Xia Chujian's eyes lit up.
She suddenly raised her head, looking at Tantai Sinian's three-dimensional holographic projection, almost unable to stop herself from speaking.
It was Shen Junyi who kicked her under the table, and she managed to suppress her ecstatic mood.
If the method Tantai Sinian mentioned was feasible, then she just needed to find a way to make her aunt a Gene Evolver! Her aunt was unlikely to achieve natural Gene Evolution on her own, so she would go find that rare plant "Kong Sang" that Academician Tantai Sinian mentioned! At this time, Tantai Sinian was still enthusiastically talking about his discovery: "Moreover, the only place where Kong Sang has been discovered in history is in the Exotic Beast Forest north of our Mulan City!"
Xia Chujian's eyes shone even brighter.
It's in the Exotic Beast Forest?!
Not far at all!
She was determined to go!
...
After the online remote meeting ended, Xia Chujian was eager to try.
Shen Junyi sighed and said, "Don't even think about it. The probability of finding Kong Sang is as low as your aunt suddenly mutating on her own and becoming a high-level Gene Evolution powerhouse, so low that it can be ignored."
"How would I know if I don't try?" Xia Chujian was unwilling to give up.
Seeing Xia Chujian's resolute and confident expression, Shen Junyi had no choice but to say, "I can search for Academician Tantai's papers. That's probably the only place with detailed information about Kong Sang."
Xia Chujian urged Shen Junyi, "Can you check now? I have time today!"
Shen Junyi twitched the corner of his mouth, "Even if you have time today, can you go to the Exotic Beast Forest right away? Do you know how far the Exotic Beast Forest is? How big it is?!"
"I'll go no matter how big or far it is."
Xia Chujian had never been to the Exotic Beast Forest.
However, when she was only fourteen years old three years ago, in order to earn money to support herself and treat her aunt, she secretly joined the Dark Night Hunter Association as a hunter and had already done many missions where she risked her life.
It could be seen that she was very brave.
It's just that their team had never taken on a mission to the Exotic Beast Forest.
Because it was too dangerous there, at least one member of the team needed to be a Rank C or higher Mental Strength powerhouse to dare to try.
And in their team, the highest Mental Strength level was only D-Rank.
But since the Dark Night Hunter Association did have missions targeting the Exotic Beast Forest, it wasn't entirely hopeless.
What's more, her neighbor Aunt Chen was a regular visitor to the Exotic Beast Forest!
So she wasn't acting blindly and impulsively.
Of course, she wouldn't tell Shen Junyi these trivial matters, but urged him to search quickly.
Shen Junyi downloaded the papers published by Tantai Sinian, and then used special software to search and quickly found the content related to "Kong Sang" in the papers, packaged it, and sent it to Xia Chujian's smart bracelet account.
"According to Academician Tantai's research findings, this plant called 'Kong Sang' is a companion plant of a rare plant called 'Blood Kirin'."
"Only one Kong Sang can be found in one million Blood Kirin plants."
"And the Blood Kirin plant itself is very rare. In the entire Beichen Star Region, only our Guiyuan Star's Exotic Beast Forest can produce Blood Kirin."
"Because the growth conditions of Blood Kirin are very demanding, all artificial cultivation has failed, and it can only rely on the wild production of the Exotic Beast Forest."
"That production is very low, only about ten plants per year, which is very difficult to find. And the places where they grow each time are different, and there are often beasts guarding the Blood Kirin. It is very dangerous to pick Blood Kirin."
"See? You can't even find Blood Kirin, let alone Kong Sang? Can you calculate the probability?"
Xia Chujian lowered her eyes and did mental calculations.
Only one Kong Sang can be found in every million Blood Kirin plants.
And the Exotic Beast Forest only produces ten Blood Kirin plants a year, so it would probably take every 100,000 years to find one Kong Sang.
This probability can indeed be ignored.
But then again, the human civilization of the Beichen Star Region also has a million-year history.
In these million years, Kong Sang has only been discovered once.
So from a purely probabilistic point of view, there may still be nine Kong Sang plants waiting for them to find.
From this perspective, the probability is greatly increased.
Xia Chujian's mind sparked with an idea.
She remembered that the Dark Night Hunter Association had just posted a mission to search for the rare Blood Kirin plant in the Exotic Beast Forest! Xia Chujian's fingers trembled slightly with excitement.
Suppressing her elation, she continued, "Dr. Shen, did Academician Tantai's paper mention what the Blood Kirin plant is used for?"
If Kong Sang, as a companion plant to the Blood Kirin, could promote Gene Evolution, what about the Blood Kirin itself? Shen Junyi searched again, looking at the search results on the computer and said, "The main uses of Blood Kirin are detoxification and creating poison."
Xia Chujian: "..."
How can these two completely opposite functions be concentrated in the same plant? Shen Junyi explained, "After the Blood Kirin is air-dried and processed, it can be made into a potent poison, and there is currently no antidote for this poison."
"However, freshly picked Blood Kirin, when consumed fresh, can counteract many potent poisons that chemical drugs cannot."
Xia Chujian blinked and asked a question using the 'spear of the son to attack the shield of the son': "Then, can fresh Blood Kirin be used to counteract the poison of air-dried and processed Blood Kirin?"
Shen Junyi chuckled at her question, "That's a very good question, but don't ask it again."
Xia Chujian: "..."
