Krafft's Notes on Anomalies

Although the current work of the Inquisition is very different from what was imagined, there is still a special benefit to being a member of it - in the entire Dunling, including the surrounding villages and towns, except for a few areas, there are few places that clearly indicate that entry is not welcome.

Most of this can be attributed to the strong atmosphere that the church has accumulated in the local area for many years. Residents generally respect the clergy, and wearing white robes with decorated wings and rings often earns them extra trust and preferential treatment.

As a person who abides by the doctrine, Green never takes it for granted and responds to strangers with a religious salute.

The foundation of the church stems from this. The gospel of Heavenly Father is difficult for ordinary people to understand, but Heavenly Father’s attitude of treating people equally is reflected by the communicators on earth.

For stubborn people, kindness and gentleness will not only fail to influence them, but will actually encourage their arrogance.

Of course, this doesn't mean doing anything risqué. He just lifted his robe slightly, revealing weapons that ordinary clergymen would not carry with them. The operator who had been cold-faced just now quickly changed his attitude.

An antique shop located in an alley, two turns away from the street. This is where the transcripts Morrison purchased from the informant's report come from.

Obviously it did not try to attract customers through normal channels, but from a small circle of word-of-mouth among people in need.

Wading glanced at the boss unexpectedly and followed Green into the cramped interior.

Two rows of three-layer wooden shelves against the wall took up most of the space, and there was a long, thick table in the middle. Numerous objects are scrawled and piled on the table and shelves. The common feature is that they all look old.

Ceramic bottles with unusual shapes, metal castings with green and red rust stains, large and small stone sculptures, rough polished gemstone ornaments, and storage boxes have not been cleaned or are intentionally kept in a dusty and ancient state, floating in the air while breathing. The choking smell of a dusty tomb.

The most valuable items may have been a few volumes left alone, with lime bags placed around them to dry.

Ignoring the shop owner's hesitant stop, Green took out a book and opened it.

The browned paper almost broke due to this rough movement, and the spine made a slight cracking sound. Some pages were stuck together and could not be separated, or were too dry to be bent.

It's about dealing with diseases, and it can't even be called medicine, because in addition to various medicines drawn from various forcibly related imaginations, there are also sustenances through "candles placed in a specific position from a fixed time point" The behavior of external forces of nature.

If it was to attract medical school clients, that was completely wrong. Based on his knowledge of those professors, he might not be interested.

This undoubtedly falls within the scope of "superstition" that the church opposes, and is on the fringe of only verbal warnings. If it is not on the side of medicine, it will sometimes be confiscated and sealed.

This is probably the reason why the operators are unwilling to allow clergy to enter.

The reality is more than that. They know some similar stores that collect items that may arouse buyers' interest in collecting and look dated. The source of a wide variety of products is questionable.

The most direct and guaranteed source of supply is from underground.

For the blasphemer who disturbed the deceased's sleep for money, many stolen goods came here after changing hands, and were displayed on the counter in a grand manner, and the sellers would quibble that they did not know their origins.

Picking up a ring at random, Green explained to his boss in detail the unswept soil residue between the gemstone and the ring holder, the inevitable connection between this soil and a certain cemetery, and that it was too fresh.

The other party's heart rate soon began to rise, and beads of sweat broke out on the disgusting little businessman's face. He repeatedly wiped his forehead with a silk handkerchief and tried to suggest that he could donate some money to the Heavenly Father to prove his piety.

Perhaps many people would gladly accept this offering, including some colleagues in the Inquisition. But that doesn't include Green.

He just needs to provide a little motivation for the store owner to try and remember what motivated him to sell his merchandise. This is information that ordinary informants cannot obtain.

According to past experience, after rejecting money for the second time, the other party's nervousness has become substantially visible. Green duly made a request, expressing his desire to know what the medical school professors had bought from here.

The boss may have planned to pretend that he didn't remember it at all at first, but when he warmly held his hand and invited him to live in a place suitable for awakening his memory until he remembered, he quickly asked for some time to sort out what he could provide. information.

As a handler, you must look through the transcripts when assessing their value. He confirmed the informant's statement about the contents of the manuscript. The pages bought were all from the same book, and the main content was the author's notes on architectural research.

The rating is average value. As a city that was founded earlier, Dunling has a wide range of old and new buildings, both above and below ground. It couldn't be easier to find the content to write a book. There are so many scholars who study architecture that they have begun to prohibit students from using this as a subject to get through.

Folk compilations are even worse than this. Many of them only record a certain style, lacking historical origin verification. They may be just for fun by well-off enthusiasts.

Logically speaking, this level of investigation is almost done. Next, we can give a warning and temporarily let the affected shop go, and go to medical school to face the main target. But instead of being dispelled, Green's doubts intensified.

