Dual Worlds: I Have a Doomsday World

Lin Qi wasn’t a good-for-nothing like Si Li from Si Pharmaceutical, who could barely produce a few S-Class Potions all year and only relied on his title as an S-Class Pharmaceutical Researcher to elevate Si Pharmaceutical to a position it didn’t deserve.

Lin Qi even suspected that old geezer Si Li was a fraudulent S-Class Pharmaceutical Researcher. Otherwise, there would have been no reason for the Si Clan to end up in such a state.

While working, his mind wandered. Before long, Lin Qi had finished setting up.

Xu Qinghe, who was standing to the side, said, "Looks like Sister Liu wasn’t lying. You really are a Prosthetic Engineering researcher. You’re pretty handy."

Watching Lin Qi set up the equipment and wiring in a flash, a look of admiration flashed in Xu Qinghe’s eyes.

Different professions are worlds apart. Even though she was S-Class, she was clueless about things like equipment installation and wiring layouts.

Fortunately, Nanyun Potion was extravagant enough to assign every S-Class Pharmaceutical Researcher a dedicated engineer to assist them.

’Harsh environments really do forge a person’s abilities!’

Lin Qi just smiled and didn’t say much.

’This was all just basic procedure. Never mind that he was a proper A-Class—even a fresh graduate from Liu’s Academy could have done the job just fine.’

’Xu Qinghe really is a pampered "upper-class" lady, completely oblivious to the hardships of those at the bottom of Cyber Society.’

’You have to learn everything, know how to do everything. Otherwise, you can’t survive in the corporate-governed system of Cyber Society.’

After Lin Qi finished his setup, a communication from Liu Xuan came through, informing him that the materials and Extraordinary Items had arrived and were being moved up from the first floor.

After a short wait, the new employees from United Pharmaceutical arrived on the 129th floor, delivering what Lin Qi needed.

Xu Qinghe took a look. "Four hundred types of Extraordinary Materials and one Tier One Extraordinary Item. If you were lucky, that would be enough. But you won’t need luck this time."

As she spoke, Xu Qinghe walked over to the core area, took out two potion vials, applied the Exchange Sticker, and then took one away.

"I’ll sit over here and watch. Make sure the recording camera doesn’t capture me. You can begin."

Xu Qinghe walked over to the elevators, pulled up a chair, and sat down.

She needed to keep an eye on Lin Qi’s movements.

This was to prevent Lin Qi from coming up with some absurd combination of Extraordinary Materials that would be instantly spotted as a flaw during the review process.

If Lin Qi’s technique was too ridiculous, she wouldn’t be in a hurry to use the Exchange Sticker, a Tier Three Extraordinary Item, to swap the potions.

If it were discovered then that she was helping him cheat, it would be a huge loss of face for Nanyun Potion.

Lin Qi nodded to Xu Qinghe, then walked straight to the core experiment area.

The recording began!

Lin Qi began the process.

...

Meanwhile, on the 130th floor, everyone in the boardroom had also started to watch.

"The last time I had the honor of seeing Chairman Lin concoct with Extraordinary Materials was at the Alliance City summit. Chairman Lin’s skill puts us all to shame!"

"Indeed! Chairman Lin’s methods are wildly imaginative. The way he combines Extraordinary Materials is simply godlike, nothing short of a miracle!"

"We finally get to see it again! Chairman Lin is about to start!"

...

Lin Qi naturally sensed the many eyes on him, but he paid them no mind.

After all, he didn’t sense any malice in their gazes.

Following standard procedure, Lin Qi began preprocessing the Extraordinary Materials.

There was nothing particularly praiseworthy about his preprocessing methods; they were all classic techniques from the literature.

But his proficiency was extremely high, as if Lin Qi had spent years working in a Pharmacy Laboratory.

Seeing Lin Qi’s proficient movements, Xu Qinghe nodded slightly and thought to herself, ’His fundamentals are very solid. After this kind of processing, the range of options for the subsequent Extraordinary Materials is much wider.’

What Xu Qinghe didn’t know was that this wasn’t proficiency—it was simply a good memory.

The literature he had read seemed to be etched into his brain. He only needed to think for a moment, and the key points would flow naturally through his thoughts.

It could be called a photographic memory—a natural Talent he was born with.

It was also the Ability he relied on most before opening the [Door].

