Chapter 742 - 397: West State Boss’s Advice: Don’t Go! (2)

Chapter 742: Chapter 397: West State Boss’s Advice: Don’t Go! (2)

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There really wasn’t any crucial information on the paper, it should be insignificant.

But this signature from the Secret Brain Office...

The group in the lab is seeing it for the first time, that even the Secret Brain Office can have such a low profile!

...

In the blink of an eye, more than ten days have passed.

It snowed several times in succession again in West State.

Until this morning, in the factory area of the Ninth Pharmaceutical Factory, there were still workers wearing cotton-padded jackets, swinging brooms, busy shoveling snow.

Inside the warehouse.

Bai Mo and Master Chong stood together, looking at rows of stainless steel bottles placed in the thermostat cabinet.

Each of these bottles is sealed at the mouth and has a seal affixed.

Each one has a laser engraved serial number and QR code.

"These are the first batch of our production, Snow Lotus Qi Boosting Soup.

"Each bottle has a code.

"The raw materials we got can produce two hundred bottles.

"The yield is decent, and finally, we have 183 bottles produced.

"Among them, we need to hand over 120 bottles to the Immortal Committee.

"There are 63 bottles left, which can be sold to make some money back.

"Uh... this..."

Bai Mo didn’t specifically handle the accounts, but a glance at the books could tell that the factory’s expenses were large, and the revenue was low, not very abundant.

"Master Chong, how much money can you make by selling these 63 bottles?

"Can it be enough to give the factory workers a bonus?"

Master Chong frowned, his eye behind the sunglasses staring at the medicine bottles in the cabinet for a moment.

"This medicine... uh... the first time you take a bottle, it can extend life by five years? The second time you drink a bottle, it can increase the strength of an ox, the third time you drink, it can increase by half an ox, I didn’t remember it wrong, right?"

Bai Mo nodded.

"You remembered right. This efficacy should still sell well.

"For 63 bottles though..."

Master Chong shook his head.

"No, no, no... Expert Bai Mo, you know my style, we don’t do that low-end business.

"And, your factory only produces two hundred bottles in half a month, and in the present world, there are nearly a hundred thousand Immortal Technique Committee members, a total of 300,000 bottles are needed. This gap is too large to allow for waste.

"But how many wealthy folks can buy medicine from me?

"After they finish drinking three bottles, they won’t buy more, then how do we make money?"

Bai Mo understood Master Chong’s logic and suddenly felt that it somewhat made sense!

Then he saw Master Chong ponder for a moment, frowning.

"This medicine, if diluted and sold, I want the effect of, drinking once a day for mental clarity, drinking for a month for strengthening the body, drinking for a year to treat some hidden injuries... Can it be diluted? How much dilution is appropriate?"

Diluted?

A diluted version with reduced efficacy, selling to more people?

Bai Mo didn’t quite follow Master Chong’s train of thought.

"Diluting it a thousand times is about the effect you mentioned.

"Do you want to make a few thousand bottles of it?"

But Master Chong grinned, pointing out the window, pointing to those workers shoveling snow.

"I saw them when I came, saw them wearing worn cotton jackets shoveling snow.

"That’s not right.

"Expert Bai Mo, you say, equipping everyone in the factory with Bone-Tough Bird three-in-one rigid shell jackets as work uniforms, how about that?"

Bone-Tough Bird?

Bai Mo was stunned for a moment.

"How much would that cost?"

Master Chong opened the cabinet, took a bottle of Snow Lotus Qi Boosting Soup, and carried himself with the full demeanor of an expert!

"With this one bottle, it’s enough!

"Actually, half a bottle is sufficient.

"More than that isn’t worth it...

"But... you don’t have a container to pour out half a bottle here, anyways, it doesn’t matter, roughly will do...

"This bottle, dilute it to a thousand bottles, let my few closest fat cat friends have a taste first!

"These friends of mine have blown us a lot of gold coins.

"With a new product, let them try it first, just to give back to loyal customers."

Master Chong showed gratitude on his face.

"Sell one bottle to them for a thousand bucks as a friendly price, let them... benefit a little!"

...

Whoosh...

In the dream, it’s nighttime.

