Krafft's Anomaly Notes

Chapter 52 Abnormal Celestial Object

【Go out and have a look】

Once this idea of ​​death appeared, it took root in my mind and grew rapidly.Kraft never thought that he would be so brave. Under such circumstances, he could come up with such an idea and risk his life.

After eliminating the interference from the luminous monster, only the light from the small horizontal window at the top remained in the hotel, a very light, almost dim light, far from the sunlight or moonlight known to Kraft. It's not the kind of gloomy that the light is obscured by clouds on a cloudy day.

This light, with great reluctance, provides a monotonous vision, keeps the world from sinking into hopeless utter darkness, and takes no color from it to enrich itself.

Described with sensibility and Kraft's only literary talent, it can be described as "dead" light, lacking any elements, like a bowl of old grains mixed with water, the bland taste of the grains itself is not retained , just for perfunctory food, better than nothing at all.

This light is provided by a stable light source without heat, pinned to a fixed point in the sky, and no change in the angle of the light can be observed.If you make up your mind to go out, at least you don’t have to worry about the sun going down, unless you want to switch between light and dark scenes like a stage change.

To be on the safe side, Kraft is still willing to wait first, hoping to be pulled back from the deep nightmare to reality in a flash, just like the dreams he remembered or didn't remember before, there is no need to do anything extra.

Anyway, it has already consumed a lot of time, and he doesn't mind taking time out to spend another hour with this weird place, it doesn't hurt.

It is true that it is not a good thing to know nothing about this place, and you will be very passive in the next encounter, but the premise is that there will be another time.

Going out recklessly and being exposed to the empty streets is tantamount to a gamble, with visible risks and unknown benefits, and there may be no "next time" chance.

Having said that, waiting is indeed a boring thing.Kraft simply sat down against the door panel. Anyway, his clothes were much more wet than the floor, and there was no way to expect natural air drying here.

Surrounded by damp and uninteresting, he began to conceive of the next course of action.Insert the sword through the crack of the door first, push the bolt upwards to enter the room, and turn out from the big window in the room, the alley behind the hotel is outside.

The second floor is not too high, and there is waist-deep water buffer, so you don't have to worry about hitting your knee joints.

Go around to the main entrance, hold the blade of the sword, and use the gauntlet as a hammer.If you use the right force, you can knock the lock with more symbolic meaning than practical value in two clicks, and open the return passage.

The above process is as fast as 2 minutes, and the slowest is 5 minutes to open the hotel door from the outside, and the first step is completed.

If there is no accident, he can start the second step, which is the real problem.Wendeng Port is very big, which direction should we go?
In fact, what he most wanted to visit was the Salt Tide District, to find out what the deep-seated corresponding phenomenon of the large-scale contact incident was, and to explore the ultimate purpose of the perpetrators behind the clean-up.

Kraft still hasn't figured out how the person who is most likely to be a professor knows all of this, as if he was directly poured into a pile of deep knowledge, he knew what to do from the beginning, and through a simple move Let the situation unfold on its own.

After seeing the luminous monster, not only did he not feel the logic was clear, but he fell into deeper doubts because the proven part was too unimaginable.What exactly can you get from this thing?
In the incident that was cut off from the beginning, "how to know" and "why" are still shrouded in clouds and mist, shrouded in boundless haze.

To understand its behavior, it is necessary to obtain the same amount of information, and the salt tide area is an unavoidable link.

But at this water level, the entire salt tide area was already underwater, and the only thing he could see were the planks floating on the water surface. How to locate it on the water surface was a problem, and he couldn't find a boat to go to the deep water area.

No matter the size of the boats, they are all in the port, even if they are under construction, they are placed near the water. No one is so bored as to place a small boat far away from the coast to prevent the situation that only occurs in dreams.

If he wants a boat, it means that he may encounter an overhead water halfway to the port, which means he has to swim half the distance to find a boat in the port, or choose a place where the houses are widely spaced and the height is high. Be a trapeze man on the roof without waiting.

One bad choice, and another, worse choice, doesn't sound like something a sane human being could make.

Kraft sat at the door for a while, bored enough to conceive every detail of the first step, but still didn't wait for the moment when nature "woke up".He even considered what to do if he encountered the glowing creature again, and whether there was a place to hide in the kitchen.

Speaking of the kitchen, it gave Kraft some inspiration.

He doesn't necessarily need a standard boat, and he can relax his thinking a bit. Anything big enough to float can meet his needs.

Coincidentally, there is a big wooden basin in the kitchen, which is used by the boss to hold live fish, and there is no leakage when it is usually filled with water, so I just took it for a try.

Kraft returned to the ground floor, found the tub from the kitchen, rolled it sideways into the front hall, and emptied it.

