The career of an evil alchemist started when he picked up the Mad Sword Girl

"Got it..." the groundhog drawled, put down the teapot with a grimace, then picked up the silver coins and ran up the stairs, bumping and bumping all the way, and the silver coins dropped along the way.

"This..." Lu Lin pointed at the groundhog.

"It will remember to pick it up later, don't worry," the night elf witch said, picking up the black tea and blowing on it gently.

"Well, so," Lu Lin scratched his cheek, "I actually wanted to ask just now, is its name 'stewed meat'?"

"Yes, it's not surprising," the night elf witch said. "The name of the familiar must be a little more obscure to facilitate the transmission of secret messages to them. Why, don't you have your own familiar yet?"

"Not yet...well, well, I'm not actually a wizard," Lulin said.

"I know, Black Alchemist," the night elf witch said lightly.

Lu Lin was stunned when he heard this, and asked quickly: "Is this something I showed? How did you see it?"

"Night elves have the ability to see through spells and black magic," the night elf witch said. "There is a faint trace of spell residue on your hands, and you have the unique smell of an alchemist on your body. To guess your identity is not Difficult, ah, if you want to hide your identity, remember to spray some perfume next time and wash your hands with the so-called holy water before going out."

"Is this so..." Lu Lin scratched his head, raised his shoulders, and tried to smell the smell of himself. It seemed that he could vaguely smell some herbs?

Ok……

Could it be that this smell is actually obvious to others?

It seems that he will have to ask Lan Jie later.

"We'll talk about the familiars later," the night elf witch said. "Now, as agreed, you can ask whatever you want about the Black Demon School. Well, but first, I guess you just received the invitation?"

"Yes," Lu Lin nodded, "just this morning."

"It's not surprising, this is how the school works. When you want to find them, you can't even find a ghost. When they want to find you, they can immediately come out of the ground," the night elf witch said, "So, you want to ask What? Ask me if this senior would recommend you to join the Black Demon School?"

"That's right," Lu Lin shrugged, "I just arrived in the Land of Chaos not long ago, and I know very little about these things."

"Well... in my opinion, it's best to join," the night elf witch said, "The reason... I think the invitation letter should be very clear. You have also seen the benefits, they are very tempting, right? ?”

"Well," Lu Lin nodded, "but it only said benefits, but didn't mention any obligations. Obviously, they didn't say everything."

Hearing Lu Lin's words, the night elf witch's eyes suddenly opened wider. She was silent for a moment and then said: "Ah, it's so annoying. Doesn't it make me look stupid for joining the school without even thinking about it? ?”

"Ah this..." Lu Lin's mouth twitched, and he didn't know how to answer the question for a while.

"You are indeed right. The benefits of the school are not free. However, you should have heard that the internal management of each dark school is very loose, so you don't have to worry about any mandatory obligations to join the school," said the night elf witch Said, "But if you want to get benefits from the school, you have to make corresponding contributions and obtain enough contribution points to exchange for what you want, such as providing materials needed by various schools, completing the school announcement tasks, even directly donating money and the like.”

"Ah, this way, it's a points system," Lu Lin suddenly realized, "That's good."

"Well, so you just join the school as a free member, and you don't have to worry about anything. Of course, if you want to go to the headquarters, that's another matter," the night elf witch said, "Ah, but don't be happy either. It’s too early, they should give you a test, that thing is not something that can be solved easily.”

Chapter 126 This damn class exploitation is really everywhere.

"This formula is actually used to send messages. As long as you smash the refined potion, the nearby school will receive your message."

The night elf witch spread the invitation from Lu Lin on the table.

"This thing is a test and a consent form. Once you are ready and use it, the school application closest to you will sense it and come to you to help you complete the registration of school members."

"And after you join the school, this formula is still useful. You can regard it as a signal to ask for emergency help from the school."

"Members of the school will basically keep two bottles with them. If they encounter trouble, they can just smash it and call the nearby school for help."

"Most of the practitioners of the school are quite powerful. As long as you don't get into particularly big trouble, most of them can help you deal with it."

"Of course, they don't do it for free. As long as you use it, they will deduct a large amount of contribution points from you. And if the trouble is big, a large amount of additional contribution points will be deducted."

"So unless you have too much money and are in a panic, don't use this thing to scare people."

"Ah, by the way, if your contribution points are not enough to pay the bill, the school will deduct your contribution points into a negative number."

"When your contribution points are negative, if you ask for help from the school again, they will only help you one more time, and the contribution points deducted this time will be doubled."

"And from now on, the school will not help you again until you pay off your debt."

"As for how they knew it was you who was asking for help..."

The dark elf witch pointed to some of the ingredients in the formula.

"Have you seen this part of the material? You should be able to tell that this pile of stuff is actually useless. Adding it or not will not affect the effect of the potion."

