Chapter 60
"..."
The team leader seemed to choke, and remained silent for a moment.
Qin Su did not urge him, and calmly met the eyes of the person in charge.
Jiang Cheng stood by, keeping his eyes downcast and remaining silent.
After careful consideration, the person in charge asked, "You mean something like today's peripheral smart devices, controlled by voice?"
Qin Su: "... Hmm"
His true thoughts were actually controlled by his brain activity, which the current level of technology in the Real World couldn't achieve. He suspected that if he made such a request, the person in charge would assassinate him with a look.
All they need to do is achieve the level of 'artificial intelligence,' then they can return to the Comic World, attach themselves to their bodies, and control them with 'Optical Brains.'
In other words, how can it not be considered 'Pheromones moving at will', exploiting bugs to achieve the same level of control over 'Pheromones' as Alphas and Omegas in the Comic World?
What?
What if the 'Optical Brain' can't connect?
Impossible, there's no need to worry at all, his 'Optical Brain' is 777.
Facing 777, he only needs to use a basic attack and say, "Oh, I see, you're no good." 777's ability to unleash its ultimate move proves it's the most powerful.
"Yes, we can." The person in charge now finally understood why, when he was asked to build the team before, an additional team focusing on intelligent research and development was added.
Jiang Cheng: "..."
That's true.
Hearing the answer he wanted, Qin God Su did not completely relax. The person in charge said what he said, but his expression was somewhat hesitant, obviously there was still something he hadn't finished saying. Qin Su waited quietly.
"But..." Under Qin Su's indifferent gaze, the person in charge added, "Based on our observations over the past few hours, we've observed one of the animals..."
At this point, recalling Qin Su telling them those were 'insects,' the person in charge changed their story: 'The insects emit extracts with strange effects. The effects decrease as the size of the animal increases.'
"And the one that just died was an insect; we didn't detect any active substances emanating from its 'Glands'."
The person in charge refers to the Shield Mantis that Qin Su killed with a single shot.
Qin Su nodded. "I understand."
The insects brought back were too small. Even if the parts that emitted Pheromones were extracted from them and made into Glands, the concentration of the pheromones was too low, so the effect on large animals was not ideal.
In each type of insect, he needs to obtain the Gland tissue, which is the 'leader' among them, in order to obtain a special extract for larger animals.
While compiling the list of 'magical attack' insects, based on the various data and observations he collected, Qin Su discovered their pattern of using 'Pheromones' to control and dominate the weaker ones.
It's very similar to the pattern in Comic Worlds where people Pheromone higher Pheromone levels suppress those with lower Pheromone levels.
Qin Su could fully understand and accept this result.
Before returning to the Real World, Qin Su remembered that he only had minutes of Life Points.
In just 16 days.
Even if he encountered the 'leader', his remaining Life Points would be far from enough to bring it back.
With this in mind, Qin Su asked, "If we know exactly where each type of insect emits its special substance, and we cut off that part and use the most advanced refrigeration technology to achieve a freshness of over 95%, can we extract the same special substance as when the insect was alive?"
Qin Su's words made the person in charge's eyes light up. "Please wait a moment!"
He hadn't really thought of this angle.
After hastily leaving out a sentence, the person in charge turned around, disinfected himself, changed into a new protective suit, and rushed into the laboratory.
Qin Su did not stop them. After the person in charge left, he turned to Jiang Cheng and asked, "Is there a problem with the medicine?"
Jiang Cheng had been assigned to other tasks and had only been there a short time.
"These are some of the analyzed ingredients. The parts in blue are plant or animal components or extracts that they haven't seen before. Without the correct formula and equivalent ingredients, it's very difficult to replicate them."
Qin Su took the things Jiang Cheng handed him and quickly glanced through them.
As he had predicted, based on his understanding of the Comic World, ordinary citizens did not need these special drugs developed specifically to combat the various damages caused by the Zerg, which meant that the raw materials for these drugs were purchased by the military of various political systems on different planets.
In a sense, these special raw materials are subject to regulation.
He's nothing like the original inhabitants of the Comic World imagine, with a massive army behind him. He doesn't have Spaceship that allows him to freely Hyperspace Jump between planets; instead, he's spending a lot of gold and Life Points to land on other planets to buy raw materials, with investments far exceeding returns.
Not worth it.
'Scooping up trash' can provide him with the medicine he needs for an injury.
After careful consideration, Qin Su handed the paper back to Jiang Cheng, saying, "Pause."
Jiang Cheng took it and nodded. "Okay."
