Chapter 29 Bloodroot Grass
Young people are resistant to tossing. Joan slept like a corpse last night, and when he woke up in the morning, he regained his energy, refreshed, and his headache disappeared. Kandy was careful, and looked at him carefully for a long time while eating breakfast, and finally found a white hair on his head as he wished.
Pulling out the white hair with his own hands, Kandy warned Joan not to work too hard, be careful of overuse of the brain, and premature aging.
Joan's mind is full of magic now, and hair is not such an important organ. He doesn't care even if his hair turns gray overnight, let alone just a mere white hair. However, he had to express Candy's kindness, and decided to shorten the time of studying magic to 12 hours a day. In addition, he would go to the swamp every two days to visit Gray. I will continue to help Dr. Kelendiel catch leeches and collect herbs by the way. There is no need to keep focusing on casting spells all the time while going out. For Joan, this is a vacation for his brain.
At a quarter past ten in the morning on February 14th, Joan walked into the lizard swamp again after two days. Just in front of the dirt slope where he first met Gray, Joan saw a gray figure sitting sullenly under a broken pine tree.
"Grey, I'm back!" Joan shouted, waving at the dirt slope.
The gray bag beast jumped up in surprise, and flew down in two steps in three steps. It couldn't help but pick up Joan, and threw him high excitedly.
Joan felt like a cannonball, which swished into the sky, and the wind whistled in his ears, and his face turned pale with fright. Fortunately, Gray just made a slightly rude joke with him. When he fell from a high altitude, he raised his hand in time to catch him and put it firmly on his shoulder.
Joan sat on the broad shoulders of the gray sack beast, and it took him a while to catch his breath. He patted Gray on the back of the head and said angrily, "You want to scare me to death! Don't play such dangerous games in the future!"
Gray grinned foolishly, not knowing if he listened.
"Grey, take me back to your cave. Bloodroot grows there, and I want to collect some." Joan gestured.
Gray could barely understand his intentions, nodded obediently, and took big strides towards home.
This time Gray took a shortcut and took less than half an hour to reach the small island hidden in the reeds.
Joan jumped off the gray bag beast's shoulder, moved his numb legs and feet, and then walked towards the grass behind the cave.
Gray followed him closely, his eyes full of curiosity. Seeing Joan squatting down to collect a weed, the bewilderment on Gray's face became a little bit more. He has some impressions of this kind of plant with purple roots. If he doesn't step on this kind of grass, the milky white slurry sprayed from the roots will feel numb and itchy on the skin, which is very uncomfortable. He doesn't understand why Joan is so sensitive to this poisonous grass. interest.
"The rhizome extract of Bloodroot Grass has a calming effect, and it is very effective in treating symptoms such as insomnia, epilepsy, and mental disorders." Joan recounted the explanatory text in the pharmacy manual presented by Dr. Kailandier. As for Whether Gray can understand, he does not know.
A "bloodroot grass" with complete roots can be sold for a high price of 5 silver coins in Dr. Galandil's clinic, which is equivalent to Joan catching 50 leeches, and the labor paid is much lighter. This is obviously a more efficient way to make money.
Joan swept around the cave and collected a total of 44 "bloodroot grasses". He plans to sell half of it to doctors, and keep the other half for practicing the skills of refining potions.
It is difficult to find bloodroot grass nearby, and there may be some places a little further away. Joan told Gray to pay attention to other areas in the swamp where bloodroot grass grows. Go back to the cave, sit down, drink some water, take a breath, and catch leeches next.
Catching leeches is really a very boring job. Gray watched it for a while, probably feeling bored, and jumped into the mud to take a bath on his own. When he was enjoying himself, he suddenly turned over and jumped up, and the mud splashed all over Joan.
"What's the matter, Gray?" Joan looked at the gray bag beast in surprise.
"Mogg!!" Gray roared angrily, groped around his butt with his backhand for a few seconds, and pulled out a two-foot-long black snake with a prismatic head.
Compared with the tall gray bag beast, this water snake is as small as an earthworm, but it has a fierce habit that is out of proportion to its size. It took advantage of the situation to wrap around Gray's wrist, biting its arm fiercely and not letting go.
At first, Joan couldn't help laughing when he saw Gray's butt being bitten by a snake, but soon realized that the black water snake might be poisonous, and quickly reminded Gray to throw it away.
Gray himself didn't care. With its rough skin and thick flesh, being bitten twice by this small snake is like being bitten by a mosquito for an ordinary person. Besides, having lived in the swamp for many years, it has already developed resistance to various toxins. This water snake is in his eyes. Nothing more than a toy.
Being bitten by a water snake, Gray was not in a hurry or annoyed. He just clenched his fist, and his arm muscles tensed immediately, like a kinked steel bar, easily breaking the snake's teeth stuck into his skin, and the snake venom he had just injected was also forced come out.
Joan saw a trace of black blood oozing out of Gray's arm, and suddenly remembered that there was a medicine experiment recorded in Galandil's medicine manual: mix snake venom and bloodroot grass serum at a ratio of 1:20, and inject the mixture into In the organism, it will quickly react with the blood, causing some limbs and even the whole body of the organism to fall into a state of paralysis. If the injection dose is large, it will even paralyze the heart of the creature, making it impossible to breathe, and will die of suffocation in a short time.
"Grey, don't kill that snake yet, I want to live!" Joan shouted at the gray marsupial.
Gray turned and walked over, throwing the water snake with its fangs pulled out onto the shore.
Without hesitation, Joan cast the "Hand of the High Mage", held down the twisted and struggling water snake, freed his hands to untie the backpack, took out a glass seasoning bottle, and emptied the salt inside to collect snake venom.
There were so many water snakes in the mud, Joan didn't bother to catch leeches for the next afternoon, and with Gray's help, he caught hundreds of poisonous snakes, cut open the snake's jaws with a dagger, picked out the venom glands, squeezed out the venom, and dripped them into the water. Collect bottles.
When the sun was about to set, Joan had already filled a bottle of snake venom and was packing his bags to go home. Gray's eyes were full of reluctance, but he no longer forced him to stay as before, just like when he came here, he hugged Joan and put it on his shoulders, and strode across the swamp until he was sent to the edge of the swamp. Looking north from here, you can vaguely see the vague buildings in Delin Town, with smoke rising from every house.
"Grey, see you tomorrow!" Joan waved goodbye to the gray marsupial, packed his bags and went home.
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