Chapter 6: The Skeleton of the Flying Squirrel
Yue's Castle is a mountain castle. When it was first built, the patriarch of the Yue family chose to build it on the mountain for the convenience of defending against demonic beasts. The more important the industry was to the clan, the higher they wanted to pile it up. However, the only shops that needed to purchase large quantities of medicinal materials, such as the pharmacy, and those that collected precious demonic beast corpses and materials, like the armory and armor shop, were placed at the entrance of the mountain gate. Firstly, doing business naturally requires putting the storefront in the most conspicuous place. Secondly, it was to save labor, which was already scarce, and also more convenient for customers. Of course, the most precious part of the medicinal materials and the pharmaceutical forge would not be placed here. What is sold here are only some ordinary medicinal pills and weapons.
When Yue Yu led Ruan Li into the pharmacy, he saw that the large shop was filled with hunters wearing tattered leather jackets and carrying bows and arrows. There were many people selling medicinal herbs, but few buying them. However, he didn't dare to underestimate this world's wilderness, which was extremely dangerous. These hunters could come and go freely, hunting and killing demonic beasts, possessing not only exceptional survival skills in the wild but also at least a warrior's strength.
As his eyes scanned the room, they landed on a stout man who was busy abacus-ing away. Yue Yu's eyes lit up and he hastily walked over to him.
"De Shu——"
Yue Yu made a bow and was about to speak when he saw the fat man brush off his sleeve with an impatient expression.
"Come here again to identify herbs? Forget it! You go in yourself, be careful not to mess around. Don't touch what you shouldn't, and even if you can, be gentle!"
Yue Yu smiled slightly and bowed again, then crossed over the counter and walked towards the back of the store.
At this time, a thin man dressed as an accountant stood beside the fat man. He frowned slightly and said, "Master De, I'm afraid this is not quite proper. If something happens, we won't be able to explain it..."
"It's just an ordinary pharmacy, what could possibly happen? Besides, this kid has been here a few times before and knows his limits."
Yue Youde initially furrowed his brow, then let out a sigh. "This child's father was once close to me, and since he has come to seek my help, I cannot turn him away. He is destined to be mediocre in martial arts, but turning to medicine might not be a bad path either. Just help me take care of him for now!"
At this point, Yue Youde's eyes became complex again, looking at the inner curtain behind the counter. "To say that, this kid is pitiful after all. His father worked hard for decades to earn those fields, but most of them couldn't even keep one mu. But despite this, there are still people who can't wait..."
Behind these words, Yue Yu naturally couldn't hear them. He walked familiarly in the corridor behind the pharmacy. When he pushed open the last large door, a hall that occupied at least half of the building's space appeared before him. Yue Yu's mood suddenly became excited.
This is a large medicine warehouse, with walls on both sides lined with rows of tall cabinets about three times the height of an adult, totaling over 10,000 drawers. Some slaves are busy among them, either putting processed medicines into the cabinets or taking them out and packaging them with a medicine scale, then passing them out through a small window.
Yue Yu knew that behind this pharmacy was a place for making medicine. Generally, the production of medicines with larger consumption, such as wound medicine, bruise medicine and Qi-supplementing pills were made there.
However, this has nothing to do with his purpose. Yuezong first looked at the innermost part of the medicine cabinet, the one with gold foil on it. This is what Yue Youde said, something that cannot be touched. The precious medicines received by the pharmacy today will all be temporarily stored here. As for this medicine cabinet, Yuezong was quite envious. Unfortunately, with his current identity, if he really went to touch it, he might not be able to come again in the future.
With a sigh of regret, Yue Yu shifted his attention to both sides before directly locking onto the location of the twenty-eighth to thirtieth medicine cabinets and walked over.
He first opened the drawer marked 1474, Seven-leafed Ginseng, then pretended to take out a completely dehydrated and dried-up medicinal herb, and started sniffing it lightly. This was the second step in identifying the medicine, observing its shape and smelling its scent. Yue Yu's disguise was quite convincing, and the passing servants and miscellaneous workers from the nearby pharmacies didn't suspect anything.
However, at this moment, in Yue Yu's pupils, there was also a similar luster. And in his mind, the seven-leafed ling on his hand also gradually revealed its complete shape as he explored the inner energy within him.
His analytical ability can only fully analyze the substances that come into contact with his skin, but if he can use his internal force to thoroughly explore and penetrate the substance, he can also analyze its overall structure. However, there is a principle that the larger the quality and density of an object, the more difficult it is for his internal force to penetrate. Like the axe used by Rong Li, the part where the black tungsten and other rare metals are infused, he has not been able to successfully analyze in the past two months.
However, these loose structures of grass and wood fibers were apparently not in this case. About twenty seconds later, a diagram with the specific shape and molecular structure, mineral composition, and even the elements contained in the seven-leaf clover appeared in the image mapped in his brain.
Looking carefully at the elemental composition, Yue Yu's heart was slightly disappointed, but he still picked up another dried seven-leaf ganoderma. A single drug chart cannot prove its universality. So Yue Yu's approach was to randomly select three to five of them and then compare them.
When he had saved all the detailed component data of Qī Yè Liǎng in the memory library of the auxiliary parasitic system, two minutes had already passed. At this time, Rǎn Lì was already very impatient and narrowed his eyes, leaning back to sleep as usual. Before long, a slight snore came out again.
Yue Yu saw this and couldn't help but laugh, ignoring him. She continued on her own to the next one, distinguishing between the 1475th stream's characteristics.
But about three hours later, Yue Yu's eyes were filled with an increasingly strong sense of disappointment. At this moment, his face had turned slightly pale, and beads of sweat the size of soybeans were dripping from his forehead.
Identifying medicinal herbs, although not physically demanding, was different for him. Every time he analyzed those medicinal materials, his internal energy would be consumed a little bit. With his current cultivation as a second-level warrior, analyzing fifty to one hundred types per day was already his limit. Moreover, the so-called auxiliary parasitic system, despite having computer-like abilities, was not truly an indefatigable electronic device. It optimized and integrated the remaining resources in his brain that were unable to be utilized, using them for calculations. Not only would it consume a large amount of physical energy, but prolonged use would also permanently damage his brain cells.
In fact, being able to identify the current 1543 is the result of his continuous efforts for more than 20 days. And although Yue Yu has found most of the drug components he needs from it, the most important, largest in demand and most critical one is still nowhere to be seen.
As for this matter, Yue Yu was not in a hurry at first. However, looking at Yue Youde's expression, he seemed to have become somewhat annoyed with him, and it would be difficult to say whether he could come to the pharmacy again. If he wanted to analyze more medicinal materials in the future, he would have to collect them himself on the streets. But this way, not only would it cost a lot of money, but also easily expose his abilities and intentions.
Trying not to show his anxious mood, Yue Yu used an extremely hidden gaze to sweep the medicine cabinets with "gold foil" again. Then, he was worried again in his heart, could it be that the ingredient can only be found in those precious medicines?
Unfortunately, these things, not to mention that he can't even get them with money and connections, would only cause dissatisfaction within the clan. In the city of Yue, although the Yue family doesn't prohibit others from trading in medicinal materials, those precious medicines are all monopolized by the clan and don't allow outsiders to intervene, not even disciples within the clan are exempt.
She shook her head slightly, and with a great effort, Yuesha suppressed the disappointment in her heart and pulled open drawer number 1544. And this time, on the label, was written "Winged Mouse Bone".
