Chapter 3 Xia Lu

  "Alright, please take me to see your missus," Lin Chen nodded, although he didn't know where he should go now, at least he shouldn't rely on others, right? Moreover, it was a woman he had never met before, and if he wanted to leave, he should at least bid farewell to her.

  "Then come with me," the girl nodded, turned around and led Lin Chen to a room, soon stopping in front of a plain house guarded by soldiers. The girl stretched out her hand and knocked on the somewhat worn wooden door, "Miss, are you there? The person we picked up on the road today has woken up."

  "The one who picked it up...", Lin Chen helplessly rolled his eyes.

  It seemed like she felt that her words were wrong, the girl hastily turned around and apologetically said to Lin Chen: "That, sorry, I didn't mean it that way..."

  "Oh? He's awake?" A soft and beautiful female voice rang out, followed by a brief silence before continuing: "Then let him in, I just so happen to have some questions for him."

  "No way!", but just then, the soldier in charge walked over from a short distance away, clearly having heard Miss's words about letting Lin Chen go inside, "Miss, this person has an unclear background, can't let him get close to you without authorization!".

  "Alright, alright, Luo Mo Bai Chang, he's just a mere sword apprentice, not even as strong as a novice swordsman. Do you think he can harm me?" As the head of the guard at the door spoke, the young lady inside said nonchalantly, although she was speaking up for Lin Chen, being belittled by a woman still made him feel somewhat uncomfortable.

  "Alright...", hearing the words of the lady inside, the leader of the guards looked at Lin Chen and obviously saw that he was only a Lv10 warrior, so he nodded and said with relief.

  "Level 42", Lin Chen was secretly shocked by the level of this guard captain, such a powerful person is just a captain of a guard team, it seems that the identity of the lady inside should not be simple.

  Pushing open the door, Lin Chen walked in directly. Inside, there was only one woman, who looked to be around twenty years old. Her long hair was soft and silky, her eyes sparkled like stars, her nose was small and straight, her skin was as smooth as jade, and her waist was slender like a willow tree. She was an extraordinary beauty, even compared to Hua Wuyan, the acknowledged great beauty in "Tian Zu", she was slightly inferior in temperament...

  At this time, the woman was sitting on a small stool, in front of her was placed an iron pot-sized stove, beside which were some medicinal herbs. Lin Chen only took a rough glance and understood that the young lady was refining the lowest-grade tranquilizing potion, a potion that could recover a small amount of MP magical value.

  "I've seen Miss, thank you for your kindness, I came to find you, it's to bid farewell", walked in, looking at the rough and unrefined technique of this miss, Lin Chen frowned, but didn't say anything, just smiled and said.

  "You don't have to thank me, even if I didn't bring you here, you would have woken up sooner or later, it's just that fainting by the side of the road isn't very safe," The girl said nonchalantly as Lin Chen thanked her, while she grabbed a few Anshen flowers and put them into the stove, without even lifting her head, with a focused expression as she watched the medicine being refined in the furnace.

  As she spoke, the young lady seemed to have thought of something, and slowly stirred the medicine with a small spoon while saying in a low voice: "I heard that recently this area has been somewhat unpeaceful, with thieves and bandits everywhere. You're lying by the side of the road, you should be from around here, right? Do you know how to safely avoid those thieves? The villagers in the small village are terrified of those thieves, they don't even know where their strongholds are."

  "Sorry, I'm just passing by here too, and I'm not familiar with the terrain," Lin Chen couldn't help but secretly smile wryly in his heart when he heard that the young lady was actually asking him for directions. He didn't even know what countries existed in this world, yet she was asking him for directions.

  "Oh, never mind then," Lin Chen replied. The young lady didn't seem disappointed, but instead spoke in a light tone before falling silent. She stared at the medicine in her crucible and began to stir it gently again. Suddenly, the crucible exploded with a loud bang, sending all the medicine flying out.

  "Damn it! Failed again!!!", she quickly waved her hand and put up a defensive layer, blocking the splashing medicine. Looking at this lady's skilled movements, it seemed that she had faced such situations more than once or twice. As she watched the exploding medicine scatter all over the ground, she withdrew her defense, her face showing a helpless expression.

