The girl selling goods at the market had never seen money before.

Besides, they are Yao Yao's friends and business partners. If we say anything too harsh, it will hurt Yao Yao's feelings.

Someday, when Yao Yao comes into contact with the dark side of the wealthy, she will understand.

Zhang Mengli and Yao Yao can still be classmates for now, but after they graduate in a few years and she goes back to inherit Qiangjian Company, will they still be able to address each other as classmates?

She is, after all, an heir, not an ordinary person engaged in scientific research.

"Yaoyao, pretend I didn't say anything. I was overthinking it. Zhang Mengli is a friend worth befriending."

Bai Jinxuan smiled.

Upon hearing her approval, Yao Yao nodded repeatedly and returned the smile.

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No. 2 Middle School, girls’ dormitory.

Looking at Zhang Mengli's room, Bai Jinxuan once again felt the gap between the two schools.

"Are your dormitories centralized?"

"What else?" Murong Yao blinked, wondering what was so strange about it.

She then added, "Didn't I send you a video when I first enrolled? It's a private room for one person, and it's huge!"

"..."

Bai Jinxuan didn't know how to put it, but at No. 1 High School, her dormitory was comparable to a villa, with multiple floors.

Even for students outside the school campus, their dormitories are also one person per floor, with 7 or 8 rooms for individual use, and also equipped with private training rooms.

The difference is amazing...

No wonder No. 1 High School is said to be the best high school in Star City. Its credit system alone puts it miles ahead of other schools.

Following along, we arrived at Zhang Mengli's laboratory. Inside, all sorts of bottles were arranged on the table. Moreover, the walls, corners, and everywhere in sight were filled with medicine bottles.

He's practically a drug-making fanatic...

Zhang Mengli took a packet of transparent powder from the wall and handed it to Yao Yao: "This is it. Its raw material is the stomach of the Rafflesia flower. Now it has been specially treated and is no longer corrosive. You can use it to melt magic crystals to create a potion full of magic power. It is much cheaper than magic incense or nutritional meals."

She then added, "However, the current bottleneck is that the amount of magic crystals that can be melted is limited. If too much is used, it will produce toxins. Currently, 30 pieces, which is about 1000 magic crystals or less, is within the safe range. If we want to sell them, I think 500 magic crystals per set would be sufficient."

The moment she finished speaking, Bai Jinxuan's mind went blank.

What? It's poisonous? I didn't feel anything!

I killed a giant Rafflesia, and the digestive powder inside can be directly melted into magic crystals worth 20!

So it needs to be used in conjunction with other products? Really? ...I've been soaking in medicinal baths for so long, and I've always just been stuffing magic crystals in.

Could it be that my constitution is working its magic?

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Ps:

Thank you so much for the treasure chest, I love you qwq

Volume 1: Chapter 145: The Girl Who Looks Like a Prince

Watching Yao Yao and Zhang Mengli tinkering in the lab for a long time, Bai Jinxuan finally understood what they meant by 'testing'.

Drugs need to undergo pharmacodynamic testing before being marketed to ensure that they have no side effects and won't cause fatalities like some kind of miracle drug.

During the process of observing their testing, Bai Jinxuan discovered that although Zhang Mengli was the first person to sell the powder, her powder was different from her own.

Her powder contained many impurities. From her words, it can be inferred that she made the powder by directly crushing and removing the corrosiveness of the Rafflesia flower's stomach.

As is well known, the Rafflesia has two stomachs: one secretes a physical corrosive liquid, and the other secretes a magical digestive liquid. These can be extracted to produce corrosive agents and magical powders, respectively.

Zhang Mengli had no idea about this characteristic of the Rafflesia. She only knew that the Rafflesia's stomach contained a substance that could decompose magic crystals, and that the corrosive liquid was, in her opinion, some kind of 'poison'.

Different raw materials result in different medicinal properties.

