Having experienced life and death before, Lin Yao prioritized helping Xiao Cao when refining pills, because only when her strength increased could his own life be more secure.
There is also a mysterious, elusive source of magical power residing within my body, which is currently being absorbed little by little by the grass. Therefore, the refining of the super "Snow Soul Pill" is even more important.
The two simple Tibetan brothers, Zhaduo and Ciren, have become quite wealthy. Lin Yao doubled the purchase price, with the only requirement that the snow lotus must be wild and native to the Kunlun Mountains. This made the two brothers the largest private medicinal herb distributors in the area.
They established a formal Golmud Medicinal Herbs Company, with Zhaduo as the general manager and Ciren as the deputy general manager. In addition to wild snow lotus, they also dealt in other specialty wild Tibetan medicinal herbs. Having tasted success, the two brothers no longer engaged in the business of artificially cultivated medicinal herbs. Lin Yao instructed Minhong to buy up most of the wild medicinal herbs.
Since snow lotus is effective, other Tibetan medicines will eventually be able to play a role as well. Even if we buy them and store them, it can be considered a strategic reserve. This is Lin Yao's point of view.
He practiced alchemy, meditated to restore his healing energy, and continued practicing alchemy.
This is what Lin Yao mainly does after returning to "Urban Forest".
After focusing on adding spiritual energy from heaven and earth, the biggest consumption in alchemy is the healing true energy needed when printing the incantation. The pseudo-alchemy fire consumes less energy. Therefore, he needs to meditate several times to recover his healing true energy every time he refines an alchemy. He often misses work because of this, so Lin Yao has become a well-known latecomer in the company.
The healing true energy was completely consumed during the alchemy process. Then, meditation was used to replenish it. Each consumption and replenishment increased the total amount and recovery speed of the healing true energy. This can be considered a huge benefit after returning to ordinary life, because before, without a breakthrough in mental state, the healing true energy never experienced any strain. Each increase was an avalanche, which made the foundation seem unstable.
Although the total growth was practically zero, there was still progress. Lin Yao and Xiao Cao didn't expect to achieve instant success; they just wanted something that would benefit the total amount and the recovery speed. Perhaps one day this ability could save Lin Yao's life.
Aside from these, Lin Yao spent the rest of his time raising and refining Gu gu.
Raising the 127 kinds of Gu worms in his body was very time-consuming, which also cultivated Lin Yao's patience and perseverance.
The Gu worms are becoming increasingly powerful, but even with Yi Guoguo, a cultivator at the early stage of the Earth Realm, as an example, the Gu worms cannot break through her defenses. Even if Yi Guoguo deliberately allows the Gu worms to enter her body, they can be killed at any time.
Lin Yao couldn't help but sigh that casting Gu was truly a useless ability; it was only effective against ordinary people, what good was it! He might as well rush up and slap them a couple of times.
Fortunately, raising Gu is quite interesting. Controlling these little creatures to float around is a lot of fun. It's a way for Lin Yao, this big kid, to make up for the lack of fun he had as a child. He has continued raising Gu in his spare time.
It must be said that Yi Guoguo is a very determined girl. From the moment she first saw the chubby Gu worm and her legs trembled, to gritting her teeth, closing her eyes, and swallowing the Gu worm, this brave girl never uttered a word of refusal. Only her body's reaction revealed her feelings, which made people feel really sorry for her.
Lin Yao, this guy who has no mercy for women, actually got addicted to it. He made Yi Guoguo swallow all 127 kinds of Gu worms once, and then "spit them out". Even Elder Yi An, who had great respect for Lin Yao, couldn't stand it anymore. Every time, he would stand by and roll his eyes, trying to remind his master to be more self-aware, but Lin Yao deliberately ignored him.
Practice makes perfect! Who told you, a top-tier prefecture-level student, that you weren't even qualified to conduct experiments? I guess I'll just have to make things difficult for Yi Guoguo; at worst, I'll just give her some extra "candy" to compensate her.
This was Lin Yao's viewpoint, which led him to withhold some of the pills he gave Yi An several times. In the end, the old man simply decided to ignore it and left the two of them alone to practice their martial arts.
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“Mr. Angel, this is XXX, this is YYY, and this is…”
Basil Winton introduced Lin Yao to each person, occasionally stealing a glance at Yi Guoguo, who was acting as the translator beside him.
Basil Winton thought the girl, who was fully armed to the teeth, had a stunning figure. Although most of her face was covered, her figure and voice alone were enough to arouse any man.
Every time he saw this girl, he had thoughts about her, but of course, he only had thoughts and didn't dare to bring them up. After all, she was someone the angel had sent, and he didn't know the relationship between the girl and the angel. He didn't want to offend her.
