Chapter 443: Su Xia Appears
Although the pharmacy is small, the comfortable feeling it brings to Suxia is something that no other place can give.
Su Xia lay on the bed with her eyes slightly closed. She let her sensing ability spread out and began to feel the changes in this small shop.
"During this period, the store's reinforcement work has been completed..."
From the outside, this small shop looks no different from before.
The interior of the store remains the same, with old wooden furniture in the corners carrying the breath of time, antique and with a unique charm. Even the floor is the same as before, with a slight creaking sound when stepped on.
Only Su Xia could sense that there were a large number of metal reinforcements in various key locations of the store's overall structure.
Not only the shop area on the ground, but also the basement below has been reinforced. Metal beams support the top of the first two floors of the basement. The structure is solid and the metal materials used are of the highest standards.
As for the third layer below, the giant underground cavity does not need to be reinforced. After all, there are similar cavity under the entire city.
As long as nothing unexpected happens, this small shop can still survive for another one or two hundred years.
All this is thanks to Su Jianshe, the director of the Urban Construction Department. He personally came to the pharmacy every day to supervise the work in the wind and sun to ensure that every step was implemented.
"We should invite him and the main construction workers to dinner. Unfortunately, I wasn't here before. Let's wait until the school project is completed before inviting them together." Su Xia is not the kind of person who doesn't understand the ways of the world, and he immediately had an idea in his mind.
During the time he was away, it was all thanks to that "narcissistic puppet" who occasionally showed up on his behalf to let outsiders know that he was still in Coral City.
Now, this doll has been taken back into the storage space by Su Xia.
After all, this thing is not a clone, it's just a smart toy. It's okay if it just shows up briefly, but once it talks to people too much, it will easily reveal its flaws and be noticed as something unusual.
Now that Su Xia is back, all the things that the puppets couldn't do before can now be done by him personally.
The first thing, naturally, is to refine the fourth-level potion "Dream Enchantment".
This is the key to saving Yi Mo and Shen Yu.
"Those two little girls have been confused for too long. It's time for them to wake up."
Thinking of this, Su Xia immediately got up from the bed.
He pushed open the door, hurried downstairs, walked on the creaking floor to the first floor, and gently turned on the old chandelier in the shop on the first floor of the pharmacy.
“Bang!”
The light was still warm yellow, and the familiar various medicines and shelves came into Su Xia's eyes.
At this time, it was just getting light outside, there were few pedestrians on the street, and most of the shops on both sides were closed. Only a few breakfast shops were open.
“It’s still everything familiar.”
Boss Zhao across the street was busy, wearing a white chef's uniform and holding a rolling pin in his hand, apparently rolling out dough.
The street lights were dim and a little blurry in the morning mist.
"Ding-ling-ling..."
Su Xia pushed open the door of the pharmacy, and a refreshing morning breeze immediately blew in his face. He stood at the door, stretched, and then hung up the "Open" sign.
Boss Zhao from across the street saw him and immediately greeted him with a smile: "Master Su, good morning!"
"morning!"
Su Xia responded with a smile, her expression warm.
Then, he turned back to his workbench, took down the various instruments needed to refine the Dream Enchantment from the shelf, and placed them in the corners of the workbench for use.
"I haven't made a potion in a long time. I'm a little rusty. Let me try making something else first."
Su Xia thought about it, took a piece of dark blue ore from the shelf, threw it into the mortar, and slowly crushed it until it turned into blue particles like fine sand.
After that, he went to the basement to get more than ten other materials.
The potion he used to try his hand was called "The Blue of the Other Shore". It was a fourth-tier potion of medium difficulty to refine and had a hallucinogenic effect.
The refining process went smoothly with almost no errors, and a bottle of dark blue potion came out.
Su Xia held the potion bottle, shook it gently, and nodded slightly: "It seems that my proficiency is still there, and I don't feel awkward. Let's try something else. If there is no problem, I will start to try to refine the Dream Enchantment. As for breaking through to the fifth-level pharmacist, there is no rush for the time being. There is plenty of time in the next two days."
Next, Su Xia refined several fourth-level potions of varying difficulty.
The most difficult one, called "Born Like Summer Flowers", is a potion that temporarily increases life force. The difficulty of refining is close to that of a fifth-level potion, but Su Xia still succeeded in refining it in one go.
Looking at the light red liquid in his hand, Su Xia thought for a while and felt that it was about right.
For him, it was no longer difficult to prepare potions below level five.
