[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-notes-on-kraft-anomalous-studies":3,"chapter-notes-on-kraft-anomalous-studies-notes-on-kraft-anomalous-studies-chapter-274":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"chinese","Notes on Kraft Anomalous Studies",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":19,"prevChapterSlug":20,"totalChapters":21,"novelImage":22},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":15,"volume":16,"translator":17,"content_hash":18},2283752,4467,"Chapter 274","notes-on-kraft-anomalous-studies-chapter-274",274,"\u003Cp>When turning to the next page, it was not an anatomical diagram, but some familiar patterns.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Countless hexagons filled the entire sheet, even spilling beyond the edges onto adjacent pages; the extending lines seemed to be luminous mist, or drifting whiskers and webbed membranes, dominating the field of vision.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“We stood in darkness, with a great sound of water ahead, but those sounds grew clearer as the light brightened, and then I saw it.” The hand holding the pen trembled slightly, making the words jitter irregularly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“No, I did not see it, but I certainly ‘saw’ it—down below.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Countless thoughts exploded in his mind, forming a flood of adjective-laden sentences, only to be crossed out and blacked out in bulk. He had found the answer, understood something, yet felt as if he understood nothing at all.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A glimpse of the colossal had utterly transformed his mind; its image had swum from the waters into his brain, filling every inch of this limited mental space.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the pallid light, he felt the implant beneath his skin had become a medium linking him to it, transmitting pure information without need for translation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>【Pain】\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That sensation felt as if countless eons had been compressed into a space as thin as paper, searing agony like intense heat conducting through metal, melting consciousness into molten, formless fluid, poured into a new mold, reshaped into an entirely new form—just as its fragments reshaped biological bodies.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When his own pain resonated with that extreme and prolonged agony, the derivatives of that pain were also bestowed upon the recipient.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was an intense longing to tear open the present world and return to some other place.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This longing, born of the pain, catalyzed by the implant’s inherent properties, transformed into an unprecedented phenomenon.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Space tore like canvas, splitting open a long, sharp fissure.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the close-range resonance, he shared that being’s will, and a small bonus gift.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The so-called miraculous healing effect was merely the most superficial function of the fragments—temporarily relieving bodily suffering.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But suffering is endless; even if today’s surgical advances resolve part of it, it remains a drop in the ocean, for consciousness bound to the body lives in the present world—that itself is the greatest pain.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And he had already learned the ultimate solution—to join its return, until reaching the source that does not belong to this world.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“I understand.” He had no more doubts, like a steadfast believer receiving divine revelation, certain that a great enterprise would be accomplished through his hands.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The leader of the small group, his beloved guide, smiled in satisfaction, stepped forward to embrace him, welcoming him as a true new member.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“We shall solve all suffering. We are the righteous who walk the earth.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The writer set aside surgical concerns and returned to dissection; new anatomical charts were updated daily in the notebook.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Countless dubious structures were recorded, as if secondary reinterpretations of the human body, adding inappropriate elements onto the original foundation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>On a diagram labeled as an adult male, Kraft saw fifteen thoracic vertebrae and seven lumbar vertebrae; the five extra vertebrae formed a new physiological curvature, appearing unusually flexible.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The thoracic cage had elongated; the left lung within the rib cage had an additional horizontal fissure beyond the oblique fissure, giving it an extra lobe. The diaphragm was hyperdeveloped, suggesting he might compensate for limited respiratory muscle capacity after lung volume expansion through abdominal breathing.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Some structures regressed to developmental states, implying they were even more unstable.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If these could still be recognized as something, others had reached utterly incomprehensible extremes—mere tangles of pure tissue mixture, within which anything could be found, and... those fragments.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Dark, pallid fragments, identical to the one implanted beneath his skin.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Regarding their origin, he called them “sent up from below,” most of them in a state of “extremely difficult to determine time of death”—long dead, yet retaining basic form and resilience.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Coupled with high-tensile soft tissues adapted to the structural anomalies, specialized instruments were required for handling.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After extensive dissection, several general conclusions emerged: first, these fragments exhibited excellent compatibility with the human body, causing neither inflammation nor necrosis as other foreign objects would; instead, they promoted growth.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The second conclusion was that all their behaviors served the fundamental purpose of facilitating proliferation and aggregation. Depending on need, they existed in two states: one, developing existing anatomical structures to enable higher-intensity activity and ensure survival—where this trend would ultimately lead was unimaginable.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The second was, upon the host’s death, rapidly extracting water and some vital essence, forming around itself an amorphous primitive biomass, like a self-predatory embryo awaiting the chance to seize new nutrients.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This was the optimal moment for proliferation and aggregation; it would directly assimilate any living organism it contacted, growing infinitely.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In addition, the records repeatedly mentioned “previous attempts,” praising them as excellent validations. A group far earlier than theirs had tried to extract unnatural power from them, leaving behind this ruin, and had named these pallid fragments:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>【Lunar Remains】\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They had initially assumed all previous legacies had been buried with their creators as grave goods—until several sample-collecting personnel went missing, revealing that they were not the only ones moving about here.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The trouble was, as their activities increased, the most successful of the previous attempts was becoming increasingly active.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He had tried using the method of creating fissures to deal with it, but soon realized cutting was useless against something without fixed form—it merely stimulated it to begin hunting actively.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That accident claimed nearly half the people active in the labyrinth; ultimately, it halted before the corridor.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After various considerations, they ultimately decided not to remove it, and even, when necessary, to deliberately draw it out through high-intensity “spellcasting” to resolve incoming troubles.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It proved a foolish assumption: overactivating the ability directly caused the black salt embedded in the arm to suppress tissue growth to melt into activated black fluid, which flowed backward through the veins in a full circuit.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The extreme inhibitory effect triggered physiologically suffocating reactions, including but not limited to bradycardia, respiratory depression, and vasodilation causing a sudden drop in relative blood volume.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In short, the person was already dead before the black fluid could exert its effect—pulling mind and body into the depths.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This also proved their application remained superficial, with no understanding of their own capabilities’ limits.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But the trouble he caused before death was real: theoretically, that vast chaotic mass could consume any armed force within the bounds of normal logic.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Until the final entries of the notebook, he continued endless trials, seeking balance in the quantity of the implant.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He currently believed the human body’s maximum tolerance would not exceed two fingers’ width of “Lunar Remains”; anything larger would cause immediate mental loss of control. This estimate was based on a colleague who had advanced further than most—he hadn’t seen this man in some time.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And others, including his guiding mentor, had also been gone for a long while.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“They went down. I will finish the cleanup. May they succeed.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“We arrived a bit late, but not too late. Let’s find what they left behind.” Kraft closed the notebook, stood in place, and waited until the others dispersed, then showed Green the black fluid collected from the incision.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He scanned the remains with his special senses; there was not a trace of any spiritual entity—completely consumed, “Good news. I think I now know why that miraculous anesthetic was so scarce.”\u003C\u002Fp>",1242,"2026-06-20T02:15:56.940Z",1,"Qwen3-Next 80B","e9d4c1ad9599f3637a6f78f813af679c0631744fda00076725c3e31b7fcd5b32","notes-on-kraft-anomalous-studies-chapter-275","notes-on-kraft-anomalous-studies-chapter-273",406,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fnotes-on-kraft-anomalous-studies-cover.jpg"]