After the disaster

On the afternoon of July No. 12, Shen Xing and his party returned safely, which made Qiu Cheng greatly relieved. When people's hearts are floating and the society is unstable, it is definitely a very dangerous thing to travel far with a large amount of food.

"Did the journey go well?" On this day, Qiu Cheng's family phone finally came in handy, and Shen Xing called him from the fish factory.

"Our side is okay, but Lao Hu's side is not going well. He originally planned to accompany me to finalize the introduction of technology, equipment, and fish fry before going to work on his own affairs. Who knows that when I get it done, then The side is not very flat, and we are foreigners, and the locals don't accept the cornmeal we take, so Lao Hu didn't make any business this time." Said Shen Xing on the other end of the phone.

"Then what did he say?" Qiu Cheng asked.

"What else can I say? Don't say anything. It's very boring along the way. I told him that it's better to save the cornmeal and buy some real estate. If there is nothing to do in the next period of time, let him give it to our parents first." Help me from the fish factory," Shen Xing said.

"What are you going to ask him to do?" Qiu Cheng asked with concern.

"It's just to collect some bugs for us. Isn't there a lot of bugs now? Stock up more, and it will be useful in winter." Most of the fry Shen Xing introduced this time are omnivorous, and they can be fed insect powder. When they get older, they can even be fed fresh worms.

"How is things going in the fish factory?" Qiu Cheng asked again.

"Very good. I dug two workers from the east and came back from our province. It's only two hours' journey from our Xinnan City to their hometown. They were very angry at working in that fish farm. We paid more wages, and they came back with us."

When Shen Xing said this, he was quite proud. That fish farm is really ruthless, the asking price is too high, and the attitude is not good. Some issues have been discussed before, but when it comes to the transaction, they will create some moths to make trouble For the sake of their own fish farming factory, Shen Xing and the others endured it all, and when they left, they poached his two old employees, which was regarded as reciprocation.

Well, in fact, she already had the idea of ​​bringing in one or two technicians from the very beginning. During the whole process of trading and learning, she had been looking for one or two technicians. She originally wanted to do it through that fish farm, but then they The whole party was a little annoyed by it, and they knew that those people were very difficult to talk to. After Shen Xing and Lao Hu made a plan together, they decided to poach the wall secretly, and ran away after digging.

Qiu Cheng also found it a little funny when Shen Xing told about the process of their poaching: "Aren't you afraid of being blocked?"

"Afraid! Why aren't you afraid? Everyone in the car was extremely nervous, and they finally breathed a sigh of relief when they crossed the provincial border." Shen Xing laughed loudly. "When you and Ah Chang have time, come and have a look. Our fish farming factory will look good soon."

"I have time to take Ah Chang there." Qiu Cheng replied vaguely.

The more severe the situation outside, the more they have to guard their base camp. Qiu Cheng decided to try to go out as little as possible these days, especially the south of the city is so far away, and it will take a long time to go back and forth. Qiu Cheng is worried. home.

In a few days, news that the virus from the south was spreading to the north had spread throughout the country in all large, medium and small cities.

At the same time, the country has also taken countermeasures, conducting large-scale random inspections of grain and seeds across the country, using all available forces, and once discovered, they will be strictly investigated to the end, and finally those who ignore the national management system from the southern control area will be found out. Anyone who transports grain outside must be investigated for criminal responsibility and sentenced according to the specific amount of grain transported.

Over the past few days, several seed shops in Xinnan City have been closed, and the seed stall in the night market has also disappeared.

Qiu Cheng heard from people in the Jiayuan community that some of the seeds in that stall were found to be faulty, and then the stall owner was taken away. He has not been released yet, but he is a stall selling seeds, and there is no The problem should not be very serious if the seeds and grains are directly transported from the south for sale.

These days, Qiu Cheng and Ah Chang stayed at home and didn't go out very much. They just went out to catch some bugs occasionally in the early morning or evening, and sometimes went to Wang's house for a walk. They never stayed outside and went home within an hour at most. .

The Wang family has stopped selling tofu recently. Apart from making fermented bean curd, they usually do other things to pass the time.

Not only the Wang family, but the whole world, no matter which country or corner, everyone hopes that human beings can survive this disaster safely. Life has just returned to normal. In the past few months, almost everyone has done their best to help I and my family are working hard in the future life, and just now I saw a ray of hope, and no one can bear the hope that is close at hand is shattered, and life returns to the darkness of five years ago again.

