Arriving at Hodge's cabin, Carol knocked softly on the wooden door.

No one answered, and the room was quiet without any sound.

"Are you out of the house?" Carroll looked down at the row of footprints outside the house that stretched into the forest in the distance, a little helpless, "It seems that we have not come at the right time." ”

She turned around and was about to take Hughes and the others back to the carriage to rest for a while, but Hughes suddenly stepped forward quickly and looked at the wooden door of the hut: "Wait, this room is unlocked." ”

He tried to push, and the door opened with a slight thud, and as he said, the door was not locked at all, just caught in the frame.

Carol turned around and was a little stunned, and wanted to laugh a little: "This doctor is really big-hearted, and he doesn't even lock the door when he goes out, so he is not afraid of thieves." ”

After Hughes pushed the door open, he walked into the cottage with a natural expression, without the slightest shame of trespassing on the house.

"Wait Hughes, we shouldn't have gone in until the master has returned. Carroll wanted him to quit.

Hughes took it for granted: "Nobles don't need permission to enter commoners' homes, they should be honored." ”

What a reckless idiot...... Carol shook her head, hesitated for a moment, and then walked into the room with the others.

The space of the hut is not large, but it is divided into two areas by a screen, and the narrow space is used quite efficiently, and everything is neatly stacked without a messy feeling.

On the wall facing the door hung a white-lacquered wooden board, densely written in ink, and Hughes could read most of the commonly used numbers, as well as some commonly used arithmetic symbols, but more intelligible characters and criss-crossing curves.

"What the hell is this. Hughes stamped his foot in exasperation, feeling insulted by his intelligence.

"It's a math, isn't it...... But there are a lot of characters I haven't seen before, are they arithmetic symbols?" Carroll was a little better than Hughes, but his knowledge was also limited, and the aristocracy rarely delved into arithmetic, preferring to spend their time learning etiquette and art.

"It's an arithmetic. Fink affirmed this statement, and as a learned preacher, no one would doubt what he said, "Most of those characters are the arithmetic symbols of higher-order arithmetic, and the curves that combine the arithmetic equations should be conjunctive notation...... Wait, it's a six-formula calculation?"

Carroll asked, "What do you mean by six-style calculation?"

Fink held the board in both hands and found it incredulous: "The six equations are involved in one calculation at the same time, and more variables can be added to the joint equation, and the final solution is more accurate." ”

"You look surprised. ”

Fink took a breath and calmed himself down: "That's because you don't know the meaning of the six-formula joint calculation, I don't have a deep knowledge of arithmetic in the priest city, but my friend is a rare genius who specializes in arithmetic, and he is also a leader in arithmetic in the priest city, and even many erudite high-level priests are not as good as him in arithmetic, even so, he can only barely do the five-formula joint calculation, and the single arithmetic cannot be too complicated, otherwise the calculation process is easy to mess up, because there are too many variables to consider." ”

The reason why Fink is unbelievable is not only because he saw the six-formula calculation, but also because every single formula in the joint calculation on the wooden board is extremely complex, and with his ability, even the budget single calculation is a little difficult, and this is a joint calculation.

"Can such a complex joint calculation really be calculated?"

"I don't understand what you're talking about...... What's the use of these things?" Hughes's head began to glow.

Fink looked at it for a while, and said in an uncertain tone: "It seems that the proportion of the herbal formula is being calculated, this should be a reverse deduction, from the effect of the final potion to the mixed proportion of the ingredients, but ...... I've never even seen this symbol. ”

There's a weird ∑ in the equation, and Fink is also a qualified priest in arithmetic, even if it's not good, but it's not so bad that he can't even recognize the arithmetic symbols.

"That's the accumulation symbol, which means that the small equation after the symbol is summed up, and it has never appeared in any arithmetic book in this world, and of course you don't know it. ”

An unfamiliar voice came from the location outside the door, and everyone turned to see a young man standing in front of the door, carrying a wooden bag, which was supposed to contain herbs.

"Who are you?" Hughes frowned, and four of his guards had half-unsheathed their longsword at their waists, looking at him with wary faces.

Hodge put down the wooden pocket a little helplessly: "This seems to be my line, I don't seem to have allowed strangers into my house." ”

"Ahh Carol's eyes lit up slightly, "You're Dr. Hodge?"

"I'm Hodge, but you don't have to call me a doctor, I don't have a doctor's license from the Herbal Society. ”

Hodge's gaze swept over the people in the room in turn: "Noble lady, knight, priest, and guard retinue, this is strange, what is the wind that blows you big people into my house?"

"Naturally, it was a northeasterly wind. Carroll blinked.

It's a well-known joke in the North, and only the Northerners can understand it, Hodge was stunned for a moment, and smiled.

He didn't expect the nobles to joke with the commoners, and this young lady didn't seem to be annoying.

"Jokes aside, you trespassed into my house, you have to give me an explanation, right?"

"Who made you lock the door yourself. ”

Hodge unceremoniously looked at Hughes, who spoke: "There are not many people in the village, we all know each other, and there are no outsiders entering the village in normal times, so we don't have the habit of locking the door." Even then you don't have the right to break in, didn't your etiquette teacher teach you that this is common sense, horsemen, soldiers, and people. ”

Carol coughed lightly, she didn't want Hughes to do anything rude, and bowed slightly to Hodge: "This is our faux pas, and I'm very sorry for that." ”

"Then I accept it. Hodge is not an unforgiving character, and a noble lady is willing to bow down and make amends to the commoners, which is quite sincere, "But I don't think you have come here just to visit my humble cabin." ”

"Actually, it's true. Carroll repeated what he had said to Bach.

"So you're here for that. ”

"We heard you saved Hood. ”

"Help? That's just my self-righteousness. Hodge sneered, full of self-deprecation, and pulled back the screen, revealing a wooden bed covered in gray linen.

Hodge pulled the sackcloth open at once, and when he saw what was lying on the bed, everyone except Fink felt a wave of sick to their stomachs.

It was a male corpse, his chest full of scratches, a large hole in his chest, and the blood vessels and heart inside had been churned into a pile of flesh.

"I'd rather never have that stupid surgery done so that at least he wouldn't have died so painfully. ”