Industrial Cthulhu, starting from the island lord

Chapter 190 Anatomy

"Not much like a living being?" This answer really surprised Hughes. He looked at Richard with some confusion. "What do you mean?"

"Um, how much do you know about the internal organs of the human body?"

As he spoke, Richard pushed open a door.

The churches here are all newly built, with smooth and clean bluestone walls. There are not many things in the house. There is a row of shelves against the wall, with many bottles and jars containing internal organs placed on them, and there are also several iron buckets under the shelves.

In the center of the room was an autopsy table. Unlike what Zeus had expected, there was nothing on it. The whole room was quite tidy, reminding Zeus of the hospital in his previous life.

"I only have a superficial understanding of things like the heart transfusing blood, the liver detoxifying, the stomach and spleen digesting, and the lungs and diaphragm breathing."

Richard turned his head in surprise and looked at Hughes with even more respect: "Although what you said was brief, it was very accurate. Were you a doctor before?"

Hughes blinked. He had heard Chloe mention that Richard was a doctor before joining the Fire Moth, but was later expelled for performing private autopsies on corpses.

Although technology has developed a lot in this world, people's thinking has turned to conservatism. The church and the nobility have strictly restricted people's spontaneous communication and research.

If Castel had not been located in a remote area, far away from the Church and the Empire, and ignored by the "civilized world", Hughes would probably have had to launch a movement to liberate thought first.

Therefore, studying the human body is naturally strictly prohibited. Moreover, in this era, dissecting corpses will be subject to moral accusations. It is normal for a doctor who is curious about the human body to join a cult.

"No, I don't know much about medicine. I just have some common sense."

"This common sense is also very valuable knowledge. I was almost burned at the stake by the church because I opposed the Four Fluids Theory."

"And what happened next?"

"What else can I do? I am a superhuman. They burned an empty shell. From then on, Rhine lost a doctor and gained a devout cultist." Richard shrugged.

As he spoke, he put on the robe hanging on the wall and then picked up the iron bucket from under the shelf.

The iron barrel was covered with a lid that fitted tightly, and a cloth strip was tied around the joint. Zeus vaguely sensed a familiar smell from the barrel, and he couldn't help but frown.

"Move back a little."

Richard opened the iron barrel and found it was crawling with dense black worms. It was indeed something Zeus was familiar with - physical pollution.

"What is this? Speaking of which, where is the murloc's corpse?"

"This is the body of the murloc." Richard sighed. "Not long after I dissected the murloc's corpse, it turned into this contamination. I carefully examined it and it's just ordinary physical contamination."

The murloc's corpse turned into pollution! ?
No wonder Richard just said that these things don’t look like living creatures. After death, they turn into pollution. How could living creatures look like this?

Even those polluted monsters will leave behind polluted flesh and blood after death. This was the case with the polluted beasts that were transformed from the wolves on the island.

"Is this the only fishman that has become like this, or..."

"All murlocs turned into pollution after death. I was shocked when I discovered this and went to the battlefield to check. The rest of the murloc corpses had also become like this."

Xiu Si was silent for a while, then directly opened the mind link.

"Ash, what did you do with the bodies of the murlocs you killed earlier?"

"Just throw them into the sea." "Did you notice what they became?"

"What has it become?" Ash asked, his tone confused. "You mean corruption or something?"

"The corpse of a fishless person will turn into pollution."

『!? !? 』

Zeus could feel Ash's shock even through the mental link. The banshees had been enslaved before. She had been dealing with the murlocs for so long, but she didn't know about this?

"When you were enslaved by the murlocs, didn't you see what happened to their corpses?"

"It seems... No, the fishmen don't prepare funerals for their own kind. They just throw them away randomly after they die. I, I've never thought about this problem."

Xiu Si thought about it and realized that who could have imagined that the corpses of normal creatures could become pollution? Moreover, the murlocs didn't originate from the Abyss. They couldn't even descend into the Abyss, so they had no connection to the Abyss, the source of the pollution.

"Mr. Richard, when did this fish-man corpse become polluted?"

"Well," Richard rubbed his chin. "About a day later? I'm not sure of the exact time."

"Ash, are there any more bodies on the coast?"

"Also, we deliberately left it untouched, intending to use it to intimidate other murlocs."

"Okay, get someone to keep an eye on those corpses and see when they change. Remember to stay away from them. Both the sea and the pollution are dangerous."

"yes."

These fishmen are becoming more and more weird. Zeus originally thought that these guys were just monsters that could be dealt with at will, and those sea urchins or polluted snakes were his real enemies. Now it seems that it is hard to say, and the truth is becoming more and more confusing.

"My lord, there are actually some problems with the merman's corpse." Richard interrupted Zeus's thoughts.

He pulled out a few sheets of paper from the drawer under the table. On them were some cross-sectional drawings drawn in the style of sketches. Hughes frowned at the first glance.

"This is the diagram I drew after dissecting the murloc's internal organs. Actually, after dissecting the murloc you provided, I collected several other murloc corpses for dissection. Please take a look at these diagrams."

Richard took out another sketch and compared it with the first.

Zeus' pupils dilated instantly.

"As you can see, the first fish-man only has a heart and a stomach inside, and they're not connected to anything. The heart isn't connected to any blood vessels, and the stomach isn't connected to any intestines. They're just hanging there like a decoration."

"As for the second fishman, there was nothing inside his body. No organs, not even a cavity. It seemed to be just a lump of flesh."

"I have a hunch that the internal structures of these fishmen may not be the same. However, this requires more corpses to verify. This is just a guess for now."

"Don't worry, you'll be able to verify your idea soon." Hughes licked his lips. "Pack up and follow me to the east coast. I just received news that more murlocs have landed there."

"If you're lucky, you might even be able to dissect a sea urchin."

(End of this chapter)