Krafft's Notes on Anomalies

Several thick pieces of hard objects were displaced under the bandage. The broken edges were rough, and they were pressed and grinded against each other. There was obvious frustration when the strips of cloth were pulled away.

Kraft felt that this didn't look like those weak facial bones, especially the middle bridge of the nose, which is composed of septal cartilage and a bunch of thin bones. Logically speaking, it would be more fragmented than a piece of Lego dropped on the ground with a hammer. Don't think about it. Leave it to you.

The texture was more like a non-metallic anti-stab visor with a certain thickness, which was smashed into several pieces by Kupu. He nodded with satisfaction. Regardless of his skills, he had mastered it quickly and accurately.

The bandage-like cloth strips were rolled up in several layers in a messy manner, and the dust and dirt on the surface formed a thick crust. It was obvious that it had not been replaced for a long time, and the timely replacement made the image even more ominous. For such a serious open wound, not much blood came out, and the liquid only wetted part of the cloth.

This forced Kraft to give up untying the fabric from the front and feel toward the back of the pillow, hoping to find a knot there.

Along the top of the skull and back over the occipital protuberance, there is a knotted knot underneath, leaving no loose loops. It seems that no one thought about untying it when it was wrapped. He continued to move his hand down without understanding, trying to stroke his neck and turn the stiff neck so that he could cut the knot directly.

Under the occipital bone, near the atlanto-axial joint, no moving cervical vertebrae or flesh could be touched, and a strange hard plate covered the place.

"What's this?"

Not only the occipital bone to the first and second cervical vertebrae, but also the entire back of the neck is protected by connected plates. They are like stacked tiles. They are small in size but have poor mobility, causing the neck to remain intact after collapse. With a stiff forward and kyphotic curvature.

This anti-human design seriously violates the natural shape of the spine. The restricted recline causes the masked person to arch in an uncomfortable posture, which can be compared to being unable to straighten his neck after playing with his mobile phone for a long time.

Not only that, when Kraft tried to rotate his cervical spine left and right, these hard plates showed a very good fit, synchronously rotating with the neck joint, and then blocking this movement.

This guy also wrapped the hard board under the cloth, which restricted his movement even more. He probably couldn't turn his head at all and could only turn around to see what was behind him.

Well, in this case, you don't have to worry about scratching the skin with too much force. Kraft turned him over, drew his sword and slit the back of his neck, and the cloth broke into pieces. After the blockage was removed, those hard boards were completely exposed to the light.

With just one glance, one can determine that they are not armor made of special materials, but... something that is difficult to define.

At first glance, it was a hard object like a bone, with some arches and protrusions that looked familiar but were mixed with other components. It expanded and broke the skin ligaments, expanding beyond restraint.

For example, the transverse processes of the vertebral body proliferate to an incredible extent. These two symmetrical short bony processes on both sides of the vertebral arch plate are elongated and reflected around the neck, forming an arch-like, rib-like but flatter thing.

Not only that, but the connection between the upper and lower cervical vertebrae had severe calcification that Kraft had never seen or heard of. Far from just the infiltration and deposition of calcium salts such as calcification points or calcification plaques, the whole piece is transformed into inorganic matter, as if being hit by the gaze of a monster that can petrify the human body, the whole piece is turned into a hard flat column.

This high degree of calcification that cannot be explained from a biochemical perspective made him almost suspect that the original tissue was directly replaced by rock.

The gap between the intervertebral disc and the cervical vertebrae has been blurred, and calcification has spread like infectious diseases. The accumulated inorganic matter has fused the upper and lower vertebral bodies into one body. Diaphragms and webbed bone fusions have grown near the transverse bone arch.

Kraft searched his mind and couldn't find a suitable professional word to describe it, because no one had ever seen this form, let alone named it.

The extended upper and lower transverse processes are fused, and sections are plated into large segmented shapes. The bone mineralization and discoloration turned into a lifeless light yellow and grayish white. Regardless of the shape, it was almost impossible to tell whether someone had brought the deeply buried rock formations to the surface from underground.

The sharpened edges of the growth are blackened like pigmentation, and the shadow-like black melts into the darkness without any contradiction.

This “person” with a human form—Craft was not sure whether he should still call it a person—is undergoing some kind of painful transformation, which forcefully and irreversibly transforms more than twenty vertebrae and four naturally curved movable spines into The carapace is segmented into several segments.

And the smashed face was not a mask, but a hard shell that looked like bone and rock instead of skin.

A very small amount of filthy liquid flowed out from between the broken shells. It was red, black and rotten, similar in color to the traces stained by the sword blade after cutting open those human faces and limbs.

If he still has nerves, the transformation process will be painful. The mineralized bone invades the intervertebral foramen, compresses the spinal canal, and compresses the nerve roots.

It is equivalent to a super double version of lumbar disc herniation plus bone hyperplasia, numbness, pain, and progressive paresthesia that come day and night, like rats and ants biting the limbs and trunk, accompanied by progressively worsening mobility impairment.

According to Cupp's description, he was definitely not the kind of dying patient lying on the bed unable to move. Another system was driving the body, replacing the original nervous system like a metamorphosis.

One can imagine how he fearfully experienced this kind of alienation, the endless torment of illness, and the fact that death was reluctant to come mercifully, and an unreasonable species was conceived in his body.

As for whether he was "recommended" to those things by Old Goli after embracing paganism, or whether he encountered misfortune in a certain depth and sought spiritual salvation that did not exist in paganism, everything is unknown. Kupp ended it for him this lengthy torture.

Forget it, even if he would rather linger on in this abnormal life, there is no way he can stand up and defend now.

The discovery of something between humans and deep creatures reminded Kraft that they could do far more than just make people lose their minds and be swallowed silently, but they could also cause transformation in the opposite direction.

"Is there anything special about him other than his appearance?" His body structure is not very suitable for sports, so he has other functions that injured Kupu, who was not taken down by several pagan attackers. "But it doesn't matter, William is not an outsider."

Yes, soon they were people who had seen ghosts together and shared shares together. Sharing some supernatural information was nothing.

"He disappeared from in front of us and appeared from behind, so I was injured in the back." Kupp felt that he should explain that he was not injured while running away with his back to the enemy. "It is as simple as crawling into an invisible hole and then coming out from behind." Come out the other end.”

"Strange..." Perhaps this transformation process gave him some special ability, just like Kraft's spiritual senses. The expressions are different, the cost is huge, and the effect is more intuitive.

That's understandable, so that's not what he meant by "weird." Craft stepped away from the carapace-covered body and touched his chin, which was itching from the cotton bandage.

After thinking briefly, he suddenly turned around, opened his arms and spun around in the light, letting everyone see his whole body.

"Help me take a look, I seem to have forgotten something."