"Basil, why is there an extra person?" Lin Yao interrupted Yi Guoguo before she could translate.
After being immersed in the office all day, Lin Yao's English improved rapidly, though only in listening comprehension.
The three office staff in the International Trade Department chattered away in gibberish every day, even after finishing phone conversations with clients, as if they were afraid people wouldn't know they understood foreign languages.
Lin Yao had mocked her several times in the office, but each time it drew a collective attack from the three women. At this time, the three internal staff members in the domestic department did not help at all. Chen Zhili dared not help, and the other two internal staff members probably had a real sense of inferiority. Anyway, whenever Lin Yao was attacked, they pretended to work hard, but in fact they were eavesdropping.
What's most outrageous is that the gentle and kind Ming Xinyue didn't help Lin Yao at all. On several occasions, she even got up to pour tea for the three women from the International Department who were scolding Lin Yao, as if she was worried that they would stop scolding him when they got thirsty. This made Lin Yao grit his teeth in anger.
After this arduous experience, Lin Yao's English listening skills improved significantly. He still couldn't speak fluently, but he could understand most sentences without any problems.
So as soon as Basil Winton opened his mouth, he immediately realized that a foreigner named Holly Ford was not among the people scheduled to meet.
Yi Guoguo coldly translated Lin Yao's words to Basil Winton, her tone icy. Lin Yao was quite surprised, thinking that this girl usually didn't express her emotions. Could it be that this Hollie Ford had some special identity that made her angry?
Whether it's Basil Winton or Nino Cage, the patients they recommend must be reported to Lin Yao online in advance, along with the patient's biographical information.
Most of this information was verified by Long Yihun's people, and the patient's identity was verified by combining it with other information found in the investigation. If the person was not particularly famous, Long Yihun would even send an investigation request to a designated email address, and then Gou Xiaogou, China's number one hacker, would conduct the investigation.
So far, Gou Xiaogou has only been alerted once, and the result of the verification was that he was the head of a secretive conglomerate, so there were no problems. Both Basil Winton and Nino Cage had screened him according to Lin Yao's conditions beforehand.
Yi Guoguo is not only Lin Yao's personal assistant and Gu worm "taste tester", but she is also responsible for the investigation of these international businesses. This is to prevent her from being too bored in Beijing. This is also an increase in workload that she took the initiative to request. Lin Yao then assigned this part to her and Long Yihun to be in charge of.
Yi Guoguo was aware of the information coming from across the ocean. Could it be that there was something wrong with this Hollie Ford?
Lin Yao raised his hand and pressed down, stopping Basil Winton from giving his explanation, then turned to look at Yi Guoguo.
"First... um, Mr. Angel."
Yi Guoguo spoke softly. In order to avoid any foreigners being able to understand Chinese, Yi Guoguo also had to use the same title as the foreigners, even though everyone actually knew that Lin Yao was the angel. This self-deceptive thing had to be done to show an attitude: she did not want to expose her identity or practice medicine in public.
"Holler Ford is an important figure in the American Wolllake Group and wields considerable power."
Yi Guoguo turned her head to a direction where Basil Winton couldn't see her and continued to explain using the "Sound Transmission" skill, "The Wolllake Consortium is an undisclosed secret consortium that mainly engages in military production and also makes huge profits from American foreign wars. Of course, when operating, they split up and are affiliated with other companies, so they act very discreetly."
"Wollake is actually just the words 'I like war,' and because it's a secret organization, the name of this conglomerate is very arrogant. Holler Ford has a public identity as the chairman of a large machinery manufacturing company. He openly supported and funded Dida Laba, who fled the country, so he shouldn't have been treated at all."
Lin Yao nodded, acknowledging the matter, and didn't let Yi Guoguo continue.
As soon as they entered, the little grass stretched out its tendrils to "examine" everyone, and Lin Yao knew their specific conditions clearly.
Lin Yao already knew that this Holle Ford had heart disease and diabetes, and that it was now quite serious.
The patients from abroad were all wealthy and high-status individuals, and all of them were under immense work pressure.
Therefore, high work pressure often leads to heart disease and diabetes, causing Lin Yao to frequently consume "Life-Sustaining Pills".
Lin Yao had no liking for Holly Ford, this war fanatic. He thought that since he had come, he would not let him leave empty-handed. He would let him leave some souvenirs, even if it was suspected of "murder" and affected his state of mind. After all, Xiao Cao had said that only pure killing and reckless killing for the sake of killing would truly affect one's state of mind.
"Little Grass, to avoid suspicion, you should take action this time and make this bad guy's condition worsen after he returns to the country," Lin Yao instructed Little Grass telepathically.