"Kraft, Kraft, are you there?"

Holding a stack of medical records, Liston knocked on the professor's room occupied by the dove, his knuckles tapping against the heavy solid fir wood in a dull echo.

An indistinct echo came from the other side of the hallway, as if another door had been visited at the same time, and an unseen visitor was walking with him. The building style of the college is taken from the church, and the building has many long corridors and halls, with zigzag spiral passages and stairs between them, and also inherits the effect of empty echoes.

The church of St. Simon is lit with candles and chanting, and nature reverberates in layers of holiness. But moving to the academy seems too big and inappropriate, and every time the night is sparsely populated, the echoes change far and near as if someone is following, and when you turn back, it is empty, which creates the opposite atmosphere.

Liston didn't like the atmosphere, which always reminded him of some ghost legends that floated in his subconscious, especially when he left alone after dissection in the middle of the night, and when he lost his mind and went the wrong way, the echo behind him could scare the tools in his hand to the ground.

Aside from the necessary lectures, most of the time was spent in the clinic outside, and he would not be willing to stay in the academy unless he dissected with Kalman. If Lucius hadn't come for two days in a row, he wouldn't have come in person in the evening.

There was no answer from behind the door, and he hesitated for a moment, as he knew that Kraft was very busy, and sometimes he might fall asleep at the table, and if that was the case, it would not have come at the right time.

Just as Liston hesitated, the door was suddenly pulled open from the inside, and the brown-haired head poked out from behind the door, and it was Lucius.

"Lecturer Liston?" Lucius stepped out of his seat, let Liston in, and closed it behind him, "Please come in, you've come just in time." ”

Liston put down the medical records on the table, the manuscripts on the table had not yet been collected, and the man who was supposed to be sitting in the chair was not here. He turned his head to ask where Kraft was, but Lucius plugged in the deadbolt and asked the question he wanted with a hint of nervousness.

"Have you seen Lecturer Kraft?"

"What?" Liston was puzzled. If there is anyone in the academy who should know the answer to this question best, it is definitely Lucius himself, not his long-term absent lecturer.

I came today to hand over the medical records that were filled in in detail in the new format, but I didn't expect to be robbed as soon as I entered the door, and I didn't expect this puzzling question.

Combined with the conversation two days ago, he still vaguely guessed what might have happened, "You really went to the salt tide area?" ”

"Yes, we confirmed that a well in the salt tide zone was contaminated, but we are not sure why."

"And then? Don't tell me Kraft is missing inside. The best thing Liston could think of was that, but there was no need to close the door and talk to him alone. Based on his long-term experience with patients, this shows that the key has not been found.

The manuscript on the desk had not yet been sorted out, and the unfinished half of the page was waiting to be written, as if the man would soon open the door and continue his work.

"No, of course not, Kraft came out together. We had agreed to go by noon today, but it was late in the evening......" Lucius unconsciously rubbed the leather of the bird's beak mask in his hand and walked back and forth in the room.

No, this description doesn't match the uneasiness and nervousness at all. Liston pulled over a chair and sat down, and in a gesture of healing, he concluded that the boy must have only spoken half of what he had said, and that the hidden half was not easy.

Kraft has always been a strict person, and generally does not release pigeons, but he is so anxious when he misses an appointment, who can he lie to if he says things so simply?

He pulled out another chair and gave way to Lucius, sat down on his shoulder, and took the beak mask that was about to be crumpled. I was thinking about what the hell was going on, and I had something to hide from others, and I didn't even tell myself.

"Lucius, did I do something wrong? Makes you so distrustful of me. Liston stared into Lucius's eyes and made eye contact with him, as if he were forcing some patient to tell the truth about his history of travel.

"Of course not." Lucius hurriedly denied it, avoiding his gaze, this weak-hearted action could not hide from Liston's eyes.

"Well, I can't help you like that, and if Kraft only misses the appointment for half a day, I suggest you wait until tomorrow. After all, who doesn't have a hurry? ”

It is impossible to force Lucius to speak out as a lecturer, Liston knows it very well, puts some pressure on him, and then says that he does not want to participate, Lucius's inner uneasiness and desire to express will make him take the initiative to find someone to share.

Liston didn't get up, leaned back in his chair and looked at Lucius with a puzzled expression, "If nothing else, I'll go back first, and when I see Kraft, remember to remind him that I have brought the rewritten medical records." ”

Lucius crossed his fingers, almost twisted into twists, and squeezed a few words out of his mouth, "We have some strange discoveries. ”

"Huh?"

"There's no way he didn't come, and we found out that there might be a problem with a well, causing the surrounding residents to wake up later and later." After opening his mouth to talk, Lucius seemed to relax a little, it was really uncomfortable to hold it alone.

