"What is this? The body-tempering pills you made?" Qin Ran looked at the two black things that looked like pills in Long Qiqi's small palm.
Based on his many years of experience in alchemy, it didn't seem to be the Body Tempering Pill... Although the appearance of the pill was not completely fixed, the Body Tempering Pill didn't seem to look like that.
Long Qiqi nodded, then shook his head.
"What do you mean?" Qin Ran was puzzled.
Long Qiqi gestured to him with the pill in her hand again.
Qin Ran understood that this was a request for him to confirm, so he hesitated for a moment before picking up a pill.
As usual, he took a quick sniff and found that the smell of the pill was pungent and acrid, and he immediately felt dizzy. It was obvious that this thing was poisonous, and the toxicity was not weak!
He was startled and quickly used his magic power to expel the poison from his body.
"What are you refining?" He frowned.
Long Qiqi shook his head, indicating that he didn't know either.
Qin Ran hesitated, glanced at Long Qiqi, and then put his consciousness into the pill to analyze its composition and structure...
"Um……"
After a moment, he was silent.
Because he found that the ingredients of this pill were indeed the same as those of the Body Tempering Pill, but there were slight differences in the structure of the pill.
The Body Tempering Pill is a pill that can temper the body and strengthen the physique. Qin Ran asked Long Qiqi to learn this pill first because he wanted her to take it often in the future to slightly improve her terrible physique.
But……
"How did you make this thing?" Qin Ran was puzzled.
Long Qiqi took out a piece of paper from her clothes with her other little hand and handed it to him.
Qin Ran took the paper and unfolded it. It was her alchemy record, a thick stack with dozens of pages.
It seems that Long Qiqi followed his request and kept records every time he refined the elixir. These dozens of sheets... specifically twenty-seven sheets, were the final result of Long Qiqi's work for one day and one night.
Qin Ran looked at them one by one. Long Qiqi's attitude was very serious, very much like a scientific researcher... She increased and decreased the dosage little by little based on her experience of failure, and changed the medicinal materials little by little according to her own physical condition. She was indeed trying to refine a body-tempering pill of her own.
However, she kept revising until the last one...
Qin Ran deduced based on the steps of refining the medicine on her last page and found that the result was indeed a poison pill, a pure poison pill in the literal sense.
He couldn't help but think back. When did this body-tempering pill become a poison pill? Right under his eyes, it was transformed into a poison pill!
After reading it twice, he began to doubt his life. He stared at Long Qiqi with the last experimental record and asked her, "Are you sure you made it according to this?"
Long Qiqi nodded.
"... Can medicinal herbs such as Tempering Body Flower and Tianxin Water, which are used to nourish the body, also produce the effect of dissolving tendons and bones?" Qin Ran looked up at the sky, and he had deep doubts about the alchemy knowledge he had acquired over the past twenty years.
“I don’t know…” Long Qiqi finally recovered and spoke. She asked Qin Ran in a clear and baby-like voice, “I am indeed refining the pills according to the method you taught me. So, what I want to ask is, can I take these two pills?”
"What's wrong with your brain? This is obviously a poison pill, why are you eating it?" Qin Ran rolled his eyes.
“But…” Long Qiqi gave Qin Ran an excuse that he couldn’t justify, “I’m a venomous snake!”
Qin Ran was very familiar with elixirs for cultivators, but he had only made animal-feeding elixirs for monsters, and he really didn't understand the elixirs needed for poisonous snakes among monsters.
The kind side of his humanity told him that this was a poison pill and that it was only for research purposes and that there was no need to take it.
But his humanity for scientific research told him that maybe he should let Long Qiqi give it a try. Special circumstances, special research...
After struggling for a while, he said to Long Qiqi: "How about you give it a try?"
Long Qiqi hesitated a little, but still picked up the black pill in his hand and put it into his mouth.
"Are you all crazy?!" Li Shiyin came over in time, pointed a finger at Long Qiqi's hand, and snatched the pill away, "I told you it's a poison pill, why are you still eating it?!"
She watched the two crazy alchemists the entire time, watched them ignore the furnace explosion that had just happened, watched them enthusiastically discuss the pharmacology of elixirs and poisons, and watched them stuff poison into their mouths while talking.
Are all these alchemists like this?
“Ahem…” Qin Ran felt a little guilty, so he argued, “Humans and snakes are different after all. What is poison to humans may be a tonic to snakes. Have you ever heard of a venomous snake biting itself to death?”
“But Qiqi is a human now!” Li Shiyin’s mind was clear and she went straight to the point. She refuted Qin Ran, “Long Qiqi’s original body was a snake demon, but she is definitely a human now. Is her body different from that of a human now?”
In fact, Long Qiqi's body is slightly different from that of a human, but this difference comes from operational flaws when she incarnated... There is no essential difference between her and humans.
Qin Ran knew this, but he chose to ignore it...
"Ah, ahem!" He looked around and hurriedly changed the subject, "It's getting late, let's go have breakfast!"
Li Shiyin stared at Qin Ran and Long Qiqi for a long while. These alchemists were too dangerous. She had to keep a closer eye on them in the future, otherwise she didn't know when they would commit suicide by taking poison.
The two pills were not eaten by Long Qiqi in the end. Qin Ran put them in a porcelain bottle and kept them as a souvenir or for future research.
The group of three were walking back to the cabin from the research building, and they happened to see Zhuifeng struggling to squeeze out of his cat bed.
There was a big hole in the door of Zhuifeng's room that he had knocked himself into. It was on the night when he chased Qin Ran out to transcend the tribulation. He was clumsy all day long, and Qin Ran thought that even if he replaced the door for him, he would break it again at any time, so he never fixed it for him, and there has always been a hole in his room.
Zhuifeng was also very lazy. Even though there was a hole, he didn't close or open the door. He went in and out through that hole.
When he was small, there was no problem and it was very easy, but now he has become very big and he has to squeeze for a long time every time he goes in and out. The scene is quite funny.
He squeezed out from the hole in the door, stretched his body under the big locust tree, and sharpened his claws on the "Qinran Brand" cat scratching board behind the big locust tree. Then he yawned and lazily walked around the big locust tree.
Walking around the locust tree, he saw the trio standing opposite him, looking at him and trying not to laugh...
"Ah..." He yawned and asked, "Ah... where did you go?" (e... why do I feel sleepy every time I write about chasing the wind?)
"Didn't you hear the loud noise just now?" Li Shiyin asked him while holding back a laugh.
"What's going on?" Zhuifeng was confused.
Long Qiqi came over, rolled his eyes at him and said, "You're so stupid!"
“I… why am I stupid again?” Zhuifeng looked at Qin Ran aggrievedly.
Qin Ran stroked his big cat's head and said with a smile: "You have completely disgraced all cats."
"Ah?" The landlord's stupid son continued to not understand the situation.
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