"Long live the toad, long live the Legba. A villager with a look of adoration recounted the story he had heard with his friend.

It was a low adobe house, half of which was underground, and there were no windows, except for a hole in the upper side, which was considered a door. Unlike the wealthy toads who live on stilts, the poor toads have to dig their own holes and build a barely accommodating "house".

These houses are dark and damp, and they tend to collapse during the early rainy season, but they are not harmful to the toads, who live in a humid environment without getting sick, and because they are amphibians, they can hold their breath for long periods of time, enough to wait for the rescue of their compatriots - and even some of the toads in their prime can dig them out on their own.

The other toad raised his glass, took a sip of water, and asked, "Did the chief Kuaza really say that? What is that Legba? I think most of ......

"I heard that it was the name of the sacred tree, but I don't know very well. The first toad replied honestly.

"Why haven't I heard of the Divine Tree and what is called the Thunder ......?"

His questioning was rudely interrupted, "This is what Valaga who lives next door said, can it be false? He went with Master Kuaza to explore the ruins, according to him, there are not only demons there, but also zombies and ghosts......! There are even dragons!"

"Dragon?" the skeptic's interest shifted instantly, "Tell me about dragons, I've never seen dragons yet." ”

"Of course, if you've seen it, you can still sit here?" I'll tell you, the dragon's eyes are as ......big as your head," the storyteller, Toad, swore as if he had been there himself.

Faust, who was standing at the back of the house, retracted his perception with satisfaction. After placing Kuaza's body, he walked around the village and found that the story he had made up had spread - and even several different versions had appeared, and the barren Toad villagers were interested in it.

This is a good sign that not only does it benefit their own plans, but it also shows that Kuaza and his henchmen are not supported by the villagers, who are dead and people even care only about his story and do not feel sad.

But it's not all good, Faust wants to create the image of the tall and complete Kuaza, and then steal his name to lay the foundation for old Hama to rule the village.

But the villagers seem to have little interest in heroic deeds, and the focus soon shifts to monsters and battles - there's even a version of the sadomasochistic story in which Kuaza falls in love with an outsider woman.

In fact, this was a small mistake of Faust, the society of the toad people was very backward, and they lacked a basic sense of state and nation, so Faust's plan to boast of Kuazza as a people's hero naturally failed.

But it doesn't hurt, even if he is not a national hero, Kuaza's name as a previous ruler is enough to provide legitimacy for the rule of the old toad Hama.

Faust walked briskly through the Incense Library—he was tired of circling around the toads' caves, and now that he had verified the viability of his plans, there was no need to stay in this purgatory of stench and sludge.

He pushed open the door of the library, and saw the old toad Hama crouching in the door of the library, little by little, sometimes looking up suddenly, but soon began to nod again.

"Ahem, you must be tired today, Brother Hama?" Faust coughed lightly, waking up the old toad Hama, "When you were on guard, no one came to check on Kuazza's body, did he?"

Old Hama hurriedly waved his hand, "No, no." You know, Lord Apostle, that I have very few people here, and I have always been at the door, and there is not even a shadow of a ghost......"

"Okay, okay, there's nothing to do today, you go and rest. Faust didn't really care if anyone looked at the body, he just liked the feeling of instructing someone else - if someone did come to look at the body, with old Hama's ability, there was nothing he could do to stop it.

However, Faust was surprised that no one came, and he had expected that someone interested in the position of leader would come to inquire about it, but now it seems that either no one had such ambitions, or this person was a fool.

Faust felt that it was more likely that he would be a fool.

This time, however, Faust was not here to plot any conspiracy - he only wanted to study Kuaza's corpse.

"Come on, let me see...... Why the hell did you become such a monster?" Faust muttered to himself, putting on a leather apron.

This dress belonged to the old toad Hama, who was worn when the autopsy was carried out. Faust is also unclear about the Toad People's customs, but they do have a custom of dissecting corpses.

He tugged at the leather gloves on his hands, trying to make them fit better—the gloves were webbed and large in the shape of a toad man's hand.

But that was all there was for now, and Faust had no choice but to put his bare hand into Kuazza's chest.

After Kuazza died, his body began to shrink, and when Faust picked up Kuaza's body, he was about the same age as he was when he was alive, and now it seemed to be a little shorter than before, but he no longer seemed to be shrinking.

Faust took out old Hama's usual scalpel and slashed lightly at Faust's injured left arm. It was good that he didn't cut it, but now that the sword had just pierced Kuaza's skin, it was as if it had pierced a rice ball, and a viscous black-red greasy liquid flowed out of it.

