Chapter 2764
The bug-killing work was more tedious than the students had imagined.
Because many spells were forbidden in the Hundred Herbs Garden, they used mechanical sprayers to apply the pesticide. The students were divided into pairs. First, they collected sprayers from Old Man Stad, then received undiluted potion from Professor Li Qihuang.
The students had to handle the dilution themselves.
They had to dilute it between one thousand and fifteen hundred times using snow water collected last winter, then stir it clockwise with a glass rod for one minute. They could not stir too quickly—so long as the liquid did not splash out of the container, it was fine. Professor Li would carefully inspect each group's dilution results, drip a drop of mucus secreted by an Ear Worm into the diluted medicine chest, and have them continue stirring for another minute.
"I think stirring it thirty times should be enough."
Seeing Jiang Yu carefully stirring while supporting her wrist, Zheng Qing could not help lowering his voice to advise her. "—I just looked at Doctor and Fatty Xin's mixture. Those two definitely didn't stir for a full minute!"
Earlier, after the Potion Class professor announced that the students could form their own groups, Zheng Qing had immediately slipped over to Jiang Yu's side—since Li Meng was absent, there was an opening beside her today. But that also meant Xiao Xiao, Fatty Xin, and Zhang Jixin had to find another partner.
At the time, all the male wizards in class had already found teammates. Only Carmen, the Gypsy witch who had transferred into the second year midway through the term, was left alone.
"Sima is your History of Magic teacher... You don't want to fail History of Magic either, right?" He looked earnestly at his two remaining companions.
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