Chapter Twenty-Four: Occasionally play Sherlock Holmes
Before they were fused, both souls had some knowledge of alphabet calligraphy out of hobby or out of the threat of their grandfather. With long-term active or passive practice, this new soul becomes more and more sensitive to the differences in various kinds of writing.
Kraft mobilized his consciousness into a state of meticulous and observant observance, forcing himself to ignore the strange sensations that came from his intuition and devote himself to the analysis of the paper all over the floor.
The weight of the pen and the stability of the pen will significantly affect the thickness of the stroke, reflecting the state of a person when writing. The ligatures between the letters mean that the fluency of writing is related to the familiarity and overall grasp of the words. Although it can be added after writing, it is also an unnatural point that can distinguish the beginning and turn.
And if it is written in a similar state, the handwriting is mostly relatively similar. In the records of this place, it can be roughly divided into three categories.
The first is the example of a letter left by a professor to himself. The writing of this part is a good reflection of the professor's attainments in this area, highlighting a kind of "impractical magnificence".
These coherent and smooth lines are not actually obtained in rapid writing, but at the end of the stroke, the force is retracted, and the position of the next letter is gently pulled to form a continuous pen. In actual writing, this kind of writing is not only inefficient, but also easy to make mistakes.
But the lines that go back and forth will make the words written have a sense of unity and beauty. Coupled with the professor's good control over line spacing and letter size, the paper without auxiliary horizontal lines still maintains a machine-like neatness and fineness.
When writing these words, the professor must have been in a good state of mind, so that he had the energy to pursue the extreme delicacy and beauty of his words.
The font of the second type should be written when you need to be faster.
Most of the strokes in these fonts are slightly thinner, and when you pick them up and look closely, the ink leaks out and forms fewer burrs, indicating that the professor quickly brushes them over when writing and stays for a short time.
There are often abrupt breaks in these contents, and the text is stuck where it should be, leaving a broken head or a stranded ink spot. It seems that I stopped and considered the words in the middle of writing, and the original train of thought was interrupted and continued, which is a bit of a sense of being disrupted.
After continuing to write, the professor made up a stroke and reconnected the broken places. Because it is a re-added part, it is not as natural as a coherent writing when examined in detail, leaving the possibility of discovery for Kraft.
As for the third, it is best to pick out the one. This kind of note clearly shows that the writer's mind is not in the hand, the thickness of the strokes is uneven, and the coherence and integrity are poor. There is often a difference in the degree of inclination of the letters within a page, which is rarely seen in a person with a fixed writing habit.
In these records, neither Kraft nor Lucius knew at least half the words on the other pages, and more than half a page of completely unreadable information.
Uppercase and lowercase are mixed with each other, and places that do not conform to the writing norms can be seen everywhere, separated by indistinguishable punctuation, which resembles a clerical error and cannot be reversed.
In the most serious cases, the gaps between the letters are broken, crowded and stacked, preferring to be squeezed together rather than expanding into the blank space next to them, which is on par with the level before Kraft practiced calligraphy, and the recognition is infinitely close to zero.
There are also a handful of awkward characters that Kraft has no clue about and don't fit any way of writing. Some of them are drawn in the opposite direction, and after finding that the ink is not enough, they are scratched in the same position several times until the paper fibers are destroyed and the marks are hard-carved.
"Are you really sure it's the professor's handwriting?" Craft singled out the third priority, and asked Lucius, pointing to one of the strokes on the torn paper.
This is not only ugly, but also causes a lot of damage to the nib, making a harsh grinding sound when writing. Imagine a needle scratching across a sandpaper full of tiny bumps, an uncomfortable sound scraping the eardrum and an irregular tremor conducting to the fingertip holding the barrel of the pen.
Swapping this action on the tip of the pen, at least Kraft is self-intolerable, and can effectively treat the symptoms of hypotension at the moment of sight. It is unlikely that normal people will like this kind of operation, just as humans will instinctively reject the ultimate noise of scraping the iron pot with a spatula.
Lucius took a closer look and gave an affirmative answer: "I just happen to have some impression of this, it was indeed written by the professor." Because it was a record I just made before leaving, and it looks special, I can be sure. ”
Kraft frowned, folded the paper on top, and brought it to the window to try to understand the professor's meaning again.
Many people may have their own special way of writing, which will twist into a ball when they write quickly and without paying attention. But this one is different, he can be sure that this is definitely not a special capitalization of any letter.
In reverse strokes, the tip of the pen cuts through the paper fiber, and it took several strokes to "engrave" the symbol. The ink is sometimes too much and sometimes too little, scattering between the destroyed fibers, turning a line into a rosary-shaped strip made of clumps and irregular dots.
Kraft's consciousness took its morphology and fitted it to the foci of tuberculosis developing in the narrow lumen, resembling rosaries strung together with tumors and cysts, and the nauseous outline was the result of the distortion of the order.
Thin lines of ink weave around and converge on another symbol, like a wizened, long-nailed hand piercing into the lesion. Narrow letters like a swarm of flying flies surround them, and the trajectory of the arrangement is round and square, and there is an illusion of movement and deformation when viewed for a long time.
He'd never seen a word like that, and no, he shouldn't have used characters to describe something so unnatural. A man of reason should not and cannot smear such a thing.
If that was Professor Kalman's record, Kraft would rather believe that an evil spirit had taken the Professor's body, deceived everyone, and wrote the worst joke he knew of.
"No, there must be something wrong." Kraft threw out his conclusion, looking away from the paper. After the consciousness diverges, it is not easy to retract, and the mind is filled with inevitable associations, pulling out the most unappetizing or profound things in memory, combining them with the current content, and mixing them into the product of nausea.
The feeling of nausea forced him to get away from the papers as quickly as possible and put them back in closed containers that he couldn't see.
"I think I've figured it out, let's separate them first."
"Okay, the professor doesn't have the final say." Lucius took out a few pieces of wood to use as bookmarks.
So Kraft took some time to sort the three types of records and put them back in boxes, separated by wood chips, so that they could be further subdivided next time.
With two more bangs, the lid was closed again, and the room returned to a neat and comfortable state, and Kraft breathed a sigh of relief. But the matter is far from over, and the secret laboratory, which I don't know what the situation is, is now waiting for them to deal with it in the medical school.
It's impossible to make a gas mask, and it's not reliable to just cover a damp cloth in it, so you have to think of other ways.
If there is a way, there is indeed a way. Kraft thought of the beak mask, a piece of equipment often associated with medieval doctors in black, and it did exist in this world.
He really doesn't know how. Knowledge of this is limited to some unknown popular science texts that say that a bird's beak is stuffed with a cloth bag of spices and herbs.
Seems to make some sense, right? It doesn't seem to make sense at all.
"Lucius, I would like to ask, is there any such mask here that you wear when you go to see the plague patients? The kind with a pointed mouth. Kraft put his hands together in front of his beak and made a bird's beak.
"Is it really necessary?" Lucius understands that he can't, today he was tossed by Kraft physically and mentally, and his enthusiasm for the experiment was worn out a lot, "Even if it's really poisonous, we will lose consciousness after drinking a diluted sample." ”
For a moment, the thought of "it seems like I'm really too vigilant" got the upper hand, and Kraft quickly shook it off. In the past, because the professor and Lucius often went to experiments, they could open the door every day to ventilate; Now that the laboratory has been closed for a week, it is difficult to say what will happen if it is really volatile.
If you prepare more, you will waste a while at most, and if you don't prepare, there is a probability that you will waste all the remaining Yangshou, and he can calculate this account clearly.