Chapter 169: Operation
Sol was polite, but his attitude did not allow for rejection.
Hayden hesitated for a long time, but finally agreed.
Because Thor added another sentence outside the door.
"Senior Hayden, do you know why apprentices who cannot be promoted to level three at the age of thirty are kicked out of the wizard tower?"
Hayden's grip on the door suddenly tightened. He stared at Thor's name tag and finally opened the door.
"Then come in. I'm not used to going anywhere else."
Thor readily agreed and stepped into the second morgue which was almost never open to outsiders.
As soon as he entered, Thor was shocked by the layout inside.
This is so neat and clean! Unlike Thor's messy lab table and overstuffed cabinets, Hayden's morgue is so neat and clean, like... an exhibition hall?
The innermost walls were lined with display cases, from floor to ceiling.
Each display cabinet is equipped with a glass door, allowing people to clearly see what is stored inside.
These cabinets, from top to bottom, contain parts of human or other creatures, including hair, eyes, nose, etc., all the way to feet.
The color also deepens a little bit from left to right.
But Thor could see at a glance that most of the limbs were normal.
In other words, they are all useless materials.
Hayden's tool bench was also unusually tidy; even the conveyor belts connecting the left and right sides were spotless, without a speck of dirt.
"Senior Hayden is really... good at organizing things."
Hayden clasped his hands together, pinching each other's knuckles.
“I just like to do things.”
Thor had never seen Hayden in the public class for first-level apprentices, and he was afraid that the other party had spent all his energy in the morgue.
"Thor, when you said that we should leave the tower at the age of thirty, wasn't it because the tower master felt that people with insufficient qualifications would waste the tower's resources?"
"I don't know if there is such a reason, but the most crucial reason is..." Thor dragged out his voice, but suddenly stopped when Hayden looked at him anxiously.
Hayden waited for a long time, and when he saw that Thor didn't say anything, he immediately understood what he meant.
He stopped asking questions about the matter and got down to business.
"Sol, you said you wanted to take something out of your eye. Can you describe its properties?"
Sol took out some reagents from his arms.
"I have already thought of the surgical plan, and I have the necessary materials with me all the time. It's just that it's not convenient to operate on my own eyes, so I came to trouble Senior Hayden."
Hayden was stunned. It turned out that he was just a tool. "Okay, then what do you need me to do?"
Saul explained the surgical procedure to Hayden in detail.
Hayden's mouth opened wider and wider, and exclamations like "Is this possible?" and "Is this true?" kept flying through his mind.
After explaining the process, Thor left Hayden, whose brain was overloaded, and began to prepare the potion.
He had long thought about taking out the cocoon of the nightmare butterfly, so he had made a lot of preparations.
This time, Hayden will be in charge of taking the cocoon, while Thor will be in charge of the last-minute capture and sealing.
Yes, although it was Thor who performed the surgery, he also had an important mission.
Whether it was the experience of Thor getting the cocoon and having it inexplicably enter his eyes, or the ending in the story where the flying butterfly was caught by the wizard but still killed the wizard in the end, both made Thor realize that this butterfly was not a peaceful guy.
The good news is that the Nightmare Butterfly is still just a cocoon, and the future villain has not yet grown up, and the diary does not suggest that it will harm Thor.
Thor now has the choice to kill it directly or retrain it.
Both options have risks. For now, it is better to take out the cocoon to avoid being affected by the nightmare any longer.
He quickly prepared two test tubes of medicine.
One is pure transparent liquid, a little sticky, but it flows well and doesn't stick to the inner wall.
The other one is a purple liquid with tiny bubbles.
"Senior Hayden, are you ready? The reagent will take effect within five minutes after swallowing, and the effect will also last for five minutes."
"That's enough." Hayden took a deep breath. "This is the first time I've attacked a living person. If it hurts you... do you want to take another dose of painkiller?"
Thor tilted his head back and put the purple potion into his mouth.
