Brain Institute, laboratory.
Song He stood before the whiteboard, facing a neat group of people in white coats.
The number of white coats had clearly dropped by a large margin. Before the New Year, the entire laboratory had been packed whenever they held meetings. Now that everyone had taken a seat, they filled only half the laboratory.
The reason was simple: the three Chenghuang Institutes had entered trial operation, and quite a few people had chosen to join the institutes!
Compared with working themselves to the bone alongside Song He, the institutes did not require them to work through the night. They offered greater freedom, allowed them to work on projects they wanted to do, and came with less daily pressure. In short, there was only one word for it: comfortable!
Lu Chengen was advanced in years and truly could not withstand the intensity of working through night after night. He had gone to oversee the institute's operations, and had recently been busy recruiting researchers from all over the country and gathering the finest talent to strengthen the institute's ranks.
In any case, Song He was loaded, so Lu Chengen's recruitment work was not difficult. He could simply throw money at people until they came over. If anyone was hesitant, he just offered more money. The money solution never failed.
Antonio had called over several of his former Excellent Students to serve as his assistants and had thrown himself completely into his work, launching a massive archaea evolution project.
Antonio's requested research funding was enormous, to the point that Song He suspected it was a little trick of his—a deliberate attempt to ask for so much money that Song He would be frightened into dismissing him early.
But Antonio had clearly underestimated Song He's wealth. His entire funding request was