Chapter 98. Magical Potion

     The training ground of the Unnatural Investigation Bureau is located in the south of Xishan Forest Park. It has blue sky and white clouds, green mountains, birds singing and insects chirping. The air in the mountains is much fresher than in the city, which makes people feel relaxed and happy.

     The expert group is more active than the agents.

     They booked the front row seats one by one in advance. From the conference room to the training ground, they didn’t take their eyes off the circular array for two minutes, and they wanted to tear them into pieces.

     The expert team is made up of highly respected, national-level scientists, all over 50 years old. They’re the driving force behind research in many different fields. On top of that, we have medical doctors specializing in both physical and mental health, cultural inheritors, and representatives from 30 different schools of thought.

     After the first copy, survivors like Zhou Qi and Wang Yang mostly learned how to survive from the agents. But when wuxia and magic showed up in the second copy, people outside the Bureau knew things were getting serious. They even added real-world martial arts. Out of the 30 different sects, you had Emei Sect, Shaolin Temple, Kongtong Sect, etc.

     Within a week of completing the third copy, the Unnatural Investigation Bureau has already established departments of mythology, archaeology, literature, music, Mohist philosophy, Hundred Schools of Thought, formations, witch doctors, martial arts, magic, and more.

     While training themselves, each agent must have a major subject and a hobby subject. If they are really talented, multiple major subjects and multiple hobbies are also fine.

     For example, consider the Witchcraft and Magic departments within the major subject of witchcraft.

     Both witchcraft and magic fall under the broader category of witchcraft. However, Witch Cultivators are considered to be at a higher level than Magicians. Magicians cultivate by dissolving magic factors into their bloodline, while Witch Cultivators infuse spiritual energy into their bodies through blood and meridians, enhancing their physical, spiritual, and overall being. The distinction between the two is clear

     Comparing the close combat power of the two, it can be seen that magicians are famous for long-range waste.

     It seems that Witch Cultivation is better than blood cultivation.

     However, there lies a significant challenge. First, the cultivation of witchcraft is at least a hundred times more arduous than pure blood cultivation. This immense disparity isn’t solely due to the cultivation technique, which might be three to ten times more complex, the true challenge lies in the vastly greater demand for spiritual energy.

     Second, witchcultivators necessitate a broader spectrum of talents, requiring proficiency in at least three of the five elemental spiritual energies. A practitioner with a singular elemental affinity faces a difficulty that is exponentially greater, potentially thousands or tens of thousands of times more challenging.

     No matter how beautiful the future is, it’s still the future. But to have a future, you must live. The first goal of the Unnatural Investigation Bureau is to provide each special agent with the most suitable survival path, rather than blindly drawing blueprints.

     The agents who arrived at the scene today, according to the screening of the second round of survivors system, their root bone talent is greater than the talent of magic cultivation, and they are more suitable to choose a martial arts cultivation.

     Zhang Qihua and Ma Guotao looked at each other and said, “Begin.”

     火 (huǒ) – fire: red, purple, etc.

      土 (tǔ) – earth: yellow, brown, coffee, tan, etc.

      金 (jīn) – metal: white, silver

      水 (shuǐ) – water: black, gray, blue, etc.

      木 (mù) – wood: green

     The first agent stepped forward nervously. He put his hands on the center of the jade array on the table. Soon, the jade array emitted four colors: orange, brown, gray, and silver, with orange being the brightest.

     Result:

     Main fire, secondary earth, metal, and water, lacking wood, good brightness, medium talent.

     “Not bad.”

     Hearing the evaluation, neat applause broke out on the training ground. The agent smiled widely. When he went down, he shook hands with his comrades one by one and encouraged each other.

     On the other side, Zhang Qihua, Wang Wu and others began to edit the five elements martial arts training method of this agent. Mathematicians, physicists, and Feng Shui researchers also joined in. 

     “Next.”

     Around 12 noon, the disc’s spiritual energy was exhausted while testing Agent 1011. The formation, however, could still function for a bit. Following Mi Wenjing’s instructions, they quickly purchased five mid-grade spirit stones and embedded them.

     This seemingly simple action requires five people to do it at the same time, and the error cannot exceed 3 seconds. They were a little nervous when embedding, but fortunately they succeeded in the end.

     “Next.”

     Another agent came forward.

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     During the afternoon test, Ma Guotao’s phone kept ringing. Compared with Zhang Qihua, who was responsible for the survivors, he was actually busier as the director of the Unnatural Investigation Bureau and had more work to do.

     In several phone calls today, he made it clear that in the Unnatural-Investigation Bureau, all the resources obtained were mainly from the survivors of the Unnatural-Investigation Bureau, providing spiritual stones for the law cultivators, internal and external cultivation methods for the martial arts cultivators, materials for the secondary profession, and exploring civilization with the Archaeology Department and the Mythology Department.

     Financial power can move people’s hearts, let alone superpowers, life span, magic, kung fu, etc. Who doesn’t want to get them?

     Ma Guotao resisted the bribes and weirdness of those special classes who coveted the products of the system mall outside the Unnatural-investigation bureau.

     He was chosen to be the leader because of his upright character and tough and fearless background.

     In addition to the above duties, Ma Guotao is also responsible for handling the crimes of survivors. In the week of the third round of testing, they have arrested 17 survivor criminals, 7 of whom are repeat offenders.

