In this day and age, it is very difficult to determine the chemical composition of a certain substance.
Analytical chemistry is not Reggie's field of expertise, and there is not enough equipment. There is no need to think about high-end products such as mass spectrometers and computers. At the moment, there is not even a decent test paper. Trying to decipher the chemical composition of the witch medicine is simply a fantasy.
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However, Reggie was not completely without breakthroughs. Prey was a generous boy, and he gave Reggie the recipe and refining process of the witch medicine.
Let’s first take a look at the ingredients of the prescription: flour, cow’s blood, sugar, salt, a little ale, and some wild vegetables.
It doesn't look that complicated, and it seems to be simpler than the black powder of Bayer Country. At least it doesn't require such rare things as the hair of a long-tongued woman.
But what kind of effective ingredients can be produced from these things?
Reggie locked himself in his room and used amazing perseverance to list out all the equations he could think of. In the end, he still couldn't find any compound that could promote growth.
It seems that I am still too dogmatic and should not stick to the rules and laws of the original world. Perhaps I should reverse the reaction process from the final result.
There are roughly two factors that can promote plant growth. One is the direct genetic mutation caused by the stimulation of a certain substance, and the other is the synthesis of certain hormone substances that promote the rapid growth of plants.
Think about Pui's process of refining the medicine again. He needs to put the seeds into the raw materials to refine together, but the secret medicine he refines is only effective for this one seed. It can be inferred from the results that the genes caused by the refining process are
Mutation is most likely.
So Reggie suffered in the room for another day. He pulled out almost all his hair, but still couldn't find the answer. It was impossible for such simple raw materials to induce genetic mutation.
In the end, Reggie listened to Calaf's advice and followed Prey's every process of refining the witch potion in real time.
Prey is indeed very generous. He is planning to refine a secret medicine for a Napolchi seed, and he is willing to let Reggie watch every step of his process of refining the medicine.
On the first day, Prey collected all the raw materials, mixed, stirred, and simmered... until it turned into a pot of paste, and the day's work was over.
The next day, Prey performed a summoning ceremony. He wanted to use Napochi's seeds to summon the power of the gods. He still did not shy away from it and let Reggie watch the entire ceremony. It was similar to Doranor's ceremony.
Beside, Prey's ceremony was too plain. There were totems, spells, and some sacrifices. But during the whole ceremony, Reggie didn't see any changes in the seeds. It wasn't until dusk that Prey felt the response from the gods.
The next day's work also ends here.
From the third to the seventh day, the process of refining the medicine became more boring than before. Reggie could no longer see any process related to witchcraft. He only saw the young wizard guarding the cauldron of refining medicine and adding firewood from time to time.
Add water and carefully control the heat.
Although the process was boring, it reminded Reggie of something, which was somewhat similar to the fermentation process of penicillin.
Could it be that some kind of growth-promoting agent is formed through the action of certain microorganisms?
Calaf confirmed Reggie's idea that he saw something moving in the pot, a sign of life.
It's incredible. The paste in the pot is always boiling. How can there be life at this temperature?
In the last two days, Reggie did not continue to disturb Prey. He and Khalaf worked together to build a microscope.
The manufacturing process of an optical microscope is very simple, not much different from a monocular telescope. It's just that Reggie didn't have time to make scientific research instruments before, so he focused most of his energy on leading troops to fight and making money to eat.
The microscope made Khalaf extremely excited. He looked at the microscope tube for a whole hour and screamed almost every minute.
"Sir, I saw the cells you mentioned. This is the composition of life! I saw it!"
Reggie glanced at the lens barrel, nodded and said, "Yes, this is a very good quality animal cell slice. Where did you get this?"
Calaf smiled excitedly: "I cut off a piece of skin from my arm!"
"Very good! This is dedication to science!" Reggie praised Khalaf a few words, then took his skin away from the operating table and replaced it with the witch medicine sample he had just taken. According to Prey
, the secret medicine must not be missing even a penny, otherwise it will affect the final effect. Reggie just sucked up a few drops with a straw. Looking at Prey's sad eyes, Reggie still feels guilty.
Putting the secret medicine he had obtained under a microscope, Reggie saw an astonishing sight.
There are a large number of microorganisms in the potion. Judging from the shape, they should be protozoa. Their bodies are covered with a layer of fine hairs and look a bit like paramecium.
Are they really just paramecia? These things can be seen everywhere. They shouldn't have such a high density. Reggie did a rough count and found that there were at least 300 similar creatures in a drop of potion. This was obviously not the biological density that nature should have.
Where do these protozoa come from? Flour? Sugar? Salt? Wild vegetables? Reggie checked every raw material and found no trace of these little guys in any of them.
There is only one possibility. This creature comes from the wizard's ritual. Prey used witchcraft to summon this creature into the witch potion.
Under the microscope, these protozoa were swimming rapidly, and some were on the verge of dividing. However, due to the loss of high temperature environment, it seemed that they could not complete the division and reproduction. Reggie took a wheat seed and placed it in a petri dish. After several times,
After hours of observation, Reggie found that these protozoa didn't have much interest in wheat seeds.
A dose of witch potion can only target one seed. Reggie finally proved this statement through experiments. Although Prey strongly objected, Reggie took Napoleon's seeds out of the witch potion. After careful observation,
Reggie discovered that all the protozoa in the witch medicine had burrowed into the seeds and parasitized in the embryos of the seeds in a special way.
Next, the cells of the seeds began to grow crazily, but the protozoa stopped reproducing and began to slowly die. As Prey said, the gods only gave the plants the power they needed to grow, no more, no less.
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Reggie finally understood the entire process of refining the witch medicine. Prey used flour, mountain vegetables and other raw materials to create protozoa food. Then he used Napochi's seeds to summon protozoa suitable for this seed. The protozoa grew at high temperatures.
It grows and reproduces in the paste, and after a certain period of time, it has the ability to parasitize in the seeds.
After entering the seed, these protozoa begin to promote the growth of the plant, until the plant becomes an adult, these protozoa also die out, and the entire witchcraft is over.
Although the principles of the entire witchcraft were understood, they were left with helplessness and disappointment. Summoning protozoa was the core of the entire witchcraft. This process could not be replicated at all. The idea of industrially producing witchcraft medicine came to nothing.
The exhausted Reggie was stroking his sorrow alone in the castle, when Chris suddenly broke in through the window and brought bad news.
"Charlemagne did not withdraw his troops. He found a batch of food and recruited a large number of reinforcements!" Chris said solemnly, "He is going to start a war. In the next few days, he will definitely launch an attack. We are in big trouble!"