A common tavern that connects all fantasy worlds

Chapter 34 Teachers and Students

"Get out, get out! There is no room for a student like you who doesn't respect teachers in my classroom!"

In a certain classroom of the Miskatonic School of Medicine, Professor Hill, with his head full of white hair and a long face twitching with anger, yelled at a certain direction under the podium.

"...My study career can't tolerate a dirty quack who ignores the truth for the sake of his own poor authority. You are simply dishonoring and misleading students!"

Herbert stood up and protested loudly.

I don't know if what happened last night made him feel bad. Anyway, in today's brain neurology class, this exchange student got into a fight with Professor Hill again.

Dan next to him was happy to see some conflicts between the two, and asked Professor Hill not to keep staring at him, and let the old guy taste what it was like to be blocked and speechless.However, if the conflict between the two becomes too intense, it is not good. As an exchange student at the University of Zurich, Herbert will not fail to graduate or be expelled or something, at worst, he will be sent back to Europe; Once again, Professor Hill's attention would be entirely on him.

So Dan tugged on the sleeve of his roommate next to him, trying to tell him to sit down, or just get out and stop confronting the professor.

However, Professor Hill refused to let Herbert go, and immediately roared: "What truth? You come to question my theory without any data from clinical trials, and you have no scientific spirit, compared to those critics who only throw violent theories. The family is even more disgusting, and your medical studies seem to be in vain!"

"Who said I didn't? Your six to 6-minute time limit is just speculation, and the fact is that proteins stay active much longer than you think, and can even be activated after hours."

Herbert said, packing up his things angrily, planning to leave the classroom immediately.

But Professor Hill on the podium suddenly narrowed his eyes and sneered at him: "Now I won't allow you to go out."

After saying this, he turned around and opened the door of the classroom, calling the campus police.

In similar schools in the United States, school police are not only responsible for protecting the safety of school personnel and school property; in many cases, they are also responsible for implementing educational punishment, that is, interviewing, confinement, corporal punishment of students who make mistakes, or supervision. Students perform labor tasks.

Herbert's quarrel with the teacher in this class obviously didn't reach the point of confinement or corporal punishment. After all, Miscattoni Medical College is a university, and the students have already grown up, so they can't be dealt with in the same way as middle school students...University compared Middle school is always relatively free, even medical universities that emphasize discipline.

After the campus police came, they just took Herbert away from class and had an interview...Professor Hill was supposed to attend, but he left angrily after class. To make fun of it, I just found the dean of the school, a good old man, that is, Megan's father, old Halsey.

"All right……"

Dan, who was left alone, knew that the interview would definitely last for a long time. After that, he didn't have to wait for his roommate because he had no classes after that, and he could go home first.

As for Herbert, he is not a child and will come back after the interview.

While arranging his notes, he suddenly remembered that the "Paladin" was not at home today... He seemed to say something was wrong with the "Holy Light" and he wanted to go out to see the world.

At that time Dan only asked two questions, what is the Holy Light?Why did it go wrong to see the world?

Paladin Jace couldn't answer.

Holy light, holy light can be a kind of energy, but it can also be a kind of belief, and it can even be a kind of moral code; however, none of the paladins have tortured themselves about what holy light is.

If the Holy Light really represents the justice, fairness, and goodness that people pursue, why do the paladins in the Hand of Zakarum continue to use it?

Those people are judging the innocent, using their power to enrich themselves, and branding all who oppose them as heretics!

Is the Holy Light just a kind of energy?Is it just because there are demons in the world, so there must be opposite forces, like light and shadow?

Those who believe in it are not so stupid.

This is what people need for God. They are afraid that He will be completely silent, make no response, and not be changed by human beings, and they are also afraid that He will care too much about human beings, so that human beings can only live according to His ideas.

Jess couldn't figure it out no matter what he thought, but he knew that there was no holy light in this world... So he decided to meet some people to see where their moral values ​​came from and what kind of common consciousness this society is made of. Stay connected, and then look back to see what people who believe in the Holy Light look like.

