Chapter 393: The Bewildered Man

On November 5th, the weather was fine.

I found a devil's net in the garden today, which should have been brought by a guest with seeds on his body. Logically speaking, the dry weather in the pasture is not suitable for the growth of this plant, but strangely, it grows However, it is very lush, and has even begun to sprout air roots, ready to develop in other directions.

I don't know much about magic plants, just ask Maria, if it poses a threat to our lovely Melissa, I will go and shovel it.

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On November 7, the weather was overcast.

Maria told me that it was not a devil's net, it was just a kind of drought-tolerant Rosaceae plant, maybe it will bloom again next spring, I have some expectations, then I can put the flowers in the vase in the living room, the color of the love home is too monotonous Well, maybe growing some flowers and plants can also make the magical animals who have left their homes feel better.

But to be on the safe side, I still have to cut a section and study it.

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On November 15th, the weather was very foggy.

I was too busy before, and Borgin Bock of Knockturn Alley took the lead in buying a batch of the venom of the Winged Demon from his home. This thing is a dangerous product, but fortunately he vowed not to let it flow into the country. As for selling it to foreigners , what does this have to do with me?

After signing the contract, I finally remembered the branch I had forgotten in the basement. I haven't seen it for a few days, and it has changed a lot. Even the thorns on the vine have become hairy. Are all magic plants so magical? I have some regrets, I should have listened to the herbal medicine class in the first place.

This fifteen-centimeter-long plant is not much different from a normal plant after being dissected—the inner core is made of thick fibers that store water, and there are some growth lines, and there is a blood vessel-like passage in the woody center. It seems that it can be used to deliver nutrients, but its sap turns red as thick as blood when cut open, and it smells a bit like raspberry jam... Are other magic plants so magical? Last time, Maria laughed when she mistakenly identified the devil's net, but this time she didn't ask her.

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On November 24, the rainstorm turned cloudy.

Caractacus Bork brought people to receive the venom, and he had to admire the dedication of these wizards who bought and sold dangerous goods. In order to disguise themselves as Muggles, they walked from the nearest town, walked away, and walked back and forth For two days, they hadn't even used magic during their time together, so I almost thought they were real Muggles, but how could that be?

The Ms. Mary who takes the lead seems to like Melissa very much and often plays with her, but Melissa is a bit rebellious at this age and doesn't like to talk to her very much. As expected of my daughter, she should have such arrogance!

I have never been able to tell the difference between the two blogs in the Bokin Blog store. It feels like they have looked like this since I can remember. On the way here, I lost a strange mixed-breed shapeshifter. I heard that it is a novelty, the only one in the world. He wanted to show it to me for identification. It's a pity, it would be great if he could see it with his own eyes.

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On November 27, the weather was overcast.

Damn it, the shapeshifter Karactacus was talking about was that rose vine! Why didn't he tell me that thing can turn into a plant? Different from real shapeshifting beasts, its shapeshifting mechanism is not imitated by magical power at all, but the most primitive devouring and digesting. The tree branch I left in the basement ate a mouse, and it became so hairy.

The owls in the family suffered heavy losses, and they were unable to escape when they were locked in cages. When the employees found out, there were only a few sporadic owls and a lot of bird feathers left in the sunlight.

The rose in the garden climbed up the wall and came to the owl room. When I found it, it almost grew wings. Fortunately, I found it in time, and it didn't escape and cause a catastrophe. I just pitied those little guys. Just saying goodbye to my mother, I died at the hands of this monster.

Its reproductive ability is stronger than any mouse I have raised. When eradicating vines, I found that it will grow a lot of aerial roots. After the aerial roots are stable, it will cut off the connection between the aerial roots and itself. Just like a gecko losing its tail, those independent aerial roots will soon develop into a complete plant, repeating the actions of the mother.

If I didn't find its abnormality and let it grow like this, what will it look like when it blooms next spring?

Inviting the goblins from Gringotts to come over and build a bunker to seal it up is another big expense. This account has to be charged to Karakatakus, and he will get more money in the next transaction... As for his recent reward for this "deformed beast"? I'm sorry, but take this as your compensation to me.

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On December 15th, the weather was rainy. The rain seemed to freeze in the sky, like a knife. Damn it, it was too cold.

The good news is, Mariah is pregnant! I couldn't believe it when I heard the news! Is another cute little angel coming to me? If it's a boy, I'll call him Arthur, and if it's a girl, she's called Jokunda, both very nice!

Another good news, I found new sap again in the core channel of the rose, this time it is green, with a smell of eucalyptus leaves, it seems that it is the residue of the prey digested by it, I don’t know what happened in my Strictly guard against what food it finds again. There is magic in these liquids. Although I don't have a clue yet, I think it must be something of value.

Maria persuaded me to destroy it, but it is the only orphan in the world, not a so-called shapeshifting beast at all. Although most tragedies in the world start from curiosity, I think I can eliminate those risks. I hired someone to dig a few circular rooms around the bunker that sealed off the roses, and they are combined together like a real rose flower... This is a worthless business. I wasted my time playing polo. If there are any good research results, their ridicule of my "doctor" title will be praise and praise from now on!

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December 24th, Christmas Eve.

I don't know what the weather is like today, but before I know it, I have been in the bunker for a week, and this combination of magical plants and magical animals is really amazing! It really fascinates me.

I found a lot of interesting properties. Except for some of its own characteristics, the creatures swallowed by roses will turn into a pool of liquid in the core material. Roses will not absorb their magic power, and those liquids will eventually It will be discharged and become waste, but this kind of waste is indeed a treasure that is so precious to me that it cannot be more precious!

