The greenhouse on the old campus, which is also the main drug production site of the Hunter Academy, covers an area of about 0.75 hectares, with multi-storey insulated walls and a fully transparent glass shed.

In winter, the roof of the shed is covered with snow, and the hazy light shows the thick water vapor that accumulates like a cloud above.

It is said that three steam energy stoves are arranged in this greenhouse room, which are seated in an equilateral shape. In winter, they turn on their power, evaporating the water in the furnace and forming an oppressive barrier layer in the air of seven to ten meters, which effectively counteracts the cold from the outside world, melts the snow, and forms a small recovery "rain" in the central recovery pool.

When the steam reaches the edge of the greenhouse, the sloping panels collect the liquefied water droplets into the pilot canals, which direct the pure liquid to the various culture rooms to provide the necessary water for plants such as medicinal plants. Six to seven meters of the walls are filled with vents, which open and close to remove excess heat while using the rotating kinetic energy to provide heat to the surrounding composite walls and a source of light for the interior.

The members of the make-up group enter through a place called "bridges", which are made up of five or six meters long passages, three meters high at first, and narrower the further in. They are open all year round, and fresh air enters through these channels, which circulate horizontally and vertically after being moistened and heated.

Once inside, their field of vision is actually very narrow, and they can only look straight at the vanishing point of their vision in the distance ahead.

On both sides of the field of view are densely packed bee huts, each planted with different species of plants, and their doors are marked with their own unique labels.

Madame Madeleine Maes led them to a stop in front of a beehive, and like the others, Charmin was carrying a wooden barrel with a white towel on his shoulder, and the steam was everywhere, and those who did not know thought they were waiting in line for a bath.

Their barrels contained a mass of aquatic plants, soaked in a warm liquid and rolled up a few times from time to time, occasionally floating a few bubbles.

Before Professor Max came in, he repeatedly stressed that you should not touch the plants with your hands, or they would wrap around your hands like water snakes. So they carried a bucket of water as they carried a bucket of dynamite.

When everyone saw Professor Max stop, the terrible thing began.

Professor Max waved her hand at the crowd of people who were chattering slightly, and when they were completely quiet, she said slowly: "The academy originally did not have a make-up period, so if you want to learn knowledge, you must help me transplant these capuchin scale grasses to the greenhouse, and I will tell you their habits and uses, how much they can learn and whether they will be used in the assessment, it depends on your luck." ”

Everyone didn't dare to make a sound, no one knew what form the pharmacological foundation would take to make up the examination, among their group, some people passed the written examination, some passed the cultivation operation examination, some were ordered to configure the on-site program, and some even blindfolded to identify... There are also people who are absent from the exam.

Often because of the absence of the exam, I don't know the benefits, but I am more calm.

"But it doesn't matter if it's used in the exam room or not. Professor Max raised his voice, "As long as you remember, I think it will always help you later in life." ”

This is the tone of a veteran teacher, and he has taught them from years of personal experience that there is no harm in learning. But Xia Ming always felt weird, they were carrying buckets and shovels to do volunteer work, and before they could roll up their sleeves, they learned the importance of establishing lifelong learning as the goal.

If it was Instructor Cather who was standing here talking at the moment, they would definitely think that he was talking a lot of nonsense and crooked reasoning, just doing his job, fart lifelong learning, and deceiving children.

Professor Max turned around and took out a bunch of keys from his pocket, the rusty keys looked exactly the same, but Professor Max grabbed the one out of his hand, which was the key to open the door.

The air was originally a faint smell of steaming and a strong earthy aroma, but as the door opened, a fishy smell rushed out, and everyone immediately covered their noses.

Professor Max led the group into the beehive, and as he passed by the door, Xia Ming noticed that the label in front of the door read: Capuchin scales, sedges.

Inside the beehive were rows of separate mud fields, and Professor Max asked each of them to stand in a position in the aisle between the mud fields. The assistant handed her a wooden barrel, and Professor Max demonstrated: "Capuchin scales are an important ingredient for the preparation of wound healing drugs, and capuchin scale seedlings live in the shallow waters of special rivers and slowly migrate to the shore of the river as they grow. Adult capuchin scales require a lot of air and nutrients, and the water quality requirements are more demanding, and they need to grow next to decomposing corpses. ”

When everyone heard the decomposing corpse, their faces changed, and some of the girls turned even pale, and their bodies stiffened and clutched their barrels. This is also because they are still in the first grade, and they are still sensitive to the word "corpse".

Seeing their reactions, Professor Max continued unmoved: "The corpse is a fish caught by the capchin scales themselves, and they suck the blood from the animal's body until it decomposes. After some of the wild animals in the forest prey on their prey, the leftover remains are washed into the river, and if the river is not well circulated, capuchin scales will grow.

That is, they first grew on corpses. ”

Speaking of which, even some of the boys' faces stiffened. The hive was filled with the smell of dead fish, which was creeping into your nostrils.

