Chapter 294: Betty and Her Dear Mentor

Not long after, Betty returned, but compared to before, she now held two small white mice in her hands.

“Wait, you just carried them over like that with your hands?”

I asked with a frown.

“Aiya, don’t mind the details. I was just afraid of being discovered.”

Betty placed the white mice on the countertop.

The mice remained quiet and didn’t run around.

It seemed these lab mice had been domesticated to the point of not knowing what resistance was.

But precisely because of this, they could bring us great convenience.

At this moment, Betty held a sharp blade.

She picked up a white mouse and made a large cut on its body.

“Alright, alright, that’s a big cut. Are you sure you don’t want to slice it in half?”

I couldn’t help but remind her as I watched the white mouse in Betty’s hand squeaking and screaming.

“Indeed… forget it, let’s leave it like this for now. I hope the potion is a bit more effective.”

Betty put down the blade and scratched her head.

She had been a bit too excited just now and was subconsciously preparing to dissect the white mouse, but then she remembered she was testing a wound healing potion.

“I hope the white mouse is okay…”

Betty now took out a new dropper and drew some of the potion she had just prepared.

This type of potion was generally applied to the wound and taken orally, a two-pronged approach.

After Betty dripped the potion on the wound, the white mouse let out another miserable squeak, followed by a sizzling sound from the wound, similar to corrosion.

“What happened?”

I leaned forward and asked.

“I… I killed it? Huh?”

Betty looked at the struggling white mouse in disbelief, somewhat flustered.

Seemingly seeing that the external application was useless, she dripped a few drops into the screaming mouse’s mouth.

Then, after a while, the white mouse died completely.

“You’re such a genius!”

“Don’t… don’t say that about me! I don’t know why it turned out this way either!”

At this moment, Betty felt like she was about to break down.

She had followed all the steps, so why did she concoct a killing potion?

Although it seemed a bit difficult to kill even a white mouse now, her goal was a wound healing potion!

That was a potion for saving lives and healing the injured.

If this kind of potion were to circulate in the outside world, it would be snapped up.

And just as Betty was about to break down and cry, the laboratory door was suddenly pushed open, and a figure walked straight in.

I looked at the unfamiliar, mature woman before me.

She seemed to exude a slight sense of pressure.

I didn’t even need to guess to know that the person in front of me was definitely a transcendent witch, perhaps Betty’s mentor!

It couldn’t be her senior sister, anyway.

“Men… Mentor Rola…”

Betty’s voice confirmed my thoughts, but Betty, was that tremor in your voice for real?

“Betty, what good have you been up to again?”

The transcendent witch Betty called Rola just glanced at me, her focus shifting directly to Betty.

This question carried a great deal of pressure.

At this moment, Betty felt as if she was about to suffocate.

But when Rola walked up to us, she seemed to be attracted by something and turned her head to look at me.

Her deep eyes stared into mine, making my hair stand on end.

The next moment, she reached out her hand towards my face.

Just when I thought this Witch Rola had also recognized me and wanted to poach me, or pinch my cheek, her outstretched hand suddenly grabbed the frame of the glasses I was wearing.

The alchemical glasses that Teacher Ji Niang had given me were taken away, and I subconsciously swallowed.

“You know Xi Lan?”

“Xi Lan?”

I was stunned for a moment, then quickly reacted.

Wasn't Xi Lan just another name for Ji Niang?

“She is my counselor?”

After calming my nervous emotions, I quickly began to reflect on the situation with these alchemical glasses.

The scene when Teacher Ji Niang gave them to me… it seemed Teacher Ji Niang had gotten them from some witch.

Could it be such a coincidence that it was her?

“Counselor? Doesn’t she teach the newcomers? You… oh, you look a little familiar. Yang Yuehan, is it?”

“Yes, teacher.”

I nodded.

“You are that fellow Xi Lan’s student. What are you doing here for no reason?”

Rola carefully put the glasses back on for me.

“I crafted these glasses. Since Xi Lan gave this thing to you, don’t let it down.”

“Okay.”

Seeing my crisp agreement, Rola didn’t bother me anymore and turned to face Betty.

At this moment, Betty thought she had escaped, but in the end, she couldn’t escape the fate of being punished.

“Don’t… don’t hit me! Don’t hit me… Little Han is here, Little Han is still here… I’ll lose face in front of an outsider!”

Even with Betty’s pleas, Rola still picked Betty up and spanked her… she was really hitting her… I couldn’t bear to watch…

“Did you not do the dust-free treatment when you came in today? And you used the Cleaning Spell to clean my instruments? Can instruments be cleaned with spells? Aren’t you just adding to the wear and tear for no reason?”

