People in Yu-Gi-Oh! The hyper-converged audience is also integrated

Chapter 343 It felt so good to scream all night!
For two days without new materials, the atmosphere in the underground laboratory was so oppressive it was almost unbearable.

The five people surrounded the main control computer, repeatedly fast-forwarding through the experimental videos from the past twenty-odd days.

Three thousand five hundred failures may not be a matter of luck, but rather an operational error.

"Wow—Myna, you've paired it wrong six times!" Tang Xin looked at the screen, her tone filled with surprise.

"That's really unexpected." Yu Wanyin was also somewhat surprised. "Xia Sheng was also mismatched seven times."

Yu Wancha showed no sign of surprise: "They've configured the equipment five times more often than we have, and they haven't had much rest either, so it's not surprising that there are misconfigurations."

Li Guanqi and Xia Sheng felt their cheeks flush, feeling somewhat embarrassed.

"Ahem, it's within the acceptable margin of error," Li Guanqi said with a light cough.

If three thousand five hundred tests fail, it's possible that the ratio is incorrect, but it's also possible that the ratio is correct but the operator was not careful enough and made a mistake in the dosage. Therefore, a retest must be arranged.

Do not check, I don’t know, I’m scared.

The three laymen were extremely careful when configuring the equipment because they were unsure of their abilities and afraid of making mistakes. They checked the quantities repeatedly each time they took them.

It was inefficient but accurate; the three of them mismatched four times in total.

On the contrary, Li Guanqi and Xia Sheng, the two "experts" on whom high hopes were placed, made six and seven configuration errors respectively due to working through the night, severe sleep deprivation, and operating too quickly.

There were 3,500 configuration attempts, with a total of 17 mismatches occurring.

If there's a correct answer among these seventeen mismatches, then the person who made the mismatch will be held responsible.

But now that there are no materials, they can't verify it even if they want to.

"It's over, this is a real joke." Yu Wanyin leaned against the cold lab table, staring blankly at the flickering light tube on the ceiling.

For the past twenty-odd days, their scores have consistently ranked at the bottom among their peers, and they have been subjected to strange looks wherever they go.

Those idle gossips buzzed in my ears like flies.

"You're so good at physical fitness and dueling, how come you're so weak when it comes to doing real work?"

"Can't even earn 300 points a month? What do you do at night? Flirt with your sweetheart?"

"That Li Guanqi is even more outrageous, only fourteen points! This isn't a matter of ability, it's a matter of attitude! I don't think he'll even graduate after one semester!"

"The instructor seems to like him quite a bit; he even granted him leave. Maybe he'll get a guaranteed admission to university."

The laboratory was deathly silent.

"Three thousand five hundred times and I still haven't won..." Tang Xin sighed and muttered to herself, "How can my luck be so bad..."

She never doubted the recipe Li Guanqi provided, even though it sounded completely unfounded.

"Let's wait a little longer." Li Guanqi looked down at the supercomputing ring, his voice a little hoarse. "She will definitely find a way."

The four of them will not be punished for this mission. At most, he himself will have his Dark Guard authority revoked. The one who will truly bear all the losses is the Twin Flowers who gave him the authority.

She wouldn't just stand by and watch millions of supplies go down the drain, would she?

at this time.

"Om-"

A slight vibration suddenly broke the silence of the laboratory.

As if struck by lightning, the four of them abruptly raised their heads and stared in unison at the supercomputing ring on Li Guanqi's wrist.

The screen lit up!
“That voice…” Yu Wanyin’s eyes lit up.

This was a familiar sound to them—the notification tone for supplies delivery!
Li Guanqi quickly opened the message, a glint of light flashing in his eyes. He turned to look at everyone and said, "We've arrived!"

"They're here! They're here!" Tang Xin was so excited she almost jumped up.

The five of them rushed out of the laboratory and came to the familiar open space outside.

A drone slowly descended from the night sky. After scanning Li Guanqi's face and the supercomputing ring, it placed a black metal box down and played a processed electronic message.

"Hunting the beasts of the abyss takes a lot of time, and this is the last batch of bone marrow we can collect in the short term."

"Wish ya'll good luck."

After leaving the message, the drone took off and disappeared into the night.

"The last batch..."

Li Guanqi muttered to himself as he opened the black box, inside which lay four bottles filled with a dark liquid.

Four bottles of Abyss Beast Marrow.

"Two thousand milliliters!" Yu Wancha's eyes lit up, his tone excited.

“Use 3.2 ml at a time…” Yu Wanyin looked up and started calculating.