"What exactly is the problem? The baker I met here doesn't go to the salt tide to fetch water. ”

Liston had a bad premonition that his case had become a small hole, and Kraft had a glimpse of something terrible, and it seemed to be a big bad thing.

Kraft insisted that there was a relationship, and he ...... Something strange about the behavior. Lucius found a template in Kraft's description of Kalman, and it was fitting for Kraft himself.

Matter? Liston's heart sank, it was all about increased sleep time and difficulty in waking up, and if it was related, he immediately thought of Lucius's earliest conjecture, which was also the one that Kraft and he initially dissupported.

Lucius didn't know that he had almost leaked the secret in a few words, and he was still thinking about how to avoid the black liquor as much as possible.

He saw Liston frowning, and blurted out the question that poked at the core, "Is it Chengming, why is it Chengming?" ”

Lucius's face changed dramatically, and he panicked, only then did he realize that if he said it, he couldn't hide it from Liston.

Seeing his reaction, Liston knew that he had almost guessed correctly. He looked at the large stack of medical records on the table and gasped, thinking of the number of surgeries he had done, and all the cases piled up at least three times as many as here.

"I don't know, he just stayed by the well for a while, and suddenly he was sure that it was Chengming, and there was ......" Lucius stopped when he wanted to speak. He actually recognized that Kraft thought the professor was acting strangely, but now that he thought about it, Kraft's behavior was also abnormal.

"What else?" Liston couldn't sit still, unable to maintain his image as an outsider, and leaned forward to press Lucius.

"You know Kraft has a sword, right? He suddenly slashed his sword backwards, as if he were fighting something, but there was nothing but a plank. ”

"Hysteria?"

"Probably? He was very sober and logically clear. In retrospect, Lucius was vaguely aware of some kind of coincidence, sane and sober, but acting strangely.

The ambiguity muddies the logic of the whole thing, like Kraft going mad at the well in the salt tide area, thinking that someone would pour the clarity potion into the well.

"Lucius, do you know what you're talking about? Are you suggesting that Kraft is not mentally sane, and that the clarity potion we used in strict control ended up in the well of the salt tide zone? ”

With stacks of medical records still piled up on the table, Liston felt like a clown, performing a comedy for the audience, "Who else can touch Cheng Ming but the three of us?" ”

Lucius' gaze dodged again, leaned back to pull away, and denied more firmly than before, "No." ”

Seeing him like this, Liston wanted to go up and beat him. As a doctor, the most annoying thing is to ask for help and hide the truth, and in the years of opening a clinic outside, I have practiced the ability to observe words and colors.

Say no, but don't dare to look at yourself, that's it? Liston gave up digging up more information from Lucius and instead analyzed the relationship on his own.

On the surface, there were only three people who were in contact with the Elixir of Clarity, Kraft, Lucius, and himself, and he deduced that it was absolutely impossible. Not only Lucius, but also Kraft had something to hide from him.

At first, the explanation of the clarification potion was that it was a family secret medicine, but Kraft casually changed his words and admitted that there was more than one, but he did not admit that it was his own work, and it did not come out of Kraft's hands at the earliest.

Then there is a fourth person, or even more, who both Kraft and Lucius know, most likely familiar.

This is interesting, Kraft is new to the school, and his interpersonal relationships are not complicated, and there is less overlap with Lucius's interpersonal relationships.

Liston felt that he was getting closer to the truth, and he liked the process of peeling back the cocoon, like deducing the cause from the bits and pieces of symptoms during a consultation.

First of all, the other lecturers are excluded, and the only one who is closest to these two people in the lecturer is himself; It is possible for the students in the academy, but it is not very likely, because this person is the one who Lucius has to try his best to pick out in an unexpected situation, and he is very decisive.

Of all the people who met all the conditions, Liston knew only one, Professor Kallman, who had left.

It's very deep.

Liston stood up, covering his mouth and coughing to hide his expression, but his gaze stayed on Lucius, making sure he hadn't noticed what he had discovered.

"Do you know where Kraft lives?"

Lucius was right about one thing, Kraft's disappearance was not normal.

Instead of wasting time here with Lucius, it is better to find out what Kraft has found, and he believes that Kraft will give him an answer, even if he can't find it.

"Well, I remember a house provided by the tutor, but I went to look for it, and the neighbor said there was no one there." Lucius was at a loss, this was the first time he had gone to look for Kraft outside the Academy, and he had pounced.

"Then let's ask, I don't believe that no one sees in which direction Kraft came to the academy every day." Liston pulled Lucius up, the sun was setting outside the window, "Let's go, it's not too early." ”