Krafft's Notes on Anomalies

It was a rather messy pile of combustion products, and its original shape could no longer be seen, although it originally had nothing that could be called "shape".

The interior is burned out, and the outer carbon shell collapses, collapsing into a substance that can only be described as a "pile." If you have to compare it inappropriately, it is like boiling an egg without adding water, and you discovered it too late.

Stepping over the burning black debris on the ground, avoiding the charcoal that still appeared in small flames, the soles of the shoes were burned by the residual heat of the ground.

The air here is still a bit grainy, and the dust caused by combustion is floating in the air. Kraft pulled one side of his collar to cover his mouth and nose, came to the large group of coke that was still smoking, and used his sword to push away a small piece of coke. shell.

This is probably because the original layer of tissue was relatively thick. During the burning, the core had not had time to shrink and retained considerable moisture and a bit of the original structure. The burning was not complete, and it even had an isolation effect. However, in terms of results, Meaningless.

Those external bone fragments that had been seen lost their support and fell into the pile of debris, piled together with other messy things, which made the identification work seriously difficult, and it felt like there was no way to start.

Kraft lit another candlestick, held it to the side, and used two small pieces of wood that had just been smashed out to pull out the remains between the body and the ashes. He doubted that any valuable clues could be found in it.

"Tsk."

He made a sound of disgust, no matter how he looked at it, this thing should not be under his control.

Yes, he had indeed participated in dissection and learned about burns, but no one had taught him how to deal with burns to this extent.

If the classmates from the police college next door came to help, there might be hope. In his eyes, this was just a perfect cremation that could be packed into a box after being crushed a little more. Well, I need a big box.

Forced by the situation, Kraft decided to temporarily play the role of an archaeologist, slowly cleaning things out of the ashes and rearranging them.

I found a thin piece of wood and used it as a brush, and started cleaning.

The first thing to be removed was the thin shell formed by the agglomeration of soft tissue. This was not difficult to distinguish. After all, there was no loose internal structure like bone tissue on its broken section, so it could be easily sorted out and placed in a separate pile.

Kraft had no desire to put the pieces together like a jigsaw puzzle, but just put it together. I have tasted its outline and shape enough times, and I am not a biologist, so there is no need to do it again.

These broken shells constitute the main part of the top layer. After they are completely cleared, you really enter the nightmarish internal structure.

Buried in the loose ashes was the ultimate hodgepodge of trunk bones and various bone fragments.

Many of those irregular bone fragments were inlaid on the outer surface when it was still alive. Like the twisted facial features, they are abandoned and wantonly growing parts. Their origin cannot be verified. They can only be studied from a few pieces with iconic structures. .

Superman's memory helped a lot, and he picked out two seemingly unrelated bones from the array arranged in order.

After adjusting the angle, the horizontal bone beams on one side can be barely aligned together to form a nearly arch-shaped bony structure.

He put the two skeletons under candlelight and looked at them again to eliminate misjudgments caused by poor lighting. The credible fit helped him confirm his inspiration.

"Zygomatic bow? What kind of zygomatic bow is this?"

This is a rather distinctive sign. If you feel forward along the ear hole, you can easily find a prominent bone beam that spans half of the side of the face. It is actually formed by the union of parts of two facial bones, the zygomatic process of the temporal bone and the temporal process of the zygomatic bone.

This also shows that the two skulls in his hands were separated and placed in two places far apart. Their shapes have undergone huge changes, leaving only this mark that has not been removed.

Following this line of thinking, Kraft continued his search, giving up on the overall shape and focusing instead on finding special signs in the bone fragments. He soon figured out a lot of intriguing things. The closer to the interior, the more obvious the shape of the bone fragments found.

As we went deeper, we found not only skulls that were close to their original form, but also batches of vertebrae that had been turned out one by one.

The first time it was a section or two that went unnoticed, and then a few more pieces were found on the opposite side, and it was no longer an accident. Kraft did not move them and continued to clean around, peeling away the debris and ashes more carefully to prevent them from being bumped.

The cleaning area expanded from the inside to the outside, and a certain regular arrangement emerged. These vertebrae were not randomly stuffed in. There were many of them, scattered in every direction, roughly radiating.

Generally speaking, several vertebrae are found on the inside. The thoracic vertebrae are most distributed in the middle ring, and outward are the lumbar vertebrae with wide and short plate-like spinous processes.

In terms of quantity alone, it is impossible to come from the same vertebrae, and the too regular distribution led Kraft to believe that they were once complete, and that there could be several anatomically realistic vertebrae present here before shrinking and burning.

Did the spinal cord also pass through the spinal canal protected by a ring of cone foramina?

According to the arrangement of the spine, the possible spinal cord extends outward from the central position, and the outstretched nerves are used to control the peripheral movement structures of the wrist and feet, which are mainly composed of long bones.