She's now dreaming about those thirteen materials and thirteen numbers; she's become a bit obsessed.

Xia Sheng's pupils contracted, and he quickly concluded: "There are still three days until graduation, so we can try 625 more times."

“625 times, but there are still 1,500 different ratios to try.” Li Guanqi said the cruelest reality, his pupils slowly constricting.

If you fail to win the first 3,500 times, will you finally win on the last 625?

He suddenly had a sense of absurdity, as if he had been pushed onto the gambling table by an invisible hand, and he only had one chance to place a bet.

Damn it, I've been a villain with bad luck for nine lifetimes, is it going to happen again in this one?

"May the magic pen protect me! I must win!" Tang Xin gripped the pen in front of her chest with both hands, closed her eyes, and prayed fervently.

She was too young then and prayed to the god of fate all the time.

Little did they know that every gift bestowed by fate had already been secretly priced.

In the final three days, time slipped away in monotonous repetition, bottle after bottle of dark bone marrow was consumed, and bottle after bottle of failed waste fluid was poured away.

"I'm already thinking about how to write my report about repeating a year." Yu Wanyin rubbed her sore neck and said with a wry smile, "The title will be 'On How SS-level Missions Turn People into Fools.' I think it could win a literary award."

No one could laugh; everyone wore a weary expression, their minds and bodies stretched to the limit.

Labor without positive feedback is the most agonizing.

With twenty hours left until graduation.

The last bottle of Abyss Beast Marrow was opened, containing the final 500 milliliters.

Several people took turns taking out a small portion for later use.

When it was Tang Xin's turn, she took a deep breath, her hands trembling with nervousness, and the pen pen pendant she always wore on her chest rose and fell gently with her breath.

She picked up the dropper, drew 3.2 milliliters of dark bone marrow fluid, her wrist hovering in mid-air, and walked back to her position.

One drop after another.

The black liquid fell into the clear blue test solution and quickly dispersed.

Tang Xin picked up the test tube and gently shook it according to the procedure.

The test tube walls began to heat up, and tiny bubbles rose up inside the liquid, then everything returned to calm.

Another ordinary, failed tube of black potion.

"Sigh..." Tang Xin sighed, staring intently at the test tube in her hand, cursing inwardly.

Why can't it be done!

Stars, please try harder! Shine brightly soon!

She was muttering to herself when suddenly—

In the test tube, amidst the deathly black liquid, a tiny point of light suddenly appeared without warning.

Then, the second, the third...

More and more spots of light appeared, as if someone had sprinkled a handful of broken diamonds into ink.

They slowly unspun in the tiny test tube, connecting and flowing, outlining the trajectory of the nebula, and finally transforming into a deep and dazzling Milky Way.

The light was soft and mysterious, illuminating Tang Xin's bewildered face.

"This is--"

Tang Xin's eyes slowly widened, her chest heaving as she inhaled, and she seemed to be frozen in place.

The next second, all the fatigue, grievances, resentment, and ecstasy accumulated over the past month burst out of his throat.

"what--!"

A piercing scream shook the ceiling lights, causing them to flicker violently.

"What the hell!" Yu Wanyin's hand trembled, causing the test tube rack next to her to rattle loudly. She almost dropped what she was holding. "What's wrong with you, Tang Xin!"

The other three were jolted awake from their numb state and turned sharply to look at the source of the sound.

They initially thought it was another operational error and a mental breakdown, but when they saw the test tube in Tang Xin's hand, everyone was stunned and their eyes widened.

That small test tube was no longer filled with lifeless blackness.

Countless points of light emerged from the darkness, attracting each other, converging, and slowly swirling into a dazzling galaxy.

The stars are shining.

Dead silence.

You could hear a pin drop in the laboratory.

Tang Xin turned her head, her gaze blankly sweeping over the equally blank faces before returning to the object in her hand. In an almost sleepwalking tone, she stammered, "..."
"This...this isn't...it's...it's done, it's done!"

"So beautiful..." Yu Wanyin stared at the amazing sight in the test tube.

Li Guanqi was the first to rush over, his movements so fast they created a gust of wind. He grabbed Tang Xin's wrist, his eyes fixed on the nebula in her palm, forgetting even to breathe.

Tang Xin felt the warmth on her wrist, and her cheeks flushed slightly.

He was looking at the reagents, she was looking at him; they were both a sight to behold.

"What's the ratio?" Li Guan asked excitedly, snapping out of his daze.

Tang Xin also came to her senses and pointed to the form on the table, saying, "This."

