Chapter 33 Born to refine poison·Part 1
In today's anatomy class, in order to let everyone gradually adapt to the impact of flesh, blood and organs, Mrs. Morton only asked the students to dissect white mice and did not bring out new anatomy objects.
With Xia Zuo's encouragement, Anruer tried to operate it.
After this girl dissected the first one independently, she actually suggested another one.
Xia Zuo once wondered whether he had opened a magical skylight in the other person's soul and awakened her deeper personality...
12 o'clock noon.
The two of them went to the restaurant to dine. Each had a steak, pasta and vegetable soup, without the burden of an anatomy class at all.
Xia Zuo rolled up the pasta with a fork and put it into his mouth, "Is it difficult to learn oil alchemy?"
"The instructor said that as long as you have a normal sense of smell and have wind resistance, this branch of alchemy is easy to master. It should be the easiest to learn among the four alchemy branches. Without wind resistance, it will be more difficult."
Anruer wiped the corners of her mouth with a paper towel and glanced at the center of the restaurant. The elemental servant had just brought a plate of snacks, "I'm going to get some desserts. Do you need them?"
Xia Zuo shook his head in response. After waiting for the other party to come back, he considered his tone and asked gently:
"Have you always lived alone?"
Anruer looked at the white clouds in the sky and said lonelyly in the memory:
"When I was 9 years old, my parents sent me to a girls' school in Rosak City. In the second week of school, the soldiers who carried the message brought the news that they were killed. Fortunately, my parents had some savings, and I relied on their inheritance to go to school. Life in a girls' school. I started learning painting when I was 12 years old. The teacher said I had good talent. After studying for a few years, I was able to support myself by selling paintings."
Xia Zuo lowered his eyes, nodded heavily, raised his glass, "To our parents, thank them for giving us life."
Anruer raised her cup and said, "To our parents."
The glasses clinked and the two drank the drinks.
Xia Zuo stood up with an empty glass, "What do you want to drink?"
"Well, just have any kind of juice." Anruer smiled and handed over the empty glass.
The two of them ate and chatted in the restaurant until 12:30 before returning to their respective dormitories to rest.
Xia Zuo lay on the bed for 10 minutes, then put on his schoolbag and headed to the alchemy room of the Poison Alchemy School.
12:50pm.
He became the first student to arrive at the class location.
Mentor Kulov was placing various toxin bottles on a large square table, "Xia Zuo, you are here."
"Good afternoon, Professor Kulov." Xia Zuo bowed and saluted.
“Have you read Separation of Toxins?”
Kurov carefully put down the last bottle of poison and rolled up his sleeves to his elbows.
"I've memorized this book."
"Memorize it?"
Kulov looked at the other person and waved his arm towards the table, "Then take a look at the toxins on this table and know a few of them."
There are 6 rows and 10 columns, a total of 60 poison bottles. There is no label paper on the bottles. The name can only be roughly inferred by observing the color and shape of the contents.
In the first minute, Xia Zuo compared the contents of the toxin bottle with the records in the [Knowledge Reserve].
When he identified the third bottle of toxin, he forcibly controlled the urge to slap his forehead, complaining in his mind that he was so stupid, why not just use the detection technique!
The skill of detection is a magical skill in terms of identification!
As long as the [knowledge reserve] and perception are in place, the results can be accurately fed back, completely eliminating the need for thinking.
Xia Zuo pinched his chin and pretended to be gradually entering the state, speeding up the identification bit by bit.
These 60 bottles of toxins are the basic toxins in the four major toxin fields. By combining them, you can get compound toxins with different effects.
Poisons can be made by mixing complex toxins with specific solvents.
The process of preparing poison is relatively simple.
The difficulty in poison alchemy lies in exploring compound toxins.
According to pure mathematical statistics, 60 different symbols, with 2 different combinations as one combination, can get 1770 completely different combinations.
Taking 3 different combinations as one combination, 1711 completely different combinations can be obtained.
By analogy, 60 bottles of basic toxins can be combined into tens of thousands of different compound toxins.
The book "Separation of Toxins" only records the content of 60 basic toxins, and does not list relevant information about compound toxins.
In other branches of alchemy, you first have a goal and then find a path.
As for poison alchemy, you already have a path, and then you have to explore what is at the end of the path.
This is the beauty of poison alchemy.
