Chapter 320 Bone Spur
Kraft saw with his own eyes a complex and subtle series of contradictory expressions on Wadine's face: nervousness at the deterioration of the situation, polite condolences, associations with his own situation, and an inevitable bit of schadenfreude.
As the distance approached, these expressions flattened and disappeared, replaced by doubts and wariness.
The ship looked like it had been lying there for a long time, so long that it was engulfed in damp, disgusting black mold, and its original color could not be seen.
A dead snake-like tether tied it to a bulge on the reef. The knot was almost worn out, and only a few strands of fiber remained to keep the abandoned ship from being carried away by the rising and falling currents.
It is not a boat of the same style as them, nor does it have a fixed floating barrel. It is just a flat-bottomed boat commonly seen on the Teme River. It is used for ferrying or carrying cargo when the weather is calm. It is made of ordinary materials and can easily capsize.
Some people from outside the church arrived earlier, probably within a few weeks to two months.
There were no items in the boat to prove his identity. There were only deep scratches like bites and tears on the boat, which showed what he had experienced on the way.
The interior of the ship was reinforced with additional wooden planks, but this did not prevent the attackers from tearing off a large piece of the side plank and digging several large holes with rough edges in the bottom of the ship. This may be the reason why they panicked and chose their way ashore.
That group all survived the attack and arrived here.
"Those heathens." There was no other suspect, but it was hard for Father Green to imagine how he could get down before the hall collapsed and take a boat with him.
"Hopefully they've drowned in their crazy behavior." Instead of still being here in some form, that means things will be a lot more troublesome.
Although he was very reluctant, Green still cast a pragmatic and questioning look at Kraft. The latter leaned on his sword to support half of his body and nodded to indicate that his condition was barely passable. If necessary, he could use unconventional means to solve unconventional troubles.
The priest stopped for a moment and walked towards this side, "The sages once formed an alliance with the king who held the sword in the stone, and the kingdom gained glory because of it. It can be seen that the sword is not good or evil depending on its origin."
"Today is just like more than a hundred years ago. Perhaps it is Heavenly Father who is testing us again to unite our minds and put aside our differences."
He took off his gloves and shook hands with the professor who had just realized what he was going to do.
【You handle this, I'll handle the others】
After making sure Kraft understood what he meant, Green let go and looked around the monks present, looking into each face in turn that had chosen to follow him here.
He didn't know if other people thought the same thing, but on this unique rocky beach...the "little creatures" gathered here for some reason, the boats pushed to the shore, and themselves, there seemed to be various signs It all shows that this is that special place.
The will of the Father, the choice of the lake, a certain inevitable result, the secret confluence arranged by fate for people who go astray for different reasons.
The feeling of revelation clears the mind and realizes that the answers are just ahead. Months of searching for answers to cold cases, answers to pagan worship, answers to historical mysteries, and perhaps the final answers to a few more insignificant lives.
A question that I felt I couldn’t empathize with at the time came to mind:
【Don’t you want to know? 】
A lot of things went through my mind. I heard about the deeds of Heavenly Father for the first time, determined to become a defender of the doctrine, received a degree in theology, took over my current position, and spent half my life in a place where I could see the spire of Notre Dame Cathedral.
Now that you have explored so far without knowing it, don’t you want to know the final answer?
But when I was only one step away from understanding miracles and the kingdom of heaven, I realized that my heart was not as persistent as I thought. It was like a knitted robe worn over armor. Although it was gorgeous and comfortable, it was no big deal to take it off when it felt dirty and heavy. of. "No, I don't want to." He doesn't care whether the world after death exists, whether the church represents that supreme will, or whether there really is a supreme will that loves the world.
He came here to solve this big trouble that he first discovered, nothing more.
Green changed direction and walked towards the depths of the rocky beach.
Kraft, who was not on the channel for a while, was confused and followed the others, not understanding what he didn't want, but it seemed that the result was good. The barriers in the team were reduced. They no longer stayed on the outside and were determined to explore inward.
The rock clusters sloping outward are getting denser and taller, like waves being stirred up and splashing against your face, and they stand in thick rows.
Most of the rock clusters have been carved with shrine-like depressions, and the craftsmanship is in line with the characteristics of the lost ethnic groups. When a little light enters, it will occasionally illuminate some muddy, crawling shadows wrapped in pale hard objects.
The water did not disappear with depth, but lingered around the feet. It was brought to the surface by the pressure between the slits, gushed out from unexpected holes and gaps, and disappeared in an instant on the gravel-paved ground.
The mist travels through the stone forest, and information from outside the world of moisture and coldness is mixed into it. The cruel smell that makes people instinctively alert, the chilling dark stains, the signal of the passing of similar lives.
The traces of the body being torn apart by something were diluted and oxidized, reduced to an intermittent dark brown guide, leading them to the residue.
Plated with a layer of reddish-brown scattered bones, they are still fresh in time. The soft tissue that was once attached to it has been "washed away" - Craft can only think of this extravagant word - like a specimen in the herbarium that is specially treated with chemical solvents to retain specific parts, so "clean" extreme.
The pieces of cloth and chain mail were inextricably entangled, and reddish brown interspersed between the braided wires and iron rings. It could be seen that they were of the same type as those on their bodies.
The astonishing amount of bleeding showed what kind of terrible experience it had suffered, but the traces were not quite what was expected.
With no time to mourn for the other team, Green and Vadin checked and came to a common conclusion: He was not dragged here, but came here on his own.
It seemed that after being severely injured, he ran for his life and finally stopped due to excessive blood loss. The winding route took many turns and backtracks, indicating that we were no longer able to discern the direction.
Krafft was allowed to step forward and lift open the fabric, observing the entire skeleton that had been shattered due to the loss of connecting tissue. He hoped that there were some defects on it that could indicate what kind of trauma he had suffered, and could help understand what kind of enemy they were about to face.
However, the actual situation once again refuted the subjective assumption. No obvious defects were seen in the skeleton, but instead showed uneven and abnormal growth.
It was not located at the common joints or epiphyses, but concentrated on the left mandible, shoulder blade, and thoracic ribs. The lower half of the upper body showed changes in the bone structure in a particularly bizarre direction and degree.
The new bones are like inverted burrs and protruding needle points, growing wildly to the length of two to three fingers. The surface of the flat bones to the backbone of the long bones are all spared. They are so dense that the original surface appearance is almost invisible.
They penetrated the surrounding organs and blood vessels, penetrated from under the skin, and tore the body apart from the inside out.
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