Smart Pills

Maeve has long strides and walks with a brisk pace.

Her decisive and sharp style, combined with her well-tailored light gray women's suit, exuded the aura of a powerful career woman. Not to mention her utterly cold and indifferent expression.

She sat down next to Li Yao and went straight to the point. "Boss, I need to talk to you."

Li Yao looked at her. "What is it?"

He actually sensed a hint of urgency and smugness in Maeve! That was strange.

Perhaps Maeve gradually came to understand what emotions are after interacting with humans more.

The complexity of emotions is often a basis for judging the level of intelligence of a living being.

Animals also experience emotional changes driven by instinct, but these emotions lack the complexity and sophistication of other emotions. The highly developed human brain endows us with far more complex thinking and emotions, which are, of course, influenced by endocrine hormones—an influence that most people cannot escape throughout their entire lives.

But having something and not having something are two different things.

The fact that a height has not been explored does not mean that such a height does not exist.

The truly powerful among humankind have all overcome their own limitations and taken control of their own existence.

Maeve has a very high life rank.

But she was completely clueless before.

Only when her own will permeates her body can she truly be considered to have taken control of herself!

Li Yao was quite happy to see the changes in Maeve.

He poured a glass of water and handed it to Maeve: "Take your time and speak slowly."

Maeve took the teacup but didn't drink it. Holding it in her palm, she clearly said, "Boss, I think I've invented Smart Potion."

Li Yao: "???"

"What? Smart Potion?" Seeing Li Yao's puzzled expression, Maeve began to explain from beginning to end.

Maeve: "Ever since I gained a soul, I've been thinking about whether I can create real life. You know, creating animals isn't difficult for me, and even more intelligent animals are no problem, but life involves the shaping of the spirit, which has always been my weakness, so I've been trying lately... with very poor results and very slow progress."

Li Yao listened quietly.

I never expected that Maeve had planned all of this on her own.

Maeve continued, "I originally intended to use the nurturing Blood Pool in the Main Tower to create a uterine cavity and use the method of simulating the birth of life to create a soul born naturally. However, the newborn individuals created could never truly gather spirituality and generate a soul."

Later, I went out into the world and came into contact with all kinds of knowledge.

Inspired by advertisements for various medicines and infant formula—could we also use pharmaceuticals to foster the convergence and development of an individual's soul?

Li Yao was stunned...

Medicine and baby formula ads??? Maeve, are you serious?! But thinking about the slogans in various baby formula ads—things like promoting neuron development and improving IQ... well, maybe they might be useful.

But even a hundred or two hundred years ago, when there wasn't so much milk powder, the academic world still produced so many great figures.

These things may indeed enhance various human abilities to some extent, but innate talent is something else entirely...

These are things we are born with.

Like her background and family history, these are things that can only be envied! But now, looking at Maeve, it seems that she has really developed something that can change one's innate talents?

This is pretty outrageous, isn't it?

Meeting Li Yao's surprised gaze, Maeve continued, "As you know, my life information database contains the genetic information of many magical creatures. Through this genetic information, I can identify the function of which parts of their bodies... Some magical creatures do not possess high-energy intelligence, but due to the influence of psionic environments, parts of their bodies have mutated and acquired psionic characteristics."

So, I began experimenting with concocting drugs capable of altering ordinary organisms. I used an exhaustive method, starting from scratch and experimenting little by little.

Since it all takes place inside the Main Tower of the Queen Mother's body, the damage isn't that great.

Hearing this, Li Yao asked, "So, you really did concoct Smart Potion?"

Maeve shook her head. "Smart Potion are just my name. In the results of numerous trials, most of the formulations were highly toxic, and the creatures that took them all died."

And the ways they died were incredibly varied! Some exploded on the spot after taking the drug, while others became extremely agitated and worked themselves to death, or even committed self-harm to their deaths.

In addition to these, there are also genetic breakdowns, spontaneous combustion, self-ignition, self-freezing, and many other ways to die.

Maeve replied, "After a lot of summarizing, I even figured out some patterns. The mortality rate dropped significantly in the later stages after taking the drug. Until today, Sauron and I went back to the subspace to exchange data and observe the test samples... and found an exception."

It was a beast whose genetic template originated from Earth, a gray wolf.

The other experimental subjects that were given the drug at the same time died one after another at different times, but this one survived!

After observing, Maeve discovered that the gray wolf had grown significantly larger, its eyes held a more intelligent gleam, and its intelligence had increased several times over! After Maeve finished speaking...

Li Yao sat in the back of the sofa, tapping his fingers on the armrest. "... Could it be due to differences in the test samples?"

He immediately realized how stupid the question was.

For organisms on Earth, genetic information is only similar, never identical.

But this theory does not hold true for Maeve.

The Main Tower can perfectly replicate a creature with identical genetic information!

As for controlling experimental environmental variables, that goes without saying!

Therefore, Maeve's conclusion was correct; the potion she used to aid in biological rank advancement had indeed made groundbreaking progress.

Li Yao picked up where the conversation left off and asked, "Did your test subjects exhibit any signs of advanced intelligence?"

Maeve shook her head. "It's still a bit lacking, but it has shown good learning ability. I estimate that its final intelligence can stay at the level of a ten-year-old child."

That's already very high!

Not to mention that Maeve can continue to improve!

Maeve added, "I originally planned to tell you when the potion was at its most effective, but Sauron thinks it's better to tell you now."

Li Yao nodded; it was indeed better to know sooner rather than later.

He followed his senses, turned his head, and found Sauron lying in the shadows, giving it a thumbs-up in appreciation.

After catching a glimpse, Sauron rolled his eyes, then turned over to continue digesting the spirit he and Maeve had just captured in the subspace.

Alas, with the expansion of the warp, it has become increasingly difficult to hunt off-the-shelf spirits.

but,

As the rules changed, the originally murky and dark power began to sink and gradually formed a spirit world similar to the underworld.

Sauron thought! From now on, it would be the ruler of the underworld and death! Ah, thinking about it like that is pretty wonderful~~ Hehehe! Li Yao was already used to Sauron's nature, so he didn't bother to pursue the guy's laziness. He turned back to look at Maeve, rubbing her hands together, and asked with great interest, "Do you still remember those failed potion recipes you mentioned before? I thought they were pretty good!"

That's so domineering!

Maeve scratched her face. "(r ■_■)???"

My Lord of Familiars!

Are you focusing on the wrong thing?

This is the second update. Hope you enjoy reading!