"Come and take a look, everyone." Li Guanqi beckoned to the other three and said, "Let's each make one according to this ratio to confirm."

Make several more using the same proportions to eliminate any chance of chance.

The group nodded in unison, each preparing one vial according to the proportions given by Tang Xin. Three minutes later, without exception, all four vials of solution produced a blue nebula. Success!
It really did!

Yu Wancha glanced at Li Guanqi in disbelief, his voice filled with shock: "The materials... are correct?!"

"No, it's not certain yet." Xia Sheng remained expressionless. "The efficacy of the drug hasn't been tested yet."

"Oh right, we still need to test the drug's effectiveness." Tang Xin's smile lasted less than two seconds before she became dejected again. "We don't have any numbered civilians, and we don't have any time left."

Angel's Tears is a potion specifically for humans; it won't work on mice, it has to be tested on real people.

However, with intern privileges, it's impossible to access the numbered citizen.

The four of them once again turned their hopeful gaze toward Li Guanqi.

They didn't know the specific reasons, but they were certain that Li Guanqi had some connections with those above.

"There's not enough time." Li Guanqi looked at the reagents, seemingly lost in thought, and said in a low voice, "The dispatching and numbering process is very complicated."

"Then how do we measure it?" Yu Wanyin asked blankly. "We can't just—"

Before she could finish speaking, Li Guanqi slowly picked up the medicine and was about to put it to his lips.

"What are you doing!" Xia Sheng reacted quickly, immediately grabbing Li Guanqi's hand, his voice unusually angry. "Are you crazy! What if there are side effects!" "It's too late." Li Guanqi shook off Xia Sheng's hand. "The inspection above will take time; the formula must be submitted tonight."

During the argument, Tang Xin took a deep breath, picked up the reagent bottle containing a dazzling galaxy on her desk, tilted her head back, and gulped it down in one go.

The movements were extremely fast, without the slightest hesitation.

A soft swallowing sound, clear as a thunderclap in the deathly silent laboratory.

"Tang Xin—! What are you doing!" Yu Wanyin's scream pierced the air.

The argument between Xia Sheng and Li Guanqi came to an abrupt halt. Both of them froze and turned sharply to look at her.

Tang Xin licked her lips, a few drops of blue medicine still on her face. Facing four horrified gazes, she forced a calm smile:

"A prime minister's belly can hold a boat, my belly can hold a starry sky, no problem."

As soon as he finished speaking, Li Guanqi's pupils contracted sharply.

Without saying a word, while Xia Sheng was still dumbfounded, he gripped the reagent tightly and drank it all in one gulp.

"..."

"..."

The movement was so fast that Xia Sheng and Yu Wanyin, the siblings, were completely dumbfounded.

They stared, mouths agape, looking at this and that, their minds blank.

These two... are they crazy?!

"You..." Yu Wancha finally managed to squeeze out two words through gritted teeth.

"Uh—Myna, are you dizzy? I'm so dizzy—" Tang Xin's laughter was a little weak, and an abnormal flush rose on her cheeks, as if she were drunk.

"hot……"

She murmured something, fine beads of sweat appearing on her forehead. Li Guanqi wasn't much better off; a burning, warm current exploded from his stomach, rushing to his limbs as if to melt his bones.

He groaned, his body swayed, and he barely managed to stay upright.

Human affinity is innate and only related to constitution. Changing affinity is essentially a process of marrow cleansing.

Tang Xin lost her balance and leaned on the lab table, her body trembling uncontrollably. Sweat dripped from her forehead, soaking her temples and collar.

"Ugh..."

She let out a suppressed cry of pain and collapsed to the ground.

Li Guanqi tried to help her up, but his vision went black, his legs went weak, and his knees hit the ground hard.

An excruciating burning pain emanated from every cell in the body; beneath the skin, countless red-hot steel needles moved and pierced through, and the bones creaked under the strain.

"Hey! What's wrong!" Yu Wanyin finally reacted and rushed forward to help Tang Xin.

"Don't just stand there!" Xia Sheng growled, grabbing the limp Li Guanqi and lifting him up. "Get him to the infirmary!"

Yu Anyin also came to her senses, picked up Tang Xin who was almost unconscious, and ran with Xia Sheng towards the medical building. Yu Wancha took the culprit's medicine and followed behind the two.

"Two lunatics, did they sleep together like this last time?" Yu Wanyin cursed as she ran, carrying Tang Xin on her back.

The five of them rushed into the medical building, but before they could even call for a doctor.

