Krafft's Anomaly Notes

Chapter 78 New Subjects (End of Volume)

"No, it's still not right."

The table was moved to the window of the professor's room, and Kraft removed two crystal clear crystals from the shelf, wrapped them in silk cloth, and put them into small wooden boxes filled with cotton balls.

Two pieces of the same kind that looked more "fat" were taken out and fixed on the bracket.The dexterous fingers adjusted their positions at a speed that was almost imperceptible.

The only thing that marred the harmony was the fact that two of the fingers were wrapped in muslin strips.

Two thin crystals sandwich a drop of red liquid that is thinned and light-transmitting, and the eyes behind the double lenses are facing it. This process has lasted for half an afternoon.

Lucius lay bored on the chair, face up to the sky, one finger was also wrapped with a cloth strip.Kraft has been out of order for half an afternoon since someone delivered these custom-made small items in the morning.

As for why it wasn't an abnormal morning, it was simply because I missed the class for a month and a half, and I was embarrassed to be absent for no reason.

Even so, most of the students could tell that he was not focused on the course, he used coined words such as "small room" and "micro" from time to time, and announced before get out of class was over that everyone would soon have a new subject to learn .

This bad news caused the students including Lucius to show indescribably shocked expressions.Even his most ardent admirers said afterwards that this was hardly good news.

As the person closest to Kraft among the students, Lucius was promised a lot of benefits and pushed out to inquire about news.

Then, when he entered the door, Kraft, who was holding a needle and gestured at the third finger, borrowed a drop of blood.

"What's wrong?" Lucius probably guessed that the new content would be related to this rather expensive equipment, but he couldn't see anything from the side, "Are you really not going to take a few days off? After all, the salt tide area It's just over."

After painting the last few all-black maps, the incident in the salt tide area finally subsided. After a recovery period of one and a half months, the local residents basically returned to their original normal sleep.

Only one of the two newly dug wells had any fresh water, but it was adequate.

During this long and difficult visit, Lucius got acquainted with the road in the salt tide area, and also learned a lot of Kraft's tricks, from the physical examination to the reset, the bits and pieces add up to a big one. heap.

"I suddenly feel that the time is really tight, and there may not be many opportunities left for me to complete the unfinished business." Kraft leaned forward in front of the lens, only his fingers were adjusted in an imperceptible range, like a plaster sculpture illuminated by the sun .

"Why does this sound so strange?" Straightening his neck, which was a little sore, Lucius moved the chair next to Kraft and watched him continue to make fine adjustments.

"Well, there is indeed some deviation in this expression." Kraft said in a low voice, as if he was afraid that the lens being adjusted would be distorted if he made a loud noise.The nearby lens was pushed by him towards the blood drop by an undetectable short distance, and there was no thick and fine focusing spiral, so it was really too embarrassing for him to adjust it purely by manpower.

The thing in my hand is more like a simple iron stand than any optical equipment, but the mobility is a little bit larger, and the copper lens barrel is even more difficult to describe. The range and accuracy of adjusting the distance by thread are not ideal. Ordered several in different sizes.

"Lucius, do you think our profession is actually a little bit dangerous at times?"

Lucius didn't quite understand this point of view. Doctors in the college are different from those wild clinics and barber shops outside. They are relatively high-end and decent jobs. "Is it okay? It's relatively safe, at least in the college. There are still people who can cure evil diseases, right?"

"If, I mean if. If what we encounter this time is really a kind of epidemic, even if we wear a beak mask, we may be infected, so what should we do?"

This "what if" is too scary. For a young man who has not obtained the qualification to practice medicine independently, he has no experience and no theoretical support to answer.

But you can't be cowardly in front of acquaintances, especially in front of lecturers. He bit the bullet and replied, "It's the same."

"If the probability of death is not high." After a little thought, Lucius added, probably because he also felt that his answer was a bit dishonest, and added a qualification to it.

He is the kind of enthusiastic person who recognizes that the value of life is paramount and is willing to help everyone within his ability.However, if his own life is involved, in terms of current values, he cannot be accused of evasion.

After all, no one has a moral or jurisprudential basis for being responsible for an epidemic. Most people even think that the epidemic is a form of divine punishment that cannot be eradicated by mortals. They can only wait for the anger of the gods to extinguish.

There are also people who turn a blind eye to these people who have suffered God's punishment in this name, and even persecute them, because they have committed mistakes and suffered God's punishment, or are undergoing trials.

"Well, anyway, that's what I think, what do you think?"

