Chapter 341 - 237: Summit (3)
As Qiao Xi spoke, a scene unfolded that would be considered terrifying in the eyes of any Wizard Professional.
A pressure hammer suddenly dropped from above the display stand, violently destroying the batch of Tier One Extraordinary Items.
Just as Lin Qi had learned from his studies on preparing Extraordinary Materials, when an Extraordinary Item was destroyed, it became Extraordinary Materials that could be used in Pharmacy.
However, Extraordinary Materials prepared this way had unknown properties, couldn’t be mass-produced, and were difficult to use in batch Potion production.
"Your task is to quickly analyze the material properties. Use any analytical method you’ve learned. Each person is only allowed to use three milligrams of each material as a sample..."
"You have twelve hours to design an A-Class Potion with the specified effect of enhancing Physical Strength."
"Any Potion with a Potion Level below A-Class will be disqualified from scoring."
"Any Potion whose effect deviates from the objective will be disqualified from scoring."
"For Potions that meet the scoring requirements, you will receive 0.5 points for each additional material used."
Qiao Xi finished announcing the rules, and they immediately caused a huge uproar.
"This is unreasonable! The goal of Pharmacy should be to use as few materials as possible. How can you ask us to use more?"
"The more materials there are, the harder it is for the Potion to form! A-Class Potions generally use no more than thirty types of materials, with fifty being the absolute limit!"
"The highest score is only twenty-something points? Then what’s the point of us Pharmaceutical Researchers even participating in this summit?"
The ones who spoke out were the A-level Researchers from Kudou Human Body Engineering Company, Dawn Pharmacy, and Moore Potion.
Only researchers cultivated by top corporations would have such a systematic understanding of Pharmacy and access to such precise data.
As for the researchers from General Biological?
They didn’t say a word. According to General Biological’s plan, the fewer points everyone else earned in the academic category, the better.
This would be advantageous to Jin Shanghe’s plan and help secure an edge in the final composite score.
Qiao Xi had anticipated this reaction. She simply said, "If you have any objections, you can submit them to the Big Business Alliance after the summit. However, this is the professional opinion provided by Nanyun Potion."
"According to Nanyun Potion, if you don’t have the ability to combine over one hundred and fifty materials, you don’t have the potential to become an S-Class Pharmaceutical Researcher."
As soon as she said this, everyone fell silent.
One hundred and fifty types?
Are they insane?
Even if they took these materials back to their companies’ most advanced labs and analyzed them with every instrument for a full year, they still might not be able to incorporate one hundred and fifty materials!
The more materials you stacked, the more complex the properties became, and the more likely the final Potion would fail.
The eyes of the four top Pharmaceutical Researchers dimmed considerably.
If this was true, it meant they had no potential whatsoever to become S-Class Pharmaceutical Researchers.
Even if their companies managed to seize the Si Clan’s legacy, S-Class would have nothing to do with them personally.
In the crowd, Lin Qi, who wasn’t standing near the front, became lost in thought upon hearing Qiao Xi’s words.
’One hundred and fifty types?’
’That number is indeed a bit of an exaggeration.’
’But with Spiritual Vision, forget one hundred fifty. As long as I have enough time, incorporating all three hundred wouldn’t be a problem.’
’The problem is, I can only do all this because of Spiritual Vision.’
’What about everyone else?’
’What about the real S-Class Pharmaceutical Researchers?’
’They don’t have the aid of Spiritual Vision...’
’It can’t be instrumental analysis. Anyone who can achieve this must have a corresponding Extraordinary method to help them perceive the state of the Spiritual Particles.’
’Even if they can’t ’see’ it with their own eyes, they must at least be able to perceive it indirectly.’
’And considering the talk about ’Talent,’ it means that becoming an S-Class Pharmaceutical Researcher is related to one’s innate Talent.’
’Is Spiritual Vision considered my Talent?’
Lin Qi thought so.
After all, with so many Wizards in the world, it was unlikely that only Lin Qi would awaken the Spiritual Vision ability.
The Extraordinary Item Lin Qi had analyzed back then wasn’t anything special either.
