Marrow Replacement
Mading'er Town!
This once peaceful, Wasteland town was slowly approaching destruction, and no one could have imagined that the tile embedded in the top of the Mill would become a murder weapon.
Driven by the hurricane, the roof tiles, like sharp daggers, smashed into the head, leaving it a bloody mess.
The chains binding the slaves clanged. These creatures, whose souls had been searched and who had begun to become dazed, instinctively tried to avoid the storm's onslaught, but their bodies floated uncontrollably in mid-air, their arms stuck tightly to the animal pen.
Click!
The two forces clashed, and a result was determined.
Its arm was severed, and half of its body remained on the animal pen, fluttering like a tattered flag, while the other half had been swept into the sky, its whereabouts unknown.
Nightmare!
The Centaur trembled in the burrow, feeling the roof tiles being torn off one by one, and the howling hurricane seemed ready to rip his scalp off at any moment.
He escaped the Elves, but he couldn't escape the sudden hurricane.
"Flame Shield!"
A striking fiery red appeared amidst the hurricane; it was a group of Fire Elf who had never left. They held their wands high, and countless streams of crimson energy flowed into their heads, forming a protective shield.
This became a temporary refuge.
However, the hurricane tore through the protective shield, sending sparks flying, and cracks quickly appeared in the temporary shelter. At this moment, even these powerful Elves looked utterly defeated.
They stared blankly at the escalating storm, completely bewildered as to how it had come about.
Some had already started vomiting blood, but dared not stop outputting Magic Power.
They were frantically overdrawing their Magic Organ, yet even so, the crack continued to widen, and from that crack, one fragmented corpse after another flew in and quickly disappeared.
They were trembling; their keen senses told them it was magic, and they had clearly become the predators' target.
Despair began to show in their fearful eyes.
Everything in Mading'er was being destroyed; in the hurricane, only one voice roared madly.
"A little stronger, a little faster, and I can lock onto the eye of the storm."
Jon almost completely merged into the hurricane, driving the Magic Power to spin wildly, making the hurricane huge enough, and focusing all his attention on the phoenix eye. He was now completely confident that the core of the storm's power was underground.
"Hehe, I found it!"
Jon frantically pumped the hurricane, like an engine endlessly injecting energy into it.
Bang!
The hurricane tore the soil apart, and the rocks it struck turned to dust.
In the blink of an eye, Jon had burrowed into the ground, and now he was surrounded by hard rocks.
"Hiding here, no wonder I didn't find it!"
The closer he got to his goal, the more excited he became, as if he would see his own son at any moment.
Bang! Bang!
Stones that would take a mouse half a day to gnaw on turned to powder in an instant. Jon took a step forward, and the hard stones seemed to come alive and retreated on their own. But this was just an illusion. The stones were too fragile and were instantly vaporized by the Neon power the moment the Magic Power penetrated them.
"Come out, you rat!"
A beam of Neon Light pierced through the thick layer of rock; that was the eye of the storm he had targeted.
The rock layers fractured, revealing even harder sedimentary rock underneath.
But on the sedimentary rock, there was neither the familiar aura of his bloodline nor the wizard he had expected; instead, there was a patch of hard rock with dense patterns.
"Impossible, it should definitely be here!" Jon asked himself stupidly, but the facts before him told him that this place was just an underground rock.
"How could I be wrong? The eye of the storm is definitely here." Jon continued to question him, but no matter how he questioned him, there was no way he could have brought his son here.
Since he has no descendants of his own, that proves he is wrong.
Jon is in a hurry, but he needs to stay calm.
Recklessness will only make all your efforts go to waste.
"My power, it was my power that changed the storm's trajectory, the true eye of the storm shifted! Damn it, that damned woman, she deserved to die!" After muttering a few curses, his eyes suddenly brightened.
He found the reason.
Because the injection of its power alters the trajectory of the storm's rotation, it is equivalent to changing the location of the eye of the storm.
"The eye of the storm is indeed wrong, but it was definitely caused by this place. Therefore, he should be on this floor. As long as I search nearby, I can find my son."
This was the most valuable information he had obtained; at least it pinpointed what he was looking for—it was underground.
He smiled at the dark, craggy rocks, then suddenly two beams of bright red light shot from his eyes, instantly piercing through the hard rock.
"Not here!" he said, walking into the cave created by the beam of light.
Li Ziran rubbed his head. He felt something was off. Just as he fell asleep, a gentle breeze seemed to rise, but it disappeared when he woke up.
"Could it be my imagination?"
Li Ziran chuckled self-deprecatingly, "I wonder what's going on outside, whether those Elves have retreated or not. Sigh, I can't worry about that now. I should just get Nicole's bone marrow transplant as soon as possible and find a way to leave Mading'er."
