Success and failure
The materials were arriving today, and Lu Yuan was very focused on figuring out the Plague Potion. If he succeeded this time, he could earn a lot of Knight Token and gain a lot of experience, so Lu Yuan quickly went to the Pharmacy Group.
The morning's Pharmacy Group was completely different from when Lu Yuan usually came in the evening. There were many more people in the room, most of whom were unfamiliar faces, each busy with their own tasks. Frey was not there either.
Lu Yuan inquired about his medicinal herbs, but the person checked the records and told him they couldn't be delivered until that evening. Lu Yuan had no choice but to wait there.
The wait lasted from morning until night. During this time, Lu Yuan flipped through other people's records and pondered his next steps. It wasn't until the people in the Pharmacy Group left one after another and the room became empty that a knock sounded at the door.
Frey pushed open the door and was taken aback when she saw Lu Yuan sitting on the Sofa. She was clearly surprised that Lu Yuan would arrive so early. As soon as Lu Yuan saw Frey's arrival, he immediately went to greet her and asked if his medicinal herbs had arrived.
"We're here, we're here. Someone will bring it over soon," Frey said, looking Lu Yuan up and down. "So what are you thinking? Do you have any good ideas?"
Lu Yuan had already prepared his explanation, and by following Oden's line of thought, he expressed his own ideas.
"I'm not entirely sure about the recipe for the Plague Potion, but the aura it emits gives me some clues. So I plan to use this herb to work backwards. If I succeed, I can roughly pinpoint the ingredients used in the Plague Potion. If I fail, I'll continue to modify it."
Frey became interested upon hearing this. Since the Lantern Knight forbade her from touching the Pathway Mutation Potion anymore, and she was bored anyway, she decided to go with Lu Yuan.
"You won't mind, will you?" Frey looked at him with a smile. "After all, we agreed yesterday."
Lu Yuan looked at Frey's smiling face and nodded, but after nodding, his expression became serious.
"During the potion-making process, if there's anything you don't understand or anything you don't see clearly, don't touch it. Leave everything to me. You can ask me anything you want, but you are absolutely not allowed to touch the potion itself."
Lu Yuan spoke very seriously because he was genuinely worried that the Plague Potion might contain the kind of ingredient that would drag people directly to that Land of the Dead Silence. If that were the case, it wouldn't be so bad if he were dragged in; he could just gain some more experience. But if Frey were dragged in as well, she would be truly doomed; that girl was doomed.
Seeing Lu Yuan's unusually serious expression, Frey nodded, indicating that it was no problem at all. After all, she herself was afraid of death. Frey considered herself very afraid of death, so she would cherish her life.
The medicinal herbs were quickly delivered, and the new pharmaceutical plan began.
The five medicinal herbs that Oden wanted were not rare, and each of them had a certain degree of Purification effect. So, based on the Plague Herbs that Oden had seen from Lu Yuan, he made some modifications to his original, blindly deduced formula. As long as they were mixed in the right proportions, theoretically they could produce very good results.
As for the method of making medicine, Oden had already explained it to Lu Yuan: Purity Grass, Dawnflower, Moon Dew Grass, Chalk Root and Plague-Cleansing Leaf should be purified separately, ground into fine powder, and then mixed in a certain proportion.
With Lu Yuan's current level of Pharmacology, making a medicine with detailed steps is actually not particularly difficult.
Frey sat beside him, her eyes fixed on Lu Yuan Pharmaceutical.
But the more she looked, the more her brows furrowed, because Lu Yuan's technique was far too clumsy, or rather, too rough, and his control over the heat was utterly terrible.
Several times Frey thought that Lu Yuan was about to burn the pot of herbs, but each time, Lu Yuan was able to precisely remove it from the Flame before it was completely destroyed. It was just like Lu Yuan's style of making medicine, which was naturally this rough and extreme way.
Frey looked on with a big question mark on her head, muttering to herself several times, but ultimately didn't ask.
However, based on Lu Yuan's methods, she could roughly guess what Lu Yuan was doing, but she had never thought of it this way before.
As the last drop of medicine dissolved in, Lu Yuan created a brand new potion.
This is a bottle of light green potion, with tiny bubbles rising from the center, making it look exceptionally dreamy and beautiful under the light.
Gray-White Text then appeared before Lu Yuan's eyes.
[Pharmacology: +1...14.2/50]
Lu Yuan couldn't help but smirk when he saw this. He had already gained experience before even starting the test, making this a win-win situation no matter how you looked at it.
Frey looked at the bottle of potion, then looked up at Lu Yuan: "Is this the potion you were talking about? How exactly is it used?"
Lu Yuan explained the detailed principle to her, "Theoretically, this thing should have Purification or dispelling effect when it comes into contact with people infected by the plague; in short, it will have some kind of reaction."
Lu Yuan shook the bottle in his hand. "So next I need to apply for a Heretic to conduct experiments on, that is, I need to apply for someone Contamination by the plague to conduct experiments on. Has the Knight Academy captured anyone like that?"
This is what Lu Yuan is a little worried about. If the Knight Academy doesn't have someone like this, then it's all over. Even if they make it, there's no one to verify it. They can't possibly use themselves to verify it, can they? Lu Yuan wouldn't do something so stupid.
"There just happens to be a Heretic, and one who has been clearly Contamination," Frey said after a moment's thought. "You could go take a look."
So Frey and Lu Yuan left the Pharmacy Group together, led by the patrolmen outside, and walked deep into the Hanging Tower through twists and turns. The further they went, the darker and damper it became, and the more Inscription and colorful lamps appeared on the walls.
They hadn't walked far when they arrived at a stone hall Heretic were imprisoned. Inside, an ordinary man was being held, suspended from some kind of Restraining Device, his hands and feet firmly fixed in place. He had a pious expression on his face, his head was bowed, and he was chanting something.
As soon as Lu Yuan and his group arrived, the guard standing by reminded them, "That's him. Hurry up and do what you need to do. Try not to stay here for too long. Although the Inscription here have an isolation effect, staying too long can still lead to infection."
Lu Yuan nodded to indicate that he understood. He then quickly stepped forward, uncorked the bottle, carefully took out a drop of the potion, and dripped it onto the Heretic.
Because he was worried about any strange reactions from the potion, Oden didn't let Lu Yuan pour out the whole potion; he only took a small drop.