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Chapter 84 Familiar Handwriting_1

Chapter 84: Chapter 84 Familiar Handwriting_1

"Hmm?"

Before Lin Xue could answer, Mu You had already started to show puzzlement. He looked at Zhao Qian: "Isn’t she someone you introduced?"

"Me? No, I haven’t had time to promote your business!" Zhao Qian was awkward. When Mu You had begged her for help, she had just put it at the back of her mind.

The two of them looked puzzledly at each other for a while before they simultaneously shifted their gazes to Lin Xue.

"How did you find this place?" They both asked in unison.

Lin Xue pushed up her glasses and calmly explained in four words: "It’s a long story..."

"Then take your time!"

Zhao Qian wrapped an arm around Lin Xue’s shoulder, laughing: "You’re really something. You returned to China without even giving me a heads-up. We haven’t seen each other in four or five years, right? We have to catch up today!"

Lin Xue didn’t refuse, but instead turned to look at Little Ya next to her: "Little Ya hasn’t eaten yet, right? Come with us."

"Me?" Little Ya was taken aback.

"Yes, sweety, join us. The more, the merrier." Zhao Qian was quite familiar, grabbing one hand of Lin Xue and already beckoning Little Ya with the other.

"But, I have to watch the store..." Little Ya looked at Mu You, feeling a bit overwhelmed.

"What store? You guys don’t have any business here, do you?"

"..."

The blunt truth from Zhao Qian stung Mu You and Little Ya, leaving them speechless.

The key was that she even leaned in to stir the pot. She said, "Mu boss, can I borrow these two beauties for a bit? You don’t mind, right?"

"Go ahead, go ahead!"

Mu You waved his hand dismissively, thinking to himself that they should hurry up and leave. The three of them chatting here was ruining his gaming time!

Watching the three girls chattering away happily as they left the store, Mu You finally felt relieved. He quickly closed the door, put up the closed sign, went back to his room, opened his backpack, and dived into the backpack space.

Having learned from the smell of medicinal herbs filling the room in the morning, this time he planned to refine medicine directly in the backpack space.

He started the game and clicked on the ’Magic Fireplace’ text.

A marble fireplace over a meter high and more than three meters long appeared in front of him. There was a smooth and flat table on top, and there was an exhaust chimney on the side of the table, which was connected to the arched fireplace below. There, some unburned firewood and charcoal ash were piled up.

Mu You moved all the laboratory equipment from the basement into the backpack, and chopped some firewood from the tree where Chocobo was kept. He lit the stove and a glimmering blue-green Magic Flame appeared from the top of the magical partition.

"Amazing!"

Mu You was very curious about how an ordinary flame could be transformed directly into a Magic Flame through a partition.

But there was no time to delve into it now. It was time for refining medicine.

He fixed the handgun in the distance and laid out bottles and jars on the stove.

Mu You focused, and once again activated the barrier, and formally began refining according to the previous steps.

It went reasonably well.

After retracing his steps four or five times, the sixth time, a finished Healing Ointment finally came fresh out of the oven.

Looking at the light green paste in the Crucible, Mu You was so moved he could cry. Finally, it wasn’t black, and more importantly: it didn’t stink!

In a rush, he poured the paste into a jar and quickly opened the game to look.

[You have obtained Healing Ointment: A mundane Healing Ointment, made by blending the essence of plants and herbs. After use, it continuously heals external wounds for a minute, recovering up to 200 health points.]

Indeed, the full version!

Mu You sighed in relief, finally showing a little smile on his face. As long as he had this first success, he could mass-produce it afterwards!

But it wasn’t over yet.

Mu You put away the ointment and immediately started the second refining. However, this time, in the stage of adding medicinal herbs, he poured in an extra small cup of Divine Wine to test its effect.

Either his luck had exploded, or the Divine Wine itself was working, but he achieved success on the first try.

[You have obtained Healing Ointment (Excellent Grade): A Healing Ointment that emits a mild fragrance is made by blending the essence of plants and herbs. After use, it continuously heals external wounds for 30 seconds, recovering up to 300 health points.]

Excellent Grade!

Mu You’s eyes lit up. Indeed the quality had improved, from ordinary ointment to excellent grade ointment. The effect had also changed from ’recover 200 points in one minute’ to ’recover 300 points in half a minute’, and even the smell had become fragrant. It was an all-around upgrade!

"This wine can still be used about five or six more times..."

