**Section 2: Mengbao Brand Medicine and the Weeping Veteran**
The first place Su Li chose to "refine medicine" was the convalescent area of the border camp. There lived many veterans who had retired due to injuries. Their physical wounds might have healed, but the psychological trauma was like a leech.
She found an open space and solemnly placed the "Time-Tracing Medicine Cauldron" in the center. The palm-sized cauldron instantly grew upon landing, transforming into a massive, ancient cauldron more than a meter tall. A galactic vortex slowly swirled within it, emitting an even richer aroma of tranquilizing medicine and the scent of time.
"Chen'er!" Su Li looked at Dabao, "You are responsible for using the Causal Abacus to lock onto the heaviest and most stubborn 'Fragment of Time' in the target group and guide the direction of the Medicine Cauldron!"
Dabao Su Chen had a serious face as he sat cross-legged beside the medicine cauldron. He made hand gestures and the shadow of a cause-and-effect abacus emerged. The beads moved quickly and invisible threads reached out to the silent veterans.
"Yu'er!" Su Li looked at Sanbao, "Your dragon horn is responsible for purification! During the extraction and refining of the 'time fragments', there may be residual 'negative emotional dust'. Your purifying power is needed to remove it in time to prevent secondary contamination!"
Sanbao Su Yu nodded vigorously and stood on the other side of the tripod. The dragon horns lit up with a soft and firm white light, like two searchlights, ready to sweep the "emotional dust" at any time.
"Hengbao, Qibao!" Su Li finally looked at the two youngest ones, "You two have the most important mission! Provide the 'medicine lead'!"
"Medicine?" Second baby Su Heng held the pacifier, looking confused.
"Right!" Su Li squatted down and pointed at the medicine cauldron. "See that vortex? When mother says 'release,' Hengbao will 'blow' your happiest and most carefree emotions into it through the pacifier! And Qibao, you will 'shine' the warmest and sweetest blessings in your heart into it with your strawberry birthmark! Okay?"
"Okay!" The second baby Su Heng immediately put the pacifier into his mouth, puffed up his little cheeks, and looked like he was ready to emit "happy light waves" at any time.
"Qiqi is the best at being warm and sweet!" Sibao Su Qi's face was serious, and the strawberry birthmark began to warm up, emitting a warm red light.
Preparations are complete! Su Li took a deep breath, placed his hands on the warm cauldron wall, concentrated his mind, communicated with the laws of time and space within the cauldron, and started the refining process!
"Refining Target: The fragments of time and trauma from war that have settled deep within the consciousness of the veterans guarding the border!"
"Preparing the medicinal ingredients: Joy of Childlike Chaos (Heng Bao)! Warmth of Childlike Blessing (Qi Bao)!"
"Assistance program activated: Debris location (Chen Bao)! Purification and stabilization (Yu Bao)!"
"Refining Mode: Simmer (Time Entropy Reduction)! Activate!"
Buzz——!
The medicine cauldron emitted a low hum, and the mysterious spatial and temporal patterns on its body illuminated! The galactic vortex within the cauldron suddenly accelerated! Under the precise guidance of Dabao Su Chen's abacus, gray-black "threads" invisible to the naked eye, yet exuding a cold, bloody, and desperate aura, were slowly drawn from the depths of the minds of the silent veterans around them, as if plucked by invisible hooks and cast into the deep vortex within the cauldron!
"Woo..." An old soldier with a broken arm suddenly covered his head and let out a painful groan, as if memories that he didn't want to recall were brought back to him.
"Release!" Su Li gave the order immediately!
Second Treasure Su Heng sprang into action! "Puff!" He blew out a giant, crystal-clear snot bubble (happy on a steroid) that smelled of milk and pure joy. It drifted erratically toward the medicine cauldron and, the moment it touched the vortex, burst with a "pop!" Countless tiny, shimmering, colorful "happy factors" merged into the vortex!
At the same time, Sibao Su Qi's strawberry birthmark glowed red! A beam of warm, sweet, and infinitely blessed light, like a searchlight, pierced the vortex within the cauldron with pinpoint accuracy! "Warm! Sweet! Don't be afraid!" the little girl chimed in with a childish voice.
After absorbing the "Childhood Innocence" and "Blessings" medicinal ingredients, the galactic vortex within the cauldron's swirling rhythm seemed to undergo a subtle shift. The violent gray-black "shards of time" were drawn into it, and like ice in a furnace, they began to be peeled off and decomposed bit by bit! The icy despair was neutralized by the milky joy factor, the bloody scene was enveloped and diluted by the warm red light, and the sharp pain was slowly simmered and softened by the "simmering fire" of time...
The white light from Sanbao Su Yu's dragon horn was like a precise scanner, capturing the tiny gray-black "emotional dust" emitted during the refining process. As the white light passed by, the dust disappeared without a trace as if it had been purified.
The whole process lasted about an incense stick of time.
The humming within the cauldron gradually subsided, and the swirling galaxy vortex returned to its initial slow pace. No more gray-black fragments were thrown into the cauldron's mouth. Instead, a faint, light green mist began to rise, like the first clearing of the sky after rain. This mist carried a soothing herbal fragrance and a warm feeling of relief.
"Collect!" Su Li shouted softly, and his hands left the wall of the tripod.
The light green mist seemed to have life, rising from the mouth of the cauldron, then dispersing in the air, turning into countless fine strands, floating precisely towards every veteran in the field who had had "fragments of time" extracted, and gently blending into their brows.
A miracle happened!
The old soldier with the broken arm slowly relaxed his furrowed brow, and the hand covering his head dropped. He looked at his empty sleeves, his eyes no longer filled with pain and resentment, but with a hint of calmness and... nostalgia? He murmured, "Old Zhang... that time... it was you who pushed me... and blocked the arrow for me..."
Another veteran, always waking up in the middle of the night, covered in cold sweat, took a deep breath of the medicinal-scented air, a long-lost, almost peaceful look of fatigue on his face. He sat down against the wall, and soon, he actually began to snore softly and steadily.
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