Krafft's Anomaly Notes

Chapter 67 The Center
It was a rather messy pile of combustion products, and its original shape could no longer be seen, although it didn't have anything that could be called "shape".

The interior is burned out, the outer carbon shell collapses, and collapses into a substance that can only be described as a "heap". If you have to use an inappropriate analogy, you did not add water when you boiled an egg, and you discovered it too late.

Stepping over the burning black debris all over the ground, bypassing the coke that burst out from small flames, the soles of the shoes were scorched hot by the residual heat of the ground.

The air here is still a bit grainy, and the dust produced by the combustion is floating around. Kraft pulled one side of his collar to cover his mouth and nose, and when he came to the large group of coke that was still smoking black smoke, he used his sword to push aside a small piece of coke. shell.

This is probably due to a certain layer of tissue with a relatively large thickness. The core has not had time to shrink when it is burned, and it retains considerable water and a little of the original structure. The combustion is not sufficient, and it even has an isolation effect. Meaningless.

Those external bone fragments that had been seen before lost their support and fell into the wreckage pile, piled up with other messy things, which brought serious difficulties to the identification work, and there was a feeling that there was no way to start.

Kraft lit another candlestick, held it to the side, and used the two small pieces of wood that it smashed just now to pick up the remains between the body and the ashes, doubting that any valuable clues could be found in it.

"Tsk."

He made a disgusted sound, no matter how he looked at it, he shouldn't be in charge of it.

Yes, he did participate in dissections and learned about burns, but no one has taught him how to deal with burns to this extent.

If the classmates from the police university next door had come to help, there might be hope.In his eyes, this is just a perfect cremation that can be packed in a box with a little more smashing.Hmm, need a big box.

Forced by the situation, Kraft decided to temporarily act as an archaeologist, slowly clearing things out of the ashes and rearranging them.

I found a part-time brush with thinner wood chips, and the dust removal started.

The first thing to be removed is the thin shell formed by the agglomeration of soft tissue. This is not difficult to distinguish. After all, there is no loose internal structure like bone tissue on its broken section, so it can be easily sorted out and placed in a single pile.

Kraft didn't have the desire to fit together like a jigsaw puzzle, but to put it aside.I have tasted enough of its outline and shape, and I am not a biologist myself, so there is no need to do it again.

These broken shells constituted the main part of the top floor, and after it was completely cleared, it truly entered the nightmarish inner structure.

What was buried in the loose ashes was the ultimate hodgepodge of torso bones plus various bone fragments.

Many of those irregular bone fragments were inlaid on the outer surface when it was still alive. Like the distorted facial features, they were discarded and wanton growth parts. .

Superman's memory helped a lot, picking out two seemingly unrelated bones from the sequential arrangement.

After adjusting the angle, their transverse bony beams can barely fit together to form a bony structure close to an arch.

He put the two bones under candlelight and looked at them again to eliminate the misjudgment caused by poor lighting. The credible fit helped him confirm the inspiration just now.

"Zygomatic arch? What kind of zygomatic arch is this?"

This is a rather distinctive sign.If you touch forward along the earhole, you can easily find a prominent bone beam that spans half of the side face.It is actually formed by the union of parts of two facial bones, the zygomatic process of the temporal bone and the zygomatic process of the temporal bone.

It also shows that the hands are two separated skulls, placed in two places that are far apart, and the shape has undergone a huge change, leaving only this mark that has not been removed.

According to this idea, Kraft continued to search, abandoning the overall shape, and instead focused on finding special signs in the bone fragments, and soon figured out a lot of intriguing things.The closer to the interior, the more obvious the shape of the found bone fragments.

As we gradually deepened, we found not only skulls that were close to the original shape, but also batches of vertebrae that were turned out step by step.

The first time it was a knot or two that went unnoticed, and then a few more pieces were found on the opposite side, which is no longer an accident.Kraft didn't move them, and continued to clean around, peeling off the debris and ashes more carefully to prevent them from being bumped.

The scope of cleaning expanded from the inside to the outside, and a certain regular arrangement appeared. These vertebrae were not randomly stuffed in. There were a lot of them, scattered in every direction, roughly radiating.

In general, the places where several vertebrae are found are all on the inside, the thoracic vertebrae are most distributed in the middle ring, and the lumbar vertebrae with wide and short plate-shaped spinous processes are outward.

In terms of quantity alone, it is impossible to come from the same spine, and the distribution is too regular to make Kraft believe that they were once complete. Before shrinking and burning, there can be several spines that conform to the actual anatomy.

Has the spinal cord ever passed through the spinal canal protected by a ring of cone holes?

According to the law of the arrangement of the spine, the possible spinal cord extends outward from the central position, and the outstretched nerves are used to control the peripheral arm-foot movement structure mainly composed of long bones.

