Chapter 25: Unique Ideas and Significant Progress 1
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Eating soft food with a hard bite?
Everyone was stunned for a moment before reacting.
So it was due to the generous financial support of the boss lady that the boss was able to fund his research.
That’s an amusing explanation.
Everyone wanted to laugh but held back, not daring to make a sound. He is the boss after all, isn’t it improper to laugh at him like this? Buck’s head shrunk.
It’s done, it’s done, he’s got himself into trouble again.
The boss’s impassioned speech, after a flip at the end, was no longer motivational or inspiring at all.
The effect it brought was seriously contrary to the boss’s original intention.
“Go ahead and laugh if you want to.”
Link saw that everyone was struggling to hold back their laughter and proactively expressed his open-mindedness.
The reason why he suddenly made a statement contrary to his character was to make everyone laugh.
Although the tunnel was underground, it was not dark since it had the abandoned magic stones as a light source.
But the constrained and low environment can cause people to feel down, amplifying negative emotions.
Link saw that his motivational speech didn’t work and decided to try making a joke.
He hoped that through this way, he would be able to lighten his teammates’ moods.
Indeed, this time there was a good response.
Seeing that Link honestly didn’t mind, everyone no longer endured and started to chuckle.
The previously somber atmosphere was swept away.
Everyone was much more relaxed.
Jasmine couldn’t help but give Link a sidelong glance, she didn’t like this narrative very much.
After waiting a while and letting everyone’s emotions stabilize, Jasmine explained:
“What nonsense about ‘eating soft food with a hard bite’? I invested 5 magic stones, he only used 2.5, and in the end, I received 30 magic stones back. This return on investment rate is very high, right? And that’s not all.”
Speaking of which, Jasmine faced the curious eyes of everyone and continued, “He involved me in all of his later research, whether it’s ‘papers’ authorship or ‘patents’ rights, I always had a share.”
Jasmine raised her delicate chin slightly, proudly saying: “You tell me, was my investment worthwhile?”
Upon hearing this, everyone fell silent, not knowing how to express their feelings.
Isn’t that obvious?
Of course, it was worthwhile.
It was super worthwhile.
The five brothers were feeling more complex than the trio suffering from social anxiety.
Back then, they had worked so hard to seek favor with Link.
But the boss lady didn’t invest anything and yet she got rewards no matter what happens.
The disparity between people is just too great.
Whimper-
Among the five brothers, at least three seemed to hear their own sobbing. Those were tears.
The socially anxious trio finally understood why Link was willing to involve Jasmine in everything.
So there was such a backstory.
Hmm…
They can’t be said to be wrong, it’s just that they were being too one-sided. After all this commotion, everyone’s focus had completely shifted and was no longer stuck on the difficulties of research and experiments.
And during the time for drinking water, eating, and resting, they also began to chat and laugh.
Having stayed invisible for a day, Dalton took the opportunity to approach Link. He was responsible for real-time monitoring of the surroundings, which was a very important but also a very mundane job.
“Is there a situation?”
As soon as he saw Dalton coming over, Link immediately asked him to sit next
to him, passed him a cup of water, and asked with concern.
“Yes.”
Dalton nodded, took the cup of water, first enjoyed a sip of the sweet water personally made and handed over by the boss, and then began:
Lanny Taylor appeared a few more times.
First, she wanted to emulate our method of crossing the river, but the length of her rope was not enough, and she didn’t have the tools to transport the rope.
Later, she wanted to glide over, but she was chased back by the beasts in the water.”
The speaker did not intend it, but the listener had a mind to it.
As Dalton mentioned the aquatic beasts, Link immediately remembered a strange phenomenon.
Or a more accurate description would be a characteristic of this world.
The body size of herbivorous animals is relatively normal, whether compared
to Link’s past life or the Wizard World.
The body size of carnivorous animals is bigger and bigger.
When he first entered this world and met Elise Clark, those wild beasts that resembled jackals but were much taller were like this; (see chapter four of this volume)
The wild beasts they avoided on the way were like this;
When rescuing Dalton, Andriya Norman, Lutz Bailey, and Bahmir Balves, the
giant beast that resembled a Tyrannosaurus that was drawn away was like this;
Even the aquatic beasts in the river that look like crocodiles but were more than twice their size were like this.
This phenomenon is absolutely not normal!
Never mind Lanny Taylor, there are more important things to deal with at the moment.
“Let me ask everyone a question.”
Link immediately stood up, clapped his hands to attract attention, and then
said loudly, “What are the characteristics you remember about the body sizes
of herbivorous animals and carnivorous animals in this world?”
Suddenly such a question was asked, and everyone present was dumbfounded.
Especially Jasmine, who had never left the Mid-river Sandbar.
After a moment, Linn, the most thoughtful one, responded first.
He stood up in shock and asked uncertainly, “Boss, do you feel that the body
size of carnivorous animals is too large and seems very abnormal?”
This is a point that the majority of people would easily overlook.
After all, every world has its own peculiarities.
The animals being bigger might be due to sufficient food and nutrition or it might just be their innate size.
If you don’t carefully divide and study herbivorous and carnivorous animals separately, this contrast is hard to notice.
Just like piercing through a piece of rice paper.
The rest of the people also quickly understood what Link wanted to convey.