"Let's get started..."
Su Xia took a deep breath, tidied up the workbench, washed away the traces of the previous potion refining with clean water, and removed the unnecessary tools, leaving only the necessities.
Then he put on a new pair of disposable gloves and took out a "lump fish" from the storage space.
The poison gland of this fish is one of the necessary ingredients for refining the Dream Enchantment.
The venom glands must be fresh.
This is exactly why Su Xia went to the south in person before.
Its storage space has a function of preserving things. Things will remain the same when you take them out as they were when you put them in.
Fortunately, Su Xia went there, otherwise, the one who got the venom gland would be Zhuang Ren, and that guy would freeze the venom gland directly, causing the protein to denature.
Many people don’t know that the main component of most biological venom is protein. For example, the venom of poisonous snakes, poisonous bees and other creatures will be broken down into harmless amino acids once they enter the stomach.
“Sizzle!”
Su Xia used a knife to gently cut open the belly of the fish . The unique fishy smell of marine fish viscera immediately hit her face, making Su Xia frown involuntarily. She felt like she was back in the seafood market.
Fortunately, the windows and the shop door were open, and the fresh morning breeze blew away the strange smell.
The next steps are not complicated.
Locate the venom gland and remove it intact, then extract the venom.
"Andrew said that this venom is an excellent hallucinogen that acts on biological nerves. A small drop can make people indulge in pleasant hallucinations for an hour or two. It is comparable to the best quality white flour, so many rich people are scrambling to buy it..."
Su Xia looked focused, wearing goggles, staring at the glass dropper in his hand.
There is a light blue liquid in the dropper, which is the venom that has been initially separated from the venom gland.
The gap between the rich and the poor in this world is too huge. The rich have more money than they can spend. They have already enjoyed all kinds of artificially synthesized psychiatric drugs, so they have set their sights on this kind of purely natural things.
This reminded Su Xia of a country on the other side of the earth, where some young people were addicted to licking toads.
Su Xia shook her head slightly. She really couldn't understand the world of those young people.
He placed the dropper on the rack and began to prepare the rest of the ingredients.
Su Xia had seen the recipe for the Dream-Entering Enchantment many times, and had memorized every step so as not to make any mistakes.
But to be on the safe side, he still posted the recipe above the workbench so that he could see it at any time.
“We need to use psychedelic grass, which is also a material that can cause hallucinations.
“There is also rainbow grass fruit, another material that can cause hallucinations and is highly toxic. Taking too much can cause symptoms such as headaches, vomiting, and limb convulsions.
“There are also several materials that are mildly toxic and have hallucinogenic effects.
"This recipe uses so many hallucinogenic poisons. Is it intended to fight poison with poison?"
While Su Xia was preparing the potion, he was thinking about whether he needed to add other ingredients.
His current abilities are no longer limited to the original formulas. It is not too difficult for him to create or improve formulas, which is something that other fourth-level pharmacists or even fifth-level pharmacists cannot do.
As he was thinking about this, the first potion was soon ready.
One-time success.
Su Xia was not surprised, this was his normal level.
At this moment, there was a creaking sound on the stairs. It was Hong Bafu coming down the stairs.
He stared at Su Xia in surprise and asked, "Brother Su, why aren't you upstairs writing your book today? Have you finished writing the textbook so quickly? I heard that it takes others at least several months, or even several years, to write a book."
"When you are too quiet, you want to move." Su Xia smiled faintly, "I have been sitting upstairs for too long, so I came down to move around and verify some ideas."
"What idea?"
Hong Bafu saw the potion in Su Xia's hand at a glance, rubbed his eyes, and said in surprise: "Huh... purple potion? Is it 'Purple Butterfly'? Or 'Hyacinth'? Or did you make a new potion, brother?"
“Yes, that’s the idea I want to verify.”
Su Xia did not hide anything and directly threw the recipe for the dream-entering drug to Hong Bafu, letting him figure it out on his own.
"Is this... a new fourth-tier potion?"
When he saw that it was a fourth-level potion, Hong Bafu's eyes suddenly lit up. He felt like he had found a treasure. He immediately ran to his workbench, sat down, put on a pair of small glasses, and browsed through it carefully.
After a while, Lan Bafu also came downstairs and was also surprised that Su Xia was not upstairs today.
Su Xia gave a backup recipe for the Dream-Entering Magic to Lan Bafu and sent the guy away.
Time passed slowly and the sky outside gradually brightened.
