I Don't Agree to the Terms

Chapter 840 446: A Gilded Façade Concealing Decay

"This... you really tested it out~" Liu Fengxu, the dean of the university, looked shocked and skeptical.

"Yeah, this is an experiment I completed after spending a month on it, you've seen the data yourself." Gu Shanhai spread his hands, indicating he had already finished it.

Shock and skepticism are very normal emotions. The shock is that you damn well succeeded, and the skepticism is questioning how you could have succeeded with this thing?

"The data indeed has no problems, but the reaction to this matter is huge, after all, it's the upper limit of the 'Blood Returning Technique,' it's simply unbelievable." Liu Fengxu's tone carried complexity, he didn't expect it either.

If it really gets confirmed, the experiment that's been running for 1857 years is about to stop.

This... might affect some people's interests.

A large amount of funding was consumed in Experiment No. 1, and once Gu Shanhai's results are confirmed, the funding for the project would naturally cease following its discontinuation.

Thinking about it, even Liu Fengxu was a little envious of this large sum of money, it's just that he usually couldn't intervene, so he was relatively indifferent.

As for reminding Gu Shanhai, he only vaguely expressed a sentence, essentially advising him to find an opportunity to bow out gracefully.

"Whatever, whether they choose to believe it or not, it doesn't matter to me." Gu Shanhai heard the subtext in Liu Fengxu's words, especially the phrase 'the reaction is huge,' implying that in the future, some people would go to great lengths to falsify Gu Shanhai's results.

In response, Gu Shanhai certainly didn't mind them trying to refute him. It was actually a good thing for him.

As the basis of the Xuandao Alliance, if they dare to mess with the 'Blood Returning Technique,' then it indicates that the Xuandao Alliance, though seemingly prosperous, is actually rotten at its core. Although it has a temporary advantage over the intelligent machines, as the rot worsens, it will collapse sooner or later.

"This involves academic fraud, it must be handled with caution." Liu Fengxu, hearing Gu Shanhai's indifferent tone, felt somewhat helpless and kindly reminded him.

The implication is that while your openness is fine, the other side seeing you like this might think you're scared, and they will surely target you.

The least they would do is tarnish your reputation and then use their own channels to suppress your experiment and cut off your funding, or if serious, directly strip you of your Class A Skills Simulation Master status at the university and even send you to prison.

After all, most of the funding in Experiment No. 1 currently doesn't go to the experimenters but to other personnel, who don't care about these things.

Experiment No. 1 nowadays has not seen much progress, mostly spending time, so only a few maintenance personnel are needed.

But such a large sum of money, once divided, would disappear for sure.

"Ha, do they dare? If they really can reach into the university, then I think the university is beyond saving." Gu Shanhai's tone carried disdain, and he didn't bother discussing this with Liu Fengxu at this point.

"It's not the same, those people have backgrounds." Liu Fengxu also felt a bit helpless, he indeed couldn't stand these things.

After all, he is the deacon, he envies the funds but hasn't moved on them.

"Today's university is different from the university of those days."

After years of iterations, many personnel have inevitably been influenced by power.

"Guess how far I've completed the new version of the 'Blood Returning Technique'?" Gu Shanhai sneered, "Do you think those backing them would find them more important, or is the 'Blood Returning Technique' more important?"

"Of course, the 'Blood Returning Technique' is more important, but they can also protect themselves. After all, it is easy to make you hand it over." Liu Fengxu thought Gu Shanhai was too naive.

"Then the credit is still theirs, right." Gu Shanhai couldn't help but be amazed.

This is simply... wonderful.

Do they really think Gu Shanhai developed the 'Blood Returning Technique' out of the kindness of his heart? His methods are very ruthless.

As long as they dare to promote the new cultivation technique simulated by Gu Shanhai, the entire Xuandao Alliance will surely be destroyed by it.

They even hope that the other side will come to take credit, there's no problem picking peaches, the real problem is that these peaches are not peaches of immortality but poisonous fruit.

"You're right, I've said all I have to say, so I suggest you'd better admit your mistake and let this matter end here."

"If necessary, you can use the simulation data of the 'Blood Returning Technique' as compensation."

Liu Fengxu couldn't stand it, but he was also helpless, in the arena of fame and fortune, everything is beyond one's control.

"Are these people so greedy? They want money, and they want fame, with such tumors around, no wonder the university's research achievements have been decreasing over the years, everyone's living off their past gains." Gu Shanhai also sneered.

The Xuandao Alliance's higher-ups support the university, but policies and countermeasures inherently don't conflict, some see opportunities, and naturally intervene.

As for future matters, they'll deal with those later; regretting is impossible, they can only take advantage of whatever they can get from the university.

The higher-ups surely know, but because the people acting have special backgrounds, they turn a blind eye, they definitely used a grandchild-I-want-that-toy tactic to act spoiled, and they got it.

"You can't say it like that, I'll just pretend I didn't hear it." Liu Fengxu said with a bitter smile, he knew that Gu Shanhai was good at everything, just not straightforward, in plain words, not conforming.