By the time they reached the laboratory, the group had arrived.
"Cousin, the laboratory's not very big. It's not what I imagined," Bai Xiaoling said with a sigh as she looked around the shabby lab.
"This is a public laboratory. What were you expecting? Besides, there's no electricity right now. Even the best equipment would be useless," Guan Miao grumbled inwardly. If it weren't for her cousin, she wouldn't have had to put up with so much. The people she'd brought along were practically a bunch of violent thugs.
An associate professor might be a prized asset at an ordinary university, but at a top university like this, the title didn't mean much. In her department alone, there were two academicians, more than thirty full professors, and over fifty associate professors. Unless she joined a well-known professor's research project, she had no choice but to apply for a public laboratory and make do.
"Where's the divine blood?" Guan Miao asked.
Bai Xiaoling looked completely baffled. Even now, she had no idea what Chen Shouyi wanted her cousin to do. As for the name "divine blood," it hadn't even crossed her mind.
Chen Shouyi took a plastic bag containing a bottle of mineral water from his pocket.
"You put it in this?" Guan Miao stared at the bottle, looking incredulous.
"Where else should I put it?" Chen Shouyi asked in return.
Faced with such a layman, Guan Miao opened her mouth, then found herself at a loss for words.
Chen Shouyi didn't mind. He removed the plastic bag, and a thin layer of divine blood, shimmering with a hazy glow, came into view.
Both women were completely captivated. Only after Chen Shouyi coughed did they snap out of it. Guan Miao tried to cover her embarrassment. "Do you need me to