Chapter 116 "She's almost a dragon now."

In the end, Edith was the only one who succeeded in getting the bird to stand on her hand in that class.

The thing seemed to have some rebellious psychology. Every time Edith tried to let it go, it would grab her arm tightly with its claws and dig into her clothes, leaving several scratches.

In the end, she simply gave up struggling and secretly planned to take the bird away, but unexpectedly it jumped off her body, flapped its wings and disappeared.

"What a pity." She looked at the disappearing shadow and sighed sincerely.

Amy, who was standing next to him, looked desperate and raised her hand to gesture something. Edith put her ear close to him, but heard nothing.

"He was bullied by the sound-eating birds." Tuttle gloated, "He kept trying and failed, and finally all his voices were fed to the birds."

"Can you still talk?"

Bell jumped out from the corner, "We still have to discuss things tonight, don't be too embarrassed to speak then."

Unexpectedly, Bell's words finally came true.

When night fell and everyone settled down in the reading room, Amy was still able to open her mouth but could not speak, which made Edith curious.

"Is this bird so durable?"

"Yes, thanks to the bird-eater, we don't have to listen to his yelling today." Tuttle stroked his chest, "Thank the goddess."

Amy slammed the table angrily, but no sound was made.

“What a magical creature.”

Edith reluctantly shifted her attention away from the monster and turned to look at Tuttle who was sitting upright: "Have you found the medical records?"

"Yes." The other party nodded modestly, took out the medical record from a pile of concealed books beside him, and handed it to Edith.

"Is this a medical record?!" Heda exclaimed, leaning forward to examine it. "...It's so thick, almost as thick as a book."

She thought it was another layer of protection, and the real medical records were actually hidden in this book.

"It's just that thick." Tuttle sighed, "I hope my parents won't go through that locked cabinet these days..."

Edith frowned and turned directly to the last page. "Not only does it look like a book, it is actually made to look like a book."

That would be very strange.

Normal medical records are small books, and when they are full, they are replaced with new ones, or at most several books are clamped together at the back. But although Qiao's sister's medical records are very thick, there are no signs of collage, the outer packaging of the book is complete, the handwriting inside is the same, the ink marks have faded to a similar degree, and the time difference is not very large, but the dates of the medical records inside are actually separated by a long time - this should be a re-copied version after sorting.

Tuttle's parents deliberately left all treatment plans.

But why should a person’s medical records be made into a separate book?

"Because she is worth studying," Tuttle said. "That's the only reason."

“But the book ends.”

Edith pointed to the last page. The last record was from the year before last. Although no new medical conditions were recorded after that, it did not directly say "this book ends here."

It's like a novel with an open ending.

Would the end of the medical record of a girl who is worthy of research be so casual?

"Read the content first." Bell reminded, "Nothing is more important than the content."

Edith nodded and opened the first page in front of everyone.

......

She ended up watching it for a full three hours.

There was still an hour left before the library closed, but everyone was in no hurry. They just waited quietly for Edith to absorb freely.

I had originally planned to finish reading the medical records quickly, so I called everyone together. I didn't expect that it would be so difficult for one person to read. There were too many people, and it was inconvenient to squeeze together. It would be better to sit where they were and wait for Edith to summarize after she finished reading.

Hedda threw a candy into her mouth out of boredom.

"You brought food to the reading room?" Mu Lin's eyes widened. "Isn't this allowed?"

"It's okay, we brought our own tea." Heda said indifferently. But seeing the eyes of the people around him gradually gathering around him, he couldn't help but shrink his neck.

"What else did you bring?" Bell understood her actions very well.

Hedda still hunched her neck. Then, she slowly took out a bag of candy, a bag of biscuits, and a whole jar of honey from her bag.

Everyone immediately lost interest.

"So sweet." Bell pinched his nose.

Tuttle kindly reminded: "Put it away. Eating sweets and drinking tea in the reading room are two different things... The former is too likely to attract bugs that eat books."

"Sweets?" Edith caught the key words and suddenly raised her head from the pages of the book. "I feel dizzy. Give me some."

Her brain was in desperate need of sugar right now.

Without saying a word, Tuttle snatched a handful of candy from Hedda and placed it next to Edith.

Heda: “?”

Didn’t we just stop eating sweets in the reading room?

Edith was not polite. She tore off three candy wrappers in one breath and threw all the candies into her mouth, chewing them with a loud crunch, as if she was venting her anger.

