Chapter Seventy-Six: Conspiracy

The second round of the tournament ended with a vaudeville performance by an apprentice apothecary, and to the displeasure of many in the audience, the lowly, arrogant, hateful, and shameless sinner still could not be removed from the stage. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info This seems to be a big departure from the script they expected to see, and some of the still sober spectators in the stands already have a vague feeling that the Pharmacists Guild is about to make "big news" today.

The entire potion competition consists of five rounds. The first round, which was enough to brush down, kept everyone on the stage due to Ian's "preferential treatment", and the second round was just a test of the configuration of potions, and this kind of "entertaining the public" threshold was almost no pressure for the geniuses who had high hopes.

Now that the third round of the competition is about to begin, Ian's super-ordinary level of pharmacy has been revealed. Once it is not handled well, I am afraid that the first sinner apothecary in the history of the empire will be born!

"It can't go on like this. ”

In the interval of rest, in an independent stand, Master Klin's face was almost darkened. His disciple was supposed to be the best of the few people who participated, and the victory in this competition had already been booked by him as the starting point of Wilmot's glorious life. But now, a sinner who was regarded as a clown by all of them actually showed an unexpected level of pharmacy, taking away the prestige of the "original protagonist", which was a slap in the face to him.

It hurts hotly.

"It can't go on like this!" he muttered again, turning his head to give the squire behind him a look. When the attendant stepped forward with understanding, he handed over a temporary note with a non-moving expression: "Give this to the judges." ”

The attendant nodded imperceptibly, stepped back lightly, circled the back of the stand, and then walked in the other direction to the judges' stand, and quietly slipped the note into the hand of the tall judge.

After taking the note and glancing at it, the tall judge, who already had some ideas in his heart, leaned back slightly, motioned for the attendant to stand back, and then whispered to the fat man beside him: "Look, Master Kling has come up with a good plan for us." ”

"What?" The fat man took the note and looked at it, and immediately frowned: "Is it possible to mix crescent moon grass in the moon grass?"

He knew that the question of the third round of the test was to distinguish the authenticity of medicinal materials. Pharmacists can't just know the theoretical knowledge, but live alone in the laboratory and use ready-made materials to conduct research and configuration. To become a true pharmacist, you must have the ability to distinguish between real and fake herbs. In the next round, they will prepare a separate herb for each contestant that is easily confused with other herbs, and ask the contestants to identify the category of the herb based on their own visual, olfactory and other senses, and say what it does.

Among the topics drawn up by Grandmaster Bruns, it is already the most difficult to identify the Hidden Moon Grass, and now if the Crescent Moon Grass is mixed into the Hidden Moon Grass according to Master Klin's instructions, then although the difficulty of this test question will be even worse, if the sinner finds out this "catty", then I am afraid that the entire Apothecary Guild will lose face on the spot.

Although the main theme of this game is to make things difficult for a certain "clown", in order to maintain his positive image, he still has to pretend to be fair and just on the surface. Once this is discovered, whether it is claimed that the worker is wrong, or it is revealed that it is a "black box operation", this is undoubtedly a heavy slap in the face.

"Why not?" the tall man asked rhetorically, raising an eyebrow, and in his opinion Master Kling's proposal was foolproof.

"I'll admit that the arrogant sinner kid does have some level, but you also know that Crescent Moon Grass has exactly the same outward characteristics as Moon Grass, and is usually recognizable by whether it fluoresces or not when illuminated by moonlight at night. If he wanted to distinguish these two herbs in the daytime, even the master of apothecary would find it difficult to do without conducting medicinal experiments, so he would definitely not be able to see them. ”

"Besides, there are two kinds of experiments that can distinguish between the two, but the experiments that can cause the crescent to react have no effect on the crescent grass, and the experiments that can make the crescent grass react have no effect on the crescent grass either. ”

"We mix these two herbs together, and when the time comes, whether he answers whether it is crescent or lunatory, we can choose to prove the other party's experiment to 'determine' him wrong. So there's no way he's going to have a chance anyway. ”

"But what if he sees it?" the fat man frowned. The plan given by Master Kling did seem to be secure, but he still felt a little uneasy in his heart: "What if he has some method that we don't know to be able to directly see that there are two kinds of medicinal herbs mixed here, and ask for two experiments to be verified separately at the same time?"

"Old friend, you're thinking too much. The tall man replied disdainfully, "After so many years of research, so many colleagues in the Apothecary Guild have not found any other way to directly distinguish these two medicinal materials, do you think it is possible for a sinner who looks less than twenty years old to have so much time to study these two infrequently used medicinal materials?"

"This ......" the fat man nodded hesitantly, "You're right." ”

Crescent and Mooncrescent herbs are extremely secluded herbs, and very few potions use them. After all, human experience is limited. A young man who is not yet twenty years old, even if he begins to learn potions at an early age, must have some limitations in his knowledge.

It just so happens that there is a new way of discernment, and the probability of such a is really close to zero.

Thinking of this, he nodded at the tall judge and said, "Then let's do what Master Kling wants." You go and let the subordinates arrange it, and I will persuade Grandmaster Bruns to cooperate with us. With that, he slowly stood up and walked in the direction of the main court.

"Grandmaster Bruns. As he approached Harris, he bowed slightly. Harris turned his head when he heard the voice, and when he recognized the person, he immediately smiled and asked, "Mr. Polly, do you have something to look for me?"

"That's right, Grandmaster Bruns......" The judge named Polly quietly glanced around, leaned forward and whispered their plans, and when Harris heard everything, the middle-aged gentleman suddenly appeared with a smile that was not a smile.

"It's unfair. He touched his chin and said hesitantly, "I think we should use a righteous and bright method to ......."

"For the dignity of the Apothecary's Guild, for the dignity of the Empire, Grandmaster Bruns. Seeing that the Potion Grandmaster who "adhered to the rules" had a faint expression of disapproval, Poli suddenly interrupted eagerly, "We can't let that sinner enter the fourth round again!"

"This ......"

Hearing this, Mr. Harris frowned, and suddenly "hesitated" between "the justice of the game" and "the dignity of the empire".

“...... All right. ”

After a long time, the "highly respected" potion master closed his eyes helplessly and nodded imperceptibly.

"It's a shame. He let out a long sigh involuntarily and said with a guilty face: "This young man named Ian is really talented, but unfortunately he is a sinner. Mixing crescent moon grass in the moon grass is not necessarily noticeable even to the masters, and it is impossible to tell it at his age. ”

"For the sake of the reputation of our Apothecary Guild, I will cooperate with you, but I want you to remember ......" Speaking of this, he suddenly opened his eyes, stared at the fat man with a worried face in front of him, and said in a resolute tone: "This practice violates my 'piety' to pharmacy, and I will only cooperate with you once!"