Chapter 36: The scumbag father who bullies his apprentice
Dad's pharmacy, in the corner of the store.
Su Xia's personal operating table is filled with various instruments and materials.
Wearing gloves, he carefully used a key to take out a little blood ore powder, followed the principle of "one tilt, two send, three upright", carefully put it into the bottom of the test tube, and then made the test tube upright.
Hong Bafu and Lan Bafu both stopped what they were doing and carefully observed the operations of the newcomer Su Xia.
It takes a long time to learn and master a recipe.
Even if it is just a basic formula, a normal apprentice cannot master it in a short time.
But Su Xia's operation seemed very skilled. The proportions of various materials were just right, and each step was very safe. The two of them couldn't help but wonder in their hearts: "Could this newcomer named Su Xia be an undercover sent by another pharmacy?"
In fact, there is a "one-click synthesis" button on the player panel.
When this button is pressed, the player will enter a cutscene and see his character skillfully mixing potions based on various materials, with a success rate slightly higher than that of an NPC beginner.
In addition to this one-click synthesis, players can also choose to "do it themselves" and actively control the character to match potions, which has a higher success rate.
Su Xia chose to do it herself.
When he started to move, his limbs were extremely coordinated, without any nervousness or hand tremors, and the entire operation went smoothly.
As a top student, he didn't think it was that difficult, just like a chemistry experiment.
When Su Xia was about to go wrong at a certain step, Lan Bafu next to him tapped the table with his fingers, reminding her.
“Tsk, tsk…”
Hearing this voice, Su Xia's eyes moved slightly and she nodded gently.
Apart from this accident, the rest of the process was almost perfect, and a fresh poison was soon produced.
Due to the "Death Tenderness" talent, this poison is 11% more toxic than normal.
"Can you actually succeed in one try?" Lan Bafu swallowed his saliva, "Brother, are you really not an undercover sent ?"
Although he reminded her, he didn't expect Su Xia to succeed at once.
"No, maybe it's luck."
Su Xia smiled and gently shook the small medicine bottle in her hand, and the liquid inside turned into a turbid dark red.
When fighting against an enemy, you can directly smash this small bottle out to cause the negative effect of poisoning the enemy, reducing the enemy's combat effectiveness and causing the enemy to continue to lose blood.
"Huh?"
Dad stood up from behind the counter and uttered a light "eh".
He put down the coffee in his hand, walked to Su Xia, raised his glasses and said, "Let me see."
"Teacher, look."
Su Xia handed over the small medicine bottle.
Dad took the bottle, casually sat on the glass cabinet next to him, and put the bottle in front of his eyes to look at it carefully.
Then he opened the bottle and put the poison to his nose and sniffed it.
Lan Bafu complained in a low voice: "Teacher, you are not doing it right. Can't you put your nose close to the mouth of the container? You should use your hand to gently fan the mouth of the bottle. Besides... this is a bottle of poison..."
The old man raised his eyebrows and asked seriously: "Are you the teacher or am I the teacher? Do you want to fight with me?"
Lan Bafu shrank back, lowered his head and whispered, "You are the teacher, you have the final say."
“Hehehe!”
Dad snorted twice, then reached out and slapped Lan Bafu on the head.
He returned the potion bottle to Su Xia and said calmly, "It's barely okay, but that's all. It's not as good as the first dose of poison that Dad made. Don't be proud and complacent, otherwise you won't be able to withstand the blow of failure in the future."
"I remember it, don't worry, teacher."
"Just remember, never doubt what Dad says."
Dad looked indifferent, and after saying that, he turned and walked towards the counter.
The old man seemed to not care about Su Xia's learning progress, but at an angle that the apprentices could not see, the corners of his mouth curled up slightly.
In the corner, Hong Bafu and Lan Bafu began to discuss experiences with Su Xia.
The pharmacist level of these two people is not weak. They can make third-level potions. If they are placed outside, they are high enough to be called "Master".
But perhaps because they were reluctant to leave their father's pharmacy, or perhaps because they owed their father too much money, neither of them started their own business, but continued to be apprentices for their father.
As for the level of Dad's alchemy, neither of them knew.
"Dad was able to refine fourth-level potions when he was very young." Hong Bafu showed admiration on his face. He was a chubby fat man who occupied half of the corner space by himself.
"When we were our age, Dad would have already become a guest of honor for various forces. Now he lives in seclusion here, and even those robots are very polite to him."
Compared with their father's legendary life, both of them felt a little frustrated.
After listening to what the two said, Su Xia's mind moved slightly, and she was sure that she had come to the right place.
This old man might be the strongest pharmacist in the entire Coral City, or even in the dozen or so cities around it.
But his process of recruiting disciples was a bit too hasty. He didn't even ask about my background. What if I was really an undercover agent sent here?
"Do all strong people act impulsively like this?"
At this moment, Su Xia suddenly received a reminder from the bracelet.
[It is detected that your body hunger level on Earth is high, do you want to return immediately? ]
When Su Xia saw this message, he was shocked. Then he remembered that he didn't even have lunch today!
In just one day, he had become the kind of person who played games so much that he forgot to eat.
It's fallen!
He immediately ended his conversation with the two of them, using the excuse that he needed to learn another recipe, and hurried back to the real world.
Su Xia got out of bed and took out a box of Yue Li Yue biscuits from her cupboard.
The atmosphere in the dormitory was normal.
The server has been open for two hours, and several roommates are still working hard in the mine.
Except for Li Defu, the other four guys did not adjust the color of the blood, so the pictures on their computer screens were so bloody that they had to be blurred.
This guy Li Defu painted the blood white, so the whole screen was filled with white sticky liquid, which made it look even more pixelated.
"How are you guys?" Su Xia asked while eating biscuits and standing behind Li Defu.
"It's difficult. I probably have to fight until two or three in the morning to level up." Li Defu's eyes were slightly red, but his fighting spirit remained undiminished and his spirits were still high.
"Brother Su, have you read the forum?" he asked while killing monsters.
"What are you looking at?"
"Just now, a character from the propaganda film appeared. It was the commander."
“Oh, I saw that too…”
Su Xia had expected this, so he was not surprised. This was exactly the effect he wanted.
The head of the department, Yuwen Shuxue, sighed: "Alas, the novice map of the Oasis Camp can only be reached by random landing. Those guys are really lucky."
"I heard that a guy has been recognized by the NPC. He just took a lot of spoils by himself. I'm so envious!"
Gaming opportunities are hard to come by, and my roommates in the dormitory could only sigh with envy and jealousy.
Li Defu suddenly remembered something and asked, "By the way, Brother Su, why haven't you come yet? Did you run into trouble on the way?"
"No." Su Xia shook her head calmly, "I joined the pharmacy and won't be here for the time being."
"Oh, you joined...what? The pharmacy?"