In Xinnan City, almost everyone is waiting anxiously, hoping that good news will come sooner, and scientists can break through the virus as soon as possible, so that their lives can return to normal.

At home and abroad, countless people are working hard day and night for this goal, but a brand new virus is not so easy to overcome and defeat.

Before they enter the human body, humans have countless ways to destroy them, high temperature, low temperature, chemical...

But as soon as they enter the human body, and most people's bodies have little resistance to this virus, disaster will happen.

Qiu Cheng also wanted to know if this virus was really invincible. Although he did not have profound biological knowledge, high-end research equipment, or any research experience, he had his strengths.

To this end, he ordered a batch of seeds from the Internet, mainly crops in tropical areas. After receiving the goods, as expected, some problematic seeds were mixed in them.

Qiu Cheng tried to temper these seeds with spiritual energy. The principle was similar to his refining jade, but there was a huge gap in the amount of spiritual energy used and the skill.

After several attempts, Qiu Cheng finally succeeded in purifying one diseased seed, and then he tried to purify the second and third seeds, and finally he found that the energy consumed to purify one seed was actually more energy than refining one. There are much more large pieces of jade.

Qiu Cheng knew that this was because seeds were alive, but jade was lifeless, and living things were always much more complicated than some dead things in nature.

In the process of purifying the seeds, if Qiu Cheng is careless, the seed will lose its vitality. Even if these lifeless seeds are eaten, their benefits to the human body are far less than that of health. of vital seeds.

After several attempts, Qiu Cheng finally realized the fact that with his ability, even if he was tired, he could not do much to purify the problematic seeds and grains circulating in the market.

The road was blocked, so Qiu Cheng had to change his mind. "Muxiu's Notes" recorded the refining of some commonly used elixir, and there was a kind of elixir called "Jie Baidu". The refining method was a bit strange, but the materials were not Not hard to find, are some very common Chinese herbal medicine.

Over the years, because every temporary base basically adopts Western medicine for treatment, Chinese medicine has almost disappeared due to the shortage of medicinal materials and other reasons. Now there is not even a Chinese medicine store in Xinnan City, so Qiu Cheng had to continue to shop online.

Because of the restoration of the network, the transactions on the network have gradually become active, which naturally promotes the development of the express delivery industry. The current express delivery industry is relatively chaotic, but the service is not inconsiderate, including the payment collection service. Of course, the so-called payment for goods most of the time refers to cornmeal.

Qiu Cheng found an online store with a wide variety of Chinese herbal medicines, took pictures of several kinds of Chinese herbal medicines he needed, and chose cash on delivery after confirming the order. After two days, the package of Chinese herbal medicines was delivered to Jiayuan district.

Qiu Cheng signed for the delivery, opened the box and checked it, then took out the electronic scale, weighed some cornmeal and handed it to the courier, the courier took the cornmeal, took out a hanging scale from his pocket, weighed it and confirmed the weight was correct , took the courier signed by Qiu Cheng and the cornmeal collected on behalf of him and left.

Qiu Cheng had never tried alchemy before, so it stands to reason that since he had successfully established the foundation, he had the foundation for alchemy, which of course was just some common pills.The higher one's cultivation level is, the higher the level of alchemy is, and the higher the quality of the elixir that can be refined, it's a pity that there are not many records of alchemy in "Wood Xiu's Notes".

The most basic requirements for alchemy utensils are high heat resistance and uniform heating in the utensils, and better utensils are not so easy to obtain. Cast out of high-quality materials, each one is priceless.

Fortunately, what is recorded in the "Wood Repair Notes" are some basic medicines, which do not require such advanced equipment, and ordinary equipment will do.

To be evenly heated, Qiu Cheng naturally thought of casserole. There were several casserole in a room on the fifteenth floor. Qiu Cheng found one that looked better, and prepared the medicinal materials and fire according to the book. source.

As for the fire source, Qiu Cheng chose the stove at home, because according to the book, this fire source must be able to be precisely controlled by spiritual power at any time according to the alchemist's needs, and gas stoves and induction cookers obviously cannot.

After making these preparations, what is left at the end is "poison". The so-called "resolving a hundred poisons" does not mean using the same pill to cure white poisons, but the alchemist needs to extract the "poison" that needs to be solved. After completing the refining process of "resolving hundreds of poisons", the final product obtained is the detoxification pill needed by alchemists.

