The Mysterious World Under Steampunk

"The effect of this bottle of potion is good. Its physical fitness has improved a lot, and its eyesight has also evolved beyond ordinary people. The side effects are very small, and it only weakened for about half a day after taking it." The remaining empty bottle of the potion was placed on the table, and he introduced it seriously: "This bottle of potion has the best effect and improves the physical fitness the most. It can be compared to a Templar who has gone through a divine blessing ceremony, but the side effects are also very serious. Big, there are some mutated tissues on the user's body, but fortunately they are recessive. The effects of the other bottles of potions are very general. Although the physical fitness has improved after use, the improvement rate is not particularly large, and after using the potions You need to eat a lot, and there is a danger of losing your sanity during the eating process, and even show signs of attacking others. After eating a lot, your sanity will recover, but your personality will also change."

"These potions mainly use the blood of the same mutant monster." Leo looked at the bottle on the table, with a trace of doubt on his face, and said, "It's just that the auxiliary materials that match the blood are different. But their medicinal effects are so different, it's like changing a different kind of potion, it seems that the power that caused the uncontrollable mutation of the beast also remains in the blood of the monster, and affects the effect of the potion."

"Then what should we do?" Hearing what Leo said, Sylvia couldn't help frowning again.

"Two options, one is to continue to use this medicine, but divide the effects of these medicines before selling them, and formulate several qualities. The ones that pay more will naturally have better effects, less side effects, and less money. You can only use the ones with high side effects and low effects.” Leo seemed to have expected this a long time ago, so he quickly gave two answers, saying: “The other solution is not to use monster blood as medicine. If you use other materials for the main medicine, it will add a lot of extra cost, and it will be very troublesome to make, and it is impossible for an unskilled alchemist or pharmacist to make a bottle of qualified medicine."

"Is it easy to make this potion made from monster blood essence?" Sylvia asked suspiciously.

"It's very simple. I have taken mass production and production into consideration when I was researching and developing. I have simplified the production method so that even an ordinary person can make it." Leo said, and ordered Sylvia to the side. Inside the small room.

I saw that there were some various equipment made by Leo recently, and Leo went directly to an equipment that looked like a food box, opened the top cover, and took out a The metal test tube took out a bottle of monster blood to be used for the test from the side, filled the test tube, and then inserted the test tube into the original position, and closed the lid of the food box.

After that, I saw him start a small steam engine next to the food box, and the gears of the steam engine immediately drove the food box to rotate rapidly. It was not until a few minutes later that he stopped the steam engine, and the food box stopped turning Finally, he took out the test tube and handed it to Sylvia, motioning her to take a look.

Sylvia opened the sealing plug of the test tube and looked inside, and found that the blood that should have been very viscous had turned into a clear liquid at this moment, and the viscous blood had sunk to the bottom, becoming more viscous thick.

"Has the blood been extracted and refined so easily?" Seeing this scene, even though Sylvia didn't know much about alchemy, she knew what was going on, and immediately asked in surprise.

In Sylvia's memory, those medical school life school scholars and blood wizard Lawrence recruited by the Dodd Group often need to extract some monster blood or liquid materials, and the methods they use are very cumbersome and complicated, and consume a lot of time. Long or short, it takes half a minute to achieve the effect of refining, and even if there is a little mistake in the process of refining, all previous efforts will be wasted.

But now Leo has completed the refining of blood in such a short time, and the refining process is so simple, just as Leo said, even an ordinary person can operate it, and more importantly, Leo's refined blood The blood is clearer than the blood extracted by the blood wizard Lawrence through the secret method. Although she doesn't know how this affects the use, according to common sense, the clearer the blood, the less impurities, the stronger the effect.

"This is a centrifuge, which can be used to refine liquid materials." Leo briefly introduced the centrifuge he modified, and pointed out the functions of each component in detail.

If it was in the past, if Leo wanted to make a centrifuge with the same effect, he would probably need a steam oven as big as a room, and components such as gears would also need to be made individually, and the effect would not be as good as the current one.

But as the world began to mutate, the power consumption of various mechanical parts could be doubled or even increased by ten times, allowing Leo to miniaturize and modularize this centrifuge.

While listening carefully to Leo's introduction of the centrifuge, Sylvia also had other uses for this centrifuge in her mind. She felt that with this thing, perhaps the medical department she had been planning for a long time could be successfully established. People from the Life School don't have to stay in Bran Forest's laboratory, wasting the knowledge in their minds.

"With this centrifuge, how much does it cost to make a constitution potion that uses monster blood as the main raw material?" Sylvia asked with concern after listening to the introduction of the centrifuge.

Leo reported a number.

"What about potions that don't use this monster's blood?" Sylvia asked again.

Leo reported another estimated number.

Hearing this number, Sylvia couldn't help being silent for a moment. This number was nothing to her, but it was definitely an addition in the eyes of ordinary people. The difference in cost between the two medicines was more than a hundred times.

However, if you think about it, there are so many mutated monsters outside the city, and every time the monster tide dies outside the walls of Aodorine, the corpses of monsters are piled up like a mountain, and it takes the whole city several days to completely clear them out, so The blood and organs of these monsters are cheaper than wild beasts, and only a few monsters with extraordinary power have special value.

It is difficult to find herbs or ores with special effects on the market. You need to go deep into forests and mountains full of monsters to find them. In the past, when there were no threats from monsters, it was already very difficult to find these materials. Now A large number of mutated monsters are entrenched in this kind of place, any time entering the forest and mountains is a test of life and death, and the price is naturally high.

