The Only Normal Human In The Universe

An Yan learned some theoretical knowledge and practiced under the guidance of the store manager before he began working formally.

This store was different from the regular pharmaceutical companies. It didn’t have its own pharmacist. All the potions in the store were sold on consignment from nearby pharmacists.

What An Yan needed to do was to carefully test and record the data of the potions sold on consignment.

A potion tester in a small shop like this would also have to do the pricing of potions on the side, but An Yan was only covering a day’s shift, so he didn’t need to consider that.

He took out a drop of the potion to be tested with a dropper and put it into the composition tester. He then put the rest of the bottle into the data tester and waited for the results of both tests.

The former was to check whether the ingredients in the potion met the requirements and that there was no excess of substances harmful to the body.

The latter is to check the effects of the potion and possible side effects.

An Yan was extremely careful when carrying out these operations. He feared that he might make a mistake and cause damage to these potions.

The shop manager on the other side checked the situation through the surveillance and made sure there was nothing wrong, then went to work on other things.

An Yan finished testing a total of nine bottles of potions that morning, including two bottles of body potions, three bottles of spiritual power enhancement potions, and four bottles of spiritual power recovery potions.

Those were the more commonly used potions, and aside from those, there were many other types of potions, such as spiritual defence potions, spiritual damage repair potions, and so on.

An Yan also gained a deeper understanding of the potions here through these tests.

There was a strict grade division no matter what kind of potions they were. The grade division was mainly based on the effects of the potion and its side effects.

For example, if a body potion’s effectiveness was only three hours and its side effects were about ten minutes of dizziness and fatigue, then it would be graded as F.

However, if a body potion's effectiveness was three days and the side effects may include shock, then it would not even be an F-grade potion because it had too many side effects.

Therefore, to determine the grade of a potion, both figures must be taken into account, and only when both figures are met can it be classified as such.

That was why there were such things as discarded potions.

A discarded potion was not classified as such because there was something wrong in the manufacturing process, but rather a potion would be considered discarded after it has been made and the side effects are found to be too great to meet the requirements.

The effectiveness of a potion often depended on the ingredients chosen and the skill of the pharmacist, while the side effects of a potion have a lot to do with the pharmacist’s mental power.

Only in this way could they integrate the aggressive mental power in the potion with the potion ingredients and try to eliminate the impurities in the process to reduce the side effects of the potion.

When it came to mental power and potion ingredients, it is important to also mention the method of making a body potion.

In layman’s terms, the body potion could temporarily remove animal features from a human body by simply and brutally shrinking those animal features back.

Just as a mouse would flee when it sees a cat, or a gazelle flees when it sees a lion, so would the animal features on the human body shrink away when they encounter a more brutal and powerful mental force.

In other words, the body potion was a way to temporarily scare and intimidate animalistic features on the human body into disappearing from the surface for a short period of time.

It is the potion’s power that acts as an intimidator.

The potion's energy is often taken from the mental energy of a strong person or selected on the basis of animal features.

For example, just like mice are afraid of cats, one could take the mental power of a human with feline characteristics as the potion's power. This would easily suppress rat-like characteristics of the human body.

As for the latter, still using the rat characteristics as an example, if one cannot find a suitable mental power with feline characteristics, then it is possible to find one with jackal characteristics. Although it is not targeted, the toughness of a jackal can just as easily scare a rat.

An Yan could not help but shiver a little when he got this information. Just thinking about this kind of potion was terrifying.

But that did not stop him from finishing the job at hand in earnest. It was still important to make money.

After taking a packet of nutrients at lunchtime and resting for a while, An Yan started his afternoon work.

A potion tester's workload was not fixed, as new medicines could be delivered at any time and needed to be tested.

After An Yan had finished testing four bottles of potions, he received a new package.

He carefully opened the parcel and took out the two bottles of potions inside.

One bottle was a body potion, while the other was a spiritual recovery potion.

According to the information accompanying the two bottles, they should be E-grade potions. 