The process of extracting this "poison" is rather troublesome. Before purifying the seeds, Qiu Cheng used the method of directly destroying those viruses. What he has to do now is to extract the aura of those viruses from the diseased seeds.

Everything in the world has aura, and viruses naturally also exist, but the amount of it is very small, and it takes a lot of energy and patience to extract it.

For the first time, it took Qiu Cheng more than an hour to extract a small amount of "poison" from those problem seeds, and it took more than three hours to refine the first batch of "jiebaidu". The medicine dregs at the bottom of the casserole.

Without Cheng Dan, it would be a failure. Qiu Cheng meditated for a while, sorted out the spiritual power in his body, and soon started the second attempt.

"..." Ah Chang squatted behind the stove, and slowly filled the stove with pieces of wood. Under the operation of Qiu Cheng's spiritual power, the flame in the hearth sometimes burned blazingly, and sometimes turned into a bean-sized kindling.

He was a little unhappy that Qiu Cheng had been so busy these two days that he didn't have time to talk to him, but he had to admit in his heart that Qiu Cheng was still very good-looking when he was serious about alchemy. I don't feel tired.

"Okay." After completing the final steps, Qiu Cheng let out a sigh of relief.

"Oh." Ah Chang took a piece of cloth from the shelf next to it, covered the casserole, and quickly lifted the lid of the casserole through the cloth.

"Is it done?" Qiu Cheng asked.

"En." Ah Chang responded, put the lid of the casserole on the ground next to it, reached out and quickly took out a pill from it, and put it on the small table next to it.

Qiu Cheng looked up, and saw that the elixir on the small table was red all over, and there was still a faint streamer. After a while, the streamer slowly dissipated, and the crimson color gradually faded, and the elixir became It's dark and inconspicuous.

There are a total of six such pills in the casserole, and the rest are still dregs. It seems that he still wasted a lot of materials. If he is more proficient, he may be able to practice more pills.

In order to test whether these elixirs are really effective, Qiu Cheng and Ah Chang went out to catch a few mice one night and came back, and fed them some problematic seeds. At first, the mice could not see anything unusual , On the second day, something seemed wrong, dying, as if he was going to die soon.

Then Qiu Cheng fed them some "jiebaidu". He crushed a pill with his hands and fed each mouse a little.

Once the elixir is ready, then the properties of the elixir will be complete. Failure to make the elixir means the failure of alchemy. After the elixir is formed, it does not matter what form it is used. No matter whether you swallow it whole, chew it or soak it in water, the properties of the medicine will not be affected.

Another day later, Qiu Cheng found that the mice looked energetic again, so he knew that the elixir he had refined should be useful.

Of course, it is not enough to do experiments on animals. If a new drug is suitable for humans, it must be used by someone to know.

The purpose of Qiu Cheng's refinement of these elixirs is to bring a ray of life to those who are struggling to survive the death line due to infection with this virus. Naturally, let them verify whether Qiu Cheng and Ah Chang each put on disposable gloves and cloth shoes without any patterns on the soles they found from the grocery pile on the fifteenth floor, and quietly left the Jiayuan community.

They carefully avoided the surveillance cameras in the city and went to the third hospital quietly. I heard that all the suspected cases in Xinnan were concentrated in the third hospital this time.

When they got outside the third hospital, they didn't go in through the gate, but climbed over the wall from the outside to a ward on the fifth floor.

This is a single ward, Qiu Cheng checked out the window, confirmed that there was no camera inside, and brought Ah Chang in.

In the dead of night, the patient on the bed and a relative who was accompanying him were both sound asleep. Qiu Cheng used spiritual power to probe the patient's body and confirmed that he was indeed infected with the virus that came from the south, so he left it on the bedside table next to him. A "relief of one hundred poisons".

It stands to reason that this is the end of the matter, but before leaving, Qiu Cheng was a little worried that the pill would be thrown away by them in a daze.

Qiu Cheng saw a ballpoint pen on the table, thought for a while, then folded it back, took out the refill of the ballpoint pen, removed the metal head on it, and let the pen oil inside flow into a pool on the tabletop of the bedside table. Only then did they use spiritual power to guide them to spell out four large characters that were scrawled on the table.

"A lifeline".