Krafft's Notes on Anomalies

By candlelight, Kraft unfolded the paper.

He is now staying in the hotel where he stayed last time when he came to Wendeng Port, and it is even the same room.

That night, Kraft hesitated for a long time at the door of the room provided by the professor with the key in hand, and finally turned around and returned to the hotel.

It's not that trust in professors has been lost. It's just that the various situations that occurred reflected that Kalman's mental state was not very normal. People at this time were rarely reliable.

In addition, before going out this time, his grandfather gave him enough money to settle in Wendeng Port, so Kraft chose to make do with a hotel and attend classes for a few days before looking for a long-term residence.

Now he plans to use writing to sort out everything he has encountered and record what he knows in a reliable and fixed form.

As a person who has been deeply influenced by his grandfather, he is willing to classify such incidents as "abnormal phenomena". Anyway, they are indeed abnormal enough. After being bound into a notebook, it can be called "anomaly" notes.

First of all, he can make a less mature judgment based on his own personal experience - the abnormal phenomena he has encountered so far have limitations.

Whether it was hallucinations and fever triggered by stone pillars as a medium, or black liquid inducing humans, he was only affected after getting close to and visually observing real and material related things.

He had reason to guess that the black stone pillars found in the village fields had a limited impact, thus forming a unique local "fever disease". Moreover, this influence is only accessible to some people, and the conditions are unknown.

And the black liquid needs to be brought in front of you to have a more obvious induction tendency. But this influence seems to be more likely to occur, and Professor Kalman, Lucius and Kraft were all affected.

In short, this limitation refers to the need for a "medium" that actually exists within the knowable realm, and also requires visual inspection and access to a certain range. It will even be triggered if the contact meets certain conditions.

This conclusion is why Kraft is still planning to go back to class. After locking everything in the secret laboratory, he felt more at ease, and all he had to do next was to pay more attention to Lucius.

If conditions permit, he will also check to see if there are any other things that have not been cleaned up, and take care of them by the way. It would be best to find out where some of the samples that the professor himself took out went.

Lock up what should be locked, bury what should be buried deeper, and hide everything. Then wait for the professor to come back and educate him on experimental safety knowledge.

It is undeniable that Kraft has a considerable sense of luck. In the two encounters, the first one was a near miss, and the second one was nothing compared to the first time. He felt that the prevention of such things was no different from certain contact-transmitted diseases. At most, it was the same as Magic in the novel connects.

On the other hand, he couldn't put these things aside just yet. After all, he still knew people. After all, it was the only medical school nearby. After all... he would still have to count on them in the future.

After comforting himself that "if you don't touch it, it'll be fine," Kraft wrote down the second point:

As mentioned in the first point, the effect of media on people does not work indiscriminately.

It seems that I am more likely to feel the differences in the medium, realize the existence of "abnormal" things, and have reactions that are different from others, and I am a special individual.

The village doctor once mentioned that no one in the village who got "fever disease" survived more than two days, but he somehow managed to survive it. And I was the only one who realized for no reason that the black liquid was inducing living beings to come into contact with it.

Kraft listed two possibilities: Either he had exercised to be particularly healthy and his consciousness was sharp, so there was a difference.

Or it's a side effect of "traveling". Maybe after the two souls merge into one, they will receive special treatment like products with increased quantity but no increase in price?

Well, I'll keep it in mind for now, maybe I'll unfortunately have the opportunity to verify my conjecture in the future.

There was another point to note about the black liquid itself - he didn't understand why, what was the point of the black liquid inducing creatures to come into contact with or even swallow it.

The worst possibility he could think of was based on his own poor experience, guessing that it was some kind of magical parasite that needed to obtain nutrients from other creatures. Lucius is temporarily normal just because it has not broken through the mucosal barrier of the digestive tract, or it is still developing and growing.

It's very helpless to say that if this is the case then, even if Kraft notices the changes in Lucius, his skills will probably be of no use and he can only take one step at a time.

The greater possibility is that it is meaningless, similar to the "gifts" left to Kraft by the Dream on a Snowy Night. Ordinary people can only understand and use the parts of them that are within their own cognitive scope.

Kalman felt that it was the "black liquid" in the four-liquid theory, and Kraft felt that it was toxic to the central nervous system, and that it was beyond common sense and was not suitable for exploration and could not be explored.

Kraft paused, drew a dividing line, and started a new paragraph:

But for now, these things appear to be like magic and curses in literary works. The explicit harm is limited, but they cannot be fully recognized.

To put it bluntly, worrying about them is not as good as worrying about the pandemic of certain infectious diseases. This is the thing that is most likely to cause trouble in this era, and it is also the situation that Kraft is most afraid of after learning about the current medical level.

After all, a soul from another world is just a soul-transporter. I haven't brought any of the vaccines I've received since I was a child. In an era without antibiotics and antiviral drugs, it's really just a gamble.

Now I am thinking about how to teach the two courses of "Microorganisms" and "Parasites" to everyone in the medical school in a different way, so that I will not be infected and have to undergo bloodletting one day, which will be a lot of fun.

Finally, get back to the task at hand. Kraft discovered to his surprise that all he could do was already done.

He completed the isolation of the black liquid and experimental records, and then made preparations to observe Lucius every time he went to class. This was all he could do.

Limited by the current communication and transportation, it is impossible for him to catch up with Professor Kalman and figure out everything, not to mention that the source of everything is not Professor Kalman.

In the distant Dunling, the center of the kingdom, under the noses of the two major powers, the king and the church, the professor named Morrison produced black liquid through some unknown method.

He also claimed that it was extracted from the human body and asked Kalman to go there in person to help with research. Combined with the existing clues, it can be seen that there are flaws everywhere.

There is a high probability that it is a scam based on abnormal phenomena, which is not bad.

There is a small chance that Morrison's every word is true, and the horror of the matter will make people go numb. It means that he took the human body and refined something that should not be in the human body at all. The logic behind it is simply horrifying to think about.

Kraft confirmed what he had thought this morning, that he was indeed late, and far too late.

The best time to stop this thing is to travel to Dunling, hold down Morrison, and tell him to go back and engage in serious medicine, not paramorphology.

The second step is to intercept the sample sent to Kalman to prevent a series of experiments from happening, let alone to let him secretly take the black liquid to do things that Lucius cannot tell him.

The last opportunity was a week ago, when he used his strong physical persuasion skills to wake up two guys who were possessed by experiments and prevent Kalman from going to Dunling.

Now, Kalman's clipper has set off for a week, and Kraft is stuck here wiping his butt, taking care of Lucius, vigilantly eyeing every possible problem, and playing the role of Sherlock Holmes in the confusing events.

He has never been the kind of person who is good at reasoning games, even if he has a strong consciousness. He uses it more in his profession rather than case investigation. Analyzing the changes in fonts in the professor's experimental records was his limit.

The earliest part of the experimental records was in order, and the letters were written at that time.

What follows is the process of the professor's font gradually letting itself go, gradually distorting and deforming until it forms an unrecognizable symbol.

It was certain that the professor's mental state was deteriorating day by day. We could only hope that before he left, he didn't use the black liquor to do something big that Kraft couldn't handle.

There are many things to do, but very few can be handled. At the end, Kraft, who hated this deeply, summarized the current stage:

Keep your distance, stay closed, and never come into contact unless necessary.