Kraft clenched his fist and wrapped the pendant completely, clutching the light that had not yet been noticed by more people, "Alright, give the patient a little quiet rest, too much noise is not conducive to recovery." ”

"The Duke wants you and Knight Martin to meet as soon as possible after they have rested, and someone will come to warn you, Professor." The guard finally exited the room, and before leaving, he did not forget to remind, "It has something to do with this." ”

"Of course, I also want to know what happened." Clough nodded in agreement, motioning for Koop to close the door and lock it.

Hearing the footsteps fade away, he half-closed the curtain and opened his palm, the pendant with an inlay taken from the deep condensation of giant mushrooms emitting a faint red light in the palm of his hand. Compared to the starry red rays that could only be observed in the dark, it was now a piece of coagulated blood flame embedded in a metal piece, second only to the state when facing the "angel" directly.

This provoked a stress response from Coop, who instinctively ducked to the door and reached for the hammer handle.

Kraft got up and walked around the room with his pendant, the red light dimming and reappearing, showing an unmistakable change in brightness as he approached the bed.

Yvonne also noticed the rather familiar trinket and watched as Kraft took it around the room and finally turned back to him, looking up at him for some reason.

The two stared wide-eyed.

"Yvonne, I know it might be uncomfortable to take the initiative to reminisce about that experience......" After considering the words, a more eclectic statement was singled out, in case the girl mistakenly thought it was a question.

"You may have been affected by something that wasn't so good, it's not obvious yet, but it's likely to cause some ...... in the future Disease. So you need to be specific about what happened that day, okay? ”

He pulled a chair, sat in the sun, and folded his hands in a normal conversational gesture, "It's just that we talk to each other, starting in the morning, like that day, is breakfast delicious?" Steering the conversation to an easier beginning, Kraft watched Yvonne's reaction.

It is not a good thing to bring it up soon after the terrible event of a mortal threat, and if Yvonne's mental state is not suitable for the conversation, he will choose to stop the conversation for a while and get the overview from the Duke first.

However, the truth is that Yvonne behaved more calmly than imagined, and this calm was not reassuring. After such contact, a normal person should undoubtedly have a drastic, far-reaching negative effect, and her condition is like an unsuccessful attempt to elicit a pain reflex.

"Two slices of bread?" "Then I finished my homework for the day, until noon, when a man named Brimmer came. ”

"Brimmer?"

Professor of Humor at Rivers University, a disciple of Professor Fernand, the name appears on the list of visits quite reasonably.

"What is he doing here?"

"He wants your manuscript and says it's ...... What is the arrangement of academic gatherings? After briefly recalling the unfamiliar term, Yvonne said with a little pride, "I didn't let him touch your things." ”

"Oh, that thing wasn't that important, but you did the right thing." Kraft doesn't say that he intends to write about the speeches at academic gatherings, and his schedule is filled with selective monographs.

This doesn't seem to be the business of a mature industry insider, and even if it's nominally about arranging an academic conference, it's too rude to ask for manuscripts that haven't been made public. What's more, it is not to explain to me that it is normal for a slight accident to cause serious disputes.

And the following narrative makes his impression of Brimmer directly shift from "presumptuous and immature" to "suspicious".

"He stayed, and said he wanted me to change my mind."

To be sure, Brimer's actions were not unintentional, but purposeful requests for manuscripts. With what Craft knew about Rivers University, it was a kind of person with a position and a good background, and it was not like it was instructed by the college or a higher level such as Professor Fernand.

"And then?"

"I've been with the craftsman for an afternoon, and they seem to have some idea of what you want." She described her day, from Brimer's visit to a wasted afternoon, as calm and uneventful.

And as if to herald the coming of the point, there was some emotion in the description, but it was not fear, but something inexplicable, like walking out of a cave and standing in front of something grander than a towering mountain, and recalling afterwards a pure emotion that is still unfinished, not shock, trembling, and amazement, but containing all of them.

She pursed her lips, as if she was moistening her lips, as if she was savoring something, "On the way back, near his quarters, I saw something. ”

"Where does he live? What kind of stuff? ”

"They...... It's beautiful, it's like wearing mushrooms on your body and climbing up from under a cliff. "I saw the torches go out, and I hid until dawn." ”

A full-fledged parasitic shell, awakened in the least vigilant part of the castle's patrols, ascended the mountainside from a moat that was impossible for ordinary people to cross, and encountered them on the mountain path was almost synonymous with death.

But why are they awakened?

Fort Westminster is known to have a suspected presence of fungi, and in the Duke, he is incapable of controlling a large group of shells.

