Krafft's Anomaly Notes

Chapter 53 Liston

"Craft, Kraft, are you there?"

Holding a stack of medical records, Liston knocked on the professor's room, which was occupied by doves and magpies. His knuckles tapped on the thick solid fir, making a dull echo.

An indistinct echo came from the other end of the corridor, as if another door was visited at the same time, and an invisible visitor walked with him.The architectural style of the college is taken from the church. There are many long corridors and halls in the building, with winding and spiral passage stairs between them, which also inherits the effect of empty reverberation.

The lamps and candles of St. Simon's Church are always bright, and the hymns are chanted endlessly. The natural reverberation is very holy.But moving to the college seems too big and inappropriate. Every time at dawn and night when there are few people, the echo changes from near to far like someone is following, but when you look back, it is empty again, creating the opposite atmosphere instead.

Liston didn't like this kind of atmosphere, it always reminded him of some ghost legends floating in his subconscious, especially when he left alone after the autopsy in the middle of the night, he lost his mind and went the wrong way for a while, and the echo came from behind, which could hold his hand The tool scares the ground.

Except for the necessary lectures, most of the time was spent in the clinic outside, and he would not stay in the academy unless he performed an autopsy with Kallman.If Lucius hadn't come for two days in a row, he wouldn't have come to find someone in person in the evening.

There was no response from behind the door, and he hesitated for a while. He knew that Kraft was very busy, and sometimes he might fall asleep at the desk. If that was the case, it would not be the right time.

Just as Liston was hesitating, the door was suddenly pulled open from the inside, and a brown-haired head poked out from behind the door, it turned out to be Lucius.

"Lecturer Liston?" Lucius stepped aside, let Liston in, and then closed it behind him, "Please come in, you came just in time."

Liston put down the medical records on the table. The manuscripts on the table had not been cleared away, and the person who was supposed to be sitting in the chair was not here.He turned his head to ask about Kraft's whereabouts, but saw Lucius put the latch on the door, and with a nervous look on his face, he asked the question he wanted to ask.

"Have you seen Lecturer Kraft?"

"What?" Liston was puzzled.If anyone in the academy should know the answer to this question, it is definitely Lucius himself, not his long-term wandering lecturer.

I came here today to pass on the medical records filled in with detailed information in the new format. I didn’t expect to be robbed as soon as I entered the door. I didn’t expect this confusing problem.

Based on the conversation two days ago, he still vaguely guessed what might have happened, "You guys really went to the salt tide area?"

"Yes, we confirmed that a well in the salt tide area was contaminated, but not sure why."

"And then? Don't tell me Kraft is missing inside." The most likely that Liston can think of is this, but there is no need to close the door and tell him alone.According to his long-term experience in communicating with patients, this shows that he has not found the key.

The manuscript on the table has not been sorted out, and there is still half a page waiting to be continued, as if the person will push the door open and continue to work at the desk.

"No, of course not, Kraft came out together. We had an appointment to go before noon today, but it's already evening..." Lucius unconsciously rubbed the leather of the bird's beak mask in his hand, and walked back and forth in the room walk around.

Something is wrong, this description does not match the expression of anxiety and nervousness at all.Liston pulled a chair and sat down, and put on a speech therapy posture. He concluded that the kid must have only spoken half of the sentence, and the hidden half was not simple.

Kraft has always been a rigorous person, and generally would not let others go, but he was so anxious about missing an appointment once, who could be deceived by making things so simple?

He pulled out another chair and gave it to Lucius, sat down on his shoulders, and took the beak mask that was about to be crumpled.What I thought in my heart was what was going on, and I wanted to keep it from others, not even myself.

"Lucius, did I do anything wrong? You don't trust me so much." Liston stared into Lucius' eyes and met his gaze, as if he was forcing a patient who concealed his medical history to tell the truth.

"Of course not." Lucius quickly denied, avoiding his gaze, this guilty action could not be hidden from Liston's eyes.

"Well, I can't help you if you are like this. If Kraft just misses the appointment for half a day, I suggest you wait until tomorrow. After all, who is not in a hurry?"

It was impossible to force Lucius to speak out as a lecturer. Liston knew very well that if he put some pressure on it and then expressed that he did not want to participate, Lucius' inner anxiety and desire to express would make him take the initiative to find someone to share.

Liston didn't get up, leaned back in the chair and looked at Lucius with a troubled expression, "If there's nothing else, I'll go back first, and when I see Kraft, remember to remind him that I brought the rewritten medical records. "

Lucius crossed his fingers, almost twisted into a twist, and squeezed out a few words, "We have some strange discoveries."

"Ok?"

