The following days became simple and monotonous.
Every day, Gong Hao would go to the Alchemy Tower for two hours. On the one hand, he would carefully record the experimental data given to him by all the apprentices. On the other hand, he would study the knowledge in the books as if he was thirsty.
There were so many books in the library that he never had to worry about finishing them.
The apprentices in the Alchemy Tower were surprised to find that Shuiglaer only used less than three days to completely grasp the location of the library's books. As long as the later apprentices opened their mouths, Gong Hao would immediately find the books they needed.
Of course, Gong Hao spent most of his time in the greenhouse. Just like before, he carefully studied the various demonic plants in the greenhouse, observing their living habits, habits, and preferences.
He noticed that these magic plants also had emotions. When he cut off their roots or squeezed out their juice, they would also show pain and fear. And when they were taken care of, they would also be happy and laugh.
For example, the Weeping Grass did not always cry. Once, he saw it stop crying with his own eyes. At that time, there was a pot of Bewitching Grass beside the Weeping Grass.
From that day onwards, Gong Hao had placed the Charm Grass and the Crying Grass together. In the end, he realized that the amount of saliva secreted by the Crying Grass had increased significantly. Even the ingredients that the Charm Grass could provide had increased significantly.
This allowed him to collect many times more than before.
A day later, Gong Hao found a record of the Charm Grass and the Crying Grass in the library. The records didn't describe the living forms of these two magic plants in detail, but it mentioned an interesting phenomenon. Wherever there was Charm Grass, there would definitely be Crying Grass. The two never existed alone.
Companion demonic plant? This thought flashed across Gong Hao's mind.
Gong Hao understood one thing very well. The growth of any life form was related to its form of existence. The closer it was to the primitive form of life, the better the growth of the creature, and vice versa. In other words, the better growth of the Weeping Grass and Charm Grass was likely related to this situation. If he could further deepen his understanding of the original ecology of these plants, it would definitely be of great benefit to the cultivation of these demonic plants.
Magic plants were the fundamental condition for the existence of all magic beasts and magic bugs. Many magical beasts went extinct because of the destruction of the natural ecosystem, causing them to lose their habitat. If these magic plants could be cultivated on a large scale, restoring the glory of alchemy in the future would not be a dream.
He began to consciously prioritize learning all knowledge related to magic plants.
Alchemists usually did not pay much attention to the collection of materials because these things were usually done by apprentices or servants. Therefore, the records of these demonic plants in the library were quite limited. However, Gong Hao still discovered many things that were useful to him.
Through these records, Gong Hao discovered that he could completely refine the 42 types of demonic plants in Area No. 13. He began to experiment, and the results were almost immediate.
The work efficiency of Area 13 had been significantly improved. Work that used to take five hours to complete could now be completed in two hours. Even though Gong Hao still had to go to the library to take notes every day, he had more leisure time.
This made many servants click their tongues in wonder.
However, after the Blood Orchid seed was buried, it did not come out of the ground. More than ten days had passed, but not a single sprout had sprouted. This made Gong Hao extremely distressed.
A month passed quickly.
According to the rules, Andrew would take away a group of servants who did not perform well.
Andrew did not take Gong Hao away. Instead, he left him behind to continue working.
Brent, who had once bullied Hughie and Finkle, was taken away.
This time, they brought a total of twelve people. On the same day, the Liberty also sent twelve servants.
Looking at the new servant, Gong Hao suddenly thought of something.
He remembered that the Freedom took five days to reach Purgatory Island, and it was seven days ago that Chakley bought Shuiglaer. At that time, he and Finkle were the twelfth and thirteenth to be bought by Chakley. This also meant that Chakley had spent at least three days searching for young servants that suited his taste.
In other words, at least ten days before the servants were transported, the Liberty already knew how many servants were needed on Purgatory Island.
Considering that the Windy Continent did not have such a long-distance information transmission ability, it was very likely that the Purgatory Island had already informed the Freedom of the number of new servants they needed for the next delivery.
In other words, they had set the number of servants they needed in advance, and then selected the batch of servants with the worst performance in the month according to this number.
In that case, the departure of these servants was not as simple as their poor performance…
But where did they go? Gong Hao was eager to know the answer.
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"Caesar." Gong Hao came to look for Caesar again.
In the past month, Gong Hao would help Caesar with some things whenever he was free, so his relationship with Caesar was quite good.
"Hey, Glaer, I've finished my work today. You don't have to help me.”
"Oh, that's a pity."
"It's nothing, Glaer. Thank you for your kindness.”
"Caesar, can you do me a favor?"
"Tell me, as long as it's within my ability.”
"It's like this. I remember that every time the Freedom comes to deliver goods, we also need to send a group of people to deliver this month's alchemy products to them.”
"Yes."
"Can you send me next month?"
"Why?"
"I haven't seen the sea for a month." Gong Hao shrugged. After being locked up in this castle for a month, it was suffocating.”
"I thought you only knew how to work.”"Alright, no problem. I'll arrange for you to deliver the goods with the others next month."。。The Sea of Death isn't very pretty."
"By the way, I remember that you had a record of the goods that came in and out the month you came. Can you let me see it?”
"Why?"
"I just want to see how much we've contributed to the empire over the years.”
Caesar agreed with a smile. He found the record and handed it to Gong Hao.
Gong Hao carefully observed the entry and exit records for the past six months, but his attention was mainly focused on the entry and exit of personnel.
After looking at it for a while, he frowned and said,"Do you only have the ones from the past six months?”
"The earlier records are stored in the library. Aren't you working there? You can go there to find it."
"Alright, thank you."
Gong Hao thought for a moment and turned to Caesar."Oh right, Caesar, can you not tell anyone about this? I guess Lord Andrew doesn't like people who ask questions everywhere. I don't want to make him angry.”