At 7:30 in the morning, the street lights on both sides of the old street went out one by one, and the number of pedestrians on the street gradually increased. There were young people rushing to work and children carrying backpacks to school, and the street became more lively.
"Master Su!" Mr. Zhao, the boss of the restaurant across the street, called out, steam rising from the steamer beside him. "The children have washed up, and the food is ready. Come over and eat with us."
"Let the children eat first, I have something else to do!"
Su Xia looked up, smiled, looked out the window, and waved across the street.
He had previously brought out more than a dozen children from the slums in the east of the city and accepted them as his apprentices, making these children the first batch .
Now that the school has not been built yet, these children have been living on the second floor of the hotel opposite.
Recently, the children have been eating well and taking in a balanced diet. They are not as skinny as before, and they smile more often than before. They are slowly getting over the pain of losing their family member.
After saying hello, Su Xia withdrew his gaze and continued to refine a new potion.
“Sizzle!”
He patiently cut open the stomachs of one lumpfish after another, took out fresh venom glands from their stomachs, and carried out extraction and separation operations.
The clock hands in the store turn and tick, slowly taking away time.
About an hour later, Su Xia successfully refined ten potions.
"That should be enough!"
In fact, according to the requirements of the mission "The Lost Person", Su Xia only needs to refine two doses and inject one into each of the two girls, Yi Mo and Shen Yu.
But Su Xia always likes to be well prepared in case of unexpected events.
He pulled out the small medicine box from under his workbench and placed ten medicines into it, then added some other medicines, and then snapped the box shut.
"Brothers, I have to go out for a while to treat two patients. You can go and have your meal first and don't wait for me!" Su Xia carried a small medicine box on his back, looking like an old Chinese doctor.
"Okay, brother, go ahead and don't worry, we'll take care of the store!"
The two didn't ask anything, but just asked Su Xia to go early and come back early and have a safe journey.
Su Xia walked to the counter, took a few business cards of the pharmacy manager from under the counter, and then walked out with the small medicine box on her back.
It's sunny outside and the morning sunlight is very bright.
He did not avoid anyone and walked straight towards the Zero Point Tavern.
Along the way, many neighbors greeted him warmly.
"Morning, Master Su!"
"morning!"
"Master Su, thank you for your hard work!"
"It's not hard, it's what I should do!"
Su Xia responded in turn with a smile on her face, her gentle voice making people feel like a spring breeze.
He walked calmly and looked relaxed, behaving no differently than usual, and the neighbors on both sides of the old street did not notice anything unusual.
But only Su Xia knew that the moment he went out, he was in crisis.
It's a very special feeling.
If an ordinary person is stared at from behind for a long time, he or she may feel something and subconsciously turn around to check.
The perception of psychic creatures is stronger than that of ordinary people, especially level five creatures like Su Xia, whose five senses are much stronger than those of ordinary people, and they almost possess the legendary sixth sense.
The moment he stepped out of the store, he felt a chill on his spine and his scalp, as if he was being stared at by a poisonous snake.
"Could it be the same group of people who wrote the death threat letters before?"
Su Xia looked normal. She didn't look back or make any other movements. She continued walking towards the Zero Point Tavern.
He was thinking, if they were really that group of people, then what was their purpose?
Is it simply because you don't like me?
Or is it because dad has done them a favor and they want to clear up the sect for dad?
Or is there another reason?
…
Behind Su Xia, more than 200 meters away, the old street connects to a small alley.
Several men with gloomy expressions stared at Su Xia's back. They leaned against the wall, and there was a hint of murderous intent in their eyes.
"He actually dared to go out? Who gave him the courage?"
"It seems that our letters are useless!"
"Well, let's deal with him today, then find a place to hide and leave the city after the storm passes. This will be considered as repaying Dad for saving my life."
After a brief exchange, several people directly sentenced Su Xia to death.
It seemed that, in their eyes, killing Su Xia was no different from crushing a small insect.
"It is said that the undead are unkillable."
One of them suddenly spoke up and mentioned Su Xia's other identity.
Another person sneered: "Haha, I want to see if the undead are really immortal!"
"Don't let your guard down. He had been hiding in the pharmacy before and didn't dare to come out. He suddenly went out today. He must have something to rely on. I suspect... Yu Tuo might be hiding in the dark..."
"What are you afraid of?"
Among the few people, the one who looked the youngest raised the knife in his hand with a fierce look on his face.
"Yu Tuo may be strong, but we brothers are no pushovers!"