’I can go all out without worry. The scores of the top three will be hidden anyway. Even if my final score exceeds one hundred, it won’t be made public.’
’Plus, Qiao Xi clearly has a relationship with the Capitalist. I can ask the Capitalist to help cover for me after the summit.’
’Theoretically, Lin Qi belongs to United Pharmaceutical, and United Pharmaceutical is part of the ’Wizard’s’ plan. It’s perfectly reasonable for the ’Wizard’ to secretly cultivate a genius.’
Having finished his thoughts, Lin Qi wasted no time.
While the other researchers were still complaining, Lin Qi had already quietly approached a display stand and collected his share of the samples.
Seeing Lin Qi take action, the numerous A-Class Pharmaceutical Researchers also began their work.
This task was hard!
So hard that even the top researchers didn’t have one hundred percent confidence.
Luck was crucial!
What if they managed to pull ahead from behind?
And with that unexpected fourth scoring category...
What if they suddenly had a breakthrough and took down one of the big corporations!
Time was limited. Everyone sprang into action, and the researchers from the four major pharmaceutical corporations no longer had time to complain.
They couldn’t bear the punishment for dragging their companies down.
Qiao Xi watched the researchers spring into action, her gaze subconsciously drifting toward Lin Qi.
’Will a researcher from a company under the Wizard’s command show any special potential?’
Qiao Xi pondered quietly.
Although she wanted to give United Pharmaceutical a hand and earn another favor from the Wizard,
this summit had a total of six permanent council members participating, including herself.
With so many schemes in play, the summit was relatively fair.
Even if there was some flexibility, it was only in rigging the Weight of the four dimensions.
To get first place, they had to take the top spot in at least one dimension, and their scores in the others couldn’t be too low—they had to aim for the top three at a minimum.
Otherwise, even Qiao Xi couldn’t help.
Given United Pharmaceutical’s current situation, at least one of their two representatives—the one for academics and the one for commerce—had to win first place for Qiao Xi to have any room to maneuver.
Strolling back to the circular council hall, Qiao Xi glanced at Liu Xuan, who was already plugged into the Alliance network and beginning the simulated business war.
Finally, she walked to the elevator and returned to the 400th floor.
...
"Councilor, I’ve completed the investigation as you requested. I found several sites with traces of what looks like a battle between Extraordinaries."
"The first location is on the outskirts of the Western Alliance City District. It appears to be the scene of a fight between High-tier Extraordinaries..."
...
"The fourth location is a sewer in the Eastern Alliance District, where we detected a large amount of residual human tissue. This is the strangest site."
"According to our analysis, the DNA from this human tissue belongs to a female employee from Kudou Human Body Engineering Company named Yoshida Hako."
"She was not an Extraordinary, and the total amount of human tissue and blood detected is enough for her to have died a hundred times over..."
The report from the investigation Qiao Xi had tasked Jingang with had come in.
When Qiao Xi saw the part about the battle scene in the sewer, it instinctively caught her attention.
The reason was simple. According to the contents of the Highest Level temporary group chat,
the Wizard had fought King Arthur.
And King Arthur, the undisputed king of the sewers, had a habit of running off into them.
Combined with the bizarre battle residue, it was very much in line with the methods of someone with an Underworld profession like the Wizard.
Qiao Xi sent an email to Jingang.
[Go clean up the battle residue at the sewer site. Use the clearance I’ve given you to encrypt and seal all records at the Highest Level.]
Qiao Xi suspected the battle residue was related to the Wizard’s Ability.
After all, they were teammates in the Mercenary Corps. If she could help cover his tracks, she might as well.
However, based on the battle’s residue, Qiao Xi found it hard to imagine what the scene of the fight must have looked like.
How could tons of human tissue and blood have been left behind?
The Wizard had never displayed an Ability like that before!
’A new Ability? The Wizard is truly mysterious. As expected of someone connected to the Eastern Alliance.’
’And... Guang Ling. He’s also suspected of being connected to the Eastern Alliance.’
’Huh? Could those two be the same person? They’ve never appeared together offline...’