Throughout human history, one question had never gone out of fashion: would you pay a price in exchange for resources?
Fu Qian usually lumped such deals together as the Sacrifice Stream. A classic example was paying a billion to have Death Snail hunt someone down.
At first glance, the conversation just now had taken a few strange turns.
Professor Fu had merely revealed his true purpose, even openly admitted he planned to use her as material, and hadn't even had time to threaten her before Selena agreed outright.
But that was only at first glance. Anyone with even a little experience of the world could understand why Selena had yielded so quickly.
She hadn't been interested in advancing to the Second Order before. Fu Qian believed her when she said that.
On the one hand, she wasn't particularly ambitious. On the other, Embo was a cautionary tale of excessive ambition, and she had witnessed the whole thing up close.
But people's views were shaped by their circumstances and experience—in other words, by the so-called general climate.
Aside from the things that had let her remain content and free of desire, there was now one decisive new factor in the climate around her—
How many people could get professional technical support from an institution during their advancement?
At first glance, Professor Fu was recklessly endangering lives, forcing through experiments with an extremely high risk of failure.
But opportunity lay behind the risk. For the person involved, wasn't this another kind of fortunate chance?
The man sitting across from her wasn't merely a rising star at the Academy.
Even the areas he was known to have studied were terrifyingly broad, and he seemed to have connections with all the major organizations.
He also clearly had a considerable understanding of the so-called New