A common tavern that connects all fantasy worlds

Chapter 32 cat

After just worrying for a while, Dan put the matter behind him too.

In particular, he was relieved when he saw the people in the barber shop helping the police officer into the room from a distance.

As a somewhat out-of-the-ordinary young man, he didn't have any ill feeling towards this kind of "challenge to authority", but he was just worried that he would be troubled afterwards.

Seeing that the people in the barber shop were already trying to wake up the police officer, he hurriedly pulled Paladin Jess away from the scene.

I hope what this guy said is true, the police officer really didn't have time to see the faces of the two of them...

Feeling guilty, he quickened his feet, and soon led Jess around the corner to the house he rented.

Compared with big cities, the surroundings of Miscattoni Medical College are more like suburbs or small towns; the hospital is the tallest building nearby, and most of the shops on the commercial street have only two or three floors, and they can be rented even in places very close to the college. to this single-family house.

The greening inside and outside the college and on both sides of the street is quite good, and there are specially planted trees and shrubs between the house and the street.

Seeing that there was no police chasing after him, Dan breathed a sigh of relief, and said to Jess, "Don't be so impulsive next time...it's not a crime to go out on the street without your ID card, at most you'll be taken to the police station by the police Just sit for a few hours."

"But I really don't have an 'identity', wouldn't the 'police officer' just need to compare the local records to find out?"

Jess said.

The world he came from is the same. Even if they don't know what a computer is or what a population file is, law enforcement officers naturally have their own way to understand how many residents are in the territory and what kind of people they are... This is the basis of security management.

"...you're right."

Dan thought for a while, and could only answer in this way.In that case, no matter what reaction he made, it would easily lead to bigger problems. Jess just decisively chose the best way to deal with it.

He even had to thank the paladin... Being taken to the police station while studying was no small matter, especially when someone was likely to hold back his energy and make trouble for him.

Thinking of this, he took out his keys and walked towards the door, while complaining to Jess about his dean and Professor Hill.

As a student, it is indeed easy to misunderstand your teachers, thinking that they are deliberately targeting you; but Dan is not a misunderstanding, because he has indeed been targeted, and it cannot even be said to be "deliberate", it can only be described as Blatant and undisguised.

His grades are the best in the class, but he has never been a high score in the evaluation dimension of "study attitude", because there is always a subject where the teacher gives him the lowest score - that course is brain nerves, which gives him a low score. The teacher of the score is Professor Hill.

In addition, this guy always finds all kinds of troubles to embarrass him, such as blocking his clinical practice, suppressing his homework, complaining to the college that he disrespects teachers, etc. In short, he uses himself as a professor All of his powers were directed against Dan.

Paladin Jess, on the other hand, listened to the young man who had drunk some wine complaining about his life, his teacher, and his "seemingly endless" study career, while observing his surroundings carefully.

This is the first time he has come to another world, and he feels relieved by the peaceful and tranquil American suburban scenery, and the hospital dedicated to saving lives.Even the attitude of the "police officer" just now didn't make him aware of anything wrong. In his opinion, the law enforcement officers responsible for maintaining law and order and fighting crime must be stricter. Maybe they really found something wrong from themselves?

After finally taking out the key and opening the door, Dan was still rambling: "...I'm numb, he can do whatever he likes, and it won't affect my graduation, because I'm studying so many subjects at the same time. In the professional class, he was the only one who kept getting on me, and the dean knew what was going on, so he didn't punish me or expel me as he wanted."

Jess smiled, this kind of atmosphere has not been seen for a long time.

When he was a young knight, he also complained to his comrades in the same period that the retired paladin who led the team to train them was an "old-fashioned" person who would only blow his beard and stare at him, and immediately use his hands if he felt that someone disrespected him. The right to corporal punishment - the recruits were sent to run circles around the city.

But now that I think about it, the paladin actually thinks that old-fashioned guy is quite gentle... He actually has the right to punish the recruits under him more severely, such as beating with rattan canes, hanging in the sun, etc., but these methods have always been It didn't apply to people like Jess.

Later, Jess went back to see the instructor, only to find a deserted grave.

The old man has no children, and even the tombstone belongs to his generation, and the knights who once called the "Brothers" erected it for him.

