Chapter 078: World Three [19-1]
A strong person who might still be needed in the future, and a ruler who had fallen from a high position into the mud. The survivors, who had always liked to pick on the soft persimmons, naturally knew who to curse at.
However, the ruler could not accept being casually cursed at. After he had run to a safe place with a few people, he began to shift the blame to Ling Yilin.
Including but not limited to proclaiming that he had already asked Ling Yilin for help countless times, that he had originally wanted to lead the people to escape, but the people were too attached to their homes and at the same time, felt that Ling Yilin would come to save them, which was why they had chosen to defend their homes to the death.
He was not running away either, but purely breaking out to find reinforcements. It was just a pity that his breakout was too slow, which was why such a tragedy had occurred.
Which ruler was not a master of manipulating people’s hearts? After his blame-shifting brainwashing, there were really people who felt that the deaths of the people in the safe zone were Ling Yilin’s responsibility. If she had stepped in to help, all the tragedies would not have happened.
“Ridiculous. Release the news. Those who are still living in the twelfth district after three days, my fifteenth district will refuse to accept them. All of them will be blacklisted,” Ling Yilin was no soft persimmon.
“In addition, with the head of any leader of the twenty-third district, you can come to me to receive a ton of supplies. If it’s an ordinary person, I can also give her a chance to become an ability user.”
Manipulating people’s hearts, Ling Yilin just didn’t want to do this kind of thing, but that didn’t mean she couldn’t.
“Chief Ling, are you planning to promote the potion externally?” Zheng Jin was stunned for a moment. “But the current research progress of our experimental personnel, the probability of an ordinary person becoming an ability user is only fifty percent.”
“Give me the potion. I have a way to improve it, to make the probability eighty percent, and at the same time, reduce the side effects,” Ling Yilin casually made up a story. “This is a new method I’ve developed. Lightning extraction can change the properties of the potion.”
“Huh?” Zheng Jin’s mouth dropped open. If this sentence had come from another person’s mouth, she would have punched him without hesitation to clear his head.
But if it came from the mouth of Ling Yilin, the only person who could defeat a leader zombie, it seemed that such an absurd statement was not impossible?
“Okay, Chief Ling. How many potions can you handle in the first batch?” Zheng Jin chose to trust Ling Yilin.
“All of them. It depends on how many you give me,” the smile on Ling Yilin’s face did not change. “There is also a probability of failure in the refinement. This probability is very metaphysical.”
For Ling Yilin, there were two ways to improve the potion. One was to refine it with her own power, and the other was to let Meng Jiuge’s space spring eye intervene.
If it were the former, those who had awakened as ability users through the potion would be restricted by Ling Yilin to a certain extent. If they had bad thoughts about Ling Yilin, they would explode and die.
As for the latter, it was just that Meng Jiuge would have to be a little more troubled, to bring out the spring water and mix it with the potion in proportion.
Ling Yilin’s choice was the latter. She had given up on making Meng Jiuge a subordinate and did not plan to stay in this world for long, to do any transformation on them.
Zheng Jin was a smart person. She directly took out all the potions in stock, about ten thousand in total.
Ling Yilin did not waste any time. With a wave of her hand, she took all the potions and told Zheng Jin to come and get them in three days.
The mixing of the potion and the spring water was also very simple. Ling Yilin just needed to cheat a little with the way of space, and it was completed in just a few breaths.
“This is a potion that can awaken humans. The effect of the first dose is the best, and it will weaken in turn,” Ling Yilin said. “I plan to give Zheng Jin three thousand doses, and you can have the remaining seven thousand.”
“Why give them to me? Aren’t you keeping them, Ling Yilin?” Meng Jiuge was like a little animal that had smelled danger. Fearing that Ling Yilin would leave her, she immediately hugged her arm.
“These things are useless to me. I’ll tell Zheng Jin later that I’ve taught you the refinement method. You can probably refine a hundred finished products a day,” Ling Yilin rubbed Meng Jiuge’s head.
The safe zone did indeed attach great importance to Meng Jiuge, but it was not enough. If they had been more attentive, then those people would not have been able to get close to the villa at all. Instead, when they were inquiring about Meng Jiuge’s news, they would have been accurately identified.
“Then do I have to give her a hundred doses a day?” Meng Jiuge asked, very obediently rubbing against Ling Yilin’s hand.
“It’s all up to you. As long as you’re happy. If the stock is gone, just tell me. You can also control the quantity yourself. If you don’t want to give it, just say that your hand feel is not good. If you want to give a little more, just say that your hand feel is not bad,” Ling Yilin really liked Meng Jiuge’s obedience. After a long time, she gradually no longer felt regretful that the other was not a subordinate.
No, there was still a little regret. After all, a subordinate could accompany her for a longer time.
But if she were to make the other party her subordinate on the basis of being a lover, then wouldn’t Meng Jiuge become her own weakness? On her way to conquering the three thousand worlds, she would definitely kill many people. At that time, Meng Jiuge…
Forget it. It was better to be clear. A little lover in one world was enough, enough.
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The people outside had not taken Ling Yilin’s words to heart. So what if they couldn’t join the fifteenth district? Then they just couldn’t. Even if a few safe zones were destroyed, there were still many choices. It wasn’t like your fifteenth district was the best in the world.