  "Well, I'll take my leave then...", Lin Chen said as he watched the young lady become completely absorbed in her medicine-making, not paying any attention to him.

  "What? You're still here?", Hearing Lin Chen's words, the young lady's medicine also didn't refine successfully, so she raised her head, looking at Lin Chen with some surprise.

  “……”, this feeling of being ignored made Lin Chen feel a bit uncomfortable and somewhat annoyed, after all, in "Tian Zu", even the top players had to be respectful when facing him, they were extremely cautious not to make him unhappy, but here, he was actually ignored by a low-level pharmacist.

  However, although Lin Chen was angry, he also knew that the current situation was different from the game. In the game, he had master-level casting skills and pharmaceutical skills. The top players were respectful to him because he was always in the main city, protected by the system, and those people couldn't threaten him.

  But in this reality, Lin Chen understood the principle of "guilty by association" even more clearly. Without the power to protect himself, he had such strong casting and alchemy abilities. If too many people knew about it, it would definitely bring him a lot of trouble.

  He turned around, ready to leave, but seeing the young lady reignite the magical flames and continue brewing the Anxin Pill, Lin Chen's footsteps paused slightly. Thinking that she had helped him after all, Lin Chen spoke up, "The Anxin Pill you're brewing actually doesn't need that much Anxin flower. Just add a small half spoonful of crystal stone powder, it should be successful."

  "Oh? You know how to refine the Anxin Pill?!?" The young lady, who had just rekindled her magical flames, suddenly lifted her head and looked at Lin Chen with sparkling eyes.

  " Forget it, I'll just send the Buddha to the west...". Looking at the miss's expectant eyes, Lin Chen let out a silent sigh and walked over. He took a look at the basketball-sized medicine furnace, but it was only the lowest grade whiteboard medicine furnace. Lin Chen silently curled his lip, comparing it to his own Qiankun Furnace was like comparing trash to treasure.

  She casually pinched a few petals of the Anshen flower, then added some crystal powder, and placed the small furnace on the magic lamp to heat it up. The familiar movements were like those of a master pianist's hands, brewing medicine in Lin Chen's hands was an ordinary yet naturally skilled movement, it was simply like an art form.

  "Master!!!", seeing Lin Chen's movements, the woman's eyes lit up. Without saying anything else, just by looking at his movements, there was not a single pause in his actions. Just by watching him move, you could tell that he must be a master alchemist.

  Although he could directly pull out the life skill panel and refine the medicine with Lin Chen's master-level alchemy without using a pill furnace, he didn't want to expose his abilities too much. So Lin Chen casually started refining the Anxin Pill with a whiteboard pill furnace.

  In just two or three minutes, the medicine was ready, and after being filled into a small glass bottle and cooled in cold water, four or five bottles of pale blue tranquilizer were instantly produced.

  "Micro-dose tranquilizer (perfect grade), increases MP by 30 points every 10 seconds, lasts for 60 seconds." Lin Chen shook his head silently as he looked at the properties of the tranquilizer in his hand. Not bad, he hadn't used his full strength; otherwise, even if it was just a micro-dose tranquilizer, its properties wouldn't have been limited to this.

  "Good... a perfect tranquilizer..." However, although Lin Chen looked down on this tranquilizer, it stunned the lady beside him. A pair of beautiful eyes stared fixedly at the tranquilizer in Lin Chen's hand. Although it was only light blue in color, the medicine inside was crystal clear, without any impurities.

  "Even a top-notch pharmacist might not be able to produce such high-quality calming medicine", the young lady's eyes widened in shock as she gazed at the pale blue, micro-dose calming medicine in Lin Chen's hand. Then, seeming to have made up her mind, her gaze locked onto Lin Chen with an unyielding intensity.

  "My name is Xia Lu, can you be my mentor? I'm willing to follow you and become a great pharmacist!" She stared at Lin Chen with an expectant gaze that made him feel somewhat uneasy.