Chapter 152: Medicine Purchase Incident

Many people had seen Laxus bringing a heavily injured male to the Fuzu Tribe for Ophelia to treat.

Lam was one of them.

“Ophelia, I’m here for the medicine.” Seeing Ophelia finish washing her hands, Lam sneakily sidled over.

“You certainly know how to pick your time,” Ophelia teased.

Lam chuckled and sneakily winked at her.

“Ophelia, is the efficacy of this medicine really that good?”

“What do you think?” Ophelia blinked, flashing him a meaningful smile.

Seeing Ophelia’s attitude, Lam was half-convinced. If this medicine really worked, it would be a huge blessing for them males.

“Here are twenty bottles of antiseptic medicine and ten bottles of White Life-saving Pills. They cost one Yellow Crystal Stone per bottle.

“These are fever reducers and cold medicine. They cost one Red Crystal Stone per bag, and there are forty bags here in total.”

Because the steps for making the antiseptic medicine and White Life-saving Pills were quite complex, the males from Ten Thousand Beasts City sent by Moye were all working on those two items. Therefore, she had mixed the fever reducers and cold medicine together with Tyler and Zerev. Managing to produce forty bags in just three days was already their absolute limit.

Lam looked at the two woven baskets full of items, completely shocked. “Just this amount of things can be exchanged for so many Crystal Stones?”

Lam found it simply unbelievable. One Yellow Crystal Stone was equal to a hundred catties of rice, which was equivalent to a thousand prey animals. He wondered what kind of wealthy family could afford such a luxury.

However, Lam quickly realized that if one Yellow Crystal Stone, or a thousand prey animals, could buy a life, it was entirely worth it. With this in mind, he decided to save up his Crystal Stones to get a bottle of White Life-saving Pills for himself.

Lam picked up a clay bottle and shook it, hearing the sound of something rolling around inside.

“The ones with the yellow stoppers are Life-saving Pills, and the ones with the green stoppers are antiseptic medicine,” Ophelia explained.

The Beast World did not have a writing system yet, or rather, the low-level tribes of the Beast World had not yet developed one. As a result, Ophelia had no way to use writing to distinguish between the two types of medicine. Therefore, when Fei Luo was making the bottles, she had asked him to make wooden stoppers in two different colors.

“I’ll take them to the wall shop to sell right now,” Lam said.

Ophelia thought for a moment and decided to go with him. Since Lam wasn’t completely familiar with these medicines yet, he wouldn’t be able to explain things clearly if customers asked questions. If she helped explain things beside him for now, she would be able to relax once Lam learned the ropes.

At the wall shop, a few storefronts had already opened their wooden doors. The males who had been clamoring to buy medicine a few days ago were also arriving one after another.

Ophelia considerately introduced the products to them.

One male looked at the clay bottle Ophelia was holding and asked, “Ophelia, how many Life-saving Pills are in one bottle?”

“There are twenty pills in a bottle. However, this Life-saving Pill must only be used at the most critical moments. Using it casually will actually harm the body.”

The surrounding males nodded in understanding upon hearing this.

“Little female, I want a bottle of antiseptic medicine,” one said.

“I also want a bottle of antiseptic medicine, and a bottle of Life-saving Pills,” another added.

Lam stared at the three gleaming Yellow Crystal Stones on the counter, utterly dumbfounded. Someone was actually buying them!

Ophelia curled her lips into a smile. These two males were heavily muscled and had sturdy limbs; at first glance, they were clearly expert hunters. It was not surprising that they could save up a Yellow Crystal Stone. Moreover, they might have other ways of earning Crystal Stones. Just like the White Tiger King, Klein. He owned a mine, so taking out a Yellow Crystal Stone was a breeze for him.

A few other males gathered around, cautiously asking Ophelia, “Little female, can the four of us buy a bottle of golden sore medicine together?”

A thousand prey animals split among four people meant two hundred and fifty animals each. This way, the financial pressure on the males wouldn’t be so immense.

Ophelia smiled. “Of course you can. However, these Life-saving Pills need to be stored in clay bottles so they can be insulated from heat and moisture, allowing them to be preserved longer. Otherwise, their efficacy will diminish over time.”

“Ah, is that so?” The males looked troubled upon hearing this.

It would be a bit difficult for them to find clay bottles on such short notice. Besides, with so many people eyeing these medicines right now, if they waited until they found bottles to come back, the medicine would be gone. That would be too much of a pity.

“If you want clay bottles, they’re being sold right over there,” Ophelia said.

As soon as she had arrived at the wall shop, Ophelia had spotted Fei Luo crouching under a tree. At his feet were several clay bottles identical to the medicine bottles in her hands. It seemed he had made too many, but they were coming in perfectly handy right now.

Thus, one male was responsible for buying the Life-saving Pills, while the other three went over to Feno to pick out three medicine bottles.

Fei Luo had originally just made a few extra to test the waters, never expecting such an unexpected windfall. His eyes were full of gratitude as he looked at Ophelia, who gave him a slight nod in return.

Then, she continued introducing the properties of the other medicines to the males around her.

Lam was smart and quickly memorized Ophelia’s words. When more males came to ask questions later, he was already able to answer them fluently.

With those four males setting an example, the other males present followed suit, forming temporary groups to purchase the golden sore medicine and Life-saving Pills. In one fell swoop, Fei Luo sold thirty medicine bottles and exchanged them for a piece of prey.

Under the frenzy of the males divvying them up, only one bottle each of the antiseptic medicine and Life-saving Pills remained.

At this moment, a male hurriedly rushed up to Ophelia. He was covered in blood, his forehead drenched in sweat. “Little female, I’m Brown from the Bear Clan Tribe. I’m only short one Crystal Stone from saving up enough for a Yellow Crystal Stone.

“Someone in my family needs this medicine right now to save their life. Can you give me the medicine first? Once I save enough, I’ll give you the remaining orange Crystal Stone.”

The faces of the males who had been cut in line turned somewhat ugly. They had finally managed to scrape enough people together to buy the last bottle of antiseptic medicine. How could they be willing to let this guy just jump out of nowhere and snatch it away?

“You don’t even have enough Crystal Stones and you want to exchange for medicine, not to mention cutting in line! Someone like you has no right to buy medicine.”

“Yeah, little female, hurry up and chase him away.”

To maintain fairness, Ophelia had made the males line up in a long queue early on, and she had Tyler punish a few males who tried to cut in line. Brown’s line-cutting behavior quickly drew the dissatisfaction of the people behind him.

Ophelia looked at Brown’s blood-soaked body and felt he wasn’t lying. “Someone in your family is injured?”

“Yes, his back was mangled by a tiger, and he is already unconscious.”

Brown knew very well that cutting in line was immoral, but for the sake of his family member’s life, he could only pretend not to hear their complaints.

“How about this? I’ll pack five Life-saving Pills for you first. Take this bottle of antiseptic medicine back to save him,” Ophelia said.

Seeing Ophelia hand the golden sore medicine to Brown, the males at the back shouted out in displeasure.

“We agreed to line up to buy medicine! Little female, why did you give the medicine to this male who cut in line?”

“Yeah! Ophelia, are you being biased just because this male is good-looking?”

As a few males kept talking, they started twisting the narrative.

Hearing Ophelia being maliciously slandered by the males because she was helping him, Brown grew somewhat angry. He directly walked up to the male who had started the accusations and threw a punch.

“I’ll teach you to spout nonsense!”