Seeing Lin Su’s shocked expression after hearing her words and fully understanding the significance of this evolutionary technique, Qin Nan nodded satisfactorily, pulled up a chair to sit down, and carelessly slung her long legs on the table, “But when I say you’re going to become famous, it’s not just because of this.”
“What else?” Lin Su regained his composure and couldn’t help but ask.
“Ahem.” Qin Nan cleared her throat softly, her gaze shifting towards the coffee maker.
Lin Su got the hint and skillfully handed over a cup of coffee, “Here’s your coffee, big shot.”
Savoring a sip of coffee, Qin Nan finally spoke, “Didn’t I mention it to you before? About the university breeding achievements competition.”
“You did once, Mountain City University’s display project this year should be our Divine Light Butterfly’s brand-new evolved project, right?” Lin Su nodded.
The university breeding achievements competition and teaching achievements competition are the two most highly valued events for every university.
Both events showcase the university’s research achievements in breeding and teaching of that year, serving as a direct way for universities to demonstrate their strength, with the entire process being live-streamed.
The breeding achievements refer to research outcomes related to pet beast cultivation, including those that promote the breeding of offspring, products that facilitate pet beast growth, and entirely new evolutionary forms of pet beasts.
Teaching achievements mainly consist of research outcomes of brand-new teaching skills and new teaching methods for existing skills.
For example, the Snow Blow teaching method that Lin Su had tried before could be showcased as a new teaching method for existing skills, but given the situation of the Snow Blow skill, if a university were to present such a result, it would inevitably be at the bottom rank.
The rankings of Beast Tamer University in these two major events directly affect the university’s strength ranking and also determine the resource allocation for the following year, making the competition between Beast Tamer Universities particularly fierce every year.
Although both events are equally valuable, due to the timing of their occurrences, the breeding achievements competition is considered slightly more important than the teaching achievements competition.
The breeding achievements competition is held before high school seniors finish their school year and obtain the qualifications to apply for Beast Tamer University, which means that once the breeding achievements competition is over, every Beast Tamer University will attract a new year’s high school admissions.
Consequently, the ranking results of the breeding achievements competition will inevitably influence the choice of that year’s graduates, thus affecting the admissions of each Beast Tamer University.
This year, Mountain City University is prepared to bring the Divine Light Butterfly evolved project to the breeding achievements competition: the medium monarch species, Phoenix Pattern Holy Butterfly.
According to Qin Nan’s estimate, this breeding achievement would have no problem placing in the top three of the competition, and even the first place was not impossible.
Qin Nan had mentioned this to Lin Su before, jokingly saying that when the time came, she would take Lin Su to live stream together and let him make an appearance before the entire union.
“Previously, it was indeed the Divine Light Butterfly project.” Qin Nan took another sip of coffee and let out a he-he, “But now it’s changed!”
“Huh?” Lin Su blinked, “Changed to what?”
If his memory served him right, Mountain City University’s Evolution Research Institute didn’t have many projects that could participate in the competition this year, right?
Wait a second…
Linking this to what Qin Nan had said before, Lin Su’s eyes suddenly widened, “Nan, you’re not planning to let the Indomitable Duck project represent Mountain City University in the competition, are you?”
“Yeah.” Qin Nan nodded as if it was the most natural thing, then clenched her teeth, “Just a few days ago, that damned woman from Jinghua University specially called me to flaunt their research achievements, saying they’ll leave Mountain City University in the dust at the breeding achievements competition. I have to hit her back hard.”
Lin Su: “…”
“Nan, you don’t want to reconsider?” Lin Su tentatively said, “Look, this breeding achievements competition, it’s also a chance for a researcher to showcase themselves, right? Maybe you should take this opportunity instead, and I’ll just assist you.”
Being so high-profile really wasn’t his style…
“Showcase myself?” Qin Nan glanced at Lin Su, took out her communicator to open a certain page, then waved it in front of Lin Su, “Look! This is the result of me showing off at last year’s breeding achievements competition.”
Staring at the fifty million followers on Qin Nan’s social media account, Lin Su pondered for two seconds and slowly said, “Nan… So on the surface, you’re a researcher, but secretly you’re actually a… pop idol?”
Was it normal for a researcher to have so many followers?!
“Get out of here!” Qin Nan shrugged, “It’s just that after participating in the breeding achievements competition last year, my social media account mysteriously kept gaining followers non-stop. If I hadn’t turned off the notifications, I’d have been annoyed to death every day; there’s no way I’m going this year.”
“Other researchers participate in the breeding achievements competition, and I don’t see anyone having so many followers on their social accounts?!” Qin Nan couldn’t help but take another sip of coffee, feeling dejected.
Lin Su thought for two seconds, considering those middle-aged researchers in the institute who were balding and getting stronger, then looked at Qin Nan, and couldn’t resist saying, “Nan… is there a chance, I mean just a possibility, that your followers… are actually there for your looks?”
Qin Nan: “???”