Chapter 193

197. Chapter 197: Knocking on the big bamboo pole, knock, knock, knock

Lin Ke was speechless.

Did you really have to be so direct, big boss?

You could have at least said a few polite words, like boosting morale or inspiring the team.

Besides, apart from the three you brought along later, everyone else was "extorted" from the Medical Department, weren't they?

Their personnel files still officially belong to the Medical Department.

Taking the Medical Department's own staff to smash the Medical Department's own stage.

I can't believe you actually thought of that.

In fact, it wasn't just Lin Ke who was speechless.

The five pharmacy researchers and pharmacists from the Medical Department all had expressions that were hard to describe.

This is what you call a "cuckold manifesto," isn't it?

What the hell is this "what the f*ck" situation!

Can you not be so provocative!

Mengluo didn't care about any of this and ignored everyone's expressions.

He brought his team and equipment, full of vigor and high spirits, and rushed to the front line.

After some transfers, the Pharmacy Department support team successfully arrived at the camp where the 60,000+ contaminated fairies were being concentrated.

The Five-Race Joint Government had done its best to ensure order in the camp.

A large army was stationed nearby to suppress any unrest, forcing them to line up in an orderly fashion to prevent riots.

They were terrified that the commoners would cause trouble and offend this group of terrifying wizards.

If that happened, another round of bloody suppression and slaughter would ensue.

Ruining a perfectly good situation.

If they were blamed for it later, no fairy would dare take responsibility.

When the Pharmacy Department support team arrived at the temporary wizard camp, they discovered:

The Medical Department's pharmacy researchers and pharmacists were already working at a feverish pace.

Tons of raw materials were being fed in like water.

Barrels of potion stock solution were being sent out like water.

Afterward, it was poured into a dispensing tank the size of a house, diluted, and then transported through pipes to the ten long queues.

Each contaminated fairy, when it was their turn, would take a large cup and drink it on the spot; they were not allowed to take it away.

This was to prevent many fairy parents from saving their portion for their children.

Mengluo arranged for eight Pharmacy Department staff members to go into the Medical Department's production line to help, then went to discuss matters with Salosaer.

Lin Ke began to observe these contaminated fairies.

Judging by their pupils and appearance, the distortion symptoms shown by these contaminated fairies were not significant enough, and the progression of the distortion was slow.

Clearly, the remnants of the Fairy Royal Family hadn't taken many finished potions from the "Biochemical Factory."

It was only after dilution that it could affect over 60,000 fairies.

The potion the Medical Department was currently producing at full capacity was a symptomatic treatment that could timely terminate the progression of the fairy distortion and replenish a certain amount of life force.

It treated both the symptoms and the root cause.

The only flaw was that it couldn't restore the already distorted physique and appearance.

After roughly understanding the general situation, Lin Ke felt suspicious; given the current circumstances, the Medical Department could have solved this entirely on their own.

It would just have taken a bit more time.

Salosaer Wizard had no need to apply to Sage Paro to borrow Lin Ke to come and help.

Could there be some other change that Lin Ke hadn't discovered yet?

At this moment, Mengluo beckoned to Lin Ke.

"Minister Mengluo, do you need something?"

Lin Ke walked over, asked first, and then greeted the wizard on the side, "Minister Salosaer, hello, I am Lin Ke Grand."

"I know you."

Salosaer Wizard spoke before Mengluo could, his tone gloomy as he said, "The little guy who has made my Medical Department lose face time and time again. You truly live up to being the genius pharmacist whose talent even Sage Celine claims is inferior to her own!"

Mengluo immediately retorted: "Losing face is because your ability is insufficient; who else can you blame?"

After retorting, Mengluo ignored Salosaer Wizard's ugly expression and said to Lin Ke:

"The Medical Department begged you to come because a fairy with a relatively important status has also been contaminated.

This fairy is very important for the Legion's implementation of the ideological war and the policy of tethering; it would be best if we could restore their appearance and looks.

The plans produced by the Medical Department all have flaws and cannot achieve perfection.

Therefore, they want to see if you, this genius who knows fairies extremely well, have any brilliant tricks.

Don't listen to the nonsense from these guys in the Medical Department; weigh it yourself and see if you can do it.

If you can't, we'll just pull out."

Lin Ke fell into deep thought upon hearing this.

Mengluo's words had a hidden meaning, and the implication was also quite shallow.

That is, this is a thorny matter; doing it well brings no merit, while messing it up brings blame.

The Medical Department is deliberately flattering you, blowing you up until you're floating, until you're self-satisfied, and then handing this thorny matter over to you.

If you solve it, you solve it, it doesn't matter.

If you don't solve it, they'll start mocking you.

Who told you to be so prominent and attract jealousy?

"Where is that fairy? Let me see the situation first before deciding."

Lin Ke had previously studied perfecting biochemical modification and enhancement, preventing external distortion from the very beginning.

He really hadn't seriously studied the process of reversing external distortion.

He was quite interested in this temporarily emerged research topic.