     It is worth mentioning that three surviving criminals were captured in Beijing. When they were arrested, they were inexplicably knocked unconscious. It was initially determined that they met other survivors. The strength of this survivor or multiple survivors was very strong, so strong that the three criminals did not see anyone and were knocked unconscious one after another.

     They also called 110 with their mobile phones, but the fingerprints could not be found and the surveillance was destroyed.

     Very professional.

     Ma Guotao and Zhang Qihua both believed that they should be on the list of strong men in the Unnatural-investigation bureau.

     In short, the Unnatural-Investigation Bureau was also busy today. For the safety of the people and the future of the country, they wanted to be at the forefront of this life race.

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     At the same time, after the transaction with the Unnatural-Investigation Bureau, apart from the witch medicine research funds and physical fitness improvement transferred to Watson and Wang Xue, and the basic material fees given by the Unnatural-Investigation Bureau, Ye Mo’s personal total points were left: 47663 points.

     It seems a lot, but when it comes to building more mechanisms and equipment, doing experiments on the difference between magic and spiritual energy, and integrating magic arrays and five elements arrays, this points can only be said to be barely enough. The spiritual jade and magic cores consumed alone are a lot.

     Earn more, spend more.

     However, compared to the accumulation of points, of course, strength is more important. If you lose points, you can earn them again. If you lose strength, everything will be zero. Now there are bigger orders than before, and the source of income is guaranteed.

     Ye Mo opened the system mall and bought all the 2 new magic potions and 21 witch medicines that Watson talked about, as well as the 4 kinds of elixirs that Wang Xue talked about.

     Witch potions, magic potions, and martial arts pills are essentially all containing a kind of spiritual plant or a mixed ingredient that changes a person’s physique, thereby breaking through the physique. Magic potions act on the blood, pills act on the bones, and witch potions act on the physique of the entire body.

     Two bottles of high-level magic potions worth a total of 450 points: one is an anxiety-soothing potion, and the other is a depression-enhancing potion.

     Not all physique enhancement potions are so strange. There are also physique enhancement potions in the magic enhancement and magic recovery categories, but they are only useful for magicians, not for others.

     Moreover, it made sense that the system selected Ye Mo and Watson to join the Irish copy. For Wang Xue, some of the potions that Watson and Ye Mo took to improve their physiques only had results after taking two or three bottles of high-level potions, and some were completely ineffective.

     After Ye Mo drank them one by one, as expected, she heard:

   【Survivor Ye Mo broke through the critical point of physique, physique attribute +1. 】×2

     Similarly, the pills of martial artists may not be effective for ordinary people.

     The pill that increases internal strength is ineffective for both Watson and Ye Mo. Apart from the ineffective ones, Wang Xue’s list of four pills all act on the body’s bones and muscles.

     Watson has verified that it is also effective for ordinary people who are not martial artists. He has taken two of them and four bottles, and has not bought the other two yet.

     Ye Mo also realized that some medicines in the Spring and Autumn and Warring States copy had no effect after taking them. It may not be that they really didn’t work, but that the dosage was not enough. Sure enough, without Watson, she would miss a lot of good things.

     Four kinds of six pills cost a total of 1350 points:

   【Survivor Ye Mo has broken through the critical point of physical fitness,  physical fitness attribute +1. 】×4.

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     Compared with magic potions and cultivation pills, witchcraft medicine is more diverse. For some witchcraft medicines, only Ye Mo can absorb them efficiently with a balanced five elements and a high-end physique, and the chance of breakthrough is high.

     So there is this list of 21 witch medicines, totaling 5230 points.

     Ye Mo didn’t plan to take all of them, which would be too wasteful, because many of these 21 witch medicines, like the Snow Ginseng Pills and the Spirit Recovery Reagent, can be used urgently in the dungeon.

     For example, the Zhuyu medicine contains a spiritual herb called Zhuyu, which is “like leeks and green and bright, and you won’t feel hungry after eating it.” Taking it for a month will keep you from feeling hungry, which is twice as effective as the Bigu Pill.

     The same is true for the Danmu medicine, but the effects of the Danmu medicine and the Bigu Pill are exactly the same. Watson smelled the ingredients of Danmu in the red Bigu Pill, and they may be made from the same spiritual plant.

     There are also many other healing medicines.

     Ye Mo only took two of the unimportant ones,

   【Survivor Ye Mo broke through the critical point of physical fitness, physical attribute +1】 × 2, and the remaining 19 were received in the storage space.

     This way she didn’t need to buy too many medicines, but thinking of the Spring and Autumn and Warring States dungeon, just in case, she still bought 30 packs of ordinary Jinshuang powder, 30 bottles of high-level spirit recovery agents, and an ordinary animal bone pill for Bandit.

     There are some potions stored in each copy. Regardless of whether these potions can be used in this copy or not, they can save lives at critical moments until Watson’s success rate in making potions reaches 50%.

     Ye Mo also spent a few points in the system mall to buy some underwear and several kinds of cloth. The former is needless to say, and the latter can be used to make armor, shoes, defensive clothing, etc.

     It seems that the consumption is not much, adding up to 14,300, and there are 33,093 points left.

     Ye Mo: “Check personal status.”

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     Account: Ye Mo

     Intelligence: Hidden

     Spirit: 172

     Strength: 98 (+22)

     Agility: 97 (+22)

     Constitution: 133 (+15)

     57 free point attributes.

     Others: omitted.

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     Looking at the full inventory, Ye Mo can finally clear out some things, such as shoes with broken attributes, a fire axe, and scrap, and she doesn’t need to bring them on the next dungeon run.