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Chapter 341 I am unaffected by the effects of the Soul Binding Division
Xia Sheng stepped forward, his gaze sweeping over the mess of scraps of paper scattered on the ground, then at the disheveled Tang Xin and the dumbfounded Li Guanqi, before finally picking up a relatively intact piece of draft paper.

He glanced at it only, nodded, and looked at it with a hint of respect.

"These are the raw materials for the recipe? They look complete. Thank you both for your hard work."

Li Guanqi gave an awkward laugh and handed over the carefully prepared "final version" of the materials sheet: "That's a draft, this is the materials sheet that I deduced."

Xia Sheng took the form, and Yu Wanyin and Yu Wansha, the brother and sister, followed closely, their eyes filled with doubt and a hint of surprise.

"These are the raw materials for Angel's Tears?" Yu Wanyin pointed to a row of words on the materials list, "Low-grade mutant cell culture medium, neuroactive catalyst... Why are they all common stuff? Can this stuff really be used to make an SS-grade potion?"

Yu Wancha frowned and said in a deep voice, "These things can probably be found in the cabinets of this abandoned laboratory. Isn't it... a bit too easy?"

Li Guanqi ignored them, keeping his eyes fixed on Xia Sheng, waiting for his reaction.

He felt something was off from the moment Xia Sheng suggested taking on this SS-level mission.

What makes this person so confident?
More importantly, why did he invite me? What makes him think I'm capable of doing it?

Anyone as ordinary as Yu Wanyin would think this is a fantasy. A genius who scored 299 points on a written test wouldn't issue an invitation so easily.

If someone like that dares to speak, they must be confident.

But Li Guanqi was indeed confident.

He still clearly remembers that the first thing Xia Sheng said to him was, "Do you know Gil Su?"

Connecting all the clues, a bold conjecture emerged in Li Guanqi's mind.

Therefore, he deliberately omitted the most crucial ingredient from the raw material list.

A document that Gilsu found directly from the waste pile of Karl's laboratory.

If Xia Shengzhen really had a connection with Gilsu, he should be able to remember.

Xia Sheng looked at the materials list twice, his brows furrowed slightly, and he muttered something under his breath.

"Is there... something missing?"

coming!

Li Guanqi's heart skipped a beat, but he asked calmly, "What's missing?"

Xia Sheng frowned, trying hard to recall something, but finally shook his head: "I can't quite put my finger on it, it's just a feeling, something incomplete."

Upon hearing this reply, Li Guanqi lowered his eyes in slight disappointment.

Simply mentioning the missing ingredient might elicit a reaction from a normal person with good intuition, but it doesn't prove that Xia Sheng is related to Ji Er Su.

Just then, Tang Xin, who had been sporting a messy hairstyle and dazed look, suddenly had a flash of insight.

"Is it missing that...that...what...what bone marrow?"

In an instant, the laboratory fell into a deathly silence.

Li Guanqi and Xia Sheng's pupils contracted sharply, and they turned their heads to stare intently at Tang Xin.

How could she know!
"Bone marrow?" Yu Wanyin looked at Tang Xin with a puzzled expression. "How did you know?"

Tang Xin herself was stunned, as if she had just been pulled back from some kind of reverie, her eyes filled with confusion.

"I...I don't know either."

She reached up and haphazardly tidied her messy hair, looking confused and innocent: "It's just... the mouth said it itself, maybe I've heard this recipe somewhere before...?"

She thought hard and came up with an excuse: "Maybe I've read too many novels. Many medicine recipes don't require things like dragon bones or phoenix marrow as a catalyst."

Li Guanqi remained silent, continuing to scrutinize her.

But Tang Xin's expression was genuine; her inner confusion was something that couldn't be faked.

“The marrow of a beast from the abyss.” Xia Sheng suddenly spoke, his voice soft, yet like a pebble thrown into still water, it stirred up ripples in the laboratory.

Yu Wancha and Yu Wanyin, brother and sister, turned to look at him in unison: "How did you know that?"

The two siblings seemed out of place with the other three, like they weren't on the same wavelength.

“It should be this.” Xia Sheng’s expression flashed with a complex and unreadable emotion as he looked at Li Guanqi and said, word by word.

"The recipe is missing the marrow of the Abyss Beast."

Li Guanqi was shocked. It was indeed true!

