"Ah... I never thought that little leftover bastard Alu'er would be carrying something like this... this..." Wang Qi swallowed hard. "Damn, if I remembered right, completing this quest chain should earn two Nobel Prizes, right? Two, right? It should be two, right? Could I go back to Divine Land and apply for an Auspicious Ceremony...?"
Wang Qi had never studied prions. He lacked even the most basic "understanding" of them. What he knew was no more than what could be found in a high school biology textbook or an ordinary popular science book.
But even so, he knew that this historically significant achievement had actually won the Nobel Prize twice.
In 1955, the American explorer and physician Gajdusek received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for discovering Kuru disease.
In 1997, the American biologist Prusiner received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
And hadn't he, Wang Qi, done Gajdusek's work, more or less?
Hadn't he been the one to bring down the original sample?
Though several low-impact papers could not compare to one high-impact paper, certain awards really were more important than papers and could serve as crucial grounds for requesting funding.
If one achievement could have been split into two and won two awards, but ultimately received only one, that would be a waste.
So, if Chen Feng and Ai Qinglan, husband and wife, received an Auspicious Ceremony solely because of this discovery, that would be tantamount to wasting one opportunity to win an award.
That meant much less funding could be squeezed out of the Immortal Alliance.
—So, should he return to Divine Land now...
"Calm down, calm down, take it easy. The Immortal Alliance isn't in the business of drawing cakes to satisfy hunger; it doesn't have as much funding as one asks for... There's