"How's it going?" Bell asked with concern.

Edith felt her mind clear up a little. She quickly finished reading the last page, looked up and answered Bell's question, "I just read it through and figured out some things."

She didn't look at the experimental data carefully, but only looked at the treatment process and results - after all, her purpose was just to understand the Rodney family's attitude towards treating their children.

Everyone sat up straight at the same time.

"Why are you so excited?" Bell glanced at Tuttle. "Isn't this the medical record from your family? Haven't you seen it?"

"I read it once, but I didn't understand it." Tuttle was very frank and readily admitted the problem. "To be honest, I can understand the initial plan given by my parents, but the changes made by the Rodney family themselves... I'm sorry I can't understand it."

This made people even more curious.

Edith rubbed her brows: "Actually, I also..."

If it weren't for the fact that this was a treatment plan, she almost thought she had accidentally entered a cult that was not related to the Goddess sect.

"It was normal at the beginning." Edith turned back to the first page, pressed the edge of the book with her fingertips and gently pushed it to the center of the table. "In the first treatment, Tuttle's parents carefully measured the girl's physical parameters and then prescribed a relief plan."

Jennifer Rodney, the third daughter of the Rodney family, had her legs fused together since she was a child and could not walk, but she did not see a doctor for the first time until she was six years old. Before that, the Rodney family seemed to have used some kind of ancient spell to keep the girl in a state of not eating or drinking, only consuming magic power.

"I remember that pure magic feeding was popular decades ago, but wasn't it later proven to be wrong?" Bell tilted his head, "Those children were all skinny and short. Although their magic capacity was indeed higher than others, their bodies couldn't support it at all. Many of them died on the spot after their internal organs exploded after being attacked by a spell."

The king at the time, who was the father of the current queen, quickly stopped this practice and cracked down on the misconception of pure magic feeding across the country, which saved many children.

"Jennifer is here for treatment, so it's not hard to understand." Edith sighed. "She lies in bed all day and can't exercise, so her energy consumption is low. From the description, when she was six years old, her skin was pale, but she was a little fatter than the first batch of victims who were fed with magic."

After the age of six, it was not known whether the Rodney family realized that the child was growing older and needed more and more energy, and that magical feeding could no longer sustain life, or whether it was because they discovered Jennifer's talent after enlightenment and wanted to train her to be an heir, and urgently needed to give her a normal body - in short, six years later, when her body had been destroyed, Tuttle's parents were finally invited to the Rodney family mansion.

They first discovered that the girl's body was incredibly weak, but her magic reserve was incredibly high - this was the inevitable result of magic feeding. Then, the two of them explored Jennifer's body and found that the adhesion of the lower body did not have any real tissue - no bones, blood vessels, or various organs.

It was just a piece of meat stuck together.

Above that piece of meat, Jennifer's stomach was different from that of ordinary people. It was a small bag that only took in but not gave out, with no passage leading to anywhere else.

"The Tuttle parents felt very embarrassed. They believed that Jennifer would never be able to walk or eat food in her lifetime." Edith concluded, "Even if their lower body was cut off completely and a spell was used to make it grow again, it would most likely look the same as before. They decided to develop some food that could be completely digested in the stomach without producing waste, in order to enrich Jennifer's body - but Earl Rodney refused."

He first asked to stuff a dried dragon blood vessel into Jennifer's throat, allowing her to eat normally using half of her throat, and then excrete the undigested parts of the stomach through the dragon blood vessel.

The Tuttle parents had no choice but to do as they were told.

Then he changed the treatment plan, requiring the two to help Jennifer grow a new pair of legs without cutting off her existing legs - a pair of complete new legs that could walk.

"That's impossible." Mu Lin frowned, "How can you make someone grow new limbs out of thin air?"

"I don't know. It's not written in the medical records. I just know that when his parents went to see him next time, Jennifer already had a new leg."

"To put it simply, the two of them went for treatment several more times, but the treatment plans became increasingly strange, and Jennifer's condition also became increasingly strange." Edith counted on her fingers, "Sometimes they asked us to harden her skin, and sometimes they asked us to lengthen her teeth..."

She turned to the last page of the medical record: "The last time the two saw each other was two years ago. They felt that the girl still needed treatment, but the Rodney family felt that she was 'well'."

That’s why this case has no ending. Because they were no longer following up, the two could not continue writing, and could only keep all the evidence with doubts, and left the following sentence at the end of the book:

"She's practically a dragon now."