novelraw Chapter 325 - 197: Bai Mo’s Hardcore Treatment
Chapter 325 - 197: Bai Mo’s Hardcore Treatment
Bai Mo followed the student team, accompanying Professor Zhang, and walked deeper into the corridor, delving into this office building.
The deeper the students went, the more they realized something was amiss... Is this really an office building?
Why does the style differ so much from an ordinary office building?
There are absolutely no windows in the corridor, solely relying on the fluorescent lights overhead for illumination.
On both sides of the corridor, there are thick iron doors, tightly shut. No Chinese nameplates, only password fingerprint locks, and numbers.
Occasionally, someone walks by, also clad in long white coats, with solemn expressions.
The atmosphere grew increasingly heavy, and the students dared not speak, each closely following Professor Zhang’s steps.
Finally, they reached the end of the corridor and entered a room with a wooden door, with windows, where sunlight streamed in— a conference room.
An array of dozens of sets of tables and chairs was set up inside the conference room, evidently prepared for them.
There was also a whiteboard, densely filled with matrices, formulas, arrows, and derivations.
The students sighed in relief, smiles returning to their faces.
Unlike the grimness of the corridor, the academic atmosphere in this conference room was significantly more intense!
In front of the whiteboard stood a bald, pot-bellied middle-aged man, with his shirt tucked into his pants, triangular eyes scanning the students.
His gaze quickly settled on Bai Mo, looking at Bai Mo’s face, then at the fox on Bai Mo’s shoulder.
"You are Bai Mo, right?
"I’ve read your paper.
"Flashy and fancy, very much in the style of that scoundrel Zhang Qiren.
"While interning under me, be mindful to tone down all that flashy stuff!"
The students were stunned.
Why deliver a blow to Bai Mo as soon as they entered?
Bai Mo held Bai Taiyang in his arms, gently stroking its head, telling it not to be upset.
He didn’t care about the teacher’s blow, instead feeling quite emotional about the words "scoundrel Zhang Qiren".
Scoundrel?
Is this how the academic world now views Zhang Qiren?
Professor Zhang chuckled and stepped forward to smooth things over.
"Student Bai Mo, let me introduce you, this is Professor Li Fangming.
"He used to teach at Shangjing University and has just joined our Immortal Grass Laboratory recently.
"For these internship days, he’ll be leading us together.
"Everyone, please take a seat, and listen to Professor Li talk about the internship."
The students took their seats separately.
Fang Yuan and Wu Qingyun naturally sat on either side of Bai Mo.
Then they listened as Li Fangming began to explain.
"Our laboratory is currently engaged in a rigorous and complex mathematical task.
"I am in charge of this task.
"Your internship duties are to assist me with tasks such as deductions, proofs, and verifications— essentially manual labor..."
As he spoke, Fang Yuan was already deftly searching for this person’s resume on her phone, handing it to Bai Mo to see.
Bai Mo covertly accepted it, scrolling through it roughly. He then searched his name alongside "Zhang Qiren" and indeed discovered something...
[Zhang Qiren and Li Fangming, Double Stars of Shangjing University’s Mathematics Department]
[Zhang Qiren Achieves Major Breakthroughs, When Will Li Fangming Catch Up?]
So, were they once rival classmates?
[Zhang Qiren Jailed, Former Classmate Li Fangming Tells Reporters That Zhang Qiren Had Severe Conduct Issues During Undergrad...]
Did they also have grudges against each other?
[Strange People Studio Trends, Former Classmate Li Fangming Tells Reporters That Zhang Qiren Had Character Issues During Undergrad...]
This Li Fangming’s resentment, truly not small?
Bai Mo smirked, raised his head, and listened as Li Fangming continued speaking.
"...Interning for me is no easy task, with high difficulty and intensity.
"Put away the mindset of playing house and work diligently.
"Each of your groups will have the same task.
"After completion, you’ll need to cross-examine and verify..."
As Li Fangming was speaking, his assistant had already brought in a thick stack of materials, distributing one to each student.
Fang Yuan received hers, turned a few pages, and found it like reading a book of heaven, feeling dizzy.
Bai Mo received his, flipped through it briefly, furrowed his brows, then flipped back to the front to carefully read a few lines.
"This... is using mathematical models to research Fire Consciousness Soup?
"Using a six-dimensional matrix to describe the specific situation within the Alchemy Furnace during the brewing of Fire Consciousness Soup.
"Then introducing some mathematical tools to operate on the matrix, describing the actions like heating, stirring, adding ingredients and so on.
"Producing this entire set of data and then using a numerical control Alchemy Furnace to brew Fire Consciousness Soup?
"Is Professor Zhang trying to use this method to brew Fire Consciousness Soup and ascend to Sequence Seven?
"Can this work?"
Bai Mo furrowed his brows.
Using the most advanced technology of human civilization might indeed produce a qualified Fire Consciousness Soup.
But the ascension ritual within this path isn’t that simple, requiring not just the Fire Consciousness Soup, but all the knowledge from the brewing process!
Fire Consciousness Soup isn’t that precious... high-sequence Alchemists can brew it casually.
But the knowledge of the brewing process is not something that can be taught or learned at will; if one’s talent falls short, it’s simply unlearnable!
If one lacks the knowledge in mind and merely drinks someone else’s brewed Fire Consciousness Soup, it won’t take long before the brain goes berserk, smoke emanates from the seven orifices, fire arises from the skull, consuming the entire body, turning the flesh and blood into ashes!
Professor Zhang’s current endeavor of using computers, digitized machinery to brew Fire Consciousness Soup and ascend to Sequence Seven, is unprecedented. Can this brewing, perhaps, use mathematical, computational, and mechanical knowledge to replace the knowledge of Alchemy Dao? But, can it truly be replaced? Is it indeed feasible?
A bowl of technological Fire Consciousness Soup consumed— it might lead to successful ascension, or the fire might rise from the skull. No one has ever tried.