Chapter 18 Changing Paths



The potion market was set up outside the potion laboratory. There was a long corridor outside the laboratory with a row of stone tables. Every time the market opened, students would claim a stone table, put their potions on it, and write down the potion's approximate effect with a pen next to it. If anyone was interested, they could also ask the potion maker for details.

Because it was the first potion fair of the new school year, many students shared the same idea as He Shao, thinking that there wouldn't be any amazing potions. Therefore, there were not many people at the potion fair, but there were still people lingering in front of each stone table.

The four of them looked at each stone table one by one and soon left half of them.

"This class of students is no good. Why are they all improving low-level medicines? The one we just saw, the third-level mental relaxant, has added the function of treating colds. Damn, is the cold some kind of terminal disease of the century? Do they need to go to so much trouble?" Cheng Wenkang couldn't help complaining.

He Shao was amused and laughed: "But the third one after entering the door is not bad. That powerful mental potion has the function of strengthening hair. This is still very practical. When the mental power is greatly stimulated, it is indeed easy to lose hair."

"Go away, with our current technology, is it difficult to stimulate hair growth by giving an injection?" Cheng Wenkang said.

"It's better to take preventive measures in advance than to get an injection after you become bald, right, Hao?" He Shao asked Yan Hao.

"Ah? What?" Yan Hao was a little distracted.

"We were just saying that although the potions here are useless, they are quite interesting." He Shao said.

"Really?" Yan Hao laughed dryly twice.

Sheng Heng felt that Yan Hao was in a bad mood from the beginning, and he didn't seem to like coming here very much. Although he didn't know why, he already regretted bringing Yan Hao here.

"Since there's nothing good here, let's go out for dinner." Sheng Heng said.

"Now that we're here, let's take a look around before leaving." Although He Shao didn't like this place, since he was already here, it wouldn't hurt to take a look.

"Let's finish the tour. Maybe there will be some good medicine later." Although Yan Hao didn't like seeing Yan Fei, he couldn't hide from him since they were in the same school. Besides, he changed his major to mecha manufacturing, so there would be few opportunities to meet him in the future. He just treated him as an ordinary person he knew.

"You look like you don't like shopping." Cheng Wenkang said, "This medicine market is so small, and there are people in front of every stall. If there really were some new and valuable medicine, people would have been talking about it a long time ago. How could it be so quiet?"

"That's right." Sheng Heng discovered it when he came in. However, the freshmen had only been in school for a month, so it was unlikely that there would be any amazing innovations. He insisted on coming in to take a look, just to see if there were any pharmacists with particularly good qualifications.

However, Yan Hao obviously doesn't like this place, and there is no rush to find a good pharmacist today. There will be a pharmacy fair every month in the future anyway, and a pharmacist with good qualifications will always appear.

"Let's finish it." Yan Hao shook his head. "He Shao is right. We are already here and we have already walked halfway through."

After hearing what he said, Sheng Heng nodded: "Then let's go shopping faster. I'm a little hungry."

"Brother Heng, why are you so hungry today? Have you had breakfast?" Cheng Wenkang looked puzzled, even though he had bought his own breakfast.

Sheng Heng rolled his eyes at him with disdain and strode forward.

"Little brother, did you make this potion using moon grass instead of purple orchid?"

"Yes, both moon grass and purple orchid are plants that grow on Ice and Snow Star. They both have the effect of calming the mind, but the medicinal effect of moon grass is too difficult to extract, so purple orchid is mostly used as medicine. However, moon grass is more adaptable to the environment and is almost everywhere on Ice and Snow Star." A familiar voice came into Yan Hao's ears.

Yan Hao was slightly startled and looked over in the direction of the voice.

"But what you improved is only a level 4 sedative potion, which is not very valuable."

"I used it in the fourth-level sedative because I can only make fourth-level sedatives with my ability. It doesn't mean that sedatives above the fourth level cannot be used."

"Even if level five can be used, what about level six sedatives? Even the effect of Zi Lan in level six sedatives is not obvious, let alone Yueweicao." The man retorted.

"This... we can't reject everything we haven't tried yet. What if Moonflower Grass works?" Yan Fei said unconvincedly, "And according to my experiments, the medicinal effect of Moonflower Grass can be integrated into sedatives better than Purple Orchid."

"Then you should show me how to make it."

Yes, Yan Fei was right. The sedatives above level 6, Zi Lan, were not very effective, but Yueweicao had one more ingredient than Zi Lan, which could perfectly exert its medicinal properties. But, didn't Yan Fei test it out? He remembered that in his previous life, Yan Fei had already proved this with the help of his teacher.

