Chapter 59: The Alchemist
"Really, you little rabbit who eats inside and out, and you have joined forces with outsiders to steal grandpa's potion! Everyone followed the sound and saw an old man who looked very similar to Haiming, but with white hair and beard, standing at the door with a blue face and a cane.
As soon as Haiming saw that it was his grandfather, he was so frightened that his heart and gall were broken, his legs trembled, and he couldn't say a word.
Only Mande complained mournfully: "Haiming, why are you so careless? You can't steal the right potion, you don't even notice that you are being followed by your grandfather, you are so disappointing." β
"Mande, please respect yourself. You also know what your identity is now, don't bother my family Haiming, he is still an ignorant child!" Seagull said angrily, believing that Mander was the poisonous snake that tempted Eve to sin.
"Grandpa, you can't say that about him, our family was also their subordinate in the past, and now he is only temporarily losing power. Moreover, I heard that our family's ancestral alchemy recipe was also obtained by Mande's ancestors from a site and then given to us. β
"Shut up, what do you know!" the seagull rebuked angrily, "The alchemy recipes and the Great Book of Plants and Trees are left behind by the ancient powerful cultivators, and only those who meet the requirements of chance and talent can understand them and learn and cultivate." Do you think it's really that simple to become an alchemist? The most powerful wizard in our tribe has coveted the alchemy recipe and the Encyclopedia of Plants and Trees for a long time, but he can't understand it at all, so he can only stare dryly. Isn't your father and you also unable to understand it, so that they can't get my true inheritance? It's a pity that your grandfather was the only one among the many people in the tribe who could understand and cultivate, but when it comes to me, it will be lost. β
Everyone looked at each other like lambs to the slaughter, waiting for the judgment of the seagull.
Maybe it was because he couldn't bear it, or maybe he was afraid that this matter would implicate his only grandson, Haiming, Seagull sighed and said: "Forget it, it's also my own sin, I usually didn't discipline Haiming well, so he mixed with Mande all day long." β
He hesitated for a moment and continued: "I can give you a chance, if one of the three of you can read the alchemy method and the encyclopedia of plants and trees, I will give you a chance, if not, then don't blame me for being ruthless, let you be the fertilizer of my flowers and plants!"
"It's not fair, no one in the entire Black Ice Tribe has been able to read the alchemy recipe and the Encyclopedia of Plants and Trees for hundreds of years, except for you!" Mande shouted in despair.
"Hmph!" the seagull said with some disdain, "This world is so cruel in the first place, the so-called king and defeat, do you still think that your family is still the same leader family as before? Don't say a family, even a tribe is the same, the holy area where our Black Ice Tribe is located, will hold a pharmacist competition in ten years, only the top ten can have the qualification for resource allocation, if even a tribe can't take a pharmacist, it will be relegated to a slave race, and can only go to the dark pit to mine!"
In desperation, Zhao Chun had no choice but to walk towards his house behind Seagull and others with the help of Laura.
This black ice tribe is indeed as its name, there are black stones or ice blocks everywhere, the temperature is frighteningly low, Zhao Chun still feels a biting chill even more despite the heat flow all over his body, and Laura is even more unbearable, her little face is red from the cold, and she is shivering, if it weren't for Zhao Chun secretly infusing some heat from her blood from time to time, I'm afraid she would have frozen.
The most terrifying thing is that there is no sunlight here, and I don't know what the light emitted is actually cold, and Mande, Seagull and others don't wear many clothes, so they don't feel cold, which is a miracle.
Located on the east side of the city, Seagull's house is a luxurious courtyard house made of black stones, covering an area of nearly ten acres, compared to which Mande's house can only be regarded as a thatched house.
When the seagull came, it was in a beast cart pulled by two black beasts, made of unknown materials, and after everyone sat up, they did not feel crowded, and because the seagull had a strange personality, he often traveled alone regardless of time period, so no one dared to ask him, but it was very safe.
The seagull parked the beast cart on the east side of the yard, I don't know if this time period was a break or if the seagull had a strange temper, and there was no one to see here in the east. After the group got out of the beast cart, they followed the seagull into his potion room without saying a word.
The seagull's potion room was very spacious and bright, hundreds of square meters, and there were several glowing stones hanging on the roof, emitting a cold and faint light, which made Zhao Chun finally understand what was going on with the cold light he saw just now.
The apothecary room was filled with all kinds of transparent bottles, jars and other utensils, which contained colorful liquids, in addition to all kinds of strange flowers, herbs, minerals and other neatly placed on the shelves, how could he see these, Zhao Chun almost thought that he was in the laboratory of an alchemist in the Middle Ages, and those unseen and unheard of flowers, herbs, medicinal herbs, and minerals opened his eyes......
The seagull was obviously very fond of everything in the apothecary, and after repeatedly ordering everyone not to move, he took out two scrolls from a secret cabinet and said, "This is the alchemy method and the encyclopedia of plants and trees that I just mentioned, each of you has an hour, if no one can read it, then I'm sorry." β
"Let me do it first. "Zhao Chundao, he had already communicated with the system just now, and the system said that although it had not been in contact with a strange tribe like the Black Ice Tribe before, and most of its memories were missing now, it was still no problem to understand a medicine refining technique that might not even be considered a spirit level.
