Gu Jun rode his bicycle all the way back to the dormitory. As soon as he entered the dormitory, he picked up the water bottle on the desk and gulped down a mouthful of water.
The water had not been changed for a few days and already had a slightly old taste. But for an exhausted person, it was not bad.
Gu Jun looked at the desk. Some of the traces that he had deliberately set up were still there. The placement and order of the books and things had not changed. In the past three days, no one should have broken in and rummaged through this place. He had always carried Li Yuerui's phone with him.
"Phew." Gu Jun sat down on the chair next to the desk. Only then did he open the system in his mind to see the current situation.
Opening the ability list of the host:
[Hands of Dexterity
Rarity: ★
Cultivation Level: 3rd Tier
Current Level: 2nd Tier (0/30000 Proficiency)]
He had finally broken through to the 2nd tier!
Gu Jun had discovered three days ago that although the upgrade of the Hands of Dexterity only required the last 500 proficiency, he could not even raise the proficiency by 100 after dissecting for half a day. It was even less than the intravenous injection practice.
"This means that the proficiency does not increase at a uniform rate," he concluded in his heart. "The higher the level, the harder it is to increase. Or rather, the more familiar I am, the harder it is to get more proficient. So the hundreds of proficiency points needed to break through at the end of the level is more work than the previous thousands of proficiency points combined. "
Gu Jun looked at his hands and stretched them out. He had been wearing tight medical rubber gloves for the past few days. Now that they were so loose, he was not used to it.
The second tier of the Hands of Dexterity did indeed feel different.
He seemed to be able to clearly feel every nerve in his ten fingers. This was the anterior interosseous nerve. His heart skipped a beat and he felt the thumb of his right hand bend slightly. This was the ulnar nerve. His right pinky finger twitched slightly again.
Although he had not mastered it yet, this kind of detailed control was something that the Hands of Dexterity did not possess before the upgrade.
With this pair of hands, he could pick up a scalpel or a scalpel and perform more precise and minute operations.
"These few days of hard work were worth it." Gu Jun could not help but smile. The second tier was already so powerful. He really did not know to what extent the third tier would reach.
Perhaps by then, I would be the man with the strongest fingers in the world.
Gu Jun laughed self-deprecatingly. He closed the ability list and opened the mission list. Looking at the notification box, he felt like he was saving a chicken leg for a meal.
[Mission reward waiting to be received: 1 Incomplete Structure Blueprint. Click to receive your reward]
This time, the system was quite intelligent. It knew that he was under the watchful eyes of the public, so it didn't send the map directly to his pocket. Was that so?
The reward for the first Difficult Quest! With a thought, Gu Jun clicked "Receive".
"Successfully received!"
Suddenly, he felt a sharp pain in his head. A bright light came out of nowhere and floated above his sea of consciousness.
He "saw" that it was a diagram.
"Oh, this atlas isn't given in physical form, but in consciousness form. Alright, it's more convenient to carry. "
Gu Jun tried to use his mind to open the atlas. He was not familiar with it yet, but he could do it. He locked onto it in his sea of consciousness, zoomed in, and zoomed in …
Gradually, he could see clearly that it was a yellowed drawing. The material looked like parchment, and it was slightly smaller than a piece of A4 paper. The edges of the paper were all broken. There were a few large cracks, and they were messy like they had been dug out from the mud.
There was only one pattern on this atlas. Even a normal person with no medical background could easily tell that this was a local anatomical pattern.
It looked like a fore-view of the chest, but he could not be sure …
Gu Jun was very familiar with the human chest, but the structure on this drawing … was very strange. It looked like the chest of a primate, but there were a few details that seemed to negate this possibility. A primate's chest did not have a piece of armor-like … lamellar bone?
"Lamellar bone," he mumbled. It was obviously a diamond-shaped bone on the drawing, covering and connecting the ribs at the back.