Coming back to his senses, Mu You glanced at the remaining wine in the bottle and estimated that about 25 milliliters were poured into the last cup. The effect was outstanding, but he didn’t know yet if the dosage could be reduced further. He’ll have to find time later to experiment and seek the most appropriate proportion. Saving a bit here and there certainly wouldn’t hurt.

Of course, the best way would actually be to learn the art of winemaking directly. However, it was a skill honed by its old master over an entire lifetime, and Mu You really couldn’t be sure if he could learn it.

Shaking his head, Mu You continued to immerse himself in refining medicine.

Too bad time in the barrier was limited, only able to be activated for a maximum of one hour per day. Given his speed of making the Healing Ointment every ten minutes, he could only produce five or six batches per day at most.

After crafting another batch of Healing Ointment, he ran out of barrier time.

Mu You didn’t force himself to continue refining. After all, his current failure rate was still quite high, succeeding only once every four or five attempts. His stash of herbs and plants couldn’t withstand this kind of attrition.

He logged into the game and continued to gather herbs on the mountains. After exhausting his energy, Mu You logged out. Without taking a breather, he took Zhao Qian’s card, hailed a cab to the Era Cute Pet Care Base, and planned to settle the matter of purchasing a pet that day.

The Era Cute Pet Care Base was located in the suburban south of the development zone, somewhat remote yet a place attracting a large number of visitors every day. Mu You had visited a few times before, but each time he was blocked at the entrance.

Today was no exception. The pet cubs’ day out, which happened once a month, had long since attracted merchants from all over the country, lined up in a long queue at the entrance.

Luckily, Mu You came with connections today, so he didn’t have to queue along with the masses. He went directly to a special channel on the other side of the gate.

The entrance over here was much less crowded. There was only a young girl, engrossed in her phone while sucking on a lollipop, sitting behind the registration desk.

When Mu You approached, the girl finally raised her head. She looked at his attire and asked, confused, "Do you have a VIP card?"

"I don’t have a VIP card, but will this do?"

Mu You took out the application card Zhao Qian had given him earlier.

The girl took it over, glanced at it and quickly realized, "Oh, you’re that Mu You, right? The one Qian mentioned before..."

It seemed that Zhao Qian had indeed arranged things beforehand. The girl didn’t ask him for a membership card, but instead handed him a registration board, "Then you fill in your information on this and go straight in."

Mu You didn’t think much of it and quickly filled out his details with the pen and paper provided.

But halfway through, he stopped abruptly, his gaze shifting to the line of information above.

"Lu Yao, female, body temperature 36.8, reason for entry: helping stray dogs, check-in time: 15:36, check-out time: 15:55, phone number: 139xxxxxxxx."

There was nothing inherently wrong with the information in this line. What did stand out though was the handwriting!

It looked strangely familiar to him.

Mu You quickly had an idea, and hurriedly reached into his pocket to take out a crumpled note. It was the note that had been under the USB stick the day he got the game installation package.

He unfolded the note and compared it with the handwriting on the registration paper. Surely enough, stroke after stroke, the two were almost identical. They clearly seemed to have been written by the same person.

Mu You’s expression turned grave. He quickly pointed at the name on the board and asked the girl, "Who is this person?"

The sudden serious reaction from Mu You startled the lollipop girl. She looked at the name he was pointing to and said, "Lu Yao? Oh, she’s a young lady who frequently comes here to help stray cats and dogs."

"A young lady?"

Mu You’s mind clicked, and he quickly asked further, "What does she look like? How old is she?"

"What does she look like... um, I’ve forgotten..." the lollipop girl pondered for a moment and said.

"Forgotten?"

Mu You was startled, "Didn’t you say she comes here often? How could you forget?"

"Indeed, it’s strange..."

The lollipop girl tapped her head in frustration. Her eyes carried a hint of confusion, "I see her so often, but why can’t I remember her face... weird... uh, what did you ask just now?"

The confusion on the lollipop girl’s face dissipated suddenly, and the last sentence was directed at Mu You.

"Hmm? I was asking about the girl who registered before me." Mu You gave her a puzzled look, thinking this young girl was a little strange with her disjointed responses.

"What girl?" The lollipop girl gave him an even stranger look.

"It’s this one here, the one who registered before me...Damn!"

Mu You could only hold up the register to show her, but halfway through his words, he abruptly stopped. A chill ran up his spine!

When he unintentionally looked at the register, he realized that the line of information above was gone, vanished as if it had never been there.

The line on the register had turned into a complete blank...

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