night.
Under the kerosene lamp, Lei Luo rubbed his tired eyes and put down the bloody scalpel.
He lowered his head and recorded the tadpole anatomy information he had just obtained on the Ice Fire Bird Handbook one by one, and after adding vivid pictures and text annotations, Lei Luo heaved a sigh of relief and stretched a little.
"Speaking of which, the tadpoles, which look harmless to humans and animals from a macroscopic point of view, look so terrifying under a magnifying glass, like a terrifying creature in a nightmare."
Lei Luo seemed to be emotional about the tadpole image he had just observed with a magnifying glass.
After taking notes, Lei Luo put the notebook into the space box. After thinking for a while, he took out a transparent glass bottle from the space box. After unscrewing the bottle cap, a slightly pungent antiseptic smell filled the air.
After the past two days, Lei Luo had started to get used to the smell. He just frowned slightly, then picked up the tweezers, put the tadpole specimens into the bottle, and sealed it again.
There are many ways to preserve specimens, and glass bottle antiseptic solution is the most mature and common one.
With the help of kerosene light, he admired the tadpole specimens in the bottle, as if he was admiring the most beautiful gemstone in the world, and the corner of Lei Luo's mouth revealed a proud arc.
Satisfied, Lei Luo put the specimen into the space box.
For a scholar who studies the esoteric meaning of evolution, the quantity and quality of the specimens he possesses almost determines the knowledge reserve of the scholar. As an enlightenment student, Lei Luo has begun to follow his instinct to enrich his specimen library.
It was already early in the morning and late at night, and even the old southeast neighborhood where Lei Luo's hut was located had completely quieted down.
"Ah… "
Yawning, Lei Luo got up.
He had been sitting still for a day, and his body was stiff. When he stood up now, the stiff bones made a "click" and "click" sound. Lei Luo twisted his neck again and made "click" and "click" again sound.
After stretching, Lei Luo looked at his delicate hut.
Due to the small size of the hut, Lei Luo had no choice but to use a dilapidated small wooden table to make a simple test bench near the balcony window. If there was no spar lamp, he used a kerosene lamp instead.
For Lei Luo, although life is not difficult, it is too simple for a scholar's experimental environment.
"Even if two kerosene lamps are lit at the same time, the brightness is still not enough. The flickering flames are simply a torture for a magnifying glass to observe in detail. In the long run, it will definitely damage the eyes. Wear glasses like a teacher." Said Wake up... I heard from Shi Ge that Gu Bo's career as a scholar when he was young was also very difficult."
Mumbling to himself, Lei Luo took a rag and kept cleaning the crude test bench, and then dipped some alcohol to clean the scalpel, tray and other props.
"Let's spend gold coins another day and buy a spar lamp!"
The spar lamp uses energy spar as the energy source, and its brightness is far from that of kerosene lamps. The price is generally around 150 silver coins, which is simply unaffordable for ordinary families.
Fortunately, the energy stone consumption of the spar lamp is very low, and one energy spar is enough to support it for several years. It belongs to one of the practical technologies invented by the Academy of Natural Sciences of the Principality of Utoran, and has been widely promoted in various human principalities.
It can be said that even though Utoran College of Nature was suppressed by the church because of the "Heliocentric Theory" and its status among the major colleges of nature plummeted, it is still the richest among the major colleges in terms of wealth, and many practical inventions come from The Duchy of Utoran has been passed down.
Sudden!
"Ah! Who are you?"
The terrified shouts outside the window broke the silent night of the block.
Lei Luo instinctively put down the cleaning cloth in his hand, opened the window, and looked down.
I saw a few fuzzy, shadowy figures besieging the people in the middle of the mainland. The besieged people couldn't stand it any longer. With the sound of "bang", the public spar street lamp in the street was shattered by the besieged figure with a throwing knife. Disappeared, leaving only the sound of metal clashing and fighting in the dark, and the sound of panic calling for help.
After a few breaths.
The sound of fighting stopped, and the whole street was quiet, but Lei Luo knew that, just like himself, there were countless eyes nearby, watching in the dark.
"hiss!"
Lei Luo on the balcony on the third floor was secretly shocked.
This group of people dared to openly commit murder in the academy, and it happened right in front of me. It seemed that I had to be more careful in the future so as not to get involved in any fights.
belch…
There was a belching sound from the balcony next to him. Lei Luo looked over and saw that it was his widowed neighbor, Mei Lin.
"Night, good evening, Sister Meilin."
Thinking of the man's kind reminder, and thinking of the terrifying legend of the woman in front of him, Lei Luo instinctively tightened his expression, feeling a little timid.
Still sitting on the balcony in a loose nightgown, Merlin held a cigarette in one hand and a wine bottle in the other, his eyes were already drunk.