They are not simple puddles of water. When observed under the lens, they are clearly clusters of cells that Muggles call. My Muggle university study was not in vain! These cells are constantly dividing and deforming, and they are different from any kind of cells in magical animals, lacking many characteristics.

I just realized that today is Christmas Eve, so I came here.

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On December 25, the weather was fine.

Maria thinks I am a little too obsessed, I admit this, but its charm is too great, I see all the possibilities of magical animals and even human beings in it, I keep feeding it with different materials, hoping Can find something different.

Her complexion was a little pale, maybe she was too anxious, and she had to take a good rest.

After Christmas dinner, I made it to Rose Castle without stopping - that's my new name for the bunker, awesome, isn't it?

I drank a little wine at night, and my hands were not flexible when feeding Qiangwei. I failed to give this poor bird snake a good time. I cut off half of its body and a wing. I didn't find out until after Qiangwei finished digesting. I killed the half of the poor guy who was still panting. I wanted to give it a good time with a knife, but my hand slipped again and cut off my precious rose with a knife.

Many great inventions come from accidents, and the great Dr. Sykes personally verified its correctness!

The body of the bird snake digested by the rose turned into a pool of purple-green slurry, which sprinkled on the section of the bird snake. I watched the liquid slowly solidify at its wound, and finally grew into a much younger section. new body! I couldn't wait to observe with the lens, those cells lacking in characteristics differentiated themselves after touching the wound, and became its muscles, tendons, bones, skin, scales and feathers, Rose restored them after taking away the characteristics of the prey It has become the most primitive state of the prey. Catalyzed by some kind of magical power that I don’t understand, they can reshape the missing parts for him when they touch the wounded, and they are stronger, younger, and have more vitality and vitality. magic! If we can reproduce the magical process of Rose swallowing prey, we can do many things in this way that we couldn't do before!

This discovery is a major breakthrough in magic medicine! I like to call it a Sykes reduction!

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Nelson sighed softly, stepped on the metal disc under his feet, and quickly flipped through the rest of the stack of yellowed parchment. Wizards don't seem to be in the habit of making detailed experimental records. This stack of parchment is actually Dr Sykes' diary, at first life-oriented, interspersed with occasional discoveries he made while caring for fantastic animals.

His wife, Maria Sykes, is a witch who is excellent in herbalism and potion science. The two met at a magical animal exhibition. Dr. Sykes was married at the age of twenty-four, and not long after, they had their first daughter, Melissa Sykes, who would later teach Hogwarts Charms.

From these words that record daily bits and pieces, Nelson can see that a smart and passionate wizard, but a little frustrated, who loves his family and his magical animal career, is happily sitting by the ranch and introducing himself to a wonderful family. This is very different from the crazy behavior of his insane experiments in the future.

All this changed from the day when "Rose" was discovered in the courtyard. The content of the research in the diary gradually increased, and his wife and daughter appeared in the diary less and less, and sometimes he was in the diary for several days in a row. The content of the research in "Rose Castle", Maria's body and spirit became worse and worse with Dr. Sykes' alienation from the family, and she even needed to go to St. Mungo's Hospital for Magic and Magic in London for treatment.

But Dr. Sykes turned a blind eye to this. As smart as he is, it is not difficult for him to find out that his lover's condition is getting worse. On the contrary, he keeps expressing his dissatisfaction with Maria's behavior of "holding him back" in his diary, even though Maria's lower limbs were already damaged. Festered because of being unable to exercise for a long time, and he just wrote lightly in his diary: "As long as I complete the restoration of Sykes, even if she has only one brain left, I can revive her."

Melissa, who came home from vacation, had a fierce quarrel with her father. Dr. Sykes' indifference to her mother made her feel that her father seemed to be a different person, and even wanted to sneak into the "Rose Castle" to destroy the rose plant.

For this matter, Dr. Sykes did not describe too much, but wrote: "Melissa's ability to bear is as poor as her frail mother. After seeing the most beautiful creature in the world, she fainted. I can't bear it." To imagine myself having such a useless daughter, who, while doing well, doesn't look like the Sykes at all."

Nelson just imagined it, and he felt a little empathetic with Professor Sykes.

He didn't find any Rosaceae plants in the bunker, maybe Professor Sykes had successfully eradicated it.

She has never appeared in the diary since then. Dr. Sykes is also working hard to study the so-called "Sykes reduction" to find a way to cure his wife, but isn't it a kind of medicine to let the disease worsen? Behaving irresponsibly? Maria persevered by her love for the daughter in her womb, and died soon after giving birth to Jokunda.

During this period, Professor Sykes' ideas gradually became crazy, and his experiments became more and more terrifying, from letting Rose restore the whole prey, to letting it prey on two at the same time, to pouring the liquid of one creature onto another , and then experimenting with his own kind... the experimental subjects that Nelson had seen in those bunkers came from this way.

After Maria's death, the man who was responsible for the tragedy grieved for two days and finally realized the importance of Maria to him, but he did not return to his life as Maria entrusted in his last words He poured himself into the crystallization of the two, but plunged headlong into the laboratory—a bold idea that he thought was feasible—he wanted to find a way for his wife to live in a perfect, strong body. , the bold idea of ​​resurrection in a beautiful, disease-free body.

Dr. Sykes sealed up his wife's body and went completely crazy. The man who loved his family and magical animals completely disappeared from the world.

Soon after, under the lead of Borgin Bock's business rival Daguerre, he met a group of outcasts (this is what he called himself) who challenged the impossible for various reasons and in incredible ways. Help each other with research and get crazier in helping each other out.

The memory that Nelson saw in the bunker was a meeting after that.

"Fate is really a thread," Nelson put away the diary and sighed, "The outcasts...I would call you the bewildered."