Chapter 817: Bad Ending

Chapter 817: Bad Ending

After Alfonso's gentle introduction, the corals under the water seemed to have heard the voice and timidly raised their heads to look at the water surface.

This also allowed Thor to see her face clearly which was hidden by her red hair.

He actually had an illusion that he had seen the little mermaid in the fairy tale.

Although the mermaid named Coral has a narrower skull and jaw than ordinary people, her face can still be called an oval face.

She has eyes that are the same red as her hair, and they sparkle like rubies.

However, before Thor could continue to admire the mermaid's appearance, the latter flipped over in the pool, revealing the lower half of her body and her tail.

Thor frowned immediately.

Half of the coral fish's tail was rotten.

Her tail was green, like the clear sky after rain, but most of it was missing, revealing the tailbone and a lot of rotten flesh that had turned white from being soaked in water.

There were also scattered pieces of meat connected to the tail by tiny threads, which seemed like they could be pulled off with a strong effort.

The translucent tail fin clearly reflected colorful halos like mother-of-pearl, but it also had many gaps and looked dilapidated.

Anyway, it looks painful.

"Is this the Kuroshio pollution you mentioned? Its surface features are somewhat different from the Kuroshio pollution I've seen before."

Alfonso said seriously: "We have preliminarily ruled out the possibility of contamination from other objects. As long as they stay in the waters with the Kuroshio, the contamination will intensify."

If Alfonso was not lying, then it was possible that the rot was caused by the Kuroshio pollution.

"Well, the manifestations of Kuroshio pollution are diverse, maybe this is a new feature." Thor didn't say anything definite.

"I named this pollution disease 'rotten tails.'"

Thor nodded. "Very vivid."

"The first case of tail rot was Coral. Because she is a reverted merman, we pay more attention to her. It may also be because of the reversion that her tolerance to Kuroshio pollution is not as good as that of the current mermaids. Fortunately, we discovered the disease in time and found that it is contagious, so we can isolate all the sick mermaids before the disease breaks out on a large scale."

Thor observed other mermaids and found that their tails were also rotten, but the coral was the most rotten.

"I want to take some tissue from her lesion."

Alfonso did not object. "Okay, but you have to be careful. These mermaids are very wary of wizards. If you scare her, she might struggle violently. She is the first patient, so we can't let her die now."

"Don't worry, I've been a doctor for several years." Thor took off his wizard robe and threw it on the sand behind him.

Then he jumped into the water, entering it smoothly, with only shallow ripples on the surface.

Alfonso stood on the shore with his arms folded, watching Thor's actions. He didn't know what he was thinking, and looked a little dazed.

When Thor entered the water, the mermaids in the water who were fighting for food immediately panicked and hid in the cracks of the rocks.

But strangely, the coral, which should have been equally afraid of humans, still stayed where it was, and there was a hint of curiosity and closeness in its eyes when it looked at Thor.

When Thor approached, Coral actually swam towards him.

At this distance, Thor keenly discovered that Coral's spirit was slightly stronger than other mermaids. Perhaps due to her ancestral origin, her intelligence was closer to that of a human child.

After Coral approached Thor, he stretched out his hands and grabbed one of Thor's arms.

"Is it because of Floco? There is some residual spiritual power of Floco in me, which makes her closer to me?" Thor made a bold guess.

The water god Floco is from the Green Scale Clan, and Coral has experienced atavism, so he may be more familiar with Floco's mental power.

Thor stretched out his hand and turned it into a translucent tentacle, covering the half-rotten coral fish tail.

It didn't hurt, so Thor took a few samples from the coral and wrapped them with his tentacles and put them back into his body.

Because he didn't know much about the contamination in the coral, Thor carefully isolated the sample and the main body.

After taking the sample, Thor scanned Coral's mental power again, looked into the other's big ruby-like eyes, raised his hand and gently stroked the other's cheek.

There are tiny scales on both sides of the coral's cheeks, which feel rough yet smooth.

Coral closed her eyes, like a kitten, except for making a purring sound of enjoyment.

Thor carefully examined the coral's body structure and turned to float up.

Coral opened his eyes in confusion and even swam after Thor for a few meters.

Just then, she suddenly saw a small black tentacle emerging from the back of Thor's neck.

The tip of the tentacle opened up, revealing the black tip of the tongue.

“Pululululul…”

Xiao Zao stuck out his tongue and a string of bubbles came out of his mouth.

Coral widened her eyes and reached out to grab the black tentacle, but in her peripheral vision, she saw the gloomy man on the water not far from her.

Coral paused, shrank his shoulders, seemed very scared, then flicked his tail and fled back into the depths of the pool.

Thor didn't pay attention to the movement below. He could only feel that Coral gave up after chasing for a while.

He climbed out of the clear, cold pool, used magic to clean off the excess water and stains on his clothes, and put on the wizard robe thrown aside.

"How come the coral is so close to you?" Alfonso was stunned and couldn't wait to ask as soon as Sol came out of the water.

"Maybe it's because there's a mermaid next to me, and she feels the scent is more familiar." Thor said casually, "And as a doctor, I naturally know how to comfort patients."

Alfonso thought for a moment, "Can you teach me how to soothe a mermaid?"

"You also need to appease the mermaid? I thought you in the Tribunal were used to solving problems with violence."

"That's not violence, it's just a necessary measure." Alfonso retorted, but thinking of Thor's method of pacifying the mermaid, he softened his tone and said, "I can use my unique dark attribute witchcraft to exchange with you."

Thor stroked his chin, "I'll think about it."

After seeing the mermaid, Alfonso's introduction for the day ends here. The next time they contact each other, Sol will have to wait until he has understood the information and samples he got from Alfonso.

Otherwise, he wouldn't be able to carry out further research without even knowing the basic theory.

Returning along the same route, Thor didn't need Alfonso to send him back. He directly located Kate and teleported back to his palace.

After returning to the palace, Thor did not wander around. The attitude of the Tribunal towards him was still unclear, so Thor would not wander around and cause trouble for himself.

After Sol and Alfonso left, the cold moonlight continued to shine on the beach as usual.

In a deep pool by the sea, a coral with beautiful red hair is swimming towards the deepest part of the pool.

Swimming to a depth beyond the reach of the naked eye, she suddenly turned and crashed into a rock.

Then her whole body disappeared into it.

There is actually a mechanism under this rock. It does not rely on witchcraft, but only uses dyed seaweed to disguise itself as part of the rock.

Unless the patrolling wizard comes down in person, he won't be able to detect if there's anything wrong here using his mental power.

Behind the mechanism is a gap that is only wide enough for a mermaid to pass through. Coral swims upstream through the gap and arrives at a dim cave.

She jumped out of the water, dragging her broken fish tail, and crawled towards another pool of water opposite the cave.

"Sister, don't move, I'll come over!"

A voice suddenly sounded in the cave, bringing with it intermittent echoes.

Coral's face suddenly showed anger, "Keep your voice down!"

Her voice was not loud, but her expression was enough to convey the message.

Another mermaid suddenly emerged from the pool opposite.

It's a male mermaid.

He looks almost exactly like Coral, except that his hair and eyes are turquoise, as deep and beautiful as aquamarine.

His name is also Hai Lan.

Second update 　　 　 (end of this chapter)

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