A few hours earlier.
Thank goodness potions improve memory...
As Lorne carefully handled the glass test tube, he felt an inexplicable surge of relief.
Starting from Sequence 8, Robot, the changes potions made to the body brought an exceptionally powerful memory.
That was precisely why he could clearly recall the popular science videos he had watched long ago, buried deep in his memory, along with the tedious formulas and principles in his chemistry textbooks. Otherwise, with his half-baked, mostly forgotten knowledge, he probably would not even have been able to use these glass test tubes properly, let alone conduct experiments.
Fortunately, I didn't transmigrate into a purely ancient society. Materials related to chemistry are reasonably easy to find.
Beakers, test tubes, condensers, alcohol lamps, and even medical alcohol and various other instruments-Lorne had easily bought them all in Backlund. Although these tools looked somewhat crude, cumbersome, and unrefined through modern eyes, their basic functions were not all that different.
He rubbed his chin. "Hmm... in a sense, I ought to praise Roselle."
"Of course, even more praise should go to... garlic."
What he planned to attempt that afternoon was allicin, one of the legendary must-have tools for transmigrators.
When he had seen a vendor selling garlic at the market that day, inspiration had suddenly struck him. This world had garlic too!
Compared with penicillin and other antibiotics, garlic was simply far too easy to obtain.
Roselle had indeed developed early versions of some modern medicines, but unfortunately, even now, those medicines remained far from perfected.
Producing penicillin required suitable microbial strains and stringent conditions, while developing other antibiotics demanded sufficient experimentation and luck. By comparison, extracting allicin was a relatively feasible approach.
He had used allicin before transmigrating, too. Although its strange, lingering garlic smell had made him rather reluctant