I opened a clinic in the Abyss World

After visiting the dormitory area on the second floor, Jacob's family and Kerry decided to stay at the factory. Firstly, it would be convenient for them to go to work, and secondly, the dormitory conditions were impeccable, much better than cheap hotels.

Kerry decided to terminate the lease on his vacant blacksmith shop, which would save him some rent each month.

"Come on, it's your turn to be tested now. Show me your fire-making skills and see if you can meet my requirements." Charlotte said to Jacob as she came down from the second floor.

Charlotte has only confirmed the recruitment of Nora and Kerry. Jacob has not yet been interviewed or assessed, so it is not considered a formal recruitment yet.

"Tell me what kind of firepower you need and how long you want it to burn, and I'll arrange it for you right away," Jacob said confidently.

Charlotte said, "I need to test this alchemy furnace so that it can maintain a medium heat and a stable flame for an hour."

"No problem, I'll start now." Jacob nodded, walked quickly towards the small mountain of coal, picked up a shovel, and began shoveling coal under the stove.

"Doctor, what kind of work do I need to do?" Kerry asked Charlotte.

"You'll be mainly in charge of material handling. This is the warehouse where the materials are stored. You need to pre-process and weigh these materials." Charlotte led Kerry to the warehouse, pushed open the door, and saw that the shelves inside were already filled with all sorts of materials. She turned back and said, "Kasha, you teach Kerry how to handle these materials."

"Yes, Master." Kasha walked into the warehouse and began to explain to Kerry the methods and key points for handling various materials.

Jacob demonstrated the skill of a professional fireman, gripping the bellows lever with his large hands, pulling and pushing, the wind whistling, and in no time the coal was ignited.

Nora and Carl stood aside, watching nervously. This test was not only about whether Jacob could be admitted, but also about whether their family could gain a foothold in the Abyss.

The fire was lit, and Charlotte lit the two alchemy furnaces first. She rubbed a piece of pork with skin around the inside, the method and process being no different from opening a large iron wok for cooking at home.

These two pots are replicas of his big black pot to the same scale, and they are quite professional medicine-making furnaces.

Guy and his team put a lot of effort into forging these two pots, and there were no obvious flaws inside or out.

Once both pots were boiled, Vivian used her Cleansing spell to wash them inside and out, and the large alchemy furnace was ready to use.

"Boss, how do you refine medicine in such a huge furnace?" Vivian looked up at the cauldron, which was almost twice her height, and asked in a low voice.

"Size is just a superficial thing. As long as you master this alchemy furnace, there is no difference in the process of making potions," Charlotte smiled. "Of course, I will first explore the standardized process, including time, heat, and steps. Once it is standardized, anyone can be an alchemist."

Under Kasha's tutelage, Kerry quickly got the hang of it, wielding a small iron hammer with remarkable skill, displaying the flair of a master blacksmith, and soon delivered the materials he needed.

Charlotte started by refining a simpler, lower-level cleansing potion, climbing up the high platform next to the iron pot and throwing the ingredients into it.

The process of refining this three-meter-deep pot was indeed not as simple as I had imagined.

As soon as the heat came up, the pot turned completely white, and before he could even see what was going on, a burnt smell wafted out.

"Doctor, this shouldn't be my fault, right?" Jacob said innocently.

"It's none of your business, just keep the heat on." Charlotte nodded and told Vivian to wash the pot.

Replacing the furnace with a new one requires an adaptation process; both the firepower and the furnace's characteristics are new to everyone.

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After three more failures, Jacob, who was sitting below tending the fire, was so angry that his face turned black. On the fifth try, Charlotte finally succeeded.

The crane lifted the still-boiling medicine furnace and moved it to the bottling area at the back. A faint medicinal aroma wafted through the workshop, drawing cheers from the crowd.

"Finally, it's a success! This batch is equivalent to ten batches of cleaning potion I've made!" Vivian said excitedly.

