Chapter 2331: Chapter 2333: Hot Potato
Initially, Beauty Lin and her team thought they could decide to whom these three simulation slots would be allocated, but clearly, many people’s capabilities far exceeded their imagination.
These people usually keep a low profile, quietly engaging in development, but let’s be honest, behind those projects eligible enough to consider inviting Feng Jun to simulate, which one doesn’t have at least one Big Boss backing it?
The three simulation quotas, one was snatched away by the Meteorological System, who would believe this? Yet that’s exactly what happened.
For today’s material simulation, Beauty Lin had guaranteed success, but it was almost taken away by the Agricultural Science System.
Over there, they even argued that matters related to military industry should avoid involving private enterprises as much as possible. Firstly, there’s the issue of confidentiality, and secondly, reliability is not necessarily guaranteed. Enterprises like ours, which focus on the livelihood of the people, are more suitable.
Ironically, someone actually agreed with this, despite the fact that these points have some merit, it mainly depends on one’s position of interest.
Seeing the situation turning unfavorable, Beauty Lin played her trump card: "I’ll go talk to Feng Jun."
This is the benefit of proximity to influence; she maintained a good personal relationship with Elder Feng. At critical moments, asking him to say a few words for help is a piece of cake, isn’t it?
Feng Jun also didn’t mind doing her a favor. Out of three total simulations, it didn’t matter what to simulate. Since she came to him, he indicated he was currently more interested in simulating materials, and other things can just be let go.
This attitude is indeed a bit of ’whatever,’ but who can blame him? In the end, the Agricultural Science side could only express hope for cooperation next time, not daring to even utter harsh words.
But as soon as they turned around, these people put pressure on Beauty Lin, saying don’t think we don’t know what you’re up to, daring to trick our Agricultural Science System is a provocation to food security, you better pray it succeeds this time, or else... haha~
Of course, the way the Agricultural Science System talks doesn’t necessarily mean they’ll do anything, but when competing for projects and benefits, it’s not uncommon for people to act this way—you act threatening, no one expresses gratitude for your fairness.
Anyway, Beauty Lin still felt some pressure. After all, in her team, she was the only one capable of slightly influencing Feng Jun’s ideas, so she sought Feng Jun again for confirmation—"You can handle this simulation, right?"
It was the first time Feng Jun encountered her doubts. After understanding, he realized the project’s difficulty was indeed quite high, so he responded, "Bring all the necessary stuff, I guarantee not to let you down."
Now the result is finally out. Not only did Feng Jun simulate the synthesis process, but he also provided the final data of the materials, which was slightly higher than the design requirements. If not for the need to produce samples, success could basically be declared at this point.
Beauty Lin was very pleased, and Feng Jun wasn’t particularly concerned, just a matter of mutual assistance after all.
But the next day, Beauty Lin showed up early in the morning trying to block the gate. She wasn’t qualified to enter the mountain gate, and she shouted again and again at the Men Gang, "I must see Feng Jun immediately, please tell him the consequences of ignoring this will be at his own risk!"
Men Gang ignored her. At present, the gatekeepers of Luohua are quite impressive. Anyone passing through is quite polite to them, with many casually offering some benefits, just hoping to not face difficulties when coming and going.
For example, when Zhang Dongyuan from Qingcheng passes by Men Gang, at least two bottles of Wuliangye are given, and when Elder Guo from Wudang visits, a pair of Yellow Crane Tower worth over a thousand is a must, refusal is not an option.
So Men Gang really doesn’t take Beauty Lin seriously, and the supposed consequences are simply ignored.
Finally, Feng Jing had business to handle at the manor, and upon passing by asked what was happening. Beauty Lin, with a scowl, declared, "People have been turned into idiots by him, shouldn’t there be an explanation?"
Shortly after, Gu Jiahui came out. She also didn’t have the authority to let people in and could only go out, "Chief Lin, come over here, let’s talk at the Rehabilitation Center."
The current business at the Rehabilitation Center is quite good, so good that if not for Beauty Lin’s presence, it would be fully booked.
Initially, she didn’t plan to manage here, but some patients, believing they spent a lot, couldn’t help but wield a god-like attitude.
This greatly displeased Beauty Lin. If it didn’t affect her work, she might endure it, but since patients receive visitors, it greatly increases the difficulty of security. Ultimately, she resorted to scrutinizing every visitor—those who fail the check are denied entry.
Boss Ren had some small complaints about her behavior, but could do no more than that. He’d been here long enough to know her and her companions’ backgrounds.
Even so, the Rehabilitation Center still maintained an occupancy rate of over seventy percent.
Beauty Lin "rented" two offices within the Rehabilitation Center, bringing Gu Jiahui in, she couldn’t help but complain, "The person is about to become a Mai Nation citizen, why turn him into this state, what’s the point?"
