The front hall of the pharmacy is the residence of Dr. Cole and the half-elf maid. The backyard is the secret medicine farm. Several buildings have been built inside to serve as storage rooms, dispensing rooms, and dormitories for barbarian female slaves.
The weather is getting colder now, and more and more adventure groups are returning to Braun Town from the wild. Dr. Cole treats injuries at the Braun Town Medical Center every day. He does not stay in the pharmacy for a long time. The pharmacy is basically managed by several beautiful half-elf maids, who instruct the strong barbarian female slaves to do some menial work. However, the key work of dispensing the potions is handled by the half-elf maids themselves. Dr. Cole would come over every day to check on the status of the living secret medicine, and occasionally propose improvements to the medicine ratio. He basically doesn't care about small things like processing medicinal materials and preparing ordinary potions. Half-elf maids can complete it independently.
Wiltok's task is to guard the medicine storage room. Even with such a simple task, he has a barbarian slave girl to assist him. He was in a state of idleness at Cole's Pharmacy. He could wander around the yard every day, accompanied by at least one half-elf maid.
The potion workshop, which is forbidden to outsiders, is unprotected against Wiltok. Except for Dr. Cole's bedroom, the half-elf maid is willing to accompany him wherever he wants to go.
Of course, Wiltok would not waste his time in vain. He spent most of his day in the storage room and dispensing room, learning to identify medicinal materials, or watching the half-elf maid prepare ordinary potions.
Both places were kept spotless by the barbarian female slaves. Every object inside, from the wooden boards on the floor to the patches protecting the walls; from the largest cabinet to the smallest oil lamp, their materials, shapes, and placement were all meticulously crafted. Very sophisticated. The most luxuriously decorated rooms in the Adventurer's House look very crude compared to this one.
Wiltok had a familiar feeling about Cole's storage room and dispensing room, and thought that this was the place where potions were prepared.
If it weren't for the "review" that he had to do every night, he would have just stayed in the medicinal storage room, without having to travel back and forth between the hotel and the pharmacy.
What really attracted Vertok was the wide variety of herbs in the pantry. The Adventurer's House has a long-term medicinal material acquisition task issued by Dr. Cole. Adventurers can sell the collected medicinal materials to the pharmacy workshop in Braun Town according to the corresponding price on the task list.
In fact, Dr. Cole's purchase price of medicinal materials is lower than the purchase price of the armed caravan, but he pays a sum of money to the Adventurer's Guild every year. If the adventurer makes a deal with Cole, it will be regarded as completing the adventure mission and can improve the union's respect for him. evaluation of. Except for a few particularly rare medicinal materials, adventurers will sell general medicinal materials to Dr. Cole.
Over time, there are hundreds of kinds of medicinal materials stored in the storage room, involving plants, animals, minerals, and even several special types of humus soil and animal excrement. Every cabinet in the storage room was full, and the smell in the room was particularly strong. Fortunately, Wiltok's nose had adapted to the environment here, and the smell of various medicinal materials did not bother him. Instead, he had to take the initiative to get closer and smell the smell, trying to identify each medicinal ingredient with his keen sense of smell to see if they could stir up his memories.
The closet in the storage room is very high. In order to get the top medicinal materials, the barbarian slave girl had to use a ladder to take out medicinal material samples from the top cabinet and give them to Wiltok for analysis.
Although he has only been working in the pharmacy for a short time, the barbarian female slave has already realized that this half-elf with a particularly "scary" appearance and temperament is particularly valued by his master, and his status is higher than that of several half-elf maids. At the very least, the half-elf maid rarely refused any of his requests.
Therefore, the barbarian female slaves were very afraid of Vertok and avoided him as much as possible and did not dare to offend him.
Wiltok has not recovered his memory and is very simple-minded. He may really think that he is working for Dr. Cole. In fact, he was the only one who was kept in the dark.
However, these are just wishful thinking of Boss Bottom, Dr. Cole and others.
It is true that Wiltok is naive and simple, but he has an incredible ability and good habits. Every night, through the "golden light ball" of the conscious world, he carefully "reviews" the day's experience from a third-person perspective, and reflects on the gains and losses of the day.
