"It's so troublesome..."
Mu You lamented that not only did it require a specific time, but it also required a spiral staircase climb, making it look like some mysterious and evil ritual.
[Silent Lady raised the cardboard again and told you some details to pay attention to: "The next full moon night in the Star Spirit Realm will start on this Thursday night, but it will only be when the moonlight is the strongest, which is Thursday. Between 11pm and 1am on Friday, the Silent Beasts will leave for the rooftop to pray for the moon, so you only have two hours to act."]
["In addition, after entering the Silent Library, the Search Spell can only be used once. The Search Spell is a large spell. Continuous use will cause the magic power on the scene to tremble. When used a second time, the fluctuating magic power will definitely be absorbed by the Silent Beast on the roof. Be aware... remember not to be greedy!"]
The four words "Don't be greedy" in the text are specially emphasized.
Mu You wondered if this was the taboo she had committed in the past. Her excessive thirst for knowledge made her greedy in the library and searched for multiple questions at once, which led to her being turned into a ghost by the Silent Beast.
After answering the question, Jingmo Niang stopped caring about Mu You and started reading a new book.
Mu You got the information about the library and didn't leave in a hurry.
I stayed in the bookstore for a while, waited for midnight to pass, and immediately picked up a new Harry Potter book and entered the game again.
[With the arrival of a new day, Jingmo Niang gladly accepted the new book you gave her and asked you what else you need? 】
There were three options as usual, but this time Mu You chose counseling magic.
[There are three kinds of magic you are learning now. Which magic do you want to receive tutoring? 】
Of the three magic spells he had just learned during the day, Mu You chose the "Silent Spell" which was the least advanced and would be used soon.
[Silent Lady is not surprised by your choice and sits you across the desk. She uses her wand to continuously release the silent spell, demonstrating and breaking down the details of this spell for you. As you continue to watch the demonstrations, your spell learning progress will slowly begin to increase. 】
[Studying the Silence Spell, expected to end in two hours...]
Jingmo Niang's desk seems to be a professional magic teaching desk.
After that, Muyou couldn't operate the game anymore, and the girl with glasses had a late-night private lesson, which lasted for two hours.
Mu You hung up on the game and went out to complete the update task. Then he went home and entered the lock cylinder space, came to the magic fireplace, and started refining the magic potion.
After many days of accumulation, he now has very few first-order root potions that have not yet met Vivian's requirements, leaving only the last five: small sobriety potion, small healing potion, cleaning potion, hair erecting potion, and detoxification potion.
These five potions are not complicated, especially when he has been refining evolution potions in batches recently. In fact, his level of potion refining has already surpassed that of a first-level potion master. These last five kinds of potions are ready to be given to everyone in one batch today. Finish.
After preparing all the materials, the Fool's Barrier was opened, and Mu You began repeated reincarnation exercises.
The final process was also relatively smooth. Except for the slightly complicated cleaning agent, which was used 452 times, the other four were used less than 300 times, successfully achieving the achievement of 100 consecutive times without mistakes.
At this point, he has officially reached the level of a first-level potion master according to Vivian's standards.
As for what level of potion master his current level is in the star spirit world? This depends on the specific place.
If you are in some small countries and cities, where the standards for potion masters are not strict, those who can refine a certain level of potion with a success rate of more than 70% are considered to be a certain level of potion master. According to this standard, Mu You is now an official fourth-level magician.
The standards of the Wizards Association are much stricter. Each level must stably refine at least five types of root potions in order to obtain the title of Potion Master of the corresponding level.
People like Mu You, who only know how to refine a fourth-level potion but haven't learned any of the second- and third-level potions, can't even take the second-level magician assessment and are still classified as first-level magicians. But psychologically, others will admit that you already have the strength of a fourth-level potion master.
Of course, there are very few cases of partiality like Mu You, because the process of advancing as a potion master is basically a matter of burning materials.
process, and the materials of fourth-level potions are much more precious than low-level materials.
Generally, potion masters start by refining low-level potions. Only when they have mastered the first, second, and third-level potions and have reached a sufficient level of strength can they dare to try to refine mid-level potions.
There is no one like Mu You who, with the support of a time pocket watch, can disregard material consumption, skip low-level potions boldly, and directly gain proficiency in high-level potions.
"The next step is the second-level magic potion..."
Mu You opened Vivian's potion recipe book and checked the catalog of second-level potions.
