Chapter 169: Your life is like a candle in the wind

We preliminarily determined that the lump in your lungs here and here should not be atypical alveolar tissue, but a tumor.

In the treatment room, a surgeon pointed to several small dots on the film and said.

Besides the lungs, your stomach, intestines, and even lymphatic system also have this kind of atypical tissue; if they are all tumors, you could have more than thirty primary tumors throughout your body.

Moreover, this might not be all; after all, so many primary tumors indicate that your body definitely has a systemic problem.

Murphy glanced at the other experts in the conference room; this was already the tenth joint consultation this month. 'So, have you reached a conclusion? What's wrong with me?'

The head of the Joint Diagnosis Group was a white-haired white male named Suolan Si·Bate Man.

He looked at the others and finally said, 'Chief, although we still haven't figured out half of the reports, we have already been able to draw a rough conclusion about your condition.'

'Oh?' Murphy sat up straight, 'Go on.'

'We suspect,' Suolan Si·Bate Man said with a strange expression, 'You might be old.'

'What?'

'We have found that many cells in your body show varying degrees of aging, and unevenly distributed.' Suolan Si·Bate Man said, 'These aged cells are more prone to replication errors and also more likely to become cancerous...'

'This is likely due to the effect of White Fresh Promoting Factor, which caused your cells throughout the body to undergo too many divisions in a short time.'

Murphy frowned.

This conclusion, however, was not surprising.

At that time, to heal his wounds all over his body in the face of death threats, he drank White Fresh Promoting Factor.

However, White Fresh Promoting Factor reacted unexpectedly with Mandrake Juice, causing his cells throughout the body to begin drastic mutation and hyper-proliferation.

In just over ten minutes, he swelled into a giant, with cells weighing several tons generated.

The number of cell divisions in his whole body has likely approached the theoretical limit.

'Moreover, aside from cellular lifespan, you also have many defects at the genetic level.'

'We have extracted many toxic proteins from your body; they arise from genetic disorder, due to the imperfect fusion of genes from multiple magical creatures in repeated Animagus transformations with your own genes.'

'Genetic defects plus aging... your body is collapsing... Although thanks to your excellent physique, this collapse isn't especially fast yet, but each time you undergo Animagus transformation, it worsens the collapse...'

'Overall, your life is like a candle in the wind, ready to go out at any moment.'

Murphy frowned, 'How long do I have left?'

'If you stop high-intensity transformations and can actively treat it, we estimate you still have about one or two years...'

One or two years?

My life only has a little over a year left?

He fell silent for a while, then asked, 'Any suggestions?'

'First, you should actively undergo cancer treatment; some in-situ cancers can be removed directly by surgery, but lymphomas and similar cancers may still need radiotherapy or chemotherapy to suppress cancer cell proliferation.'

'Second, please try to maintain a good mindset and mood, avoid anxiety, anger, and similar emotions, don't put too much pressure on yourself; this will help provide a better environment for your body to recover.'

'Finally, we are working jointly with the Magic Potion Research Group and the Spellcraft and Transfiguration Research Group to find ways to slow aging for you.'

Murphy frowned, 'In other words, there is no concrete plan?'

'Yes, experts from the Transfiguration Research Group have proposed various methods, such as transferring the vampire's longevity gene into your body via a virus.'

'First, whether these plans are effective still needs verification; second, your body is currently in a fragile balance, and introducing foreign genetic material is likely to break that balance, causing more serious consequences, so safety is also an issue.'

'We still need more research to evaluate.'

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Over a month and a half, after undergoing several dozen surgeries of various sizes, Murphy brought multiple in-situ cancers throughout his body under control.

But to avoid stimulating the body, the incisions from these surgeries were not treated with White Fresh Essence, so he needed to recuperate through rest like an ordinary person.

However, given his current self-healing ability, even without transformation, ordinary wounds would heal completely in two or three days.

But this self-healing ability, in the doctors' view at this time, is not a good thing.

This shows that his cells can still proliferate at a rate far higher than normal, naturally reaching the theoretical lifespan limit more quickly.

Surgical treatment was urgently halted because if the number of surgeries on a specific part is too high, it could cause that organ's tissue to age and die earlier than other body parts.

And Murphy's overall lifespan obviously depends on the shortest-lived tissue among his vital organs.

Therefore, therapies such as chemotherapy and radiotherapy, which impose a huge burden on the body, also need to be used cautiously; this once left doctors helpless regarding Murphy's condition.

Fortunately, Murphy was also desperately trying to save himself.

Is current technology insufficient?

Then let's go to the future.

Through 'Comprehensive Recall' and joint efforts with several cellular immunology experts, Murphy produced a dozen or more Nobel-level key technologies including CRISPR-Cas9 gene editing, successfully recreating the CAR-T cell therapy that might only appear thirty years in the future.

After another half month of treatment, the level of cancer cells in his body finally dropped to a point that would not affect daily life.

But this merely temporarily suppressed the tumor.

The problem of cellular aging remains unsolved, so cancer will keep appearing.

As for how to solve the aging problem, scientists have no clue, but Murphy thought of something from the original work.

Immortality Potion.

Nicholas Flamel relied on it to live six hundred years; although his condition seems not great, using it to save a life should be enough.

Calculating the time, it's now late July; perhaps the Magic Stone is still in Vault 713.

Should we get our hands on the Magic Stone?

The Magic Stone's use is not limited to making the Immortality Potion; it can also produce gold, and furthermore, many powerful potions, when prepared with the Magic Stone, can dispense with those extremely rare ingredients.

It itself is the greatest alchemical product and the strongest Magic Potion amplification device.

If it were to be easily destroyed by Dumbledore later, that would be a real shame.

Thinking this through, Murphy immediately made up his mind.

Protecting cultural relics is everyone's responsibility!

Like Magic Stone, such a precious historical relic, it has irreplaceable research value; I want to save it from being destroyed!

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