Chapter XXVII
In the candlelight, Kraft spreads out the paper.
He is now staying in the same hotel where he had stayed on his last visit to the port of Wendeng, even in the same room.
That night, Kraft hesitated for a long time at the door of the professor's house with the key, and finally turned back to the hotel.
It's not that trust in professors has been lost. It's just that the various situations that have occurred reflect from the side that Kalman's mental state is not very normal, and people at this time are rarely reliable.
In addition, before leaving this time, his grandfather gave him enough money to settle in Wenden Harbor, so Kraft still chose to go to the hotel to make do with it, and then look for a long-term residence after a few days of classes.
And now he intends to organize everything that has happened to him in writing, and record what he knows in a reliable and fixed form.
As a person who has been nurtured by his grandfather, he is very willing to classify such events as "abnormal phenomena", which is indeed abnormal enough. When bound into a notebook, it can be called "anomaly" notes.
First of all, he can make a less mature judgment based on his own personal experience - there are limits to the anomalies he has encountered so far.
Whether it was the hallucinations triggered by the stone pillar, the fever, or the inducement of black liquor to humans, he was only affected after approaching and seeing real, material-related things.
He had reason to guess that the black stone pillars found in the fields of the village had a limited area of influence, so they developed a "fever disease" unique to the local area. And this effect is only accessible to some people, and the conditions are unknown.
And the black liquor must be brought to the front in order to produce a more obvious tendency to induce. But the effect seems to be more pronounced, and Professor Kalman, Lucius, and Kraft have all been affected.
In short, this limitation refers to the need for a "medium" that actually exists in the knowable domain, and also needs to be seen and entered into a certain range. It will even be triggered only if the contact person meets certain conditions.
This conclusion is also the reason why Kraft is still preparing to go back to class. After locking everything in the secret lab, he was somewhat relieved, and then he just had to care more about Lucius.
If conditions permit, he will also see if there are other things that have not been cleaned up, and solve them by the way. It's best to figure out where some of the samples the professor took out himself.
The lock is locked up, and the buried depth point is all hidden. Then wait for the professor to come back and give him a good understanding of experimental safety.
Admittedly, Kraft had a rather fluke mentality. In the two encounters, the first was thrilling, and the second was even more trivial than the first, making him feel that this kind of thing was no different from some contact-contagious diseases in terms of prevention, and at most it was related to the magic in the novel.
On the other hand, he can't leave these alone for the time being, after all, there are still people he knows, after all, it is the only medical school in the neighborhood, after all, ...... You'll have to count on them in the future.
After reassuring himself that "if you don't touch it, you'll be fine", Kraft made a note of the second point:
As mentioned in the first point, the effect of the media on people is not indiscriminate.
It seems that I am more likely to feel the difference in the medium, to be aware of the existence of "abnormal" things, and to react differently from others, and to belong to a special individual.
The village doctor once mentioned that none of the people in the village who had a "fever" survived for two days, and he carried it for some reason. And he was the only one who realized for no reason that the black liquor was inducing living beings to come into contact with it.
Kraft lists two possibilities: either the body that he has exercised is particularly healthy and conscious, so there is a difference.
Either that's a side effect of "crossing". Maybe after the two souls become one, they will have special treatment like a product with an increase in quantity and no price increase?
Well, let's take note for now, maybe I'll have the unfortunate opportunity to test my conjecture in the future.
There was another important point to be aware of in the black liquor itself - he didn't understand why, and what was the point of the black liquor inducing living beings to contact or even swallow it.
The worst he could think of was based on his own barren experience, guessing what kind of magical parasite it was, needing nourishment from other creatures. Nalucius is temporarily normal only because it has not broken through the mucosal barrier of the digestive tract, or is still growing.
It's also very helpless to say, if this is the case at that time, even if Kraft notices the changes in Lucius, his skills are estimated to be useless, and he can only take one step at a time.
It is more likely that it is meaningless, similar to the "gifts" left by the Snowy Night's Dream to Kraft, and ordinary people can only understand and use the parts of it that are within their own cognition.
Kalman felt that it was the "black liquor" of the four-liquid theory, and Kraft felt that it was central nervous toxic, and that it was beyond common sense, and that it was not suitable for exploration and could not be explored.
Kraft paused, drew a dividing line, and started a new paragraph:
But for now, these things are like magic and curses in literature, and the obvious harm is limited, but it can't be fully recognized.
To put it mildly, worrying about them is better than worrying about the pandemic of certain infectious diseases, which is the most likely thing to mess up in this era, and it is also the situation that Kraft fears the most after learning about the current state of medicine.
In the final analysis, the soul of the other world is also a soul piercing, and none of the vaccines that have been taken since childhood have been brought over, and there are no antibiotics and antiviral drugs in the era, it is really a pure gamble.
Now I'm thinking about how to change the two courses of "Microbiology" and "Parasite" to instill them in the medical school, so that I don't have to be treated with bloodletting therapy one day in the future, and I will have a lot of fun.
Finally, back to what is at hand. Clough made a point of realizing that what he could do was done.
He had finished isolating the black liquor and the experiment logs, and was ready to observe Lucius every time he went to class, and that was all he could do.
Limited by the current communication and transportation, it is impossible for him to catch up with Professor Kallman to figure everything out, not to mention that the source of everything is not Professor Kallman.
In the distant city of Dunling, the center of the kingdom, under the noses of the king and the church, the professor named Morrison had created the black liquor by some unknown means.
It was also claimed that it was extracted from the human body, and asked Kalman to personally go over and help with the research. Combined with the existing clues, it is simply full of slots.
Most likely, it's a scam based on an anomaly, which is not bad.
There is a small probability that Morrison's every word is true, and the horror of the matter makes people's scalps tingle. It means that he has refined something that should not be in the human body at all, and the logic is simply scary.
Kraft confirmed his thoughts this morning, he was indeed late, and it was too late.
The best time to stop this is to travel to Dunling and hold that Morrison and tell him to go back to serious medicine and stop doing abnormal medicine.
The second is to intercept the sample sent to Kalman, not to let a series of experiments happen, and not to let him secretly take the black liquor to do something that Lucius can't tell.
The next chance was a week ago, with his strong physical persuasion level, he woke up two experimental demon guys and prevented Kalman from going to Dunling.
And now, Kalman's Clippers have been on their way for a week, and Kraft is trapped here to wipe his ass, keep an eye on Lucius, vigilantly watch every place where something might go wrong, and make a cameo appearance as Sherlock Holmes in the midst of the fuss.
He has never been the kind of person who is good at reasoning games, even if he has a strong consciousness, and uses it more for his profession than for case investigation. Analyzing the changes in the font in the professor's experiment records is his limit.
The earliest part of the experiment was neatly written, and the letters were written at that time.
What follows is the process of the professor's font gradually letting go of itself, gradually distorting and deforming until it becomes an unrecognizable symbol.
It is certain that the professor's mental state is deteriorating day by day, and he can only hope that before he leaves, he will not use the black liquor to do something big that Kraft can't handle.
There are a lot of things, but very few can be handled. At the end, Kraft, who hated this, summed it up at this stage:
Keep your distance, keep it closed, and never touch it unless necessary.