Upon seeing the two people on her back, Zhang Zhiyu calmly said, "Put them on the bed."

Xia Sheng and Yu Wanyin unloaded the two people on their backs and put them on the bed.

"What's wrong with them?" Zhang Zhiyu walked forward with her instruments and saw two familiar patients, a sense of doubt creeping into her heart.

I've never heard of audiences' dreams causing fever-related aftereffects.

“They drank this.” Yu Wancha stepped forward and showed the reagent in his hand.

Zhang Zhiyu was taken aback: "What is this?"

Even after ten years of medical practice, she had never seen such a dazzling medicine.

"This is..." Yu Wancha was at a loss for words.

“Tears of an Angel,” Xia Sheng replied calmly.

"Tears of an angel?!" Zhang Zhiyu was even more bewildered.

Luli, who was tidying up nearby, was also stunned for a moment. The doctor who was teaching her had mentioned this thing briefly during the nurse training course.

The principle behind Angel's Tears' ability to increase affinity is that it cleanses the body's marrow. The entire process is accompanied by a high fever, which activates cells throughout the body, greatly enhances immunity, and eliminates some minor illnesses.

However, the legendary potion formula was lost during the chaotic political struggles of the Seventh Age.

Now, the same intern suddenly pulls out a tube?
“How is this possible…” Zhang Zhiyu picked up a handheld detector and quickly placed it on Li Guanqi’s chest.

Then, all five of them fixed their eyes on the detector terminal.

The screen lit up, displaying more than a dozen lines of data, and the group of people all looked at the same data.

Human affinity: 4.25

“His basic data hasn’t changed.” Zhang Zhiyu looked at the screen, her brows still furrowed.

As soon as she finished speaking, beep—

A soft sound.

The numbers on the screen jumped up and down without warning.

Human affinity: 4.26

In the infirmary, everyone slowly widened their eyes, their mouths gaped open, and their faces seemed to bloom.

Beep, another beep.

Human affinity: 4.27

“Affinity… is moving…” Yu Wanyin’s voice trembled slightly, her worldview collapsing at this moment.

Yu Wancha leaned forward involuntarily, his eyes fixed on the constantly changing number: "The potion, it's real."

Every few seconds, the affinity score will increase by 0.01.

Don't underestimate this 0.01.

Affinity is a metric that is predetermined at birth. In some people's words, it is fate, an unchangeable fate. No matter how hard people spend their entire lives, they cannot shake this number in the slightest.

But now, this ironclad rule is being ruthlessly crushed.

They won their gamble.

The Tears of Angels have reappeared in the world after more than four hundred years.

Zhang Zhiyu's hand holding the detector trembled slightly. She suddenly turned to look at the three of them: "Where did you get the drug?!"

“We—” Yu Wanyin was about to explain when Xia Sheng suddenly grabbed her hand to stop her, and turned to Zhang Zhiyu and said, “They’ve troubled you. We still have a mission to complete, so we’ll go ahead first.”

Zhang Zhiyu tried to persuade them to stay, but Xia Sheng had already pulled the two of them out of the ward.

"Why don't you speak?" In the corridor, Yu Wanyin had just opened her mouth when Yu Wansha made a shushing gesture.

Yu Wanyin suddenly realized something and nodded slightly.

“Let’s go back to the lab and submit our assignment first,” Xia Sheng said in a low voice. “As for the two in the ward…”

"Let's just burn them to death, they're two idiots."

"Yes!" Yu Wanyin cried out indignantly, "Burn them alive!"

"what--"

"Huff, huff."

"Mmm~~ Ah—!"

That night, strange muffled howls and heavy breathing could be heard continuously from the ward from Li Guanqi and Tang Xin.

The nurse, Luli, standing to the side, showed no sign of nervousness; instead, she displayed a hint of disdain.

Their rationality rates did not decrease; in fact, they increased slightly.

This means that their "Ah—" screams only sounded like they were in pain.

In reality, these two people—

It feels so good.

It's the legendary bittersweet experience.

The Spirit Control Division, Mission Management Department.

Late at night, the office was deathly quiet, with only the sound of keyboards being typed and a soft snore coming from a corner.

Zhang Wei yawned, his eyelids feeling as heavy as lead, just as he was about to end this incredibly boring and exhausting night.

Just as he was about to click "Logout"—

“Beep—beep—beep—!”

A piercing beeping sound accompanied by a red light suddenly rang out without warning.

"Is this urgent?" Zhang Wei frowned, feeling numb, and looked helplessly at the task system.