People who know how to reflect cannot be stupid.
Especially after mastering the secret form of the Golden Toad, Wiltok's "review" experience became clearer and his thinking became sharper. On the first night he worked in the alchemy shop, he discovered that Dr. Cole did not need an assistant to watch the door, and then he came to a conclusion that he had already known before: Dr. Cole had something in his heart and might have bad thoughts towards him.
Wiltok, who was naturally smart, did not tell anyone his judgment about Dr. Cole because he was unwilling to lose such a good job. The response he took was to speak to Dr. Cole as little as possible. However, the simple Vertok did not include the half-elf maid and the barbarian slave girl on the list of things to be on guard against.
Whether it's a half-elf maid or a barbarian slave girl, they are obviously not the same person as Dr. Cole. And they are very polite to me and willing to provide all kinds of help. Obviously, they are both good people.
Therefore, Wiltok asked the half-elf maid and barbarian slave girl about the formula of the source blood potion, hoping that they could help him confirm the specific name of the medicinal material.
If you don’t understand something, just ask more people. There is nothing wrong with more people and greater strength.
As for the relationship between the half-elf maid, the barbarian slave girl and Dr. Cole, Wiltok never considered it at all.
Cole unexpectedly learned the formula of the blood potion from the servant. He was both happy and depressed, but overall he was extremely depressed.
On the one hand, Wiltok provided pharmaceutical formulas with only the names of uncommon medicinal materials, but did not know the appearance characteristics of the medicinal materials, nor the specific process of medicinal materials processing. Knowing the formula of such a medicine means not knowing it.
On the other hand, he couldn't understand why Wiltok could tell anyone the formula of the potion but refused to tell him. Even if he made insinuations, Wiltok would never speak.
Dr. Cole couldn't remember where he had offended Wiltok?
Boss Bottom couldn't tell the reason. He could only attribute the reason to the fact that the simple Wiltok liked to look at his face and choose the menu. Cole was too ugly, so the first impression he gave him was not that he was a good person.
The hotel owner's speculation made Dr. Cole even more depressed. He didn't think he was ugly, but he had to admit that beautiful half-elves were always particularly attractive.
But when it comes to beauty, Cole has confidence in the half-elf maid he has carefully cultivated. Since Vertok is also a vulgar person who likes to look at faces, the half-elf maid will win his favor. Cole secretly told several half-elf maids to take good care of Wiltok and help him recall the specific contents of the potion formula.
The half-elf maid was happy to accept this order. They discussed taking turns taking care of Vertok. Today it happened to be Britney's turn, the half-elf slave girl who was "harassed" by Vertok the day before yesterday. However, she heard about Wiltok and knew that it was actually a misunderstanding. Not only did she forgive Wiltok for his rude behavior, she was also full of sympathy for him.
Britney had taken off her mask, with a worried expression on her pretty face. She watched Wiltok bend down first to smell the medicinal samples on the table, and then hold the edge of the table with both hands, eyes half-closed, and body swaying , as if he was about to faint.
"Mr. Wiltok, Mr. Wiltok, are you okay?" Britney reached out to support Wiltok and asked with concern.
Vertok shook his head, recovered from his trance, looked at Britney in surprise, and said, "I'm fine."
Britney frowned her carefully groomed eyebrows and whispered uncertainly: "But you look uncomfortable... Are you really okay?"
Wiltok suddenly realized, shook his head and said: "Oh, I know, yesterday Susanna was also worried that I was not feeling well, but it was not the case..." As he said that, he glanced left and right to confirm that Dr. Cole was not here, so the mysterious Xixi asked: "There is a golden light group in my mind that no one else can see. All my memories are in it. Whenever I think about something hard, I will see the golden light group. For example, if I smell medicinal materials The smell, I want to recall that smell, and I can see the golden light cluster. Others thought I was distracted, but in fact I was thinking about something... By the way, have you heard about the golden cluster of light? "
There are indeed several hallucinogenic herbs in the storage room, but they have all been initially processed so that the hallucinogenic effects are restrained and will not make people dizzy just by sniffing them. Moreover, the medicinal material that Wiltok just smelled was heather, a common vine medicinal material that itself is not very toxic. But he still gets dizzy and shakes when he smells heather, which makes people question his physical condition.
