Gu Jun rode his bicycle all the way back to the dormitory. As soon as he entered the dormitory, he picked up the kettle on the desk and drank a lot of water.
The water hasn't been changed for a few days and already has a bit of an old smell, but for an exhausted person, it's not bad.
Gu Jun looked at the desk and saw that some of the traces he deliberately set were still there, and the placement and order of books and items had not changed. No one should have broken in and rummaged around here in the past three days. Li Lerui's mobile phone
, which he always carried with him.
"Huh." Gu Jun sat down on the chair next to the desk, and then opened the system in his mind to see the new situation.
Open the host capabilities list:
【calm hand
Rarity:★
Cultivable level: third level
Current level: Second level (0/30000 proficiency)]
Finally broke through to the second level!
Gu Jun discovered three days ago that although the upgrade of the Tranquility Hand only requires the final 500 proficiency points, he could not even increase the 100 proficiency points by dissecting for half a day, which was even less than the intravenous injection practice before.
"This shows that proficiency does not increase at an even rate." He concluded in his mind, "The further you go, the harder it is to rise, or the more familiar you are, the harder it is to become more familiar. So the few hundred familiarity points that finally broke through the level are higher than the previous ones.
Thousands of familiarities add up to more work."
Gu Jun looked at his hands and stretched them. He had been wearing tight medical rubber gloves for the past few days, and now he was a little uncomfortable with them being so loose.
When the calm hand is raised to the second level, the feeling is indeed different.
He seemed to be able to clearly feel every nerve in the ten fingers. This was the anterior interosseous nerve. When his heart moved, he felt the thumb of his right hand flex slightly... This was the ulnar nerve, the tail finger of his right hand.
Jumped slightly again.
Although he is not yet proficient in mastering it, this kind of detailed control was something he had never had before the Tairan Hand upgrade.
With these hands, you can perform more precise and minute operations by picking up a scalpel or scalpel.
"It's been worth it these days." Gu Jun couldn't help but smile. The second level was so powerful. I really don't know how far the third level can go.
Maybe then, I will be the man with the strongest fingers in the world.
Gu Jun laughed self-deprecatingly, closed the ability list, opened the task list, and looked at the prompt box as if he was saving a big chicken leg for later dinner.
[There are mission rewards waiting to be claimed: 1 map of the incomplete structure, click to claim your reward]
This time the system was quite smart. It knew that he was in full public view and didn't send the map directly to his pocket. Is that right?
The reward for the first difficult mission! Gu Jun thought about it and pressed "Click to claim"
"Received successfully!"
Suddenly, there was a sharp stabbing pain in his head, and a bright light came from nowhere and suddenly floated above the ocean of his consciousness.
He "saw" it was a map.
"Oh, this map is not distributed in physical form, but in consciousness. Well, it is easier to carry."
Gu Jun tried to use his thoughts to open the map. He was not yet skilled but he could do it. He locked it in the sea of complex consciousness, zoomed in, and zoomed in again...
He gradually saw clearly that it was a yellowed drawing made of parchment paper, probably a little smaller than an A4 piece of paper. The four edges of the paper were all torn and torn, with several large cracks and messy pieces.
The mottled spots look like they were dug out of the plaster.
There is only one diagram on this atlas, and even ordinary people without medical background can easily see that it is a partial anatomy diagram.
It looked like a front view of the chest, but he wasn't sure...
Gu Jun is very familiar with human chests, but the structure depicted in this picture... is strange. Some of them look like primate chests, but there are several details that seem to deny this possibility. Primates
There is no armor-like...bone on the chest?
"Bone." He murmured. The bone in the picture was obviously a diamond-shaped plate, covering and connecting the ribs at the back.
Gu Jun looked at the marked text next to the map with confusion. Sure enough, it was that kind of mysterious variant text. These variant texts looked like they were written by hand. Compared with the printed text on the variant medicine box, they looked different.
Quite sloppy.
Suddenly, he realized, "This front view of the chest is also hand-drawn!"
