The Opportunity Has Come

"Brother, you're awake! Come and eat some black-boned chicken!"

As Zhang Xuezhou opened his eyes, Zhang Manqian's voice came through the monitor.

This made Zhang Xuezhou shake his head vigorously.

A strange sense of familiarity washed over him; Zhang Xuezhou vaguely remembered experiencing the exact same scene.

He gave a brief reply, then looked at his hands and recalled Yao Yuanguang's physiognomy demonstration.

In the realm of physiognomy's predictions of the future, he seems to have had such an experience.

"Twenty years! My safe period is at least twenty years!"

If everything proves true, Zhang Xuezhou will see his own future unfolding in the river of time.

This extends all the way to the future problems Nezha might encounter.

If no unforeseen circumstances arise in the future, he will not die within the next twenty years.

Although Zhang Xuezhou shouldn't recklessly court death, such as jumping off a 100-meter-high platform for no reason, this likely means that Zhang Xuezhou and the extraterrestrial demons haven't had any life-threatening conflicts in the past twenty years.

As the reverse reasoning came to mind, Zhang Xuezhou felt a great sense of relief and his whole body relaxed.

This was indeed good news for Zhang Xuezhou, and perhaps his biggest achievement in recent days.

The short twelve days felt incredibly long to Zhang Xuezhou, a journey that felt like a brush with death.

Only after returning to reality and understanding the matter of the extraterrestrial demons did Zhang Xuezhou feel completely at ease.

He eagerly responded to Zhang Manqian's call again, and then slipped out of the room.

"I've cooked honey-glazed chicken, sweet and sour chicken, and hand-shredded chicken three times over, and even used instruments to analyze and test them. Finally, I've discovered the secrets to cooking black-striped chicken!"

Zhang Manqian not only began researching basic blood serum, but also studied Wushao chicken using various instruments, eventually solving the problem of its overly tough and chewy meat.

If they can promote the recipes, they might even be able to sell them and make a little money.

It's not uncommon for researchers to be part-time cooks, but it's extremely rare for a chef to be a researcher, and almost no chefs own a laboratory.

The question of how to cook Wushao chicken was not solved by chefs, but rather by researchers like Zhang Manqian.

Zhang Xuezhou picked up the chicken and felt that the taste was completely different from before.

Although he focuses more on the genetic benefits of black-boned chicken, Zhang Xuezhou thinks it's a very good thing if it can satisfy some of his cravings.

"I've finished writing our lab's first paper!" Zhang Manqian exclaimed happily. "I sent it out yesterday, and it should be published in a journal. Who knows, it might even help promote the development of the Wushao chicken industry in the future!"

"Great!"

Zhang Xuezhou gave a thumbs-up.

He pondered his paper, "An Overview of the Social Psychology of the Tuer People in the Thousand Islands Alliance," and felt that it should have passed muster by now. With Wang Haoran's recommendation, it was highly likely that he would become a lecturer.

One benefit of becoming a lecturer is that his speech becomes more authoritative, at least when he lectures on psychology, rather than being perceived as a student raising his hand to speak.

This reflects social status and also demonstrates an initial degree of influence.

In other words, based on this paper, he could very well become the kind of 'expert' that many people talk about.

Even if what he says is absurd, some people will still choose to believe it.

This demonstrates the power of discourse, rather than simply having words that have no influence.

This prompted Zhang Xuezhou to send a message to Professor Wang Haoran before he engaged in a lively chat with Zhang Manqian.

Unless something special happens, their lives are quite ordinary, mostly consisting of eating and drinking, researching, and exercising, living a life not much different from most researchers.

Are you expanding your staff in our lab?

While eating, Zhang Manqian also consulted Zhang Xuezhou on some matters, which Zhang Xuezhou pondered before waving his hand.

"Right now, regardless of the skill level of the personnel assigned to us, we can't possibly absorb them all ourselves. Any personnel we train will inevitably be poached!"

Zhang Xuezhou pointed to the plaque above the laboratory, then pointed to himself.

