Astral Apostle

  Chapter 70 Quick

   The group passed through the attached town, followed the team entering the city, passed the inspection by the guards, and entered the outer city of the capital.

   Jason has been an imperial hunter for several months and is qualified to enter the city. Zhou Jing has long explored the terrain of the royal capital.

  With Jason's identity as a guarantee, Zhou Jing successfully entered the outer city. The main street is still wide, extending in all directions, and people come and go quite lively.

   But the houses are too dense. Turning into the fork from both sides of the street is an alley separated by each house, like a spider web, with complicated routes and crowded and cramped, like the capillaries of the whole city.

  The landmarks of the outer city are several guard castles, and some soldiers are stationed as sheriffs to control the city. The Royal Capital is essentially a fortress city. With the guard castle as the boundary, the outer city is divided into several urban areas. To a certain extent, it is divided by functionality, but it can guarantee the normal life of ordinary people.

   Zhou Jing took Jason through the streets, through the dirty shanty towns, across the lively market area, and soon came to the city where a large number of craftsmen lived... The serious name is the furnace area.

All urban areas have complete infrastructure, such as pharmacies, blacksmith shops, tailor shops, etc., which are convenient for residents to live nearby. However, many of the managers of these shops are ordinary craftsmen in the furnace area. Residential rest.

  High-quality products are generally only available in the furnace area. Therefore, many residents of Wangdu who live affluently prefer to buy through the urban area, and many ordinary residents wish to move to the furnace area. Unfortunately, they cannot afford a house.

   After all, people are divided into groups. These craftsmen are the intellectual class of the alien world. The people living in the furnace area are generally high-income groups, and there are many senior craftsmen who work for the imperial workshop, so the law and order is good.

  Like street squatters in shanty towns and market districts, wandering around in the stove area will be expelled by the sheriff.

   Zhou Jing was walking in the stove area for a while, when he was noticed by the sheriff patrolling the street and was interrogated.

Apostle Bill No. 3 was an "outsider" who arrived in the capital for the first time. He could not come to the furnace area at will, but Jason, a serious imperial hunter, stepped aside and the sheriff allowed the two of them to stroll. Warning not to approach the interior walls.

   "It's better to be Jason now."

   Zhou Jing watched the sheriff leave, and couldn't help but glance at the city center.

  The high inner walls cut off the line of sight, and only the towering palace castle can be seen vaguely.

   Inside is the inner city, the core of power in the Terra Empire. The inner walls are heavily guarded. In addition to the garrison, there are many guardians of the royal city sitting on the city walls—all of them are alien blood warriors.

   It is quite difficult to sneak in quietly.

   "By the way, why did I subconsciously want to sneak in when I saw the heavily guarded place? I'm afraid it's not the aftermath of Baiyuan City..."

  Zhou Jing calmed down, searched for a while on the road, found a pharmacy, and immediately walked in.

   After a while, he came out again. The pharmacist in this store already had a number of apprentices, and he had no plans to accept any more.

  I tried every shop along the street, and none of them were looking for apprentices. Wang is not like a small place, and there are too many hunters. Even if Jason brushes his face, they don’t mean to accept apprentices, that is, they don’t accept them.

   Zhou Jing tried patiently, and only after visiting the thirteenth home did things change.

   This is a small pharmacy, the shelves are deserted, only the label and price of the medicine are placed in obvious places, but there is no bottle of potion in sight.

   There was only one middle-aged man in the room, a slender man with a long robe and a long beard, who was sitting behind the counter reading a book.

   Hearing someone coming in, the middle-aged man raised his eyes slowly, and said unhurriedly, "Just take a look, what do you want to buy?"

   "Is there a pharmacist apprentice here?" Zhou Jing said straight to the point.

   The middle-aged man looked at Zhou Jing up and down, his eyes lit up: "From out of town? Are you rich?"

   Hearing this, Zhou Jing regained his spirits, took out his heavy purse and flipped it, the silver coins swayed and collided, making a pleasant sound.

  The middle-aged man immediately became enthusiastic, stroked his long beard and smiled:

   "It's easy to do with money, I'm a pharmacist, you can call me Mali, and as long as you give me money, you can be my apprentice..."

   Zhou Jing blinked.