Charlotte, on the other hand, remained much calmer. She took out paper and pen and meticulously recorded all the steps and time involved in the successful concoction. This would serve as the standard for the concoction of the cleaning potion.

Then he began to refine hemostatic medicine. As he became more familiar with the giant alchemy furnace, he succeeded in refining the basic hemostatic medicine after only three failed attempts.

"Alright, Jacob, put out the fire. You're accepted." Charlotte stepped down from the platform and smiled as she extended her hand to Jacob.

Jacob stared at Charlotte's outstretched hand, then quickly wiped his coal-dust-covered hands on his clothes before cautiously taking hers. He asked, somewhat incredulously, "Doctor, do you mean I can work for you?"

"That's right, the job of tending the fire will be yours from now on. You are indeed an experienced fire-tender." Charlotte nodded. Jacob was not exaggerating. His fire-tendering skills were indeed good. The fire was continuous and stable. There was no need to worry about the refining process failing due to changes in the fire. This made it easier to control the refining time.

"That's great!" Nora exclaimed, hugging Jacob with delight.

"Great, great!" Karl jumped and danced around Jacob.

"Nora, after these two potions cool down, you need to bottle them all, label them, and pack them into boxes." Charlotte looked at Nora. "You're a novice water mage, and with your skillful use of magic, this job shouldn't be too difficult for you."

"Okay, doctor." Nora nodded, having no objection to Charlotte's arrangements.

"Boss, I'd also like to try making potions in this big pot," Vivian said eagerly.

"These are the standards for the large-scale cauldron refining process. Memorize them before you start. If you ruin a whole cauldron, you'll lose thousands of copper coins worth of materials." Charlotte shoved the notebook into her arms and warned her earnestly.

"Oh." Vivian hugged her notebook and walked to the side to recite it seriously.

Kerry, Jacob, and Nora were officially starting their jobs today. Charlotte had them sign an employment contract, which mainly consisted of a confidentiality agreement.

Charlotte intends to promote the development of the potion, but does not plan to release the potion formula to the public now, so she wants to prevent the formula from being leaked from the source.

The three had no objections and readily signed the contract.

In addition to the confidentiality agreement, Charlotte also set salary standards for the three of them.

The base salary is 1000 copper coins, and you receive a commission of 1 copper coin for each potion you refine.

Don't underestimate the commission of 1 copper coin. A successful batch of potions can fill at least 100 bottles.

With such a large workshop, once the skill level and success rate improve, it should be able to refine at least ten batches of potions a day.

With commissions alone, a month's salary can easily exceed ten thousand.

Such a salary is hard to find anywhere else in the abyss.

Nora is a water magic apprentice, a talent she inherited as a half-elf.

After the two batches of potions cooled down, she silently chanted an incantation and began to guide the potions into the glass potion bottles. This method was highly efficient and much cleaner and more hygienic than bottling.

After filling, labels are affixed, and the medicine bottles are placed in special boxes for temporary storage in the warehouse.

Throughout the process, little Carl sat quietly to the side watching his mother work, without making a fuss, showing remarkable good manners and obedience.

"Has this child ever attended school?" Charlotte asked Nora.

"We were planning to send him to school next year, he's almost old enough to go, but that incident happened, so we have to put it on hold for now..." Nora looked at Karl and sighed softly.

"It's all my fault." Jacob sighed, his eyes filled with self-blame.

"I'll ask around for you. If it's suitable, let this child go to Abyss Academy next year," Charlotte said.

Jacob and Nora were stunned, both looking at Charlotte with disbelief.

"You...you mean, let Karl study in the Abyss?" Nora whispered.

"Does the Abyss have an academy?" Jacob asked, but regretted it as soon as he said it.

Charlotte smiled and nodded: "That's right. Abyss Academy was only recently established. The child is still young and shouldn't waste time in the workshop."

"Thank you so much!" Nora said gratefully.

"Thank you," Jacob replied.