As for what happened to Dan... this young man is not a soldier, but a preparatory doctor, so Jess doesn't know what kind of punishment is "normal" in his studies, and what other punishments are "targeted", just now There are also many things in that passage that I don’t understand, so I can only keep silent and refuse to comment.

Just as Dan opened the door and wanted to let the paladin in, the light in the hall suddenly turned on, and the girl's warm body fell into his arms.

"Oh, Dan, where are you going..." Megan, who was beautiful, plump and somewhat naive, hugged her boyfriend tightly, and kissed him like raindrops on his face.But suddenly, she let him go suspiciously and asked, "Have you been drinking?"

"Uh, had some drinks with friends."

Dan smiled awkwardly, turned to Jess and introduced: "This is my girlfriend Megan...Megan, this is my friend Jess, he happened to be traveling in this city, so I want him to stay here for a while." Here I am."

"Hello, sir, welcome." Megan showed a sincere and pure smile. Although this new tenant will not share the rent, he is much more pleasing to the eye than the previous one.

She and Jess exchanged a few more words of greeting, and warmly invited him to enter the house as soon as possible, while introducing: "Actually, I don't usually live here, and I only come here occasionally...Father, he doesn't allow me to stay outside It's too late, so I have to go back in a while. Besides Dan and Herbert, there is only my cat here... Strange, where did this little guy go?"

Dan said beside him: "Cats are like this. At night, they like to go out and hunt. He will be back tomorrow morning."

Megan thought about it too, raised his watch to look at the time, and exclaimed: "Oops, it's a little too late. Hey, Dan...wait for me in the classroom tomorrow."

"Okay baby."

The two kissed passionately again, and Megan flew out like a happy lark, thumping away on her flat shoes.Her home is actually not far from here... just don't let her father know that she is here with Dan, and don't expose the relationship between the two.

Dan locked the door, blushing rare in Jess' half-smile expression, and changed the subject: "There are still vacant rooms upstairs, but there are no beds. There are spare bedding in the basement. I'll help you move it now." come out."

"Come on, tell me about your house by the way." Jess said.

"To be exact, it's not ours, we're just renting it; the landlord is in Paris, and he only comes back to the United States about two or three months a year, and he also has a lot of properties in other cities."

Dan said while leading Jess to the basement.

The light at the basement door was a little dim, and the two could only walk down the stairs slowly while paying attention to their feet.But before they reached the end, there was an eerie hissing sound from the basement.

That sound sounded like a cat meowing, but how could a cat make such a scream like a baby crying with endless resentment, and it was so penetrating and scalp-numbing?

Before Dan could figure it out, he heard Jess behind him remind him, "Be careful!"

With a start, he lowered his head abruptly, and from the corner of his vision, he saw a black shadow flying past the place where his head was originally with a "whoosh".

Jess, who was following behind, stretched his hands around his waist, only to remember that all his weapons were in the suitcase.

At the critical moment, he had no choice but to pick up a wooden plank by the side of the stairs. With both hands, he hit the flying object with a "bang", causing it to roll and fly back.

Only then did the two of them see clearly in the light that the extremely fast shadow was furry and covered in black, like some small animal.

Dan's brain was shaken for a moment, he widened his eyes and looked again, and he found that the thing turned out to be his girlfriend's cat!

The little thing was broken by Jace's hard blow, and was lying on the ground screaming.If it was an ordinary cat, it would probably be over after suffering this blow, but it didn't know why, dragging its four severed limbs, it still got up, and it didn't care about the wound with bone stubble, and it was about to go to the bloody ground again. Edge rushed over.

"What the hell is this!" Dan was completely frightened, and stepped back involuntarily.

At this moment, another person in a white coat rushed out from the depths of the basement, and exclaimed: "No!"

Dan turned his head to look over there. The person who came was wearing glasses and was thin. It was his roommate and an exchange student at the University of Zurich who shared the same room—Herbert West.

When the two looked at each other speechlessly, the paladin Jess next to him just found a weapon in his hand, picked up an iron rod and rushed up.

Unlike the two medical students, he is very familiar with this thing... Isn't this the kind of zombie resurrected by demon power?

It's just that he's only seen humans turn into zombies before, and he's never seen cats turn into undead.

"... Redemption, I need to activate the aura of redemption now!"

