Wang Qiang's breathing quickened, and his heart pounded.
His professional instincts told him he might have discovered a mountain of gold! No, a diamond mine!
"Quick! Xiao Liu! Bring over the portable water quality tester from the car! Bring the whole kit!" Wang Qiang roared at the technical director, who was drinking water behind him.
A few minutes later, several technicians scrambled to set up the equipment and hauled a bucket of water straight up from beside the covered walkway.
"Beep-testing initiated."
The employees around them put down their chopsticks, baffled by their boss's sudden madness. Only Wang Qiang stared fixedly at the instrument's screen, his palms slick with sweat.
Three minutes later.
As technical director Xiao Liu read the long printout, his hands began trembling violently, and his lips quivered as though he were running naked through a freezing wind.
"M-Mr. Wang..."
"Cut the crap! Read the results!" Wang Qiang growled.
"TDS, total dissolved solids: 15... This is practically purer than purified water!"
"Dissolved oxygen: 12 mg/L... How is that possible? An ordinary water source would be doing well to reach 7!"
"And this is the most outrageous part..." Xiao Liu swallowed, his voice rising almost to a shriek. "The active trace elements... The instrument can only give us a rough reading, but their activity level is a full hundred times higher than the Moya Spring source on Changbai Mountain that our group is so proud of!"
"A hundred times?!"
Wang Qiang snatched the printout, his eyes instantly turning bloodshot.
He might not understand those complex chemical formulas, but he understood what that multiplier meant.
It meant that if they bottled this water and put it on the market with a "super-active water" label, even charging fifty yuan a bottle would be an act of charity!
This wasn't water-it