Another maid, Susanna, told Britney that Wiltok would get dizzy when he smelled any medicinal material. Now that Britney has seen it with her own eyes, she still can't help but feel worried. She wants to tell Wiltok loudly:
You are really distracted, but if your mind wanders and you still have hallucinations, it may be a mental problem.
Britney forced a smile and said in a softer voice: "I have never heard of the 'golden light group', but you have identified all the medicinal samples here, so you can take a rest first. Wait until the snow season Several new medicinal materials will be put into storage, and at that time, we will accompany you to identify them."
In fact, the half-elf slave girl's judgment was not wrong. Only Wiltok could see the "golden light group" that no one else could see. Isn't that just an illusion?
Wiltok was distracted when he was identifying the medicinal materials, and he was really distracted. Although he handed over the smell information to the "golden light group" in the conscious world for processing, his mental state was highly concentrated and he could not even effectively control his body. At least formally, this is mind wandering.
The problem is that Wiltok's mind wanders too frequently and is accompanied by hallucinations. Based on common medical knowledge, the half-elf female slave judged that his amnesia had affected his mental state.
Vertok did not realize that his way of thinking was different from other half-elves. He worked hard to identify various medicinal materials in the past two days without any worries or disguises. His efficiency in identifying medicinal materials was surprisingly high. He has smelled all of the more than three hundred medicinal herbs stored by Dr. Cole twice, and thirty-nine of them have received feedback from the "knowledge puzzle", awakening Wiltok's memory of them. Among these medicinal materials, three medicinal materials successfully corresponded to the names of the medicinal materials recorded in the source blood medicine formula.
A total of 25 kinds of medicinal materials are used in the formula of source blood medicine. Wiltok only remembered 3 kinds of medicinal materials, and there is no technological process for processing the medicinal materials. It is basically impossible for him to prepare a source of blood potion.
Without the source blood potion, the effect of practicing the source blood secret method will be very poor.
This made Wiltok very frustrated, but he was not without gains.
Judging from the feedback from the "Knowledge Puzzle" in the past two days, Wiltok has realized that he was once proficient in pharmacy, but pharmacy is a huge and complex knowledge system. It is difficult to learn pharmacy just by identifying medicinal materials. The memory is put together completely.
The "Knowledge Puzzle" also provides a solution to the problem, either by continuing to stay in Dr. Cole's pharmacy workshop and through continuous learning, slowly piece together the pharmacy memory bit by bit. However, Dr. Cole's knowledge of arcane medicine is of little use to Vertok in regaining his memory. Because the "Knowledge Puzzle" only absorbs information related to secret medicine without any feedback. This is enough to show that the knowledge of secret medicine is a new thing and is not Wiltok's memory.
The most efficient way is to learn the text first, and then go back to learn pharmacy knowledge.
Words are the carrier of knowledge. By learning knowledge through words, Wiltok will get twice the result with half the effort by piecing together his memories.
Wiltok was hesitant. At present, the desire to learn writing is not strong enough to make him give up this job. The half-elf maids in the potion workshop are very good people, and the food they make is quite delicious. The "animal secret medicine" raised by the barbarian female slaves also deeply attracts Wiltok.
He was worried that if he resigned after only two days on the job and Dr. Cole replaced him with an assistant, wouldn't he be able to come back?
Wiltok was in a dilemma, but the laughter and frolic of a group of barbarian female slaves could be heard outside the house. He curiously walked to the window, raised his hand to push it open, and was surprised to find two half-elf maids escorting Piru, the clerk from the Adventurer's House, through the courtyard and toward the dispensing room. A group of barbarian female slaves followed them, facing each other. Piru pointed with a frown on his face.
"Piru was caught stealing something." Britney walked over with a smile on her lips and said, "He hid in the pharmacy for two days and one night. In fact, we had discovered him a long time ago and waited for him to steal something before we caught him. He caught him red-handed.”
Vertok asked blankly: "Catch Piru, and then what?"
