Chapter 734: Don't Be Like This, I'm Scared

"Third Brother, please don't be like this, I'm scared."

After being scanned for over half an hour in the CT scanner, then having brain-computer interface patches plastered all over her head, her eyes covered, and being tested for two hours by her idol using over ten pots of aggressive Ruin-evolved plants, two pots of Nurturing-evolved plants, a Ruin Snake, and some unknown animal, Xia Qing was about to vomit.

When she finally managed to remove the blindfold, she found her idol's gaze fixed on her was extremely off.

It was as if he wanted to immediately peel open her skull to see what kind of thing was stuffed inside her brain.

If the person standing before her wasn't her high-quality idol who stood at the very top of the universe's Jin Zita, Xia Qing would have really wanted to immediately draw her black blade and cut off his head.

"Hmph."

Zhang San snorted coldly, sat back down at his desk, and carefully read the brain neural signal fluctuations of Xia Qing that had been detected and interpreted by the brain-computer interface patches.

As he read, Zhang San's eyes lit up again, and the corners of his mouth couldn't help but lift, but in the blink of an eye he became serious again. "Xia Qing."

"Here, Third Brother, please speak."

"Besides me, Yang Jin, and Seeing Xin Yu, who else knows you are a Magnetic Sense Evolved?"

Xia Qing answered immediately, "No one else. Third Brother is indeed a Brain Domain Evolved; you guessed at once that Seeing Xin Yu and Yang Jin know about my ability."

Zhang San rolled his eyes at Xia Qing. "Yang Jin executed a tracking mission for Ruin Snakes with you, and Seeing Xin Yu executed a mission to find aggressive wild Paulownia trees with you. Anyone who isn't an idiot could figure that out. Of course, those who don't know you are a Magnetic Sense Evolved wouldn't think of this."

Xia Qing then answered, "There is no one else. I told Yang Jin that my Magnetic Sense Evolved ability must not be told even to Brother Luo and Xie Yu, and Seeing Xin Yu definitely won't leak it. Third Brother, is there something wrong with my ability?"

Speaking of serious matters, Zhang San became much more serious. "Over the past half year, after domestic and foreign researchers conducted detailed tests on the abilities of confirmed Magnetic Sense Evolved individuals, they divided Magnetic Sense into four major categories: the ability to perceive magnetic field fluctuations in animals, plants, Ruin elements, and Nurturing elements."

Xia Qing immediately understood her ability classification. "I belong to the category that can perceive Ruin and Nurturing elements."

"Correct." Zhang San told Xia Qing very seriously, "In all the published data, every Magnetic Sense Evolved individual can only perceive one category. Of course, we cannot rule out the possibility that these reports deliberately concealed data on some special Magnetic Sense Evolved individuals, but Evolved individuals of your type should be a minority."

Xia Qing...

!!!

No wonder the idol was so excited just now and wanted to pry open her head to study it!

Xia Qing felt waves of post-fear, her hair standing on end, and she clasped her hands together in supplication. "Third Brother, you must keep this secret for me."

Knowing her ability is very special, shouldn't an ordinary person feel excited first and then scared? She really didn't look like a four-element Evolved powerhouse at all.

Zhang San rolled his eyes at Xia Qing. "This is a P3 laboratory; none of your ability data will leak out from here."

Xia Qing's tense nerves instantly relaxed by half. "Yang Jin and Seeing Xin Yu only know that I can perceive aggressive Ruin-evolved plants and Ruin Snakes; they don't know I can perceive Nurturing-evolved plants."

She also needed to remind Yuan Yan about that.

Zhang San was somewhat satisfied with Xia Qing's caution; he snorted and continued studying the changes in her brain neuron activity when exposed to different animals and plants.

High-level Brain Domain Evolved individuals absorb knowledge and research data extremely quickly. A few minutes later, Zhang San finished reading. "Based on the current test results, your perception of plants rich in Ruin elements is quite sharp. This is a very useful ability for farming."

Yes, yes, yes, super useful! Xia Qing nodded. "Third Brother, what level is my Magnetic Sense?"

Zhang San stuffed the report into a shredder and completely pulverized it. "The National Research Institute has not yet established a grading standard for Magnetic Sense abilities. Judging from the data, your Ruin element perception is moderate, and your Nurturing element perception level is slightly lower."

