Chapter 65: Soul Search Becoming More Skilled

"You don't need to use that medicine. Just bear with the pain, and the wound will heal faster."

Doctor Wu pushed the medicine back from the housekeeper's hand.

"But this little girl is in pain..."

"Can you do it?" someone asked.

Ren Miao's face turned pale and he nodded.

The bloody wound on the girl's leg was bandaged, but she was in so much pain that she couldn't stand up. Several fellow disciples who had done something wrong stood in a row like dogs, waiting for Ning Mingmei's scolding.

Ning Mingmei didn't scold them, but asked the housekeeper for some medicine. He asked, “Where did this medicine come from?”

The housekeeper said, "It's available in all the major medical clinics in the city."

When Ning Mingmei turned around, he found that Doctor Wu had left as coldly as he had come.

He healed Ren Miao's wounds and then left without saying a word.

Ning Mingmei asked, "Doctor Wu's clinic sells this?"

The housekeeper still shook his head: "Doctor Wu rarely runs the clinic... He doesn't sell this medicine."

Ning Mingmei: "This matter has become interesting again."

He pondered for a moment, and asked his three fellow disciples to carry the unlucky Ren Miao back to the room. Ning Mingmei said, "Don't even think about going out together, the three of you. Leave one person in the yard to take care of Ren Miao every day. I told you to pile up corpses in front of the palace, but you didn't. Now you're piling up Ren Miao instead."

Three people: “…Oh…Oh!”

What's going on with this sudden rise in pitch? Do you think that if you don’t go out, you don’t have to do academic work?

Ning Mingmei: "You still have to complete the tasks you are supposed to complete. If there is no corpse at the gate of the palace tomorrow, you will have something to worry about. Also, the money for Ren Miao's extra meals and medicine these days will be deducted from your next month's salary."

What does it mean that there must be a corpse in front of the palace? The system was so angry that it almost vomited blood.

The salary of these foundation-building disciples is not as high as Wen Siheng's, only 1,900. To make it a round number, let's deduct 900 yuan from each of them.

The three of them felt very depressed for a moment.

Ning Mingmei was too lazy to pay attention to them. Alone under a tree, he crushed one of the pills. The pills become a paste after being crushed, and have a faint sweet smell when you smell them.

“I do have deficiencies in pharmacy.”

Ning Mingmei couldn't tell whether the medicine was good or not, so he called Gui Ruoxue from the tree and asked him to go into the main room with him.

Several disciples watching nearby: …

The master and the female doctor he met by chance were really close.

"Take a look at this medicine." Ning Mingmei handed two of the pills to Gui Ruoxue. "What are the ingredients in this medicine? What is its effect? ​​Is it harmful to humans?"

Gui Ruoxue didn't move, and said, "Do you think I'm the ancestor of medicine?"

Ning Mingmei: "Aren't you quite professional? If even you can't figure it out, I really don't know who can analyze it."

Gui Ruoxue then took the pill from Ning Mingmei and curled up the corners of her lips into a smile that she thought no one would notice. He crushed the pill between his fingers, sniffed it, and held it up to the light.

Sniffing, he frowned: "I can't give you a definite answer now. It will take two days."

Ning Mingmei: "Strange, didn't you analyze what kind of medicine was in that kid's body right away?"

Gui Ruoxue said: "That's the medicine in his body, which can be detected with true qi. Now you are giving me a pill directly, how do you want me to check it?"

I see. We must have human solvents to clearly see the effects of the drugs, right?

Ning Mingmei: "Then give the medicine to Liancheng..."

Eat on the moon.

Ning Mingmei stopped talking halfway. He said, "You study it first, and I'll see if I can find you someone who has just taken the medicine."

Gui Ruoxue:?

"Could that person really come here on his own?" he asked.

Ning Mingmei said: "Well... more than one, it would be better to have more, to serve as a comparison."

Gui Ruoxue:?

Ning Mingmei's words sound so familiar. Why does it feel like what he said to his subordinates every time he used mortal villages to test drugs... Gui Ruoxue felt like a cosmic cat who was empty for a moment.