"We're a privately owned lab, and we're using the name of the North Rehe Research Institute, which might lead to misunderstandings when recruiting, and could even cause disputes in the future," Zhang Xuezhou mentioned the difficulties of recruitment before adding, "You don't need to feel any pressure. After all, our lab isn't focused on output; it's just showing people that we have the resources. If the selling price isn't right, we'll do our own research and development, and even become competitors to these labs!"

Zhang Xuezhou didn't have high expectations for his own laboratory; he only used it as a means of control and didn't intend to produce anything.

If it is possible to mobilize all the necessary resources through cooperation, he still prefers to cooperate rather than producing whatever is needed on his own.

"We will focus more on theoretical research," Zhang Xuezhou said. "If there is indeed demand in the future, we can achieve transformation and upgrading within a few years, provided we have sufficient theoretical grounding!"

"That's related to personnel?"

"On secondment!"

Zhang Xuezhou to cultivate even himself, so he would never consider cultivating unstable talent.

His goal was to cultivate good relationships with certain Lineage and infiltrate the upper echelons of society. Whenever there was a need, he could also draw suitable personnel from Lineage with whom he had good relations to cooperate.

His situation is not unique. There are even international disputes involving betting on talent, using this method to draw talent from other countries for exchange and cooperation, which also rapidly boosts the output of one's own laboratory.

Zhang Xuezhou explained it all, which made Zhang Manqian suddenly understand.

"Just be a leader, like Zhou Yueyan!"

Zhou Yueyan has a high level of scientific research ability, but she does not try to do everything herself. Instead, she integrates human resources from various places.

Without the cooperation of many people in the laboratory, Zhou Yueyan would be unable to carry out the task alone, and it would be almost impossible for her to produce high-quality output.

The same applies to Professor Luo Hui's laboratory.

Their lives weren't just about burying themselves in the lab all the time. Zhou Yueyan even had teaching duties and kept an eye on them, so she had plenty of free time.

Zhang Xuezhou glanced at Zhang Manqian and felt that Zhang Manqian under too much psychological pressure.

Excluding the high-end medical care that Zhang Xuezhou had previously arranged for Zhang Manqian, this may be the first time Zhang Manqian has squandered tens of millions of yuan.

If Zhang Manqian hadn't taken the opportunity to research Wushao chicken, the output from their investment would have been almost zero.

At first, Zhang Xuezhou felt the pinch when spending a few thousand yuan, and later he would carefully consider spending ten or twenty thousand yuan. But after he came into contact with high-end medical care and received unreasonable funding from Zhang Xuezhou Live, his concept of money became much less important.

For Zhang Xuezhou, spending ten million, thirty million, fifty million, or even more money would hardly cause him to feel State of Mind unsettled.

In another world, Zhang Xuezhou was not so stingy with money.

He liked having money, but he wasn't stingy with it. Although he couldn't reach Dong Zhongshu's level of spending money as soon as he had it, Zhang Xuezhou's mentality was clearly beyond the reach of ordinary people.

Zhang Xuezhou spoke eloquently, analyzing Zhang Manqian's psychological state and offering her guidance.

He never imagined that after studying psychology and pseudo-psychology for so many years, his first experience as a psychologist would be on his own older sister.

Your chance has come!

As Zhang Xuezhou continued his narration, the messages he sent to Wang Haoran were not text messages, but rather messages relayed through a communicator.

Wang Haoran's tone sounded somewhat strange over the communicator.

The tone was somewhat distressed, yet also tinged with excitement.

"What opportunity? Please explain more clearly. Is it because my thesis was so outstanding that I skipped the lecturer position and went straight to the associate professor level?" Zhang Xuezhou asked in a low voice, "Did you get me an associate professor position in psychology?"

"Your thesis isn't good enough for that, and promotions have to be done step by step according to the requirements; there's no such thing as skipping levels," Wang Haoran quickly explained, correcting his tone, before whispering, "Our Western Capital was targeted in the international dispute, and Chang Kongyinghao and others suffered serious injuries!"