Doomsday Stewed Salted Fish C30.2

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Chapter 30. (2/2)

The pharmacy opened the next day.

Gu Fan also went to the shop to help.

She hadn’t done much advertising, yet a long queue of customers had already formed to buy the pills. The effects of the hair growth and scar removal pills were too enticing, with several people, like Officer Wang and Professor Ma, having grown a full head of hair after using the hair growth pill. Everyone was eager to try.

There were seven types of pills, each placed in a basket, with a hundred bottles in each.

Every month, Gu Fan’s shop would only open on the tenth.

Since Gu Fan made the pills alone, her efficiency was limited, and cultivating herbs took time. They might run out of stock if she didn’t control the quantity. Limiting the monthly sales ensured a continuous supply of pills and gave Zhou Shan and Zhou Yuanyuan ample free time. Being an A-level expert, Zhou Shan would be overqualified to be confined to a shop daily.

The shop had a rolling electronic reminder stating the sales limit rules and informing customers that they had to consume the pills on-site. If they saw no effect within an hour, they would get a tenfold refund in contribution points.

Those who genuinely needed the pills didn’t mind, while those who came late lamented the sales limit. Not knowing Zhou Shan’s abilities, some unscrupulous drug dealers tried to cause trouble. Zhou Shan’s unexpected rocket left a fiery red mark on one dealer’s neck, instantly calming the crowd.

The queue moved orderly. Seeing the long queue, Gu Fan made several wooden signs stating the sales limit rules and placed them in the open areas behind the line.

Xinghe and the others also arrived. Xinghe suggested, “We should divide the queue into seven lines for the seven types of pills and install an electronic screen to display the stock of each type.”

Fenghuo asked, “What if someone wants to buy more than one type of pill?”

Meng Lianying said, “Then they line up again. For such good things, why not queue again?”

The new suggestion was adopted, and Fenghuo and Meng Lianying took on the task of installing the electronic screen.

By noon, all seven hundred pills were sold out. Four types sold for fifty points each, and three types for a hundred points each, totaling fifty thousand contribution points.

Fenghuo said, “Fifty thousand points a month, six hundred thousand a year. Fan Fan’s income is already considerable for a C-level ability user.”

Meng Lianying suddenly thought, “Why don’t you take on a few apprentices? More people making pills would mean more sales, and your income would double.”

Gu Fan replied, “I’m already delighted with sixty thousand a year. I don’t want to expand. Besides, the pill-making method was passed down from my grandfather and can’t be taught to outsiders.”

Grandfather was an excuse. Gu Fan didn’t want to teach others the art of pill-making.

Moreover, Gu Fan believed that fire ability users might not necessarily learn pill-making.

Making pills involved controlling fire and using divine senses to monitor the herbs and the fusion state of the pills inside the furnace, adjusting the flame’s temperature and intensity accordingly. One needed to reach the fifth level of Qi Refining to release divine sense.

However, Earth’s ability users did not possess divine senses.

Even someone like Lu Ya, an S-level expert, could only sense the changes in the five elements with mental power and couldn’t use divine sense to observe. Ordinary ability users couldn’t even do that. If Gu Fan were to take on apprentices, how would she explain divine sense?

Should she teach Earthlings the cultivation methods as well?

Impossible. Gu Fan had observed that Earth’s ability users had evolved crystal nuclei in their brains, allowing them to use mental power to release abilities. However, they didn’t possess the five elements’ spiritual roots.

In other words, to Earthlings, she was almost an alien. Gu Fan could tell others she could make pills but could never reveal the secrets of pill-making or her true origins.

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The pharmacy had new installations, and the Xinghe team set off for their mission.

Without her companions and with this month’s pills sold out, Gu Fan didn’t need to go out much. She would water the herbs with spiritual rain every morning and spend the rest of the time either making pills or cultivating them.

One day, while Gu Fan was making pills, her communication bracelet suddenly sounded an alarm. Someone or something had been detected on the other side of the high wall.

The alarm had two modes: detection and, if an attempt was made to force entry, a more piercing buzz.

Since there was no forced entry, Gu Fan patiently finished making the batch of pills, which took about twenty minutes and then rushed to the monitoring room.

One of the eight screens had a flashing indicator.

Gu Fan looked closely and saw a woman in green camouflage on the back hill, sneaking around, seemingly looking for a breach in the wall.

Unfortunately, the ordinary monitor couldn’t detect the target’s ability level.

While Gu Fan was staring at the woman on the screen, another screen alerted her.

Gu Fan saw a familiar off-road vehicle slowly stopping at the front gate. Lu Ya got out of the car expressionlessly, his gaze directly meeting the hidden camera on the wall.

At that moment, Gu Fan felt like Lu Ya had seen her through the camera.

Lu Ya raised his right hand.

The next second, Gu Fan received his message, “I have a little trouble. Perhaps you can help me.”

Gu Fan understood. He was here to call in a favor.

She remotely opened the door for Lu Ya.