Chapter 00095: A Box of Potions
# A Box of Potions
Chapter 95
Novel: AFK Game: Portal to Another World
Chapter 95 A Box of Potions
The story splits in two, let's follow each thread.
Li Chengxi didn't know that his number one follower was in a state of envy, jealousy, and hatred, on the verge of killing her cousin at the slightest disagreement.
After all, it seemed like nothing major was happening on Viola's side, so Li Chengxi was currently more focused on Yang Yiyi's problem.
As a convenience store owner, he could provide enough snacks and drinks.
With food and water, she had the most basic elements for survival.
But just having food and drink wasn't enough.
The cave where Yang Yiyi was lying was damp and dark.
Never mind an injured person, even a healthy person would get sick after staying there for a long time.
It was very detrimental to an injured person's recovery.
However, Yang Yiyi's whole body was in pain right now, so moving to another place was out of the question.
That left Li Chengxi to come up with a solution.
He first went upstairs and dug out a summer quilt, then pulled out a folding bed he had bought for a fishing trip from under his own bed.
These large items definitely couldn't be pushed through the laptop's screen, but thankfully, the desktop computer upstairs had a twenty-seven-inch monitor.
Shoving them through, just barely, wasn't a big problem.
With a bed and a quilt, Li Chengxi then went to a pharmacy to buy some medicine.
Danshen Tablets, three times a day, three tablets at a time, to promote blood circulation and remove stasis.
Yunnan Healing Powder, to apply on the wound to stop bleeding and relieve pain.
Iodophor, to disinfect with before applying the Yunnan Healing Powder, to prevent the wound from festering and getting infected.
Adding to that were bandages, Agastache Detox Elixirr, and he also stuffed in a few mosquito coils and some matches.
With this combination of moves, as long as Yang Yiyi didn't have any major problems like broken bones or ruptured organs, this should basically solve everything.
It seemed Yang Yiyi truly believed Li Chengxi's claim of being an Immortal.
After all, being able to conjure so many things was clearly not something that could be explained by common sense.
But then again, although she could temporarily live there with food and medicine, these weren't true divine medicines, and they would need time to take effect.
He had heard that some people get especially sleepy after being injured.
It was said to be the body's self-protection mechanism, using sleep to enhance recovery.
It felt like Yang Yiyi was this type of person.
After Li Chengxi got everything set up, she quickly lay down on the folding bed and fell asleep again.
Originally, Li Chengxi wanted to ask her about this Wuxia Script, but seeing the situation, he could only decide to wait until she recovered to talk about it.
On a side note, after Yang Yiyi ate something and regained some strength, the first thing she did was use stones to build a simple bathroom by an earthen pit on one side of the cave…
Li Chengxi hadn't thought of that.
If he'd known, he would have stuffed a few more plastic bags through.
What? Is that strange? Even beautiful women need to take a dump.
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"Brother Li, where did you go this morning? Why was the store locked?"
"I went to the vegetable market to buy a few things."
Early the next morning, when Li Chengxi returned from the market, he saw Xue Wenshu waiting at the store entrance.
He used his key to unlock the door and went in.
Xue Wenshu casually grabbed a bottle of Cola from the refrigerator.
It seemed he didn't have a date today.
"Didn't you go on a date with a girl the other day? How are you two doing?"
"It wasn't a date, we just went to play basketball."
Xue Wenshu said, a little embarrassed:
"I think there might be a chance. I asked her to hang out again in a couple of days."
"I'm not against you dating, kid, but your grades can't drop, or I'll definitely tell your mom."
Although Li Chengxi always felt Xue Wenshu was a bit of a simpleton, his grades were genuinely not bad.
He could rank in the top five of his class, and in the top ten of the entire school.
Speaking of which, it was incredible that a tall, well-built kid who was also good at his studies hadn't been confessed to by any girls all these years.
Perhaps Xue Wenshu was like Li Chengxi back in the day, thinking that women would only slow down his gaming speed!
"Don't worry, there definitely won't be any problems. I'm very confident."
"Confident my ass. You'll be in your last year of high school when the term starts. To put it bluntly, if you start dating now, you'll be going your separate ways before you know it."
"But you said you weren't against it..."
"I'm not against it, that's true. Just treat it as gaining experience. Otherwise, you'll have a tough time when you get to university."
Li Chengxi truly treated Xue Wenshu like his own little brother.
If it were anyone else, he couldn't be bothered to say all this.
He took down a strip of several packs of Popping Candy and tossed it to Xue Wenshu:
"My treat. Go back and do your homework, don't just wander around. If your mom sees you, she'll give you another earful."
"Brother Li, you're starting to sound more and more like my mom..."
Xue Wenshu grumbled a bit but obediently went home to study.
Li Chengxi opened his laptop and first checked on Yang Yiyi's condition.
After all, she was injured, and he was always a little worried that her condition might suddenly worsen when he wasn't paying attention.
On her character status, the HP bar was already almost half full again.
This recovery speed was quite fast.
However, Yang Yiyi was still fast asleep on the bed.
Li Chengxi didn't wake her, but reached out and pushed a few large apples he had just bought from the vegetable market through.
Apples were good things, nutritious and easy to digest, very suitable for a sick person to eat.
Seeing that Yang Yiyi hadn't woken up, Li Chengxi clicked back to the main menu and switched to check on Viola's side.
The timing was just right.
Viola was leading the Royal Guards in prayer in the Chapel.
The most conspicuous person was that 'golden-haired drill' named Wendy.
Her hairstyle was so distinctive that it stood out even in the chibi, pixel style.
Also present was Audel, who had returned yesterday.
He glanced over everyone's prayers and felt it was no different from usual.
Only Audel's prayer was a series of '...' He felt she might already be about to fall asleep.
He remembered that before she left, she had mentioned having several important papers to prepare for publication.
He guessed she had been pulling all-nighters since she got back.
No wonder she was drowsy during prayer.
Seeing that there was nothing important happening, Li Chengxi was about to switch scripts to continue watching Yang Yiyi when he saw two Knights push a food cart into the Chapel.
It was very strange, because Li Chengxi had long ago said that there was no need to offer food.
And unlike before, the Knights who pushed the cart in didn't place a tray on the altar.
Instead, they lifted the cloche and placed a square box on the altar.
What's this now?
Li Chengxi looked at the box and thought for a moment.
"Oh, could this be the potions Audel said she would give as an apology?"
Before she left, she said she would send over a few bottles of potions.
Magic potions were a common element in fantasy settings, like the Polyjuice Potion from Harry Potter that could turn you into another person.
Actually, Li Chengxi hadn't paid much mind to Audel's sudden visit, but since she had placed it on the altar, and Li Chengxi happened to be a little interested in potions, he reached out and pulled the box out of the screen.
It was a very exquisitely made wooden box, visually about the size of a small mooncake gift box.
Lifting the lid, the inside was divided into a grid of uniform compartments, lined with black velvet cloth.
Bottles of potions were nestled within the grid.
Li Chengxi picked up a bottle to examine it and was a little surprised.
He had thought magic potions would be the size of a laboratory flask, but he didn't expect them to be about the size of a nail polish bottle.
Some were in small pottery jars, others were glass, though the quality of the glass wasn't very good; one look revealed many air bubbles and pits.
A label was stuck to the side of the bottle.
The text on it distorted for a moment, changing into the familiar Chinese characters Li Chengxi knew.
"Potion of False Life? What's this?"
(End of this chapter)