He suppressed his turbulent thoughts and asked in as calm a tone as possible, "Are you sure?"

“I’m certain that the required dosage of the Abyss Beast’s bone marrow should be 3.2 milliliters,” Xia Sheng replied earnestly.

Li Guanqi raised an eyebrow, and the other three exclaimed in unison, "You even know the dosage?!"

He couldn't really remember the dosage, only that 4g and 2g corresponded to which dosages. He wasn't sure which material the other dosages were from; memory is ultimately vague.

"Do you remember the dosage of the other materials?" Li Guanqi's deep voice broke the silence in the laboratory.

All eyes immediately focused on Xia Sheng.

Xia Sheng did not answer immediately. He closed his eyes, his brows furrowed, as if searching for an extremely distant and vague memory. After a long while, he slowly opened his eyes and picked out three items from the list of materials with certainty.

"Low-grade heterotrophic cell culture medium, 12 ml".

"Neuroactive catalyst, 4.5 grams."

"Light Channel Gene Stabilizing Solution, 4.8 ml".

With each name and dosage he announced, accurate to the decimal point, Yu Wanyin's mouth widened further; this was beyond the realm of intuition.

“I’m not sure about the exact correspondences of the remaining nine,” Xia Sheng said, looking at Li Guanqi as if explaining to him alone, “but I remember their dosage data.”

He paused for a moment, then rattled off the whole thing in one breath.

"3 ml, 3.2 ml, 2 g, 2.5 ml, 1.5 ml, 5.2 ml, 4 g, 5 ml, 4 ml."

A series of numbers, like lifeless bricks, built a high wall of despair.

“Nine ingredients, nine uncertain dosages…” Tang Xin finally snapped out of her reverie. With her hair a messy bird's nest, she counted on her fingers and muttered to herself, “How many combinations are there? Nine times eight, then seven…”

While she was still struggling with mental calculations, two voices, without warning, rang out simultaneously in identical, flat tones.

"Three hundred and sixty-two thousand eight hundred and eighty kinds."

Li Guanqi and Xia Sheng.

"There will be fewer distinctions between solid and liquid."

After they finished speaking, they looked at each other, and the air froze for a moment.

"Three hundred and sixty thousand?!" Yu Wanyin finally couldn't hold back anymore and let out a shrill scream, "Are you devils?! How are we supposed to test this? Test it until the end of time? Even if the Spirit Control Department emptied its entire warehouse, it wouldn't be enough for us to build like this!"

She felt she must be crazy to be fooling around with this group of charlatans.

However, amidst the wailing, Li Guanqi remained unusually calm. He simply looked at the document sheet, slowly opened his mouth, and his voice clearly reached everyone's ears.

"I'm sure of two."

He pointed out two solid dosages from the nine dosage data that Xia Sheng had reported.

"2 grams, is fluorescent phosphorus."

"4 grams is the spore powder of the mist fern."

Upon hearing this, the entire room fell into a deathly silence.

Tang Xin stared at him blankly, lost in thought.

Xia Sheng raised his head and gave Li Guanqi a meaningful look. In his eyes, there was shock, inquiry, but more than anything, a sense of relief that a crazy conjecture had finally been confirmed.

This intern truly had some unknown connection to that distant figure deep in his memory.

“You guys—” Yu Wancha glanced at Li Guanqi, then at Xia Sheng, feeling isolated.

"Wait...wait!" Yu Wan, the only one on the scene trying to stay rational, felt like her CPU was about to burn out. "Nine unknowns, and now two more have been confirmed...so there are seven left?"

“Seven ingredients, seven unknown dosages.” Tang Xin snapped out of her daze and quickly did the mental calculations, “Seven factorial… five thousand and forty!”

Before Li Guanqi and Xia Sheng could even speak, she had already mentally calculated the data. Amazing!

"From 360,000 to 5,040 in one go?" Yu Wanyin's tone shifted several times, from despair to a kind of absurd shock. "This...this actually works?!"

In the underground laboratory, a strange hope mingled with the mess of everyday life.

“Materials,” Yu Wancha said in a deep voice, “Even if what you’re saying is true, the Spirit Control Division wouldn’t approve five thousand sets of experimental materials for us.”

“We have no credit backing, and you two don’t seem to have any theoretical support either.” He paused, choosing his words carefully.

"These thirteen documents will cost at least ten thousand gold points."