   When a normal craftsman chooses an apprentice, he generally needs to examine his character and ability to see if the other person has talent in this area, and he must be responsible to others. But this pharmacist only looked at money and refused to come. It seemed that he was not very reliable.

   But it doesn't matter to him, as long as he can teach him the basics, he will be able to achieve it quickly with his own learning advantages.

   At this time, Jason also walked in, and his strong body seemed to have its own aura.

  Mali saw Jason's imperial hunter costume, his face changed slightly, and asked, "Is this hunter your friend?"

   "Yes, I saved him once..."

   Zhou Jing repeated the previous remarks and introduced himself by the way.

   "Okay, I understand." Mali seemed a little unhappy, and his tone was a little lighter, and said: "If you want to be my apprentice, every ten days, fifty silver coins."

   Zhou Jing was taken aback.

  My dear, why don't you go grab money?

Fifty silver coins, a peasant family may not be able to earn a year of farming, even for a high-income hunter, it is a sum that cannot be ignored, buying a set of equipment is more than enough... And this is only the price of being an apprentice for ten days ? !

   If you were an ordinary person, who would buy it! Knowledge in this world is very expensive, but not to this point, otherwise, where would there be so many pharmacists.

   Zhou Jing was quite skeptical. This person turned to make things difficult for Jason because of his existence. This was the first time he had encountered a situation where his identity as a hunter was not easy to use.

  Because you know a high-income friend, you want to kill someone? No, this is unreasonable, you can go to other pharmacists to learn.

  If it's not a personal emotion... Is this person trying to scare him away with a high price?

  Thinking of Jason's appearance before and after, Mali's attitude is completely different...

   Zhou Jing rolled his eyes and suddenly understood what was going on.

   Wonderful, I chose this place!

   "It's a bit expensive, can it be cheaper, how about twenty silver coins?"

   "No, fifty is fifty." Mali did not change his words.

   Zhou Jing insisted on negotiating the price, and after a lot of talking, he finally ground the price to forty silver coins in ten days, and Mali agreed with a stinky face.

   "Forty is forty, pay to learn." Mali glanced at Jason, who had a strong aura, and his face twitched slightly.

   "Then I paid the money, will you teach me well? This is a lot of money!" Zhou Jing looked hesitant and rubbed his hands together.

"Of course!"

   Zhou Jing saw this, so he accepted the ridicule.

  The bargaining is just deliberately acting as an apostle, he doesn't really care about money.

   Of course, the current tuition is still too expensive, but he doesn't want to waste time asking every family again. Since he can learn here, he will be here.

   Mali’s change of attitude is either to oppress the apprentices, or to cut corners in teaching, drain other people’s wallets, and bully the helpless outsiders. He is not a good person.

   But Jason's existence is a guarantee. If this person doesn't teach well and charges so much money, there will be someone behind him!

   There is no consumer protection association in this world. Only those with power or power can protect their rights and interests.

   That's why Mali has a different attitude.

  ——There are foreigners who have backers, then it is not easy to pit!

   But Zhou Jing felt that this place was suitable for him. Compared with finding a conscientious teacher, he now prefers money transactions.

  I just find a place to learn the basics and complete the start, it won't take too long.

   In this way, the money and the goods are in good hands, and the relationship is simple, and there is no need to owe favors like before with Balon.

   Moreover, people are not good people, and they have no psychological pressure to do anything.

   After finalizing the agreement, Zhou Jing paid ten days' money first, then rented a house nearby at a high price, and immediately returned to the pharmacy, asking to start studying immediately.

Just after receiving the money, and with Jason's intimidation, Mali didn't dare to take a night off to the next day as usual, so he could only take out two rough books with a stinky face, namely the herbal illustrated book and the medicine basics. General theory, start teaching.

  [Learning [Herbal Knowledge]]

  [Practice acceleration fee: 20 astral points]

  [Studying [Pharmaceutics]]

  [Practice acceleration fee: 50 astral points]

   "All on."

   Zhou Jing did not hesitate, and listened attentively to Mali's explanation of the knowledge of medicine, and once again entered a state of learning that was more efficient than flow.

  …

   One month passed in a flash.

   In front of the medicine counter at the back of the pharmacy, Zhou Jing was busy with his work, and Mali was watching.

   Zhou Jing is skilled in handling various medicinal materials, using various utensils to prepare the medicinal herbs into the required form, boiling and mixing them in sequence, and finally pouring the shaped potion into the bottle.

   The yellow and clear potion is like beer, and it is still bubbling.

   "Come and try."

   Zhou Jing kicked Xiao Hei No. 1 who was lying beside his feet, squeezed its mouth open, and poured all the potion into it.

"呜呜 -"

   Xiao Hei No. 1 struggled violently, but it was useless.

  The entrance of the potion, after a while, Xiao Hei No. 1, who was originally ill, suddenly became full of energy, jumped around, filled the room with joy, and became hilarious.

   This month, it was Zhou Jing's main drug test object. He drank an unknown number of potions, and the previous injury had already healed. Now the main problem is endocrine disorders.

   Zhou Jing doesn't have high requirements for it, just live, he has been concentrating on studying pharmacy, and he has not cared about animal taming for the time being.

   It was just a coincidence that he discovered that the black-spotted hyena that had drank a lot of potions had increased in cultivation.

   After successive generations of taming beasts, he developed taming beasts with drugs... Although the style of painting is crooked, but there is one thing to say, it is really easy to use.

   "It seems that the energy potion this time works well."

   Zhou Jing observed the test subjects and showed a satisfied smile.

The corner of Mali's mouth twitched next to   , his expression tangled and complicated.

  This guy...how did he learn so fast?

   Under normal circumstances, when he teaches apprentices, he will keep a secret and perfunctory teaching, but because of Jason, Mali did not intend to be too tricky this time.

   There is no problem with the foreign workers. Mali deliberately slowed down the teaching progress and planned to make Zhou Jing spend more money.

   Even if you can’t cheat people, this time the deliberately raised tuition is still very good. Mali didn’t expect that people would really like to be taken advantage of.

  However, he did not expect that he had deliberately slowed down the speed, and people were learning so fast, and the progress was almost the same every day!

  Mali learned the basics for three months before making the first effective potion... But this foreigner named Bill took only 20 days to learn.

It took    another ten days to make a potion of a quality comparable to his.

   Looking at the potent potion remaining in the pot, Mali's stomach was filled with pantothenic acid, and he was full of regrets.

   If I knew this person was learning so fast, I should have doubled the price at that time, and I lost money!

  Fortunately... I only taught this person two potion recipes, the most popular healing potion and energy potion, and I didn't teach anything else.

   At this moment, Zhou Jing turned his head to look at Mali, and asked with a smile, "How did I make the potion this time, can I learn the new formula?"

  Mali came back to his senses and coughed: "Yes, the progress is very fast, I taught it well, but you need to practice more. It's too early for you to learn new recipes."

After   , Mari was afraid that Zhou Jing would continue to ask questions, so he hurried out of the room with a stinky face.

   Zhou Jing looked at his back and pouted playfully.

   He has long noticed that this person is a foreign worker, but in front of the acceleration of practice, as long as he enters the door, self-learning is very fast.

   And pharmacy is not like those abilities that require physical exercise, most of which are mental work, proficiency increases quickly, and it has the bonus of its own talent and aptitude, which is simply a flying learning efficiency.

   In just one month, [Herbal Knowledge] and [Pharmaceutics] have both climbed to the level of Lv4 proficiency, no less than Mali.

   This person is just an ordinary pharmacist, and the level of people who go out of their way to pit people from other places will naturally not be too high.

   After a month, Mari only taught him two potion recipes, and he didn't teach him the other recipes he mastered, just like anti-thief. He made it clear that he wanted to make more money from him.

   Of course, it is also possible that they are afraid that the disciples of the church will starve to death. Not all industries have the custom of educating newcomers like alien hunters.

   "Think beautifully."

   Zhou Jing secretly pouted.

  If I teach normally, the tuition fee will also be paid, but if it is obvious that I am cheating, then I don’t want to continue to be a fool, and I can save some time.

   "Mali has nothing else to teach me other than recipes... It looks like some savage primitive accumulation is coming."

   Zhou Jing touched his chin, thoughtful.

  Speaking of which, apostles with greedy characteristics shouldn’t be obedient to pay.

   It is really easy to synchronize... It's really accurate to see people!

   (end of this chapter)