I went up and smelled it, there was no fishy smell, and it looked clean.Climbing in and sitting cross-legged, the wooden tub was bouncing on the water surface, tenaciously supporting the weight of an adult, and the waterline was more than enough, so I could bring a wooden board for paddling.

He tentatively supported the edge of the basin to stand up, jumped up and down in the basin lightly, but there was no problem.The manufacturer can be regarded as the leading conscientious businessman in Wendeng Port. The souls of other worlds have never seen such a conscientious wooden basin, and they don't know what kind of fish the boss bought it for.

Aside from looking a bit childish, I can't fault this pot.

Soon, Kraft returned to the kitchen and brought back a ladle and a wooden board, which he threw into the tub.This is his "sail" ready.

Now, the plan to explore outside is basically complete, Kraft pried open the door and came to the window of the room.

He removed the wooden peg, tapped the wooden peg on the window, quickly stepped aside, pressed the sword hilt, and waited quietly.If there is something that will be attracted by the sound, give it a sword and give up trying to get out.

There was no movement outside the window, and in the extreme silence, I could only hear my slight breathing and heartbeat.

"I really hope that some god will bless me once." Kraft muttered in his heart, "Next time, I must go to the church and donate a silver coin."

【Next time for sure】

Inexplicable, yet impressive content flashes by, and the stress is relieved by some subtle humor.

Taking a deep breath, he finished the final psychological construction, opened the window with one hand, and faced this world different from the present world for the first time.

【fade】

In the dimness, the familiar scene outside the window is coated with a layer of dullness, and the faint and weak light seems to be blown away by the wind, and it is not stable attached to the surface of the object, and it feels fragile like weathered.

The usual scenery outside the window has been reduced in brightness and stripped of color, showing the tones of old murals. Force majeure has destroyed the things that human beings painstakingly created, and entered an unavoidable disgusting situation, ignoring the prosperity of the world. .

The deep layer rejects outsiders with silent expressions, showing that this place is not a place where living creatures can live, and uses significant distinctions to make them clearly realize that they do not belong here.

Kraft jumped out of the window and jumped into the water in the alley. The pure, cold sea water has no trace of any living things. I can't find a single piece of algae or marine life. It's a pity that there is such a big tide.

Walking between the houses on both sides, there is a starless dark night less than two steps wide above the head, and it is impossible to tell whether it is just like this or covered by clouds.

In the darkness, he touched the wall and leaned forward, moving forward in a half-swimming, half-walking posture, around the corner, and turned to the street in front.

At the alley leading to the street, he saw the source of the obscure light.It is fixed on the curtain-like sky, which is unexpectedly large, extremely low in brightness but without any stars.

He looked up, caught by it, attracted by the lonely and indifferent light source and texture.The special light makes it difficult to judge the distance in the sky lacking reference objects, creating the illusion of being far away and close at the same time.

The sky lacking enough luminous objects is like a fake, without a sense of openness and vastness, just like a giant rock dome turned upside down, with a heavy and abnormal sense of oppression and suffocation.

Intuitively, it is several times the size of the moon, but far less bright than the latter.The visually large area makes its surface texture easier to identify than the mare.

And those textures are not the arcs of ordinary celestial bodies, but staggered straight cracks, vertically and horizontally dividing this round surface that does not show light, and opening bottomless grooves, like skin covered with scars.

In the center, a slanting trace runs through the center, almost cutting it in half, and the indescribable colors are flickering like noise, and seem to expand to both sides.

The spirit was touched, and Kraft felt that he was not observing, but was looking at each other, and received corresponding attention. A great strange feeling swept over his body, the nasal mucosa was irritated, and a slightly sour smell spread between his lips and teeth. .

He knew it was the marginalized mental senses that were taking over other neural pathways to express the acquired signals.

By coincidence, Kraft didn't lower his head, and couldn't help but want to see it clearly. Observing the horizontal stripes of flickering colored noise is the same as observing the inner structure of a disgusting glowing creature. There is an indescribable attraction.

The senses are in confusion, the buzzing in the ears is amplified, the tip of the tongue is painful, the smell of blood is mixed with the passive taste of sour and bitter, and the somatosensory oscillation moves sideways and reverses.

Something was fading away, and his mind and body were repelled. He felt that the sky and the earth were hanging upside down, the surface of the water turned upside down, and the cracked celestial body moved downside, exerting some kind of influence on him continuously.

He felt falling, falling into the dark, lightless sky, while the water, the buildings, rose away from him.

In a blur of consciousness, Kraft found that the sense of weightlessness struck again, and his fall was unstoppable.

[another direction]

A thought flashed through him, and he fell into darkness.

(End of this chapter)