Still damp all over and carrying a Storage Box filled with new kinds of Gods and materials, Qin Siyang returned to the Miracle Building in Area No. 7 to find Li Tianming.
Li Tianming was conducting experiments in the laboratory. When he saw Qin Siyang, he wrinkled his nose and fanned the air. "Why do you smell so strange?"
"I took a trip to the Great River outside the Safe Zone. Maybe you've never smelled the mud on the riverbed before." Qin Siyang sprawled on the sofa, legs spread wide. "The trip wasn't wasted. I got plenty of samples of new kinds of Gods."
Clatter-
Qin Siyang dumped a heap of shells, bones, and crystals, still stained with wet blood, onto the lab bench.
"Here's today's haul. Materials from a few medium-sized aquatic Gods, plus a few buckets of glowing mud. See if you can use any of it."
"Oh, leave it there."
Li Tianming kept his head down over his research, showing little interest in the new materials.
Qin Siyang asked, "I thought you'd be selecting and training elite Sequence Ability Users in the other areas. I didn't expect you to still be in Area No. 7. Didn't Old Qian give you and Zhu Haifeng an assignment? Why does it feel like neither of you is putting much effort into it?"
"It's not that we don't want to put in the effort. This job is just surprisingly hassle-free."
"How is it hassle-free? Good abilities don't necessarily come with good brains, so all those so-called elites have to be sent to school to learn the basics? That makes sense, I suppose. We've seen plenty of students at Southern Glory who weren't all that bright, haven't we?"
"Quite the opposite." Li Tianming looked up at Qin Siyang. "These people are so