"No problem." Caesar agreed readily.
After returning to the library, Gong Hao had a serious expression.
He began to quickly search for the records of all the people who had entered and left Purgatory Island in the past twenty years.
The records were not top-secret documents, so it was not difficult to find them.
What surprised him was that in the laboratory of Purgatory Island, the number of servants transported was as high as forty to fifty people per month. However, as time passed, the number of people transported gradually decreased.
However, what frightened him was that none of the servants who had worked on Purgatory Island had worked here for more than a year.
Even the servants who performed the best were taken away after working for a year.
The oldest of the people who were taken away was sixteen years old.
There was also an extremely strange coincidence. All the goods sent out were the same number of flesh puppets, undead puppets, and that thing called the demon spirit. The number of servants sent each time was exactly the same as the number of servants sent the next month.
What did this mean?
Gong Hao gently closed the notebook and fell into deep thought.
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No matter how deep the unknown fear in his heart was, Gong Hao only had one choice-to bury the fear and work hard.
Sometimes, work was the best way to make people forget everything. Perhaps it was because he was originally interested in these mysterious sciences, so when he was immersed in his research, he would always forget everything, including those terrifying speculations.
Therefore, Gong Hao focused more on the exploration of alchemy knowledge. He tirelessly flipped through the books. Two hours wasn't enough, so he secretly brought some books out. After that, he openly brought the book collection back to the 13th area to read, because it seemed that the acolytes did not mind him doing so.
Today, Gong Hao was reading a book about the production of corrosive drugs in the greenhouse. This potion was usually used to smear weapons, giving them the ability to break armor. The corrosive potion itself was not difficult to make. The difficulty was how to prevent the weapon from being corroded after applying the corrosive potion. This required the weapon to be coated with a layer of corrosion-resistant isolation film before applying the potion. The more powerful the corrosive agent was, the higher the requirement for the isolation membrane's anti-corrosion ability. The design of the sword and shield made it difficult to increase the effectiveness of the corrosive potion.
So far, the corrosive potions that could be smeared on weapons could only be used to break through ordinary armor. They were almost useless against magic armor with good defense.
Gong Hao was watching with relish, analyzing the various ingredients needed to make the drug and isolation membrane, and how to mix them when a deep voice suddenly sounded in his ear,"You're very hardworking."
Gong Hao suddenly raised his head and saw a middle-aged man in simple armor standing in front of him.
The man was clearly not a magic puppet, but a real warrior. He had long brown hair, and a long sword that shone with magic light was attached to his left waist. His armor had dark blood patterns, and one could even feel the huge killing intent emitted from him. It was a biting cold that was not angry but powerful!
Gong Hao hurriedly put away the book and said respectfully,"My lord."
"I hope I didn't disturb you." The middle-aged warrior's weathered face revealed a faint smile.
"Yes…you didn't." Gong Hao said.
Gong Hao didn't know who the other party was, so he could only use his words carefully and address him as 'Your Lord'.
A person appeared behind the middle-aged warrior. It was an apprentice called Ivo. Hao had been going to the library every day these days, so he was quite familiar with the apprentices. He had even met Lord Pierre once, but he had never seen Heinz. "This is Lord Lancelot," Iwo said.”
Gong Hao hurriedly bowed again.”
It seemed that this was the person that Neil was talking about, the one who could be called Lord along with Andrew and Pierre. He thought that he was an alchemist, but he didn't expect him to be a warrior.
Lancelot waved his hand, and Ivo brought over a pot of flowers.
The flower looked very strange. The flower that bloomed looked like a human face, but its appearance was ferocious and terrifying. From time to time, it would grimace and spit out a long blood-red tongue.
"Ghost Face Flower?" Gong Hao called out.
The Ghost Face Flower was a very aggressive plant. It could release a very poisonous gas that could effectively deal with most creatures. Alchemists used the sap of the Ghost Face Flower to refine powerful toxins, and the effect was very outstanding.
"No, this is not an ordinary Ghost Face Flower.”Lancelot shook his head and said," You must know that the Ghost Face Flower's toxicity always leaves its habitat barren. Very few magic plants can grow together with the Ghost Face Flower. When I found this flower, I thought it was a Ghost Face Flower, but I couldn't figure out why there were so many other demonic plants growing around it. I suspect that it is not a ghost face flower at all.”
"Then what is it?" Gong Hao asked curiously.
Lancelot smiled and said," That's why I brought it to District 13. I heard that the servants in the 13th area had it the easiest. Even if they worked as clerks, they still had a lot of free time to read those alchemy notes every day.”
"I just want to do a better job in the library.”
"But no matter what, you do have enough time. From now on, I'll leave this flower to you. Take good care of it. After all, it might be a new species.”
"Yes." Gong Hao hurriedly nodded."Sir, may I ask where you found this flower?"”
"Why do you ask?"
"I just want to understand its living environment and habits. You know, if it's not an ordinary Ghost Face Flower and can coexist with other magical plants, then I don't think I can use the method of cultivating Ghost Face Flowers to treat it. Knowing as much as possible about its living environment will be very helpful to my work.”
" That makes sense." Lancelot nodded. I found this flower in the central area of Purgatory Island. It grows in a swamp and is accompanied by a rank 7 spotted poisonous python.”
The central area? Grade 7 poisonous python?
Gong Hao's heart beat rapidly and violently.
He finally understood what Lancelot was responsible for.
He was the one who was responsible for capturing magical beasts in the forest, searching for all kinds of strange species, and bringing back all the creatures that could provide valuable materials!
To be able to go deep into the central area of the Purgatory Island where powerful top-tier magical beasts existed to search for new species, this person definitely had extraordinary martial strength.
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