"But you don't have to face it with this expression, it's the decomposer of nature, and it's right for them to grow on corpses. ”

It is a matter of course, people are iron, rice is steel, and if you don't eat a meal, you will be hungry and panic.

Xia Ming thought of those delicacies, one by one entwined with the stench of black pressure, saying that the food eaten by humans is actually a corpse?

He suddenly saw a short-haired girl in front of him, and quietly stepped forward and said to an iron-headed buddy who was blocking his vision, "I want to change places with you." ”

That guy had a hard bone, and when he saw Xia Ming annoying him, he waved his fist.

The number of unqualified soldiers is quite large, and even if about half of the trainers are eliminated by the time they are promoted to hunters, it is difficult for the rest of them to withstand the indoctrination of knowledge from the senior grades. Moreover, most of the final grades are still based on 40% grades and 60% of the usual grades, so they are divided into more than a dozen classes, they rotate classes, but the teacher group has to teach all the time.

But there are also special ones, like Xia Ming, who basically hangs up every subject, and he may only have a class by himself.

Do you want to run into Instructor Cather alone? Haven't you been abused enough?

"To transplant capuchin scales into a greenhouse.."

Professor Max's voice came from there, and Xia Ming hurriedly cast his gaze, he didn't want to be crawled on his hands or head by this thing that crawled over the corpse. The capuchin scales in the barrel curl like snakes, and Professor Max emphasized it a few times.

"I'm going to show you now, you have to look at it carefully. Professor Max said.

She took the towel off her shoulder, "The towel in your hand is not for you to wipe your sweat."

"Putting the capuchin scales in the exact position requires the cooperation of at least two of you."

Professor Max got a student assistant in exchange, and everyone saw his armband, which was a fourth-year senior brother.

The senior brother spread out the white cloth and spread it flat on the wooden barrel, and after fixing the center position, he helped Professor Max slowly tilt the wooden barrel, and the liquid slowly flowed through the fine pores of the white cloth into the soft mud pit prepared earlier, and the dry soil turned into silt when it touched the water, and finally the senior brother lifted the inverted wooden barrel, and the mass of plants adhered to the center of the white cloth.

"Remember to loosen the soil before filtering. Professor Max raised his voice and emphasized, "You can't touch it." ”

The iron-headed and iron-brained buddy in front of Xia Ming was sticking the shovel he picked up from the mud field into the wooden barrel at this time, as if he wanted to tease it first, Xia Ming stretched his head over curiously, but he was horrified to see the curlein scales that were originally leisurely floating in the water rolling up like a fish, and those toothed tentacles rotated and wound up along the shovel, really as flexible as a water snake.

The man suddenly screamed, and everyone looked at him like thunder, and saw that the capuchin scales were constantly stretching out and climbing on his hand, and each path of those tentacles left a bright red blood mark.

The man couldn't help but reach out and grab it away, but Professor Max immediately shouted, "Don't move!"

She hurried over, seized the man's hand, and commanded, "Bring some quickstone powder." ”

The fourth-grader saw that something was wrong, and ran out earlier, and soon he came back with a bucket of white powder.

Sprinkled the powder on the roots of the curchin scales, and the sizzling sound penetrated everyone's ears, Xia Ming saw that the mass of curchin scales quickly dried up and fell off, and he was completely dead.

"Take him to the infirmary. Professor Max said.

The senior brother thoughtfully left the box, bandaged the man's wound with a strip of cloth, and sent him out of the beehive.

Professor Max said with a straight face, "Didn't I say you can't touch it? I repeat, you can't touch it, including hands and tweezers!"

"Do you understand?"

When she asked, everyone knew she was angry.

Professor Max sighed and continued, "By 'can't', I mean that it can't be contaminated with human blood until it's refined into medicine. It's not a gold sore medicine, and its effects may not be used until you're beyond the walls. ”

Everyone whispered that beyond the walls was too far away for them, they were only in the first grade, and even the fourth grade rarely had this opportunity, but some people thought that it was better not to have this opportunity.

They carefully memorized Professor Max's words in their notes, so that they would not come in handy one day.

"Well, don't be afraid, students. Remember, you are hunters. In Professor Madeleine Maes's tone, the hunter seems to be omnipotent.

Everyone began to move, Professor Max stood in the position of the person just now, and when he turned his head, he saw Xia Ming, she looked at him and said, "You are Xia Ming?"

Xia Ming nodded, he didn't remember that no one seemed to have asked this before.

It's a strange feeling that people you don't know seem to know you well.

"Good. Professor Max said lightly, "Keep trying." ”

After Professor Max left, Xia Ming scratched her head, and her tone made it difficult to understand what she meant. It's not that it will be written in the full score paper to continue to work hard, and there are also those who fail, but the meaning of the two is different.

So is he on the verge of danger now, or is he on the verge of being a "cheater" (1)?

Without much thought, he stepped forward and patted the short-haired girl on the shoulder who was still taking notes, "Hey, do you want to form a team?"

The girl didn't look back, and said with a grin, "Whatever." ”

Note: (1) means the edge of the hanging