While thinking about it, he recited the prayer silently, and swung the iron rod in his hand at the same time, pulling aside the cat that was still pounced towards this side.

But then his face changed drastically, and he didn't even notice that the cat with the broken spine got up again...

"Why, why didn't Holy Light respond to me?"

Chapter 33 Catalysts

Taking advantage of someone in front of him to help resist, Dan hurriedly grabbed his roommate and asked, "You made that thing? How did you do it?"

Herbert pushed his glasses and narrowed his eyes a little; Dan, who had gotten to know him very well, knew that for him, this was an expression of inner joy and excitement.

This European exchange student with a somewhat scientific madness said: "I told you... life and death are both physical and chemical processes, which can be reversed. I not only cracked the code of this process, but also found Inverted Catalyst!"

Dan was dumbfounded by his words, with a "do you know what you're talking about" look on his face.

It is true that the life process of all organisms can be regarded as a physical and chemical reaction, but this reaction is very complicated...everyone's body is composed of more than 60 elements, which interact with each other to form molecules, cells, and functions Different organs can finally be combined into a human body.

Saying you can reverse death with a catalyst is like saying you can write data to a hard drive with magnets—you don't necessarily know what's wrong, but it's wrong anyway.

But... that cat was real, and it was almost broken into eight pieces and was still moving. It didn't even look like "resurrection".

A corner of the basement has been transformed into a laboratory bench by Herbert, with antibacterial curtains hanging around it, and the rows of green fluorescent medicines in the open low-temperature cabinet are particularly conspicuous.

"...yes, that's the actual catalyst. The cat overturned the trash can, got its head stuck in the bottle, and suffocated itself, so I thought, why... not use its dead body?"

There was a chilling light in Herbert's spectacles, and he grabbed Dan's hand in turn, saying, "Do you know what that means? You're a medical student too, so you do!"

Dan had to admit bitterly that he did understand... Bringing the dead back to life is the ultimate dream of every doctor.

In this era of rapid scientific development, there are very few difficulties that have not been overcome, and "death" is undoubtedly the most difficult of all difficulties... If modern medicine can conquer death and unlock the The last shackle, and the whole world will change because of it.

"I said, you two...would you mind giving me a little help?"

Jace over there has been wrestling with the cat for a while with a pickaxe.It's not that he can't deal with a mere cat, but that little thing can't be killed at all, even if he gave up his poor moral cleanliness and began to treat this cat as an enemy, and put a dead hand on the head, The kitten whose sky cap had been lifted off partly still got up with a bloody face, its broken spine and limbs were like the body of some mollusk, and it squirmed and crawled towards him simply relying on its unbroken muscles.

The guy was still thinking about coming to bite him, he could tell.

He could only beat the dead cat back countless times in vain, and at the same time he asked the two people behind to help.

"How?" Dan asked, scratching his head.

"Bring me my flail!"

Hearing the paladin's words, Herbert at the side quickly stopped him: "What, no, that's my only experimental sample!"

But the other two obviously didn't take care of his emotions. Dan ran upstairs quickly, unzipped the suitcase in a hurry, threw the heavy armor inside on the sofa for the time being, and pulled out the outer shell from the bottom of the suitcase. Very scary weapon.

It was an eye-opener for Dan to see something like this in a paladin's arsenal.

This is because his knowledge is short... The flail is quite scary when applied to the human body, but its main function is to attack shield-bearing infantry.Whether it is the Hand of Zakarum or the Knights of Westmarch, they are all going to fight against the regular army on the real battlefield, and they always have no way to fight against the spear and shield soldiers.

Later, after sparring and the innovation of combat skills, the flail became the standard equipment for those recruits in the Knights who did not have a mount for the time being. The moving chain allows the spiked hammerhead to bypass the shield and crush the head of the enemy directly from above.

It's a bit overkill to use this kind of thing against a cat, but who made this cat so hard to kill?

The lethality and weight of this thing made Dan have to walk down the stairs carefully, and was caught by Herbert who was still in the basement: "No, I haven't collected data yet, sliced ​​​​test..."

"Isn't the picture in front of you enough?" Dan yelled, tearing up with his roommate, but the flail in his hand fell down on the stairs, smashing the stair board under their feet A big hole fell to the ground with a clatter.

