Chapter 1 No Essential Difference?

There's a huge difference, okay?!

The wrinkles on the village elder's aged face squeezed together, revealing extremely complex emotions. His heavy breathing made one suspect he might pass out in the next second.

"If you really can't accept it..."

Li Ang drawled, "I have several other solutions."

"Hmm?"

The village elder snapped back to his senses, as if grasping at the last straw, and said urgently, "Other solutions? You mean..."

Li Ang rubbed his hands together. "The first solution is to develop another drug that will change your sense of taste and smell in a short period of time, so you won't smell the stench or feel disgusted. You might even feel like you're eating delicious chocolate."

Li Ang said, "Take a pill every morning, and then you can start self-producing and self-selling with peace of mind. You can even greet your neighbors in a friendly manner on the street, asking if they've had breakfast, how it was, and if they had it with soy milk.

"Just remember to brush and rinse your mouth often, and be careful of the outside adventurers who may come in the future, to avoid causing misunderstandings about the local culture."

"This..."

The village elder said with a bitter face, "It sounds a little better, but there's no real difference. Aren't we still eating it directly?"

"Chocolate-flavored shit is better than shit-flavored shit, right?"

Li Ang said helplessly, "If that doesn't work, I have a second solution. We can perform surgery on everyone in your village, opening a hole in the position of the navel, and using a rubber hose through the hole to connect to the stomach and intestines.

"Then we'll create a bunch of IV drip stands to fix the rubber hoses so that they can obtain solutions containing intestinal flora from glass bottle-shaped filtration devices.

"In the future, you'll push the IV drip stands around every day. Wherever you go, the drip will follow.

"To prevent outside adventurers from discovering it, you can lie and say that the IV drip stand is actually a life-support device, like a respirator."

"..."

The village elder imagined the scene of all the villagers pushing IV drip stands back and forth in the village, and shook his head violently.

It would affect normal activities too much, and if outsiders saw it, they would think that everyone in this village had a disease that would kill them if they didn't get an IV drip.

"That won't work either?"

Li Ang clicked his tongue a little impatiently. "The last solution is a portable intestinal flora transplantation device."

"Transplantation?"

The village elder was stunned for a moment. "What do you mean?"

Li Ang didn't waste any words. He took a handful of soil from his sodium ring, used alchemy to refine it into a brownish-yellow glass bottle the size of an oral liquid container, and said, "See this little bottle?

"Put the intestinal flora solution into it and use it as a suppository.

"The bottle will continuously release intestinal flora to meet the needs of a day's activities. It's plug-and-play, doesn't affect daily activities, doesn't produce physiological aversion in terms of taste and smell, and from the outside, you can hardly see any abnormality. It's very hidden..."

"This! This is good!"

The village elder's eyes lit up, and he almost shouted with joy, "Let's do this one!"

"...Of course, in order to install a safe and reliable filter layer to prevent it from breaking due to daily activities, the actual volume of the portable transplantation device will be slightly larger than this small bottle, but it's still within acceptable limits."

Li Ang said leisurely, "In order to match the transplantation device,

"We also need to develop a power-driven instrument that can filter feces and separate and extract intestinal flora from it.

"Considering that we won't be staying here for long,

"We also need to develop a production line for the transplantation device and separation instrument,

"And train professional doctors who can skillfully use the instrument, as well as industrial workers who can repair the production line.

"The operating and maintenance costs will be much higher than the first two options."

"..."

The village elder hesitated for a moment, but in order to avoid the fate of eating shit forever for generations, he resolutely nodded heavily, "Let's choose this one. As for the production line of instruments and devices..."

"I can help solve it."

Li Ang nodded, "The intestinal flora transplantation device is, in essence, a slightly more complicated suppository.

"As for the instrument for filtering feces,

"It will use a centrifuge and a filter,

"As well as a device that can perform corresponding flora detection, to prevent random fecal transplantation and rejection reactions—the screening and testing process is similar to the principle of blood donation, and also requires a certain medical foundation to be able to understand the differences and problems.

"It is best for each household to use the feces of their direct relatives to reduce unnecessary potential threats."

Fecal transplant therapy requires very strict screening and careful experimental protocol discussion at the actual operation level, and cannot be done casually.

However, the potential of the flesh-eating ghouls in this world is higher than that of ordinary humans in the real world.

Moreover, they don't overuse antibiotics, and there won't be a situation where "a multi-drug resistant bacterium is transplanted, causing the recipient's immune function to decline and become infected."

Li Ang, who had a very professional spirit, patiently explained the advantages, disadvantages, and precautions of this plan.

While explaining, he also used alchemy to create a manual completely marked with simple pictures, detailing each step of the operation—no words were used, in case the other party couldn't understand it after the players teleported away.

After taking a few minutes to complete the explanation, Li Ang breathed a sigh of relief and looked at the village elder and said slowly, "According to the plan I formulated, the premature aging disease should be able to be cured in the future,

"And after transplanting the intestinal flora, the bloodthirsty impulse that plagues you in the ghoul bloodline will most likely be eliminated as well."

"Thank you so much."

The village elder sincerely nodded heavily. Being able to cure the premature aging disease without having to eat shit felt like falling from hell into heaven.

He seemed to have thought of something, patted his head, waved to the guard not far away, and after the guard came over, he gave a few instructions in the latter's ear.

The guard nodded and left quickly.

The village elder turned to look at Li Ang and nodded, "Brave hero, please come with me."

The village elder led the player to the door of a warehouse-shaped house, ordered the guard to open the door, revealing a large pile of equipment and props inside, neatly arranged.

"These are all special items that our village has accumulated in the past, but because they have been in disrepair for a long time, the technology has been lost, or there is simply no operating method left,

"Only a very small number of items can still be used normally."

The village elder rubbed his palms a little embarrassedly. "This is actually a violation of the rules set by our ancestors,

"But the brave hero is a great benefactor who saved our village. You can freely choose forty items from this warehouse."