Chapter 22
Victoria first took Li Hao on a tour of the entire area. Li Hao had seen many of the plants in the planting area in the booklet.
Without the need for information from the live broadcast room, Li Hao also memorized all the medicinal herbs in the booklet by himself.
"Okay, now you should be familiar with it. There are several herbal areas that you'd better not go to. Those are Ernst's medicine gardens. It's okay even if you damage the teacher's medicine garden, but don't damage his things." Victoria said in a low voice.
"Are the medicinal herbs of senior student even more precious?" Li Hao asked doubtfully.
"That's not the case. Anyway, the teachers here have very good personalities. But the only thing is, don't offend Ernst. The teachers usually stand on his side." Victoria said.
She realized what she said might have been a bit scary, and looked at Li Hao, who was frowning. She was worried that she had frightened this cute junior. "Ernst's mind and eyes are all filled with his potions. Don't worry, just stay away from him and you won't offend him. This guy is a potion fanatic."
Li Hao nodded and said that he would listen to Victoria and stay away from Ernst.
Looking at Li Hao's well-behaved appearance, Victoria couldn't help but hold Li Hao's face up and rub it gently.
"So cute~"
When Victoria saw Li Hao, she felt that she really looked like her cousin. Unfortunately, her cousin died young.
Li Hao's appearance is inherently cute, with fair, delicate skin and big eyes. Although she is already in her twenties, she looks like a girl of seventeen or eighteen.
Li Hao's face was rubbed and he spoke vaguely. "Senior."
"Just call me sister from now on," Victoria said. She put down her hand and looked at Li Hao with a hint of nostalgia.
The people on the other end of the live broadcast room had already figured it out. Victoria probably mistook Li Hao for someone familiar.
"Okay, I'll take you to familiarize yourself with the Potions course." Victoria quickly calmed down and pulled Li Hao back.
Entering the room, Victoria lowered her voice and led Li Hao to a workbench where all the tools and materials were available.
"Making potions is divided into three steps. The first is extraction, which is to extract liquid from herbs. The second is synthesis, which is to synthesize herbs with different effects. The third is infusion, which is to infuse magic power into the potion in the medicine furnace with mental power. This magic power is generally the magic power of the magic stone." After listening to this, Li Hao was not suddenly enlightened but was startled.
Oh no, they might not be able to reproduce the potion in their own world.
The people on the other end of the live broadcast room also listened to the whole process. They began to whisper to each other that the first two steps were easy to do. They just needed Li Hao to find the materials and seeds, find the conditions for plant growth, and plant them in the base.
Modern technology can even streamline the extraction and synthesis steps.
But the final step, whether it was mental power or magic power, these two things the base hadn't been able to solve so far. Could it be that everything would fail at this last moment?
Li Hao couldn't ask the people in the live broadcast room now, so he could only continue listening.
"You're a novice, but I heard from the teacher that your skills in extracting herbs are quite good. How about this, I'll teach you the most basic herbal remedy."
"Doesn't that mean we need to exchange potion recipes?" Li Hao asked. Doesn't it mean that any learning of potions and spells requires going through the Mage Tower?
"That's for ordinary students. For us teachers' students, our studies are managed by teachers," said Victoria.
She added, "To truly learn in the Mage Tower, you have to become a mage student. By the way, you're a new student, right? I'll transfer some points to you."
As she spoke, she took out her card, took it from Li Hao's body, and directly transferred 500 points to Li Hao.
Li Hao didn't expect that his senior schoolmate was so generous.
"Senior, this is too much... Thank you." Li Hao really felt like he was being fed and wanted to refuse, but Victoria pinched his face again, and he agreed.
"Okay, follow me and practice extracting herbs for healing potions." After returning the card to Li Hao, he took Li Hao to start extracting herbs.
Inside the base, the entire base is being expanded. The original two underground floors and two above-ground floors are now completely insufficient.
Besides scientists, the base was populated by scholars of all kinds. The conditions here weren't great; after all, it was a makeshift facility, with many exposed wires and incomplete facilities. The supporting services were even more limited.
But even in such an environment, the scientists had no complaints, while many people who were assigned here were resentful at the beginning.
After all, the base is very remote, with barren mountains nearby. But after arriving and learning about the project, everyone was very happy to join.
Everyone is even trying their best to bring their acquaintances in. Everyone knows that this is an express train, and whoever can take it will be at the forefront of the world.
