Almighty Alchemist

The days that followed became simple and monotonous.

Every day, Gong Hao would go to the Alchemy Tower for two hours. On the one hand, he carefully recorded the experimental materials given to him by all the apprentices, and on the other hand, he eagerly studied the knowledge in the book.

There are so many books in the library that he never has to worry about the day when he will finish his studies.

The apprentices in the Alchemy Tower were surprised to find that it took less than three days for Hugh Igles to fully grasp the location of the library's books, so that as soon as the later apprentices opened their mouths, Gong Hao would immediately find out the books they needed.

Of course, Gong Hao spent most of his time in the greenhouse. As before, he carefully studied the various magic plants in the greenhouse, observed their living habits, habits, and their preferences.

He noticed that these magic plants also had feelings, and when he cut off some of their roots or squeezed out their juice, they would also show pain and fear. And when they are taken care of, they will also have fun and laughter.

For example, the weeping grass doesn't always cry. Once he saw the weeping grass stopped crying with his own eyes.

From that day on, Gong Hao put the charm grass and the weeping grass together, and he found that the saliva secretion of the crying grass increased significantly, and even the materials that the charm grass could provide increased significantly.

This allows him to collect many times more than before at one time.

A day later, Gong Hao found a record about the Charming Grass and the Weeping Grass in the library. There are not detailed records on the living forms of these two kinds of magic plants in the records, but an interesting phenomenon is mentioned, that is, wherever there are enchanting grasses, there must be weeping grasses. The two never exist alone.

Companion magic plant? This thought flashed through Gong Hao's mind.

Gong Hao understands one thing very well, the growth of any life is related to the form of existence. The closer to the original living form, the better the biological growth, and vice versa. In other words, the better growth of Weeping Grass and Charming Grass is probably related to this situation. If I can further deepen my understanding of the original ecology of these plants, it will definitely be of great benefit to the cultivation of these magic plants.

The magic plant is the fundamental condition for the existence of all monsters and monsters. Many monsters are completely extinct due to the destruction of natural ecology, which caused them to lose their habitat. If these magic plants can be cultivated on a large scale, it is not a dream to restore the glory of alchemy in the future.

He began to consciously give priority to learning all knowledge related to magic plants.

Alchemists usually don't pay much attention to the collection of materials, because these things are usually done by apprentices or servants. Therefore, the records of these magic plants in the library are quite limited, but Gong Hao still found many things that are useful to him.

Through these records, Gong Hao found that he could optimize and cultivate the forty-two kinds of magic plants in area 13. He started experimenting, and the results were almost immediate.

The work efficiency in area 13 has been significantly improved. The work that used to take five hours to complete can now be completed in two hours. Although Gong Hao still has to go to the library to do record work every day, he has more leisure time.

This also surprised many servants.

It's just that after the blood orchid's seed was buried, it never came out of the ground. More than ten days have passed, and not even a single sprout has emerged, which makes Gong Hao very distressed.

A month passed quickly.

According to the rules, Andrew will take away a group of servants who did not perform well.

Sure enough, Andrew did not take Gong Hao away, but left him to continue working.

Brent, who had bullied Huey and Fink, was taken away.

This time a total of twelve people were taken away. On the same day, the Liberty also sent twelve servants.

Looking at the new servant, Gong Hao suddenly remembered something.

He remembered that the Liberty had traveled on the sea for five days before reaching Purgatory Island, and Hugh Igles was bought by the golden armored warrior Chakle seven days ago, when he and Fink were bought by Chakle on the twelfth and thirteenth. This also meant that Chakle spent at least three more days searching for a young servant who suited his wishes.

That is to say, at least ten days before the servants were delivered, the Liberty already knew how many servants the Lian Lian Island needed.

Considering that the current Fengming Continent does not seem to have such a long-distance information transmission capability, it is very likely that Lianhe Island has already notified Liberty how many new servants they need next time at the time of each delivery.

In other words, they determined the number of servants they needed in advance, and then selected the servants with the worst performance that month to take away based on this number.

Then the departure of these servants is not as simple as poor performance...

But where did they go? Gong Hao desperately wants to know the answer.

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Sisser. Gong Hao came to look for Sisser again.

In the past month, whenever Gong Hao was free, he would help Sisser with something, so the relationship with Sisser was quite good.

Hey, Greer, I've finished my work today, you don't have to help me.

Oh, that's a pity.

It's nothing, Greer, thank you for your kindness.

Siser, can you do me a favor?

Say it, as long as it's within my power.

It's like this. I remember that every time the Liberty ship comes to deliver goods, we also need to send a group of people to deliver the alchemy products for this month to them.

right.

Can you send me there next month?

Why?

Gong Hao shrugged: I haven't seen the sea for a month. I was locked up in this castle for a month, and I was suffocated to death.

I thought you only knew about work. Sisser laughed loudly: Okay, no problem, next month I will arrange for you to deliver goods with other people... The sea of ​​death is not pretty.

By the way, the month you first came, I remember that you had records of incoming and outgoing goods here, can you let me have a look?

Why?

Just to see how much we've done for the Empire over the years.

Sisser smiled and agreed, he found the record and handed it to Gong Hao.

Gong Hao carefully observed the entry and exit records in the past six months, but his attention was mainly focused on the entry and exit of personnel.

After looking at it for a while, he frowned and said, Are you only here for the last half a year?

Earlier records are stored in the library. Aren't you working there? You can find them there.

OK, thanks.

Gong Hao thought for a while, then turned back to Sisser and said, Oh, Sisser, please don't tell others about it? I guess Lord Andrew doesn't like people who ask around. I don't want to make him angry.