Kraft kept staring at the mirror without commenting on Lucius, leaving him uncertain whether he was too focused or dissatisfied with the answer.

"I do not know."

"Huh?" Lucius didn't expect Kraft's answer to be less confident than his own. He thought that based on his consistent impression, the answer was at least "I'll definitely go", and maybe "I can solve it".

Kraft showed no signs of embarrassment, said this sentence frankly, took off the lens, and replaced it with another lens barrel to fix it on the iron frame.

"I really don't know. I recently discovered that I am still afraid of death. It's a bit of nonsense, and the reasons are quite complicated, but the result is like this."

"But the point is not here. The point is that we may encounter some special circumstances. This 'possibility' will continue to magnify in the long career and become a 'certainty', and I haven't even figured out this stuff yet."

After turning the lens barrel, Kraft still couldn't find the field of view he wanted, and the polishing of the crystal glass was not perfect, and small scratches would turn into big rifts after magnification.

Lucius understood what he meant, but didn't understand the ins and outs, "Why did you suddenly think of this?"

"Just as the recent experience made me a little nervous, realizing that life is fragile, and sometimes it almost ends halfway." Talking about this, Kraft is still a little scared.

When facing something directly, it is often not the time when you are most afraid. The concentration and the will to solve the problem will shield these secondary emotions, and there is also blind courage that bursts out of fear to the extreme.

When I thought about it afterwards, I realized that I had brushed shoulders with death several times, and the scythe of death passed by my neck, taking away a piece of my collar.Thinking about it, I broke out in a cold sweat, so I felt a sense of urgency between life and death.

If another person tries it, he may disappear without a trace as early as one night, or he may continue the secret experiment without noticing.

"That's true." Lucius didn't know what Kraft had experienced. What he thought of was the silence at noon in the salt tide area. The feeling of being surrounded by diseases gave him a preview of the horror of a legendary epidemic.

The two were silent for a while, Kraft continued to play with his equipment, and Lucius got up to boil water on the small stove.

First use part of the boiling water to rinse the teacups, then scoop a spoonful of barley into each of the two cups, and pour boiling water into them.Watch the barley grains sink and float in the water, and when most of them sink to the bottom, a nice burnt aroma will waft out of the tea.

A small pot was taken out, which was part of the "bribery" of the students, and a thick golden liquid flowed in it.Lucius added three teaspoons to the two cups, stirred well to add sweetness, and the full version of barley tea appeared.

"With honey, how about a cup?"

"Ah, it couldn't be better. Lucius, have you considered going to the church to apply for an angel?" Familiar with the warm temperature, Kraft took the cup and blew on the cooling air, and took a sip. The sweetness mixed with the burnt aroma of barley , is the happy water for souls from other worlds here.

Taking advantage of this improved mood, the person who was selected to inquire about the news finally remembered his intentions and had to ask about the new subject by knocking sideways.

"Speaking of which the current matter is over, do you have any long-term plans for the future?" Pretending to be casual and following the trend, if there are new subjects in the next schedule, it will take up a lot of time.

Naturally, the new arrangement would crowd out the original relatively close work, as long as Kraft was willing to talk, there would always be something to gain.

It doesn't matter if you don't talk about it, Lucius almost guessed that the so-called new subject has something to do with the equipment on the table.Since the equipment is being initially debugged, it means that they don't have to worry about increasing the burden within a few months.

Kraft didn't notice his purpose of coming, or he didn't care if he noticed, put down the hot tea and continued to operate, and replied casually, "Maybe I have to go out for a stroll?"

"Go out for a stroll, where are you going?" Unexpected developments appeared, and this question yielded strange news, which made people puzzled.

"Not recently. It will take a while, maybe a month or so. The route is still being planned, and it is tentatively planned to go south and take a boat along the coastline."

It seems that it is not a whim, but a long-planned plan.It is a fairly mature route for sea ships to go south. Generally, they pass through multiple ports along the coast, stop and go, and stop for a few days in each place to do business.

Many captains who seek stability take this route, and it is also convenient for carrying passengers to collect money for the downwind boat. After boarding a boat, you can choose most of the southern ports to disembark, which is very cost-effective.

When heading south to the middle of the Norse Kingdom, they will reach the mouth of the famous Tem River in the country. From the steady flow of the river all the way to the interior of the kingdom, they will enter the main waterway that traverses half of the country.

Along the river, you can see the achievements of civilization supported by the most fertile land of the Norse Kingdom. Humans lived in this area long before the establishment of the kingdom.