"Of course, punish him severely." Britney covered her mouth and snickered, her two big eyes shining. Catching thieves is one of the few pleasures of the half-elf maid. She couldn't help but want to watch the excitement and asked: "Mr. Wiltok, do you want to see how the master punishes the thief Piru?"
Wiltok nodded quickly and said, "Let's go take a look..."
Piru, the shopkeeper, was also Wiltok's close friend in Braun Town. Out of concern for his friend, he hurried out of the house, only to find that Piru had disappeared.
Britney chased him out and led Wiltok into the dispensing room in the corner of the backyard. At this time, poor Piru was tied tightly to a long table, with physician Cole and several other half-elf maids surrounding him, busy constantly.
Seeing Wiltok coming in, Piru immediately shouted loudly: "Virtok, save me, oh..."
Dr. Cole stuffed Piru's mouth with a cotton towel and joked: "You're so noisy... You're such a good-for-nothing boy. If you're caught stealing something, you have to be punished quietly. It's so embarrassing to yell."
Fat cook Sarah told Vertoktok that stealing is wrong. Wiltok agreed with Sarah's statement, but he always felt that something was wrong with the situation Piru faced, so he said cautiously: "Mr. Cole, I remember that you allowed Piru to steal things. You should not punish him."
Sometimes, Vertok was simply like a wild beast. Cole was originally worried that he would cause trouble, so he specially called his personal maids over. Wiltok rarely put forward such a logical view, and Cole responded enthusiastically: "Even if I didn't allow others to steal my things, wouldn't the thief come to steal my things? If the thief steals something, I If I catch him, shouldn’t I punish him?”
Wiltok nodded hesitantly, agreeing with Cole's statement.
Dr. Cole continued: "Look, whether I allow theft or not has nothing to do with whether I punish the thief. My agreement with Piru is that what he steals here belongs to him, and I will not pursue it afterwards, but he If you are caught stealing something, you will have to accept punishment. I never said to give my things to Piru."
Wiltok nodded again, but he took a step forward and said loudly: "What you said makes sense, but I didn't say I would abide by your principles!"
He had clearly expressed his intention to attack, but the half-elf maids did not react reasonably. Cole began to suspect that his special connection with the half-elf slave girl was about to expire.
Professional doctors have almost no combat effectiveness, but Cole has mastered a special method that can strengthen his close connection with his personal maid. This method is not a secret among the highland classes of the Alliance. It is rooted in the bloodline of the Disa half-elf. Half-elf men and women can imitate the spousal relationship between the Taku tribe and the Hemer tribe, and both parties will be sublimated together. However, the Earth Temple in the main city made some changes using secret rituals and secret medicines, turning the equal partnership into an alternative relationship of subordination.
Cole never worried that his personal maid would betray him. But he wouldn't know that Wiltok's natural charm is a kind of blood suppression for the Disa half-elf, but he has not yet fully released this unique trait.
A half-elf maid like Britney who has been transformed by secret magic has a biased self-perception and relatively weak willpower. They are particularly susceptible to Vertok's subtle influence and are rarely hostile to him.
Seeing that Wiltok was about to use violence, Dr. Cole said in time: "You might as well ask Piru for his opinion and see if he wants you to save him?"
A maid took off the towel that was stuffed in his mouth. Piru was gasping for air. The expression on his face was changing, ranging from fear to expectation. He struggled for a long time and said with a sad face: "Vell, I am willing to accept the punishment. You don't have to worry about me." ...Uncle Cole, will I die?"
Cole was feeling angry and asked angrily: "You brat, how much money have you saved?"
Piru licked his lips and said with a groan: "I haven't saved much money, 500 gold pagodas...oh, no 600 gold pagodas, that's all, I won't lie to you."
Cole nodded and threatened him in a sinister tone: "Boy, if you die, all the money you saved will belong to me. I will consider myself unlucky. If you survive, your 600 gold pagoda will still belong to me. Then, you owe me 2,400 gold pagodas."
"Go and get the secret medicine for awakening..."
After ordering the half-elf maid, Dr. Cole turned his head and said to Wiltok in a friendly manner: "Viltok, now is an opportunity for you to see how professional doctors use secret medicine to help ordinary people awaken."