The people analyzing the drug's components were originally a small team drawn from several teams developing the Zombie Vaccine; now that things have stopped here, they've returned to their original teams.
Buzz...
Qin Su's phone vibrated. He unlocked it and saw a message from his teacher.
With his phone hanging down at his side, Qin Su said to Jiang Cheng, who was still waiting, "I have something to attend to and need to leave early. I'll send you a document to your email later so you can communicate with them."
Jiang Cheng replied, "Okay."
Qin Su: "Thank you for your hard work, goodbye."
Jiang Cheng: "You're too kind, goodbye."
Qin Su bid farewell to Jiang Cheng and left quickly.
On the taxi ride back to school, Qin Su combined the pictures of the insects with 'magical attacks' that he had brought back with the information he had just received, and started typing on his phone screen.
After finishing editing, Qin Su sent the document to Jiang Cheng.
Among the insects possessing 'magical attacks', some insects' 'Pheromones' are only effective on their own kind, some are effective on one or more other insects, some are useful to humans, and some are useful to both a few insects and humans.
Qin Su had already categorized them, and now he was simply asking Jiang Cheng to fill out a detailed form based on the concentration of the insect 'Pheromones' he had brought back and the locations on his body.
Based on this information, it is possible that the team responsible for the 'Zerg Research Course' has determined that the 'refrigeration' method does not affect the 'Gland freshness' and 'Pheromone concentration'.
From now on, he only needs to cut off the Pheromone- emitting Glands of each type of insect to reduce the Transport costs that cost him his own Life Points.
Half an hour later, Jiang Cheng received a document from Qin Su. He opened it and saw... In his opinion, more than 90% of the insects were grotesque in their own way, with their necks tucked back, displaying the classic 'subway, old man, looking at his phone' expression.
Then he thought of the generous subsidy he had received this month, and Jiang Cheng felt that the sun had come out and the rain had stopped, and he was really doing great.
I sincerely hope that if there were more money, there would be more of this kind of thing.
When the Ghosts were sent back to the villa and saw the reward that Jiang Cheng had prepared, their minds were filled with thoughts of 'When will it be their turn to have such a good thing again?'
What weird world dungeon NPCs can compare to fighting the Qin Family members?
Qin Su is indeed a bit fierce, but he lives in a large villa and receives extra rewards every time he returns from a business trip. He is not in danger of being wiped out.
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Comic World.
Without angel investors, Qin Su, who had squandered his Life Points to less than a month, had to give up his "garbage scavenging" idea.
They've kept quiet for now.
While the 'trash' they collected were 'reborn through recycling', Qin Su, with a crazy desire to 'make a living', diligently cosplayed as an omnipotent and omniscient 'big boss' in the Comic World.
Unfortunately, after several days of classes, Qin Su had no opportunity to demonstrate his abilities.
The students simply asked him questions, and he could only offer pale, textual answers.
It wasn't exciting at all, it didn't create any big scenes, and there were far fewer comments on the screen.
Although the Native Favorability continued to increase, they were far from enough to satisfy Qin Su's need to return to his old business of 'garbage collection'.
Qin Su was in a hurry.
However, the time is not right yet; no matter how urgent the situation, we must proceed step by step.
Occasionally, when faced with a question outside his area of knowledge, Qin Su would remain expressionless and exchange glances with his classmate, seemingly waiting for the classmate to finish explaining the question, but in reality, he would be asking the system through his Optical Brain skin, which was visible only to himself.
777 naturally knows the answers to questions that even students can ask.
Only when knowledge is stored in one's own mind, ensuring that one's mind is healthy and one does not suffer from amnesia, can knowledge truly belong to oneself and only then can Qin Su feel at ease and secure.
To avoid becoming dependent on the system, Qin Su would punish himself by secretly learning about any relevant information he could find in the Comic World whenever he encountered a knowledge gap and sought help from the system.
Over time, Qin Su learned a great deal about every nook and cranny of the Comic World.
Several days passed, and Qin Su's Life Points only increased to 45 days. He was anxious inside but had to maintain an indifferent expression on his face. Finally, he looked forward to the basic physical training course that would give him, as the 'Class Monitor', room to perform.
Based on the experiences of previous freshmen, after the Class Monitor is selected, in order to ensure that everyone can cooperate with each other under the Class Monitor's command during actual combat, and to cultivate the level of tacit understanding among the team members during actual combat.
In the basic physical training course, the instructor will briefly go through the exercises they want to cover in the first hour of the course.
For the next three hours, the situation was basically under the control of the squad Class Monitor.
