Krafft's Anomaly Notes

On the way to the debriefing, Kraft ran into Martin who was also waiting.Both of them only had time to change their clothes. With their hair messed up by the wind and dust, they came forward wearing mud-spotted boots.

But it wasn't the inner castle carpet.

They followed the attendants into the tower on the blocked mountain road, and the continuous coughing sound was blown into the lower floor by the high-altitude cold wind, which made people worry a little about the condition of the voice owner.On the top floor of the tower, the duke in chain mail leaned against the parapet, looking down at the buildings below where people came in and out from time to time,

After the attendant reported the arrival of the audience, he stepped back quickly, but did not go far, standing a few steps away and paying close attention to the Duke's state.

"It's good to see you again." He turned around, no mental activity could be seen on his face, which was as cold as a cliff, "but we lost some people forever."

"Including Officer Wilbert, the last time I met him, I thought I could see him before dinner, but the destiny given to mortals by the Heavenly Father is always cruel. Fortunately, I am used to it."

Kraft didn't need to look to know that Martin's face must be very ugly.

"So please tell me if you guys found the guys who did this."

There was anger burning in his slightly cloudy eyes, but he restrained his emotions well, which made the person facing him feel even more stressed.

"We have found the lair of the pagans and burned their wicked creations with their idolatrous idols." Martin held up the corner of the fresco taken from behind the pulpit of the church, the lifelike limbs of alien angels against the background of indigo. stretch.

"And their chief, received an end commensurate with their evil deeds."

The Duke glanced at the mural, and he couldn't help feeling disgusted and repulsed by the twisted and evil shape in it, and waved his hand to signal Martin to take it down.

"That's exactly what I want to hear. I'll take it down later, and burn it up with those things, and don't leave anything behind this time." Listening to this means that the matter has been exposed, and there is no intention to pursue the previous crime. The dead bodies of believers were left in the castle.

"Even people who were born and raised in the war will encounter unheard of things, people should not pay the price for the impossible to predict... But I hope you can learn the lesson.

"Definitely." Martin quickly nodded in agreement, and Kraft felt that if it hadn't been too rude, the knight might hug the Duke's thigh and cry bitterly to swear an oath.Anyway, it's great to see he's not being held accountable.

He waited for a while, and felt that they didn't mean to have a scene where the monarch and his ministers get along, so it was time for him to report the time next.

After going through the drafts that he had typed all the way, Kraft had already prepared a set of arguments, including how to dissuade him when the Duke asked himself whether these things could be used in war.

"Your Excellency, please allow me to describe to you what I see personally and professionally."

"This is a special pathogenic mechanism similar to the way the plague spreads, using mushrooms as the medium. We encountered some bodies driven like walking corpses, all overgrown with mushrooms, and the hidden settlements of paganism Various mushrooms were also found in abundance."

"This is consistent with the previous scene where Diego Cavalier was killed. Combining the two, I think the mushroom whose growth density is obviously different from normal can be used as a characteristic judgment standard."

"The change in your condition may have been caused by eating contaminated raw cut white-bellied mushrooms while passing through the Hudson Township estate. Paganism has grown to the point of encroaching on the church, and it is difficult to say whether it was intentional Design was accidental."

The Duke listened silently, and then looked towards the building below. Masked soldiers were moving some bright and unusual things out of it, and set up a bonfire in the open air.

"I want to take back what I said before, Knight Kraft. Although you don't look like your ancestors, you have indeed inherited the most important things." He tightened his collar lined with cotton armor, coughed repeatedly, and vomited on his back. What's missing, "It's the same here, and you probably won't guess how much this cult has rotted Westminster."

"Blimmer, a professor at Rivers University and a disciple of Viscount Fernand, drowned in those hideous mushrooms. The soldiers found a ring tattoo on his back."

"Poor Fernand, I don't know if I should hide the truth from him. He may not be able to bear such a big blow."