Because a suitable apothecary could not be recruited, he and Vivian would have to be in charge of the potion-making process for the time being, so the working hours of the potion workshop were temporarily set for the afternoon.

A half-day workday system will be implemented.

"Boss, is my commission also 1 copper coin?" On the way back in the carriage, Vivian looked at Charlotte with expectant eyes and asked.

"That's right, your commission is also 1 copper coin per potion." Charlotte nodded.

Based on this calculation, the additional labor cost for each bottle of potion is 4 copper coins. Even the cheapest cleaning potion costs 100 copper coins, so this cost is still within a controllable range.

"Then I'll start work tomorrow. But the clinic is so far from here. Do you rent a carriage every day? Now that the workshop is built, why not buy a carriage?" Vivian asked another question.

Charlotte thought about it carefully for a while. It was indeed a problem worth considering. There had to be a carriage to travel between the clinic and the workshop. Otherwise, the journey alone would take an hour, and more importantly, it was not very safe.

Owning a horse-drawn carriage is not only convenient for daily travel, but can also be used for delivering goods, so it can be considered a necessity.

Renting a carriage like today costs five hundred copper coins a day, which is not cheap.

However, purchasing a carriage is not cheap either. The price of two horses pulling the carriage exceeds 100,000 copper coins, and if you also purchase a decent carriage, you will have to add tens of thousands of copper coins.

Charlotte just invested over a million copper coins in the potion workshop, and money is exactly what she needs right now.

The purchase of carriages will have to be postponed for a while longer.

Charlotte returned the carriage, and the three of them took bus number 11 back to the clinic.

"Charlotte, you're finally back!" Charlotte and her companions had just arrived at the clinic when someone ran out of the bookstore next door.

"What are you doing here?" Charlotte asked Leo.

Leo grinned, revealing a mouthful of white teeth: "I'm here to restock. The potions are almost sold out. If I don't come to restock, I'll have to close down tomorrow."

"Sold out?" Charlotte was a little surprised. A few days ago when he went to Calva, Leo and Linda were still worried about the potions not selling well. He didn't expect that in just a few days, the shelves would be empty.

"Yes, you have no idea how booming our pharmacy business is right now. First aid kits are extremely popular, and the ten bottles of Golden Stamina Potions you brought are all sold out." Leo nodded and said, "I'm here today to order 200 sets of basic first aid kits and 200 sets of intermediate first aid kits, as well as 100 bottles of Golden Stamina Potions."

"Okay, I'll deliver the goods to you within three days." Charlotte nodded.

Leo immediately shook his head: "No, three days is too long. How much stock do you have in your store? I'll take some with me. I came by car, so you don't need to deliver it."

Charlotte hadn't expected Leo to be in such a hurry, but of course she couldn't turn down such a good deal that was practically offering money. As she opened the door, she said, "Come in, I'll give you all my stock. If that's not enough, I'll make a few more batches for you to take with you."

"Great, that's what I've been waiting for." Leo happily followed him inside.

Charlotte first inventoried all the medicines on the shelf: a total of 80 low-level first aid kits, 40 mid-level first aid kits, and 16 bottles of gold stamina potions.

It was getting late, and considering that Leo had to return to Calva before dark, Charlotte first brewed four batches of Golden Stamina Potions for him, making a total of 56 bottles.

"Alright, it's getting late. You take this batch of goods back and sell it. I'll have someone deliver the rest to your door tomorrow afternoon." Charlotte helped him load the potions onto the carriage.

"The total cost for all the potions should be 200,000 copper coins. I only have 100,000 copper coins on hand. Can I give you the rest when I pick up the next shipment?" Leo said, handing over a heavy money bag.

"This is a one-time offer to pay on credit," Charlotte said earnestly as she took the money pouch.

"No problem. Once this batch of goods is sold, we definitely won't need to extend credit anymore," Leo nodded with a smile.

