Krafft's Anomaly Notes

Chapter 125 Erosion and Forgetting

Several pieces of thick and hard objects were displaced under the bandage, and the broken edges were rough, pressing and grinding each other, and the cloth strip was obviously frustrated when it was pulled away.

Kraft feels that it doesn't look like the group of weak facial bones, especially the middle part of the bridge of the nose, which is composed of nasal septal cartilage and a pile of thin bones. Normally, it would be more shattered than a Lego dropped on the ground. Leave a shape for you.

The texture is more like a non-metallic stab-resistant visor with a certain thickness, which was smashed into several pieces by Kupu.He nodded in satisfaction, not to mention the skill, but he grasped it quickly and accurately.

The bandage-like cloth strips were rolled up several layers messily, and the dust and dirt on the surface thickened into a crust. It was obvious that it had not been replaced for a long time, and the timely patch made the image even more unfavorable.Such a serious open wound did not gushes out much blood, the liquid only wetted part of the cloth strips.

This forced Kraft to give up undoing the fabric from the front, and to feel behind the pillow, hoping to find a place where the knot would be fixed.

Going back from the top of the skull and crossing the occipital prominence, there is a dead knot stuck underneath, with no loops left, and it seems that he never thought of untying it when it was wrapped.He continued to move his hands down without understanding, trying to raise his neck, and turned the neck that seemed a bit stiff, so that he could cut the knot directly.

Under the occipital bone, near the atlantoaxial joint, there is no moving cervical spine and flesh, and a strange hard board holds it.

"what is this?"

From the occipital bone to the first and second cervical vertebrae, the entire back of the neck is protected by concatenated plates. They are stacked like tiles, small in size but poor in mobility, which causes the neck to remain intact even after it collapses. with a rigid anteversion and a convex posterior curvature.

This anti-human design seriously violates the natural shape of the spine. The restricted backward position makes the masked man arched in an uncomfortable posture, which is like being unable to straighten his neck after playing with his mobile phone for a long time.

Not only that, when Kraft tried to turn the cervical spine left and right, these hard boards showed a good fit, synchronously rotated with the neck joint, and then got stuck in this movement.

This guy also wrapped the hard board under the cloth, resulting in greater restrictions on movement. It is very likely that he cannot turn his head at all, and can only turn around to see what is behind him.

Well, in this case, there is no need to worry about scratching the skin too hard.Kraft turned over for him, drew his sword and cut a slit on the back of his neck, and the cloth was broken into pieces.After removing the occlusion, those hard boards were completely exposed to the light.

With just one glance, it can be determined that they are not armor made of special materials, but something...something that is difficult to define.

At first glance, it was a bone-like hard object, with some familiar bow plates and protruding signs mixed with other components, which swelled and broke the skin ligaments, expanding beyond the restraint.

It seems that the transverse process of the vertebral body proliferates to an incredible degree, and the two symmetrical short bony processes on both sides of the lamina elongate left and right and fold back around the neck, forming a bow-shaped, rib-like but flatter thing.

Not only that, but the junction of the upper and lower cervical vertebrae had a severe calcification that Kraft had never seen or heard of.Far from being calcified spots or calcified plaques, which are osmotic deposits of calcium salts, the entire area is transformed into inorganic matter, like being hit by the eyes of a monster that can petrify the human body, and the entire area is turned into a hard flat column.

This high degree of calcification, which cannot be explained from a biochemical point of view, made him almost suspect that the original tissue was directly replaced by rock.

The gap between the intervertebral disc and the cervical vertebrae has become blurred. Calcification spreads like an infectious disease. The accumulated inorganic matter fuses the upper and lower vertebrae into one body. Diaphragm and web-shaped bone fusion grow near the transverse bone arch.

Kraft searched his brain and couldn't find a suitable professional term to describe it, because no one had ever seen this form, let alone named it.

The extended upper and lower transverse processes are fused, and segments are hardened into large segments.The bone mineralization and discoloration turned to lifeless light yellow and off-white, and it was hard to tell whether it was someone who brought the deep-buried rock formation from the ground to the surface regardless of the shape.

And the sharpened edge of the hyperplasia is blackened like pigmentation, and the shadow-like black dissolves into the darkness without any violation.

This "human" who still has a human form—Kraft is not sure whether he should be called a human—is undergoing some kind of painful transformation, forcefully and irreversibly transforming more than twenty vertebrae and four naturally curved movable vertebrae into human beings. The carapace is segmented into several segments.

And that smashed face was not a visor, but a bone-like rock-like hard shell that replaced the skin.

A very small amount of filthy liquid flowed out from the shattered shells, red and black and corrupt, similar to the color of the traces stained by the sword blade after cutting through those human faces and jointed limbs.

If he still has nerves, the transformation process must be extremely painful. The mineralized bone invades the intervertebral foramen, compresses the spinal canal, and compresses the nerve roots.

It is equivalent to a super-doubled version of lumbar disc herniation plus bone hyperplasia, numbness, pain, and progressive paresthesias attacking day and night, like rat ants biting the limbs and trunk, accompanied by progressively aggravated movement disorders.

According to Kupp's description, he is by no means the kind of dying patient lying on the bed unable to move. Another system is driving the body, replacing the original nervous system like a metamorphosis.

One can imagine how he experienced this alienation in fear, the endless torment of illness, and death's unwillingness to come kindly, and an unreasonable species was bred in his body.

As for whether he was "recommended" to those things by Old Gorey after he believed in paganism, or he encountered misfortune in a certain depth and sought spiritual salvation in paganism, everything is unknown, and Cooper ended it for him. This tedious torture.

Forget it, even if he would rather linger on this deformed life, it is impossible to defend himself now.

The discovery of something between humans and deep creatures reminded Kraft that they can do far more than make people lose their minds and be silently swallowed, and they can also cause transformation in reverse.

"Is there anything special about him other than his appearance?" The four-faced body structure is not suitable for sports, so it has other functions that hurt Kupp, who was not captured by several pagan attackers. "But it doesn't matter, William is not an outsider."

Yes, soon they will be people who have seen ghosts together and share shares together, sharing some supernatural knowledge is nothing.

"He disappeared in front of us and appeared from behind, so I was injured on the back." Kupp felt that he should explain that he was not injured while running away with his back to the enemy. Come out the other end."

"Strange..." Maybe this transformation process gave him some special abilities, just like Kraft's spiritual senses, with different forms of expression, at a great cost, and more intuitive effects.

That's understandable, so that's not what he meant by "strange".Kraft stepped away from the carapace-covered body and touched his chin, which was itching from the cotton bandage.

After thinking for a while, he suddenly turned around, opened his arms and spun around under the light, so that his whole body could be displayed in everyone's sight.

"Help me, I seem to have forgotten something."

(End of this chapter)