After speaking, Zhang San kindly instructed, "Nurturing-evolved plants have very high medicinal value. If you perceive Nurturing-evolved plants in the Evolution Forest, remember to take samples. Also, the quality of the walnut trees I cultivated using Green Light Walnuts is not high; it should be due to a lack of certain elements in the soil of Mountain Sixty. If you have another chance to go to Mountain Sixty, please bring back two tubes of soil samples from near the walnut trees."

Xia Qing agreed readily. "Okay. Next month the wolf pack should take deworming pills. Third Brother, give me two hundred deworming tablets; I'll go over there before the Ruin element."

Two hundred tablets? Are you robbing me?! Zhang San glared at Xia Qing in annoyance.

Xia Qing chuckled and explained, "Besides the Northern Wolf Pack, weasels, red squirrels, honey badgers, rabbits, and the Western Wolf Pack all need to take them, so I need to get some. How many points do you want?"

If the chicken flock hadn't already been vaccinated, Xia Qing would have exchanged for more tablets.

Zhang San...

Are you running a zoo?!

After giving Xia Qing two bags of medicine, Zhang San asked about the pharmaceutical factory. "The new drug for exterminating Super and High-level Evolved Aspergillus fungi—Anti-Mold No. 3—has passed the approval of the National Drug Administration and can be produced. How is the preparation at the pharmaceutical factory?"

Before the Natural Disaster, the fastest approval time for a new drug was half a year. During the Natural Disaster era, the evolution speed of microorganisms was too fast, so the drug approval speed also accelerated accordingly.

Zhang San is a top-tier talent in domestic drug development. The new drugs he develops and submits enjoy priority approval rights. Less than a month after submission, the Drug Administration confirmed that the efficacy and side effects were within the qualified range and issued the permit, granting the drug approval number.

Xia Qing answered immediately. "The pharmaceutical factory was built ten days ago. Now, people from the Hui One Drug Administration have been invited to inspect it. The people coming are picking bones out of eggs, saying this of ours is unqualified and that is non-compliant, and they don't want to give the certificate. But Zhou Zhaoping said they can't hold us up; we will definitely get the Drug Production License within three days. Once we get the license, we will immediately start production."

According to regulations, before Hui Three Pharmaceutical Factory officially operates, it must obtain the Drug Production License issued by the Hui One Drug Administration.

Hui One didn't want to approve it because once the Hui Three pharmaceutical factory is built, it will become the biggest competitor to the Hui One Pharmaceutical Factory.

However, the pharmaceutical factory was built strictly according to relevant national standards; even if Hui One is unwilling, they must issue the license.

Hui Three Pharmaceutical Factory not only has perfect hardware but has also established its management team.

Zhou Zhaoping of the Territory Alliance, Xie Yu of the Green Dragon Squad, and Yu Jinghong, the Deputy Dean of the Hui Three Research Institute, formed the factory's board of directors. Zhou Zhaoping serves as Chairman, Xie Yu serves as Financial Director, and Yu Jinghong serves as Technical Director.

The factory's General Manager is Shao Xin, formerly the production workshop director of Hui One Pharmaceutical Factory. She is a talent Yang Jin personally went to Hui One to recruit.

Because they worried Shao Xin might be a spy sent by Hui One, when they called her to Territory No. 8 in Northern Zone One for an interview, Xia Qing and Seeing Xin Yu were listening in from the inner room.

Both the observation by the Brain Domain Evolved Xie Yu in the outer room and the Magnetic Sense perception by Seeing Xin Yu in the inner room confirmed that Shao Xin was very sincere and truly wanted to establish herself in Hui Three and develop her own career.

To figure out her attitude toward Hui One's First Squad—Flame—the board asked her to evaluate the production difficulty of the two new drugs Flame launched this year.

When answering this question and mentioning the names of Fire Phoenix and Shan Ying, Shao Xin's hatred reached its highest point during the entire interview.

Xia Qing later learned from Xie Yu that Shao Xin's left eye was blinded by an Evolved Insect in the second year of the Natural Disaster, but the burns on her face and the half of her right hand that was severed were caused by an "accident" that occurred inside the Hui One Pharmaceutical Factory in the seventh year of the Natural Disaster.

That accident happened shortly after she refused to work in the Flame Drug Production Department. After that accident, Shao Xin was demoted from Deputy Factory Director to Production Workshop Director and lived a very hard life.

Even for an ordinary person, even after suffering such an "accident" and working in the workshop for over three years, when Shao Xin thought of the two people Fire Phoenix and Shan Ying, what she revealed was hatred rather than fear. This point made Xia Qing very satisfied.

Shao Xin is also a powerhouse. No wonder the busybody Yang Jin made a special trip to recruit her from Hui One.