How to become a mermaid

Chapter 321 Eternity and Hope

Nick's tumor had obviously returned, and it was worse than the last time.

Seeing its miserable state at this time, Zorro was angry and shocked, and couldn't help scolding: "Nick, why did you come here? Didn't you ask you to come back for a review every three months!"

"Woo—!" Nick let out a painful and aggrieved whine, and said, "I'm sorry, I forgot before."

"After I left the North Pole, I encountered a small group of beluga whales. There were several female killer whales around my age, so I stayed for a while longer, trying to find a partner for myself..."

Hearing the reasons given by Nick, Zorro was still a little angry, but he could understand.

It sighed, and said to Nick: "I'm sorry...I said it too seriously, I shouldn't scold you."

"It's my fault... I wasted my time." Nick lowered his head, his huge eyes full of regret.

"Then have you found your partner?" Zorro asked again.

"No..." Hearing this question, Nick was even more lost.

It looked frustrated, almost crying, and said: "I was sad for a long time after being rejected by them. I wandered in the sea every day, and I don't know how long it has passed."

"Suddenly one day, I found that my stomach hurts again... That's when I remembered to look for you."

"I'm sorry doctor! I was wrong! Please help me, I don't want to die—!" Nick became emotional at this time, crying to Zorro for help.

"Hey..." Zorro sighed again, waved his fins and said, "There is no point in apologizing now. I will try my best to save you. You must not disobey the doctor's orders this time!"

"I will definitely—!" Hearing that Zorro was willing to forgive himself, Nick flicked his tail heavily, with an excited expression on his face.

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Nick's relapsed tumor this time was more serious than Zorro expected.

The one in the stomach can still be controlled, but the one on the head is troublesome.

It was an osteosarcoma, and it was almost growing into Nick's brain. To remove it, Nick's head had to be cut open.

This kind of surgery is a huge challenge for a creature of ordinary size, let alone a behemoth like Nick.

Zoro visited dozens of colleagues in the North Pole, wanting to see if they could do anything, but all got only one result: there is no hope, wait for death!
Regarding this result, although Zorro already had a premonition in his heart, he was still unwilling to accept it.

Even if it's the result of Nick's own negligence, it's not willing to give up any glimmer of hope.

For this reason, Zorro used magic medicine to curb the proliferation of tumors, and at the same time consulted a large number of related books, hoping to find a solution from them.

"There must be a potion that can save Nick! As long as you are alive, there must be hope!"

"I, Zorro Pickfance, hereby swear that I will never let a living life die before my eyes!"

With this belief, Zorro studied potion knowledge day and night, and finally found a clue in his master's potion notes!

Zorro's master is named Piero, an old penguin in the family.

Ever since Zorro knew Pierrot, it has been an old penguin, walking wobbly, talking slowly, looking as if it is going to die soon.

However, it is just such a trembling old penguin, who insists on living day after day, year after year, and even gets younger and more energetic.

Zorro once thought that Pierrot would go on forever, and even boil himself to death.

However, an accident happened suddenly.

On a sunny spring day, Pierrot went down to swim in the sea to exercise his body. Unexpectedly, he encountered a ferocious devil shark on the road, and his body was torn into several sections and died on the spot.

Zoro didn't even have time to see him for the last time, and he was separated from him forever.

The sudden death of the master made Zoro sad for a long time.

It sealed up Pierrot's belongings and never touched them again.

If it wasn't for finding a treatment plan for Nick this time, Zorro would not have thought of looking through Pierrot's notebook, let alone find a special interlayer in the notebook and find that special potion.

--【eternal】

When Zorro first saw this name, he was still very confused, not knowing what this potion was for.

However, after seeing the words written by Piero himself, it suddenly widened its eyes.

[The lifespan of living things is limited, even those as powerful as dragons are no exception.

When aging reaches a certain level, it will usher in death. This seems to be a natural law that no living thing can violate.

However, is this really absolute?