"Professor Kulov, what you put on the table are 60 bottles of basic toxins." Xia Zuo said confidently.
"Oh? Then tell me what's in row 3 and column 7." Kulov crossed his arms and pointed at the toxin bottle with his chin.
Xia Zuo released his detection technique towards the target, and then answered calmly:
"Pleurogreen, derived from the buds of green vine branches, can produce a strong paralyzing effect when acting on humanoid creatures."
"Where's the bottle? Row 6, column 2."
"Kidoxin, a spiky sea anemone derived from the deep sea, can produce a strong dizzy effect when acting on humanoid creatures."
Xia Zuo answered the instructor's questions calmly. Every time he spoke, he would stare at the toxin bottle and pause for a few seconds, pretending to be discerning and thinking.
Kulov asked for the names of several more toxins.
Seeing that Xia Zuo's answers were fluent and correct, he picked out two bottles of poison and put them on the alchemy table:
"These two toxins are mixed in a ratio of 3 on the left and 7 on the right. What will you get after dry steaming? What will you get after crushing and drying? What about brewing in clean water and filtering? These three different alchemical operations are respectively What product will you get?”
Xia Zuo smiled in astonishment, "Professor...are you going too far? "Separation of Toxins" only has tutorials on separation and an introduction to basic toxins."
Kulov laughed a few times and encouraged:
"The uses of alchemical operations can be found in the book "Alchemical Linguistics." The head of the college said that you have completed self-study. You can definitely imagine the impact of the alchemical operations I just mentioned on the raw materials. Release your imagination , take a bold guess.”
The professors at the school are quite well-informed. Beatrice checked the progress of his self-study in the morning, and Kulov knew about it before class in the afternoon.
Xia Zuo calmed down and simulated the alchemy operation mentioned by the other party in his mind.
The two toxins Kulov picked were salixanthin and mothaxanthin.
When luciferin acts on humanoids, it can cause convulsions. It comes from a certain kind of wicker that turns yellow after autumn and can only be stored in a cool and dry place. High temperature and light will destroy its toxicity.
It was obvious that Kulov had set a trap in his questioning.
"Professor, the two operations of dry steaming and sun-drying will make lythocyanin lose its toxicity, but mothocyanin will not. Therefore, the first two alchemical operations will result in mothocyanin with mixed ingredients and weakened effects."
As soon as Xia Zuo finished speaking, there were footsteps behind him.
Although they were also students of Kulov, Ma Sen and Brandon came at the right time for class.
"Good day, Professor."
The two of them, Masen, saluted their mentor and nodded to Xia Zuo.
Kulov tied his sleeves around his elbows, put on leather gloves to protect his forearms and hands, and walked to stand in front of the alchemy table.
"You two arrived just in time. The two toxin bottles on the alchemy table contain salixanthin and mothocyanin.
"You can find the specific effects of these two toxins in "Separation of Toxins".
"Now, I'm going to brew them into clean water, let them stand and then filter them. The three of you will identify what the alchemy product is."
Kulov paused and warned in a more serious tone:
"Although you haven't become a mage apprentice yet, I have to remind you first: when refining poisons, do not use spells, and do not let elemental servants do it for you. Remember?"
"Yes, teacher, we remember it." Xia Zuo and the other three replied in unison.
Kulov nodded, picked up the toxin bottle facing the students, and showed the entire alchemy process.
"Bo"
The bottle of luciferin was opened. The sweet yet sour smell spread in the alchemy room.
Xia Zuo's eyelids twitched and he discovered that the blood recovery data on the character template had changed.
[blood return speed]
[[Basic blood return speed]
0.1 points/minute (6 points/hour)
[[Real-time blood return speed]
0.1-0.002→0.098 points/minute (5.988 points/hour)
The toxin bottle you just opened contained a concentrated form of salixanthin. The smell it emits causes weak bleeding.
Xia Zuo used his peripheral vision to look at the situation of the two Ma Sens. They looked at their mentor with unchanged expressions, as if they were unaware of the abnormalities in the air.
No wonder the will attribute is high enough to join the poison alchemy class...
Xia Zuo shook his head gently to dispel the distracting thoughts in his mind and returned his attention to the instructor's operation.
Kulov first used tweezers to take a little bit of salixanthin and put it into clean water, then plugged the bottle of salixanthin and used another pair of tweezers to take out the mothocyanin.
