Chapter 123 Greyscale and the Fountain of Good Luck
Easter is here, and the whole school is suddenly empty... so empty that no one even knows if he runs around naked in the common room during the day.
Because it is so close to the summer vacation, most students would stay at Hogwarts to do homework and review their homework during the Easter holidays in the past. This is the first time such a large-scale exodus has happened.
However, compared to the approaching final exam, everyone obviously thinks that personal safety is more important. At least they can stay at home and not be attacked.
Luofu still stayed at the school and continued to be busy.
Although he was on holiday, he was still very busy... During Christmas, he could still make potions to divert Hermione's attention, but by Easter, the little girl could no longer restrain herself from reviewing to the second.
In addition to a lot of homework and review, Luofu also had to go to the Black Lake to help the mermaid with his follow-up diagnosis.
Dumbledore was not at school, and Rolf didn't want to go to the bottom of the Black Lake alone, so he changed the location of the follow-up consultation to the lake.
On this day, Luofu carried his black suitcase alone and walked toward the Black Lake. When he arrived at the shore, he didn't see the big squid, so he had to look for the boat for the first grade students to cross the river.
After finding the boat, Luofu boarded it in one step. Without a wooden oar, it drove forward automatically and soon arrived at the center of the Black Lake.
Before Myrcella arrived, Luo Fu sat cross-legged on the boat and started fishing with peace of mind... Top-notch fishing always means that you can do it anytime and anywhere.
After a while, the face of a girl modeling the lake gradually appeared on the water.
Myrcella leaned out of the lake, with her upper body above the water, and her blond hair flowed down like a waterfall, spreading around her body like a golden lotus.
The mermaid girl didn't have much expression on her face, but her tone was very sincere and she said: "Sorry, I'm late."
"It's okay, I just came here not long ago." Luo Fu put away the fishing rod and said thoughtfully: "Are you going to see a doctor in the water, or... come to the boat."
Myrcella hesitated for a moment, glanced at the young man, and said softly: "Let's get on the boat."
The girl swung her tail, and the lake surface suddenly rose continuously. Holding her body up and level with the hull of the boat, she swam forward and landed on the boat gracefully.
Although Myrcella is young, her body is extremely slender. She sits straight up on the bow of the boat, but her fish body alone is enough to span from the bow to the stern.
Luofu stretched out his hand to grab her fish tail and gently stroked the golden scales. Although she had been treated more than once, Myrcella was still very sensitive. With just a slight touch, her body began to tremble uncontrollably.
Luo Fu checked quickly this time. He nodded with satisfaction and said, "It's healing very well. It's almost healed."
"Thank you, Scamander." Myrcella stretched out her hand, with a white pearl in her palm. She handed it over and said, "This is the reward for the treatment."
"Merkus has already paid." Rove waved his hand.
"Merkus is Merkus, I will return her, this is mine...it's different." Myrcella insisted: "If you don't accept it, I will be very troubled."
"Okay, but this pearl is too big and the price is already at a premium."
"It's okay, we are full of clam beads like this." Myrcella said with calm eyes: "For the mermaid, this is not a very valuable item, so feel free to accept it."
"..."
Such a casual description of Versailles made Roff curl his lips, but he was not hypocritical and did not continue to refuse, accepting the pearl the size of a dove egg.
"As a return gift, I give this to you."
Luofu thought for a while, opened his small suitcase, and took out the quill made of phoenix tail feathers from the box.
Like the mermaid's clam beads, Rolf doesn't have many other things, just this stuff, after all, he has too many tail feathers from Fox.
Of course, to other people, phoenix tail feathers are still very precious items, especially to mermaids.
Myrcella has been living underwater, and this was the first time she saw a phoenix tail feather. After she took it, she was a little surprised and said: "Is it still warm?"
"Yes, even if the phoenix's tail feathers fall off, they are still hot." Luofu said with a smile.
While Myrcella was observing the phoenix's tail feathers, the young man also held the pearl with his fingers and raised it above his head. The sunlight reflected on it, emitting wisps of light.
He raised his head, narrowed his eyes, and carefully observed the big pearl.
The young man looked at the clam beads.
The mermaid girl looked up at him.
Myrcella quickly shifted her gaze slightly and looked at Hogwarts Castle in the distance.
Rolf knew that the girl was looking at the castle. He smiled and said, "If you have time someday, I can take you in. Hogwarts is on holiday now and there are no students left."
"No." Myrcella shook her head and said, "I'm going home."
"Go home?" Luofu raised his eyebrows and said, "Aegean Sea?"
"Yes, I've been out for too long." The mermaid girl said sadly, "It's time to go back."
Luofu still had some unfinished system tasks. He thought for a moment and then tentatively said, "Myrcella, I have something to ask you."
"What's up?"
"There seems to be...a curse on you?"
Myrcella was stunned. She froze in place and said with astonishment on her face: "How did you know?"
"I'm a beast...ahem, doctor." Luo Fu looked serious.
Myrcella's face, which had always been expressionless, was also a little out of sorts for the first time. There was a look of excitement on her face: "Can you...can it be cured?"
"We don't have that ability yet." Rolf said, "But you can tell me, even if I can't do it, my grandfather is a magical zoologist. He may be able to help you treat it."
"Have you ever heard of... greyscale?"
Rolf shook his head.
"A special curse is only inherited from the maternal line in our family." Myrcella said seriously:
"The symptom is that the mermaid's skin develops gray scales that are as hard as stone to the touch."
Myrcella took a deep breath, and suddenly turned her back. In front of the young man, she gently took off her upper body clothes, revealing a graceful and flawless white body.
The only flaw is that on the snow-white back, there is a gray scale the size of a mung bean... which is very eye-catching.
"When the female mermaids in our family turn fifteen years old, gray scales will appear on one part of their bodies, and then they will spread to all sides."
Myrcella said in a low voice: "The infected skin will harden and become cold, like stone, and eventually cover the whole body... and then death will occur."
Luofu stretched out his fingers and gently touched the gray scales. He frowned and said, "Does it hurt?"
"It doesn't hurt, which can be regarded as a small mercy for this curse." Myrcella shook her head and said: "Although greyscale is fatal, it is not painful."
"You came to the UK to seek treatment, right?" Rove suddenly asked.
Myrcella pulled up her robe again to cover the terrifying scales on her back. She leaned against the boat, and after a long silence, she asked:
"Scamander, have you ever heard of the Fountain of Good Luck?"
"I've heard of it." Luo Fu looked at the curled up mermaid girl and said in a daze: