68: Chapter 68 Your medical skills are terrible, and your execution is even worse—are you even capable?

"It doesn't matter who he is."

"As long as he dares to come and cause trouble while I, your uncle, am busy with business, he's going to get a beating from me!"

Carl didn't bother with Law's shock anymore; he took a large stride, stepped directly over Vergo's body, and walked toward the thick steel door at the end of the corridor.

"Keep up. Luffy and Ace will handle the small fry outside. Our mission right now is to go and check on those poor kids being used as lab rats."

Hearing Carl's words, Law took a deep breath, forced down the fear in his heart, and followed closely behind Carl.

As Carl brutally kicked open the steel door marked "Danger: Restricted Area,"

an incredibly pungent stench—a mixture of chemicals, sour sweat, and the foul odor of excrement—rushed toward them like a small storm of toxic gas!

"This is… the Biscuit Room." Law covered his nose and mouth, his brows knitted tightly together.

Inside the spacious underground hall, there were over a hundred extremely sturdy steel cages.

And locked inside those cages were the innocent children that Caesar had kidnapped from all over the world!

The children, who should have been innocent and carefree, were now like mindless beasts. Because of long-term consumption of toxic awakening candies containing ingredients for "human giantification," their bodies had undergone an incredibly grotesque expansion!

Some children had even grown to seven or eight meters tall, but their bones and internal organs couldn't withstand such deformed growth, leaving their bodies covered in terrifying blood vessels, with their skin on the verge of tearing at any moment!

"Candy… I want candy!!!"

"It hurts! My body is going to explode! Give me candy!!!"

Dozens of giantified children, suffering from withdrawal, rolled and shrieked in pain within their cages. They pounded the steel bars frantically with their mutated giant fists, making the metal clang loudly, their hands dripping with blood yet completely numb to the sensation.

It was like a living hell!

Seeing this scene, an intense, suppressed rage instantly ignited in Law's eyes.

"That scum Caesar…" Law gritted his teeth, clenching his hands into tight fists.

As a doctor with top-tier medical skills, Law knew better than anyone just how cruel this anti-human experiment was!

"Can you save them?"

Carl stood in the center of the hall, a cigarette dangling from his mouth, his gaze incredibly calm.

Law walked quickly to a cage and raised his hand, opening a small, translucent space.

"ROOM · Scan!"

As he activated his Ope-Ope no Mi ability, Law's expression turned visibly grim.

"It's no good… It's too late."

Law retracted his ability and shook his head in pain, his voice filled with a deep sense of helplessness.

"This stimulant poison called 'NH10' has completely altered their genetic sequences and skeletal structures. The toxin hasn't just penetrated their vital organs; it has even bonded with their cranial nerves!"

"If I force them to withdraw, they'll die from ruptured blood vessels in extreme agony. Even if I had the world's top medical equipment and antibodies right now, they would need massive daily doses of sedatives, followed by years of blood-cleansing therapy!"

"And…" Law smashed his fist against the railing, "even if they were cured, they would definitely be left with extremely severe sequelae. They would never be able to live like normal people again for the rest of their lives!"

No solution! In the medical system of the pirate world, this was practically a terminal illness that had already been issued a death sentence!

However.

"Beep! Data download complete!"

On the console, Carl deftly pulled out the storage drive and tucked it into his pocket.

Hearing Law's utterly desperate diagnosis, Carl turned around, the cigarette in the corner of his mouth burning with a faint glow.

"Years of blood-cleansing therapy? And permanent sequelae?"

"Trafalgar, it seems your medical skills are only good enough to fool those ignorant bumpkins on this sea."

"Captain Carl!" Law looked up, somewhat annoyed, "This kind of genetic-level destruction simply cannot be reversed by conventional means! Besides that old monster Vegapunk, there's no one in this world who can…"

But before Law could finish his sentence, his voice was cut off, as if a fish bone were stuck in his throat!

Because he saw Carl casually reach into the pocket of his floral shirt and pull out an exquisite crystal glass bottle, only the size of a thumb.

Inside the bottle, a few drops of mysterious liquid were flowing quietly, emitting a dazzling golden light and seemingly containing some kind of ancient, sacred aura!

[System God-tier Consumable: Elixir of Life (Diluted Version)!]

[Effect: Just one drop can instantly restore vitality, even to someone on the verge of death! It perfectly purifies all acquired toxins and deformed mutations in the body, forcibly restoring genes to their most perfect, initial state!]

This was an item Carl had randomly drawn from the system shop using the massive amount of Prestige Points he had earned by whipping his two nephews every day back on Rusukaina Island!

"Take this sugar water."

Carl casually tossed the priceless crystal bottle to Law as if it were trash.

"Go to the medical cabinet over there, grab a few sedatives, and put a drop of this stuff in. Then give each of these brats a shot."

Law fumbled to catch the crystal bottle. Feeling the mysterious fluctuations from the bottle—where even a tiny leaked trace made every cell in his body cheer wildly—he was completely stunned.

"Th-this… what is this?!" Law's eyes were practically popping out of their sockets.

"Why all the chatter? If I, your uncle, tell you to inject them, then you inject them!"

"If your medical skills are lacking and your execution is this poor, are you actually capable of anything? If not, I, your uncle, will take my belt and whip you into doing it!"

Provoked by Carl's terrifying pressure, Law shuddered all over.

Law quickly ran to the medical cabinet and pulled out a large syringe of sedative.

He carefully unscrewed the stopper of the crystal bottle.

"Hummm—!"

The moment the stopper was opened, a tangible, golden aura of life instantly permeated the entire Biscuit Room! Upon smelling this aura, the children who had been shrieking frantically miraculously calmed down!

With trembling hands, Law dripped a drop of the golden Elixir of Life into the sedative.

The originally transparent sedative instantly turned into a strange potion emitting a faint golden glow.

"ROOM · Injection!"

Law expanded his space and tapped his fingers in succession.

The potion mixed with the Elixir of Life instantly transformed into dozens of incredibly fine streams of water, piercing with extreme precision into every single giantified child!

"Sizzle, sizzle, sizzle!"

The very instant the potion entered their bodies!

The terrifying blood vessels that had bulged on the children's bodies due to the toxins began to fade away at a speed visible to the naked eye!

Immediately after, those deformed, giantified bodies that had grown to seven or eight meters tall, under the shroud of a faint golden light, began to shrink and reshape rapidly, like deflating balloons!

Five meters! Three meters! One and a half meters!

In less than ten seconds!!!

All of the giantified children had returned to their normal sizes!

The expressions of pain and distortion on their faces had completely vanished, replaced by the peaceful, rosy-cheeked sleeping faces of infants. Even the hidden injuries and malnutrition caused by long-term experimentation were completely healed in that instant!

Except for the fact that they had fallen into a weak sleep!

"Thud!"

The syringe in Law's hand slid to the floor instantly, his legs went weak, and he fell directly to his knees on the floor!

"This… how is this possible… A miracle…!!!"