Faust didn't care, the injury to this hand was very serious, and it was normal to have bruises. However, as the knife edge expanded, the flow of fluid did not decrease, but intensified, and soon accumulated on the makeshift dissecting table made of desks.

"That's not a good sign......" Faust said to himself, rubbing blood on his leather apron and beginning to pick up the skin with another knife and nail it with a sharp obsidian wedge.

"Hmm...... Muscle dissolve? interesting. Faust found that Cuaza's muscles did not fit perfectly into the skin, and the surface was pitted, especially where the muscles were damaged and broken, and even the bones soaked in blood could be seen.

Faust nodded, and began to draw anatomical drawings in a new notebook borrowed from the professor, the first being a partial anatomical diagram of the left arm, with a note underneath, "Muscle dissolves".

And that's not all, Faust carefully picks out his broken bones, sparing not a single piece of tiny bone, and tries to put them together.

The work was not difficult, the toad man's arm bones were between those of a human and a toad, and the anatomical drawings of both creatures were clear, and it didn't take him a lot of time to put the broken bones back together.

The problem of bones is also interesting - the broken bones obviously can't fit together with the parts that aren't broken, they're too big, but the shape of the two is undoubtedly the same.

Then the conclusion is obvious, Kuaza's bones have shrunk.

Faust added a diagram of the structure of the skeleton to the anatomy of Cuazza's left arm—and he also marked the dimensions.

The study of the left arm came to an end, and Faust was not going to work all night, but he had to keep his spirits up and beware of any careerist trying to take over the village by force and achieve de facto domination. So, after deducting the time he spent meditating every night, there was not much leisure time left for him.

This time Faust did not intend to dissect the rest of Kuazza alone, he would open Kuazza directly to his ribcage.

This was the first time he had dissected a toad man, and for a clearer view, Faust opted for a zigzag incision. He made a horizontal cut at the line between the two collarbones, and then carefully pulled a knife down the midline of the corpse, extending all the way to Kuaza's pelvis.

He then made a transverse incision at the end of the vertical incision, parallel to the incision at the clavicle. During his cutting, Kuazza continued to leak black-red fluid like his left arm, indicating that muscle lysis is not limited to the muscle groups of the limbs, but also to the torso.

After cutting open the corpse, he did the same, lifting the two pieces of flesh open, revealing the ribs and spine that covered the underneath.

Kuaza's spine is the same as that of his small cousin, with only seven segments, but his ribs are connected to the vertebrae in a cage like a human, each pair corresponds to a vertebrae, and the top is also connected to a cervical vertebrae, for a total of eight, and if you count the lowest vertebrae, it is nine.

Faust pursed his lips, took out his large pliers, and forcefully plucked out Kuaza's ribs one by one, exposing the internal organs underneath, and then drained the blood in his chest.

The internal organs of the toad man are closer to those of a toad than to a human, and his heart is located in the center of the upper part of his chest, flanked by symmetrical livers, with two lobes diagonally above the liver. The digestive system is distributed on the left side of the lower abdomen, leaving room for the right-side reproductive system.

On Earth, this complex and delicate morphology, somewhere between mammals and amphibians, would have thrilled scientists, but in Faust's view, none of this was new.

He didn't know how many times he had seen these things on frogs, and although the Toad Man's organs were somewhat more human-like, they didn't arouse Kuaza's interest either—all he cared about was the principle of Kuaza's transformation, which was a valuable reference for his spiritual self-shaping spiritual energy practice.

Faust looked up and saw the moon rising in the middle of the sky outside the window, but unfortunately, he was running out of time, and the planned brain dissection had to be abandoned.

He had expected to find the secret in Kuaza's internal organs, such as organs that could provide immense magical energy, or supernatural structures that could produce some effect, but unfortunately, none of them existed.

Although it did not achieve the desired effect - Faust looked at the bloodstained notebook, and as the dissection progressed, he also finished drawing the anatomy of Kuaza's chest - but it could not be said that it was not fruitless.

Faust closed his notebook and began to sort out Kuazza's remains—he had to look beautiful in preparation for the funeral, tentatively scheduled for the day after tomorrow.

Of course, when sorting out the remains, it is not a big deal to cut out a few organ samples.

Soon, Faust restored Kuazza to its original state, and even looked better than when he first died—of course, it only seemed that Faust was not in the mood to put the entrails that he had taken out to play with one by one, and he just put them into Kuaza's body cavity in one go.

Looking at the corpse that had been roughly restored, Faust smiled, stretched his waist, and looked out the window at the starry sky, "The moonlight is so beautiful." ”