Most of the famous places, including Westminster Castle on the gold coin, are distributed along this line, and it is not an exaggeration to call it the birthplace of the kingdom.

And what is as famous as history is the higher population density and urban volume, which together with water transportation have spawned more developed industries, which are ultimately fed back to academic progress-various needs have prompted new nobles and various forces to stand against the church pressure to establish a comprehensive university with more than religious content.

The most famous of them is the pearl located in Dunling, the core of the kingdom on this line, the alma mater of Professor Kallman, the dream of countless scholars, and the place he wanted to escape for the first half of his life.

【University of Dunling】

"Are you going to Dunling?" This was Lucius' conclusion after going through this line in his mind. If he wanted to go on a study trip, with Kraft's financial resources and way of thinking, it was simply unreasonable not to go to Dunling.

"Well, it can indeed be arranged, but it's just one of the goals. The main thing is that I want to look around."

No, Dunling is of course the main target, and Kraft has already considered it.The black liquor incident was extinguished in Wendeng Port, and what happened at the source is still unknown. Its output and specific ingredients are still a mystery.

"The black liquid can't be used now, but abdominal surgery has been proven to be feasible. I want to go to the city over there for a walk, and it may not be inspiring."

Kraft brought up the matter again and Lucius became depressed. He also remembered that Professor Kalman was proved to be directly related to the incident in the salt tide area, so he took two sips of barley tea to cover up his emotions.

After a while, he said: "If you really want to go, help me ask him why he did that. I know you have already made a judgment, but I still want to hear his own answer."

"Okay, I'll remember." Still drinking tea made by someone else, Kraft agreed to the commission.Anyway, Dunling must be going, and the way of asking may be different from what Lucius thought.

He wanted to find out the ins and outs of the matter, including how the "black liquid" refined by Morrison was really included in "Humorology" because it came from the human body, and the source of Kalman's method of contacting deep creatures.

There was another silence. Kraft took a sip of the sweet tea, chewed and swallowed the few grains of barley in his mouth, and then fine-tuned the position of the glass slide.

"Are you going alone?" Lucius felt uneasy after thinking about it. According to the professor's description, a big city is much more complicated than a small port of Wendeng.

"Oh, of course not, doesn't this happen to be the salary of the academy? So according to the tradition, I have recruited a new subordinate."

This matter is new, Kraft has never told him, Lucius is very curious: "Who?"

"You should still remember, it's that Coop."

Half a month later, Kupp took the initiative to come to the college to find Kraft. The loss of religious belief and the change of world view made him unable to be content with his current life. Look for something that can be called "meaning".

He woke up, out of the original world, but didn't know what to do.

Kraft originally thought that this young man who faced the deep creatures and had not yet developed a mental disorder was a bit interesting. The long-term labor at the dock had exercised his physical fitness, and he was a malleable talent with both mental and physical strength.

The point is that Kupp didn't have a family either, so he had nothing to worry about in Port Wendeng, and he could leave with Kraft at any time.

"Probably that's it. Don't worry. I've thought it all over. What's the problem? Let's take a look at this." He got up and gave up his seat, and the area he had occupied all afternoon was given to Lucius.

"Don't touch that shelf, I've been debugging it for a long time. Just look at it."

Lucius sat down at the table, withdrew his hand that was going to touch the lens barrel, followed Kraft's example and moved his eyes to the small crystal lens, a patch of red occupied his entire field of vision.

"Red is the color of blood, what else?"

"Look carefully, the quality is too low, it's really difficult to distinguish, and I've been shaken several times." Kraft rearranged the reflective silver plate for him, allowing brighter light to shine through the glass plate.

Lucius saw it this time, the thing that looked like a paste was actually countless densely packed tiny red dots, existing in the blood drop that had just been taken from his fingertips.

"what is this?"

"The future." Kraft took a sip of the warm barley tea, felt the liquid flow into the dry stomach that hadn't been filled with lunch, and showed the first comfortable smile that Lucius had seen on his face in the past two months, " I mean, new subjects for you to learn in the future."

　The second volume is also the first volume of the real story, and the plot of "Things in a Bottle" has come to an end)*
　　Then you can continue with the content of the next volume, or write a strange side story before the soul from another world travels.

　　The author will return to normal study and work in the near future, and return to the original slow update speed.But as we all know, good creation must come from practical activities, and I hope to be lucky enough to present a better story.

　　Thank you for your company and support during this time, and on behalf of the cervical spine, I wish you all the same smiles.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)