Gu Jiahui, being more responsible than Feng Jun, unabashedly asked, "Has he become an idiot? That’s unexpected."
"Well, pretty much," Beauty Lin noticed that she didn’t deny, and actually calmed down a bit, "but the issue is that this person was under our care, and now this incident has put us in a passive position."
"I find it strange you people would stick up for such trash," Gu Jiahui replied indifferently, then curiously asked, "How do you know it was Luohua who did it?"
Beauty Lin rolled her eyes helplessly, "Who else but you guys have this capability? The key point is, you guys have recently been inquiring about related information, you can’t deny this, right?"
When Luohua members chat in the manor, they usually put away their mobile phones, but when probing for information from outside, it’s inevitable to leave some traces, no wonder Beauty Lin could zero in on them.
"I wasn’t even planning on denying it," Gu Jiahui replied justifiably, "I was just curious about how you managed to pinpoint us, so I came out to ask; now I know."
Beauty Lin reluctantly looked up at the sky, genuinely not wanting to deal with these privileged individuals, "Don’t you feel there’s a need to provide an explanation?"
"Gold-aiding treachery... does it need an explanation?" Gu Jiahui looked at her curiously, "Don’t you know what my great-great-grandfather does?"
Gold-aiding treachery... Beauty Lin shook her head helplessly, "Little Gu, whether someone’s a traitor and whether they deserve aid isn’t for you to decide!"
"I know that," Gu Jiahui actually nodded seriously, "though last night was an operational error, it won’t happen next time... I’m a bit puzzled, isn’t this matter outside your jurisdiction?"
"Indeed, it’s not within my jurisdiction," Beauty Lin nodded, "I just wanted to know your reasons for such actions. Currently, everyone thinks highly of Boss Feng. I also don’t want to see his image tarnished."
This matter truly didn’t require her intervention, but upon discovering Feng Jun’s potential involvement, she wanted to swiftly clarify the situation, "Now I understand. If someone accuses you in the future, I can speak for you."
"He learned a new secret technique, needed a living person to test it," Gu Jiahui quickly fabricated a lie—though she didn’t believe she was lying, "Using others for testing wouldn’t be appropriate, and this person happened to be a traitor."
"That’s a novel explanation," Beauty Lin nodded, pondering before asking further, "What kind of test? Is it over... Is the next target selected?"
"I really can’t tell you that," Gu Jiahui replied with a serious tone, then slightly smiled, "But rest assured, we only target those who deserve it."
Seeing her leave like that, Beauty Lin couldn’t help but raise her eyebrows and sigh softly, "Those who deserve it..."
This incident served as a reminder to Feng Jun and his group, emphasizing the need for caution in the future when gathering information. Otherwise, they might not be able to keep their actions hidden from Beauty Lin and her peers.
With Luohua’s current influence, doing slightly outlandish things wouldn’t be an issue, but if they could avoid attracting attention, why stir up unnecessary trouble?
The reason that person became an idiot was indeed due to Feng Jun’s inappropriate actions. This was the first time he personally conducted soul search, without using any Soul-searching Talisman since beginning cultivation.
Feng Jun actually had plenty of Soul-searching Talismans in his Storage Bag, yet as a Golden Core Level real person, relying on Soul-searching Talismans for soul searching a mortal felt a bit... ’whatever.’
But the main thing was that guy went too far, selling out Guojia’s interests and still planning to leave Huaxia boldly to migrate to Mai Nation. Feng Jun felt that using live humans for experiments was inappropriate, but targeting that person didn’t burden him mentally.
That night, while conducting the soul search, he was in fact rather restrained, not intending to render the person into an idiot; still, the outcome happened nevertheless.
Afterwards, from his analysis, he attempted to gather as much communication-related knowledge as possible. Regardless of that person’s questionable character, his theoretical and practical skills were quite exceptional,
it was precisely for these reasons that Feng Jun’s soul search duration was not just lengthy, but also meticulous and careful. He conducted soul search twice on that individual to barely absorb the majority of the information.
Although he consciously protected the person’s Divine Sense to acquire more knowledge, post soul search, the individual still ended up as an idiot. However, this affirmed it wasn’t a deliberate intention on his part.
Three days later, after that soul search, Feng Jun infiltrated elsewhere and conducted a soul search on another person, this time at least a ’life sentence’ candidate.
But during this attempt, he didn’t exclusively use soul searching technique, instead, he employed a Soul-searching Talisman. His interest in soul searching technique was minimal, previously using it merely as validation of his learning.
He never forgot others’ advice: the soul searching technique is not something to overuse.
This second person subjected to soul searching had a noticeably lower level of knowledge compared to the previous one, so Feng Jun only needed to employ a single Soul-searching Talisman to acquire the majority of relevant knowledge.
After all, it has often been said, many in leadership roles might not possess great expertise in related domains, how true that is.
(First update for November, asking for guaranteed monthly votes.)