The bespectacled beauty leaves the room. The system complained: "You finally found your conscience just now?"

Not using Lian Chengyue to test the medicine anymore?

Ning Mingmei: "No, I just remembered that I still need to drink Lian Chengyue's blood."

…

…………

System: "You only remembered this after all this time?!"

In order to reduce the impact of the decay of drug concentration in the blood, Ning Mingmei went out.

It just so happened that the two disciples, Eleven and Yuting Peak, were just coming back from outside.

How did Eleven get mixed up with the people from Yuting Peak?

Seeing Eleven and Jiang Yu walking in front chatting, and He Zheng walking behind with a resentful look on his face... Ning Mingmei understood it immediately.

It’s a pity that Jiang Yu himself didn’t understand. When she saw Ning Mingmei, her eyes lit up: "Master, we found a snake monster at the border of Yedi and killed it."

This is to take credit.

Ning Mingmei: "Very good, where is the body?"

…

Ning Mingmei: "I told you this morning to pile up the bodies in front of the palace gate. Did you forget? Forget it, He Zheng, let me get the snake monster body. You two notify the remaining three people at Piaomiao Peak. If the people at Jixian Peak come back, also notify the four of them. Have them go out and find eight people who have just taken the little red pills that are a specialty of Yedi. Men, women, young and old, all must have them. I want them tonight."

? ?

Eleven was stunned: "Master, why do we need people? How do you say it?"

Ning Mingmei: "You are already in the foundation-building stage. You should have some autonomy in learning and think for yourself."

Eleven: “Oh…”

After saying that, he took He Zheng away, leaving behind only Shiyi and Jiang Yu, two fools.

Wait a moment.

What is the relationship between the foundation-building stage and being able to independently figure out how to deceive people?

The palace is on the east side, and the place where He Zheng and his men killed the basilisk is on the west side. This journey would require crossing most of Ye City. He Zheng followed Ning Mingmei and was very depressed, but Ning Mingmei had many new discoveries.

Along the way, he discovered several medical clinics in Yecheng.

The business of Yecheng Medical Clinic is not very hot, but it is not deserted either. Ning Mingmei asked He Zheng to go into the clinic several times to ask what the people queuing inside were buying.

He Zheng replied: "They said they were here to buy medicine. Many people here have symptoms of dizziness, headaches, vomiting and bone pain. It's an old problem that has been with us for generations."

Ning Mingmei: "How many generations?"

He Zheng: "Yes. Maybe it's because of the soil and water in Yedi."

Ning Mingmei went to look at those who left the clinic again. Those people were just like what Ning Mingmei saw on the first day he entered the city, all of them were slow to react and looked weak. They walked the streets, indifferent to the outside world.

Very numb. It was as if they gradually turned into walking corpses as the pain disappeared.

He asked He Zheng to go in and buy some pills. Ning Mingmei crushed them in the palm of his hand.

It is the same medicine as the pill in the butler's hand.

Ning Mingmei asked He Zheng again: "Have you answered the two questions I asked you to answer?"

First, when did this drug appear?

He Zheng said: "They said that this medicine appeared a few years ago. Today, residents can live and work in peace and contentment, thanks to this medicine. Before this medicine, many people had headaches and couldn't sleep in the middle of the night."

The second is where the source of this medicine comes from.

He Zheng said: "They are unwilling to talk about this issue."

And be very alert. At that moment, the looks from several shop owners made He Zheng's heart tighten.

Some even said, "This medicine is priced the same all over the city, why are you asking?"

The clue ends here. Ning Mingmei thought for a while and said, "It doesn't matter. I will know."

He lifted his robe and entered a new clinic. The owner of the clinic was an old man. When he saw him come in, he asked, "What would you like to order, sir?"

Ning Mingmei stated his purpose: "Old man, I want to know where you get the medicine you sell from."

Different from the reactions of the other shop owners when He Zheng questioned them, the old man saw that Ning Mingmei was not someone who could be easily dealt with. He said in a playful tone, "You are a foreigner who came to Yecheng recently, right? The Taoist priests invited by the city lords? The medicine we sell is indeed a good thing. Even the immortals from other places buy it from us to relieve pain. But this medicine is exclusively sold in Yecheng. You are a foreigner, and you want to get the supply..."