Therefore, there is no one in that rental house now.

On a quiet street, on a sunny afternoon, a car parked on a street corner not far from the house.

Dr. Carl Hill, a neurologist and senior professor of medical school who did not participate in the interview with Herbert, got out of the car.

He immediately realized something was wrong after being reprimanded by Herbert in class... The boy's words were so firm and his description of the time range sounded as if he had really done a similar experiment and obtained the data.

Professor Hill has always said that he does not agree with Herbert's views, but in fact it is exactly as the young man said... He only tried his best to suppress the backward and refused to admit that his views were problematic in order to maintain his authority.

In other words, he can accept new theories, and even accept new theories that overturn his previous research-as long as the theory is published by himself.

For this reason, he came here today, near the house shared by Herbert and Dan.

Although he does not have this power as a professor, Dean Horsey has the power to manage students. Professor Hill accidentally looked through the dean's records and knew the addresses of the two young people.

There is no relevant record of the laboratory in the college. If that guy really did the experiment, it must be in this house... The records and data must also be here.

It's just that when Hill came to the door of the house, he discovered another thing by accident...

Megan Horsey's bicycle was hidden behind a tree in the corner of the bush. If he hadn't wanted to enter the house through the window from here, he really wouldn't have found it.

His heart sank. After entering the house, he didn't go directly to find Herbert's experiment records. Instead, he tiptoed to the second floor of the house and stepped into the corridor.

The laughter and panting of men and women were heard from the bedroom on the side. Professor Hill's eyes widened, and he gently pushed the door open a gap.

The people inside were, of course, Dan and his girlfriend Megan.

Taking advantage of the fact that there was no one at home and the dean was busy, the two young men and women who were passionately in love returned home and seized the short time to enjoy the world of two.

Dan didn't tell his girlfriend about the cat... the fact that it happened to it was too tragic for Megan to accept, and he certainly wouldn't make fun of himself.

Unbeknownst to the young couple, just a few feet away from them, another person was witnessing what was happening in the room, and even became angry because of it.

Professor Hill's anger almost exhausted his reason, and his heart kept roaring crazily.

"This little bitch, this bitch..."

Ever since he'd met Megan at the college's welcome party two or three years ago, knowing she was Dean Horsey's daughter, he'd had an unspoken, nasty desire in his mind.

As Megan's elder, he absolutely shouldn't have such an idea, but it just happened.

Every time the body full of youth and vigor walked past him, he would be full of longing, as if the old and emaciated self suddenly went away at that moment, and he could regain the passion of his youth.

He didn't expect that Dan and Megan would get together a long time ago.

Professor Hill knew that there was something wrong between Dan and Megan, even a blind man could see it... But in his mind, Megan was very well behaved, and she came home before the curfew every day, and her father was also strict , the two of them should have made no substantial progress.

But the scene before his eyes had already shattered his fantasy. Seeing the girl who made his heart regain his youth was making love to her boyfriend in the room, his heart ached like a torment.

Possessiveness, jealousy, disappointment and anger at his old body made him unable to look at it any longer, so he could only back away quietly and look into another room.

Herbert's room is very tidy, everything is in good order, and there is even a small freezer, specially used to store important items... After last night, Herbert certainly felt that it was not safe to keep the medicine in the basement, Maybe it would be destroyed by his unclear roommate and his weird friends.

In addition to the medicine, he also transferred the cat's tissue samples and his own experimental data to his room.

Professor Hill was first attracted by the microscope. He probed into the eyepiece and saw the fleshy tissue in the petri dish that was still wriggling and responding to the environment.

Looking at the experimental records on the other side, it turned out that Herbert had completely recorded the data of each experiment... This is a must-have quality for people engaged in scientific research, and it is naturally convenient for the old professor here and now.

The more Professor Hill flipped through the experimental records, the more surprised he was. Like Dan in the past, he didn't believe that any "potion" could bring the dead back to life, but the cat's tissue was still moving in the petri dish. The experimental data are also very sufficient, and he has to believe it if he doesn't believe it.