Perhaps the Inquisition is not the group of people who know the medical school best in the world, but they definitely have a place among the second most knowledgeable people. This is a person who has to run on a forbidden road despite huge risks. There is no reason to buy some irrelevant books when he is focusing on a new direction.

This answer was not satisfactory, so he decided to give it a try. There was no loss anyway.

Green shook his head in disappointment, turned around and left. Brother Wadding knowingly held the shop owner and pushed him out. The hard armor and excessive force made him cry out in pain.

Compared with the physical pain, the psychological panic is more serious. Obviously hanging oneself for profit is not something everyone can do.

This defeated his last psychological defense, and he took out a few pieces of paper from the storage room in the back room as quickly as possible and handed them over without any hesitation.

According to him, these were scattered pieces of paper that he collected later and planned to take the opportunity to sell to the professor at a higher price. The damage to the edges was obviously different from the scattered and re-bound old books in the church collection. It was obviously from the inside of the binding. Damage caused by removal.

This means splitting the same product and selling it twice. Even if this profiteer's little move just provides convenience for himself, it still makes people angry.

Carefully picking up the page, Green felt a rare curiosity as to what content deserved Professor Morrison's attention.

Their preservation condition is surprisingly good, and you can feel the toughness of the light and thin paper. The writer also used Norse, and only some vocabulary and grammatical habits are different from today. The readability is basically guaranteed, and it is estimated that they were older. Recently, this limits its value.

What makes this book different is that it not only collects ordinary buildings, but also includes many functional buildings within the scope of study, including river banks, aqueducts, bridges, quarries, and even sewers.

He collected these common and often ignored parts of the city and described them for fun, sometimes mixed with some scrawled hand drawings, and patches of unsightly black ink stains, just like pressing paper against an overturned ink bottle. on the ground. This makes the already not clean page more confusing and affects the layout.

After reading it carefully, Green understood the meaning of these things. The author realized that he could not describe it with words alone, so he covered the stone surface with paper and rubbed ink to imprint the pattern, hoping that readers could touch the masonry of Dunling without leaving home while reading.

To this end, he deigned to go underground and dig out sewers that few people wanted to know about, saying that they were as intricate as those on the streets.

Among the various rubbings, there is one page that will undoubtedly catch the reader's eye.

Different from other rubbings where a square outline can be discerned, it is a pattern with only obtuse angles. The intermittent white lines connected in the ink mark form a shape that at first glance would never be thought of as masonry, but rather associated with black. Some alien creation floating in the water.

Several regular hexagons that are joined to each other are suspended between the text traces. The extended lines show that they are not isolated. They occupy a width somewhere underground that cannot be covered by the rubbing paper.

Even though he grew up here and had extensive access to the Vatican's collection of classics, Green had never seen an architectural structure of this style, either on the foundation or on the walls. It's like accidentally opening a piece of plywood and discovering that a hive has been built in a home that I thought I was completely familiar with, but the buzz of the bee colony has never sounded.

There is a pattern in the "honeycomb" that is almost integrated with the stone pattern. However, due to water erosion or the author's inexplicably poor rubbings, some of the beeswax softened like melting, while some of the beeswax appeared neatly with straight lines and curved arcs like geometric patterns.

Through rubbings, they are brought to the reader truly but not exactly, along with the conflicting ideas of the craftsmen, trying to copy and reproduce, switching back and forth between incompatible patterns, and never forming a complete shape.

The remnants of the contradictory design, such as the bee pupa that can never break out of the cocoon, have not completely died and are struggling to maintain solidification in the hexagonal cylinder hive.

Green suddenly closed the pages of the book and realized that he was confused by a rubbing and ignored the written description.

The patterns in those hexagonal rubbings are located within the pages of the book, but they seem to be more than that, breaking away from the constraints of form and conveying information that remains unfinished after secondary distortion.

Unfolding it again, my eyes struggled to avoid the graphics, and I read the few notes left by the author, far-fetchedly connected the almost unrelated decorative styles, and concluded, as if to persuade myself, that it was a kind of work after construction work. Works to pass the time.

Based on personal experience, this kind of abstract, seemingly meaningful symbol is often highly related to a behavior that deserves vigilance.

【Pagan worship】

Switching his mind from the miscellaneous books he had read to pagan records, Green searched as quickly as possible for the pagans that the church had dealt with.

Generally speaking, except for those small fights where fools fool fools, large-scale heretical beliefs often have a system, and they inherit and learn from each other, and even simply plagiarize holy scriptures, and you can often find similar products.

The pattern of the rubbings was definitely not made by hand, but after searching through my mind, I found no information for reference - this is a pagan system that has never been recorded by the church.

Greene realized he might have caught the tail of something, a potentially perfect but perhaps premature opportunity to fish for the long haul.

The order was passed to the most critical informant when the two returned to the church, and they began to wait patiently.

Half a month later, he waited for the result——

A fire and the death of an informant.