Chapter 53: Gu and Poison
After overcoming that psychological barrier, Guo Shihu, this kid, looked at the part of the Five Poison Secrets that they had skipped before.
Most of the content of this part is recorded in the vernacular, and I think that the people in Miaojiang, where the Five Poisons Sect is located, are relatively simple, and they are not like Confucianism, Taoism, and Buddhism, which make people confused.
Therefore, Guo Shihu, who was originally a science tyrant, also learned very quickly, whether it was refining poison or raising Gu, excluding those mid-to-high-end parts that required the cooperation of the five poisonous true qi, the ordinary methods of refining poison and cultivating Gu worms were still very easy for him to use.
"It's not much different from chemistry and biology!"
Guo Shihu smiled happily, and finally found the part that he was better at than Gao Jingfei in terms of cultivation.
However, many of the ingredients recorded in the recipes of the Five Poisons Secret Recipe are extinct in modern times, or they only exist in the world where the Secret Recipe is located and are not available here.
After ruling out these, Guo Shihu found that with the existing materials, there were only three or five kinds of materials that he could really make by himself.
And among these three or five formulas, there are individual ingredients that need to be replaced with something similar to modern times, and I don't know what the final effect will be.
So he began to unpack these things, and there were bags of bottles and cans wrapped in foam paper, bags of various sealed sachet materials, and a 20-centimeter square acrylic box.
Those bottles and cans are a set of mini chemical laboratory equipment, distillers, condensers, test tubes, beakers, alcohol lamps and the like are relatively complete, which can be used to do some small-scale experiments such as heating distillation and extraction, and also come with an additional batch of reagent bottles and glass bottles.
The small bags enclosed in plastic bags are all kinds of chemical experimental materials, common Chinese medicinal materials and edible spices.
When he came back from the hospital in the morning, he went to the stationery wholesale city to collect and buy them according to the ingredients on the formula.
Although his chemistry score is not as good as mathematics and physics, he is also the top among ordinary students, and he knows that many poisonous substances can be made by combining ordinary materials, which is also an attempt by him to see if the knowledge of modern chemistry can be applied to the field of alchemy.
As for the rest of the box, in fact, this is an ant castle, also known as an ant farm and an ant workshop, which is actually a science and educational toy created by simulating an ant nest for children to observe the living conditions of ants.
The four-sided shading that Guo Shihu bought has only the side and the top are the observation surface, the side can observe the ant nest burrow, and the top is a simulated natural surface environment, with the presence of mud, sand and moss.
Generally speaking, this kind of toy that traps ants in a small box is difficult to feed, and most of them will hang up within a few months or even weeks.
However, Guo Shihu was used to experiment with the basic Gu worm cultivation method on the Five Poisons Secret Book, refining ordinary insects into poisonous insects, and then relying on drugs to drive them to attack.
Because it was difficult to experiment with larger insects, I bought cheap and small ants for experiments.
It's not that he doesn't want to experiment with more powerful spiders, lizards and other ferocious predator creatures, but those that are difficult to find and expensive and not as affordable as ants.
As a recent college graduate, even if I have a lot of money, I can occasionally complete some outsourcing design work under the introduction of my seniors, but although I don't usually buy figures and materials, there is not much left.
If he hadn't fallen out with his family this time and wanted to start his own business, he wouldn't have thought of saving money when he usually had no concept of money.
The Gu worm that Guo Shihu is going to cultivate is called "Pain Gu", as the name suggests, it is a Gu worm that produces severe pain after biting. This is the lowest level of Gu worms recorded in the Five Poisons Secret Tips, and is usually cultivated with some small insects of the social class, such as locusts and wasps. Because the power is low and the Gu formation rate is not high, it is only by quantity that it wins.
Of course, ants are also okay.
According to the method recorded in the Five Poisons Secret Book, Guo Shihu fed the ants some boiled rice grains mixed with medicinal powder soaked in the shade.
These powders are dry powders that are dried after mixing and extracting several materials, which are mainly plant medicines, and are mixed with a small amount of chemical toxins to ensure that ants will not die suddenly after use, and have some adaptation time to the poison.
The next thing is to wait.
After all, cultivating Gu worms cannot be achieved overnight, at least there must be a cycle, and even repeated cultivation and improvement from generation to generation can be achieved in order to cultivate the best Gu worms.
Even in terms of the life cycle of ants, it can take a few weeks to see the first results.
"If these ants are successfully cultivated into Gu worms, then you can try to buy a batch of bullet ants to cultivate, it is said that that thing bites people and thieves hurt!"
Guo Shihu muttered to himself.
Because he didn't have the Five Poisonous True Qi, he couldn't use the poisonous True Qi to ripen the Gu worms, so he could only pick up some simple cultivation methods, at the cost of taking a long time and not having a high success rate.
On the poison side, he blended it very smoothly.
The most basic three things, Ecstasy, Heding Red and Plague Repellent Soup, he has already made.
Yes, there is also a soup to cure diseases.
The refining part of the Five Poisons Secret Guide is not all poison formulas, and there are many secret prescriptions for healing.
Because the southwest region has been full of smoke and miasma poisons since ancient times, and it is humid and stuffy, these prescriptions are mostly for the treatment of expelling poisonous insects and miasma.
This decoction is the most common, and it can be used as a prescription for plague infections, and in modern terms, it is to treat a variety of diseases caused by viruses, such as viral colds, diarrhea, and so on.
In addition to the must-have signature five poisons of the Five Poisons Sect, it is also equipped with forsythia, lotus seed core, ephedra, bitter almonds and other common medicinal materials that clear heat and promote lung cough and asthma.
In addition, there are kitchen condiments such as ginger, garlic, and pepper.
However, considering that ginger, garlic and pepper themselves are all pungent and warm spices, and also have the effects of relieving cold, relieving vomiting, warming the lungs and relieving cough, detoxifying and killing insects, etc., and are often used in medicine or dietary therapy in traditional Chinese medicine, it is not surprising that there is such a formula.
Among the other two poisons, Hedinghong, which was known as a deadly poison in ancient times, sounded very powerful, but it was the easiest to refine under Guo Shihu's hands.
The so-called Heding Red has been studied and understood in modern times, in fact, arsenic trioxide is commonly known as arsenic, but because the arsenic was impure in ancient times, it was red, also called red alum, red letter stone, so the ancients gave this highly toxic thing an elegant alias "Heding Red".
It is not difficult for Guo Shihu, who has a perfect score in chemistry, to refine this thing, and it is good to extract it directly with other arsenides, and it is easy to get pure white pure arsenic.
As for the ecstasy, it is actually the kind of psychedelic that must be guarded against when walking the rivers and lakes described in the novel.
Using several toxic drugs such as mandala and shengcaowu as raw materials, similar to modern anesthetics, it can take effect after ten minutes, making people's limbs numb, the whole body tight, and finally unconscious. Those who overdose will have side effects such as convulsions, cramps, and eventually death from respiratory paralysis or irregular heartbeat.
Among the three medicines, this formula is more difficult because the ingredients are difficult to find. These are all state-controlled drugs, and general pharmacies and hospitals will not dare to arrest you if they do not have a prescription.
Fortunately, Guo Shihu also has some connections in Jinling University, and through his classmates from the Department of Biomedical Sciences, who have a good relationship with the club, he got in touch with him, and bought a batch of mice and a few materials under the pretext of studying biological experiments.
The other party didn't dare to give him more, this is still based on the original friendship and Guo Shihong's eldest brother is a police detective, and he can't use it to commit crimes, so Guo Shihu only practiced less than twenty grams of ecstasy, which is enough to fascinate a few adults, but it is better than nothing.