Ning Mingmei: "Does it cost extra money?"

Old man: “Yes.”

This immortal is indeed smarter and more straightforward than that young boy.

Ning Mingmei: "Name a price, how much more?"

Old man: "Two hundred thousand..."

Ning Mingmei: "Okay."

Then he stretched out his hand and cast a spell, knocking the old man unconscious.

System: “Ahhhhhhhhh!!”

Ning Mingmei: "What's your name? If you ask me for a 200,000 yuan commission, I'll knock him down and search his soul."

Click to save 200,000 yuan instantly, that's great.

Ning Mingmei, under the system's accusation of "You are practicing evil", began to search the old man's soul. He was not very experienced in soul searching and it took him a little longer, but he finally managed to find some information.

The old man bought his medicine from another, larger clinic, a mile away.

After such a mysterious move, it turned out that the franchisees were pretending to be shareholders.

Ning Mingmei did not stop there, he also searched out an extra memory from the old man's head.

While the old man was unconscious, Ning Mingmei went into the backyard and opened the cabinet in his cellar to look through it. Sure enough, he dug out a family heirloom left by the old man’s great-grandfather from the cabinet - a chisel made of special material.

The chisel was extremely hard and glowed faintly even in the dim light.

The old man’s ancestors were not locals. His great-grandfather was a miner's leader who came to Yedi with the imperial court. In the old man's memory, his father had repeatedly told him about the wonderful past of his great-grandfather in Yedi - they mined various ores from the mines, processed them in Yedi, and then transported them out of Yedi as weapons for the imperial court to quell the war. But later, when the war ended, the minerals in the mines were all mined out.

For some reason, the imperial court closed the mine and stopped mining it. Since then, his great-grandfather settled down in Yedi and had these descendants.

This chisel is the tool used by my great-grandfather back then.

The mine is a long distance away from Yecheng, but coincidentally, it is located by a river.

Ning Mingmei stared at the chisel for a while, then put it down.

Ning Mingmei closed the door as soon as he entered the clinic. He Zheng was waiting outside anxiously, and finally, he saw Ning Mingmei coming out.

He Zheng said: "Master Ning Feng, where are we going?"

Ning Mingmei said, "Let's go to the clinic on North Street."

He Zheng:?

Aren’t you going to get the basilisk’s corpse?

This time, Ning Mingmei entered the store on his own, and after bargaining for some time, he knocked the owner down and searched his soul. The scene was unbearable to watch.

System: "You are becoming more and more like an evil cultivator."

Ning Mingmei: "Why spend money on extra words for a problem that can be solved quickly?"

What you said seems to make sense.

This shop owner has a boss above him, and his boss's boss has a boss above him... As he searched shop after shop, Ning Mingmei became more and more skilled at soul searching, but it made him feel a little sick.

Ning Mingmei: "Why is the side effect of this soul search almost the same as 3D sickness?"

The painkiller sales chain in Yecheng is as complicated as a genetic map. After searching five houses in a row, Ning Mingmei finally felt that he was getting a little closer to their ultimate source.

That store is also in the west, close to the outskirts of the city, and is not Dr. Wu’s clinic.

This store looks like a pawn shop, but it actually sells medicine. Unfortunately, Ning Mingmei learned from the soul-searching results that this store opens once a month and closes after distributing the medicine.

Unfortunately, Ning Mingmei and others arrived just when it had finished selling a wave of pills. The store is now empty.

Although He Zheng didn't know what Ning Mingmei was investigating, he had a certain degree of judgment: "What should we do now? The clues are broken."

Ning Mingmei said: "Now it's easier to deal with."

He Zheng: "What?"

"This batch of pills has been sold out, and the next batch of pills must be in the process of being produced." Ning Mingmei said, "Check where there is a water source in the west and where there are large amounts of emissions. The pharmaceutical den in Yedi has been revealed. Moreover, there are many mountains in the west. Although the factory is hidden, it must be located where the driveway can lead to it."

