"Mr. Andrew." Gong Hao acted very steadily when he appeared in front of Andrew's laboratory.

"Ha, it's Glair, come in quickly." Andrew was very satisfied. Even now, Sulliel still respects him very much. This is not like other apprentices, they only listen to Pier.

"How do you feel about your new job?" Andrew asked.

"It's not bad. Ivo taught me a lot of things. I found that I was very eye-opening here. It feels really wonderful to open the door to knowledge."

"Well said, knowledge is the sharpest weapon of an alchemist. Tell me how much you have learned?"

Gong Hao replied: "In three days, I have learned about the production of almost twenty kinds of medicines."

"Not much." Andrew frowned.

“I mean the part that can be made on its own.”

"Oh, that's good. I know you never let us down. As of this, you can make all the potions on your own in a few days, right?"

"I'm afraid it's still far away." Gong Hao replied: "It's good if we only learn the same thing, but as the variety of medicines increases, the materials we need will be confused in our minds. If it's just a material problem, it's fine, after all, you can still look at the information in advance. However, it's not easy to master the temperature and dosage. After all, the records cannot be so detailed, and we need to master and understand it ourselves, especially when facing some special medicines, there are often unstable phenomena. How to deal with this situation requires us to have absolutely rich experience. I think I still have a long way to go before I truly master the production of these medicines."

"Well, you're sober, Glair, you've always been sober, and that's what I admire most. Well, since you're here to me, then I think maybe I have something to help you?"

"Yes, I wish I could get some glass and four-season grass."

"Oh? What do you want that to do?"

"I just want to make some more convenient tools."

"If that's the case, you should go find Pier."

"Sir, I am still your servant, right?" Gong Hao looked at Andrew with a smile. If he asked him to find Pier, Pier would definitely ask why.

Gong Hao is not planning to let Pier know his tools for the time being.

So at this time, it is necessary to become arrogant because of his favor. Only with the help of Andrew can he complete the work he wants, and there is no need to worry about anyone noticing it.

Sure enough, Andrew agreed that asking for some glass is just a trivial matter, and four-season grass is not a precious material.

The alchemy of Fengming Continent has never been put into civilian use.

This is determined by the characteristics of hierarchical society.

In the magic world, due to the existence of magical talents, bloodlines have different levels, which has promoted and consolidated the hierarchy in the system. Due to the existence of the social class aristocratic system, the development of science and technology mainly serves the upper class rather than the grassroots.

This is the basic characteristic of the feudal system, everything serves the nobles.

However, because of this, high-end alchemy often lacks support from grassroots people.

This has a huge flaw in the development of society: people do not understand that grassroots technology is actually the foundation stone of high-end technology. Many high-end technologies are often based on well-developed grassroots technology. If high-end technology is the leader of grassroots technology, then grassroots technology is the booster of its development. Without this booster, high-end technology will struggle even if it wants to develop. It is very, very difficult to rely solely on the leading man in front to drive the development of science and technology in the entire society.

It is very likely that a pen and a piece of paper that you use very well when doing experiments come from folk technology, but due to the underdeveloped folk technology, high-end technology is restricted.

The alchemy of Fengming Continent is actually in such a deformed development situation.

Therefore, you can completely imagine that alchemy can create cutting-edge existences like puppet warriors, but cannot create a thermometer.

This is not because they can't do it, but because they don't want to do it at all. Alchemists are not inventors, and it is impossible to invent everything. Since no one invents a thermometer, they can only replace it with their own minds and experience. Even if they think about it, they may not invent it, because once it appears, the alchemists may become worthless.

This is like what Chaplin opposes most is audio movies. It is precisely because of the invention of audio movies that Chaplin can no longer use the body language he is good at to express his unique artistic ideas. The emergence of many new technologies will laid off a group of old workers with superb skills, but will make a group of young people emerge. The reason is this.

The same is true for alchemists. They are obviously the beneficiaries, and they are the ones they most opposed to. This makes it even more impossible for them to think about inventing and producing these basic tools.

But Gong Hao doesn't consider these things. As long as he can do well, you don't invent it, I invent it myself and use it myself, wouldn't it be better?

Gong Hao made a thermometer almost very easily.

A small sealed glass tube and a few drops of the juice of the four-season grass are considered successful.

This thermometer does not even have a clear scale because Gong Hao cannot complete the precise temperature distribution. But it doesn't matter. When the processed agent reaches the target temperature, Gong Hao directly makes a symbol on the scale of the thermometer and then mark it. For example, writing the word "Xiangcao" means that when the temperature reaches this index, the material can be put on.

This means that a constant standard has been released.

Different thermometers can be made with different medicines, and many of them can share one or more. In this way, more than one hundred medicines, only more than ten thermometers are needed to basically control the temperature changes of all the medicines.

Gong Hao even directly made the thermometer into a stirring rod, which made it more convenient to use, and there was no need to worry about letting Ivo see anything.

Basically, with this thing, he will never have any measurement errors in temperature. Of course, he must conduct repeated trials before this to determine that the recorded temperature is the best standard. This requires him to pay a lot of failure.

Fortunately, it is normal for a new apprentice to fail, and Gong Hao's failure will not surprise everyone.

After completing the thermometer, Gong Hao made another measuring cup. By the same token, Gong Hao didn't know how to determine the scale of the measuring cup, but it didn't matter, just arrange it yourself according to the use of the potion.

The measuring cup is mainly used to determine the amount of material to be placed. In the past, apprentices always put the materials based on experience when putting them on. However, now, Gong Hao directly uses the measuring cup to replace the feel, which greatly improves the accuracy.