There are fewer root potions in the second level than in the first level. There are only thirteen kinds. Most of them have mediocre effects. There are many overlaps in functions with the first level potions, but they have become enhanced versions.
Looking at the whole article, there are only two potions with special effects: truth serum and love potion.
Veritaserum, as the name suggests, is a magic potion that makes people confess the truth after taking it. The specific effect is that "the user cannot lie during the duration of the potion."
But this can only guarantee that what the user says is true, but it cannot force the other person to say something. Therefore, the real use of this medicine is to prove that what someone says is true, not to interrogate. and stealing secrets.
Love Potion is easier to understand. It is a famous love potion. Unfortunately, Love Potion cannot bring about real love, but only makes the person who takes the potion have a strong attachment to the person who uses the potion. Once the effects of the drug wear off, all unreal emotions will disappear.
Mu You checked the materials at hand, compared the formulas of the thirteen second-level potions, found the gaps in the materials, made a list, and sent it to Jiuyou through the forum.
At two o'clock in the morning, Jing Mo Niang's tutoring class ended on time.
[Under the teachings of Silence Girl, your "Silent Silence Curse" learning progress has increased by 20%, currently: 57.5%. 】
"20%?"
Mu You was startled. It happened to be an integer?
Could it be that... Silent Mother's supplementary lessons are increased by a certain percentage? Mu You immediately thought of this possibility, clicked on the text in the bookstore, and tried to ask this question.
[Silent Lady tells you that she can only teach you the spells you have already started to learn. Low, middle and high-level magic with talents of 6 points and above will increase the progress by a fixed 20%, 15% and 10% respectively. Low, medium and high-level magic with talent below 6 will increase the progress by 10%, 5% and 1% respectively. 】
It is indeed a fixed ratio!
In this way, the value of Silent Girl's one-on-one personal training is much higher, especially for mid-to-high-level magic.
A high-level spell with a talent of 6 points requires 59.9 hours, or 30 classes, to learn in the academy. Even if it is calculated as one class per day, it will take 600 years of life and one month.
But with the Silent Girl, you only need to take one class in the academy to learn such magic, and then come to the Glass Girl for guidance for the rest. With 10% progress every day, you can learn it in just ten days, and you don’t need to worry about it. It saves high tuition fees and a lot of time.
The jack-o-lantern really found a god-level NPC for him that day!
After finishing the matter in the game, Muyou teleported the character to Misty Mountain. After refining the evolution potion for a while, he went offline to rest.
At six o'clock the next morning, Mu You got up on time.
However, he did not let the game character go to the magic class. Today's class needs to be suspended for a day because he has to take the animals to the capital for quarantine.
After tidying up and making sure that all the animals that should be taken were brought, Mu You walked out of the pet shop and locked the door.
At this time, Lin Xue's car was already waiting for him at the door.
Mu You originally planned to go alone, but yesterday Lin Xue said that she had a classmate who studied abroad and happened to work at the Capital Academy of Sciences, so she planned to go with her and meet her old classmates.
At nine o'clock in the morning, the plane arrived in the capital.
The two left the airport and took a taxi straight to the Academy of Sciences.
Yesterday, Mu You asked Zhang Yang. As early as two years ago, when the Fool game was just emerging, the National Academy of Sciences created a research institute specializing in the study of alien creatures.
The name of the new department is "Abnormal Biological Research Department", or Abnormal Research Department for short.
After two years of development, it has become a very complete department. Now, if any store related to magical animals in the country wants to open, they must first go there to obtain approval.
Mu You got the address from Zhang Yang, and the two of them quickly arrived at the location.
I saw a group of buildings surrounded by high walls standing in front of me. There was no signboard at the gate, but there were many armed police patrolling nearby, and the gate was tightly guarded by four heavily armed soldiers.
Mu You didn't expect to be able to break into such an important place with his face, so he planned to use the connections of the members of the Abnormality Bureau.
Mu You held up his mobile phone and was thinking about who to contact for help when he suddenly glanced at the front door. A woman with a short ponytail and a white coat hurried out and looked around. She quickly saw it. Two people across the street.
The woman immediately waved her hand, ran across the road with a smile, and hugged Lin Xue.
"Xiaoxue, long time no see!" The two hugged and then started chatting on the street as if there was no one around.
Mu You took a look and saw that this girl was about the same age as Lin Xue. Judging from the familiarity between the two, she should be the classmate Lin Xue mentioned. Unexpectedly, the girl happened to work in the Foreign Research Department.
With this relationship, he doesn't have to worry about finding someone.