Frowning and swallowing the remaining taste in his mouth, Thor glanced at the hourglass clock.
"No need," he said as he walked over and lay directly on the transport platform where the corpse was originally placed. "The painkillers will affect my judgment."
Hayden also knew that Thor was a ruthless man, so he stopped trying to persuade him. He walked to the tool table, picked up a thin needle, and began to disinfect quickly according to Thor's request.
"Disinfection?" Hayden thought, "Is this the difference between performing 'surgery' on a living person and a dead person?"
An operation involving doctors and patients began.
Because the doctor is still a novice when it comes to working with living bodies - the honest and low-key Hayden has never done any live experiments - the patient has to guide the doctor on how to operate based on his or her own feelings from time to time.
The operation lasted a total of four minutes and thirty-five seconds.
Although I was a little flustered in the middle, the total duration of the operation finally did not exceed the effective time of the medicine.
In the last twenty-five seconds, Hayden finally used the smallest tweezers to pick out the cocoon hidden in Thor's pupil.
He raised the tweezers to see what had gotten into Thor's eyes, but as soon as his eyes fell on the small silver ball, he was attracted by the beautiful little ball.
However, a silver ball the size of a grain of rice quickly grew larger after being exposed to the air.
The silver surface shines like the brilliance of stars, and the deep and quiet feeling makes Hayden feel like he is looking up at the starry sky in the wilderness.
He immersed himself in it unconsciously, and slowly raised the tweezers closer to his eyes, as if he wanted to insert it directly into his eyeballs.
Suddenly, a bony hand appeared in front of Hayden.
The white bones rubbed against Hayden's cheek and snatched the silver ball away.
"No!" Hayden was about to get angry subconsciously.
But when he saw Thor's appearance, a handful of cold water was poured over his swollen brain.
Thor had already sat up from the transporter platform, with the fixator holding his eyelid open still clamped in his left eye frame.
A trickle of blood flowed from Thor's eyelids to his jaw.
His originally black left eye had now turned into a dull dark gray.
This is the result of Hayden's simple treatment.
But Thor didn't care about his currently blind left eye at all. He just quickly threw the snatched cocoon into the transparent liquid he prepared, and then sealed the bottle with a wooden cork.
The transparent liquid overflowed a little, and the rest filled the entire test tube.
The small silver ball floated up and down in the reagent, as if someone was constantly teasing it with a thin string.
After confirming that the sealing was completed, Thor threw the test tube to Hayden.
Hayden quickly reached out to catch it, his heart pounding with fear.
"It was dangerous to observe like that just now. Now you can watch."
But this time Hayden just took a glance and quickly returned the test tube to Thor.
“No, no, no, even though you’ve sealed this thing, it’s still very dangerous to me. I won’t look at it any more. I almost lost my mind just now.”
This time Hayden lowered his posture even more.
He became increasingly certain that Thor had far surpassed him in many areas.
Seeing that Hayden gave up observing, Thor put away the test tube.
"This thing is a real test of willpower." Thor thought of the little girl Penny, "But I guess if a person has a pure heart, they won't be easily affected."
Hayden looked gloomy. He couldn't achieve either of these two points.
If he had been more determined, he wouldn't have been just a first-level apprentice until now.
Thor picked up a roll of gauze from the tool bench and wrapped it diagonally around his head, covering his left eye.
Hayden stood quietly by and watched, wanting to say something but stopping himself.
Thor knew what he wanted to ask and directly answered the question he left for Hayden before entering the door.
"If a wizard stays in a certain realm for a long time, he will attract unknown horrors. The longer he stays, the greater the possibility of being contaminated. The lower his strength, the faster he will attract horrors. In order to prevent apprentices from becoming pollutants, the wizard tower will regularly expel apprentices who are too old."
"Compared to other forces that turn unqualified apprentices into experimental materials when their term expires, the Wizard Tower is relatively gentle."
(End of this chapter)
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