Chapter 69: Experints
Translator: Nyoi-Bo Studio Editor: Nyoi-Bo Studio
“Director Chen, the reason for the flesh exploding should be because it absorbed too much of the fire elent. The explosion was a result of the conflicting energies. There was no trace of fire elent in the flesh. The experint was a failure.” After saying that, Little Zheng raised his head and gave Gao Peng a look. It was an expression that spoke volus but he managed to quickly hide it imdiately afterwards.
“Conflicting energies,” muttered Director Chen with a frown. If the energies conflicted one another, it ant that they did not rge with each other at all, which ant that this experint was a total failure.
Based on the results of his previous experints, if there was a chance for success, they should have been able to at least pick up so trace amount of fire elent from the blown up pieces of flesh. Either that, or flesh that was partially rged with the fire elent. If that was the case, all they had to do was to keep improving the formula and to adjust the amounts of the materials needed.
“Little Gao’s train of thought should be right. We shall keep going,” Director Chen said with a wave of his hand. In his head, he had already prepared for the probability of failure. No one was so lucky as to get it right on the first try.
Gao Peng stared at Director Chen’s back in silence for a mont. He did not expect Director Chen to trust him that much.
But it was not only trust in Gao Peng that spurred Director Chen’s decision. After careful consideration, he too had agreed that Gao Peng’s suggestions did indeed seem feasible.
Furthermore, he had invited Gao Peng over this ti specifically for the purpose of nurturing his talent. If one had the talent, it must not go to waste. He had taken in Little Zheng and the rest as students as well because they possessed talents in this area.
There was still a long way to go in the field of Monster Breeding. There is only so much he could do alone to further this field of study. Within his living years, he hoped to see Monster Breeding progress much further.
In order to achieve this dream of his, he would require many talented individuals to join him in expanding the path for Monster Breeders.
For him to beco an advanced Monster Breeder, it indeed took quite a lot of talent. This kind of talent was hard to describe in words. It was like so sort of gift that ca from the soul. Those with this talent, when breeding Familiars, would often experience that spark in their souls, guiding them to find the crucial details that others would not have noticed.
This was like the Chinese doctors of the ancient tis. They possessed none of the high-tech dical equipnt of today and knew nothing of things like cells or nerves. But by using Yin and Yang, and the five elents as the basis for their understanding, they perceived the human body as the unification of breath, body and mind. Through the use of the thods of seeing, listening/slling, asking, and touching, they managed to use their knowledge to treat illnesses. Seen through the lens of modern western dicine, this would all have been taphysics!
“Mm,” muttered Little Zheng in acknowledgent, even though he did not agree.
Honestly, as one of Director Chen’s very own students, he was rather jealous to see his tutor specially bring a young upstart such as Gao Peng into the laboratory. Director Chen had never seed to value the rest of them so highly.
He had heard of what Gao Peng managed to achieve at the Monster Breeder examination grounds, but he thought that that was re coincidence, and that Gao Peng simply got lucky.
This high schooler called Gao Peng should have so abilities. But he felt that the way that Director Chen described him was a little too far-fetched. But since his tutor wanted to continue with the experints, so be it. As long as the experints kept failing, the little upstart’s true face would be revealed!
The second experint failed...
The third experint continued to fail as well...
The entire afternoon was spent on failures. There seed to be no progress in the research whatsoever.
Little Zheng and his other fellow researchers silently exchanged looks. In their eyes, one could see a hint of glee in Gao Peng’s failure.
They were looking forward to Gao Peng making a fool of himself.
Gao Peng’s expression changed as if he had thought of sothing. “Director Chen, we have tried so many ingredients already, I feel that maybe using the Devil Chilies as the sole main ingredient is insufficient. Perhaps we could add in another main ingredient.”
“Two main ingredients? That’s a bold idea,” Director Chen looked up and glanced at Gao Peng.
Gao Peng look over at the Voracious Golden Toad with an expression of sympathy. Nurous chunks of flesh had been cut off from its body. The wounds had already healed, but the missing flesh would unfortunately take a while longer to regrow.
The Voracious Golden Toad gave Gao Peng and the rest a dirty look.
It turned its back towards them, not willing to look at these detestable humans anymore.
Even on its butt, there was a huge chunk of missing flesh.
But Director Chen and the rest still had a heart for this creature. They never cut off too large an amount of flesh each ti, so that it had hopes of full recovery in future. They even anaesthetized it every ti they had to cut off so flesh.
“For the other main ingredient, what do you plan on using?” Director Chen secretly shook his head. He still did not think very highly of this idea, but he felt that it would not be good for Gao Peng’s enthusiasm to deal a blow.
“Black Soft Soil. It is an earth-attribute soul material that has the properties of dampness and is of Yin nature. We can have the Voracious Golden Toad consu this in order to protect its internal organs. After that, we can also add in so Sparrow Saliva Wood to the list of supporting ingredients for the Devil Chili. Wood feeds fire, and fire creates earth.”
Director Chen nodded sternly. He had heard such words a dozen tis that day. All of it was based on the theory of five elents. But the problem was that with that many fire, wood and earth attribute ingredients, it would be a tall task to find the right combination. With every addition of another attribute, the difficulty of this task would rise exponentially.
“We might as well give it a try,” said Director Chen, nodding his head.
The ingredients were prepared in no ti at all, and the experint was carried out. Although the result was still a failure, the fire elent was successfully assimilated into the flesh this ti, and the amount was substantial!
This thod was feasible!
Director Chen’s spirits were roused.
He continued on, making minor adjustnts to the quantities, and the dicinal properties of the mixture. He changed a few herbs and chose a few other similar ingredients.
A few hours passed. The flesh lying in the experintal apparatus had changed in color. Starting from a deep, pale yellow, it grew brighter until finally turning into an eye-catching dull red. This ti it did not explode.
To think that they had managed to progress this far! A few of the researchers stared wide-eyed until their eyes almost popped out. Impossible, they exclaid in their minds.
At this point, they finally understood the difference in ability between themselves and Gao Peng.
As for Gao Peng, he had never actually bothered much about these clowns during this whole ti. To Gao Peng, they were petty and short-sighted people who were jealous of him even though he never had any conflict with them. These were people that Gao Peng had no intention to get along with.
Gao Peng said to Director Chen, “Why don’t we proceed to live testing? Because many of these ingredients must be consud before we actually know their results. Just experinting on a monster’s flesh will not be enough.”
Was he finally extending his demon claws towards the innocent Voracious Golden Toad?!
Director Chen did not agree imdiately. The military had given him sufficient permission for carrying out the experints on the Voracious Golden Toad. It was just that, as a Monster Breeder, he had to be responsible for the life of the Familiar.
“Alright! We shall begin with the live testing,” said Director Chen with a deep sigh.
They prepared a highly heat resistant container and placed the Voracious Golden Toad inside.
Probably because this was a military trained Familiar, the Voracious Golden Toad seed to be extrely obedient, even towards the researchers. For a monster, this was extrely rare.
The various ingredients were added accordingly in the right amounts and sequenced into the container, and boiled into a frothing red juice. A pungent sll filled the air. Even those wearing a mask began to feel uncomfortable
“Cough, cough, cough,” went one of the researchers. His eyes were red and teary.
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