The three glass bottles contained the dark green liquid that the prophet had mixed, and some tiny bubbles would pop up from time to time inside the liquid.
The ingredients for the recipes that Joshua randomly chose did not have any strange... magic changes, and there were no chemical changes.
"Who will come first?" Qiao Xiu asked subconsciously.
The Prophet did not answer, and directly took a glass bottle on the table.
She is the refiner of this thing, so she knows that among the things that Qiao Xiu chose, even if they are mixed together, it will not produce any toxicity, and of course... there is no gain effect.
The Prophet opened the cork and drank the whole bottle.
"what about the taste?"
It's really hard to see any emotional fluctuations on Joshua's face as she talks to the Prophet.
"Tongue-stinging sugar water."
The Prophet succinctly gave the bottle of liquid evaluation.
Ciri also picked up the other bottle on the table and opened the cork. She tentatively took a sip into her mouth, but she almost spit it out like Joshua.
"It tastes even weirder than the magic potion." Ciri stuck out her tongue and said, "It does have a tingling sensation in the mouth."
"Failed?"
Seeing Ciri's overreaction, Joshua took a small sip from the last bottle. After the first sip, Joshua drank all the liquid in the bottle.
"This is the texture and taste I want, no, it tastes a little bit worse."
Joshua put down the bottle and had an inexplicable urge to cry. On earth, Joshua likes the taste of cola more than any other drink.
After coming to this world, Qiao Xiu also thought about restoring the taste of Coke, but nothing to replace the baking soda has been found. The prophet solved this problem for Qiao Xiu.
"Does it taste good?"
Ciri looked at the unfinished bottle in her hand, and she didn't dare to try the strange smell just now.
"You're used to it and you'll like or even fall in love with it later."
Joshua raised his hand, encouraging Ciri to drink it without hesitation.
Ciri directly drank all the faint green liquid in the bottle with a willingness to give up.
The tingling sensation on the tip of her tongue made Ciri very uncomfortable, but after she got used to this strange feeling, the sweetness and tingling achieved a complementary effect.
It made Ciri feel a... inexplicable sense of refreshment.
"It's time to say another bottle!" Ciri held up the empty bottle in her hand as if she was drunk.
However, there is no alcohol in Qiao Xiu's refining recipe.
"The Prophet makes another portion according to the weight just now, and this time I need to add a little more."
The combination of sin karma dust and syrup can be said to lay the foundation for the taste of cola, but the taste in some details is very different from the cola on earth.
When Joshua was thinking about what flavor he should add to it... There was a knock on the door of the alchemy workshop.
"Lord Joshua, Count Cruz would like to meet you."
The attendant outside said loudly to Joshua.
"Is this the efficiency of people in the country of steel..."
Joshua was commissioned yesterday to build plans for Count Cruz's "Beauty and the Devil" scene.
He needs to spend some time counting the funds and materials needed for the construction of the scene, and discussing various feasible solutions with the engineering team.
This work Joshua originally thought would take at least three days, but Count Cruz completed his task today, and went to this alchemy workshop to find Joshua.
"Count Cruz, please come in."
Count Cruz did not come here alone, he was followed by two alchemy engineers.
"I visited you at the Hearthstone Tavern this morning and was told you weren't in the tavern...until a friend of mine told me, Mr. Joshua, that you were in this alchemy workshop."
Count Cruz stood at the door and glanced inside the alchemy workshop. A little girl who seemed to be about ten years old was stirring a pot of bubbling green liquid with a wooden stick.
No matter how you look at this scene, it seems that Qiao Xiu is asking a young girl to make... poison for him.
He really wanted to remind Qiao Xiu that privately hiring child labor to refine poison had violated several Nolan laws.
"Have you disturbed Mr. Joshua?"
Now Count Cruz lowered his voice when he spoke.
"Don't bother, I'm trying to make a new type of drink. If the three of you don't mind, you can wait for a while." Qiao Xiu pointed to a few benches inside the alchemist.
"Drinks?"
Count Cruz couldn't really regard the bright green liquid in the crucible as a drink.
Just the bubbling on the surface kept reminding Count Cruz that "this thing is dangerous".
In order to save time, he chose to wait for Joshua's research to end.
"Will it taste better if you put some water and mugwort in it?"
Ciri directly used the spoon and bowl to solve the second pot made by the prophet. After she got used to the unique taste brought by the dust of sin, she had begun to like this taste.
"What is that?" Qiao Xiu knew nothing about the refining technology in this world.
"Flavored, sweet."
Teacher Prophet once again took up the work of science popularization.
"Sweet enough, now needs some sourness."
"Then use the juice of the cranberry fruit. When I used to eat that thing in the wild, I still remember the sour taste..."
Ciri has a wealth of wilderness survival experience, including judging whether some plants in the wild are edible.
The Prophet did not express any opinion. She was good at refining medicine, not how to make the medicine taste better.
So under a series of tossing and turning from Joshua and Ciri, the light from the dark green liquid in the crucible became brighter.
At this moment, the liquid in the crucible has apparently separated from the category of "poison" and began to approach "dangerous radiation".
"Looks... tastes better?" Joshua said uncertainly.
"Well... I only know that glowing mushrooms must be poisonous."
Seeing the liquid in the crucible, Ciri couldn't be sure.
The Prophet still held a spoon and filled a bowl with a blank face, and then burped after drinking it in one gulp.
"Non-toxic." The Prophet repeated these two words again.
Qiao Xiu also directly filled a small bowl and tasted it.
The moment the tongue's taste buds touched the bowl of liquid... Joshua was 100% sure that it was Coke.
Although it is dark green and radiant, the taste and texture are very similar, and there are some subtle differences that Joshua can't make up for, but the general taste is almost the same as cola on earth.
"I think everyone sitting here should try it!"
Joshua played a bowl again and got it in front of the Earl of the Steel Country.
Coke was successfully born in this world, such an exciting thing, Joshua must find someone to show it off.
"Drink, Count Cruz," Joshua said.