Chapter 19: Notes on the Atlas

Gu Jun rode his bicycle all the way back to the dormitory, and as soon as he walked into the dormitory, he picked up the kettle on the desk and drank a stomach of water.

The water hasn't been changed for a few days, and it already has a bit of an old taste, but it's not bad for an exhausted person.

Gu Jun looked at some of the traces he had deliberately set on the desk, and the position and order of the books had not changed, and no one should have broken in and rummaged through here in the past three days. Li Lerui's mobile phone, he always carries it with him.

"Whew." Gu Jun sat down on the chair next to the desk, and then opened the system in his mind to see the new situation.

Open the list of host capabilities:

[Calm hands.]

Rarity: ★

Cultivable Level: Triple

Current Level: Second Heavy (0/30000 Proficiency)】

Finally broke through to the second level!

Gu Jun found out three days ago that although he only needed the last 500 proficiency to upgrade his calm hand, he couldn't even improve 100 proficiency after dissecting it for half a day, which was less than the previous intravenous injection practice.

"This shows that proficiency does not increase at an average rate." He concluded in his heart, "The further back you go, the harder it is to ascend, or the more familiar you are, the harder and more familiar you are." So the hundreds of familiarities that finally broke through the level were more than the previous thousands of familiarities combined. ”

Gu Jun looked at his hands and stretched them out, he had been wearing tight medical rubber gloves almost all the time in the past few days, and he was a little unaccustomed to being so loose now.

The calm hand rose to the second weight, and the feeling was indeed different.

Every nerve in his ten fingers, he seemed to feel clearly. This was the anterior interosseous nerve, and as soon as his heart moved, he felt the thumb of his right hand flex slightly...... This is the ulnar nerve, and the tail finger of his right hand jumps slightly.

Although not yet proficient, this kind of meticulous control was something that the Calm Hand had never had before.

This pair of hands, with a scalpel or scalpel, can make more delicate and small operations.

"The liver is worth it these days." Gu Jun couldn't help but smile, the second weight is so powerful, I really don't know how far the third weight can go.

Maybe when the time comes, I'll be the man with the strongest fingers in the world.

Gu Jun laughed self-deprecatingly, turned off the ability list, opened the task list, and looked at the prompt box, like a big chicken leg that was only eaten after a meal.

[There are task rewards waiting to be claimed: 1 piece of the incomplete structure map, click to claim your reward]

This time the system is quite smart, knowing that just now in full view of everyone, he didn't send the map directly to his pocket, is that so?

Reward for the first difficult mission! Gu Jun's mind moved, and he pressed "Click to receive"

"Claim successful!"

Suddenly, his head stabbed violently, and a bright light came from nowhere, suddenly suspended above his ocean of consciousness.

He "saw" that it was a map.

"Oh, this map is not distributed in entities, but in consciousness. Well, it's more convenient to carry. ”

Gu Jun tried to open the atlas with his thoughts, but he was not proficient but could do it, locking it from the sea of knowledge, enlarging it, and magnifying it again......

He began to see that it was a yellowed drawing, made of parchment, about a little smaller than an A4 sheet, and that the edges of the paper were all torn and tattered, with a few large cracks, mottled as if they had been dug out of the plaster.

There is only one pattern on this map, and even ordinary people with no medical background can easily see that this is a local anatomical pattern.

It looked like a front view of his chest, but he couldn't be sure......

Gu Jun is very familiar with human chests, but the structure painted on this picture is ...... Strangely, some of them look like primate chests, but there are a few details that seem to negate this possibility, and there is not a piece of armor on the primate's chest...... Plate bones?

"Plate bones." He muttered that the apparently diamond-shaped plate of bone on the picture covered and connected to the ribs at the back.

Gu Jun was puzzled, and looked at the annotated words next to the atlas, and sure enough, it was that kind of mysterious text. These texts look like they were handwritten, and they look rather sloppy compared to the prints on the pill boxes.