No problem. Sisser readily agreed.

Returning to the library, Gong Hao looked serious.

He began to quickly search for the entry and exit records of all personnel on Lianhe Island in the past twenty years.

The records are not top-secret documents and are not hard to find.

To his surprise, in the laboratory on Purgatory Island, the earliest number of servants transported was as high as forty or fifty per month. It's just that as time goes by, the number of people transported gradually decreases.

However, to his horror, none of the servants who had ever worked on Purgatory Island had worked here for more than a year.

Even the best servants were forcibly taken away after only a year in service.

Of all those taken away, the oldest was sixteen years old.

In addition, there is an extremely weird coincidence - among all the goods sent out, the flesh puppets, undead puppets, and that thing called a demon, each time the number of goods is the same, and each time it is exactly the same as the number of servants sent next month.

what does that mean?

Gently closing the notebook, Gong Hao fell into deep thought.

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No matter how deep the unknown fear deep in his heart is, Gong Hao has only one choice - to bury the fear and work hard.

Work is sometimes the best way to make people forget everything. Perhaps he was so interested in these mysterious sciences that when he immersed himself in them, he always forgot everything, including those scary speculations.

Therefore, Gong Hao focused more on the exploration of alchemy knowledge. He tirelessly browsed through the collection of books. Two hours was not enough time, so he secretly brought out some collection of books. Later, he took the collection of books back to area 13 to read more openly, because it seemed that those apprentices didn't care about him doing so.

Today Gong Hao is in the greenhouse reading a book about the production of corrosive potions. This potion is generally used to smear weapons to make them have the ability to break armor. The corrosive potion itself is not difficult to make, the difficulty is how to prevent the weapon itself from being corroded after being coated with the corrosive potion. This requires the weapon to be coated with a corrosion-resistant isolation film before applying the potion. The greater the power of the corrosive agent, the higher the requirement for the anti-corrosion ability of the isolation film. This mixed design of sword and shield makes how to improve the effectiveness of the corrosive potion a difficult problem.

So far, the corrosive potions that can be applied to weapons can only be used to destroy ordinary armor, and have almost no effect on some magic armor with good defense.

Gong Hao was watching with relish, analyzing the ingredients needed to make the potion and the isolation film, and how to mix them, when a deep voice suddenly sounded in his ear: It's very hard work.

Gong Hao suddenly raised his head, and at some point in front of him stood a middle-aged man wearing a primitive armor.

That man is obviously not a puppet, but a real warrior. He has long brown hair, and there is a long sword shining with magic light on his left waist. There are dark blood lines on his armor. You can even feel the huge killing intent emanating from him. It is a kind of coldness without anger!

Gong Hao quickly put away the book, and said respectfully, My lord.

I hope I didn't disturb you. A smile appeared on the face of the middle-aged warrior full of vicissitudes.

Yes...you haven't. Gong Hao said in awe.

Gong Hao didn't know who the other party was, so he could only choose his words carefully, using adults and you as addresses.

A man appeared behind the middle-aged warrior, an apprentice named Ivo. These days ** Hao went to the library every day, so he was quite familiar with the apprentices. He even met Mr. Pierre once, but he never met Hines. At this moment, Ivo said: This is Lord Lancelot.

Gong Hao hurriedly bowed again: I have met Lord Lancelot.

It seems that this is what Neil said, the person who can be called an adult with Andrew and Pierre. He thought he was also an alchemist, but he didn't expect to be a warrior.

Lancelot waved his hand, and Ivo brought over a pot of flowers.

The flower looks very strange, the blooming flower looks like a human face, but its image is hideous and terrifying, from time to time it will grin its teeth and spit out a long blood red tongue.

Ghost Face Flower? Gong Hao called out.

Ghost face flower is a very aggressive plant, it can release a very poisonous gas, which can effectively deal with most creatures. Alchemists use the sap of the ghost face flower to extract a powerful toxin, and the effect is very good.

No, this is not an ordinary ghost-faced flower. Lancelot shook his head and said, You must know that the poison of the ghost-faced flower makes its growth area always barren, and few magic plants can grow together with the ghost-faced flower. When I found this flower, I thought it was a ghost-faced flower, but I couldn't figure out why there were a lot of other ghost-faced flowers growing around this flower. I suspect that it is not a ghost-faced flower at all.

Then what is it? Gong Hao asked curiously.

Lancelot smiled slightly: That's why I brought it to area 13. I heard that the servants in area 13 are the most relaxed. Even if they work as clerks, they still have a lot of free time every day to read those alchemy notes.

I just want to make the library work better.

But anyway, you do have enough time. From now on, this flower is in your hands. Take care of it, and you must know that it may be a new species.

Gong Hao nodded quickly: My lord, may I ask where you found this flower?

Why do you ask this?

I just want to know about its living environment and habits. You know, if it is not an ordinary ghost-faced flower and can coexist with other magic plants, then I don't think I can treat it by cultivating ghost-faced flowers. Knowing as much as possible about its living environment will be very helpful to my work.

Lancelot nodded: That makes sense. I found this flower in the central area of ​​Purgatory Island. It grows in a swamp, and it is accompanied by a seventh-level spotted poison python.

central area? Level seven poisonous python?

Gong Hao's heart beat rapidly and violently several times.

He finally understood what Lancelot was responsible for here.

He is the one who is responsible for catching monsters in the jungle, searching for all kinds of strange species, and bringing back all creatures that can provide valuable materials!

To be able to go deep into the central area of ​​the Purgatory Island jungle where powerful top monsters exist to find new species, this person definitely possesses extraordinary force.