"Your Majesty, what did you just say!" After walking out of Anna's room, Amy complained to Ella, "Parcelsus has disappeared! Even if she is found right now, her physical condition is not necessarily Allow her to make medicine! Where are we going to find the medicine that can cure Her Highness Anna?"
"Paracelsus has already said that what can cure Anna's disease is a red dye synthesized through alchemy. In addition, because the red dye is toxic this time, alchemy needs to be used again to reduce its toxicity. But All the teachers and students at the Alchemy University have been arrested, Paracelsus has also disappeared, and I am the only alchemist who can live freely."
Amy said in surprise: "Your Majesty, do you want to make that kind of medicine yourself?"
"Is there any problem? Looking at the entire island republic, apart from Paracelsus, I am the one with the highest alchemy skills."
Having said that, Ella knew clearly: her alchemy skills could not be compared with Paracelsus. She is still exploring the way to transmute metal in the ancient dark alley, while Paracelsus may have moved into a broader new world of alchemy.
She just hoped that the girl had left a message that would let her know what to do next.
She took Amy back to Alchemy University. The cabin was still standing in the woods, looking like it had never disappeared due to magic. But the things in the cabin had been turned into a mess. The magician seemed to be looking for something in the girl's room. He threw books and papers everywhere, and all kinds of furniture were roughly thrown to the ground. Even the pots of flowers the girl kept in the room were thrown. It was crushed by his foot.
Ella stared at the ugly shoe print left in the flower pot for a while, and Amy suddenly shouted happily from the side: "I found it! It's red dye!"
Ella looked up and saw Amy standing in the pile of paper, lifting a small iron bucket high. Ella leaned over and took a look. The bucket contained a red dye that she had never seen before. It didn't look like lead red or cinnabar. It must have been the red dye that the girl synthesized using alchemy.
There was a booklet stuck to the barrel. Ella flipped through it and found records related to this pigment densely written on it:
"April 15th. This red substance was synthesized in the experiment. It looks poisonous. But according to my experience, toxic substances can often make powerful medicines. I don't know if it can be used to treat syphilis."
"April 17. The bottom of the sheet was stained a little red, and it didn't come off after washing for a day. It seems that this kind of stuff can be used as a dye. A young alchemist bought this sheet for fifty fen. I went back to research, but I forgot to ask me about the formula of the dye."
"May 23rd. Disappointed. This dye has no effect on syphilis. It is better to use metallic mercury. Although I know that mercury is actually not effective, it can at least make the sick nobles scream in pain."
"July 13th. Today, when I was dressing Algernon's wound, he accidentally fell from the table into the bucket of dye. A few days ago, I took a paw from the bad cat who often tore my sheets. I rescued Algernon, who had many wounds on his body at that time. The wound infection has become more and more serious these days. Although I tried to help Algernon wash off the dye, Algernon would struggle if the wound touched water. And it really takes a lot of time to clean this dye, leaving it all red like this - I have more important things to do next, an ambitious plan, just thinking about it is exciting. trembling."
"July 15th. Algernon's infection seems to be a little better than yesterday. Maybe the dye is working?"
"July 18th. I am convinced that this dye is indeed effective in treating wound infections. But Algernon's condition is too serious, and the effect of external application alone is still limited. I want Algernon to try it orally, but Algernon It refuses to drink."
"July 20th. Stole a jar of honey from the useless principal's room. Mixed dye into the honey and Algernon finally drank it."
"On August 3rd, because the effect was still very limited, the dose was increased a little. Algernon looked very painful, but if his wounds were allowed to worsen, he would definitely die."
"The fourth of August. Algernon died. He spent the day burying it in the sand beside the house and planting a sunflower on it."
"August 25th. It seems that this dye has a certain effect on wound infection, but it is poisonous. However, as long as you use alchemy to separate, purify and recombine the three elements that make up this dye, you should be able to separate the impurities and toxicity, and become a more effective drug. I have already thought of the plan, but I don’t have time now, so I can only record it on the last page. I am doing something more important because I have encountered a bottleneck there. So I have to focus all my energy there. If that research can be successful, I will have touched the ultimate mystery of creation."
Ella turned to the last page of the book with mixed emotions. She was afraid of seeing the alchemical code on the last page - that's what alchemists did whenever they wanted to hide their knowledge from laymen. There is no unified standard for these code words, and the code words used by different alchemists are very different. Even for experts who are proficient in alchemy, it is extremely difficult to decipher the code words left by other alchemists. If the girl hid her plan in code words, Ella wouldn't be able to solve it in a short time.
However, maybe the girl didn't want to hide this knowledge, or maybe it was because it was just a plan that had never been implemented, but the words written on the last page were ordinary words that even Amy could understand.
Ella read this paragraph carefully from top to bottom. What the girl left was only a general direction and only imagined a few steps, but did not specify how to transition from the previous step to the next step. . Considering that this was just a plan conceived by the girl but not actually implemented, the details may not even be known to the girl herself.
Ella closed the book gently.
"Amy, help me find an unlocked alchemy laboratory in the school."
"Your Majesty, are you really going to do it yourself? Even if it is really effective, Paracelsus also said that it is poisonous! He said that alchemy can be used to reduce its toxicity, but Paracelsus himself did not You haven’t actually operated it, have you? What Paracelsus said may not be credible. No matter how you use alchemy to operate it, it is a synthetic substance after all, and it is always too dangerous to use it as medicine..."
"We can only give it a try. If Anna can be cured, of course it would be the best. If not -"
After a fierce inner struggle, Ella calmed down and continued:
"Then just think that I deliberately used poison to get rid of a traitor!"
