After taking a stroll outside the shelter, Lan Qingyou found a supply chest and spotted several magic creatures she hadn't seen before.
Specifically, those slow-moving ones that looked like clumps of mud.
If she wasn't mistaken, they were probably the sludge monsters mentioned in the channel.
Curious, she flew over to take a look and discovered a swamp not far from her shelter.
The swamp was filled with sludge monsters.
People might be hunting monsters elsewhere, but not here.
The reason was simple: these things were completely immune to physical attacks, or rather, physical attacks were largely ineffective against them.
Only powerful magic attacks could deal effective damage to them.
Under these circumstances, naturally, not many people were willing to come here and waste their time.
She looked up at the sky.
Seeing that the sun was almost directly overhead, Lan Qingyou headed back home.
On the way, an unpleasant, bloody scent wafted through the air.
Lan Qingyou looked over and saw a dead E-grade warg lying in the forest grass.
The wolf was about three meters long. Its head had been split open, and its left front leg and part of its abdomen were missing.
Not far from it, a man-eating flower lay slumped on the ground like a withered wreck. Its stillness indicated that it, too, was dead.
It seemed to be a case of mutual destruction.
After all, if a human had done it, the wolf definitely wouldn't have remained so 'intact.'
Since I didn't find many materials today, I'll use your blood to expand my storage.
Feeling inspired, Lan Qingyou grabbed a nearby vine and floated down.
Standing before the warg's corpse, she took a water bottle out of her herb bag, then drew the dagger at her waist and began collecting the wolf's blood.
Alchemy utilized magic creature blood, but she hadn't needed it before, so she hadn't bothered to buy any.
After collecting three bottles of wolf blood, Lan Qingyou placed them inside a supply chest to prevent them from coagulating. Then she went to the man-eating flower and began scraping things off its petals.
Let's see, what else on a magic creature is useful?
Clutching her dagger, Lan Qingyou thought for a moment. She cut off several of the man-eating flower's tentacles and collected two bottles of a substance she wasn't sure whether to call blood or juice.
Right, there are also the wolf's teeth, eyes, heart, and liver.
Oh, so a warg's crystal core is located next to its heart? That's news to me.
I'll cut off two more wolf hind legs to take back. Gu Xiaobei is very good at preparing this. The tender texture is like beef.
Especially that dish, [Shredded Warg Meat with Green Peppers]—now that's authentic!
After finishing the processing, Lan Qingyou finally breathed a sigh of relief.
If she hadn't had the Moonlight Stone Dagger, dealing with all this would have likely taken a lot of effort.
Squish...
Just as Lan Qingyou was about to leave, something seemed to fall out of the wolf's belly.
It was about the size of a fist and looked slimy.
Lan Qingyou examined it closely for a while before determining it was probably a chick.
Judging by the rise and fall of its belly, it seemed to be alive.
It might have been swallowed whole by the warg.
Maybe it's still edible if I take it back and wash it?
Recalling the Steam Pot Chicken Gu Xiaobei had made before, Lan Qingyou couldn't help but swallow hard.
Although the chick didn't have much meat, what if it tasted great?
After all, the flavor of Multi-colored Feather Chickens was truly excellent.
So, Lan Qingyou picked it up with a look of disgust, using only her thumb and index finger, and returned to her shelter.
After washing the chick clean by the stream, she went to her desk and tried to teleport the wolf legs and the chick to Gu Xiaobei.
The small screen informed her that living creatures could not be teleported...
“Well... then I'll keep it for drug testing.”
Not knowing what else to do, Lan Qingyou thought it over.
After all, she was going to develop new medicines. Keeping a chick that could provide immediate feedback on drug effects seemed like a good idea.
Although the small screen had an identification effect, it was only literal.
Just like the Healing Potion—it looked like it was for drinking, but in reality, both internal and external use had different effects.
She poured a bottle of Healing Potion down its throat, splashed another over its body, and tossed it onto a twice-folded towel nearby, calling it a day.
Next, she took out the materials she had collected and identified them.
【Damaged Warg Tooth (E-)】
【Effect: Can be used for decoration, alchemy, or crafting magic tools.】
【Description: Who dug this out? The technique is even worse than a novice hunter in a village. One star!】
【Warg Blood (E)】
【Effect: Can be used for alchemy.】
【Description: Not everyone likes blood. Perhaps you can throw it to those wealthy and foolish alchemists to make a quick buck.】
【Warg Liver/Heart (E-)】
【Effect: Can be used for alchemy or cooking.】
【Description: There are holes in it. Even a foolish alchemist wouldn't want to use this.】
【Man-eating Flower Sap (E)】
【Effect: Can be used for dyeing.】
【Description: An excellent item for coloring fabrics. Many cloth merchants love this stuff. Of course, those less-than-honest alchemists also like to use it to dye their potions and pass them off as something else.】
【Man-eating Flower Vine (E)】
【Effect: Can be used for handicrafts.】
【Description: Flatten it, dry it, and you will get fine man-eating flower vine fibers.】
It seemed there wasn't much she could use.
Lan Qingyou clicked her tongue, choosing to ignore the small screen's snarky comments about alchemists.
Wasn't it perfectly normal for alchemists to be wealthy?
The kind of people who buy two bowls of soy milk just to drink one and pour the other out.
After tossing the useless heart and liver to Gu Xiaobei, she began to focus on brewing potions.
The entire day passed in a flurry of activity, giving Lan Qingyou a different experience from just reading books.
Especially when she personally dismantled a warg and collected materials from the man-eating flower.
No wonder Albert said to collect materials personally whenever possible.
After doing it herself and gaining firsthand experience, she felt she had a new understanding of wargs, man-eating flowers, and the alchemy materials they provided.
Since she had spent the day making Mana Potions and needed to trade with Li Huai, Lan Qingyou looked at her friend list after finishing the bottling of the +50 Mana Potions.
To her surprise, that guy Li Huai hadn't replied yet.
One had to know that this uncle liked to take the initiative; he wasn't the type to sit around and wait for her to come looking for him.
Could he have run into some danger?
It was already past eight in the evening, nearly nine.
If he hadn't returned by this time, things were likely looking grim for him.
Lan Qingyou speculated.
After all, for someone who constantly fought outside, encountering danger was only to be expected.
Lan Qingyou thought about it but didn't worry further. At most, it was just a loss of some potions; it wasn't a major issue.
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