It was a challenge, neither too big nor too small.

"Over here."

Salosaer Wizard personally led Mengluo and Lin Ke.

They arrived at the back of the camp, at a simple, temporarily erected operating room.

Inside, a fairy whose distortion was relatively deep was sleeping, lying quietly on the operating table.

There was only one wizard nearby monitoring the fairy's vital signs.

Salosaer Wizard, Mengluo, and Lin Ke each performed disinfection procedures and walked into the operating room.

"May I perform the examination?"

After carefully observing the fairy's physical signs and the data on some of the testing instruments around the operating table, Lin Ke softly asked.

"Of course."

Salosaer Wizard nodded in agreement.

Having received permission, Lin Ke immediately began a physical examination of the fairy, and then, with the help of the equipment in the operating room, performed some targeted tests that could quickly yield results.

While waiting for the test results, with the help of an intelligent puppet to prepare the skin, Lin Ke took a scalpel and cut open the skin over the fairy's liver.

With Lin Ke's experience of over 50 fairy dissections, the most intuitive and obvious way to judge whether a fairy is distorted and the degree of distortion is to probe the liver.

Without damaging the structure and function of the liver, Lin Ke carefully probed the fairy's liver.

He determined the degree of this fairy's distortion.

He put the liver back, sutured it, closed the abdomen, and then cast a 1st-ring water-element wizardry, Healing Technique, which instantly made the incision heal, smooth as before.

It was just that the half-scale that had to be cut off would have to grow back slowly.

Of course, these were minor details that didn't need to be worried about.

He believed that the fairy on the operating table wouldn't care either.

Afterward, Lin Ke pondered for a while.

Once the test results came out, he immediately checked them.

After careful consideration, Lin Ke had a plan in mind.

This job could be taken, this matter could be done.

He gave Mengluo a look, and the two walked to a corner of the operating room to conspire in front of Salosaer Wizard.

The only thing that wasn't too excessive, or perhaps one could say it was even more excessive, was that Mengluo actually activated an anti-eavesdropping rune barrier.

Uh...

Salosaer Wizard's expression turned very complicated.

Very ugly. "What do you say?"

Mengluo ignored Salosaer Wizard's resentment and looked at Lin Ke, asking with concern.

Lin Ke's answer would determine whether Mengluo could slap Salosaer's face again or "extort" something.

Organizing his words, Lin Ke said: "I have over 95% confidence that I can turn the distortion into a complete biochemical modification and enhancement; the already distorted appearance and looks can be restored, but I can't guarantee it will be perfect."

"How much can be restored?"

Mengluo grasped the key point and pressed.

"About 80%, there will definitely be flaws," Lin Ke replied. "From the outside, you'll still be able to see some traces. If that doesn't work, we can just do some plastic surgery."

"Plastic surgery? Uh..."

Mengluo pondered for a moment and said, "That's not impossible, it's just that the technical content is a bit low. Are there any other methods?"

"Yes. I could also try to reverse the distortion process. If I do that, it will slightly weaken some physical functions, but it will be easier to handle and restore the appearance and looks, probably restoring over 95%."

Lin Ke added.

Afterward, the two looked at each other and understood each other's intentions.

Lin Ke actually really wanted to use this opportunity to verify the plan he had just thought of for reversing distortion.

Mengluo was obsessed with smashing the stage, slapping faces, or extortion.

The two hit it off immediately.

Lin Ke stayed where he was.

Mengluo dispelled the rune barrier, a ferocious smile hanging on his face, like a giant centipede ready to eat someone, as he walked toward Salosaer Wizard.

"What bad idea are you cooking up again?"

Salosaer immediately became alert and asked coldly.

"How could it be a bad idea?"

Mengluo chided, saying righteously, "I'm here to discuss things with you nicely."

"Discuss what?"

Salosaer didn't believe this nonsense at all.

He glared at him with extreme disgust.

Mengluo rubbed his hands and laughed:

"Look, many people say that we wizards advocate equivalent exchange.

So, the Pharmacy Department can't help the Medical Department for free, right?

My eight subordinates have already gone to refine potions for free, which counts as a gift.

But for this troublesome surgery, you can't be so stingy with your payment, right?

You're the head of the Medical Department, a third-ring wizard, a big shot with status; surely you wouldn't withhold the labor fee for little Lin Ke, right?"

"Hmph!"

Salosaer Wizard was furious and roared, "Am I a stingy person? I will pay the labor fee myself; it has nothing to do with you, and nothing to do with the Pharmacy Department. Don't even think about extorting anything else from me. I haven't even settled the score with you for the two perfectly good pharmacists who lost all their face because of you last time."

"Hehehe..."

Mengluo laughed strangely. "Lin Ke is the group leader of the Pharmacy Department's research group, and I am the Minister of the Pharmacy Department; his business is naturally my business, and the Pharmacy Department's business. In short, I have already received Lin Ke's full authorization to handle this matter entirely."

"Impossible! I don't agree!"