“And the experiment, you didn’t even turn on the protective measures for the experiment. You don’t want your hands anymore, do you? You don’t want my other instruments anymore, do you?”

“And you stole my white mice. Didn’t I tell you not to take any recently? You didn’t take the box I reserved for you, but you had to take the ones I sealed for experiments. I see you’re just itching for a beating…”

At this moment, Rola was scolding Betty sentence by sentence, and I also knew that our previous experiment had been witnessed by this witch.

I subconsciously looked around and finally found the "monitor" driven by Earth Vein energy.

This kind of monitoring had already surpassed the scope of ordinary monitoring.

It didn’t record images, but Earth Vein information.

After the information was collected, it could be reconstructed and restored, basically reaching the level of being able to observe from any angle…

It seemed I still had to be careful in the future.

This kind of "monitoring" was too seamless, wasn’t it?

After a long time, I didn't know if Witch Rola was tired from hitting or if Betty had admitted her mistake.

In short, this farce came to an end here, and Betty’s butt was really blooming…

“Betty, you better remember this well. I haven’t hit you for a few days, don’t tell me you’re itching again.”

Rola said, walking over to the experimental table and picking up the masterpiece Betty had used to poison the white mouse.

“Such a talent. Is this how you make potions? What happened to the techniques I taught you, and the things you learned on your own?”

“This… this is my first time.”

At this moment, Betty was struggling to get up from the ground, but even so, she was still holding onto the counter.

It seemed that Teacher Rola had hit her quite hard.

This was a real beating…

At this time, Rola looked at the materials on the table and the potion in her hand, and then began to prepare it herself.

And as she prepared it, she explained the reasons to us, and the mistakes someone had made.

It would have been extremely difficult for us to find this information on our own, but Rola explained it very concisely and clearly.

Even I had to sigh that it was good to have a mentor…

Was this the so-called "a single word of truth is worth ten thousand volumes of falsehood"...

This kind of guidance was even more fruitful than paying to attend a lecture.

Even though I was not her student, Mentor Rola did not shy away from my presence when she was explaining.

“Alright, drink it.”

“Eh? Drink it?”

Betty looked at the potion her mentor handed over.

Just now, she had used this to kill a white mouse!

Although it had been adjusted by her mentor, it was still so disgusting!

“Isn’t your butt still hurting? It won’t hurt after you drink it. Also, did you remember everything I just said?”

“I… I remembered.”

“If you remembered, then do it again. A simple wound healing potion can even be made corrosive. How did I end up with a student like you.”

“Eh? I have to do it again?”

“Then drink this. Isn’t this your creation? Drink it yourself to remember the lesson.”

“I… I choose to drink this!”

Betty snatched the potion.

Anyway, she trusted her mentor’s skills. At worst, she would be seriously injured and lie in bed, which would save her a lot of suffering.

But Rola’s next words almost made Betty spit out the potion she had just drunk.

“I’m not giving you a choice. It’s both. After you drink it, you will prepare another bottle yourself, until you dare to drink it yourself. I will prepare the materials for you.”

“Cough cough… mmm… eh?!”

Betty, who had just choked on the potion, barely recovered when she heard this.

“What are you ‘eh’-ing about? You’re embarrassed to only prepare six portions when you invite someone else to prepare a potion together? So shabby? Go to my material library and get some, but only the materials for the wound healing potion. If I find anything else missing, I guarantee your butt will bloom a second time!”

“Yes… yes!”

“As for you…”

At this moment, Rola turned around and looked at me again, “If you like alchemy and really want to learn, you can do it with her. But don’t be led astray by her. I can see your spark and talent for alchemy. Don’t waste it.”

“Thank you, Teacher Rola.”

I immediately thanked her with a humble attitude.

Rola’s words meant that I might not be a student under Rola, but I could study with Betty.

Wouldn’t that mean I could also freeload off Rola’s teaching?

This was free!

And it was more useful than what I learned in those classes.

Those classes would only teach you the basics, basics… and more basics, but they wouldn’t tell you where the problems were in certain details.

Many problems actually arose from the details, which was something you could never learn in a classroom.

Then… Rola left, without taking a single cloud with her, as if she had come just to teach Betty a lesson.

“Is she gone? Really gone? Phew, that's great.”

At this moment, Betty also breathed a sigh of relief.

After Rola left, Betty let herself go again, without any more worries.

“Little Han, did you hear that? I’m benefiting from your luck. That’s my mentor’s material library! I haven’t even been there a few times, and now it’s open to us!”

“It’s only the materials for the wound healing potion that are open to us,” I corrected.

