"Hey, what's that look in your eyes?"
Feeling Ringer's scrutinizing gaze, Elise showed signs of getting angry again.
Lin Ge didn't want to provoke her at this time, so he silently withdrew his gaze and walked to the bookshelf next to the alchemy table.
"Are these your cocktail recipes?"
"Those are the notes left by the alchemist who once lived here. I learned my bartending skills from the notes he left behind."
"Alchemy notes? Bartending?"
A curiosity arose in Ringer's heart, and he took down a thick book from the bookshelf. There was a line of dim handwritten text on it, "Delicious Plants for Edibles."
After a cursory glance, the book records the plants in this world, with detailed descriptions of where they grow, taste, toxicity, and how to eat them.
The earth’s wine is also made from various plants, such as wine made from grapes, beer made from barley malt, and rice wine made from rice, millet, black rice, corn, glutinous rice, wheat, etc., also known as rice wine. , and the famous Mexican national drink tequila.
In addition, there is a classification of blended wine. This type of wine uses distilled wine or brewed wine as the base wine, and is made by adding various herbs, medicinal materials, seeds, and fruits through blending, soaking, mixing and other technical techniques, such as "wine + Absinthe" various absinthes, Chinese medicinal wine soaked with different medicinal materials, etc.
After a cursory glance, he saw that the characteristics and similarities of several plants were very familiar, and they were similar to some of the earth's bartending materials. If these plants were used as raw materials, maybe new wines could be made, and they were A wine that is unique to this world.
A strange and unexplored new world of wine seemed to slowly open up in front of his eyes. This was more exciting to him than discovering that there was magic in this world.
He took down another book from the bookshelf, called "Biological Materials That Can Make Delicious Drinks". He flipped through a few pages and his expression changed.
The materials recorded here are all weird and even some heavy-tasting, such as octopus blood, the eyeballs of the evil-eyed monster, the spinal fluid of the thunder leopard, the pituitary gland of the three-legged ape, and some other messy monster organs. He even saw several kinds of excrement...
He put the book back on the shelf with a complicated mood, and said with some worry:
"Elise, tell me you haven't put eyeballs or anything weird in your guests' wine glasses."
Elise replied seriously: "I have added it. There is a drink in the notes here. The eyeballs of the hundred-eyed monster are added to the wine, and then mixed with the milk of the female chimera. The eyeballs of the hundred-eyed monster are very small and round. It’s the same as pearls, so this wine is called pearl milk wine.”
"Did the guest drink it?"
Elise scratched her head in embarrassment: "I did drink, but he never came to the store again."
God, no wonder there are so few customers in the Emerald Bar, Ringer groaned inwardly.
There were not many customers who were eligible to enter the store, and the customers who finally came were tortured by the devil's wine concocted by Elise. He suddenly felt a heavy pressure.
If those customers come back to the store again, he must do his best to save the reputation of the Emerald Bar.
"Where is that notebook?"
Elise took down a black leather notebook from the bookshelf and handed it to Ringer.
"Here, this is it."
The cover of this notebook seems to be made of the skin of some kind of creature. It feels very tough. There is no word on the cover, but there is a name written in scrawled notes in the lower right corner of the title page.
Rabid Reva.
This should be the name of the alchemist.
In addition, there are four words written on this page: understand, decompose, transform, and construct.
This is probably the idea of the alchemist named Rabid.
Ringer continued to look through it. This notebook was indeed a serious study of alchemy at the beginning, recording Rabbid's alchemy experience. The front pages were full of strange symbols and patterns, with obscure and even difficult-to-read words. Text.
But in the later part, strange formulas began to appear, coupled with the feelings after drinking and the direction of modification.
For example, this drink called "Moonlight Killer":
5 grams of night devil pollen, 20 ml of fresh bungara blood, 3 grams of resentful spirit dust, and 40 ml of ale. The color after mixing is very beautiful, reddish and cool, a bit like the noble wine of the royal capital, with a refreshing and slightly bitter taste, but strong stamina It's quite sufficient. If you can add the blood of the Silver Flying Snake, an advanced species of Bungara krait, it might help improve the taste...
After reaching a certain page, all the obscure words and mysterious patterns disappeared, leaving only strange formulas and ideas. That page recorded the confessional statement of an alchemist named Rabid:
God of alchemy, the great sage Hodheim, please give me guidance. Does the holy stone that contains the secret of eternal life really exist in the world? I have studied alchemy all my life, but I have not figured out the method of refining the holy stone. I don't even see hope, but my beautiful long hair that is as bright as the sun has all left me. Please forgive your humble believer, Hodheim, the god of alchemy. I have used alchemy to satisfy my despicable appetites and will be completely corrupted. Here comes Rabide, the insignificant alchemy apprentice.
Lin Ge silently closed the note.
There is no doubt that the alchemist named Rabid was the world's pioneer in bartending. Perhaps he accidentally discovered these while studying alchemy and therefore recorded them.
Although some strange materials were added because of alchemy, his approach was absolutely groundbreaking. If he had not studied alchemy at the beginning, but wine, he would probably have become a legendary bartender.
It's a pity that his notes have not been circulated. The only successor is a stupid spider who doesn't understand the art of bartending.
Elise was keenly aware that Ringer was looking at her, with a hint of inexplicable sadness and sympathy in his eyes, which made her feel very uncomfortable.
"Hey, if you look at me like that again, I will really beat you up."
So sensitive, is this the spider sense?
Lin Ge silently withdrew his gaze, put the notes back on the bookshelf, and said, "Can I make a copy of these books on the bookshelf?"
"copy?"
Ringer took out the photocopied magic book he bought from Alison's magic shop. There were still some empty pages in it.
"It means copying."
"Oh? Do you want to learn the recipe above?"
Ringer smiled bitterly and shook his head: "I don't dare to add some strange dirty things into the guests' wine glasses. It's just for reference. Maybe I can develop a wine that belongs to this world."
"You have some ideas, okay, but after you develop a new formula, you have to teach me as soon as possible."
"no problem."
Lin Ge readily agreed and entered all the books on the bookshelf into the photocopied magic book. He planned to read them slowly when he went back. Anyway, there were no customers in the store now and he had plenty of time every day.
When he turned around, he saw a fist-sized spider hanging down to Elise's ear, seemingly saying something to her.
Elise looked surprised.
"Oh? Someone broke into the depths of the cave?"
