Multiple pieces of thick hard objects were displaced under the bandage. The broken edges were rough, and they were pressed and grinded against each other. There was obvious frustration when the cloth was pulled away.
Kraft felt that this did not look like those weak facial bones, especially the middle part of the bridge of the nose, which is composed of septal cartilage and a bunch of thin bones. Logically speaking, if it is hammered down, it will be more fragmented than Lego dropped on the ground. Don't think about it.
Leave it to you.
The texture was more like a non-metallic anti-stab visor with a certain thickness, which was smashed into several pieces by Kupu. He nodded with satisfaction, not to mention his skills, he had mastered it quickly and accurately.
The bandage-like strips of cloth were rolled up in several layers in a messy manner, with dust and dirt on the surface thick enough to form a crust. It had obviously not been replaced for a long time, and the timely replacement made the image even more ominous. There was not much blood for such a serious open wound.
It gushes out, and the liquid only wets part of the cloth strip.
This forced Kraft to give up untying the fabric from the front and feel toward the back of the pillow, hoping to find a knot there.
Along the top of the skull and back over the occipital protuberance, there was a knotted knot underneath, leaving no loose loops. It seemed that he had not thought of untying it when it was wrapped. He continued to move his hands down without understanding, and tried to caress his neck.
, turn the neck that looks a little stiff so that it can be easily cut through the knot.
Under the occipital bone, near the atlanto-axial joint, no moving cervical vertebrae or flesh could be touched, and a strange hard plate covered the place.
"What's this?"
Not only the occipital bone to the first and second cervical vertebrae, the entire back of the neck is protected by connected plates. They are like stacked tiles. They are not large but have poor mobility, causing the neck to remain in place even after collapse.
With a stiff forward and kyphotic curvature.
This anti-human design seriously violates the natural shape of the spine, and the restricted back position causes the masked person to arch in an uncomfortable posture, which can be compared to being unable to straighten his neck after playing with his cell phone for a long time.
[To be honest, I have been using Yeguoyuedu to read and catch up on books recently. I can switch sources and read aloud with many sounds. Yeguoyuedu is available for Android and Apple.]
Not only that, when Kraft tried to rotate his cervical spine left and right, these hard plates showed a very good fit, rotating with the neck joint simultaneously, and then stuck this movement.
This guy also wrapped the hard board under the cloth, which restricted his movements even more. He probably couldn't turn his head at all and could only turn around to see what was behind him.
Well, in this case, there is no need to worry about scratching the skin with too much force. Kraft turned him over, drew his sword and made a slit on the back of his neck, and the cloth strip was broken into pieces. After the cover was removed, those hard
The board is completely exposed to light.
With just one glance, one can determine that they are not armor made of special materials, but rather... something that is difficult to define.
At first glance, it was a hard object like a bone, with some arches and plates that looked familiar but mixed with other components, protruding marks, swelling and breaking the skin ligaments, and expanding beyond restraint.
For example, the transverse processes of the vertebral body proliferate to an incredible extent. These two symmetrical short bony processes on both sides of the vertebral arch plate are elongated and reflected around the neck, forming an arch, something like a rib but flatter.
Not only that, the connection between the upper and lower cervical vertebrae had severe calcification that Kraft had never seen or heard of. It was far more than just calcification points or calcification plaques, such as infiltration and deposition of calcium salts, but a complete transformation into inorganic matter.
, as if being hit by the gaze of a monster that can petrify the human body, the whole piece of land turned into a hard flat pillar.
This high degree of calcification that cannot be explained from a biochemical perspective 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 unclear. Calcification spreads like an infectious disease. The accumulated inorganic matter fuses the upper and lower vertebral bodies into one body. Diaphragms have grown near the transverse bone arch, and webbed bones have fused.
.
Kraft searched his mind and couldn't find a suitable professional word 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 sections are plated into large segmented shapes. The bone is mineralized and discolored, turning into a lifeless yellowish and grayish white. Regardless of the shape, it is hard to tell whether someone removed the deeply buried rock formations from the ground.
Bring to the surface.
The sharpened edges of the hyperplasia are blackened like pigmentation, and the shadow-like black melts into the darkness without any contradiction.
This “person” with a human form—Craft was not sure whether he should call it a human—is undergoing some kind of painful transformation, forcibly and irreversibly combining more than twenty vertebrae and four naturally curved movable vertebrae.
It turns into several segmented carapace.
And the smashed face was not a visor, but a hard shell that looked like bone and rock instead of skin.
A very small amount of filthy liquid flowed out from between the broken shells. It was red, black and rotten, similar in color to the traces stained by the sword blade after it cut open those human faces and limbs.
If he still has nerves, the transformation process will 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 double version of lumbar disc herniation plus bone hyperplasia, numbness, pain, and progressive paresthesia that come day and night, like rats and ants biting the limbs and trunk, accompanied by progressively worsening mobility impairment.
According to Cupp's description, he was definitely not the kind of dying patient lying on the bed unable to move. Another system was driving the body, replacing the original nervous system like a metamorphosis.
One can imagine how he fearfully experienced this kind of alienation, the endless torment of illness, and the fact that death was reluctant to come mercifully, and an incomprehensible species was born in his body.
As for whether he was "recommended" to those things by Old Goli after embracing paganism, or whether he encountered misfortune in a certain depth and sought spiritual salvation that did not exist in paganism, everything is unknown. Kupp ended it for him
This lengthy torture.
Forget it, even if he would rather linger on in this abnormal life, he wouldn't be able to stand up and defend now.
The discovery of something between humans and deep creatures reminded Kraft that they can do far more than just make people lose their minds and be swallowed silently, but they can also cause transformation in the opposite direction.
"Is there anything special about him other than his appearance?" His body structure is not very suitable for sports, so he has other functions that injured Kupu, who was not taken down by several pagan attackers.
"But it doesn't matter, William is not an outsider."
Yes, soon they were people who had seen ghosts together and shared shares together. Sharing some supernatural information was nothing.
"He disappeared from in front of us and appeared from behind, so I was injured in the back." Coop felt that he should explain that it was not that he was injured when his back was turned to the enemy while escaping. "It was as simple as crawling into an invisible hole and then emerging from the back."
Come out the other end."
"Strange..." Perhaps this transformation process gave him some special ability, just like Kraft's spiritual senses. The expressions are different, the cost is huge, and the effect is more intuitive.
This is understandable, so that's not what he meant by "strange". Kraft walked away from the carapace-covered body and touched his chin, which was a little itchy from the cotton bandage.
After thinking briefly, he suddenly turned around, opened his arms and spun around in the light, letting everyone see his whole body.
"Help me take a look, I seem to have forgotten something."