There were many of such comments, so the survivors who were originally in Safe Zone No. 12 did not take Ling Yilin’s words to heart.
On the contrary, the ruler of the twenty-third safe zone who had escaped was worried that his own head would be taken away in exchange for a ton of supplies, so he had hired a lot of ability user bodyguards for himself.
After the three-day deadline had passed, Zheng Jin announced with a joyful face that the research institute had made a great success and was expected to launch an ability potion in seven days. The person who was injected would have an eighty percent chance of awakening an ability.
To make the people in the safe zone believe this news, a hundred people who had voluntarily signed up would be selected in three days to participate in the experiment, and they would be injected with the potion in public to wait for the results.
Not long after the news came out, it spread throughout the entire safe zone. The number of people who signed up was as high as hundreds of thousands. It could be said that no one did not want to sign up.
After the momentum was built, Zheng Jin was not vague either. She selected a hundred people and directly started the experiment in the form of a live broadcast.
The potion was light blue. After injection, the body would have a certain degree of discomfort. Generally speaking, the effect of the potion would take half an hour to an hour to manifest. If there was an ability, it would be awakened during this period.
If there was no reaction after an hour, then it was a failure. The body would show a state similar to a cold and a fever, and the corresponding side effects would slowly subside within three days.
The reason why Zheng Jin dared to make such a big fuss was naturally because she had already experimented in private once.
This live broadcast was very successful. One hundred people were injected, and the number of people who awakened was ninety-one, much higher than the advertised eighty percent.
“The potion, which was originally scheduled to be sold in seven days, that is, in four days, because of the limited production, only one hundred doses can be produced every day. Thirty of them will be given priority to those who have made outstanding contributions to the safe zone. The remaining seventy will be randomly drawn like today. The quota for the day will be announced at nine in the morning. The people who are drawn…”
Zheng Jin said a lot, but no one was impatient. They were all seriously noting down the requirements for participating in the draw.
Different people would have different weights. Those who had lived in Safe Zone No. 15 for a long time and had consumed a lot of points would have a fifty percent higher proportion than those who had just joined.
Although this winning ratio was still very low, two in ten thousand was always better than one in ten thousand!
After the news of Safe Zone No. 15 having an ability potion spread, the survivors of the twelfth district who had been mocking were dumbfounded. They denied that this was the fact on one hand, and frantically inquired on the other.
An ironclad fact, how could it be afraid of being investigated?
Zheng Jin was very generous and took out a hundred potions and made a deal with twenty safe zones, exchanging them for a cart after a cart of supplies.
Worried about the composition being studied and then replicated?
Impossible. These potions had already been studied countless times. Before and after the refinement, they were not the same thing at all! If it weren’t for the fact that some of the fixed components were still there, Zheng Jin would have even thought that the potion had been completely swapped!
However, these were not important anymore. The twenty safe zones had each gotten five potions. It was unknown if it was because the people they had chosen had very good constitutions, but the success rate of the potion was one hundred percent.
The subsequent development was much simpler. Safe Zone No. 15 became a hot commodity. Besides Safe Zone No. 12, the people of the other safe zones all wanted to move to Safe Zone No. 15.
Of course, the people of Safe Zone No. 12 also wanted to do so, but when they were secretly trying to sneak in, they were all found out, blacklisted, and then turned away.
“You’re talking nonsense! I’m not from Safe Zone No. 12! If you don’t want to let me in, just say so. There’s no need to slander me!” The person who was stopped was not convinced and lay on the ground and started to roll around and act shamelessly.
“Liu Cheng, ID number 33****3579, joined Safe Zone No. 12 on January 22nd. As of the day of the statistics, he has not left,” the gatekeeper said with a blank expression.
“We have the resident data of Safe Zone No. 12 here. Not a single fish that has escaped the net can sneak in.”
After being stripped bare, the person lying on the ground was despised by everyone and could only get up and leave in a dejected manner.
“If Safe Zone No. 15 does this, will it push the people in Safe Zone No. 12 to a dead end? There are still tens of thousands of people inside.”
“Stupid. This place doesn’t welcome the survivors of Safe Zone No. 12. Can’t they just leave and join a new safe zone? That way, their identity will be covered!”
“It seems that all the roads are blocked, but a smart person knows that there are loopholes to be exploited. As long as you weren’t some big official in Safe Zone No. 12, you will most likely be let go with a blind eye.”
The passers-by who were waiting in line to enter were discussing with their heads down, but they did not deliberately lower their voices. Instead, they secretly observed the staff at the entrance. Seeing that there was no expression on her face, they were a little unsure in their hearts.
That’s right. These few people who were discussing were the ones who had run out of Safe Zone No. 12, but they were smarter. They had taken a detour and, after joining another safe zone, had run here.
When they were checking their own IDs, the passers-by couldn’t help but hold their breath, and they kept swallowing to relieve their emotions.
“Alright, you can go in,” the staff member handed over an ID magnetic card. “Because you have been recorded before, you can only participate in the lottery after fifteen days.”
“Okay, okay, thank you! Thank you very much!” The passer-by was so happy that he almost cried, and almost let out a howl.
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