No, it's not absolute!There is a thing that can break through this limitation!
Tumor!Yes, that's right, a tumor!
I have a tumor excised from a patient in my lab that has survived for 100 years and is still alive today!

This is an existence that breaks through the limit of lifespan, as long as it is given a certain amount of energy, it can survive forever.

Immortal, endless!
If the mystery of the tumor can be unearthed, it will no longer be a demon that takes the lives of creatures, but a key, a key that can open the door to eternal life!
I can feel that my time is running out, and maybe in a few years, I will reach the limit of my life span.

But I don't want to die yet!Before the end of my life, I must go crazy!
Hidden from the rest of the penguins, I started a secret experiment to study tumors.

During that time, hundreds of little howling beasts died under my hands, their wailing echoed in my ears, and the ashes of their bodies could fill an igloo, but I still got nothing.

I tried the experiment over and over again, and failed every time.

Tumor...it is indeed a demon, a greedy, out-of-control, predatory demon!

Not to mention manipulating it, I can't even stop it.

This result made me very discouraged, and even wanted to give up for a while.

but…

Turning point appeared!
On the day when I walked out of the laboratory in frustration, I saw many new lives in the population.

They are the newly hatched little penguins this year, each of them looks so young, so full of vigor, and has an infinite future, but me, I am already a dying old penguin, and I can’t even walk steadily. The only thing waiting for my future is death.

Such a contrast makes me extremely unwilling.

It would be great if you could lend me their lifespan!

And if only I could start over like them!

At that moment, a terrible jealousy sprang up in me, and... a line of thought that I had never imagined before!

When life dies, life is born.

Obviously it is a creature with a limited lifespan, why can it be passed down from generation to generation?

New life, embryos, tumors... Will there be a connection between them?

This idea sprouted unstoppably in my mind, for this reason, I couldn't wait to start a new round of experiments, and made progress!
After adding the still-developing embryonic eggs of the crocodile, the improved potion I made has the ability to control the differentiation of tumors in the crocodile!
Before this, those tumors just proliferated chaotically, like a wild beast out of control, but now it's different, they can differentiate into other tissues!

Bones, blood, muscles, skin...etc.

These originally hideous demons are restrained!
Little Scream has been given new life.

Originally aging individuals become younger and younger, and the wounds on their bodies will heal at a speed visible to the naked eye. Even if the heart stops beating, or even the body is cut into several sections, they can be restored after they are pieced together to realize the true meaning Resurrection!

Unless they are all consumed with fire...they are immortal!
I created something horrible.

But instead of regretting it, I welcomed it ecstatically!
[Eternal], I named this potion Eternal!
It is the treasure that continues my life, and it is also my highest masterpiece!
I successfully let myself grow a tumor, and plan to use eternity to make myself immortal.

However... an accident happened.

The potion, which was very successful on the little screaming beast, failed to work on me.

The tumor is growing day by day, but it cannot be differentiated according to my needs.

I was desperate and thought this was a joke made by the God of the Sea.

That's right...even the high gods will fall, how dare an old penguin talk about eternal life?
But!I can not be reconciled!Not reconciled!
After so much painstaking effort and so much effort, is it just a waste of time in the end?
In desperation, I thought of the little penguins I saw that day.

Since the embryonic eggs of Little Call Beast are added in the process of dispensing the medicine, it can control the effective differentiation of the tumor in Little Call Beast.

So... what about the penguins?

In order to live forever, I made a crazy decision.

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On this piece of paper, a long section of content has been crossed out.

Dark and thick lines swayed chaotically on the paper, trying to cover up the dirty and crazy things Pierrot did.

However, a few words still escaped from the gap in the black line.

[Lie], [Deceit], [Penguin Egg], [Crack], [Egg Embryo], [Experiment], [One Hundred and Three], [Blood Relative] and... [Eternity].

Seeing this, Zoro's pupils trembled slightly, and his chest heaved violently.