Just as I was thinking about it, I listened to what the girl said: "By the way, Xiaoxue, you can come and work here too. We are short of manpower here. The dean has urged me several times and asked me to call all my former classmates to help. You are the best among our group of international students, and the dean will definitely welcome you when you come!"
Lin Xue shook her head when she heard this: "I already have a job."
"What kind of job? Can you just quit?" the girl said matter-of-factly.
"This..." Lin Xue looked a little embarrassed and subconsciously looked at Mu You next to her.
"What's wrong? Do you have any concerns?" The girl was a little strange. There are many magical animals in the Alien Research Department. Their job is to study the habits of these alien animals every day. This should be Lin Xue's favorite job. How could she refuse?
As for remuneration, the remuneration in the state department will definitely not be bad, not to mention Lin Xue's family background, how can she care about such a thing.
"cough……"
The poaching had already begun, and Mu You could no longer watch. He coughed and showed his presence.
Only then did the girl notice that there was someone standing next to her. She looked Mu You up and down and looked at Lin Xue strangely: "Xiaoxue, who is this?"
"This is my boss Mu You. Today I am accompanying my boss to come to you to approve animals." Lin Xue explained quickly, and then introduced Mu You: "This is Song Wenjing, my classmate when I studied abroad. He’s a breeder in the Iken Department.”
"boss?"
Song Wenjing was stunned for a moment, and then she realized that the invitation she just invited was equivalent to poaching someone else's boss. She suddenly felt embarrassed and said, "I'm sorry..."
"It doesn't matter... By the way, are you interested in working in our pet store? Our store is short of talents like you." Mu You smiled nonchalantly and handed over a business card.
"Ah... let me think about it..." Song Wenjing smiled dryly and took the business card, without paying attention, and stuffed it into her pocket. After all, she was an official member of the national special department, and she was doing a job she liked. How could she accept another job in a pet store? At this time, she just thought the other party was joking.
"Let's go, I'll take you in first." Song Wenjing led the way, and the three of them entered the gate of the Yiyan Department directly.
With Song Wenjing leading the way, the soldiers guarding the gate were not in trouble.
After entering the gate, Mu You found that there were already a lot of people gathered inside. They seemed to come from all walks of life, and they all gathered in front of one of the buildings to line up. Everyone had more or less animals in their hands. .
"Are these also the people who come to quarantine magical animals?" Mu You asked curiously.
"Some are here for approval, and some are here for approval.
Sells magical animals. Song Wenjing said.
"Sell?"
"During the previous large-scale internal testing, our department issued an announcement to the public. If you pick up or encounter a magical animal, you can contact us or send it to our department. We will test whether it is a real alien animal. If If so, we will spend money to acquire the ownership of the animals based on their rarity.”
After Song Wenjing finished speaking, she looked at Lin Xue and asked, "By the way, what animals do you want to quarantine?"
"Well... more..." Lin Xue said.
"How many?" Song Wenjing wondered.
"Are there dozens of them?" Lin Xue said, looking at Mu You uncertainly.
"It depends on what happens. If they all have to be quarantined, there will be hundreds of them..." Mu Youyou said.
"Hundreds of them?" Song Wenjing's voice suddenly rose a few degrees, causing those people queuing in the distance to look over curiously.
Song Wenjing looked at Mu You in surprise. After confirming that he was not joking, she looked at Lin Xue and cast a questioning look: Is your boss serious?
Lin Xue nodded silently to her.
"Then... you come with me, I will take you to find the dean."
Song Wenjing led the two of them around to the side of the building, entered the building through the back door, passed through several checkpoints, and arrived at a basement... no, it should be said to be an underground base.
In the wide space opened underground, a large number of magical animals are housed in various glass isolation rooms. Many staff members wearing white uniforms like Song Wenjing are walking around in it, stopping from time to time to exchange and record information. They all look very busy. look.
Muyou felt as if he had entered a museum of magical animals. Along the way, he saw all kinds of familiar and unfamiliar alien animals, birds, fish, insects, and jungle beasts.
"That's a dangerous animal area, be careful not to get close!"
Song Wenjing led the two of them to the depths of the underground base, pointed in one direction, and then ran to the other side.
On a desk over there, there is an old man wearing reading glasses. There is a pile of information in front of him. The old man is busy checking and reviewing the information.
After Song Wenjing walked over, she quickly said a few words in the old man's ear. The old man raised his head and glanced at Mu You and Lin Xue, then took off his glasses, left his desk and walked towards them.