"But you still have to add according to the allotment when refining, because this is actually something similar to an identity number. Each school member gets a different one. With this thing, you can know who it is by exercising. Summoning them."

"And if the ID number doesn't exist, they won't come."

"If the location where the identity number appears in the call for help is inconsistent with the information held by the school, they will go, but they will be very cautious."

Listening to what the other party said, Lu Lin was really surprised.

When I first heard that the school was a very loose organization, Lu Lin thought it would be the type of organization that didn't care much about the life and death of its members.

But now it seems that the other party is more humane than I thought. He actually cares about the life and death of the members. Even if he is in debt, he still has an opportunity to ask for emergency help.

"It all sounds good," Lu Lin said, "So what's so difficult about this thing? Is it difficult to simply refine it?"

"No, it is just an intermediate alchemy formula after all. Even if you are not a high-level alchemist, you can always figure it out with more research. Here is the problem..." the night elf witch said, pointing to one of the materials, "This, Echo Violet .”

"Echo Violet?" Lu Lin touched his chin.

He had never seen this material before, but when he thought of the name, relevant knowledge appeared in Lu Lin's mind.

It is a material that generally only grows on the top of cliffs. It contains magical power that can allow sound signals to travel over long distances. It is a very commonly used material when it comes to medicines and formations related to long-distance communication.

"Well, this thing seems to be quite rare..." Lu Lin muttered, "So the problem is that the materials are difficult to buy?"

"No, the problem is that you can't buy it at all," said the night elf witch. "The Black Devil School is not the only school that uses similar methods to recruit members. Almost all dark schools, including some ancient sects, use similar methods to recruit members. members, and none of these methods can get around this material."

"You also know that this is actually the territory of the Tianri Sect. Although their management of independent city-states cannot be as strict as the forces directly under their jurisdiction, they do not want people from other forces to expand on their territory."

"Although they will not try to completely block the possibility of each force recruiting people, and they cannot do it, they do not prevent them from causing trouble for other forces."

"So in many areas of the Land of Chaos, the circulation of Echo Violet is completely cut off. If you want to find this thing, you have to either go to the black market for auction, or you have to leave the city and go look for it in the wild."

Hearing this, Lu Lin frowned immediately, thought for a while, and asked: "If I go to the black market auction, how much can I get for it?"

"It's very expensive," the night elf witch said. "Because they know very well who will buy this thing, and they also know that this thing will never be sold, so if it is an auction, there are actually people who are there to raise the price. Generally, the transaction amount per flower is around one gold coin."

"One gold coin? That seems okay?" Lu Lin touched his chin.

"Not at all. One gold coin is just the price of one flower. If it can be done with one flower, then the school will definitely prepare some and then give you one directly," the night elf witch said, "But in fact, according to the application Different methods require different amounts of echo violets consumed. The potion formula prepared by the Black Demon School for black alchemists and wizards already uses the least amount of materials, but the refining of a bottle of medicine also requires about ten echo violets. , and you have to consider the possibility of refining failure, so you have to prepare at least twenty or thirty flowers to be safe. Then, these black markets naturally take this into consideration, so they are very considerate. When auctioning this thing, It was shot by Baiduo."

"Damn it, that means you have to spend hundreds of gold coins to get the goods through auction? Are you robbing money?" Lu Lin's face turned dark.

"You're right, it's a money grab, or an official money grab. Where do you think the goods in the black market come from? They are all released by the government. This is a blackmail tailor-made for us," the night elf witch said, "They It’s very clear that for middle- and high-level alchemists and witches, although this money is a lot, it’s not impossible to save it as long as we work here for a year or two.”

"What the hell, are we just going to let them choke us?" Lu Lin frowned slightly, "The school has never considered asking Xingxing to help get some of this material? It's okay to sell it at normal prices."

"Of course the school has thought about it and can do it, but don't forget, this is a test. The school always wants to see your ability, and the way to solve this problem is your answer sheet," the night elf witch shrugged. , "Ah, yes, at the same time, this is also a rule, an unspoken rule between the major forces. When you are being bullied here, you must know that people from other forces are also suffering the same abuse within the school's sphere of influence. Bullying, they will never be ripped off less than us."

Upon hearing this, Lu Lin's mouth twitched.

Why does he feel like something is wrong?

How come it seems that the major forces are targeting each other, but in the end they are working together to take advantage of all the lower-level members?

Looking at Lu Lin's expression, the dark elf witch smiled and said: "Hmph, it seems that someone understands that they are nobles and we are civilians. As civilians, we always have to pay taxes..."

"Damn, class exploitation is really everywhere," Lu Lin sighed.

"So, if you don't want to spend money, the best way is to go out and find it yourself," said the dark elf witch. "It is more dangerous. I suggest you find a way to hire a high-level soldier as a guard, so that even if something happens , as long as the other party can take you to escape, it may also be expensive."

"No, I just applied for a store in the city, and I'm afraid I won't be able to get out now," Lu Lin shook his head and said, "Damn it, is there no other way?"