Most of the smell of the two toxins was sucked away by the vents above the alchemy table. The rest floated in the air, becoming thinner and thinner, and the smell became lighter and weaker, and was gradually absorbed by the four human-shaped air purifiers.
The blood return data fluctuates and then returns to the initial state.
Kulov stirred the solution with a glass rod. After all the black particles inside were dissolved, he let the glass bottle stand and let the swirling water surface stabilize naturally.
After five minutes, the solution separated from top to bottom. The upper part was purple oil, the bottom part was white floc, and the middle was transparent water.
Kulov used a fine mesh to scoop up the purple substance and put it into a glass vessel nearby.
This thing looked like a puddle of jelly after it left the water.
It is the waste left over from alchemy, that is, the raw materials that have not undergone any alchemical reactions. After the recycled material is separated and processed, salixanthin and mothocyanin can be obtained again.
The white floc is the product of this alchemy.
Kulov picked up the glass bottle and slowly poured it into the funnel, allowing the water flow to pass through the three-layer mesh at a steady and even speed.
Then, use tweezers to evenly distribute the portions on the three drain nets, and place the three equal portions of white floc in front of the students.
"Follow the identification method recorded in "Separation of Toxins" and see what effect it has." Kulov asked as he took off his gloves.
Xia Zuo turned around and walked to the shelf by the wall, took a mask from it and put it on. This was the most important preparation step to prevent poison from splashing into his eyes, mouth and nose.
Mason and Brandon were stunned for a few seconds, and then they remembered the opening part of "The Separation of Toxins", which emphasized the safety of poison alchemy, and hurriedly reached for the masks.
Kulov stood aside with his arms folded, taking in the different performances of the three people, his eyes flickering.
He deliberately did not remind the three students to wear masks, deliberately using this detail to distinguish their respective personalities.
Xia Zuo pretended to take out "Separation of Toxins" and opened their respective books with Masen.
In fact, when Kulov was making the complex toxin, he had used detection to examine the white floc.
"Unknown toxin, a compound toxin made from salixanthin and mothocyanin as raw materials, is expected to cause spasm and constriction of the nasal cavity and throat passages. If the person enters a state of suffocation due to the dual toxic effects, 30 blood points will be deducted every minute."
With the help of the detection technique, there is no need to use your brain, no identification operation, or even observation. You can know the effect of the compound toxin as long as you release the skill.
In the future, after using basic toxins to prepare compound toxins, you can skip the most difficult, time-consuming, and dangerous identification process and know its effect directly from the information fed back by the detection technique!
The combination of Detection Technique + [Knowledge Reserve] is a perfect match for identifying poisons!
When Xia Zuo wanted to understand this, his hands were trembling with excitement. He had no choice but to look for alchemy instruments and turned his back to everyone in front of the shelf, trying his best to suppress the joy in his heart.
While calming down his turbulent emotions, he recalled the identification methods recorded in the book.
The idea of identifying compound toxins is similar to that of identifying basic toxins. More than a dozen alchemical operations are used to test the effects of various aspects.
Just carefully follow the instructions in "Separation of Toxins" and detect the white floc step by step. There is no need for innovation or confusion.
Since it was their first time getting started, the three freshmen would inevitably make some small mistakes.
Kurov turned a blind eye and ignored these small mistakes that caused no harm.
They were busy from 1 p.m. to about 5 p.m., and barely completed the appraisal work before dinner time.
Finally, three standardized identification reports appeared on the alchemy table.
Mason and Brandon wrote many guesses in their respective identification reports.
In order not to expose his abnormality, Xia Zuo also made up more than a dozen logical guesses. The only correct identification result was placed in the first row.
Kulov picked up the identification report and looked through it, and asked the students to put the white floc into the toxin bottle, and then tidy up the alchemy room.
five minutes later.
Kulov smiled, shook off the three appraisal reports neatly, and put them in the desk drawer.
"Very good. Although the process was somewhat tortuous, the three of you have roughly identified leukodin."
He took out a heavy classic from the desk and put it on the table, calling the students to come over and look at the content on a certain page.
This book is "The Aggregation of Toxins" that is paired with "The Separation of Toxins" and specifically introduces the method of making complex toxins.
Xia Zuo quickly read the content on the page, jotting down the key information about albin in his mind.
When the scrying spell was used on the white floc again, the name column accurately showed "Pleurodin" instead of the unknown toxin.