A line of scarlet, bold, and constantly flashing text was displayed as a prominent notification at the top.

[SS-Rank Mission - Submitted and Completed]

"???"

Zhang Wei was stunned and checked several times to make sure he wasn't seeing things.

"SS-rank? Intern?"

Can these two words be put together?
He couldn't understand it, but he was greatly shocked.

Work processes are work processes, so he gritted his teeth and forwarded the task submission information, along with the forty experimental samples brought by the drone, to the R&D department.

After posting it, he himself felt it was absurd.

The R&D department was completely stunned when they received this urgent work order, but the moment they opened the experimental sample box...
A deep, dreamlike blue light emanated from it, illuminating the astonished faces of the researchers.

"Professor... Professor..."

"Could this nebula really be—?"

Inside the box, forty reagents were neatly arranged, and each one contained more than just a liquid.

They were miniature, flowing blue nebulae.

Professor Chen's impatience vanished completely. He pushed aside the assistant blocking his way and, with an almost reverent gesture, carefully picked up a reagent with his aged hand.

He held it up to the light, and in his cloudy old eyes, the glittering galaxy in his palm was reflected.

Breathing becomes scalding hot at this moment.

"Get your act together, everyone! Nobody's leaving here tonight!"

"Start the A7 spectrometer, mass spectrometer, and nuclear magnetic resonance spectrometer!"

"I want to see the structure of every single atom in this formula before dawn!"

The entire R&D department instantly descended into orderly chaos, with the hum of instruments starting up and staff running around discussing, "Who developed the Angel's Tears formula? How come there isn't even a single related paper?"

Professor Chen, at the center of the storm, gripped the reagent tightly, his gaze fixed on the list of task submitters displayed on the screen beside him.

Li Guanqi, Xia Sheng, Tang Xin, Yu Wanyin, Yu Wancha...

Five interns...?

He muttered to himself, puzzled, and his eyes widened in shock when he saw the column for material consumption.

What does it mean to only want materials and not instruments?

This isn't some research and development reagent; it's just a random lottery game with permutations and combinations!
A new day begins, morning.

On the main training ground of the Youlan Islands, 167 trainees dressed in black uniforms had assembled, forming a dense, dark mass, like a crowded reef before the tide recedes.

After a long three-month trial period, today is the day they receive their results.

Five figures stood out from the crowd.

"Are you alright? Did you get a head injury?" Yu Wanyin looked at the refreshed Tang Xin with a hint of malice in her eyes.

"It's nothing, it's great!" Tang Xin laughed heartily, stretched out a big yawn, and let out a satisfied sigh. "I've been chirping with the myna bird all night, and I feel so much better!"

Li Guanqi, standing next to him, blushed and almost choked on his own saliva.

Upon hearing this, several trainees who had been listening intently cast strange glances at him, and their whispers immediately grew louder.

"Screaming all night? That was intense..."

"No wonder I only get a dozen or so minutes a month, it turns out I spend all my time on this."

"I might as well burn you all to death." Yu Wanyin rolled her eyes in annoyance.

"Has the task been submitted?" Li Guanqi quickly turned his head, forcibly steer the conversation back on track.

Xia Sheng nodded with a serious expression: "I have submitted it, but the status still shows 'Verification in progress'."

“If the verification isn’t completed before the list is announced…” Yu Wancha’s voice also turned somber, “we will have to postpone it.”

"Ah, I don't want to postpone it." Tang Xin's smile faded, and she muttered softly.

On the high platform in front of the training field, two instructors appeared, each holding a form, and the field instantly fell silent.

【Ding--】

A huge light screen unfolded in mid-air, displaying the list of all the trainees, causing an uproar.

"quiet!"

Yan Lang's powerful voice resounded throughout the venue, "Now, the final ranking of the 167 trainees for this period will be announced. Those with scores of 500 or above will be eligible to participate in the graduation ceremony."

As soon as he finished speaking, the data on the screen began to refresh.

Li Guanqi stared intently at his supercomputing ring; the task was still showing as "verification in progress."

He took a deep breath, but his heart was far from calm.

"The rankings will be announced from lowest to highest," the instructor's voice rang out again.

All eyes were focused on the light screen.

The name at the very bottom will appear soon.

It is almost certain that their names will be nailed to the very bottom of the list in an extremely humiliating way.

hum-

Just then, a slight vibration came from the wrists of all five people at the same time.

The five people quickly opened the message and found only one line: "[Your mission status has been updated]".

(End of this chapter)