Rounding up or down, this is an opportunity for Class Monitor to showcase their abilities and demonstrate their command and leadership skills to their classmates and teachers.
This is extremely tempting for Alpha Class Monitor who have good Pheromone levels and, influenced by Pheromones, instinctively expect and admire the act of giving orders.
Besides He Wenyuan, who had already made up his mind to do whatever Qin Su did and had the people of Class 7 do the same thing, and who didn't want to bother with the irrelevant people in Class 7, almost every class Class Monitor was looking forward to the basic physical training course.
Upon arriving at the training ground, the Class Monitor looked at their respective subject teachers with suppressed excitement, their expressions revealing an eagerness to take their place.
"Charles, stop looking at me like that. It won't soften my heart if you keep doing it. Just wait another hour."
"With the teacher still here, Su Zhanghua, how could you be thinking of usurping the throne? You're really breaking my heart."
"Want to take the teacher's position? Beg me, and I'll 'give you the authority' ahead of time."
Please!
"Dream on."
"That's heartbreaking, teacher. How could you resort to entrapment?"
"What kind of 'entrapment' is that? It sounds awful. This shows that experience matters."
Such remarks, delivered in a teasing tone, rang out after the students from each class had assembled.
The sound wasn't too loud or too soft, and the classes weren't standing too far apart when they assembled, so they could probably hear each other.
The teachers' teasing remarks about the Class Monitors elicited bursts of good-natured laughter from the students.
The training ground was instantly filled with a joyful atmosphere.
In this atmosphere, only two classes did not participate: Class 6 and Class 7.
However, the atmosphere in the two classes was completely different.
(Class 7 were shocked to learn that half of them had been bribed and tricked by He Wenyuan, which led to He Wenyuan becoming the Class Monitor. From the subject teachers to the students, everyone looked constipated.
The atmosphere was completely lifeless; from the teachers to the students, apart from He Wenyuan, no one looked relaxed.
He Wenyuan seemed oblivious to the eerie atmosphere around him, standing on the far right of the first row, occasionally glancing at He Muzhi Class 6) next to him, appearing to be in a good mood.
He earned his position Class Monitor through his own abilities, so why should he let the displeasure of these idiots affect his mood?
(Class 6 was silent, the atmosphere was not oppressive, but rather revealed positive emotions such as excitement that were almost impossible to suppress.
[With such a Class Monitor, I think the people in Class 7 will get their comeuppance sooner or later.]
[What kind of retribution? Let's not go into such harsh terms. They didn't expect it to turn out like this.]
[Class 7) was lifeless, while the other classes were all having fun, perfectly illustrating that human joys and sorrows are not shared.]
[He Wenyuan's expression, is he an NPD personality?]
[No prize quiz: What will Su Bao do with everyone in an hour?]
Running? Free fighting? Strength training?
(Class 6 had been filled with anticipation ever since they entered the training ground and saw Qin Su appear. They were really curious about what Qin Su would take them to do today.
Curiosity drove her to the point where she didn't want to laugh like the students in other classes; she wanted to help Qin Su 'usurp the throne' and reveal the mystery of what she was curious about ahead of time.
Unfortunately, Qin Su deliberately stood at the very back of their line this time, so they didn't dare turn their heads and couldn't see the expression on Qin Su's face.
They were all itching to get started.
Before changing into his Training Uniform and lining up, Qin Su's expression was indifferent, revealing neither joy nor anger, but that was before the course officially began.
Now that it's started, what if... Qin Su is just as excited as they are?
The students couldn't see it, but Kaixier was at the very front facing the group of students, could see it clearly.
She stared openly at Qin Su's face, looking up and down, left and right, but she couldn't see the expression she wanted to see on Qin Su's face.
"..."
Qin Su stared blankly ahead, seemingly oblivious to his teacher's expression, but in reality, it was impossible for him not to notice the teacher's intense gaze.
After staring at him for a while, Kaixier sighed and said sincerely to Qin Su, "Qin Su, why don't you learn from the other class Class Monitors?"
Qin Su replied casually, with a nonchalant tone, "... Okay."
In his mind: 'Actually, the teachers who don't need to learn are already plotting to 'usurp power' even earlier than the rest of us.'
No one knew that beneath his seemingly indifferent and detached exterior lay a heart that yearned for competition and scramble.
"Tsk, that's a really lame joke," Kaixier said with a look of regret.
Qin Su's dark eyes, devoid of any emotion, held no trace of desire for power; they were completely indifferent, clearly just going through the motions, not genuinely sincere.