In other words, the upper limit for melting magic crystals she mentioned, and the fact that adding too much would be toxic, is likely because she mixed in fragments of the digestive organs of the Rafflesia.

It's important to know that prey plants are all somewhat poisonous, and it's normal for them to secrete a little poison when the magical environment is fully utilized.

If you take out the tree spirit's seed and light some smoke, that tiny fragment might just reignite under the influence of the tree spirit's growth hormone!

After figuring all this out, Bai Jinxuan found their test results rather amusing.

This is a completely off-brand prescription... But it's fine if Yao Yao makes some money, since they do business on the surface and it doesn't affect the Witch's Apothecary's status in the dungeon.

Even if they become famous in the future and it affects the Witch's Apothecary, it doesn't matter.

I don't make a living from this stuff.

With so many medicine formulas on hand, why would I need to compete with the two of them?

Once I reach level 4 and the Witch's Apothecary has established itself, a large number of new drugs will be launched, and the money will come in no time, right?

With enough money, there are many other magical environmental methods that are faster, of higher quality, and more convenient than medicinal baths.

For example, magical incense, magical gems, etc., can make you stronger just by breathing without doing anything. Compared to these, the time-wasting medicinal bath that requires you to stay still and force yourself to control yourself is simply not worth it.

Thinking of this, Bai Jinxuan shifted her gaze and watched as Murong Yao put several magic crystals into the potion. After it melted, she put a white mouse in and used magic to monitor its physical changes in real time.

Five minutes later, everything was normal, and she continued to add magic crystals.

When the magic crystals priced at 1000 were inserted, the mice began to struggle violently and showed signs of poisoning.

At this moment, Bai Jinxuan keenly sensed movement in the debris floating on the pool.

It was indeed due to impurities...

While she was deep in thought, Murong Yao gave her conclusion: "Magic testing shows that it is relatively safe to use magic crystals with a price below 1000. However, we should supplement the instruction manual to prevent someone from accidentally adding too many magic crystals and getting poisoned."

"Well, although it was the result I expected, it's still a relief. It's good that you can detect magic..."

Before Zhang Mengli could finish speaking, Bai Jinxuan took out several large magic crystals from her bag and asked, "Can I test it?"

"Xiaoxuan, you can detect magic too?"

Yao Yao asked as she stepped aside.

Zhang Mengli was also a little curious at this point: "Aren't you a science student?"

"Just to verify my guess."

Bai Jinxuan reached out and quickly scooped up the crumbs from the surface of the pool, then threw the magic crystal into it.

The large pieces of magic crystal began to bubble violently upon contact with the potion, and instantly the entire pool boiled.

This situation left the two liberal arts girls speechless. The pool water's reaction was so strong, indicating that those magic crystals were high-grade, concentrated specimens, probably worth tens of thousands...

In other words—the mice will die!

They immediately looked at the white mouse, which was half-submerged in the pool. Surprisingly, the mouse was very quiet, with its eyes half-closed and a peaceful expression on its face.

???

Zhang Mengli was the first to ask, "What's going on? The magic concentration clearly exceeded the critical value long ago, so why is it still so quiet? Shouldn't it have been poisoned to death by the toxins produced by the excessive magic crystals? Miss Bai Jinxuan, what did you do?"

"It's simple, I've retrieved the toxins."

After she finished speaking, her palms were finally no longer concealed and were revealed.

Monster fragments.

For a moment, the two of them stared wide-eyed, unsure how to react.

Seeing this, Bai Jinxuan put the monster fragments back into the pool. Instantly, the little white mouse howled as if it were suffering some kind of great torment.

Seeing that the white mouse was about to die, Murong Yao quickly used her telekinetic powers to save it, then gave it a life-saving potion and put it back in its cage.

At this moment, Zhang Mengli immediately realized the reason why things had turned out this way.

"Is the poisonous part the debris?"

“That’s right, can’t you sense it?” Bai Jinxuan spread her hands and said, “Logically speaking, you liberal arts students should have very strong perception abilities.”

