Chapter 349 Perfect Grade (1/2)

The number of drugs Gao Peng had concocted by hand numbered in the thousands. Concocting a Normal-tier drug wouldn't take much of his effort.

His hands moved with expert precision. If Gao Peng had prioritized quantity over quality, they would probably have moved much faster.

Eleven minutes and fifty-five seconds passed. The drug preparation process was finally completed.

Gao Peng looked at the gray reagent in his hand. The color of its contents was evenly spread out; it was perfect.

When Gao Peng lightly shook it, a faint fragrance wafted from the vial.

Gao Peng strained his eyes at the reagent, assessing its viscosity. The liquid swirled at the bottom of its vial, its surface glistening like a mirror.

Gao Peng then filled a syringe up with the reagent and beckoned at the dazed Yin Yang Calendula on the cold countertop. ”Time for your injection.”

The flower didn't even need to be told twice. It shuffled its leaves across the countertop's surface towards Gao Peng, following the sweet scent that was coming from the vial in his hand.

It entwined its tendrils around Gao Peng's hand and lightly rubbed them against him.

Tch—

Gao Peng stabbed the syringe into its stem. The injection process took at least twelve seconds.

Gao Peng didn't even need to look at the clock on the wall to tell how long it took.

He realized that his memory was improving considerably as his Soul Power grew stronger. He could now count the seconds down just as accurately as any wall clock.

After the injection, lethargy seemed to overtake the Yin Yang Calendula. Its white crown drooped slightly, while its leaves coiled up into a lifeless bunch.

Evolution wasn't instantaneous, but rather a long and arduous process.

Gao Peng inserted the tiny plant creature into a glass case and took it with him. The Yin Yang Calendula was originally named Xiao Hua. However, that was also the name of Dumby's daughter. Gao Peng had made quite a blunder in this respect. Since Dumby's daughter was named Xiao Hua first, he had no choice but to give the calendula another name: Xiao Cao.

When he exited the laboratory, he saw a few laboratory assistants scooping out squid eggs from a wok. They stared at him, stunned. ”Er... you hungry, sir? We just cooked up some squid eggs.”

”No thanks. I'm done with my experiment. You guys can go back in now,” said Gao Peng with a faint smile. He entered the elevator.

”He was only in there for ten minutes...” said one of the assistants while looking at the bowl of squid eggs in his hands.

Cooking squid eggs required at least ten minutes, not counting the time needed to collect other ingredients from the fridge and boil the water.

In the ten minutes they had spent cooking squid eggs, Gao Peng had already completed an experiment on his own.

The younger laboratory assistants looked despondently at each other.

Back on the first floor, Gao Peng was greeted by the sight of Goldie sitting on a pile of dead fish carcasses at the building's main entrance. The duck's fishy loot had blocked the entrance, making it somewhat difficult to go through it.

The guards at the entrance looked helplessly at the scene before them. When they saw Gao Peng exiting from the elevator, they hurried over to him and looked as if they had something to say to him, but couldn't get the words out.

”Go back to your posts. I'll handle this,” said Gao Peng reassuringly.

”You really worked hard...” he then said to Goldie, unsure whether to laugh or cry about the matter.

Goldie nodded, apparently pleased with itself. ”Five hundred bucks for each of them,” it said.

Gao Peng nodded back. ”All right then. Five hundred a piece.”

He squatted at the main entrance and began counting the pile of fish beside Goldie like a fish vendor counting their merchandise in the market. Gao Peng even rolled up his sleeves like one.

The pile of fish carcasses was giving off a pungent, fishy smell. However, Gao Peng didn't mind it at all.

”Fifteen hundred, two thousand, twenty-five hundred...”