Without this Ability, there was no way Lin Qi could have become an L-level Researcher at the Weapon Research Institute at the age of nineteen. Now, he was a dual A-Class, and his Pharmacy skills had even secretly crossed the threshold into the S-Class ranks.

But material processing was merely the most insignificant of Lin Qi’s praiseworthy attributes.

After finishing the material preprocessing, Lin Qi began the formal steps of potion preparation.

He mixed the preprocessed materials and performed secondary and even tertiary treatments.

One portion, two portions, three portions...

In an extremely short amount of time, three portions of materials were added to the potion liquid.

The speed left Xu Qinghe stunned.

Xu Qinghe recalled in her mind, ’L-012, L-322, GT-231... these materials... there doesn’t seem to be a problem with them, but isn’t this way too fast?’

’Even if every Pharmaceutical Researcher has their own preferred ’Base Medicine,’ can you really just concoct it blind like this, without even checking it with instruments?’

Xu Qinghe felt that Lin Qi’s process seemed to violate the Pharmaceutical Researcher’s code of conduct.

This code, which all Pharmaceutical Researchers were required to follow after entering the field, was to check after every single step.

This way, even if a loss occurred, it could be minimized.

But Lin Qi seemed to have simplified this code. He wasn’t checking after every step, but after every ten steps!

Only after a full ten portions of materials had been added to the potion did Lin Qi, as if suddenly remembering something, place the potion into the instrument for testing.

Although she was far away, Xu Qinghe could see the data feedback from the instrument.

L-Class!

According to the indirect data feedback, the potion had already reached the L-Class level.

’How long had it been?’

’Has it even been five minutes?’

Xu Qinghe’s head was buzzing.

’Is this the level of proficiency for making a Base Medicine? He must have made this Base Medicine countless times. This means he started aiming to become an S-Class Pharmaceutical Researcher a long time ago.’

’How long ago did he get the S-Class Pharmacy Literature? To have reached this stage so quickly... it seems the information the Alliance gave me was correct. This is a true genius.’

’A genius who Transcends me...’

Xu Qinghe rubbed her face, then changed her line of thought. ’But who cares! There’s no way he’ll succeed this time anyway! He can only cheat his way through the certification with my help! I’m still the best, after all!’

Xu Qinghe’s mood was like a rollercoaster, shocked one second and happy the next.

Lin Qi, who was in the middle of making the potion, sensed the emotional shift from someone not far away, and his hands faltered for a split second.

’Can someone in this world really be that happy?’

’This silly doe probably has never been troubled by a negative emotion in her entire life, has she?’

Lin Qi’s focus shifted for only a moment before he continued with the procedure.

Another portion, two portions... ten portions!

A check every ten steps!

Into the instrument it went, and the feedback was perfect!

The potion reached the A-Class level!

Even while lost in her own world, Xu Qinghe still noticed Lin Qi’s actions.

’So fast!’

’How can anyone in the world be this fast!’

She watched as Lin Qi incorporated one Extraordinary Material after another into the potion with almost no hesitation, no apparent thought, not even a basic deduction process.

A new idea popped into Xu Qinghe’s head.

’No! Even if you’ve made a ’Base Medicine’ ten thousand times, you couldn’t possibly make it completely blind. He must be a genius like me, but compared to me, his Talent is a cut above.’

’We’re both people who can feel the potion’s changes by intuition. We don’t need to wait for inspiration to strike to have a basic judgment of the potion’s state.’

’It’s just that compared to my vague feelings, what he feels is perhaps much more direct!’

Xu Qinghe’s judgment was based on her own experience in potion-making.

The strength of every Pharmaceutical Researcher’s Talent is different.

A weak one would be like Si Li from Si Pharmaceutical, who can barely manage to create S-Class Potions, with a pitifully low success rate.

A strong one would be like Xu Qinghe herself, with a success rate of nearly thirty percent.

The ultimate reason for this was the difference in feel during the basic preparation process.

Some Pharmaceutical Researchers can only rely on equipment, but some geniuses can use their senses as an aid!

Xu Qinghe smiled, a very happy smile. ’As expected, all geniuses are alike! Even though he’s stronger than me, we’re the same type of genius! Hehe, I can write a paper on this later. Maybe it’ll even get selected for the S-Class Pharmacy Literature archive! The royalties would be huge!’𝕗𝚛𝚎𝚎𝐰𝗲𝗯𝗻𝚘𝚟𝚎𝗹.𝕔𝐨𝕞