Pharmacists who sold potions on consignment would usually attach detailed information to the potions. After all, they wouldn’t just send the potions they had made to the potion shop without going through any testing.

However, in order to ensure the quality of the potion, the shop would still conduct careful tests to prevent any mistakes.

An Yan took the bottle of the body potion first and followed the process to complete the testing of the potion.

He was about to put the potion aside with the test results when he suddenly noticed a distinct black spot at the bottom.This

An Yan’s first time encountering such a situation, and he was worried that something might be wrong with the potion, so he hastily reported the matter to the store manager.

The store manager's reaction was calm as he waved his hand and said, "Just change the bottle and pick out the impurities. Some pharmacists are just too careless and don’t even notice that something has fallen into the potion."

An Yan’s mind was put at ease, and he carefully picked out the black spots before taking a clean, empty potion bottle and pouring the potion in.

It was not a difficult operation, but An Yan’s wrist shook slightly near the end, and a few drops of the potion fell outside the bottle.

An Yan was so frightened that he reflexively pushed out his spiritual energy to catch the drops.

At the same time, a strong feeling of discomfort spread throughout his body, making him tremble. He hurriedly put the few drops back into the container, and only then was the discomfort relieved.

An Yan patted his chest and let out a long breath, while also scolding himself for the mistake he had just made. Fortunately, he had reacted in time to make amends; otherwise, those few drops of potion would have been wasted.

Although he was not keen on this kind of potion, it was very important to the humans here.

He quickly went back to work after recovering from the discomfort.

However, he did not know that the potion had started changing silently the moment his spiritual power came into contact with it.

The work went very smoothly after that, and at 6 pm, the day’s work was completed. An Yan said goodbye to the store manager and left the shop.

However, An Yan did not go straight home but found a barber shop nearby. He could not stand the tri-coloured hair and planned to get it fixed.

His request was simple. He dyed his hair back to black and cut it a little shorter. But even so, it still cost 20 stars.

Although it was a bit costly, An Yan was satisfied when he looked at the change in the mirror.

In fact, the original owner’s was very beautiful and delicate, but he had always been stubborn and rebellious, and coupled with the strange hair colors, he looked very difficult to get along with.

With An Yan’s transmigration, his temperament was instantly different. With his hair re-touched, he looked like a well behaved, beautiful youngster.

Even An Mu couldn’t help but stare for a couple of seconds when she came home and saw him: "Did Yan Yan go for a haircut today?"

An Yan nodded his head obediently and asked with a smile, "Doesn’t it look better this way?"

"It does look good, but you..…" An Mu stopped mid-sentence. She had brought up the issue of his hair before, but her son would react violently, so she didn’t dare to mention it again.

Although it was her son’s initiative to change his hairstyle, she was still worried that the issue was too sensitive, so she did not dare to mention it more.

An Yan could more or less guess what An Mu was thinking, so he smiled and invited credit, "I went to settle the money from my summer job today. The total was 2350 star coins. The haircut cost 20 star coins. I bought a box of nutrients using 300 star coins, leaving 2030 star coins. "

"Mom, turn on your light brain. I’ll transfer the rest of the star coins to you," An Yan said mischievously, "but I’ll only transfer 2,000 star coins to mom. The rest will be my pocket money."

An Mu’s eyes once again reddened at the sight of her son’s well-behaved and understanding appearance. She sniffled and a pleased smile appeared on her face. "This is money you earned yourself. There is no need to give it to me, keep it for yourself. "

An Yan shook his head and said seriously, "But the money mom earns is also spent on me. We are the same, so the money I earn should also be spent on mom. I want to help share a little of the burden too. "

An Mu turned around and wiped the corners of her eyes. Her son had insisted, of course she wouldn’t continue to refuse: "Yan Yan is great, you can already earn money to spend on mom."

Although they were just words to coax, the remark made An Yan smile extraordinarily happily.

As the relationship between mother and son was further easing and getting along, An Luo was standing at the door of his room gnashing his teeth.