Without much thought, Sylvia chose to continue using monster blood as the main ingredient of the potion, because she knew very well that although using other materials was safer, the price was too high. The people use it, so it will go against their earlier plans.

Although the efficacy of medicines made with the blood of mutated monsters will be uncertain, if some methods are used to distinguish the efficacy and side effects of medicines when the medicines are refined, and the medicines are divided into several grades, the effect Potions that are too bad or have too many side effects are discarded. Even if it will cause some cost increase, she can still make a lot of money compared to the kind of medicine that needs to be refined by a special person and the cost of materials is high, and it can also be mass-produced.

After that, Sylvia discussed things with Leo, and after a few days sent someone to learn how to make this monster blood potion with Leo, and also learned how to make and assemble the parts of the centrifuge.

After discussing various things, Sylvia was about to leave and come back in two days, but when she was about to leave the mine, she suddenly thought of something, turned back, and said to Leo: "I still forgot One thing, the long night period is coming in a few days. According to the news released by the shaman church, this long night period will last for about 20 days, and there will definitely be a wave of monsters at that time. Don’t you want to see Ao How did Doreen resist the tide of monsters? When the time comes, I will have someone arrange you on the city wall."

The long night period is a unique phenomenon in the Mozambique continent. It only appeared in the depths of the wasteland at the beginning. Almost every year, some areas in the depths of the wasteland will be plunged into darkness for several days or even ten days. The strange thing is that the long night period will only happen in a specific place, and once you leave that place, it will instantly turn into daytime, so during the long night period, there will be a strange scene where one step forward is night, and one step back is daytime.

It's just that, for people whose lives are affected by the long-term night, such a spectacle is a big problem they have to worry about every year, because in the boundary of the long-term night, all creatures will be more or less affected. This kind of power does not allow people to obtain any mysterious power, but it will affect the state of mind of others, making the affected people become particularly belligerent and violent.

Although the long night period is so dangerous, before the world changes, the long night period takes place in the depths of the wilderness, and the shamanism is often able to realize the prophecy of the location covered by the long night period and Fan Wei, and notify the tribes there to leave in advance. So staying in the wasteland for a long time at night is not a particularly big trouble.

But as the world mutates, the coverage of the long night period is also rapidly expanding, and the edge of the range is also expanding towards the outside, gradually walking out of the wasteland and entering the civilized country of the Mozambique continent.

Five years ago, the long night period also included Adoline, and it also allowed the residents of Aodorin to see how bad the long night period was, not to mention the monsters controlled by violent thoughts outside the city. The city has been affected by the long-term night, and the personality has changed suddenly. The residents who have become extremely violent have dealt a heavy blow to the unsuspecting Odoline. At the same time as the monster tide in Odoline City, riots among the people at the bottom of the city also occurred, and The commotion was so great that it affected the fortifications on the city wall, and the city of Aodorine was almost breached.

Later, the city of Aodorin paid special attention to the time of the long night period every year, and made various preparations. In addition to adding a large number of patrol guards and city defense troops, the city government will also distribute a copy to everyone in the city to resist Along with the potion of mysterious infection power that appeared in the long night, this potion will make people's character unaffected by external forces and become extremely violent for a period of time.

However, these are only some information that can be disclosed about the hidden dangers of the long night period. There are also some information that cannot be disclosed to the public. These materials all mention that some unpredictable and weird things will happen after falling into the long night period. Specifically Leo didn't say much about what things he saw in the information.

After recalling the relevant information for a while, Leo asked suspiciously: "I remember that the long night period should not happen in a few months? Why did it suddenly appear now?"

"I don't know about this, but the shamanism has issued an announcement, so it should not be fake." Sylvia said seriously.

The shamanism has dealt with the long night period all the year round, and has sorted out a very complete set of secret methods, which can accurately know the appearance time of the long night period, and the error is less than one day, so once the shaman church makes an announcement, it means that the long night period is real coming soon.

The reason for the long night period has always been a mystery. Even the shamanism who studies the long night period all year round is still ignorant of this strange phenomenon, but Leo thinks that the so-called long night period should be related to the movement of celestial bodies. At a certain time of year, a satellite in the sky just blocks between the sun and a certain area of ​​the Mosang continent in the world of Velen, which causes the appearance and disappearance of the long night, which is somewhat like a solar eclipse.

As for why the coverage area of ​​the long night period will expand, the explanation is also very simple, that is, the huge occlusion satellite is approaching the world of Velen, and its shape is getting bigger, so the coverage area is naturally getting bigger.

But such a statement obviously can't explain other things, such as the creatures in the long night period become violent and aggressive, and there will be various weird things in that area that even the Church of God and Shamanism can't figure out, etc.

"You don't have to worry." Seeing Leo frowned, Sylvia thought he was worried about his safety in the long night, so she said: "This is not the first time I have encountered the long night, the power of the long night It won't affect me, and as long as you don't stay alone, there are many people around you, and you won't encounter any weird things. You don't have to worry about this. On the contrary, you may stay here alone... "

Leo gestured to Sylvia, shook his head with a smile, and said, "It's okay, I just want to see what's the secret of this famous long night."

Sylvia looked at Leo, who was eager to sample his clothes, and couldn't help raising his eyebrows, warning: "Just take a look, don't be missing for another twenty years, if that's the case, I won't wait for you again Twenty years."

Hearing this, Leo smiled helplessly, and nodded to Sylvia as a promise.