It is not difficult to notice the strangeness of the sleeves. They fluctuate rhythmically, which is particularly disharmony on the bone-shaped body wrapped in black robes.
Kraft drew his sword and stabbed it straight into the palm of his hand, accidentally passing through it.
This is not a normal phenomenon. The skin and muscles surrounding the bones have disappeared, replaced by a substance with almost no resistance, flowing slowly around the edge of the blade, causing subtle tremors of biting, grinding, and twisting and clinging.
He stopped Green's move to pour oil, twisted the blade of the sword, and slit the entire sleeve lengthwise to the armpit of the robe.
This body was undoubtedly dead, and it was difficult to judge the specific time of death from Kraft's perspective. It was in a special state like drying in the shade, with the water-filled fat being dissociated, and the long and thin muscle bundles attached to it.
On the surface of the left upper limb skeleton with four curved feet, the cortex is contracted to form longitudinal folds.
However, the clear texture and pores are preserved, vividly frozen at the moment when life passes.
The complete opposite is the palm, as if all the passing life has been gathered here, condensed to the point where it is on the verge of saturation and the skin melts into bones.
The boundaries between tissues became blurred, retreating to a poorly differentiated state, beating like a fetal heart, forming the undulations they saw under the sleeve.
The slender fingers melted and spread out, as if they were webbed palms, flowing like nearly boiling paste on the iron plate, filling the newly carved gap.
Among the surging creatures, several hard objects of different sizes were lifted up. They were pale stone fragments, emitting a dim glow that was better than nothing but could not be concealed by torch lighting.
Calcified nodules rapidly precipitate, condense into irregular tooth-like structures, rub and bite, and crush the nearest dry tissue into themselves.
Kraft raised his sword and slashed across the shoulder, cutting off half of the limb. The second slash came through the same incision and completely severed the limb. He didn't want to watch this thing completely swallow up the remains that might contain clues.
dropped it, and then discovered that there was new feed nearby.
There was no blood gushing out from the incision, and the body fluids dried up as expected. Oily, viscous black liquid seeped out from the blood vessels, condensed into liquid and drooped down.
The seepage was so slow that Kraft used his body to block his view behind him and took out a new bottle to catch the liquid.
The fluid and non-condensing state reveals its identity, a fully activated black liquid.
It is almost synonymous with attraction, and the active and dangerous biomass on the ground did not stop the surrounding eyes from shifting towards the black flow in the bottle until it was covered by a bag.
The amount of liquid was very small, and Kraft quickly completed the collection, dragged the remains aside, away from the shapeless mass, and cut the robe completely to rummage through his belongings.
Tweezers, vascular forceps, a long needle, and a leather-bound booklet with a buckle.
There is a layer of oil on the surface of the cover, and the back is slightly cracked. It must have been turned over frequently, and the scrawled writing is interspersed with ink marks and mottled stains.
"What is it?" Green waved away the torch that occasionally scattered sparks, and used a lantern to help illuminate the page.
"It seems to be a notebook, anatomy notes." Kraft flipped through a few pages and understood the contents. The time span was quite long, and the first few pages were already dated three years ago.
What was recorded was the dissection of a dead infant. A strange piece of tissue that had never been seen in adults was found in the front of the upper mediastinum. He marked the location and general shape with a simple sketch, and noted that it should be removed next time.
Pay attention to this area.
And then...then the next autopsy was three months later, and he couldn't get another subject of the same age.
"What does it say?"
"Say that your work is very successful." Kraft continued to turn the pages. According to this recording frequency, the book cannot be that thick.
Although the practice frequency is very low and the handwriting is not very good-looking, the attitude and professionalism of the note owner are still commendable. The logic and description accuracy are very good, and the level has reached a level that allows Kraft to quickly confirm the identity of his peers.
The author's vocabulary has become a habit, and he can fill in rare and proper nouns in the appropriate places without thinking, without stopping.
It seems that they have already considered that the notes may fall into the hands of other people. There is no signature in them, but the identity can basically be locked to a small range without reading.
"Those who are in the medical school, not students, can lead anatomy at this level are at least lecturers, but it is more likely that they are still lecturers, and those professors should practice more frequently."
Looking through the first few dissections, the subsequent recording intervals began to become shorter about a year ago, to the point of being almost weekly, and the content quickly became more detailed and no longer limited to dissections.
There is a very rare neat handwriting in the booklet, which records step by step how they bypassed the arm muscle bundles and cleaned up a complex fracture of the upper arm while avoiding damage to blood vessels based on the experience gained from previous dissections.
Kraft could imagine the scene. The surgeon would need to separate the tissues layer by layer, use retraction hooks to retract the tendons, expose the underlying fracture site, check the blood vessels, clean the broken bones and reset the backbone. Traction reduction on the body surface was not yet common.
At the moment, it is a pioneering and advanced operation.
The most important thing is that this takes a long time and requires a stable environment.
The follow-up can be seen in the records a week later. The operation failed. The patient developed high fever after the operation. Some bone fragments were missing, causing the joint to become unstable. The radial side of the palm lost sensation and motor ability, and the patient was unable to continue his blacksmithing work.
Seeing this, Kraft sighed. He didn't know enough about nerves, and it was difficult to heal after a large area of bone was missing. This was basically an unsolvable problem, and no matter how hard he tried, it was useless.
Unfortunately, they really tried a variety of options, including backfilling with bone fragments and substituting other materials.
The most sophisticated example is in patients with syphilis, who tried to carve animal bones to replace the fractures caused by the bacteria.
The result this time was even worse. It should be due to incomplete disinfection, coupled with the fact that the patient's basic conditions had deteriorated to a certain extent due to long-term pain and suffering. Postoperative complications directly relieved the patient from pain.
Under the blow of repeated failures, you can feel that the recorder is driving crazy, and even comes to the conclusion that even with the help of that unknown source of magical medicine, complex surgeries are basically impossible.
This means that the anatomical development that has been achieved at great cost over a long period of time may not be approaching the end of curing patients, but rather it will be in vain.
"They have gone too far." Even if black liquor is used as a shortcut to solve the anesthesia problem, the rest is a dead end. The problem of the limitations of the times is not a problem of people.
However, the style of the next record changed. They found the patient who had failed for the first time and tried some kind of "new filling material."
There was no fever, no lingering recovery, and even the lost mobility and consciousness returned to the affected limb.
There is only one small problem. The patient seems to have less serious auditory hallucinations.
"Down below, I heard people talking to me in the sewers, many people."