He then engraved some special symbols that he only understood on the outside of the measuring cup and the thermometer to replace the capacity, which made no one understand. Of course, the best symbol is Chinese characters.

In this case, Gong Hao had to take at least one month to roughly master the production of the potion, and it took him one year to be fully familiar with it, but Gong Hao solved all the problems in just half a month.

This is due to his own efforts, the thermometer and measuring cup he invented, and the days he spent in the library.

When he was in the library, he had basically read all the records of the preparation of the agent. He had long been completely familiar with the material formula ratio, dosage, and order of discharge, but he just lacked practical experience. With a theoretical foundation and combined with theory for practice, it was really easy for Gong Hao, who was the instructor and assistant of the chemistry laboratory.

Therefore, when other apprentices took a month to gradually master something, they became proficient in Gong Hao's hands so quickly. It seemed that they had been studying for several years, and even Hines was extremely surprised.

What is particularly amazing is not Gong Hao's speed of getting started, but Gong Hao's success rate.

In addition to the continuous failures that occurred in order to determine the standard temperature and dosage of the drug at the beginning, Gong Hao's error rate was greatly reduced later.

Generally speaking, the success rate of an apprentice who is proficient in techniques is only one-third, while the success rate of an alchemist is best only two-thirds.

However, Gong Hao's success rate has reached one-half. At least in the production of potions, it took him only one month to get close to the master's level.

This surprised Pier and couldn't figure out how he did it.

Of course, he didn't know that this was Gong Hao deliberately reported some more error records. In fact, his chance of error was even smaller. If all the reports were made, he would not want to hide the potion privately.

You should know that the potions made on Purgatory Island are rare in the entire continent, and there are basically no formulas circulating outside. Nowadays, most of the potions that can be made outside are low-cost and shoddy. Drinking a bottle of healing potion may not help you recover from many injuries. It is entirely possible to make you feel headaches and fevers for a few days.

After all, the production of potions not only requires formula, but also rare materials. Looking at the mainland, only Purgatory Island has this condition now. The 113 potions mentioned by Ivo are actually standard advanced potions. Looking at the mainland, there are no less than thousands of low-level potions, which are completely incomparable to those produced by Purgatory Island.

With this opportunity, if Gong Hao doesn't take it seriously, he will really be sorry for himself.

The increase in success rate brings about improvements in work efficiency. Gong Hao can freely use large crucibles and refine ten bottles of potions at a time, which greatly accelerates his refining speed. At the same time, due to the low failure rate, he can also avoid repeated work, further saving time.

In just twenty days, Gong Hao completed all the standard workload of an apprentice as a new servant and greatly saved the amount of materials. This was done with his continued work as a clerk and hunting monsters. This work progress surprised everyone.

Even though Hines knew that this guy was a little genius, he didn't expect him to master it so quickly.

Of course, the most contribution of this was the thermometer and beaker he made. With these two things, Gong Hao didn't have to worry about making medicines at all. If time permits, he planned to build a small test bench to make some more sophisticated tools used in the chemical laboratory before.

But two months are probably not enough anyway.

And if Hines wants to keep himself, he must make more and greater contributions.

It is obviously not possible to rely solely on making potions.

No matter how well the potion is, it is just a skilled job. If Heines wants to give up the possibility of being discovered by Gong Hao, so as to keep him in the alchemy tower for a long time and do what he wants, Heines must realize his true value.

Irreplaceable value!

Gong Hao remembered that before he was reincarnated, he encountered something like this:

A worker complained that he always does a lot of work, but his salary is the lowest. However, some technicians do not need to do anything, but their income is several times greater than theirs. At that time, he told the worker: A person’s value is not determined by how much labor it is, but depends on how irreplaceable you are. If you leave this position now, a group of people can take over you at any time, and your irreplaceableness is the lowest, so no matter how much labor you work, the reward will be limited.

But if you are confident that after you leave, there are many things that only you can do and others cannot do, then you have the capital to bid.

Yes, irreplaceableness must be made to make Hines realize that he has irreplaceable value! Only in this way can he take the risk to keep himself.

And relying solely on the proficiency of making potions cannot achieve this anyway. For Hines, the materials he squandered every day far exceed what Gong Hao could save, and he would not care about this. For an alchemy madman like him, only unknown, mysterious, and unachieved things are valuable.

Whoever can do this is irreplaceable.

Improve the formula for the potion! This is the only thing Gong Hao can think of and he can do it.

"Mr. Pier."

Gong Hao came to Pier's laboratory and saluted him respectfully.

"What's up?"

"That's right. The list of potions sent by the Empire has been completed. I would like to ask if you have any instructions?"

Pier put down the experiment in his hand.

He looked at Gong Hao with interest.

For some reason, he always felt that this was a boy who was a little unpredictable to him.

This kid is so smart that he can learn almost all his work quickly, so smart that he can always perform better than others expected, so smart that it is difficult for you to catch his mistakes, so smart that you can hand over almost everything to him and let go without asking.

I heard that after Ivo taught Xiu Iglair once, he had no chance to teach him more. Shortly after that, Ivo focused on his work and ignored Xiu Iglair.

Now, less than a month later, Xiuyi completed the work even earlier than Ivo, and then came to ask for a new job.

Not only is he smart, studious, but he is also diligent.

He did even better than Neil.

Logically speaking, you should be satisfied with such a person, but why do you always feel uneasy in your heart?

He can't figure it out.

He lowered his head and thought for a while, Pier said, "So do you have anything you want to do?"

"It's such an adult. If he doesn't plan to arrange for me to do new work, then I want to try to use the materials saved in my hand to see if I can further strengthen the existing medicine formula." Gong Hao replied.
To be continued...