The strong wind blew into the Bronze Hall.

Poison Master Wang E, groping in the dark, quickly came to the hall and crouched near the Bronze Chair, seeing his master’s petite body curled up inside.

Before he could speak, his master, Medicine Monkey Ancient Immortal, opened his eyes, rubbed the sleep from his eyes’ corners, and groggily sat up.

"Why are you here at this time? What’s up?"

Wang E nodded.

"Master, I just got intelligence, there appeared a pill in the present world!

"Shouldn’t we think of a way to..."

Wang E made a gesture of fist-grabbing!

The Ancient Immortal froze for a moment.

"What pill? Where is it?"

Wang E handed the tablet in his arms to the Ancient Immortal, showing him the intelligence.

"Caught in a secret photograph in the Dark World, there’s such a pill at Heluo Immortal Committee, it looks furry."

"Uh... heard it’s a pill, should be right?"

The Ancient Immortal stared at the pattern on the tablet, there it was submerged in water, under shadow, a blackish, furry pill.

"This... Tiger Power Pill?"

The Ancient Immortal observed for a long time, hard to determine from just a photo.

A pill, indeed, precious!

In this stage, it surely can’t be refined again.

Even if one day, the Ancient Immortal broke through the dream world and entered the present world, it wouldn’t necessarily restore the grand prosperity of those years’ Pill Industry... After all, too few Ancient Immortals survived, even fewer resources were left.

The existing pills can only decrease, not increase, each one immeasurably precious!

Yet, after thinking for a long time, Medicine Monkey Ancient Immortal shook his head.

"Forget about it.

"You guys don’t understand pills.

"Since they dare to bring this thing into the present world, they must have the means to guard it.

"Whoever wants to grab it, let them go, we’re not getting involved."

Wang E kept watching his master’s face, he could tell, the master was actually tempted!

"Master... are pills really that precious?

"Why not open the furnace, and you refine a batch?"

The Ancient Immortal was dumbfounded, glanced at Wang E, like looking at a fool.

He waved this tablet in his hand.

"Look in our grand hall, there’s iron, copper, sand.

"Go make a tablet for me."

Wang E, weakly speechless.

How is this possible?

A tablet, how many parts are in it? How much technology? How much craftsmanship? Hardware, software, chemical materials, is this possible to create manually?

"Master, aren’t you joking..."

The Ancient Immortal coldly snorted, irritated.

"You’re the one who started the joke first!"

...

Whoosh...

The morning wind blew over Fox Mountain, blowing onto a dilapidated hall rooftop.

But the hole in this rooftop was sealed tightly with vines and lotus leaves, so no wind could get through.

Not just the rooftop hole, but the holes and even cracks in the walls, door panels, have received the highest specification, most rigorous repairs, leaking not a single breeze.

And inside this great hall, it’s been covered with fresh cement, the stone slab relaid, even a layer of wallpaper was pasted to ensure no dust escapes.

"Ying ying ying!"

Inside this newly refurbished great hall, Big Chuifeng was working.

"Howling howling howling!"

Xiao Chuixue, just the same, the two foxes wearing fireproof gloves, guarding by the massive water pool, sometimes picking up buckets to "splash splash" add material into the pool, sometimes craning their necks to check the conditions inside the pool.

It turns out, this giant pool was divided into five sections by layers of Ma Huang Bamboo Film!

The first section is the feed zone, where raw materials are added, adding star anise walnuts, crystal autumn pears, and golden-striped watermelons blended into soup.

The other four sections, all adjoining the first section, only separated by bamboo film burning with Pill Fire!

The other four sections are absorbing specific components from the first section through the bamboo film!

"Ying ying ying!"

Xiao Chuixue circled around the large pool, craning its neck, staring, watching the second section being stained fiery red.

And below the fiery red liquid, crystals formed a cluster of translucent red crystal flowers.

It came around to the third section.

Saw under the pale yellow liquid of this section, crystals crystallized into deep yellow hexagonal prisms one after another.

It moved, inspecting the crystals, smiling broadly.

"Ying ying ying, howling howling ying ying!"

The master said, these crystals are important intermediates in the Pill Industry!

Though temporarily unsure of their uses, more could be produced now, and stored!