vncnus Chapter 352 - 339: High-end Laboratory
Chapter 352 - 339: High-end Laboratory
Before long, Ruan Jing replied with a message:
"How did you end up working for Teacher Tang?"
Ruan Jing had arranged for Gu Ming to work under Team Leader Da Fei, intending for the latter to look after Gu Ming a bit.
But two months later, Gu Ming had ended up in a place beyond her reach.
Tang Tianyi was one of the company’s top technical experts, a man with immense potential. The company rated him as S-Level talent, and he was guaranteed to advance to Seven-star.
Barring any major setbacks, he was expected to make a run for Eight-star.
And since Tang Tianyi hadn’t signed a binding, long-term contract with the company, she had no authority over Gu Ming once he started working for him.
Furthermore, the contract Gu Ming had sent her had slightly more lenient terms compared to his previous intern contract.
After thinking it over, she figured that Tang Tianyi had probably pulled some strings to get the HR department to relax the conditions for Gu Ming.
"There are no major issues with this contract. It’s better than your internship one."
Gu Ming replied, "That’s great, then! Thank you, Elder Ruan!"
Gu Ming chatted with her for a little while before ending the conversation.
The system registered this as new progress in Gu Ming’s anti-corruption work, which came as a surprise to him.
「You contacted Elder Ruan and found a clue to Elder Da Fei’s corruption, all thanks to Special Retainer, Elder Tang.」
「Elder Ruan has rewarded you handsomely. She has granted you extra funds to continue your investigation into the Sect’s corruption from under Elder Tang’s wing. As an outsider, you are to break the stalemate and root out the other corrupt members...」
Gu Ming looked at this plot development, then glanced at his own contract.
’Where are the extra funds?’
’Is it the salary from the promotion?’
Gu Ming waited for a while. Seeing no new plot updates from the system, it seemed his guess was correct: the new, higher salary was what the system called "extra funds."
「The next day.」
Gu Ming and Lu You arrived for work on the fifth floor of the company.
The fifth floor was different from the floors he had been on before.
The auras of the Beastmasters working here were clearly much stronger than those on the lower floors. Gu Ming glanced around; on average, everyone was a Four or Five-star Level Beastmaster.
As mere Two-star Beastmasters, Gu Ming and Lu You seemed out of place here, looking more like they were there to deliver a package or service the water cooler.
"You’re here. The office is this way."
The two had just arrived when Teacher Tang appeared at the door, as if he had predicted they would arrive at this exact moment.
Tang Tianyi simply stood there, beckoned to the two of them, then turned and walked straight inside.
The Beastmasters in the cubicles cast curious glances, taking a second look.
However, not many of them started whispering. They just looked, then lowered their heads and went back to their work.
Gu Ming glanced around and saw many Cultivation Manuals sitting on the desks of the various Beastmasters on this floor.
Each of those ancient tomes emanated a dense aura of the Great Dao. Every page was made from scrolls containing the patterns of the Great Dao, and every word was a principle in itself.
Just by walking here, Gu Ming felt as if he were wandering in an ocean of scriptures and Daoist principles.
He thought, ’If my Pet Beasts lived here every day, even Ah Ji, who seems a bit slow and whose intelligence hasn’t fully developed, would surely get an IQ boost from being immersed in this environment.’
Ah Ji: "?"
Gu Ming patted Ah Ji and walked past the cubicles to Teacher Tang’s private office.
As soon as he entered, Gu Ming’s vision opened up. The already large space had expanded by nearly half, and the air was filled with a faint, crisp scent, like a mixture of metal and Spirit Grass.
His gaze swept over metal shelves against the wall, neatly lined with all sorts of instruments.
Some of the larger devices were encased in several stone slabs and embedded with Crystal Stones that glowed with a soft blue light. They hummed faintly, and countless energy collisions flickered within them.
That appeared to be an Energy Simulator for mimicking certain types of Skills.
On a workbench on the other side, glass beakers held transparent liquids of different colors.
Dozens of small, silver needles floated on a nearby rack—obviously precision tools for extracting blood samples from Pet Beasts. Each drop of blood within held the aura of a powerful being, and it had to be Pet Beast Essence Blood from a High-Level Bloodline.
On a long table at the far end of the room stood a half-man-high Purple Copper Pill Furnace.
The flame patterns carved into its body faintly glowed with purple light, and wisps of black gas occasionally flashed past. It was clearly a High Tier instrument for refining Pet Beast Elixirs, possessing a Spatial Attribute and other characteristics he didn’t recognize.
"This will be your office from now on."
Teacher Tang waved his hand, gesturing for them to look around freely, his expression calm.
He had a naturally steady aura. After speaking, he returned to his own workstation and entered a state of focus, saying no more as he concentrated on the task at hand.
Just as Gu Ming found himself inexplicably drawn to the Purple Copper Pill Furnace and stepped closer, Teacher Tang—still looking at the Talisman Paper in his hand—spoke as if he had eyes in the back of his head, his back turned to Gu Ming.
"That’s an Ancient Bronze Pill Furnace. It has Spatial and Mysterious Attributes. Don’t get too close; it will affect your body."
"Also, you’re free to use any of my research equipment when I’m not using it, but you’ll have to pay for your own consumables."
Gu Ming quickly nodded and took a few steps back. ’Of course,’ he thought.
’He couldn’t possibly let Teacher Tang pay out of his own pocket.’
He, along with Lu You and his few Pet Beasts, slowly paced around the two-to-three-hundred-square-meter office.
Gu Ming had never heard of a Pill Furnace with a Mysterious Attribute. Today had truly been an eye-opener.
His gaze lingered on the instruments as if drawn by a magnet. His initial curiosity slowly rippled into astonishment, and he even subconsciously slowed his breathing.
Thanks to his internship experience over the past month or two, he had some familiarity with research equipment. But the sophistication of these instruments and the Energy Fluctuations they emitted far surpassed anything he had seen downstairs.
Take the seemingly ordinary analyzer in the corner. A translucent Profound Celestial Beast Ghost Soul was floating there, silently infusing it with Dark Mana to operate it. The complexity of the Rune Array inlaid on its casing alone made it clear: that was a "Spiritual Ability Analyzer," something only a Six-star Beastmaster and their Pet Beast could operate.
It was said to be able to accurately detect the levels of several types of Spiritual Ability Factors within a Pet Beast.
He was secretly dumbfounded.
’For a Two-star Beastmaster to use this stuff... forget fully utilizing its capabilities, they’d have to be extremely careful with even the most basic operations.’
’The Mana required just to start the instrument would be enough to exhaust an ordinary Pet Beast.’
It’s worth mentioning that operating this kind of high-end research equipment with Arrays isn’t something a Beastmaster can do with a wave of their hand. A Pet Beast must personally infuse it with Mana to start it up. The Beastmaster can only stand aside and use their Divine Sense to guide the Pet Beast in precisely controlling the Mana output. The final result ultimately depends on the purity of the Pet Beast’s Mana and its control over it.
Gu Ming instinctively thought of Cyan Treasure and Ah Kun. ’With their current strength, even if they poured in all their Mana, they probably wouldn’t last a minute before these "energy-devouring beasts" drained them dry. They’d be lucky not to pass out on the spot.’
This just went to show that the equipment here was far too advanced for him at his current level.
However, he quickly took a deep breath, suppressed the shock in his heart, and his eyes brightened once more.
In any case, having the opportunity to come into contact with research equipment of this caliber—just watching and fiddling with it every day—was already an invaluable experience for his future university lab courses.