten, except for forgetting to eat." Reminding Kraft is rarely done. Lucius doesn't think he will be the exception. Listen to this just fine.

"That's right." He tapped on the blue dot and asked curiously, "Who is this person? They've gotten to this level and are still making false information."

"Koop, just the one I was talking about."

(End of this chapter)