Unless there is a "passage", the passage that connects with the deep layer happens to be right next to it, so that the hordes of fungi can find that there is a controllable object nearby and temporarily come to the present world.

A question that existed for a few days was answered - Petri's lecturer and waiter who had disappeared into thin air at the dinner party. The answer came to light when Edward's "vanishing" principle was understood: paganism had mastered a way of steadily pulling people in with deep connections.

The premise is that the "spellcaster" must be nearby, and the banquet venue is deep inside Rivers University, and the guy who plays the big change must be present.

In these two incidents, there were too few people present.

【Brimmer】

I didn't expect this guy to jump out on his own. Now that I think about it, there was a precursor to his loss of control, and he left the scene with an eager attitude after the incident, which was somewhat inconsistent with his identity, but it was difficult to associate it at the time.

"Have you seen Brimmer again?"

"I heard that a body was found in that room, but I can't recognize him or not." Yvonne's eyelids drooped and he couldn't see the focus of his gaze.

"Don't be afraid, after all, it's just something that can't match swords and armor." Kraft realized that he might have asked too many questions, and tried to say comforting words but didn't know how to say appropriately, "You can think of them as some kind of beast, like wolves." ”

Yes, they also go out in groups and hunt in mushroom forests, targeting the body of their prey.

I hope I don't inflict any indelible psychological trauma on the girl, Kraft thought, Yvonne belongs to the kind of person who is not good at expressing himself, accustomed to being alone, digesting things that are difficult for adults to swallow, and has never even seen the most emotional expression of children - crying.

In his eyes, Yvonne belongs to the angel of the education world, with the studious and positive qualities that every teacher is most willing to see, and he is also the sensible child that the guardian is most willing to see, but this kind of sensibility is not based on the operation of the law of enlightenment, but a behavior pattern formed through observation that will not hurt him.

Therefore, it is better not to be blindly reassured by the apparent calm, and it is still necessary to invest in continuous attention.

Not to mention, I do feel that something is not quite right. Although Yvonne expressed the logic of the clear and correct that should be made in line with her identity, the overall performance is intuitive, and the problem itself is a problem.

"Ugh." Kraft sighed and connected to the mental organs, knowing that every time he used it, he would get closer to the depths, but there would always be times when he had to use it.

The internal structure of things shines into the mind, the consciousness absorbs the vast amount of information and sighs in satisfaction, the geometric clusters of the outline oscillate in the embedded in the arm, and the fine condensation precipitated under the skin trembles slightly.

Sweeping over Yvonne's body, and sure enough, there was a slight inflammation oozing from the bronchi. However, it is confined to the large bronchi and has not progressed down to the alveoli, which is presumably due to inhalation.

The ethereal, slender, near-humanoid object overlaps the body and is detected by the spirit. Its appearance comes from its slight "fading", which is slightly darker than its surroundings, as if it has been illuminated by some kind of dim, colorless light.

That's something you shouldn't see in a regular state, Yvonne's spirit body. The last time Kraft observed a spirit body was when Coop was deeply affected, the "fading" of the spirit body would obviously make it different from the environment within the vision of the spirit senses, and as the degree of influence deepened, it became closer to the deeper tone.

Something quite "familiar" is attached to the spiritual body, and it seems to be a source of change.

It was an equally illusory velvet mass, the loose silk threads intertwined with the thin cloud-like spirit body, like a fungus rooted in the mist. The texture of the two is indeed similar, and the contact parts are almost indistinguishable from each other.

【Fungale?】 】

In just half a day, Kraft once again felt cramping two fingers inside the left sternal edge, radiating to the diaphragm, thorax, shoulder and back, and even the posterior molars, accompanied by a perceptible carotid artery and pterygoid pulsation, and the eyeball seemed to be squeezed out by the elevated pressure from behind.

The first time I saw this thing, my spiritual senses came into contact with it, and the invisible force clamped down on the existence of nothingness, trying to separate the foreign body that was stuck to the spiritual body.

The power that penetrates the physical object is everywhere around, tearing and pulling. The stimulated fungus contracted, and reflexively tried to escape from the exertion of the spiritual senses to no avail.

However, this method of separation does not clearly define the two, such as the aggressive cancer tissue, which is similar in nature to the spirit body but the boundary is not clear, blending with each other, involving it and acting on the host at the same time, the spirit body is disrupted in large areas and is on the verge of collapse.

After observing Yvonne's rapidly deteriorating mental state, which was synchronously reflected in the corresponding locality, and drowsiness, Kraft was forced to abandon the procedure.