Suddenly, he realized, "This chest front view is also hand-drawn!" ”

That's right, some of the lines are crooked, and ......

Gu Jun felt that this map was not drawn in a quiet study, but in a sinister environment, which is why he had this sense of scribbling and hurrying.

He followed the lines to identify the text, first looked at the text pointing to the "plate bone", then looked at the text of several other bones, and found that they were all composed of two parts, what does this mean?

Like the two concepts of ribs and sternum, the Chinese is "rib" and "breastbone", and the English is "costal bone" and "breastbone".

The repeated words "bone" and "bone" mean bones.

And the last part of these bones is the same two characters...... Is that what bones mean?

Gu Jun felt that this was the same concept! Thinking like this, a big stone quietly fell in his heart.

"This heterogeneity is a language that the human mind can understand." He thought, "If you can understand it, if you can decipher it, you will have the answer." ”

He continued to decipher and identified the three concepts of "muscle", "nerve" and "chest" from the 19 annotations. Then I found that just as "chest" and "muscle" are the same side, there are also the same parts in the text of these four different concepts.

"Bones, muscles, nerves, thoracic ...... Maybe this part is related to the human body? Or is it life? ”

Gu Jun thought hard, after all, he was a linguistics layman, and he couldn't understand it even if he flipped through the information on the Internet, but he didn't know any trustworthy linguistics friends. But now I have finally found a breakthrough to understand this heterogeneous text.

He looked at some of the notes written under the atlas, ten lines of tiny small print, hundreds of characters.

What is striking is that the last four lines of text are identical, and there is an identical symbol attached to the end of the sentence. This symbol is like! Or? Placed together with Chinese characters, it is different from this language at first glance, and it may be punctuation. He felt like it was either an exclamation mark or a question mark.

This sentence was repeated four times in a row......

It seems that the author of this map was very excited at the time.

"What do these notes mean......" Gu Jun pondered, looking at the trembling handwriting, and vaguely felt surprise, hesitation, and panic inside......

Perhaps these notes are the greatest value of this atlas, and they are important information that can help him understand this whole thing.

But he really couldn't understand it, and the more he looked, the more tired his body and mind became.

"I can't figure out anything if I go on like this, let's sleep first, make up for it and wake up, and then compare the different texts on the medicine box."

Gu Jun rubbed his red, swollen and sore eyes, got up and went to the balcony faucet to wash his face, not wanting to take a bath, so he climbed into his bed and lay down, closing his heavy eyelids...... I don't know how long it was, I don't know if it was a dream or reality, he seemed to have fallen into a gray fog......

Silence, a silent silence.

He could see it slowly, and saw a huge dead tree, its branches thick and messy, dense as if adding a crack to the gray sky, not a single leaf, only some rotten vines hanging down, and even the wind seemed to be gray-black.

On the wide trunk of the dead tree, something was moving......

It was the thin back of a child, holding the trunk of the tree with all his might, climbing up and up......

Gu Jun's consciousness was hazy, as if he was going away, and these scenes were also far away......

He saw that the ground under the dead trees was the same gray, and he saw corpses lying on the ground, as if in a pattern, and his faces could not be seen clearly, but their limbs were ...... Hands and feet, all distorted......

Suddenly, a figure fell high from the dead tree, it was the emaciated child, who, despite all his might, could not hold on to the increasingly rugged and curved trunk, and fell down with a single miss.

The child seemed to be screaming, but Gu Jun couldn't hear it.

Bang bang! But he heard it, and the silence broke. The child fell to the ground with a heavy blow, blood stained the dust, and his pale and childish face was distorted by shock and horror, and his eyes were wide open, but there was no trace of brilliance.

This pale and childish face, Gu Jun has seen it...... It's in the body storage room of the Bureau Liberation Building.

It was the child lying in the body storage tank soaked in Formarlin, his hands distorted.