On the way to report his work, Kraft met Martin who was also waiting. Both of them only had time to change their clothes, and came wearing muddy boots with their hair messed up by the wind and dust.
But what I stepped on was not the inner castle carpet.
They followed the attendants into the tower on the blocked mountain road. The continuous coughing sounds were poured into the lower floors by the cold wind from high altitude, making people worried about the condition of the owner of the sounds. On the top floor of the tower, the Duke in chainmail pressed against the parapet and looked down from time to time.
A building with people entering and exiting,
The attendant reported the arrival of the visitor and quickly stepped away, but did not go far. He stood a few steps away and paid close attention to the Duke's condition.
"I'm glad to see you all again." He turned around, his face as cold and wrinkled as a cliff showing no mental activity, "But we have lost some people forever."
"Including Internal Affairs Officer Wilbert. The last time we met, I thought I could see him before dinner, but the fate given to mortals by Heavenly Father is always cruel. Fortunately, I have got used to it."
Kraft didn't need to look to know that Martin's face must be ugly.
"So please tell me if you have found the guys who caused this."
There was anger burning in his slightly cloudy eyes, but he controlled his emotions very well, which only made the people facing him feel even more stressed.
"We found the lair of paganism and burned their evil creations and idolatry together." Martin held up a corner of the mural taken from behind the church pulpit, with lifelike alien limbs of angels on the indigo background.
stretch.
"And their leader received an end worthy of his evil deeds."
The Duke took a look at the mural, and he couldn't help but feel disgusted and repulsed by the twisted and evil shapes in it. He waved his hand for Martin to take it down.
"This is exactly what I want to hear. Take it down later and burn it with those things. Don't leave anything behind this time." Hearing this means that the matter has been revealed, and there is no intention to pursue the abnormality before.
The corpse of a believer left in the castle.
"Even if you are born or raised during the war, you will encounter things you have never heard of. People should not bear the price of situations that are impossible to predict... But I hope you can learn a lesson.
"Definitely." Martin quickly nodded in agreement. Kraft felt that if it wasn't too rude, the knight might hold the Duke's lap and cry and swear an oath. In any case, it is great to see that he has not been held responsible.
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He waited for a while and felt that they did not intend to talk about the relationship between the king and his ministers, so it was time for him to report.
After sorting out the drafts he had made along the way, Kraft had already prepared a set of arguments, including how to dispel the Duke's thoughts when he asked himself whether these things could be applied to the war.
"Your Excellency, please allow me to describe to you what I see from my personal professional perspective."
"This is a special disease-causing mechanism similar to the way the plague spreads, using bacteria as a medium. We encountered some bodies driven like zombies, all covered with bacteria, and secret settlements of pagans
A variety of mushrooms were also found that were extremely luxuriant."
"This is consistent with the previous scene where Diego Cavalier was murdered. Combining the two, I think the growth density of mushrooms that is obviously different from normal can be used as a characteristic judgment standard."
"The change in your condition may have come from eating contaminated raw meat while passing through the Hudson Town Manor. The development of paganism in the local area has reached the point of occupying churches. It is difficult to say whether all this is intentional.
The design was an accident.”
The Duke listened silently, then looked at the building below. Masked soldiers were taking some bright and unusual things out of it and setting up a bonfire in the open air.
"I want to take back what I said before, Knight Kraft. Although you are not quite like your ancestors, you have indeed inherited the most important things." He tightened the collar lined with cotton armor, coughed repeatedly, and vomited from behind.
What was lost, "is the same as what you see here, and you may not guess to what extent this paganism has corrupted Westminster."
"Brimmer, a professor at Rivers University and a disciple of Viscount Fernand, drowned in those abominable mushrooms. The soldiers found a tattoo of a circle 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 affect his lungs again, causing several coughs. "It's far away. Please continue, Knight Kraft."
"As you can see, this method of allowing bacteria to grow vigorously will eventually turn people into zombie-like things. Since the pagan leaders who know the inside story can no longer speak, 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 argument that Kraft was about to come up with. Not only did he not consider using it, he didn't even want to understand it.
"In an age when everyone is willing to use any 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."
"The pagan's little trick will sooner or later play with fire and burn himself to death."
"Of course, it would be great to burn them clean." Kraft breathed a sigh of relief. It was no accident that some people could live for so long.
"So am I going to end up like those things? If so, I'd better start preparing the wood now."
"Well, your condition is probably not that serious. If you don't mind, can you come back indoors and let me check you again? It's not a good thing to blow the wind here with your physical condition." The attendant's nervousness was as the Duke coughed.
The frequency has skyrocketed, and the only people 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 piles have been set up, and the sergeants holding torches looked up, obviously knowing that the owner of the castle was watching here. After receiving the gesture order, they lit the wood piles one by one.
The black smoke from the ignited flames engulfed the beautiful things, and some strange smells rose up with the heat. 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.
The strongest wind stood there for a while.
"Goodbye, Wilbert." He whispered, leaving the edge of the tower and walking down the stairs, followed by everyone.
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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 a physical examination, he turned on his mental senses and scanned the entire lungs. In the last tuberculosis cavity, he found the sphere that was slightly smaller than the inner diameter of the cavity.
Unlike Yin Feng's situation, the Duke's mental body is in a normal invisible state, which shows that he has not been deeply infected.
The sphere is not a void, but a real substance, a spherical lesion formed by fungal infection, which is consistent with the pathological description of tuberculosis combined with Aspergillus infection.
"Sir, I will try to touch your lesions for examination, which may induce some symptoms."
"I'm ready," the Duke replied with his eyes closed.
Kraft pressed the hollow position and tapped lightly on the body surface, but the mycelium ball was unmoved. The second tap increased the force, and 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.
, seems to be using this to detect changes in the surroundings.
The controller was also exposed. This time he clearly felt the active bacteria inside, and the surrounding hyphae arranged along the bronchioles also caused a commotion and triggered a cough reflex.
And when the spirit presses on the fungi and tries to exert influence, the hyphae throughout the body are activated at the same time, and then the fever and convulsions seen before are triggered, and even the hypothalamus finds a small amount of suspicious filaments. There is a reason
It is suspected that the sudden onset of high fever is caused by the control of the body temperature center.
It was a completely different parasitic pattern than Yin Feng's, but it had to be said that this was the correct style of bacterium, which made Kraft more and more confused about the cause of Yin Feng's illness.
However, one of them hijacks the mental body, and the other threatens the physical body. They both achieve the purpose of hijacking the host to refuse treatment, and achieve the same goal through different routes.
[Have to change my mind]
Yin Feng's spiritual problem cannot be solved, but the parasitism on the material level is not necessarily impossible.
Since this thing can move and migrate between tuberculosis cavities, is there any way to "persuade" it to come out on its own, such as...making the space in the lungs less suitable for survival?