"Five thousand attempts would require more than fifty million gold points."

"Even if we're lucky, and get results after 2,000 tests, it'll still cost 20 million."

As soon as these words came out, everyone fell silent.

The most absurd thing right now is that neither Li Guanqi nor Xia Sheng can explain "why these materials, why these dosages," without any theoretical support or credibility.

Without these things, how could the Bureau of Spirit Control have approved tens of millions for five interns?

After a long pause, Li Guanqi slowly spoke: "I'll figure out a way to get the materials."

"My brother," Tang Xin said in a low voice, thinking he was putting on a brave face, "several thousand documents."

"or--"

"Maybe we should just give up." Yu Wanyin calmed down, a hint of dejection in her voice. "If we withdraw the mission now, we'll only lose five points at most, and we can always turn back."

"I'm going to make a phone call."

Li Guanqi neither agreed nor disagreed, but simply uttered this sentence before turning and walking towards the small cubicle in the corner that served as a storage room. The four people watched his resolute back, their expressions varying.

Yu Wanyin nudged Tang Xin next to her with her elbow and whispered, "He's not really going to borrow money, is he? Tens of millions! When will he ever be able to pay it back?"

Tang Xin bit her lip, remaining silent, her eyes filled with worry.

Xia Sheng leaned against the wall, lost in thought.

"I don't want to owe anyone a favor." Yu Wancha said, walking towards the storage room. When he reached Xia Sheng's side, he even pulled him along.

Upon seeing this, Tang Xin and the other two women's eyes lit up, and they followed them forward.

Inside the storage room, Li Guanqi gently closed the door, cutting off any outside view.

He let out a soft breath, opened the supercomputing ring, and dialed Qi Mengsi's number.

The call was answered instantly, and Qi Mengsi's languid voice came from the other end: "What is it?"

“I need five thousand sets of experimental materials,” Li Guanqi said bluntly. “The list has already been sent.”

There was a moment of silence on the other end of the phone as someone checked the received documents.

A good ten seconds passed before Qi Mengsi's voice rang out again. This time, the languidness was gone, replaced by a cold question: "I told you to think it through, to think it through just how absurd this mission is."

"I didn't expect you to think through the materials so clearly!"

Five thousand and forty copies!

"You're really something! You've only just joined the Anbu and you're already putting pressure on me, huh!"

These supplies could not be approved through the normal procedures of the Spirit Control Division. Qi Mengsi's public identity is that of a senior member, not even a team leader. To obtain these items, one must go through the secret procedures.

"Do you know how much this costs? Over fifty million gold points! Brother! Not over fifty million!"

“The worst-case scenario is 5,040 copies; with a bit of luck, 1,000 or 2,000 copies will be enough,” Li Guanqi said calmly.

"That would still cost over twenty million!" Qi Mengsi's voice rose.

"The materials can be recycled."

"But what about the losses? At least ten million in losses! How are you going to cover this hole?"

“I…” Li Guanqi gritted his teeth and mustered his courage to say, “At worst, I’ll work for the Spirit Control Division for the rest of my life to pay off my debts.”

The voice just fell.

"boom--!"

The door to the storage room was slammed open.

Tang Xin rushed in first, her face flushed, and shouted loudly, as if trying to make sure the person on the other end of the call could hear: "Me too! I'll pay too!"

Yu Wanyin followed closely behind, muttering under her breath, "You haven't even finished paying off your own credit card debt yet."

"Then I'll start another book!" Tang Xin turned around and glared at her. "My new book is sure to be a hit!"

Yu Wancha said with a solemn expression, "This is a team mission, and there is no reason to let one person bear the risk."

“My brother and I aren’t exactly good people,” Yu Wanyin said, arms crossed, her previous dejection gone, “but we still understand morality.”

"More than ten million, divided among five people, that's three million each. With the salary and mission bonuses of the Spirit Control Division, if we save every penny for more than ten years, we can definitely pay it off."

"it's not a big deal."

Xia Sheng was the last to walk in. He leaned against the door frame and shrugged.

"They insisted on dragging me over to eavesdrop."

He paused, his gaze falling on Li Guanqi with a complex emotion.

“But I feel…” Fragments of Gilsu’s memories flashed through his mind.

"You have no obligation to always shoulder all the responsibility alone."

After the group finished speaking, the entire storage room fell silent.

