I'll Never Learn Techniques in This Lifetime

Zhu Liangping offered Zhang Xuezhou a reward of 200,000 yuan for taming a strange beast and ensuring it could eat normally.

This price is much lower than what Zhang Xuezhou sold in bulk.

However, the Zhu Household possessed the status of the largest middleman of exotic beasts in Western Capital, as well as the largest and most complete exotic beast factory, which stored a great variety of exotic beasts, both living and dead.

In the factory under Zhu Liangping's management, these strange beasts were allowed to use their magic at Zhang Xuezhou's discretion. If they died as a result of the magic, Zhang Xuezhou would not be required to pay compensation.

That's the gist of the matter. Zhu Liangping's current financial situation is uncertain, and 200,000 yuan per head is the highest price he can offer at the moment.

"The biggest problem with these exotic beasts captured from Qinmeng is that they are not adapted to the local environment. They show rejection towards our native creatures and repeatedly try to escape back to Qinmeng's territory!"

Zhang Xuezhou didn't mind working at night, and Zhu Liangping could hardly contain his excitement.

After a brief discussion, Zhang Xuezhou entered the Zhu Household Research Institute area and then the area under Zhu Liangping's jurisdiction.

Compared to the strong disinfection smell of other research institutes, the Zhu Household's research institute was filled with a complex smell of decay, stench, and feces. Even though the disinfection work was very thorough, Zhang Xuezhou's sense of smell was enough to detect these odors.

The place where the strange beasts were imprisoned resembled a large pig farm, but it was also divided into different areas due to the different species of creatures.

"Why didn't you choose foster care when you started this business?" Zhang Xuezhou asked. "That way, you wouldn't incur losses if the exotic beasts died!"

"If we don't acquire exotic beasts, no one will go to Qinmeng to explore and capture them," Zhu Liangping said helplessly. "If you knew that the exotic beasts you painstakingly captured couldn't be sold, and might even become worthless due to death over time, would you still bravely hunt in Qinmeng?"

"Won't!"

The solution to Zhu Liangping's company's losses is simple, but its implementation would lead to fewer people being willing to hunt in Qinmeng, ultimately resulting in a shortage of exotic beasts needed by various laboratories. This would cause experiments to be impossible or delayed, and even lead to exorbitant prices for certain exotic beasts.

As gene research continues to advance, there will inevitably be many areas where government subsidies will be continuously consumed.

The Zhu Household's business is clearly one of them.

As Chang Kongyinghao and others rose to power, the gene research that Chang Kongluo's generation had been pursuing with all their might slowed down, and the corresponding subsidies were also continuously reduced.

Even the Zhu Household had to begin to suffer losses to some extent.

Although the Zhu Household did not engage in the same open and covert power struggles as the Zuo Household and other Lineage, Zhu Liangping still had to consider Lineage's interests and his own.

No one wants to stay in a loss-making company if it can't bring tangible dividends. Accordingly, Zhu Liangping is constantly searching for various scientific methods to raise exotic animals.

Methods such as injection and cryogenic hibernation have emerged in response to this need.

These methods do allow the monsters to survive longer, but all of them cause damage to the monsters.

Zhang Xuezhou looked intently at each individually raised area and saw that the beasts looked listless, many of them emaciated. Some of the larger beasts even had fixed esophageal openings, through which liquid food was directly poured into their bodies.

Some creatures, such as snakes and bears, force themselves into hibernation, their bodies constantly in a state of low energy expenditure.

Most of these creatures are unable to eat normally, and once the simulated temperature-controlled environment is removed, they are likely to die, or remain in this continuous hibernation until their physical strength is completely exhausted and they die.

The factory under Zhu Liangping's jurisdiction has nearly two thousand surviving alien creatures, and around seventy thousand dead and frozen alien creature carcasses.

This data is still from the consumption of data through continuous sales and experiments.

Zhang Xuezhou did a quick calculation and realized that without subsidies, he would lose everything, even his pants.

However, frozen alien beast corpses are quite useful for some low-level practice experiments. For less than one-fifth of the price, you can purchase some low-level blood potion alien beast materials.

The quality of these low-end blood serums was naturally not very good, but they were more than enough for practicing and gaining experience, since Zhang Xuezhou and his team's laboratory had no intention of selling them to the public.

"Okay, okay, no problem!"

From a business perspective, even if Zhu Liangping keeps calling him "Uncle Zhu," he won't shortchange Zhang Xuezhou a single penny.

Zhu Liangping was greatly pleased that Zhang Xuezhou was willing to purchase the exotic beasts from him according to the established procedures.

When two people work together, things become much easier as long as they follow the rules and procedures, and getting what they need from each other helps the relationship last.

Cooperation based on methods like Zhang Xuezhou owing the Luo family for blood products on credit is unlikely to continue. Everyone isn't stupid; unless there's an unavoidable situation, no one wants to cooperate again.

Some matters related to the cooperation were discussed and settled. Zhu Liangping watched intently as Zhang Xuezhou selected a strange beast to perform a spell, while four clerks and several researchers observed and recorded the changes in the relevant data.

"It seems there's been a change in the nervous system!"

"It seems like there's been a change in the dark matter in the brain!"

The farmers' market lacks scientific research equipment, but in Zhu Liangping's factory, some testing equipment has come in handy.

Zhu Liangping was astonished by the two data testing reports.

No researcher dares to draw definitive conclusions, and research involving the nervous system and brain is still in its early stages of scientific exploration.

Everyone knows some things, but these things are of no use.

However, the strange beasts underwent visible changes.

As if they had met the leader of their own kind, after Zhang Xuezhou gave several commands, the beasts calmed down their hostility and anger, became docile, and began to eat in a normal way.

"The technique is truly amazing, but I'll never learn it in my lifetime!"

Zhu Liangping genuinely admired the wonderful uses of the technique.

He could only barely sense that some faint energy in Zhang Xuezhou's hands and eyes had penetrated the alien beast, causing this situation.

But he hadn't even entered the realm, so how could he possibly understand it clearly?

Even though Zhang Xuezhou and the others had given him free rein to cultivate his cultivation techniques, Zhu Liangping still couldn't bring himself to do it, considering the vomiting he experienced while taking the medicine and the abnormal symptoms of Qin Wenhan and the others.

No matter what, he is a person of social standing, and he has passed the exciting period of young people risking their lives for their future. It is not worth it for him to pay the price for spiritual practice without any scruples.

He thought about it for a long time, and finally gave up the idea of cultivating realm techniques.

If he doesn't learn the Realm Technique, he will miss out on some special abilities, but learning it might drive him insane.

Choosing between these two options is not too difficult for a normal person.

Moreover, with Ren Yisheng gone, Zhu Liangping's resolve weakened considerably.

Thinking back to his past intentions in getting close to Ren Yisheng, Zhu Liangping could only lament the vicissitudes of life, realizing that everything was just a mirage.

The thought of Ren Yisheng's body being frozen like the corpse of a strange beast at the Jishi Medical Center filled him with indescribable emotions.