"It's impossible for him not to come. We found that there may be a problem with a well, which caused the surrounding residents to wake up later and later." After talking, Lucius seemed to relax a little. is uncomfortable.

"What's the problem? The baker I met here doesn't go fetching water in the salt tide."

Liston had a bad premonition that his own case had become a small hole, from which Kraft saw something great, and it seemed to be a big bad thing.

"Kraft insists that there is a relationship. He...behaves a little strangely." Lucius found a template in Kraft's description of Kalman, and it fits Kraft himself.

There are relationships?Liston's heart sank. It was because of the increased sleep time and difficulty in waking up. If there was a relationship, he immediately thought of Lucius' earliest guess, which was also the least supported by Kraft and him.

Lucius didn't know that he had almost revealed the secret in a few words, and he was still thinking about how to avoid black liquid as much as possible.

Seeing Liston frowned, he blurted out the question directly to the core, "Is it Chengming? Why is it Chengming?"

Lucius' complexion changed drastically, and he panicked. Only then did he realize that as long as he said it, he couldn't hide it from Liston at all.

Seeing his reaction like this, Liston knew that he was almost right.He looked at the large stack of medical records on the table, and gasped, thinking that he had performed so many operations using Chengming, all the cases might be piled up at least three times as much as here.

"I don't know, he just stayed by that well for a while, and suddenly he insisted that it was Chengming, and..." Lucius hesitated to speak.He actually agreed that Kraft felt that the professor's words and deeds were weird, but thinking about it now, Kraft's behavior was also very abnormal.

"What else?" Liston couldn't sit still, he couldn't care less about maintaining his image as an outsider, and leaned forward to press Lucius.

"You know Kraft has a sword, right? He slashed back like he was fighting something, but there's nothing there but a plank."

"Hysteria?"

"Probably? He was sober at the time, and his logic was very clear." In retrospect, Lucius vaguely noticed some kind of coincidence, rational and sober, but acting strangely.

The ambiguous words muddied the logic of the whole matter, as if Kraft had gone mad at a well in a salt tide area, thinking that someone would pour the clearing potion into the well.

"Lucius, do you know what you're talking about? Are you implying that I, Kraft, is mentally insane, and that the clarification potion we strictly control used ran into the well in the salt tide area?"

A large stack of medical records was still piled up on the table, and such a thing happened right away, Liston felt like a clown, performing a comedy for the audience, "Except for the three of us, who can touch Chengming? "

Lucius dodged his gaze again, leaned back to distance himself, and denied it more firmly than before, "No."

Seeing his appearance, Liston wished he could go up and beat him up.As a doctor, the most annoying thing is to ask for help and hide the truth. During these years of running a clinic outside, I just developed the ability to read words and emotions.

If you say no, but dare not look at yourself, then there is?Liston gave up digging out more information from Lucius, and instead analyzed the relationship by himself.

On the surface, there were only three people who were in contact with the clarifying potion, Kraft, Lucius, and himself. According to his deduction, it was absolutely impossible.Not only Lucius, Kraft also has something to hide from him.

At the beginning, the explanation of the clarification potion was a family secret medicine, but Kraft casually admitted that there were more than one, but he did not admit that it was his own achievement.

Then there is a fourth person, or even more, both Kraft and Lucius know him, and there is a high probability that they are familiar with him.

This is interesting. Kraft has just arrived, and his interpersonal relationship is not complicated, and his interpersonal relationship with Lucius overlaps even less.

Liston felt that he was getting close to the truth, and he liked the process of peeling off cocoons, just like inferring the cause through fragmentary symptoms during an interrogation.

First of all, exclude other lecturers. Among the lecturers, you are the one who is closest to these two people; it is possible for the students in the college, but it is not very likely, because this person is Lucius who will try his best to pick out in an emergency. , and very decisive.

Liston knew only one person who met all the conditions, Professor Kallman who had left.

The water here is very deep.

Liston stood up, covered his mouth and coughed to cover his expression, but his eyes stayed on Lucius, making sure he didn't notice what he had discovered.

"Do you know where Kraft lives?"

Lucius was right in saying that Kraft's disappearance was not normal.

Instead of continuing to waste time here with Lucius, it is better to find Kraft who has found something. He believes that Kraft will give him an answer, even if he can't find it, it is an answer.

"Uh, I remember a house provided by the tutor, but I went to find it, and the neighbor said that no one lived there." Lucius was at a loss, this was the first time he went to find Kraft outside the academy, and the result was that I missed it.

"Then let's ask. I don't believe that no one sees which direction Kraft came from every day." Liston pulled Lucius up, and the sun was setting outside the window, "Let's go, it's getting late."

(End of this chapter)