For Kraft, the most important thing to do right now is to talk to his students, but the current situation does not allow this to be put at the top of the schedule, even if Yvonne is now sitting in the next dining room and enjoying an extra breakfast.

He needed to check on the intruders who were in doubt, get a debriefing on the details of last night, calm the skeptical Dr. David and his patients, and find someone to clean up the walls and floors upstairs.

After an initial period of scare, David expressed some shame about last night's reaction, feeling that something tougher and more befitting of the owner of the clinic rather than stuffing his body into the closet like a suckling pig that walked into the oven — that's his own account.

But courage and hard-mouthed courage afterwards didn't make the hand holding the hot tea stop shaking. As a general practitioner whose life was too far away from such fierce confrontation, his lips were still a little pale, as if some of the blood in the hallway had been drawn from him.

The professor briefly comforted David, saying that he had done the right thing. In any case, a living person in a cupboard is better than a dead person appearing anywhere.

As for the dead and the dead being placed in the backyard for the time being, the nearby coffin shop should thank them for their charcoal in the snow, after all, since someone came, the store's turnover has declined to a certain extent.

Speaking of which, will Green reimburse his monks for the coffin? The strange thought jumped through my head for a moment. After all, the priest does not look like a person who is particularly well-off, and it is impossible for him to violate the precepts and use his status for personal gain, and I don't know if the Church gives them special funds for special operations.

When the lid was lifted, the strong smell of rust dissipated, and it was difficult for the mask to alleviate the discomfort.

There were no monks in it this time, and the most seriously injured of them was recuperating in a single room in the clinic, and his life was not in danger for the time being.

Of the three lying here, the relatively intact one died of a sharp wound, and the remaining two were not so decent. The one with normal body proportions lost one side of the lower jaw and frontotemporal skull, as well as the right palm.

In the obviously taller intruder with long arms, the left hypochondrium region was almost half gone, and this effect came from secondary damage, and even the alienated body structure did not save him.

Thanks to the injury, Kraft could see that his tall physique was actually "elongated", and the bones on the longitudinal axis of his body replicated the extra parts of the thoracic vertebrae, and the corresponding ribs, in the same way that the arms were lengthened.

His alienation was more pronounced, and it was a little more advanced than the previous guy who cast some kind of magic on a rainy night.

On the bent forearm, Kraft found a grayish-white foreign body, small in size, about the size of a thumb knuckle, embedded in a part that did not affect musculoskeletal movement, and was in a shallow position.

It seems to have been deliberately designed, but Kraft did not find the solid form of the black liquor, and perhaps the difference between the two is that the transformation of the last person was a side effect, and the alienation of this body was deliberately permissive.

"I think we've found out who he is." The monk in charge handed Kraft a hammer, which nearly landed on a piece of his skull.

A simple tool consisting of an iron block and a wooden handle is more appropriate than a weapon. The surface of the smooth shank has a slight trace of carbonization, and it seems that it has been in frequent contact with some hot object.

"Sparks are scattered, aren't they? A hammer for striking iron. It is not difficult to find a blacksmith shop that has closed in recent years, and the owner is still the kind with good craftsmanship, and has supplied goods to many people, including Morrison. ”

"It was probably last winter that the hostess of the shop died. The neighbors thought he was just going to live in a place that was not so easy to arouse sadness, but they didn't expect to appear here. ”

"People need to find support when their hearts are weak, and evil often takes advantage of it." The monk commented with some regret, "Maybe it's not entirely his fault. ”

"Perhaps." Clough nodded, tucking away the dull gray stone insert, "Their influence is much wider than I thought. ”

Originally thought to be just a pagan religion that spread mainly among scholars, the two raids completely changed the idea, and it was clear that the membership was more complex than expected, and had the ability to promise something to attract more people.

What's worse than paganism, and that's of course that paganism really has the ability to produce "miracles."

And it doesn't stop there, even if the ground of the city is under control, the other side has an unfettered traffic system.

A few monks gathered around the stone slabs that had been turned over in the back alley, wondering if it was time to go down and search, the filthy water had wiped out all traces, and there was no value in tracking them backwards, and they didn't know where they came from.

This was the first time that it had been confirmed that the infidels were using the sewers to a far greater extent than the rest of their counterparts, reaching their exact location like the underground palaces that ants knew about them, and the unthinkable degree of being touched by a large man with a hammer in the middle of the night.

"It's kind of outrageous." Not to mention underground, even the streets and alleys on Dunling can stun people who come for the first time, maybe staying underground for a long time has really made them develop some special skills.

"Not necessarily, have you searched the neighborhood? Maybe they entered somewhere close and only walked a short distance underneath. "Instead of starting from some secret gathering place buried deep in the depths, all the way down the underground waterways to this place.

"We will." The monks agreed, "I'm sorry for this, and I'm sure you understand that it's a protective ...... Observe. ”

They were too busy figuring out where the attackers were coming from, and they couldn't explain why a group of church people happened to be near the clinic last night and quickly dispersed.

That said, things are still very strange. Kraft had not forgotten the malicious peeping he felt when he returned from the cemetery not long ago at night, it had come from the sewers, and he had not even been able to catch his own sudden attack without warning.

It turns out that there is indeed a complex structure under Dunling that is not inferior to the ground, but now someone is using it.

The pagans showed unusual familiarity with the underground system, and it was doubtful how they had managed to find the hexagonal hall.

[There's no way there's a map, right?] 】

The more Kraft thought about it, the more he thought it was possible, but where could there be such a map that depicted such a large underground structure, and that the pagans could find and not find themselves.

The answer is still underground.

And now that the experiment is difficult to advance because of the lack of conditions, and the only thing left at hand is the clinic, instead of staying on the ground and doing some repetitive work, it is better to take the time to go to the sewers with Green in person.

Recently, the weather has been fine, which is a controllable risk, and perhaps Yvonne can be brought in by the way, so that the harsh environment and boring search work can dispel the girl's unrealistic enthusiasm for the mysterious world.

Most of the knightly squires were about the same age when they began their training, and if she was really interested in it, now was the time for the first contact, and some formal training was better than groping around in private.

Even if it doesn't work out, an apprenticeship can temporarily satisfy her desire to get involved and realize what she has to face in the future.