Chapter 137: Ye Chongs Tutorial (2/2)
”Little Ye! You!” Glared at Ye Chong upon seeing his doubtful eyes, Lunatic Guan mumbled, ”Ye my boy, don’t tell me… you think I’m… I’m… *hiccup* drunk? Hmph… Let me tell you, Little Ye. I’m not… I’m not drunk! Let me give you a pro… proper lesson today!”
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Settled down, Lunatic Guan pondered a little. Seriousness began surging through the drunken face of hers as her speech became clearer - a rare sight it was indeed. ”The chemists, or some called the alchemists… they were not the one who played with the flasks right from the beginning, most of them happened to be botanist formerly. They researched on plants and had discovered a variety of attributes on these beautiful babies. Mhm, it’s a very intriguing study indeed! However, as the timeframe for a plant to complete its growth was too long, it brought up a lot of problems for them to conduct the research effectively. Thus, these researchers, driven by their curiosity and impatience, started trying various methodologies to condense the growth timeframe of a plant. And that was how the chemists showed up. Until today, botany is still the most widely used field of study in alchemy.”
Ye Chong was certainly all ears and surely he did not notice how the ever-drunk face of Lunatic Guan had turned all fair - her eyes were crystal-clear, lustered with wisdom as the features defined her shocking beauty with that gleaming face of hers.
”Then, people realized it was possible to reduce the growth timeframe through alchemy for living things other than the plants. As they ventured deeper into the unknown, their research was recognized. They started getting known by the people for being the explorer, the developer to new species. Then the field of alchemy was diversified, professionalized and began heading into the vision of humanity!”
Her tone was embedded with a hint of pride, which was surprising to Ye Chong for it was far-fetched to imagine a lunatic like Guan could have such emotion… Perhaps, Lunatic Guan was not as simple as she appeared currently before… Ye Chong laughed at the thought - ”like tell me anyone who had a simple background and managed to enter the Orbits!”
”So…” Lunatic Guan carried on, ”there are a number of branches of studies in the alchemy. Well, we are humans after all. We can’t simply involve ourselves in every field available. Other than the difference in branches of expertise, there are still many methods that are unknown to people to distinguish the grouping between chemists. Since you are technically my student, you should be aware of this. Mhm, everything regarding this is stored inside the processor at Room No.5 and the password would be 37254. Go check it out if you are interested. Being an occupation having rich history as dated long time ago, there are laws hidden within the field and rules which are unwritten to outsiders, which is something you need to work on. Or else… Heh! You could picture what would happen if you conduct the taboo, be it an accident or an incident. Hmph!” The tone fell coldly.
Ye Chong nodded, expressing his understanding.
”For starters, learn about botany. The research of botany is most fruitful and mature!” Lunatic Guan searched through her body for a moment, she found nothing as she stopped and pondered with her head tilted. ”Oh, silly me!” she muttered as she withdrew a chip of size of a thumb right from her chest. ”Grab!” She tossed it to Ye Chong.
Lunatic Guan ”tossed” the chip too gently, the chip was too light to fly far enough to Ye Chong. It was falling and Ye Chong launched himself to grab it right before it hit the ground.
”Oh?” Lunatic Guan’s eyes flashed slight peculiarity as her eyes scanned through Ye Chong, ”Eh, my Little Ye, you ain’t bad you know! I never knew you were quite capable of things despite that puny body of yours. Yes, yes, sister myself would be relieved even if you were to head out alone. Hehehehehehehehe! Little Ye, you know! You~could~always~come~to~me~ So I could have an actual test on your s-t-a-m-i-n-a! The exercises! If you know what I meant, hehehehehe!” sneered Lunatic Guan, covering her mouth which uttered a tone of ambiguous chemistry.
”Stamina?” Ye Chong shook his head as his reply came seriously, ”My stamina is good enough. No test is required!”
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Psh!
Lunatic Guan had lost control after trying very hard to inhibit her laughter, as she sat on the ground and burst out laughing. ”Ahahahahahahahaha!” The chain of laughter rang throughout the room. ”Hehehehehehehehe!” Ye Chong could not compute the rationale behind this long laughter… ”Mu.” He knew it would be very inappropriate if he asked out loud, so he asked Mu in his mind instead, ”Is my stamina that bad?”
”Hmm…” Hesitated Mu, ”Probably the foe had better vitality, although the chances are less than 1%!”
”Hah…”
It took quite some time before Lunatic Guan lost her breath, as she tapped her chest, gasping for air. 3 minutes lapsed and she finally calmed down.
”Hah.”
”Okay, this chip contains the illustrations of common herbs. Although most schools do not demand their students to memorize all of this, you are my student and you should not be all cheap and secondary of course! Memorize the entries, every-single-of-them. I’ll be testing you in a few days. If you got it wrong, heh! No doubt, punishment awaits! And that would be very, very memorable to my Little Ye.”
Ye Chong shuddered for some reason.
”Also!” she spoke on, ”this is only a side quest, but you better be doing it. You would be collecting the actual herbs as samples based on the listing in the illustrations. Yes, the plant searching device would be at Room No.2, fifth from the left on the third row. You would probably need that. The instruction is there. It is simple, just a glance and you'll get it. So stop bothering me with that! Okay… that’s probably… it? I want to see actual samples for all entries on the illustrations after 5 days. Alright, save the nagging. That's it.” Lunatic Guan waved as she seemed a little irritated somehow.
”Tata! Zzz…”
She ignored Ye Chong after that. Lunatic Guan leaned against the door and began sleeping soundly.