"What kind of perception?"

"The perception of magic power? When using magic, magic power flows from the magic circuits in the body and is transmitted to the props and magic circles...aren't these all forms of the perception of magic power?"

"But that's inside my own body! How can I sense magic from the outside? Without physical contact, it's impossible to sense it, okay?"

Zhang Mengli felt that her explanation might not be clear enough, so she continued, "Even magical artifacts detect and assess magic through physical contact. Contacting the air detects the concentration of magic in the air, contacting river water detects the concentration in the river water... How could you sense these fragments without touching them?"

This touches on a blind spot in Bai Jinxuan's knowledge: how did she perceive it? She just perceived it like that...

Seriously, isn't there something wrong with what she said? Is physical contact really necessary? My own magic detector has a similar effect, doesn't it?

Bai Jinxuan first asked Yao Yao, and the answer was that physical contact was necessary. Then she searched the forum at No. 1 Middle School and the union's information section, and the results were all the same: physical contact was required.

Okay, that's okay.

After turning off the smart bracelet, she and Zhang Mengli looked at each other.

The scene was a little awkward, but she managed to keep her expression straight.

"It's just a little talent of mine~ Instead of this, you should hurry up and improve the powder. If you remove these crumbs, it should be free of poison."

"..."

Although the topic shift was abrupt, for Zhang Mengli and Murong Yao, the most urgent task was indeed to improve the potion, rather than prying into other people's little secrets.

And so, the two of them immersed themselves in scientific research again until night fell, when they finally broke free from their heavy workload.

"You guys have finally finished your research. I'm starving. What are we going to eat later?"

"I have some body-strengthening biscuits and fasting pills here, Xiaoxuan, do you want them?" Yaoyao asked.

Bai Jinxuan finally couldn't hold back anymore.

We agreed to go shopping on the way, and it was supposed to be just a short while, but what happened? I ended up working on her until evening.

Yao Yao is such a big liar!

Going out to play is like doing scientific research, and eating is like eating exercise biscuits and fasting pills. It's rare to get together at No. 2 Middle School, and this is just unbelievable!

"The cafeteria, the cafeteria, did you never eat in the cafeteria at No. 2 Middle School?"

"Going to the cafeteria takes too much time. Students should focus more on studying. I still have some homework to do..."

"Stop doing your homework! Come on, come out and play with me!"

Bai Jinxuan couldn't stand it anymore, so she grabbed Yao Yao's hand and started to walk out, causing Yao Yao to exclaim in surprise, "Xiao Xuan, wait... that's so rude of you..."

As she spoke, she turned her head and waved to Zhang Mengli, who was still packing her things: "Zhang Mengli, we'll be going now..."

"Goodbye!" Bai Jinxuan echoed, then continued holding Yao Yao's hand, grinning as she said, "Is that considered polite?"

"Not counting."

Murong Yao puffed out her cheeks and said seriously, "You should say goodbye properly. This is too frivolous."

"You're taking it too seriously..."

The two voices gradually faded away, leaving Zhang Mengli alone in the large room, raising her right hand and swaying it from side to side.

"Goodbye."

Her voice wasn't loud, but it was steady.

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Outside the dormitory building, Bai Jinxuan pulled her sun hat down low, wore sunglasses, and hid behind Murong Yao, trying to avoid being seen.

But she underestimated Murong Yao's popularity. She had just come out of the lab and, without covering her face, bumped into students who were returning to their dorms after dinner.

"Murong Yao—! It's Murong Yao!"

Someone shouted, and then...

As soon as he saw the money, a large group of people cast their fervent gazes at him.

"Oops!"

Realizing what was happening too late, Murong Yao quickly put on a mask, but it was too late to cover her face. The fans spotted her immediately and swarmed around her.

Seeing this, Murong Yao subconsciously took a step back, which landed right on Bai Jinxuan's shoulder.