Blue-Chip Stock

After a period of silence, Zhao Yuting spoke again, "It won't be long before Han Xu becomes Bai Xiaowen's loyal follower... no, I reckon he already is. Liu Fei, you're so incompetent, you've disappointed me so much. I seriously doubt whether investing so many Psionic Points in you was even worthwhile."

Liu Fei quickly said, "How could that be! Yuting, Bai Xiaowen just got lucky this time, but his good days won't last long. Daring to snatch food from Qi Ruifeng's mouth and not giving Qi Ruifeng any face... The University Team is in a very dangerous position in this qualifying round, and we will inevitably encounter resistance from Jiangnan University."

Zhao Yuting: "And then? You're happy when the University Team fails to qualify?"

Liu Fei quickly said, "Of course that's not what I meant... I just think that the University Team's failure to qualify must be Bai Xiaowen's fault. Who told him to offend Qi Ruifeng... I can contact some of the veteran players to pressure Bai Xiaowen and force him to leave the University Team..."

Zhao Yuting seemed unwilling to discuss the topic further, and her voice became rather cold. "It seems you haven't learned anything since our last conversation. Is that all there is to your vision? Forget it, I think we shouldn't contact each other anymore."

Liu Fei quickly changed his tune. "Yuting, give me another chance. I promise I'll perform exceptionally well in the competition, save the University Team's fate, and make everyone look at me with new eyes!"

Hearing this, Li Shuyi covered her mouth and chuckled, struggling to keep quiet.

Suddenly, a voice came from behind. "Hey, Lao Bai! Li, the beautiful lady! Are you admiring the scenery here?"

It's Chen Guowei.

Bai Xiaowen sighed, "It's time to give this guy some special training..."

On the other side of the artificial rockery, hurried footsteps sounded. Liu Fei and Zhao Yuting turned around and faced Bai Xiaowen.

The scene became quite awkward.

Bai Xiaowen reacted quickly, letting out an awkward laugh, "Just passing by, just passing by. You guys continue, continue."

Zhao Yuting's face was cold as she sneered, "What, Captain Bai has a hobby of eavesdropping on other people's conversations?"

Bai Xiaowen didn't intend to confront Zhao Yuting directly, after all, eavesdropping wasn't something to be proud of.

However, Li Shuyi didn't care about all that and said coldly, "You're allowed to gossip about others behind their backs, but we're not allowed to listen? Xiao Wen didn't want to hear it in the first place; you were the one who mentioned his name first. Do you understand?"

Seeing that the two were about to start arguing, Bai Xiaowen could only raise her hand to stop them and then try to calm things down. "Team Leader Zhao, I admit I was partly at fault today, but what you're saying about me is true. I think we should just let it go and pretend it never happened."

Zhao Yuting snorted and glared at Bai Xiaowen: "Don't think you're so great just because you're Hero Class. There are plenty of people stronger than you! Liu Fei, let's go!"

Zhao Yuting turned and left, with Liu Fei following closely behind.

"Where is Chen Guowei...?"

Bai Xiaowen looked around for Chen Guowei, but the kid, sensing the situation was bad, had already run away. From a distance, Bai Xiaowen shouted, "Old Bai, I didn't mean it... Um, calm down, I'll buy you two chicken legs as an apology later!"

Bai Xiaowen could only shrug.

The two walked all the way to the underground parking garage, still discussing what they had just overheard.

"That Zhao Yuting is really annoying."

Li Shuyi said with dissatisfaction.

Bai Xiaowen laughed and said, "It's alright. I think she just has a bad temper; she's probably spoiled. Just now, Liu Fei said he was going to force me out of office, and she clearly expressed her opposition and reprimanded Liu Fei."

"That's true. But I feel annoyed whenever I see her," Li Shuyi said.

"She's the team leader, and you're a key player, so you're bound to cross paths in the future. Besides, Teacher Yan Xiaoxin said that she has connections with the Titan Guild, so this team leader position probably won't be easily taken away. So just bear with it and ignore her," Bai Xiaowen advised.

Although Li Shuyi was from a wealthy family, she wasn't one to make trouble unnecessarily. Hearing Bai Xiaowen's words, she let it go and instead said, "That Liu Fei is really infatuated. Even when Zhao Yuting scolded him like that, he didn't dare to say a word in rebuttal."

"Haha... Shu Yi, you've misunderstood. Liu Fei may not actually like Zhao Yuting, or be infatuated with her? What makes you say that?"

"No? But look at him, he's practically Zhao Yuting's shadow, like a lapdog."

"Liu Fei's attitude towards Zhao Yuting was less a display of affection and more a deliberate attempt to curry favor, bordering on obsequiousness. His reasons for approaching Zhao Yuting, besides Zhao Yuting beauty, were likely largely due to Zhao Yuting background..."

Bai Xiaowen paused, then continued, "I just heard that Zhao Yuting seems to have invested a lot of Psionic Points in Liu Fei... If he truly admires Zhao Yuting, even out of male pride, he probably wouldn't accept Zhao Yuting financial support unilaterally."

Li Shuyi thought it over carefully and nodded, "That makes sense. However, since Zhao Yuting looks down on Liu Fei so much, she should give up on him, right?"

"Not necessarily..." Bai Xiaowen laughed. "For Zhao Yuting, Liu Fei is like a stock. She's already invested so much capital. How can she be satisfied if she doesn't reap the rewards? Giving up is like cutting her losses. The loss of capital is secondary for Zhao Yuting; what she can't accept is the failure of her investment."

Li Shuyi said, "So, what level does Liu Fei need to go to prove that he is... uh, a blue-chip stock?"

Bai Xiaowen shrugged and pointed to her nose. "Didn't you catch what we just said...? The contrast is right here."

Li Shuyi chuckled, "Zhao Yuting is probably going to lose everything."

After driving for a while, the two arrived at the Super God Potion Shop and walked into its magnificent sales hall.

Bai Xiaowen first checked the hall. His secondary profession, Alchemist, had unknowingly reached level 2. Moreover, his extensive memory and broad vision were not much different from those of a typical Intermediate Alchemist (levels 4-6).

Bai Xiaowen had also tried making high-level Enhancement Potion, and his success rate was comparable to that of Advanced Alchemist like Sun Hecheng. Therefore, in terms of pharmaceutical skills, Bai Xiaowen was already quite strong.

The problem is that this is a data-driven world, and Alchemist's level is built up by proficiency.

Bai Xiaowen usually has very limited time to practice pharmaceutical manufacturing; otherwise, he would have been Intermediate Alchemist long ago.

Bai Xiaowen could roughly judge the purity of the Enhancement Potion displayed in the hall based on his experience alone. He didn't need to pay special attention to those potions that were clearly below 90% purity; he simply ignored them.

Bai Xiaowen would only stop to look at potions of "perfect" quality, and at the same time use his Insight Talent to carefully determine their purity.