"Well... If you insist on saying it, there is actually another way." The Dark Elf Witch took a sip of black tea, then raised her eyes and looked at Lu Lin and said, "I can use my contribution points to directly buy some Echo Violet from the school. you."

"However, according to the rules, if you do this, you will not be considered a formal member of the school in the future. Instead, you will need to be my assistant for three years, and then you can become a full member with my guarantee."

"During your time as an assistant, you will not have your own contribution point account. If you want to enjoy the various benefits of the school, you have to go through my hands."

"But, with all due respect, we are not familiar with each other."

"I can't guarantee you unconditionally, nor can I help you get an agency account for free, so if you really want to choose this path, you either really want to be my assistant, or I'll take [-]% of your contribution points. "

"No, I don't have this idea," Lu Lin shook his head. "What I want to say is that there is nothing...for example, is there any way to use other materials to replace Echo Violet?"

"As far as I know, there is none," the dark elf witch shrugged, "How about you research it? If you research it, maybe it can be exchanged for millions of contribution points?"

Of course, the Dark Elf Witch's words were purely a joke.

After all, if it were so easy to get around Echo Violet, the major forces wouldn't have used it to choke each other for so long.

To this day, I don’t know how many master-level tasks, and even grandmaster-level figures have studied similar topics, hoping to break the current rule system for the expansion of various forces and take the lead in establishing a new expansion order, but in the end, they obviously all Failed.

But just for this joke, she didn't wait for a response for a long time.

On the other hand, Lu Lin clasped his hands together and put them on his forehead, seeming to be really thinking about the possibilities.

"Hey, you can't really..." the dark elf witch tried to speak, but saw a killer whale doll suddenly raised in front of her eyes.

She was stunned for a moment, then turned to look at the girl beside her who had been eating snacks on the table in silence since she entered the door.

At this moment, the large plate of snacks prepared on the table had been completely eaten by the girl, and even the corners of the girl's mouth were still stained with crumbs of snacks.

It should have been a rather funny sight to be pointed at a doll by such a little girl, but for some reason, the dark elf witch felt a pressure as heavy as a mountain.

Seeing the girl making a silent gesture with her other hand, she swallowed the words that came to her lips.

Chapter 127 This is a treacherous act

From the time he came into contact with alchemy until now, Lu Lin has actually only been refining fixed things according to fixed recipes, just like a chef who has just started to learn cooking will only cook step by step according to the recipes.

But Lu Lin knew very well in his heart that this was not really alchemy.

Having the scientific concept of his previous life, he always believed that alchemy should be essentially a science.

Only by understanding the internal logic of the formula, the properties of various materials, the ingredients that work, the nature of spells and magic, etc., and truly understanding why each formula achieves the final result, can we truly understand alchemy. .

This is obviously an ambitious goal and requires a long process.

But Lu Lin had a vague hunch that only by using this kind of thinking to understand alchemy would it be possible to go further.

During this period, after a lot of practice, Lu Lin also initially formed his own understanding of alchemy.

Of course, relying solely on this little bit of personal understanding is definitely not enough to bypass Echo Violet in making a communication potion.

But Lu Lin has an advantage that no one else has.

That is the huge recipe library in the brain, as well as the relevant knowledge of all the materials required for the entire recipe library.

Echo Violet is special.

But are there really no substitutes in this world?

No, there are more than a dozen materials that Lu Lin can think of that can be substituted.

The problem is, these materials are rarer than Echo Violet.

The ability to communicate over a wide range is obviously not needed by ordinary flowers, trees, or ordinary beasts in nature. Except for the Echo Violet, which has a very special ecological niche, it has evolved to have the magic power with this ability. Other animals with similar magic power have also evolved. , either the leader of a huge group of monsters with a vast territory, or the core of some kind of large plant ecosystem.

Under current conditions, the cost of obtaining them is still higher than Echo Violet.

So there is no point in simply looking for alternative materials.

But what if instead of replacing a single material, we find a way to use the effects of certain formulas to achieve it?

The formula comes with long-distance communication properties. Among other things, the co-explosion crystal actually has similar properties.

It does not use the magic power of living things at all, but minerals.

But the nature is similar, but the principle is different, and the scope of the communication is actually very small.

However... there are many, many formulas with similar properties.

In themselves, they are complete puzzle pieces.

But in this topic, they are like pieces of a jigsaw puzzle covered in mud and somewhat damaged, scattered in Lu Lin's mind.

Clean them, repair them, combine them, and finally embed them harmoniously into this recipe...

The blank puzzle board is right in front of you, and the old and dirty pieces are piled up next to you.

So, can you put it together?

Lu Lin fiddled with the fragments, and then, his eyes suddenly lit up.

He dug out a fragment that was wrapped in thick mud but still stubbornly glowing.

Lifting up the fragment, Lu Lin was stunned.