He Zheng:?

Greatly shocked.

Ning Mingmei is very good at investigating cases in the world of immortal cultivation from an economic perspective. Since the source store is here, the factory that makes it must be nearby.

The mastermind behind the drug manufacturing has set up such a large sales network in Yedi. It would be difficult to do this without deep-rooted power and the pursuit of profit. Therefore, when the sales network has already incurred such a huge manpower cost, the masterminds behind the scenes are unwilling to pay more transportation costs.

But why do we need to build such a large and troublesome network just to sell medicine?

What’s the secret behind this medicine?

He Zheng suddenly said, "Master Ning Feng, look, there seems to be a clinic over there as well."

Ning Mingmei turned his head and looked over, and saw an ordinary medical clinic standing there quietly.

This clinic looks different from other clinics. Its door panels are very new - a kind of renovated "new", symbolizing that the owner of the clinic has only purchased this relatively old building for a few years at most. But the renovation was not thorough enough, for example, various bricks and stones were not replaced.

This also illustrates another point - the owner of the clinic does not think he will stay here for many years.

Ning Mingmei had a guess in his mind. He went in and saw that there was no one at the clinic counter.

Someone happened to pass by and she asked, "Are you here to see Doctor Wu?"

Ning Mingmei turned around and saw that the person who was talking to him was a middle-aged woman.

The middle-aged woman wore a black veil on her head and carried a wicker basket on her arm. There was nothing else in the wicker basket except an empty wine glass.

It must be that there was a recent death in the family and he had just returned from visiting the grave.

They were too far away, and it was evening, so the middle-aged woman couldn't see Ning Mingmei's face. She only heard him say, "Yes. I'll go get some medicine from Doctor Wu."

"Buy medicine? Doctor Wu doesn't sell that medicine." said the middle-aged woman.

Ning Mingmei's test got the same result again. He then said, "I have a hidden illness, and I have heard that Doctor Wu has high medical ethics and superb skills, so I would like to ask Doctor Wu to take a look."

The middle-aged woman looked at him suspiciously: "What hidden disease do you have?"

This is to suspect that Ning Mingmei is sneaky and has bad intentions.

Ning Mingmei said naturally: "A man's hidden disease."

Middle-aged woman: ...

"Doctor Wu is at the mass grave. Go find him."

The middle-aged woman's tone not only softened suddenly, but also became a little sympathetic.

Ning Mingmei acted very naturally: "Thank you, big sister. Why did Doctor Wu go to the mass grave? Did he go to pay respects? I was only interested in seeking medical treatment, and I was afraid of disturbing Doctor Wu's private affairs."

"He went to see that... doctor, right?" Speaking of "that", a trace of disgust flashed in the middle-aged woman's eyes, "Only Doctor Wu is so kind as to treat that thing."

That thing? What is that thing?

Got the information I needed from the middle-aged woman. Ning Mingmei thanked the other party. After she left, Ning Mingmei said to He Zheng, "Wait for me outside."

system:?

Ning Mingmei closed the door and began to search for Doctor Wu's clinic again. Seeing this, the system screamed: "Hasn't it been confirmed for you?"

Ning Mingmei: "It's not enough to get verbal confirmation. Now that I'm here, how can I be worthy of myself if I don't turn it over?"

He naturally looked through Doctor Wu's clinic again. Unfortunately, however, there were indeed no suspicious little red pills in Dr. Wu's clinic.

There are not even any secret doors or dark rooms. The cabinet also contains some common herbs.

Ning Mingmei left the room and restored everything to its original state. The system said: "I'm really worried that you will be discovered."

"So what if he is discovered? If Doctor Wu dares to run, we can charge him with the crime of fleeing for fear of crime and bring him back to Qingji Sect." Ning Mingmei said.

System: ...Is this what a human would say?

Also, why did you bring him back to Qingji Sect?

The further west they walked, the deeper the sun sank below the mountains. He Zheng watched the sky getting dark, feeling a little scared: "Master Ning Feng, the snake monster we killed is nearby, otherwise we..."

Ning Mingmei said: "Look ahead, there are good things."