The densely distributed bone remains, if someone has never seen the original appearance, they will definitely judge that it is a mixture of several human bones, and then they will be shocked by this fused form.

Its use of human structure is far beyond Kraft's imagination, and it is far from limited to the peripheral part, and it may even involve the central nervous system.It is also reasonable to think about it carefully. Using the same set of nerve tissues to control the homologous motor system, it is true to turn the original soup into the original food.

Since the spinal cord can be arranged outward to control the arms and feet supported by the long bones of the limbs, wouldn't it also make sense to infer the structure inward?
The more regular the skull slices were, the source pointed to the central spine, all of which brought him closer to an unbelievable inference.

[skull, center]

The place where the low-level reflex center is located like the spinal cord alone cannot command so many arms and legs, and it is enough to have reflexes. Of course, it must be equipped with a corresponding structure for the control function to control the entire body.

It looks like a... head?
Once an idea is created, everything seems to fall into place.

It is not a creature that develops from an embryo, and the process of producing its parts step by step and developing separately does not make sense.

It seems that the excessively proliferative tissue gushes out from the center, grows outwards crazily and disorderly, tears the half-formed skull, and immediately begins to expand, constructing the spine in all directions, preparing for the emergence of the movement system, and finally distorting the limbs into arms and feet, Each spinal cord is connected to the center.

Tracing down to the core, this guess was confirmed by more vertebrae, of various sizes, and Kraft even found one with an unfused sacral vertebra, which is usually only found in adolescents, Most of the other ends of the spine have synthesized a whole piece of sacrum.

It shows that their development sequence is also different, and the big and small arms and legs are issued successively.After taking shape, there are still new directions to try to grow new arms and legs.

Unlimited growth destroyed this central region that would have formed the craniofacial region.Too many arms and legs were pulled out to push away the normal flesh and bone slices, and each extra piece made it swell outwards, and eventually even the skin could not cover the whole body, turning into a mass of sarcoma.

The picked out craniofacial bones spread several large circles around Kraft, they were manufactured repeatedly to stop this trend, and the unstoppable new arms and legs protruded continuously, shaping the head into what it is today in endless destruction and remodeling. form.

"It's really scary." This scene is strikingly similar to the cancer cells known to Kraft. They grow outwards recklessly, pushing away and compressing normal tissues until they deform and shrivel, completely losing their original shape.

The difference between the arms and legs is that it can maintain its own regular growth in the unreasonable infinite growth, and the two are contradictory.

【source】

Kraft threw away the small piece of wood, took the sword and plunged down obliquely, shoveling away a pile of ashes and bones together.

He'd had enough of the stuff, and he had a hunch that there must be something special about that center, something that could explain it, the source that unleashed the wriggling thing.

Another piece was shoveled away, and it seemed to be closer. The spines here had converged to the point of huddling together, and at least a dozen of them were drilling inward around the center.

The volume of the vertebrae itself limits their density. According to this number, it is impossible for the cervical spine to be fully grown, and the space of the first few pieces must be given up to make room for the center, which is not much smaller.

"Clang." The sword hit the flat bone plate. It was a parietal bone that was almost the same in appearance as normal. The spine bypassed it and continued to converge downwards. The density became higher and higher, the spinous processes intertwined, and the space became narrower. A network of unburned ligaments.

An inexplicable feeling of dizziness and nausea surged up, it was some kind of vibration feeling, being carried up and down by the waves in the water, top-heavy.

Similar to the omen of falling or rising, disrupting his movements.The wreckage in front of me doesn't seem to be dead, the dead spines are entangled and twisted, pretending to be alive. For a while, I have the illusion of facing the arms and legs full of vision again, and when I look at it calmly, there is no change.

The blade inserted through the gap, prying away what was in the way, exposing the contents.

All the extension of the spine stops at this position, there is no vertebrae in front of it, and the first few pieces of the cervical spine do not exist.

They are surprisingly consistent in the terminating segment, and the particularly weak cervical vertebra shows a sinister and funny smile on the cross-section, stacked together.

This vicious image was drawn on the last page of "The Structure of the Human Body", and Edward, who was indistinguishable from the real and the fake, signed it.The same symbols were present in that deviant old book, in which the professor was feverishly immersed.

【fifth cervical vertebra】

Surrounded by a large number of vertebral smiles, the central system governing this malicious body was transformed into an unspeakable black and white substance, which evaporated from the pores and dried up, leaving only shrunken fragments.

A creation that is definitely not in the form of biological tissue, lying quietly on the bottom, the illusion of oscillating ups and downs is further advanced.

　Suddenly signed up. Σ(⊙▽⊙"

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