It remembers... One year, goose plague occurred in the group, and all the newborn penguins and those unhatched penguin eggs in the group died, and none of them survived!

It turns out... all this is a lie?

There is no goose plague at all, everything is a conspiracy planned by Piero!

"Pa-ta...Pa-ta..." Big tears rolled down from Zoro's eyes and dripped onto the paper recording Piero's crazy ravings.

"Hey!" Zorro rubbed the paper vigorously and let out a painful growl: "Pierrot, you lunatic! Demon! What the hell have you done——!"

"They... are all our compatriots...!"

"One hundred and three little penguins, just buried in your hands!"

Tears soaked the paper and blurred the writing.

【sorry…】

Seeing this blurred line of writing on the paper, Zorro showed a more painful expression on his face.

"What's the use of saying sorry, they'll never forgive you! Never!"

"What shit is eternity, it's just a devil that deprives other lives!"

"Using my own family to make medicine, and those innocent children, this damn potion shouldn't appear in this world!"

"Hiss—!" Grabbing the paper, Zoro angrily tore it to shreds.

"Pierrot! Thanks to the fact that I shed tears at your funeral, I should have let all the penguins in the whole family shit on you, soaking you in dung water and living forever! Burning you clean with a fire Too cheap for you!"

Piero, who wanted to live forever, died under the attack of the Devil Shark, and was cremated in the mourning of his fellow clansmen. His body was completely swallowed by the fire, and he completely lost the hope of "resurrection".

This may be its retribution, but it is too late, and the little penguins who died because of it will never come back.

Zorro originally wanted to announce Pierrot's actions, but after careful consideration, he finally gave up the idea.

Not because it still remembers the old relationship between master and apprentice, but because it is afraid of greed.

If the news of [Eternity] spread, it would cause much commotion.

The entire North Pole, no, the entire Auer star will be in chaos!
Those greedy guys like Pierrot will rush towards the North Pole frantically like vultures smelling carrion, killing wantonly for the formula of [Eternity].

The originally quiet and peaceful land of the North Pole will be stained with countless blood, and even suffer from annihilation!

Zorro didn't want to see this kind of thing happen, so it didn't say anything, and destroyed all Pierrot's research materials by itself, blocking the eternal news.

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Although Zorro believes that the birth of [Eternal] was a mistake, it has to be said that it has drawn inspiration from it.

It found a cure for Nick!
After a routine check, Zoro asked Nick, "Nick, what kind of female whale do you like?"

"Doctor, why are you asking this question? Do you want to introduce someone to me?" Nick was a little puzzled, and looked at Zorro suspiciously.

"That's not what it means!" Zorro shook his head.

It pointed to the position of Nick's genital opening, and said bluntly: "I need you to imagine the appearance of the female whale you like in your mind, and then launch something!"

"Huh???" Hearing this request suddenly, Nick was taken aback, and looked at Zorro with strange eyes.

It shook its tail and said to Zorro with a shy expression: "This...isn't that good? Doctor, are you serious? Are you kidding me?"

"I'm not kidding, I need your little tadpole to make a potion! Don't worry about it, launch it!" Zorro urged sternly.

Nick: "..."

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"Don't be fierce... I'll just do it!"

Although a little embarrassed, Nick still shyly completed the launch mission and provided Zorro with dozens of liters of freshly baked "potion materials".

Using this special material, after more than ten days of painstaking research, Zoro finally improved the formula of [Eternity] and created a brand new potion.

It named it - [Hope].

After drinking this drug, it can still control the differentiation of tumors and transform them into useful tissues for living organisms, but it will die soon after differentiation and cannot survive for long.

The large sarcoma on Nick's head and stomach gradually shrank under the effect of [Hope], and finally fell off naturally from his body.

Although this also accelerated the withering of some normal tissues in its body, making Nick's whole whale weaker, but at least it survived.

Nick, and Zorro, successfully defeated the disease again!

(End of this chapter)