However, there are very few records related to human experiments, and it cannot prove that this drug can work normally on humans.

"In this way, I still have a chance to keep this research as my own!" Professor Hill thought to himself, quickly opened the freezer, and put all the fluorescent green medicine stored in it into the backpack that he carried with him.

Herbert didn't have the resources for human experimentation, but he did... The mortuary of the affiliated hospital is full of people who died not long ago, so this should be enough to complete the experiment!

If he publishes the research results first, he will quickly become famous in the medical field. By then, Dan Kane and old Halsey will be nothing but soft persimmons at his disposal.

The world's first doctor who solved "death" sounds so pleasing to the ear!

Chapter 35 Curiosity

Interestingly, when people discuss "longevity", they seem to default to another key word, which is "immortality".

Asking a person to live to 20 years old with a 200-year-old posture and asking a person to live to 70 years old with a 200-year-old posture are two completely different things.

No one likes the taste of aging, but aging is the only way for everyone... Especially Professor Hill, he is getting old, and he hates his declining physical fitness. coming illnesses, and declining cognitive abilities.

The potion found by Herbert today has rekindled his hope for life... According to the experimental records, this potion can not only reverse the process of death, but also greatly improve the user's physical function , even "stronger than alive".

Taking a closer look at the preparation process of the potion, Professor Hill frowned again.

Does it still need ionization... How did that kid manage this operation in this kind of rental house?

Unable to understand, he looked around, and simply stuffed valuable things such as experimental records, tissue samples, and medicines into the freezer, then opened the window, and hung it down from the second floor with a power cord.

But a few minutes later, he drove away avoiding everyone's eyes and ears, while Dan and Meghan were still cuddling together and did not want to separate.

It didn't take long for Herbert, who had been stayed in school for a while, to return to the rental house.

The dean's warning had no effect on him. If it weren't for some exclusive materials in the library of this school, he would never have come to the United States... let alone graduated from what "Miscatonia".Who the hell has heard of this university?Is the medical school here famous?

Speaking of materials, the library here is actually open to everyone, so even if he is not a student of this university, he can still find what he needs.

To put it simply, even if he was punished or even expelled, it would have no effect on him at all.

He didn't come here to become an outstanding doctor after graduation... Herbert just wanted his medicine to be completed smoothly.

But when he opened the door of his room, what he saw was that all the medicines and experimental records, including the freezer, had disappeared, and the whole room was turned into a mess.

Herbert West was furious, and it immediately occurred to him that Dan and that strange "friend" must have come into his room in his absence and destroyed his research.

He immediately rushed out of his room, knocked open the door of Dan's room next to him, and angrily said, "You two really don't know what to do!"

Dan, who was hugging with his girlfriend, was dumbfounded by his scolding, and subconsciously retorted: "What are you talking about?"

It was only then that Herbert could see the situation in the room and the ambiguous atmosphere, knowing what the two of them were doing before.

But he didn't doubt his own judgment because of this. Besides Dan and Jess, who else would know what experiments he did and what he came up with?Especially the black man, he seemed to hold some kind of outdated morality, and he couldn't even accept animal experiments, so he was the most suspicious.

"You know it in your heart! What you are trying to destroy is the greatest medical discovery of this century, the last hope for mankind to get rid of the shackles. You have also studied the history of medicine. Do you remember how anatomy developed in the beginning? Every era The definitions of morality and ethics are different, if the predecessors were as conservative as you, we would not have the medicine we have today!"

Herbert said emphatically that Dan never knew he would have so much to say one day from his silent and cold roommate.

The guy pushed his glasses and continued: "Only the exploration of unknown areas is the reason why we have come to this day as a species. I will not give up pursuing more for the reason of 'some individuals will be harmed'." A wider, more meaningful moral quest: freeing humanity from death!"

Dan came to his senses and immediately retorted angrily: "But if it is completely out of the constraints of ethics and morality, then medicine is meaningless! Medicine is a 'science of treating diseases'. It itself was born out of humanitarianism and empathy. Relief and comfort for people's equality, your words that only consider the significance of the experiment and do not consider the ethics of behavior are completely negating medicine!"

