The Highest Bounty

Chapter 45: Spirit Medicine

With Liliath on his back, the two of them left the scene of the battle, and once again found a big tree to hide atop of.

After using her Pupillary Ability, Liliath became very weak. Using a move like that, under normal circumstances, was bound to have some short-term consequences. Thankfully, would recover after spending some time resting.

Gu Ding did not ask what that Pupillary Ability did, or why did the giant beast had reacted so oddly. Even though he was curious, he knew that this sort of life-saving move was extremely personal and private.

Looking at Gu Ding’s wounds, Liliath retrieved a bottle of medicine from her storage space and passed it to Gu Ding. “You need to treat injuries to your bones as soon as you can, or it’ll cause a lot of trouble in the future.”

Gu Ding took the bottle and looked at it. The medicine was blue; it was a bottle of good-quality Grade E Cell Restorer. This bottle must have cost at least 200,000 Star Credits.

“You really don’t know how to manage your finances.” Gu Ding grinned.

“A woman just has to know how to spend her money.” Liliath pouted.

Gu Ding thought to himself, ‘My dad was right, women really are incomprehensible creatures.’

Other than some bruises on his body, Gu Ding also suffered several fractures, and there was also some damage to his internal organs. If he waited too long, it would cause some serious problems. Therefore, he injected the bottle of Cell Restorer straight into his veins.

After a short moment, he felt his cells becoming active, and he quickly entered the restoration phase.

After approximately ten minutes, all his external wounds healed, his bones entered the initial healing stage, and his internal injuries were also relieved to a certain extent.

“Take one bottle daily. You’ll need to keep injecting this for at least three days in a row.” Liliath said and handed him two more bottles of medicine.

“There’s no need for that. Once we find a suitable and safe location, I can make the Cell Restorer on my own.” Even though Gu Ding said this, he actually did not have sufficient medicinal materials to do so, he just felt a little embarrassed about taking Liliath’s things. He accepted the first bottle because he needed to repair his body urgently, otherwise, he might suffer chronic damage. However, he did not need the second or third bottle since his body’s restorative abilities were better than average. He just needed to be more careful, then he should be healed after a few more days.

“You’re a Grade E pharmacologist?” Liliath did not expect Gu Ding to have such an identity.

“My current certification is Grade F,” Gu Ding corrected her, “but I should be able to create Grade E medicine as well.”

“Pharmacologists do earn a lot of money, huh, you’re so young, yet you can afford a piece of Combat Armor.” Liliath pretended to act like an old lady and grabbed her chin, staring Gu Ding up and down.

“This Combat Armor was a gift from someone. One Combat Armor costs hundreds of millions of Star Credits, so there’s no way I could afford it.” Gu Ding explained with a bitter smile.

“The person who gave you a Combat Armor, surely it must be a woman?” Liliath asked.

“Yes.” Gu Ding did not deny this.

“I knew it!” Liliath pouted.

“I’m almost healed, what about you?” The two of them had rested for almost two hours. Under the influence of the Cell Restorer, Gu Ding’s body soon completed the initial stage of healing.

“What I consumed was my spirit, so my body is fatigued, and I can’t fight. I’ll need at least five hours of sleep before my body’s basic functions will be restored. If I want to restore all my combat strength, I’ll need at least 20 hours of sleep.” Liliath explained. This meant that in the upcoming part of their journey, they could only rely on Gu Ding. “The medicine for restoring spirit is extremely expensive, and there is very little demand for it. Usually, when it appears at an auction, it will be auctioned off at a high price.”

“The price for spirit restoration medicine is that high?” It was the first time that Gu Ding had heard of such a thing.

“Yeah. I’ve seen a Grade D Spirit Restorer being auctioned off for 1.6 billion Star Credits.” Liliath remembered the auction clearly. “I didn’t participate in that action. Firstly, because it was overpriced, and secondly, because that Grade D medicine is usually used by powerhouses with Rank 6 or Rank 7 Gene Bodies. Mine is just a Rank 2 Gene Body, so it would be too much of a waste.”

“A regular Grade D gene medicine with passable quality would cost somewhere between one million and three million Star Credits. One with good quality would cost somewhere between 5 million and 8 million Star Credits. Even with perfect quality, the price should be somewhere between 60 million and 80 million. It would not exceed 100 million Star Credits. So, going off that basis, spirit medicine has some serious premium.” Gu Ding was really starting to see the profit in becoming a pharmacologist.

“The spirit medicine that was auctioned off that time was high quality,” Liliath added. “It was expected to have such a high premium. Among those in the Hermean Alliance, there are less than 10 people who have the spirit medicine’s formula. When it comes to medicinal formulas that are just a little unique or special, pharmaceutical factories normally have to buy them from the Hermean Alliance at a very high price, never mind such a rare formula. It’s impossible that the Hermean Alliance would sell it off.”

The so-called pharmaceutical factories referred to companies that bought medicinal formulas from the Hermean Alliance and used machines to mass-produce and sell the medicines. There were quite a number of such enterprises, with there being more than 30 thousand in Dragon Soar Cosmic Nation alone.

Because the refining of medicine was such an exact science, even the same type of medicine might have different refining processes based off of the pharmacologists conducting it. Therefore, the refining process that the Hermean Alliance provided to the pharmaceutical factories were normally simplified to a certain extent such that they can be handled by machines. This lowered the operating cost of the pharmaceutical factory, but it also caused the drawback in the form of the lower quality of the medicines. Usually, the medicine that was produced through a flow process was just of passable quality. Good quality medicine would require a separate production line.

The formulas that the Hermean Alliance provided to the pharmaceutical factories were all formulas of common medicine—those that were in high demand but were not expensive. Nevertheless, since the pharmaceutical factories could still profit, they would not complain too much.

As for the special formulas, they were only circulated within the Hermean Alliance or were privately owned by pharmacologists. Pharmaceutical factories simply could not get their hands on them. Even so, the pharmaceutical factories would also not risk offending the Hermean Alliance by trying to steal the formulas. If they did that, they would be banned by the Hermean Alliance and ostracized by the other pharmaceutical factories.

“I have a few hundred spirit medicine formulas in my database.” Neptune’s voice sounded out in Gu Ding’s ear. “I found out that the civilization of your era is missing too many things. There is so much to inherit from the ancient civilizations, and the people of your era have only scratched the surface, yet they treat it like they’ve found buried treasure.”

“Alright, let’s stop talking about this. Let’s go, we should hurry over there before the sky turns dark. I hope we won’t meet any more monsters like that along the way.” As he spoke, Gu Ding lifted Liliath onto his back again and leaped down from the tree. Then, he ran toward the shipbuilding factory.