Chapter 190 Anatomy

"Not really like a living being?" This answer really surprised Hughes. He looked at Richard in 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 several iron buckets under the shelves.

In the middle of the room was a dissection 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 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 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 had been a doctor before joining the Fire Moth, but was later expelled for performing private autopsies on corpses.

Although the world has seen a lot of technological development, people's thinking has turned conservative. 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 the mind first.

Therefore, research on the human body is naturally strictly prohibited. Moreover, in this era, dissecting corpses will be morally accused. 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 there was a circle of cloth around the joints. Hughes vaguely sensed some familiar smell from the barrel, and he couldn't help but frowned.

"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 contamination.

"What is this? Speaking of which, where is the body of the murloc?"

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

The bodies of the fishmen turned into pollution!? No wonder Richard just said that these things didn't look like living beings. How could living beings turn into pollution after death?

Even those polluted monsters will leave behind polluted flesh and blood after death, just like the polluted beasts that were transformed from the wolves on the island.

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

"All the murlocs turned into pollution after they died. I was shocked when I found out about this, so I went to the battlefield to check. The rest of the murlocs' bodies also turned into this state."

Xius 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?"

"I threw it directly into the sea."

"Have you noticed what they will look like?"

"What did it become?" Ash asked in a confused tone. "You mean corruption or something?"

"The bodies of fishless people will turn into pollution."

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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 even know about this?

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

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

Xiu Si thought about it, who would have thought that the corpses of normal creatures would become pollution? Moreover, the fishmen did not come from the Abyss. They could not even go down to the Abyss, and had no connection with the Abyss, the source of pollution.

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

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

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

"Also, we deliberately didn't deal with it, so we could use it to intimidate other fishmen."

"Okay, find 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 very 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 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 pieces of paper from the drawer under the table, on which were sketched some cross-sectional views. Hughes frowned at just one look.

"This is the diagram I drew after dissecting the internal organs of a murloc. In fact, after dissecting the murloc you provided, I collected several other murloc corpses for dissection. Please take a look at these pictures."

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 are not connected to anything. The heart is not connected to blood vessels, and the stomach is not connected to intestines. It just hangs 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 meat."

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

"It's okay. 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 another murloc has landed there."

"If you're lucky, you can even dissect a sea urchin."

(End of this chapter)