Jess quickly threw the iron pick, knocked the cat aside, then took a few steps back, and picked up the weapon he was most familiar with.

Compared with Dan, who was still holding it in both hands, the power of the paladin is of course much greater. Seeing his eyes flashing fiercely, the two of them swung their flail and hit the "zombie cat" with a bang. top of the head.

It's kind of pathetic if you don't consider that it's a zombie cat that's going to attack him even if its veins are broken.

The entire body of the cat was crushed, and this mixture of hair and flesh, which was now unknown, was still trying to wriggle in the direction of several people.

For a moment, several people even admired the indomitable spirit of this thing.

Of course, this can't be what it has... The fluorescent green potion must have changed something to make a pet cat look like this.

"...what to do with it?" Dan asked.

Paladin Jess is already the oldest one in the scene, and he also has a lot of combat experience. Of course, he has to make decisions about this kind of thing...

Regardless of Herbert's strong opposition, Jess immediately reacted instinctively: "Burn it, other than that, I'm afraid there is no way to destroy this guy with any weapon."

He has also dealt with many zombies or other things that can be resurrected many times in his own world "shelter". Of course, the Holy Light will help him at that time to "salvate" those lost souls.

After coming here, Shengguang didn't know why he didn't respond to him again, so... he could only use a more traditional method.

Dan didn't care about Herbert who was sitting there, grabbed the crumbling stairs and jumped down, took out the broom and dustpan from the corner of the basement, and put away those who didn't know what they were. Put in a trash bag and tie tight.

"I'll go find a petrol can." He said so, and looked back at Herbert who fell silent.

The guy didn't know why he didn't raise any objections, but retreated silently, laying a plank on the nearly broken ladder.

The three of them quickly found the gasoline barrel, came to the yard, threw the thing that was still trying to tear open the garbage bag and crawled out into it, threw a match in, and the residual oil in the barrel burned, with a bang. There was a burst of flame.

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In the flames and black smoke, Jess finally breathed a sigh of relief, turned his head to the "medical student" who had caused this incident, and said, "'Resurrection' is not a field that humans should set foot in, and undead should not exist in the natural order." things. Everything is born and dies, and trying to disobey this rule will only lead to more serious consequences."

"Natural order?" Herbert raised his lips slightly, which was already a smile to him: "Are you Dan's friend? If we don't challenge the natural order, the average lifespan of human beings will still be only thirty or so." At the age of ten, countless diseases may bring a person to the end of life suddenly. No, the development of human civilization is the process of overcoming nature. I will retain this point of view, thank you.”

The paladin didn't know what to answer, as he usually avoided this kind of people before.He felt that this guy would one day apply this "medicine" to humans like those Rathmas, and even different from those solitary guys, which might be his purpose.

He could only whisper: "I hope you don't apply this kind of thing to humans...it will cause disaster."

Herbert snorted without answering.

This is a kind of potion, which is made to "cure death"... If it is not used on people, how does he know how effective this thing is?How do you know how to adjust the formula and further research?

And, in fact, he has already tested the medicine on humans once... At the University of Zurich, his mentor, Professor Gruber, who died of a heart attack in an accident, almost came back to life.However, due to the excessive dosage and the unstable chemical composition of the medicine, Professor Gruber did not live long.

It was because of that accident that he was able to witness the process of the medicine taking effect in the human body, and improve his research results based on the experimental records.

The development and progress of medicine is inseparable from human experiments. Every drug in modern medicine needs to go through this stage, but it usually needs to be based on the principle of "voluntary".His medicine is different, even if he wants to recruit volunteers, it is impossible... A dead man can't get up and sign a contract.

Anyway, there have been more than one incidents of disrespect for bioethics in the history of medical development. At least he has not violated the rights of living people. Is that enough?

Thinking of this, Herbert pushed the glasses on his nose, turned around and walked into the room.

Those two people were still watching the cat's corpse burn, and they might not come back until everything was burnt to ashes... Taking this opportunity, he could finally recover some things.

Even Paladin Jess didn't notice just now that part of the "zombie cat" was thrown out by his iron rod and stuck to the wall.That's part of the scalp and an ear, to be exact.

Only he knows that even if the injected corpse is torn apart, each fragment can still retain its vitality independently... Isn't that the tissue sample he wants?