Walking to the two of them, the old man glanced at Mu You for a moment, then turned directly to Lin Xue: "Are you Lin Xue?"
"Hello, Dean Chen." As someone from an animal-related major, Lin Xue had of course heard of Academician Chen Yichuan, who was renowned in the field of zoology.
Chen Yichuan nodded, without any nonsense, and said directly: "Come and work here. Your abilities can only be brought out here. You can ask for any treatment you need!"
Mu You was speechless as he listened. Can these scientific scholars not care about the world at all?
Mu You could hear what Song Wenjing said to him just now. Song Wenjing had already introduced their relationship. The old man knew that Lin Xue was his family's veterinarian, and he was not shy at all at this time.
Song Wenjing next to her was also a little embarrassed. In order to avoid this kind of misunderstanding, she had made it clear about their identities just now, but the old dean still invited them and said "the salary is whatever you want".
These words may work well for others, but they are of no use to the girl in front of me.
The result was just as she imagined. Lin Xue refused the other party politely with a smile on her face: "Thank you, but no, my current job is very good."
"You are wasting your talent!" The old man looked distressed, but still did not give up, and continued to persuade: "If you come here to work, you can read the information of the Foreign Research Department at will. These are the information of our department. The crystallization of knowledge accumulated over the years, including the changes in the habits of all abnormal animals on the earth, gene sequencing, antibody serum preparation, bacterial prevention and treatment, changes in immune function, etc... I guarantee that you will never see this elsewhere. thing."
Lin Xue was slightly moved when she heard this, but in the end she shook her head: "It is indeed very precious information, but I'm sorry, I don't intend to change my mind.
. "
"you……"
The old man frowned and looked at Lin Xue helplessly, not knowing what to say for a moment.
Mu You, on the other hand, was listening to the old man's words and was very interested in the information he told. Taking advantage of the silence of the scene, he suddenly asked a question: "I would like to ask you, do you sell this information?"
"..."
The scene suddenly fell into silence, and the other three people looked over with strange expressions.
Mu You hurriedly added: "Oh, of course I don't want your intellectual property rights, I just want to buy the viewing rights, make a copy of the information for us, and then sign a confidentiality agreement or a contract or something, guaranteeing that it will not be leaked..."
"Uh, um..." Song Wenjing wanted to say something, but unfortunately she was interrupted by the old man.
"Sell! Ten million, will you buy it?" the old man said with a sneer.
"Ten million..."
Mu You pondered seriously for a moment. Ten million was something he wouldn't have dared to think about before, but now, he can still get it together with a little bit of effort.
"Ten million, does that mean all the information is packed?"
If it was indeed the kind of information the old man said, then it would be okay to buy it. He would be destined to deal with animals from other worlds for a long time in the future, so these things would be useful.
"..." Three faces were confused.
The old man was speechless at this time, so he quoted the number casually, hoping to make the other party quit. After all, who would spend 10 million to buy a viewing right, and a buyout was almost enough.
In the end, the other party took it seriously, and it seemed that he really planned to buy it. This made him a little reluctant to sell it. After all, it was the research result of hundreds of people who worked hard for two years, and it was impossible to disclose it to anyone casually. A person who doesn't know the inside story. If you don't sell it, what he just said out loud will be slapped in the face when he turns around?
The old man didn't know how to answer the call for a moment, but at this time, the breeder under him was more discerning.
"We'll talk about this later. What about that? Aren't you here to quarantine the animals? Take it out and have a look. Dean Chen will quarantine it for you personally." Song Wenjing changed the topic.
"Right here?" Mu You asked.
"Yes, it's right here. Don't worry, it's very safe here." Song Wenjing said.
"Fine……"
Mu You also noticed that the other party didn't seem to want to sell it at all, so he didn't ask any more questions.
He opened his backpack on the spot, made a door-shaped entrance, and walked in while several people watched.
After a while, he came out of the door again, with two more birdcages in his hands.
Chen Yichuan was still a little embarrassed about what happened just now. When Mu You came out, he subconsciously glanced at his hand.
As a result, this flash made his eyes widen, and what happened just now was thrown out of his mind.
"Silver Owl?!"
The old man rushed to Mu You quickly, his speed was not like that of an old man at all.
Holding the cage in Mu You's right hand with both hands, the old man carefully stared at the owl in it and observed it repeatedly, and then he was even more shocked: "There is still an unneutered silver owl!"
"Where did you come from?"