With confusion, Gu Jun looked at the markings next to the atlas. It was that mysterious foreign language again. The foreign language looked like it was written by hand. Compared to the print on the foreign medicine box, it looked quite sloppy.
Suddenly, he understood. "This fore-view of the chest is also hand-drawn!"
There was no mistaking it. Some of the lines were crooked, and …
Gu Jun felt that this atlas was not drawn in a quiet study but in a dangerous environment. That was why it looked so hasty.
He followed the lines to identify the markings. First, he looked at the words that pointed to the "lamellar bone", and then he looked at the words on the other bones. He realized that they were all made up of two parts. What did this mean?
For example, the two concepts of rib and sternum were "rib" and "sternum" in Chinese, and "costal bone" and "breastbone" in English.
The repeated words "bone" and "bone" meant bones.
And the same two characters were written at the end of the foreign language markings on these bones … Did that mean bone as well?
Gu Jun felt that this was the same concept! With that in mind, he felt like a huge rock had been lifted off his heart.
"This foreign language 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 it, and from the 19 markings, he identified the three concepts of "muscle", "nerve", and "chest." Then he realized that just as "chest" and "muscle" were on the same side, these four foreign concepts also had the same parts.
"Bone, muscle, nerve, chest … Perhaps this part is related to the human body? Or life? "
Gu Jun thought hard. After all, he was not a linguist. Even if he looked up the information on the internet, he could not understand it. But he did not know any reliable linguist friend. But now, he finally found a way to understand this foreign language.
He looked at some notes written at the bottom of the atlas. There were ten lines of tiny words, and there were hundreds of characters.
The most eye-catching thing was that the last four lines were exactly the same, and there was an identical symbol at the end of each sentence. This symbol was like! Or? Placed next to the Chinese characters, it was obvious that it was different from this language. It could be a punctuation mark. He felt that it was either an exclamation mark or a question mark.
This sentence was repeated four times in a row …
It seemed that the person who drew this atlas was very excited at the time.
"What do these notes mean …" Gu Jun pondered. Looking at the messy and trembling handwriting, he could vaguely feel the surprise, hesitation, and panic …
Perhaps these notes were the greatest value of this atlas. They were important information that could help him understand the whole thing.
But he really could not understand it, and the more he read, the more tired his already tired body and mind became.
"I won't be able to figure anything out at this rate. I'll take a nap first. When I wake up, I'll compare the foreign language on the medicine box."
Gu Jun rubbed his red and sore eyes. He got up and went to the balcony to wash his face. He did not want to take a shower, so he climbed into his bed and lay down. He closed his heavy eyelids … After an unknown amount of time, he did not know whether it was a dream or reality, but he seemed to have fallen into a gray fog …
Silence. It was a soundless silence.
Slowly, he could see clearly. He saw a huge withered tree. The branches were thick and messy, and they were so dense that they seemed to add cracks to the gray sky. There was not a single leaf, only some rotten vines hanging down. Even the wind seemed to be gray and black.
On the wide trunk of the withered tree, something was moving …
It was the thin back of a child. He was using both his hands and feet to cling to the trunk and climb up …
Gu Jun's consciousness was hazy. It was as if he was moving away, and so were these scenes …
He saw that the ground under the withered tree was the same gray color. He saw corpses lying on the ground, as if they were arranged in a pattern. He couldn't see their faces clearly, but their limbs … whether it was hands or feet, were all twisted and deformed …
Suddenly, a figure fell from the withered tree. It was the thin child. Although the child had tried his best, he could not hold on to the increasingly rugged trunk. He slipped and fell.
The child seemed to be screaming, but Gu Jun could not hear it.
There was a loud bang! But he heard it. The silence was broken. The child landed heavily on the ground. Blood dyed the gray soil red. The pale and young face was distorted by shock and horror. The pair of eyes were wide open, but there was no longer a trace of life.
This pale and young face, Gu Jun had seen it before … in the cadaver storage room in the autopsy building.
It was the child who was lying in the cadaver storage tank soaked in formalin, his hands deformed.
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