“By the way, is your butt okay?”

“What’s the big deal? But my butt… it’s fine. That potion is really amazing, it doesn’t hurt anymore… but I still have to say sorry for letting you see that…”

“It’s fine, I turned my head away just now, I didn’t see anything,” I said.

But what I cared about more was the effect of the wound healing potion.

Besides healing wounds, did it also have a pain-relieving effect?

This effect was really beyond my expectations.

“Alright, it’s nothing. Several of my senior sisters have seen me get hit. Since you’ve seen it too, Little Han, you’ll be my friend from now on!”

“Huh? What kind of way is this to make friends?”

The corners of my mouth twitched a few times, unable to understand Betty’s train of thought.

“Aiya, don’t mind the details let’s go. It looks like we can get this potion done today, ehehe this is my first time trying to brew a potion independently.”

After I followed Betty to raid Rola’s material library and returned, Betty had also learned her lesson and knew to turn on the protective measures before trying again.

This attempt lasted for a whole day.

Because there were enough materials, I also personally tried a few portions, and the first one was successful.

Although the purity was a bit worrying, at least it had a healing effect.

And after becoming proficient, everything became very simple.

Many things were like this.

They seemed difficult, but once you got the hang of it and succeeded once, it became simple.

As for Betty, it was a bit more difficult for her.

She wasted a lot of materials.

The six portions she had bought herself were all squandered by her.

After taking several portions from the material library, she finally succeeded in making her first wound healing potion in the evening.

“Success, success! Little Han, did you see that!”

Betty’s excited tone even made the newly healed white mouse hurry to get up and hide.

“Mm, I saw it. Congratulations.”

This time, my congratulations were sincere.

But after her happiness, she placed the potion on a rack nearby, but that rack was full of my finished products…

“Little Han… boohoohoo, I really don’t have the aptitude to be an alchemist, do I! I might as well switch careers and become an apothecary!”

The contrast in the success rate instantly shattered her defenses.

“Alright, alright, Betty, don’t be so self-deprecating. Didn’t you succeed? This is one day, you succeeded in one day.”

Actually, I was about to say that she was comparing herself to the wrong person, but after thinking about it, I changed to a more tactful expression, “I just checked for you. Apprentices who are new to alchemy usually take about a week to independently brew a finished potion. So you are still a genius, a genius who succeeded in one day.”

“I… a genius? Then what about you, who succeeded on the first try… a… a prodigy?”

“Alright, what prodigy? Didn’t I have you to make mistakes for me earlier? Plus, it doesn’t count for much that I succeeded with Teacher Rola’s explanation and instructions. You need to be more confident. Can’t you see how much Teacher Rola cares about you?”

“The care you’re talking about refers to hitting my butt and making me drink my own potion?”

“Hmm… that’s about right. If your teacher didn’t like you, why would she blame you like that? Indifference is the greatest contempt. A mentor won’t even look at a person without talent, do you understand?”

“That makes a lot of sense… Little Han, are you really a newcomer? How about you be the senior sister…”

“Forget it. But I have to go too, it’s getting late. Our goal is accomplished, it’s time for me to go back. Aren’t you leaving?”

I glanced at the time and asked.

“Oh right, I almost forgot the time. But I’m also responsible for the sanitation here, so I probably can’t go with you… oh right, tomorrow, are you coming tomorrow?”

“Tomorrow… hmm, let’s see. I can’t be here all the time. I have appointments with other seniors. After all, I still have to study runology.”

“Why are you still studying runology… alright… then goodbye, come see me when you’re free.”

“Alright, alright, don’t say it like you’re visiting an elderly person left behind.”

After bidding farewell to Betty, I prepared to go back.

Although I had been studying this potion knowledge all day today, I had also been paying attention to the situation in the academy.

Regarding the Nightmare situation, this matter had been fermenting for some time.

When I was ordering takeout and eating outside at noon and looking at my phone, I also found related posts.

Sure enough, the Nightmare event was starting to take effect…

But when I turned my attention back to my class, I found that there was also an anomaly in our class.

“Mingyun… I have some impression of her. The one who overslept on the first day of school… is it related to her talent… it seems the Academy Head accidentally injured someone this time…”

But there was nothing I could do.

I couldn’t go to the Academy Head for this one person, and… this was also part of the script.

It was better for me not to get involved… but… there was one more thing that I was very concerned about, and that was Lucianne.

I looked at the group chat content.

Could Lucianne and Mingyun actually get along?

Thinking about it carefully, Lucianne was also a Child of Destiny.

In that case, was this coincidence really a coincidence?

Sure enough, the people around the Children of Destiny were mostly prone to disaster…