However, as soon as he finished saying this, Laura and Mande snatched it from the seagull one by one, and since this matter was a matter of life and death, they naturally would not give up and wanted to understand it as soon as possible.
Laura grabbed the alchemy formula, and when she unfolded the scroll, she found that it was only the size of an A3 piece of paper, very thin, like a cicada's wing, but opaque, and a little yellowish in color, as if it was made of some unknown animal skin.
To Laura's surprise, there was no text on the scroll, which made her very puzzled, and asked Seagull, "Haisen, why is there no text on the scroll?
The seagull said expressionlessly: "I have already said that only people who are destined can understand it, if this is not the case, why is it that only I can understand the entire Black Ice Tribe in the past hundred years?"
"You must be hiding something, you should have soaked it in some kind of potion, rice soup or something, and then it will show the handwriting. Laura has lived in the presidential palace for a long time and has heard of the usual tricks of these spies.
The seagull sneered disdainfully: "This scroll is very strong, whether you burn it with fire, cut with a knife, or immerse it in water, it is difficult to damage it in the slightest, if you think that using the so-called potion or rice soup can make it show handwriting, even if you try it, I don't want you to pay for the damage." β
"This ......" Laura was a little embarrassed, she knew that the seagull could not lie on this subject, because she could try it out at once, but he said it was too terrifying, such a thin thing like an animal skin, the fire could not burn, the water could not be soaked, the knife could not cut it, was it still an animal skin, what was it made of?
So although she believed that the seagull would not lie to her, she still did all kinds of experiments according to her own ideas - fire, knife slashing, medicine bubbles, but the final result was very disappointing, so many violent methods, even failed to leave a trace on it!
"I don't care, you can do it yourself. Laura angrily threw the scroll to Zhao Chun, looking like she was going to die.
Zhao Chun took the scroll with a wry smile, and when he learned that there was no text on the scroll, he thought the same as Laura, thinking that the words could be displayed by soaking them in chemical liquid, and the people of the Black Ice Tribe just failed to understand the content on it, so they couldn't refine the medicine. Now it seems that my previous thoughts were ridiculously wrong.
After getting the scroll, Zhao Chun communicated with the system as soon as possible, asking it if it knew what material the scroll was made of and how to make it display words.
However, to Zhao Chun's surprise, the system said that it had never seen this kind of material, it could be some kind of spirit beast in the spirit world, or it could be some kind of mineral, and then it was made by a certain refining master, and a hidden formation was engraved on it, and if you didn't unlock the formation, you couldn't see all the content on it. Then the system tried one hundred and eight hidden formation cracking methods that it knew, and it didn't work until Zhao Chun was covered with cold sweat, which made him a little desperate, and he really wanted to put a knife against the seagull's jet-black neck and ask him to say the way to display the scroll text.
The seagull saw that everyone had been working for nearly an hour, but they were still clueless, and he was very proud and said with a smile: "It seems that your talent is not enough, and you can't get the approval of the scroll." β
Haiming was also a little anxious, he didn't want to kill his best friend because of himself, especially since the murderer was still his grandfather, he hugged his grandfather and shouted: "Mande, you take them away quickly!"
"Let's go, can they go?" the seagull sneered, and then without seeing him make any movements, Haiming suddenly let go of his hand, and then fell straight down.
The seagull kicked him hatefully, and said angrily: "You eat things inside and outside, you actually want to attack your own grandfather for the sake of a few pig friends and dog friends, and I have worked hard to cultivate you for more than ten years, and you actually treat me like this? If you don't help me prepare a summer medicine here this time, don't think about going out." "The grandson's behavior clearly angered him, but he pinned all his hopes on this guy.
As if he had been reminded of a sad memory by Haiming, Seagull said to himself with a sad expression: "Your father was also very rebellious back then, back then I was just against him being with the girl of the White Ice Tribe, and he ran away from home without saying a word, but it fell into the hands of a group of thieves and asked me to exchange these two scrolls." Later, although I killed the thieves and rescued him, he was poisoned by the thieves, and I tried my best to save him, and I only saved you, a white-eyed wolf, and I was really tired over the years...... I often ask myself, what am I doing wrong?"
Although Zhao Chun was shocked by his tragic story, he didn't have much thought to put it on it, because the one-hour time limit set by the seagull was gone, and he believed that for the old monsters who had experienced such a change, it would never be just talk about turning them into flower fat, an alien race like himself, he would never have too much psychological pressure to kill him, and from the strength he showed, let alone himself who was seriously injured now, even if he was at his peak, he was not necessarily his opponent, and it was indeed an unrealistic idea to hurt him and escapeγ
Zhao Chun glanced at Mande again, and found that this guy was looking at the scroll of plants and trees with a sad face, compared to Zhao Chun and Laura, he still had a certain understanding of the alchemy method and the encyclopedia of plants and trees, and knew that to crack them, he could only rely on fate and talent, if not, it would be useless to look at them for 10,000 years.