Judging from Qin Su 'Qin Su calm and even voice, the other students nodded in agreement with their teacher.
Qin Su: "..."
He's incredibly serious!
Unable to tell the truth, Qin Su simply remained silent.
To Kaixier, Qin Su's silence was tantamount to acquiescence.
Kaixier couldn't suppress the smile that appeared on her face as she thought about what she was going to do later.
Qin Su: "..."
When he's doing something bad and doesn't need to pretend, the corners of his mouth will naturally curve upwards in that same way.
"Ahem..." Under the inquiring and questioning gazes of her classmates, Kaixier rubbed the corners of her mouth with both hands.
Regaining her composure, Kaixier looked at the students with a serious expression and said sternly, "My dear students, in order to better cultivate the rapport among you, as your teacher, I have made a great decision..."
"Qin Su, from now on, during the basic physical training courses, your mornings will belong to me, and your afternoons will belong to you!"
(Class 6 students. "!"
After a brief moment of shock, the students in Class 6) beamed with joy.
"Oh, Professor Kaixier, you're so kind!"
"What a brilliant decision! No arguments allowed!"
"When it comes to teachers, you're the best!"
"Calm down, calm down, it's standard procedure, nothing to mention." Despite saying this, Kaixier couldn't hide the smile on her face.
If it were someone else, she would obediently follow the school rules and have them practice for an hour in the afternoon.
If Qin Su were the Class Monitor... I'd love to give him all my mornings.
She's a teacher who teaches the basics; she's basically covered everything she could in the first month, and the rest is just reinforcement.
It would be better to hand it over to Qin Su, the one who will truly fight alongside his classmates in the future, the one whose life they entrust to his command.
"...!"
Qin Su anticipated that Professor Kaixier would hand over 'command' to him an hour later, in accordance with the rules.
Who knew that Kaixier wouldn't play by the rules?
The surprise came unexpectedly, Qin Su quickly composed himself while his classmates cheered for Teacher Kaixier.
The students are so happy now... Qin Su silently lit a candle for them in his heart.
I hope they can still smile in the future.
Once everyone had calmed down and turned to look at him, Qin God Su remained expressionless. Under their expectant gazes, he said calmly, "Okay."
"Come on," Kaixier said, taking a step to the left and pointing to where she had been standing. "The teacher will not interfere."
Thank you, teacher.
Due to his public persona, Qin Su spoke in a nonchalant tone, but his true feelings were genuine.
Although they were in the same training field, Kaixier's voice was quite loud; almost all the teachers and students in the training field could hear it.
The other teachers exchanged glances as they watched Kaixier act as if she were doing nothing.
Qin Su's excellence is undeniable, Kaixier's actions are perfectly justified; the students in her class clearly look at Qin Su with admiration.
If I were to let go of the responsibility earlier, would my students be able to learn anything from Qin Su?
With this expectation in mind, the other instructors at the training ground on the same day made the same decision as Kaixier.
A cheer soon erupted in the vast training field.
The teacher in Class 7) said the same thing, but her tone wasn't as expectant as the other teachers.
Qin Su waited quietly for the cheers to subside. Once the surroundings returned to a certain level of quiet, Qin Su glanced expressionlessly at all the students in Class 6).
The students were tense and anxiously waiting when Qin Su's voice rang out. "Run three kilometers as fast as you can, then gather here."
Today was the first time he had conducted 'targeted training' for the students. As planned, Qin Su did not set a time limit, giving the students a day to adapt.
As soon as he finished speaking, Qin Su, the Class Monitor, took the lead and walked towards the track area, and the rest of Class 6) quickly followed.
He Wenyuan heard this, clicked his tongue, and thought there was nothing special about it. He turned to the people in Class 7 and said the same thing, not even bothering to change the words.
In this way, if any problems arise during training, he can simply follow the same method, and everyone should blame Qin Su, not him.
While the other class Class Monitor were still hesitating, seeing that the students in Class 7) had caught up with the students in Class 6), they stopped hesitating and tentatively ordered their own students to follow.
'Qin Su must have had his reasons for doing that!'
The students on the training field followed behind Class 6 in a large procession, all running, and all of them were running 3,000 meters.
[A group of brilliant scholars]
[With the expert right here, are you going to learn from them or not?]
[... That's only human nature!]
Maintaining his persona, seemingly relaxed but actually striving to be at the forefront, Qin Su caught sight of this scene at the bend. "...?"
Are you crazy?
Learning everything will only harm them!