Li Guanqi stood there stunned. On the other end of the phone, Qi Mengsi seemed to have heard the 'noise' as well, and remained silent for a long time.

"Are you... serious?"

This time, she didn't ask "you," but "you all."

Looking at the serious faces of the four people, Li Guanqi sighed deeply and spoke firmly.

"Correct."

“…I understand.” Qi Mengsi said in a deep voice, “Submit your application through the backend, and I will approve a certain number of applications for you every day.”

"Thank you," Li Guanqi said, and then hung up the phone.

The storage room returned to silence, but the atmosphere was no longer heavy.

"Did you... borrow it?" Tang Xin cautiously leaned closer and asked in a low voice.

From the phrase "I'll work my whole life to pay it back," she naturally assumed that Li Guanqi was calling to borrow a huge sum of money.

OMG!

Can Brother Ba borrow millions of dollars with just one phone call?

This network, this energy...it's awesome!

The girl I have a crush on: +1 filter, -100 IQ.

“Uh—” Li Guanqi was speechless for a moment before replying, “Got it.”

According to regulations, matters concerning the secret service cannot be discussed with outsiders.

He looked up at the group and said, "There are at most 5040 possibilities, and there's still a month until graduation."

"When spread out, each person has to take 34 tests per day and keep good records."

"is that OK."

"No problem!" Tang Xin shouted firmly, like a model employee.

"We're already on this sinking ship, there's no turning back now," Yu Wanyin complained.

Yu Wancha asked in a deep voice, "What will the Angel's Tear look like after it's been crafted?"

Li Guanqi gently stroked his chin, his thoughts drifting away as he tried to recall the appearance of Angel's Tears, carefully choosing the right adjectives.

“A starry sky.” Xia Sheng suddenly smiled and said, “It’s beautiful.”

“Yes—that’s true.” Li Guanqi nodded.

Yu Wancha nodded slightly to indicate that he had received the message.

"The starry sky?" Yu Wanyin and Tang Xin smiled slightly, their eyes filled with longing.

The road to dreams is always paved with thorns, cold and piercing.

On the very first day of the plan, a huge problem arose. They had to participate in physical training and combat training during the day, leaving only two hours for special training in the evening.

Tang Xin and Yu Wanyin are truly amateurs! The three of them were very stiff in taking the dosage, unlike Li Guanqi and Xia Sheng, who could tell the amount in milliliters with a simple stroke.

After completing the configuration, we still need to perform recycling, data recording, and experimental reactions.

On the first day, each person was supposed to receive 34 tests, but the trio of laymen could only manage about ten.

These three people definitely have the right attitude and are working hard, but their ability and efficiency are indeed lacking.

"It's okay, you'll get used to it gradually," Li Guanqi comforted her.

The three laymen nodded guiltily, but they were still unsure.

Over the next week, efficiency improved somewhat, but the daily testing volume was only around 110, far below the daily average of 168.
Li Guanqi once again used his Dark Guard authority to extend the laboratory access from two hours to three hours, which was already the limit. Trainees of the Spirit Control Division had very strict work and rest regulations; they had to sleep on time and could not stay out overnight.

However, the daily testing volume was only 160 in the following week.

Most importantly, there are still thousands of tests to be done.

The original plan was to complete 2500 tests in two weeks, but only 1500 were actually completed.

"Can it really be done?" Yu Wanyin regained her initial dejection.

In fact, it wasn't just her; all five of them were somewhat insecure and kept their heads down.

"Will we succeed?" Xia Sheng suddenly asked, seemingly addressing "the god who controls time and space."

Li Guanqi was taken aback and remained silent, unsure how to respond.

Anyway, it's not like I asked him.

"It will succeed!" Tang Xin exclaimed. "I am the god who controls time and space; I traveled back from the future!"

"We made it!"

"He even received a first-class merit award!"

Yu Wanyin burst out laughing.

"Is that so?" Xia Sheng suddenly smiled. "You guys go back first, I'll work a little longer."

“But,” Li Guanqi said, “it’s time to rest, according to the regulations of the Soul-Binding Division.”

Xia Sheng spread his hands, smiled, and said, "What do the regulations of the Spirit Control Division have to do with me?"

The other four were all taken aback.

Xia Sheng pointed to his plain clothes and joked, "I am unaffected by the effects of the Spirit Control Division."

(End of this chapter)