After Apocalypse, I Got Rich With Superpower

"I’ve been in contact with the hospital all this time, and they just got back to me. Prepare yourself, and head over there in three days. You’ll be learning about treatment, and later on, I plan to put you in charge of the medical office."

"What about the accounting?"

"The medical office is incidental, the skill must be learned. Having more skills doesn’t hurt, and you’ll continue handling the finances."

"I understand."

Wenwen nodded after listening.

"For the finances, hire two more people. We need two accountants, and a few more cashiers, and the base shops need them too."

"Okay."

After assigning some tasks, Wenwen went to the base hospital to study Water Element treatment.

Li Pan didn’t send Xie Ling to the base to learn how to refine medicine because she wanted to keep the talent on the farm. In the future, when they establish a medicine research lab, she wanted her own farm to have a say.

Going to the base would have accelerated the learning, but it would require signing a contract for ten years to work for the base and follow their assignments, which meant Xie Ling wouldn’t be able to come back.

Earlier, when Xie Ling advanced to a high-level superpower user, she and the headmaster, as well as she herself, didn’t want to go to the base but wanted to stay and support the farm. After all, Xie Ling was a high-level superpower user raised by the farm. She was a Basic Level when she arrived.

Zhang Qi brought back the report, and the test result was a Superior Potion, just a bit shy of reaching the Middle-level Potion standard.

This result made Li Pan very happy, as years of preparation had finally led to this significant progress.

Xie Ling also started learning how to refine medicine, and Zhang Qi planned to learn after Xie Ling got the hang of it to gain more experience and waste fewer medicinal materials.

Li Pan began refining Basic Level Potions as the weather got colder, and everyone began to hunker down for the winter.

By December, Li Pan had refined all types of Basic Level Potions, and all tests were graded as Superior.

There was no rush to research Middle-level Potions currently, as there weren’t enough medicinal materials. Most were sold to the base, and not much was kept.

The Middle-level Potions require at least fifty-year potency medicinal materials, and certain main ingredients need a hundred years. High-level Potions are generally for treatment, superpower upgrades, and Awakening Potions, all considerably costly. The ingredients required must be over three hundred years old; otherwise, the effects are too weak, considered a waste.

Medium and High-level Potions must be developed slowly; it’s not about gaining success overnight.

After two months of failure, Xie Ling finally succeeded in refining a Basic Level Potion. On that day, she cried happily, feeling immense pressure as she watched nearly 800,000 worth of medicinal materials being wasted.

This afternoon, at the small building for internal members, a meeting was held.

"Lingzi and I can now refine Basic Level Potions, and I plan to set up a medicine research lab next year. What do you think?"

"That works. We can set aside two rooms on the adjacent second floor for you, and I’ll buy whatever you need."

"We need a cold storage unit. The potions need to be refrigerated. Currently, they are stored with food, which is quite unprofessional."

Li Pan giggled.

"I’ll call tomorrow to have it delivered. Just tell me what model and type you need."

"Okay."

"Then, for our farm, we can start using Basic Level Potions, or we can sell them to the base."

"Let’s sell them to the base first. Apply in advance if we need them ourselves. Making them on the spot is feasible."

Xue Dong added a comment.

"Let’s do it that way, calculate Lingzi’s medicine-refining costs separately, we’ll add an extra item to the financial section," said Tian Yi.

"No problem, I’ll account for you and Lingzi separately and calculate the commissions," Uncle Pei responded.

Wenwen nodded, everything was clear and distinct.

Since the farm officially became a company, Li Pan had been studying medicinal materials. She received a regular salary, her shares being a separate matter, not mixed with her salary.

Three days later, they had cleaned up several rooms on the second floor next door, and brought in the necessary freezers and testing equipment among other related devices.

The Medicine Research Lab was officially established, with a series of benefit and welfare resources for farm employees to follow.

The Basic Level Potions that Li Pan and Xie Ling initially produced were sent to the base, where they were recovered at standard prices, a rule firmly established without any private reservations.

The base used Potions very quickly, as many people needed them and they were always in short supply. Now, with Li Pan and Xie Ling also refining potions, naturally, there were more resources available, which benefited everyone greatly.

This part of the revenue went into the farm’s account, and Li Pan and Xie Ling received commissions since they used the farm’s medicinal materials.

Initially, there was no charge for losses, so now that money was sold, it naturally went to the farm first as they were an official company and everything had to follow proper procedures.

The cost of those losses was considered as company investment in training talent.

Mi Le had upgraded, advancing to a Middle-level Wood Power superpower user. He chose the Auxiliary System instead of the Combat System, planning to follow Li Pan’s path in the future.

He was now learning farming and mastering various Wood Element skills from Lin Tianyi.

His companion plant was also outstanding, a very rare Silver Lotus, a tall flowering plant with petals as white as silver, incredibly beautiful and fragrant. 𝓯𝓻𝒆𝙚𝒘𝓮𝙗𝓷𝒐𝓿𝙚𝒍.𝙘𝓸𝙢

Silver Lotus was a type of Spiritual Medicine, classified as First Grade Spiritual Medicine, capable of treating many kinds of diseases with direct detoxifying medicinal properties, accelerating wound healing, and enhancing human body’s self-healing capabilities. It was included in High-level Potions.

In the future, Mi Le planned to pursue a path in healing and support. Silver Lotus also had the capability to purify water sources, but it really had no combat abilities.

If Silver Lotus grew, it would also have a significant effect in healing, second only to Absolute Healing and was also very rare.

Mi Le was very satisfied with his companion plant; it was attractive, fragrant, and could treat, detoxify, and enhance immunity among other effects. He was utterly content.

He planted a small branch in a lake at No.9 Farm, which served to purify the water source. Silver Lotus, being a type of lotus, would cover a large area when fully grown; its roots also had medicinal properties and fell under Water Element medicinal materials.

Though Silver Lotus belonged to the Wood Element, the companion substances varied, with roots being aquatic medicinal materials, and the seeds being the most prized as they directly detoxified the body. Each seed had different medicinal effects, and Mi Le’s awakened plant was the highest rank of First Grade Spiritual Medicine, belonging to the Five Elements Silver Lotus, similar to the Five Elements Spiritual Fruit, bearing seeds also categorized under the Five Elements.

Its petals also had medicinal value, and its leaves were edible; the whole plant was valuable.

Mi Le’s Silver Lotus had its own space, similar to the Star Tree, but smaller, a space where Silver Lotus grew.

Mi Le was still too young. The Silver Lotus space needed to grow, and for now, it could only store small amounts.

Regardless, everyone was happy for Mi Le, as his awakened plant was so beneficial, and they celebrated specially for him.

With the New Year approaching, the medicine sales had reached two million, which made Xie Ling very happy.

"Reserve some medicinal materials for me next year, I plan to research Middle-level Potions, I guess it might take two to three years to see some results," she said.

"That would be great, do you have a formula for the Middle-level Potions?" Uncle Pei asked.

"Only what Sister Qian gave me. Our base has only two High-level Potions and five Middle-level Potions, and Sister Qian gave me all their formulas, authorized by the Base Commander and Uncle Pei. There are no others, just the publicly available formulas, but figuring out the specifics is up to me.

In the imperial capital, there’s also a national webpage with publicly available potion formulas, but you might not be able to develop them on your own.

It’s like alchemy and prescribing traditional Chinese medicine; textbooks have the exact formulas, but would you dare to take a prescribed drug just like that?"