Li Huai is Likely in Grave Danger

After circling the Shelter, Lan Qingyou found nothing but a Material Treasure Chest and a fair number of monsters she hadn't seen before.

Especially those slow-moving creatures that looked like lumps of mud.

If she wasn't mistaken, these must be the Ooze Monsters mentioned in the channel.

Filled with curiosity, she flew over to take a look and discovered a swamp not far from her own Shelter.

The swamp was filled with Sludge Monsters.

While people might be hunting monsters elsewhere, this place was completely deserted.

The reason was simple: these guys were essentially immune to physical attacks, or rather, physical attacks had very little effect on them.

Only powerful magic attacks could deal effective damage to them.

Under these circumstances, naturally, no one was willing to waste their time here.

She looked up at the sky.

Noticing that The Sun was almost directly overhead, Lan Qingyou decided to head back.

On the way, however, a foul, bloody stench drifted through the air.

Lan Qingyou looked over and found a dead E-Rank Dire Wolf lying in the forest grass.

The wolf was about three meters long; its skull had been cracked open, and its left front leg and part of its abdomen were missing.

Not far away lay a Man-eating Flower, slumped on the ground like a withered ruin; its motionless state indicated that it, too, had perished.

It seemed to be a case of mutual destruction.

After all, if a human had done this, the wolf would never have remained so "intact."

Since she hadn't found any materials today, she might as well use its blood to expand her material warehouse.

Intrigued, Lan Qingyou grabbed a nearby vine and floated down.

Arriving before the Dire Wolf's corpse, she took a bottle of Mineral Water from her Medicine Bag, then drew the Moonlight Stone Dagger from her waist to begin collecting the wolf's blood.

Alchemy involved the use of monster blood, but she hadn't needed any before, so she hadn't bothered to acquire any.

After collecting three bottles of wolf blood, Lan Qingyou placed them inside the Material Treasure Chest to prevent them from coagulating, then went over to the Man-eating Flower to scrape some samples from its petals.

She wondered, what other parts of these monsters could be useful?

Clutching her dagger, Lan Qingyou thought for a moment, then cut off a few of the Man-eating Flower's tentacles, incidentally collecting two bottles of liquid that she wasn't sure should be called blood or sap.

Right, there were also the wolf's teeth, eyeballs, heart, and liver.

Oh, so the Crystal Core of a Dire Wolf is located next to the heart? That was a first for her.

She decided to cut off two of the wolf's hind legs to take back; Gu Xiaobei was very skilled at preparing this, and the tender texture was just like beef.

Especially that dish, [Dire Wolf Meat Shreds Stir-fried with Green Peppers]—it was absolutely authentic!

After finishing the processing, Lan Qingyou finally let out a sigh of relief.

If she hadn't had the Moonlight Stone Dagger, dealing with all this would have taken quite a bit of effort.

Squish...

Just as Lan Qingyou was about to leave, something seemed to fall out of the wolf's belly.

It was the size of a fist and looked sticky and gooey.

Lan Qingyou examined it carefully for a while before determining that it was a chick.

Judging by the rise and fall of its belly, it seemed to still be alive.

Perhaps it was because the Dire Wolf had swallowed it whole.

If she took it back and washed it, could it still be eaten?

Recalling the Steam Pot Chicken that Gu Xiaobei had made previously, Lan Qingyou couldn't help but swallow her saliva.

Although a chick didn't have much meat, what if it tasted good?

After all, the taste of a Colored Feather Chicken was truly excellent.

With that, Lan Qingyou picked it up with her index finger and thumb in disgust and returned to her Shelter.

If you can't find the book title, try searching for the author; perhaps the name was just changed!

After washing the chick clean by the stream, she went to the Desk and attempted to teleport the wolf legs and the chick to Gu Xiaobei.

As it turned out, the Small Screen informed her that living creatures could not be teleported...

"Hmm... then I'll just keep it for testing medicine."

Not knowing how else to handle it, Lan Qingyou pondered.

Since she was planning to develop new medicines, keeping a chick that could provide immediate feedback on the drug's effects seemed like a decent idea.

Although the Small Screen had an appraisal effect, that was only the literal meaning.

Just like a Healing Potion; it looked like something to be drunk, but in reality, it had different effects whether taken internally or applied externally.

She poured a Healing Potion down the creature's throat, drizzled another one over its surface, and tossed it onto a folded towel to the side, calling it a day.

She then took out the materials she had collected and identified them.

[Incomplete Wolf Fang (E-)]

[Effect: Can be used for decoration, alchemy, and crafting magic items.]

[Description: Who dug this out? The technique is even worse than a novice hunter in the village. Bad review!]

[Dire Wolf Blood (E)]

[Effect: Can be used for alchemy.]

[Description: Not everyone likes blood. Perhaps you can toss it to those wealthy and dim-witted alchemists to make a quick buck.]

[Dire Wolf Liver/Heart (E-)]

[Effect: Can be used for alchemy and cooking.]

[Description: It has holes in it; even a dim-witted alchemist wouldn't want to use this.]

[Man-eating Flower Sap (E)]

[Effect: Can be used for dyeing.]

[Description: An excellent item for coloring fabric. Many cloth merchants love this stuff. Of course, those unscrupulous alchemists also like to use it to dye their potions to pass them off as something else.]

[Man-eating Flower Vine (E)]

[Effect: Can be used for crafting.]

[Description: Flatten it and dry it out, and you will get thin fibers of the Man-eating Flower Vine.]

It seemed there wasn't much that was actually useful.

Lan Qingyou clicked her tongue and chose to ignore the Small Screen's snarky comments about alchemists.

Isn't it perfectly normal for alchemists to be rich?

They're the type to buy a bowl of soy milk just to pour it out.

After tossing the useless heart and liver to Gu Xiaobei, she began to brew the potions.

The entire day passed in a flurry of activity, which gave Lan Qingyou a different experience compared to just reading books.

Especially when she was personally dissecting a Dire Wolf and collecting materials from the Man-eating Flower.

No wonder Albert said to collect materials yourself whenever possible.

After doing it with her own hands and gaining an intuitive feel for it, she felt she had a new understanding of Dire Wolves, Man-eating Flowers, and the alchemical materials they provided.

Because she had spent the whole day making Mana Potion, and since she needed to trade with Li Huai, Lan Qingyou looked at her friends list after bottling the +50 Mana Potion.

Unexpectedly, that guy Li Huai still hadn't replied to her message.

One had to know that this middle-aged man preferred to take the initiative; he wasn't the type to sit around waiting for others to come to him.

Could he have run into some danger?

It was now past eight o'clock in the evening, nearing nine.

If he hadn't returned by this time, it was likely that things had taken a turn for the worse.

Lan Qingyou speculated.

After all, for someone who frequently worked out in the field, encountering danger was the most normal thing in the world.

After thinking it over, Lan Qingyou didn't dwell on it anymore. At most, it was just the loss of some potions; it wasn't a big deal.