He shook his head and sighed, this action seemed to stretch his lungs again, causing him to cough a few times, "It's too far away, please continue, Knight Kraft."

"As you can see, this method of making mushrooms grow vigorously will eventually transform people into corpse-like things. Since it is impossible for pagan leaders who know the inside story to speak again, I will stop at the principle Guess, maybe..."

"No, I don't want to know these things, and I advise you not to delve into it." The Duke blocked the set of arguments that Kraft was going to use to fool him. Not only did he not consider using it, he even didn't want to understand it.

"In the years when everyone is willing to use all means to kill each other, as long as you live long enough, you will see some unusual things. At this time, the church people can't say anything useful, except for one sentence ,I agree."

"A heathen's trick, sooner or later he will play with fire."

"Of course, it would be great to burn them clean." Kraft heaved a sigh of relief. It is not accidental that some people can live so long.

"So do I end up like those things too? If so, I'd better start prepping the wood now."

"Uh, your condition is probably not that serious. If you don't mind, can you go back indoors and let me check you again? Given your physical condition, it is not a good thing to wind here." The attendant's tension was following the Duke's cough The frequency has skyrocketed, and the only ones who are suitable for persuasion here are doctors.

"No, wait a little longer." The Duke rejected the suggestion, and returned to the parapet, overlooking the platform below.

The bonfire wood stacks had already been set up, and the sergeant holding the torch looked up, obviously knowing that the owner of the castle was watching.After receiving the gesture command, they lit the pyre one by one.

The ignited flames and black smoke engulfed the colorful things, and some strange smells rose with the heat, and the parts that were not blown away by the wind could be smelled at the top of the tower, making people sick.The Duke didn't seem to smell it, and stood for a while at the vent with the strongest smell.

"Goodbye, Wilbert." He whispered, leaving the edge of the tower and going down the stairs, followed by everyone.

……

In the hearth-burning room of the Inner Castle, Kraft had a second chance to inspect the duke.

This time, no one was around to criticize his etiquette.While conducting the physical examination, he turned on his mental senses and scanned the entire lungs.The sphere slightly smaller than the inner diameter of the cavity was found in the last nodule cavity.

Unlike Yvonne's situation, the Duke's mental body is in a normal invisible state, which shows that he has not been deeply affected.

The sphere is not a void, but a real substance, a spherical lesion formed by fungal infection, which conforms to the pathological description of tuberculosis with Aspergillus infection.

"Your Excellency, I will try to touch your lesion for inspection, which may induce some symptoms"

"I'm ready." The Duke replied with his eyes closed.

Kraft pressed the hollow position and tapped on the body surface, but the mycelium ball remained unmoved.The second tap increased the force, the muffled sound could be heard throughout the room, the vibration impact was felt, and the velvet scattered on the surface of the sphere swayed slightly, as if to detect changes in the surroundings.

The controller was also exposed because of this, this time he clearly felt the active bacteria inside, and the hyphae arranged along the bronchioles around him also produced a commotion and induced a cough reflex.

And when the mind presses the germazim and tries to exert influence, the hyphae all over the body are simultaneously activated, and then the fever and convulsion symptoms seen are triggered, and even a small amount of suspicious filaments are found in the hypothalamus. It is suspected that the sudden high fever is caused by the control of the body temperature center.

The parasitic mode is completely different from Yvonne's, but it has to be said that this is the correct style of germazim, which makes Kraft more and more confused about the cause of Yvonne's illness.

However, one of them coerces the spirit body, and the other threatens the body, and they both achieve the purpose of coercing the host to refuse treatment, and they reach the same goal by different routes.

【I have to change my mind】

Yvonne's mental problems cannot be solved, and the parasitism on the material level is not necessarily unsolvable.

Since this thing will move and migrate between the tuberculosis cavities, is there any way to "persuade" it to come out by itself, for example... making the space in the lungs less suitable for survival?