Chapter 233: Chapter 45: Picking the Soft Persimmons !
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“From dawn to dusk, they moved back and forth among these buildings.
Under Link’s leadership, their research and experiments related to the ecosystem progressed rapidly.
The experimental samples sent by Elise, and those granted by the academy after the approval of their research proposal, were incredibly satisfactory in both quantity and quality.
Along with the experimental materials, she also delivered 300 standard grade one Magic Stones.
Link distributed these 300 Magic Stones as subsidies and benefits to Jasmine, the Brotherhood Group and the Social Phobia Group.
Jasmine alone received 60 stones, and the Brotherhood Group and Social Phobia Group each received 30.
No objections were raised by the Brotherhood Group and the Social Phobia Group regarding Link’s allocation.
After all, in terms of experience and ability, Jasmine clearly outshined them.
The Brotherhood Group acclaimed Link’s astonishing generosity.
The Social Phobia Group thought that they had made the right decision hitching their wagon to Link.
As for Jasmine, she dutifully accepted her share.
The money earned through mental and physical effort held no shame when accepting it.
Link used Elise’s money to win the hearts of his team.
Things were going very well.
The first weekend after the Greater Competition between the two districts.
Morning.
All work was wrapped up and Link gave the Brotherhood Group and the Social Phobia Group a vacation.
They all had been pushing their limits working these past few days, so they deserved some good rest.
Only Jasmine was left to help refine the 7 completed papers.
After careful consideration, in order to ensure quality and grab more “academic points”, Link decided not to water down their content too much.
For a big project like this, they had “only” produced 7 “papers”, that was it!
The 7 “papers” covered topics such as water sample testing, soil testing, plant mutation and special properties, shared characteristics of herbivorous animals and some variant species, shared characteristics of carnivorous animals and different variant species, reasons and characteristics of ecosystem imbalance, feasible plans for reconstructing the ecosystem and preliminary experiment results and conclusions.
Link initially considered including a paper discussing the thoughts and reminders triggered by the imbalance in the ecosystem, but eventually decided against it.
Such a “paper” lacked interest for them to write.
After busying themselves and ensuring all 7 “papers” had no linguistic or grammatical errors and that all data was accurate, they were ready to be submitted.
Jasmine put down her pen and casually asked, “You’re going to get in touch with that bitch Elise to decide on their positions for authorship, right?”
“Yes.”
Link responded frankly.
He had indeed scheduled to meet with Elise to negotiate.
It was nothing to be ashamed of.
He and Elise were absolutely clean, without any muddled relationship.
Exactly!
“I’ll come too.”
Biting her molar, Jasmine was resolute and looked like she wouldn’t take a no for an answer.
“Well, let’s go together.”
Link agreed without any hesitation.
Shortly after, the two of them left the lab and headed towards a leisure cottage on the lakeside lawn.
Looking from afar at the pink-themed cottage, Jasmine’s breathing involuntarily grew heavier.
Elise did it on purpose, she was sure of it!
She was certain that Elise had guessed she would come by and specially booked this kind of place.
There were so many other more serious leisure cottages around.
But she had to choose one in pink!
“My, my, my…”
Elise purposely stood by the door to greet them and put on a show. She raised a silk handkerchief in her right hand, waved it lightly, and spoke in a coquettish tone, “Isn’t this little Jasmine? What brings you here?”
In this moment, Elise was not herself.
She was channeling Hua Fei, from her tone, gaze, and demeanor to her actions, they were all identical.
She was in one of her crazy moods again.
Unfortunately, Link simply ignored her.
Jasmine didn’t understand this play and she failed to respond in the way Elise had hoped.
Elise’s flirtatious stunt was equivalent to winking at a blind man.
“Bo-ring.”
Pouting her lips and rolling her eyes, Elise gave up her act and walked back into the cottage.
“Let’s go in.”
Seeing that Jasmine looked discontent at the lack of fuss, Link held back a smile and urged her.
Why would anyone engage in a battle of wits with a lunatic?
Batman was remarkably smart, right?
And yet he was still fooled by the Joker!
This wasn’t about being smart, it was about different thought processes.
“Fine.”
Jasmine sat blankly down, took a small sip of the hot beverage, and started to become confused.
What on earth was she here for today?
Was she just supposed to sit here watching them talk business and drink some beverage?
Yet, Jasmine couldn’t just pick a fight out of the blue.