With a sneer at the corner of her mouth, Mei Lin seemed to be used to this kind of fighting scene, and looked at Lei Luo drunkenly.
"This is the most chaotic street in the academy, and it is also the street farthest from the guardians of the academy. However, this is already the sixth case of murder this month, far exceeding the previous chaos. It seems that some force should be targeting this place."
After finishing speaking, Mei Lin raised her head, took a sip of high alcohol spirits, wiped the corners of her mouth without restraint, took another mouthful of the cigarette in her hand, and spit it out.
Looking up, Merlin looked at the deep starry sky with melancholy eyes.
Coo coo coo coo.
Bright moonlight, boundless starry sky.
A group of green-eyed owls flapped their wings and flew over. Some of them landed on the damaged public street lamps and were responsible for repairing the street lamps. Others landed on the dead bodies on the road. After confirming that they were dead, they analyzed the murderer's motives. Fly away, looking for witnesses and perpetrators.
One of the owls happened to fly towards Lei Luo.
"Cuckoo, I'm the Guardian of Grand Academy, and I'm investigating the serial vicious murders here. Have you witnessed the murder process just now?"
The owl looked similar to an ordinary owl, but Lei Luo knew that it was a psychic monster specially raised by the academy.
"Uh, I saw three men in black attacking the dead man. I only saw it for a few seconds before the street lights went out, and then I couldn't see anything."
What surprised Lei Luo was that the owl took out a quill, nodded, and carefully recorded Lei Luo's testimony. It was meticulous and cute.
"Okay, thank you for your cooperation, Gu Gu Gu Gu."
After recording Lei Luo's statement, the owl spread its wings and flew away without asking any more questions.
After a while.
Several sheriffs took the body away, and the street was quiet again.
"Sister Meilin, I'm going back to rest."
Suddenly, Meilin seemed to think of something, looked at Lei Luo again and said jokingly: "If you are interested in studying the human body, this is a good place to get specimens."
"ah!"
Lei Luo was taken aback, and hurriedly said: "No, no, I'm not interested!"
Seeing Lei Luo's terrified appearance, the drunken Meilin giggled, and the loose nightgown showed a little flair inadvertently, but she didn't care, but Lei Luo felt a little embarrassed.
No wonder Lei Luo acted so frightened just now.
The collection of human specimens and the experimental research on the human body have been done thousands of years ago, that is the wizard!
It is based on a large number of experimental studies on the human body that there are so many invisible means of killing wizards, horror legends about eating children's eyes, and even created the horrible Black Death that almost put human beings on the brink of extinction!
Later, although various natural academies sprung up like mushrooms in the principalities due to the power struggle between the royal family and the church, human experiment research was an absolute forbidden area for scholars. It is precisely because the academic direction of the mystery of the human body researched by the Barda Institute of Nature is very likely to involve human experimental research!
Although almost all scholars know that those evil wizards must have discovered some extremely powerful powers through human body research, the rise of the Barda School of Nature in recent years is likely to be gained by studying the legacy of some evil wizards, But outside the Principality of Barda, there are no scholars who dare to meet the pressure of church censorship!
"Wait a moment."
Suddenly, Meilin called Lei Luo, hooked her index finger and said with a drunken smile, "Come here."
Well
past
Seeing the laziness and wantonness of the widow next door who was seven times drunk, and the snow-white inadvertently exposed in the loose robe, for a moment, Lei Luo thought a lot, only felt that his mouth was dry, his face was flushed to the base of his neck, and he hesitated .
Gulp...
Lei Luo swallowed, with a tense expression. He didn't know whether it was because of the charm of this hot widow, or because of the fear of all the legends about her poison master.
"Come here!"
Mei Lin looked impatient, Lei Luo bit his lips tightly, his steps were a little frivolous, his heart was beating violently, and he murmured with the mosquito sound deep in his throat: "I'm going to sleep."
"Put your face here."
With the excitement of drunkenness, Mei Lin spoke in an orderly tone.
In the blankness of Lei Luo's mind, he only felt the tip of his nose being gently caressed by the other's slender index finger. In Lei Luo's bewilderment, Mei Lin showed the tip of her index finger.
"The kerosene lamp has turned you into a kitten, giggling."
It turned out that after Lei Luo lit the kerosene lamp, he bowed his head for too long in the experiment, and the light from the oil lamp smoked Lei Luo's nose.
Feeling ashamed of his evil thoughts just now, Lei Luo hurriedly wiped his nose, and hurriedly said: "I was too hasty just now, I'm really sorry, sister Mei Lin, good night!"
After speaking, Lei Luo closed the curtains and ran back to the house.
"belch."
Mei Lin dragged the wine bottle, staggered back to the house, and murmured: "What a cute little guy..."