"Let's go and take a look." Sheng Heng also heard the conversation and sensitively felt that what the pharmacist said made sense.

Sheng Heng walked to the stone table and carefully read the pharmacist's introduction to the potion. Mental sedatives are an enhanced version of soothing agents. On the battlefield, if the mental power is overexcited to the point of rampage, soothing agents will be useless and mental sedatives must be used.

However, due to their powerful effects, mental sedatives are very difficult to make and the medicinal materials needed are also very precious, especially the sedatives above level six. Each sedative is almost worth a house in the capital.

Although Sheng Heng didn't know the difference between Yueweicao and Zilan, he knew that the improvement of sedatives was something the entire federation was working hard on.

"Junior brother, come here and help me take a look." Sheng Heng waved at Yan Hao.

Yan Hao hesitated for a moment, but finally walked over.

"Brother?!" Yan Fei was surprised when he saw Yan Hao coming over.

Sheng Heng raised his eyebrows, as if he understood something.

"Yeah." Yan Hao nodded in response.

"Brother, I've been looking for you for a long time, why don't you return my call?" After school started, Yan Fei called Yan Hao and sent him an email, but received no reply.

"A bit busy." Yan Hao said.

"So what major are you studying now? Are you really not going to repeat your studies and take the pharmacy major?" Yan Fei said, "I asked our class teacher after school started, and he said that with your previous grades, you will definitely be able to get into the pharmacy major if you repeat your studies for a year."

"Hey, hey, hey, Yan Hao, you're doing well in mecha manufacturing, why did you repeat the year to take the exam for pharmacy? Do you look down on our mecha manufacturing department?" He Shao retorted angrily.

Having lived with Yan Hao for such a long time, he knew a little about Yan Hao's family situation. Yan Hao's parents were partial to each other to the point of being partial to the solar system. They only had eyes for their other son, Yan Fei in front of them.

So even though Yan Hao never said a bad word about Yan Fei in front of him, He Shao instinctively disliked him.

"Mechanical Manufacturing Department?" Yan Fei said in disbelief, "Brother, you got into the Mechanical Manufacturing Department? How is that possible?"

Sheng Heng, who had been silent, couldn't help but frowned when he heard this.

"Hey, how can you talk like that? Do you look down on your brother or do you hope that he will fail the exam so that you will be happy?" He Shao was angry. What was this man saying?

"No, that's not what I meant. My brother studied pharmacy for six years in middle school. He never learned mecha manufacturing." Yan Fei explained, "I'm just a little surprised."

"Surprised? A normal person would be surprised to hear that his brother was admitted to the mecha manufacturing department, but you..."

"He Shao!" Yan Hao stopped He Shao.

Yan Fei is the protagonist. In this book, everyone who has offended Yan Fei will end up in trouble. Yan Hao doesn't want He Shao to suffer as well.

However, He Shao misunderstood Yan Hao's meaning, thinking that he was thinking about the brotherhood and didn't want to confront his brother.

"You have researched out a substitute herb for Zi Lan." Yan Hao brought the question back to the potion itself.

"Yes, I found that the medicinal effect of Moonflower is the same as that of Purple Orchid, so I added two extra herbs to the sedative to stimulate the medicinal properties of Moonflower." Yan Fei introduced happily.

"Why didn't you cooperate with the teacher to make a level 6 sedative? Sedatives below level 5 are not very convincing." Yan Hao asked.

"The process of making a level 6 sedative is very complicated, and the professor's success rate is only 50%."

“Isn’t there an improved production method?”

"Professor Sun did find a direction for improvement, but it's only a rough direction. He spent three years without finding a specific method for improvement." Yan Fei said, "But the direction has been found. I think it will take at most another three years to find a specific method."

Yan Hao was stunned for a moment and recalled.

In the previous life, when he first entered the university, Professor Sun shared his discovery with the freshmen and encouraged them to work with him to research improvement methods. This is what Professor Sun does to every one of his students. In fact, he has already published his improvement method for sedatives on Starnet. However, this method is only a general direction, and no one has yet calculated the specific improvement method.

At that time, I wanted to be admitted to the School of Pharmacy, so I studied this improved method in middle school. Then, when Professor Sun encouraged them to study the improved method together, I spent another half a month combining all the data, building a model, and using a light computer for a full six days to calculate the optimal solution.

So, it was because I didn't calculate this formula that Yan Fei failed to prove the role of Yueweicao in advanced sedatives today. Did I change the original trajectory?

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