But besides scientists, scholars, and staff, there is also a special group of people. They are soldiers, responsible for guarding the security and confidentiality of the base.
A camp has been established near the base, and some large weapons have been transported. A jamming satellite is dedicated to the base. The alert level has been raised to the highest level.
There is also a small group of people in the base who were recruited from the army.
"How have you been lately?" Zhang Leiyu asked his comrade.
"I don't feel anything, and I don't know what the point of this training is," said his comrade.
A full 100 people, in order to ensure diversity in the sample, first of all, they had to be young and then have high IQs. People from all regions and genders were selected.
The hundred or so of them entered the base only after signing a confidentiality agreement. Zhang Leiyu and his comrades were not transferred from other places; they were originally responsible for the base's security.
Unlike the others, they had some vague suspicions about the base. So when he was selected, his team celebrated for him.
However, when they started the experiment, they became confused.
Imagine a drawing in your mind. Or a complex 3D image. How can you focus with your eyes closed?
In short, I am completely confused.
"It should be an experiment." Zhang Leiyu said.
"But I heard that a few people seem to have succeeded. Is it some kind of superpower?" said the comrade, and when he mentioned those successful people, he couldn't help but reveal a look of envy.
The two were in their twenties, and naturally had fantasies of becoming superpowers.
"I don't know, and those people don't know how they practice." Zhang Leiyu shrugged.
"Every time I close my eyes and want to draw that picture, the image just appears directly. I can't draw it according to the route at all. I don't know how they do it." The comrade complained.
Zhang Leiyu also has the same feeling. The human mind is magical. Whatever picture you want to show may automatically appear in your mind when you think about it.
How do you stop thinking about the complete image?
It felt like the base was asking them to accomplish the impossible. But after hearing that someone had succeeded, Zhang Leiyu wondered if they hadn't found the secret.
After talking with his comrades, Zhang Leiyu decided to give it another try.
After closing my eyes, I tried to relax my body and mind, lying on the bed, clearing my mind and blurring the images in my memory.
He started from the beginning, imagining a point of light. Then he painted the picture bit by bit. But once he tried to recall the drawing process from memory, the whole picture emerged in his mind.
Zhang Leiyu has tried this countless times, but he refuses to give up. If it doesn't work once, he'll try ten times. If it doesn't work ten times, he'll try a hundred times. If it doesn't work a hundred times, he'll try a thousand times, ten thousand times.
As the images in his mind appeared and disappeared again and again, he seemed to fall into a dream. His entire mind began to become empty and dark.
He seemed to have turned into a point of light. What should he do now? This strange feeling immersed Zhang Leiyu in it. He seemed to forget himself, forget everything. Slowly, he felt as if he could move.
What was he going to do? He was going to draw an image. Yeah.
At this thought, the light began to move, forming a line. At first, the line was drawn slowly, as if hesitating where to continue. Then, it became smoother, as if I had drawn the line many times before.
Finally, when the entire image was drawn, Zhang Leiyu woke up.
He opened his eyes and stared blankly at the sky.
He succeeded!
He found himself feeling different. He sat up, staring blankly into space. After finishing the entire painting, something seemed to activate within him.
Now he could feel the changes in himself, and that feeling was like having gained something more, an extra sense.
He looked at the calendar in the room, and it seemed as if his organ could make the air move. As he thought this, the page of the calendar moved slightly.
Although it looked like the wind, Zhang Leiyu knew it was his doing.
But even with such a gentle movement, he felt very uncomfortable at the moment.
Chest tightness, shortness of breath, dizziness. He stood up and vomited. He knelt on the ground weakly for a long time before recovering.
He was sweating profusely and didn't dare to try again.
The next day, he reported his success to the staff who inquired about his progress every day.
"You said you succeeded?" The staff looked at Zhang Leiyu with suspicion.
"Yes, I succeeded. It feels amazing." Zhang Leiyu nodded. After a night, he has recovered.
The staff took him to an office.
Zhang Leiyu recounted in full how he achieved success and his feelings after the success.
The person in charge of this meditation training looked at Zhang Leiyu in front of him and said.
"You know, many people before you claimed to have succeeded, but after our verification, we found that they were all fabricated or misconceptions."
"I'm sure I succeeded. I can show you how to do it," said Zhang Leiyu.
The staff finally perked up.
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