"Alright, it's getting late, you should go back now." Charlotte took two steps back and watched Leo's carriage leave.

"Boss, don't you always refuse to let people owe money? How come you agreed to let Leo owe so much money?" Vivian stood at the door, looking at Charlotte with a puzzled expression.

Charlotte closed the door and said with a smile, "Normally when we treat patients, if we don't get the money we owe, it's very difficult to get it back. But Leo is different. He's currently our only medicine distributor. Our medicine workshop has just opened, and what we need most is a distributor who can buy hundreds of thousands of units at a time. Their medicine shop is just getting on track, so helping them out is also helping ourselves."

"Aren't you worried he'll run away?"

"He's the grandson of the Second Elder of the Physicians' Association. At worst, we can go to his grandfather to collect the debt," Charlotte said with a nonchalant smile.

The fact that Leo and Linda's apothecary shop was able to open up sales channels was also a great thing for him; otherwise, once the apothecary workshop was on track, it would be hard to know where to sell the increased daily production capacity.

What he's curious about now is what kind of expression Leo's high-ranking grandfather would have when he finds out that his beloved grandson is selling medicine.

If he knew that the potions Leo was selling were sourced from him, he would probably be even more furious.

"You don't need to refine the potions tonight. Your job is to extract all the bovine pancreas from the cellar into insulin. The syringes and needles have already been delivered. Make all the injection potions tonight, and they can take the insulin home for injection tomorrow." Charlotte walked towards the laboratory, opened the cellar, revealing three tons of bovine pancreas underneath.

"No problem," Vivian nodded.

In the past two days, we have had a number of diabetic patients come to see us. Currently, we have eight patients who need insulin injections every day. They all came after being notified by Pang Hu.

The most serious case involved an eight-year-old girl who arrived in a coma. After three days of insulin injections, she has regained consciousness and her condition has significantly improved.

Giving hope back to desperate patients is her greatest achievement these days.

The feeling of saving a life deeply inspired her.

Unlike the usual methods of saving patients through surgery and treatment, she and Charlotte created insulin, which could potentially save tens of thousands of lives.

I learned from the patients I've been in contact with these past few days that they had all come into contact with patients who had the same disease to varying degrees, and the proportion and number of such patients were not small.

"Boss, there's something I'd like to discuss with you." Vivian looked at Charlotte, hesitant to speak.

"What's wrong?" Charlotte looked at her. This girl was usually very outgoing and rarely acted so coy.

"But... could the price of insulin be lowered a bit?" Vivian pondered. "At this price, many patients still can't afford it, since it's a medication that needs to be injected every day."

"What price do you think would be appropriate?" Charlotte asked with a smile.

The cost of medicine is one thousand copper coins a day, which adds up to thirty thousand copper coins a month. Even a well-off family would find it difficult to afford, a fact that Charlotte was well aware of.

"I've calculated that the cost of each bottle of medicine is no more than 5 copper coins. I can forgo the commission on insulin purification. If the price of each bottle of insulin injection is set at 100 copper coins, more patients will be able to afford this medicine." Vivian looked at him and said earnestly, "Connie's father said that he only has enough money for Connie to have three injections. If the price can be lowered, that money can cover her injections for a month, so her father can go and earn money for her medical expenses."

Charlotte knew that Connie was that little eight-year-old girl, who had been suffering from diabetes for many years and whose family was of modest means. They had already emptied their savings to treat her illness.

The monthly medical expenses of 30,000 copper coins were nothing short of giving her hope only to lose it again.

"You should know that with the number of diabetic patients, insulin is currently the only life-saving drug, and we can make a lot of money from it. We extracted the insulin together, and I plan to give you a third of the profits." Charlotte looked into her eyes and asked gently, "Are you sure you want to lower the price to 100 copper coins?"

Vivian nodded without hesitation, "That's right, I can do it for free. I just hope to save more people, like poor children like Connie."

The girl's eyes were so bright, as if they were shining with light.

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