Although he only rested for a short while, he is now full of energy, especially his spirits, which have recovered by more than half.
A successful kidney transplant is like completing a major project, while bone marrow replacement is much simpler.
All you need to do is scrape Nicole's bone marrow clean and then infuse it with the bone marrow of the Elf Descendant.
Especially in Frog mode, the speed is even faster; a rough estimate is that it can be completed in two hours.
"Get to work!"
Li Ziran stretched and cheered himself up. He hung the two Frog back on the crack in the rock above his head, picked up a scalpel, and began to gently cut open Nicole's thigh.
This time the incision was very deep, breaking through the flesh and landing directly on the bone; the sharp scalpel embedded itself deep inside the bone.
Bone marrow is located inside bones, and to extract it, an opening must be made in the bone.
Li Ziran began to pull, which normally would require a surgical saw, but due to a shortage of funds, they hadn't acquired such a professional tool yet, so they could only use a scalpel to slowly grind a cut into the bone.
It was very difficult; after about fifteen minutes, a cut about the width of a finger was finally made, and some tender white fluid seeped out from under the cut.
Li Ziran quickly placed the Thumb Bottle underneath. Soon, as the pulling became faster, the incision widened, and bone marrow dripped out like rain.
The bone marrow extraction has begun. All that's needed is to drain Nicole's bone marrow completely, then inject the Carnivorous Flower's liquid to cleanse her once more, and the extraction will be complete.
While extracting Nicole's bone marrow, Li Ziran continued to extract bone marrow from the Elf Descendant using the exact same method.
The bone marrow dripped down rhythmically, like a spring.
Li Ziran stared motionlessly at the two Thumb Bottle. This kind of waiting was the most boring, but there was nothing he could do. He couldn't just squeeze the marrow out of the two Frog like milking a cow.
The bones are hard; external methods are of little use, and all we can do is wait.
But the more Li Ziran looked at the Thumb Bottle, the more he felt something was wrong.
The bone marrow inside the Thumb Bottle was rippled, slowly moving from the bottle wall towards the center.
"Never seen it before?"
Li Ziran scratched his head. He had previously refined Frog bone marrow, which was just like extracting normal blood and wouldn't cause any fluctuations.
But now the bone marrow is vibrating from the outside of the bottle wall toward the center, and the ripples it creates collide with the ripples formed by the dripping bone marrow, creating a special kind of cross wave.
It felt like the bone marrow itself was vibrating.
"Could it be magical bone marrow?"
Since they are Ancient Elf, perhaps it's possible.
He tried to sense it with his mental power, but couldn't detect any trace of the rolling Elemental Tide. He smiled bitterly to himself, realizing that he really didn't have any talent. Even if there were intense elemental surges, he probably wouldn't be able to sense much of it.
This phenomenon is truly bizarre; the bone marrow itself is vibrating.
"Perhaps it really is an ability unique to Elves. This Nizi is truly blessed," Li Ziran chuckled to himself, without delving deeper.
The magical power of bone marrow is nothing like the special-looking mucous membrane on the kidneys; it's just a clump of creamy stuff. As for how this stuff affects the Elemental Tide, Li Ziran is completely clueless, like a fool.
After watching with curiosity for almost half an hour, finally, the two Frog drained their last drop of marrow.
Li Ziran turned Nicole upside down, took out the Carnivorous Flower's elixir that he had prepared beforehand, took a silver needle from his wizard's robe, inserted one end into the solution bottle, and the other end directly into the small opening that had just been made.
This silver needle is custom-made; it is hollow inside and can be considered a simple infusion tube.
The thick, ink-like liquid from the Carnivorous Flower began to slowly flow into Nicole's bones. This process would take about half an hour. Once the Carnivorous Flower Sap had flowed through the bone marrow, all the residue would be cleaned out, and then it would flow back out. At that point, the Elven Marrow could be transported in.
Thinking that the task was about to be completed, Li Ziran couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief. But looking at the several empty Thumb Bottle next to him, he smiled bitterly.
He had anticipated difficulties with this organ transplant, but he never imagined it would be this arduous. This surgery had almost completely depleted all the Magic Power potions he had on hand.
Buzz!
The Thumb Bottle suddenly shook.
"What's going on? Why is the shaking getting stronger? Could it be that the internal Magic Mutation?"
Magic Mutation occurs when a special magical item is placed in Elemental Tide, resulting in a unique change.
There are good and bad aspects, but neither is what Li Ziran wants to see.
Looking at the Thumb Bottle, the bone marrow inside was shaking violently, almost spilling out of the Thumb Bottle.
He had never seen such a strange phenomenon before.
Logically speaking, the Thumb Bottle is completely sealed. Even if there is a trace of Tide power remaining, it shouldn't cause such a severe reaction in the bone marrow.
Strange!