That's right, some of the lines are crooked, and...
Gu Jun felt that this map was not drawn in a quiet study, but in a dangerous environment, which is why it has such a sloppy and hasty writing style.
He followed the markings to identify the text. He first looked at the text pointing to the "bone", then looked at the text on several other bones, and found that they were all composed of two parts, which meant
What?
For example, the two concepts of ribs and sternum are "ribs" and "breastbone" in Chinese, and "costal bone" and "breastbone" in English.
The recurring word "bone" means bone.
And the back part of the different text of these bones are the same two characters...Does that also mean bones?
Gu Jun felt that this was the same concept! When he thought about it, a big stone quietly fell in his heart.
"This variant is a language that can be understood by the human mind." He thought, "If it can be understood, it can be deciphered and there will be an answer."
He continued to decipher and identified variants of the three concepts of "muscle", "nerve" and "chest" from the 19 annotated texts. He then discovered that just like "chest" and "muscle" are both the same radical, this
The four variant concepts also have the same components in their texts.
"Bone, muscle, nerve, chest...maybe this part means something related to the human body? Or life?"
Gu Jun thought hard. After all, he was a layman in linguistics. Even if he looked up the information on the Internet, he couldn't understand it. But he didn't know any trustworthy linguistic friends. But now he finally found someone who understands this difference.
The breakthrough point of the article.
He then looked at some notes written at the bottom of the map. There were ten lines of fine print and hundreds of characters.
What is very eye-catching is that the last four lines of text are exactly the same, and there is an exact same symbol attached to the end of the sentence. This symbol is like! or? When placed together with Chinese characters, it is different from this language at first glance
, maybe a punctuation mark. He felt it was either an exclamation mark or a question mark.
I wrote this sentence four times in a row...
It seems that the person who drew this map was very excited at the time.
"What do these notes mean..." Gu Jun pondered, looking at the sloppy and trembling handwriting, feeling vaguely surprised, hesitant, and panic inside...
Perhaps these notes are the greatest value of this map, important information that can help him understand the whole thing.
But he really couldn't understand it, and the more he read, the more tired his body and mind became.
"If you continue like this, you won't be able to figure out anything. Let's take a nap first, replenish your energy, and then compare it with the different texts on the medicine box when you wake up."
Gu Jun rubbed his red, swollen and sore eyes, got up and went to the faucet on the balcony to wash his face. Not wanting to take a shower, he climbed onto his bed and lay down, closing his heavy eyelids... He didn't know how long it had been, or whether it was a dream or something.
In reality, he seemed to have fallen into a gray fog...
Silence, a soundless silence.
Slowly he could see clearly, and saw a huge dead tree. The branches were thick and messy, and their dense branches seemed to add cracks to the gray sky. There was not a single leaf, only some rotten vines hanging down, and even the wind seemed to be blowing.
It's gray-black.
On the broad trunk of the dead tree, something was moving...
It was the thin back figure of a child, using his hands and feet to hold on to the tree trunk as hard as he could, climbing up...
Gu Jun's consciousness was hazy, as if it was fading away, and these scenes were also fading away...
He saw that the ground under the dead trees was the same gray color, and he saw corpses lying on the ground in random directions, as if they were arranged in a pattern. Their faces could not be seen clearly, but their limbs... or
Either the hands or the feet are distorted...
Suddenly, a figure fell high from the dead tree. It was the thin child. Although the child tried his best, he still couldn't hold on to the increasingly rugged and curved trunk, and fell down as soon as he missed it.
The child seemed to be screaming, but Gu Jun couldn't hear it.
There was a loud bang! But he heard it, and the silence broke. The child fell heavily to the ground, and the blood stained the dust. The pale and childish face was distorted by shock and fear, and the eyes were wide open, but no longer
There is no trace of spirit.
Gu Jun had seen this pale and childish face before...in the body storage room of the Jujie Building.
It was the child lying in the body storage tank soaked in formaldehyde, with his hands deformed.