"Don't understand? Think about it, this Blood Kirin is so precious and rare. Who would be full enough to use fresh Blood Kirin to counteract the poison of dried Blood Kirin? Even if it's theoretically possible, are there enough Blood Kirin for you to experiment with? Without sufficient double-blind experiments, how can you prove it can detoxify?"
"Don't say such impractical things in the future."
Xia Chujian frowned, "According to you, there aren't enough fresh Blood Kirin for experiments, so there aren't sufficient double-blind experiments. Then how do you know that fresh Blood Kirin can counteract potent poisons that chemical drugs can't?"
Shen Junyi: "..."
This is truly using the spear of the son to attack the shield of the son.
He shook his head with a smile and said, "Good question. Actually, I don't know. I saw it in those academic journals. The papers published by the academicians of the Imperial Royal Academy of Sciences should be credible, right?"
"So we can't rule out this possibility, right?" Xia Chujian still didn't understand, but she didn't continue to dig deeper, pretending to be well-behaved and tilting her head.
Shen Junyi smiled noncommittally.
...
Leaving Shen Junyi's office, Xia Chujian returned to her aunt's ward.
The caregiver was checking the instrument data in the ward.
Seeing her come in, the caregiver nodded to her as a greeting.
Xia Chujian didn't disturb her work, just checked Xia Yuanfang's condition again, and secretly slipped the caregiver a hundred Beichen coins.
The salary of caregivers in Imperial official hospitals is very low, only about two hundred Beichen coins a month.
Of course, the cost of living in Mulan City is also very low, and two hundred coins is enough to support a family of four or five.
But if you want to live a luxurious life, two hundred coins is not enough.
The hundred coins she gave was equivalent to half a month's salary for the caregiver, definitely a considerable amount.
The nurse usually took good care of Xia Yuanfang, and with Xia Chujian secretly giving her tips from time to time, the caregiver took care of Xia Yuanfang even more meticulously.
"Thank you, Nurse Liu." Xia Chujian thanked her politely, "I'll have to trouble you more in the future."
Nurse Liu, holding the tip, smiled and said, "Chujian, it's not easy for you to live alone. By the way, the weather hasn't been good lately, and I heard there will be a large-scale temperature drop. Stock up on some food at home."
Xia Chujian nodded, asked about her aunt's condition, and then left alone.
After leaving, she didn't go straight home, but went to the Mulan City branch of the Dark Night Hunter Association, the place where she had just received her score settlement in the middle of the night.
When she came here in the middle of the night, there were very few people here.
But now it was afternoon, and there were obviously more people.
Xia Chujian didn't recognize many people, and didn't have the mood to chat with anyone. She was still wearing the team's combat uniform, mask, and goggles, and went straight to the mission posting counter.
The first mission updated at dawn was still unclaimed, sitting alone on the virtual screen, still scrolling continuously.
Xia Chujian walked over and stared at the words "Exotic Beast Forest" for a while.
Her thoughts churned, her heart surged, and she kept pondering this mission in her mind.
Even Aunt Chen, her neighbor, goes to the Exotic Beast Forest once a month, so she should be fine, right?
Although Aunt Chen said she only wanders around the edge of the Exotic Beast Forest, who knows? Aunt Chen brings back so many good things every time, is she really just staying on the edge?
Xia Chujian wasn't an ordinary high school student either. She was a hunter with three years of combat experience, which was essentially a bounty hunter, but an organized one.
She had long suspected that Aunt Chen's words weren't entirely truthful, but Aunt Chen had always taken care of her and hadn't harmed her, so why should she bother to get to the bottom of it?
That would be like having nothing better to do.
Xia Chujian herself was never full, so she didn't bother with such idle matters.
Besides, didn't she have the same thing going on?
Had she ever told anyone about joining the Dark Night Hunter Association?
And why was she selling the house? Wasn't it to cover up the fact that she was secretly earning money as a bounty hunter? Otherwise, everyone would suspect the source of her income and how she was supporting her aunt's hospital bills...
She didn't even dare to ask Aunt Chen more about the Exotic Beast Forest, fearing it would arouse others' interest in her.
Xia Chujian pondered for a long time, finally made up her mind, and clicked the confirm button hard.
She was using her team's account to accept the mission because, according to the rules of the Dark Night Hunter Association, missions issued by the association could only be accepted by teams, not individuals.
However, how the team completed the mission after accepting it was their own business, and the association didn't interfere.
As soon as the mission was accepted, the supercomputer's electronic simulation voice echoed in the hall.
"Geng Grade Blood Kirin mission accepted by Team 321, Group 9, Third District, Guiyuan Branch. Valid until March next year. No points will be deducted for mission failure."
The hall fell silent for a moment.
All Dark Night Hunters knew how difficult the Blood Kirin mission was.
First of all, the approximate location of the Blood Kirin was in the Land of the Far North, in the core area of the Exotic Beast Forest.
Secondly, there was a Restricted Life Zone in the Land of the Far North of the Exotic Beast Forest. No one who had entered the Restricted Life Zone had ever returned; they all disappeared without a trace.
Finally, the mission level was too low, so low that the risk was completely disproportionate to the reward.
This mission should definitely be a Rank A level, but the association only gave it a Geng Grade rating...
The difficulty of the mission was severely mismatched with the reward, so of course, no one accepted it.
Everyone thought the same as Ye Shijie had before.
Anyone who took on this mission was a complete idiot.
During the new book period, I must remind everyone to vote for recommendations, monthly tickets, and Xiaoxiang tickets!
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