In fact, when he said this, Dan himself did not fully agree.

As Herbert said, many important modern medical discoveries came from the "immoral" research behavior at that time.But after Herbert made this matter clear, Dan could no longer "fuzzy" his position, and he was actually more inclined to the current mainstream view: medical ethics is meaningful and must be followed. of.

"Excellent." Herbert sneered back, turned his head and walked downstairs again.

The recipes and experimental records were destroyed, but his brain is still there, and it won't be over... First, he has to go back to the library, refer to the materials he values ​​most, and rewrite the recipes in his mind .

Moreover, this university also has a raw material that cannot be replaced in the channel formula: cattail bean calyx that can only be produced in a small town called "Dunwich".

Only then did Dan think of his girlfriend, Megan, who was covering his body with the sheet, and said to him with an expression of "enough is enough":

"Dan, I don't want to care about the things between you boys, and I didn't understand what you said just now... But it's not because of me that Herbert has a problem with you?"

"No, of course not. The 'you two' in his mouth refers to me and that friend that day. You also saw the one with the big suitcase." Dan quickly comforted him, and he was in no mood to continue making out with his girlfriend. He put on his clothes quickly: "...I'm afraid something will happen to them, I have to go and see."

"Go ahead, it's important." Megan shrugged, then go home early today... I hope my father won't notice anything unusual.

On the other side, Jess, a paladin wandering around the world, happened to come to the library of Miskatonic University.

He took a tour of the town, but because of being targeted by law enforcement officers when he first arrived, he always had to avoid people wearing the same uniform, which made this human observation trip take a lot longer than planned.

However, with his outstanding comprehension ability, he roughly understood what the people on the street were doing, which class they belonged to, and whether they had faith.

Unsurprisingly, advances in civilization and technology have not produced a more equal world.

Maybe "equality" is just a wish after all, even those who believe that the paladin will eventually become the hand of Zakarum take their privileges for granted.

On a certain street corner in town, a fat man in some sort of religious attire was yelling at people on the roadside.The sign on his chest reads "The end is near, believe in the Lord and you will have eternal life", and he kept preaching some kind of speeches such as "We have sinned and must ask the Lord for forgiveness", "Don't escape your own sins", and even burst into tears .

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Jess stood in the alley watching the man for a while.

The reason why he knew that the other party was wearing religious clothes was because the toga with large sleeves was obviously different from the clothes of other people on the street, and there was a cross shape on the front that was very familiar to the paladins.

Jess understands that there is no "holy light" in this world, and what the other party believes in is a god called "God". However, the moral requirements of God for human beings that the preacher said are quite close to the beliefs of paladins.

This man's faith didn't bring him any power above average, even those young students who obviously didn't believe in God and hated his behavior could knock him back on purpose.

But even so, the paladin felt that his faith was pure... the kind that had literally renounced ego and surrendered to what he considered "noble things."

As for whether it is true or not...is it really that important?

After leaving that street, Jess turned left and right, and came to the university campus again.

He heard from Dan that the library here is second to none even in the whole world, and the quantity and quality of the collections are enough to stand out from its peers.Only here are the ancient and lonely copies of many unpopular books, and even some books that have never been published are also included.

However, when he just walked near the library, he saw another familiar figure sneaking out of the library in front of him, sticking to the side of the road and the corner of the wall, trotting all the way towards a certain direction.

"Isn't that... Herbert?"

Jess was shocked, he felt wrong, this guy created that zombie cat that seemed to be corroded by demonic power just by using the "potion", and now his actions on campus seemed so suspicious.

The paladin avoided Herbert's view and began to follow him at a distance.

Jess's stalking skills were much better than Herbert's. He didn't appear to attract the attention of those around him, but he could also cling to the person he wanted to stalk without being noticed by the other party.

After walking for a while, Jess realized that Herbert was also following another person...a gray-haired professor who looked very old.