People who have never seen the densely distributed bones will definitely judge that they are a mixture of several human skeletons, and will be shocked by the shape of the bones.

Its use of human structures goes far beyond Kraft's imagination, and is far from limited to the peripheral parts, and may even involve the central nervous system. It makes sense if you think about it carefully. Using the same set of nerve tissue to control the same motor system, it is possible to turn the original soup into the original food.

Since the spinal cord can be arranged outward to control the arms and legs supported by the long bones of the limbs, wouldn't it also make sense to speculate on the structure inward?

The skull pieces became more regular as he went inward, and the spine pointed towards the center, all of which brought him closer to an unbelievable inference.

[Skull, center]

The spinal cord alone, where the low-level reflex center is located, cannot command so many arms and legs. It is difficult to have reflexes. Of course, it must be equipped with a corresponding structure to control the entire body.

This seems to be a... head?

Once you have an idea, everything seems to fall into place.

It is not a creature that developed from an embryo, and the process of producing each part step by step and developing independently does not make sense.

It seemed as if excessively proliferated tissue surged out from the center, growing outward wildly and disorderly, tearing apart the half-formed skull, and directly began to expand. The spine was built in all directions to prepare for the emergence of the movement system, and finally the limbs were twisted into arms and legs. Each spinal cord is connected to the center.

In the downward search for the core, this speculation was confirmed by more vertebrae, and they were of different types. Kraft even found a vertebrae with unfused sacral vertebrae, which is usually only found in teenagers. Most of the other spine ends have been synthesized into the entire sacrum.

This shows that their development order is also different, with the large and small arms and legs coming out one after another. After taking shape, there are still new directions to try to grow new arms and legs.

Unlimited growth destroys this central area that should form the craniofacial region. The too many arms and legs that were extracted squeezed out the normal blood, flesh and bone fragments, and each additional arm and foot caused it to expand outwards. Eventually, even the skin could not cover the whole body, and it turned into a mass of sarcoma.

The picked out craniofacial bones were spread out in large circles around Kraft. They were repeatedly created to stop this trend, while the new arms and legs that kept pushing out were unstoppable, shaping the head into what it is today in endless destruction and reshaping. form.

"It's really scary." This scene is strikingly similar to the cancer cells Kraft knew. They grow outwards at all costs, pushing against and compressing normal tissue until it deforms and shrinks, and its original shape is completely lost.

The difference between the arm and foot is that it can maintain its own regular growth despite unreasonable infinite proliferation. The two are contradictory.

【source】

Craft threw away the small piece of wood, took the sword and swung it down, shoveling away a pile of ashes and bones.

He had suffered enough from these things, and his intuition told him that the center must have a special meaning that could explain it and be the source of the squirming things.

After shoveling another piece, it seems to be closer. The spines here have gathered to the point of squeezing together, and there are at least a dozen of them drilling inward around the center point.

The volume of the vertebrae limits their density. According to this number, it is impossible for the cervical vertebrae to grow completely. The first few spaces must be given up to make room for the center, which is not much smaller in size.

"Qiang." The sword hit the flat bone plate, which is a parietal bone that has basically the same appearance as a normal one. The spine bypasses it and continues to converge downward. The density is getting higher and higher, the spinous processes are intertwined, and the space is getting smaller and smaller. A network of unburnt ligaments.

An inexplicable feeling of dizziness and nausea came over me. It was a kind of oscillating feeling, being carried up and down by the waves in the water, making me feel top-heavy.

Something like a precursor to falling or rising disrupted his movements. The wreckage in front of me does not seem to be dead. The dead spines are entangled and twisting with each other, pretending to be alive. For a moment, I have the illusion of facing the arms and legs full of vision again. When I look at it again, there is no change.

The sword blade was inserted through the gap, prying open the thing blocking the way, exposing the contents.

The extension of all vertebrae ends at this position. There is no vertebrae further forward, and the first few cervical vertebrae do not exist.

They are surprisingly consistent in the segment where they terminate. The particularly weak cervical vertebra shows a sinister and funny smile on the cross-section, stacked together.

This wicked image was drawn on the last page of "The Structure of the Human Body", and Edward, who was indistinguishable from the real, signed it. The same symbols appeared in the eccentric old book, in which the professor immersed himself with enthusiasm.

【Fifth cervical vertebra】

Surrounded by a large number of smiling vertebrae, the central system that governs this malicious body turned into an unspeakable black and white substance, dissipating from the pores and evaporating to dryness, leaving only shrunken fragments.

A creature that is by no means the proper form of biological tissue, lying quietly on the bottom, the illusion of oscillation, sinking and floating is further advanced.

Suddenly got signed. Σ(⊙▽⊙“

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