Salosaer Wizard's eyes widened as he shouted, "You old Mengluo, stop stirring up trouble here; it was the Frontline Command that transferred your Pharmacy Department to assist the Medical Department, not the Medical Department begging your Pharmacy Department to come."

"Is that so?"

Mengluo gave a gloomy smile and turned to walk out of the operating room, calling out to Lin Ke at the same time. "Let's go, we're going back; the Medical Department doesn't need us here getting in the way."

Lin Ke gave an apologetic smile to Salosaer Wizard and followed Mengluo's footsteps.

Mengluo dared to do this, to have such a high posture, naturally because he was certain that Salosaer wouldn't dare to fall out with him right now.

Those people in the Medical Department, including Salosaer Wizard, were all "craftsmen" who had no talent and were forced into cultivation by Sage Celine's "instillation" style of education.

Doing potion refining was fine, they were good at that.

But hosting pharmacy research? Forget about one year, even in two, three, or four years, could they produce a potion that reached the same level as "Super Brain"?

No!

These people's thinking had already become rigid, and their pharmacy talent was insufficient.

They couldn't handle this fairy's matter.

In the end, wouldn't they still have to beg Lin Ke, and beg the Pharmacy Department?

Mengluo was full of confidence; this time he would definitely eat until his mouth was oily.

Beside the operating table.

Salosaer Wizard's expression was uncertain, and his aura was as cold as a deep abyss.

The pharmacists from the Medical Department on the side were trembling with fear, not daring to even breathe loudly.

He wished he could dig a hole and bury himself.

To avoid becoming a vent for his anger.

"Come back!"

Salosaer Wizard suddenly shouted, stopping Mengluo and Lin Ke who were about to walk out of the operating room. "State your conditions, don't be too outrageous. At worst, I'll just quit being this minister and beat you up to vent my anger."

Mengluo didn't expect Mengluo to be so shameless to this extent.

Did he look like someone who would default on a debt?

He angrily took out a brand-new 3rd-ring vehicle-type wizard artifact that was originally custom-made for himself as his new ride, threw it to Mengluo, and said, "This is for little Lin Ke, I'm willing to give it. You Pharmacy Department want to extort the Medical Department's funds? No way!"

After dropping this sentence, Salosaer turned and left.

He was determined to default on this debt.

No one could do anything about it!

"Go, do a good job. Polo, this person, doesn't say anything else, but values promises the most. If he promises to give you a vehicle-type wizard artifact, it will definitely not be lower than the standard of a 2-ring wizard artifact. Otherwise, taking it out is shameful."

Minister Murphy squeezed Wizard Salosaer again, and by the way, set Salosaer up.

Making Salosaer, who was already quite angry, so angry that he was almost out of anger.

Lin Ke held back his laughter and walked towards the operating table.

After checking it carefully again, Lin Ke started to do it.

He first cut the parts of the fairy that were mutated and couldn't be kept, and repaired what could be kept.

Under the action of the water-element 1-ring witchcraft Healing Technique and the wood-element 1-ring witchcraft Light Life Recovery, the hemostasis and recovery of the surgical incision were very timely.

Neither leaving scars nor affecting aesthetics.

After finishing cutting and repairing, he entered the second stage of the operation, supplementing life force.

Lin Ke didn't specifically refine highly targeted potions, but used general potions for supplementing life force in the operating room.

Used two bottles, one through intravenous infusion, and one poured on the parts where the aberration was deeper.

Afterwards, Lin Ke came to the small compartment of the operating room and let the pharmacist from the Medical Department prepare some materials and a large bucket.

A set of simple but solid basic pharmaceutical refining techniques made the eyes of the pharmacist from the Medical Department straight.

The more basic and simple it is, the more it shows that he has a thorough grasp of pharmacy and alchemy pharmacy.

No wonder he is so young and can possess such profound pharmaceutical knowledge.

Learning pharmacy for less than a year, he could launch the "Super Brain" potion that is still popular today.

Admire, envy!

Lin Ke poured the potion into the large bucket filled with warm water, and then let the intelligent puppet push the heating large bucket to the operating room and put the fairy into the bucket.

Medicated bath, a relatively gentle way of treatment.

Cooperating with some witchcraft that reduces pain and supplements life force, it quickly allowed the fairy who had cut off the more severely mutated parts to quickly reverse the aberration process.

The appearance and facial features turned towards normal fairies.

"Give 'money'!"

Seeing this, Minister Murphy knew that the time was right, and spread his hands directly towards Salosaer.

Salosaer didn't expect Minister Murphy to be shameless to this point.

Is he the kind of person who would default on debts?

Angrily, he took out a brand-new 3-ring wizard artifact-level vehicle-type wizard artifact that was originally customized for himself as a new vehicle, threw it to Minister Murphy, and said: "This is for little Lin Ke, I am willing. If your Pharmacy Department wants to blackmail my Medical Department's funds, no way!"

After leaving this sentence, Salosaer turned and left.

This account, he Salosaer defaulted on.

No one can do anything about it!