Douluo Continent: Angel Saint Huo Yuhao

Chapter 155 Work
"But if we raise soul beasts using breeding methods, we will encounter new problems."

Lin Jiayi tapped the table dejectedly: "The growth cycle of soul beasts is too long, and they consume too many resources."

"Sometimes it even requires feeding a hundred years after ten years, or a thousand years after a hundred years, to cultivate them, and the resources and money consumed increase dramatically. The Sun and Moon Empire abandoned this path a thousand years ago."

"—But~"

At the end of the sentence, Lin Jiayi changed the subject again: "It's not impossible to give you special tutoring, but there are some issues with funding..."

"How much a day?"

Huo Yuhao frowned.

"Starting at 100,000."

Lin Jiayi coughed dryly, clearly even he himself felt that the price was a bit outrageous, but there was no way to lower the price.

Soul beasts that are thousands or even tens of thousands of years old are already rare, let alone in a place like the Sun and Moon. If you were to pursue species with extraordinary amplification effects, the cost would skyrocket even further.

"no problem!"

Upon receiving the data, Huo Yuhao's brows immediately relaxed, and he looked at Lin Jiayi with a sly smile: "But before I pay, I would like to ask Director Lin to take a look at something."

As he spoke, Huo Yuhao's eyes began to shine.

Mental detection sharing!

……

The day after their conversation, ten level-eight soul masters surrounded the center of the Mingde Hall public experimental field, dismantled hundreds of experimental tables, and urgently assembled and installed the circular experimental platform personally designed by Jing Hongchen.

The entire process took no more than 24 hours. During this time, nearly half of the experimental area was requisitioned, and a bunch of tasks involving carving secondary arrays and processing shells were assigned to some level 7 researchers who had nothing else to do.

It was a full-scale mobilization involving the entire Mingde Hall, and the materials and labor invested were enough to be exchanged for tens of millions of gold soul coins.

And all of this is for—

"What do you think? I designed this little room quite well, didn't I?"

Jing Hongchen led Huo Yuhao across the platform to the central circular dome: "This place is not only temperature-controlled and soundproof, but also has safety guarantees. The light shield alone is an eighth-level soul-guided shield."

"However, the addition of a core magic array that can be changed to transparent has greatly reduced the single-layer protection capability, so three layers are needed to ensure safety and reliability."

As he spoke, Jing Hongchen pressed a button on the inner table, and the hemispherical shield covering his head gradually became transparent, revealing the outside world.

The newly placed table and desk are arranged in a concentric ring with seven layers inside and out, and the inner and outer layers overlap each other.

The innermost table is perfectly circular, with an opening on one side for entry and exit, and is covered by three layers of protective shields, making it Huo Yuhao's private territory.

"From now on, you will work with Xuan Ziwen here! You just need to make sure you are on duty for two to three hours every day. Of course, if you want to take time off, that's fine too... It's all up to you."

After explaining all this, Jing Hongchen smiled and pulled out a metal plate, inserting it into a crack on the table: "Also, I've moved a reader from the library and installed it here. If you want to learn some basic knowledge, you can sit here and read it."

The job is safe and stable, and the work is easy and stress-free.

Salary…

300,000 per hour.

"..."

A moment later, Huo Yuhao found himself in the center of a circular table with an inner diameter of six meters, sitting cross-legged on a high circular platform, starting his first stable job. The sixty-four upgraded experimental tables outside had just been opened, and most of them were already occupied by the group of level-eight soul masters who loved modification, their equipment piled high with instruments of all sizes.

I don't know how many research projects have been moved here.

"Master, aren't you afraid he'll steal our secrets by doing this?"

Lin Jiayi, who watched the whole thing from the monitoring room, couldn't help but wipe away cold sweat. He was truly terrified by Jing Hongchen's audacity.

Those level eight soul masters are the backbone of Mingde Hall!
He possesses countless deadly technologies; exposing them to Huo Yuhao's mental detection would be tantamount to handing them over to someone else.

"Of course I'm afraid."

Jing Hongchen smiled slightly: "But it doesn't really matter if he steals these things."

All Huo Yuhao could do was use his mental detection to show everyone the state and internal structure of the metal.

But this boost was like an attribute multiplication factor, instantly increasing everyone's soul guidance skills by about half a percent, making previously unsolvable mysteries clear in an instant.

With him here, countless technologies that were just a hair's breadth away from success will be quickly implemented, and countless Soul Masters who are stuck in bottlenecks will be able to break through.

"Let him do it."

Jing Hongchen swaggered away in high spirits: "Even if he takes all these technologies with him, what we gain will far outweigh what we lose."

He still needs to personally oversee Project Zero, so his temporary departure today is already considered an exceptional operation.

'Speaking of which, could we let him try the humanoid soul tool too?'

Before she had taken more than a few steps, Jing Hongchen inexplicably remembered those test reports.

The biggest hurdle in the entire mecha project was finding someone who could use their mental power to drive the entire machine.

'With his cultivation level, reaching the Soul Saint realm won't be long. If we can keep him in the Sun and Moon Realm, he might actually help us complete our experiment.'

After a moment of contemplation, Jing Hongchen finally let out a long sigh: "If only he were a person of the sun and moon."

……

"Ziyan, why is our food different today?"

Ji Juechen squinted at the lunchbox, noticing a strange aroma emanating from the food Jing Ziyan had brought.

For him, an injured man who had just been able to get out of bed, the smell alone was enough to make him feel refreshed and his slightly empty body reacted instantly, giving rise to an indescribable feeling of hunger.

"This is Brother Huo's doing. I heard from Yu Mengdi and the others that at least 100,000 gold soul coins are invested every day."

Ye Wuqing, expressionless, held his rice bowl and looked at his cheap teammate outside the door who was secretly eating other dishes: "We owe him a huge favor."

Ji Juechen remained silent for a long time, a sharp glint flashing in his eyes: "After you finish eating, focus on your cultivation! Strive towards killing him at all costs!"

"Ah."

Ye Wuqing nodded emphatically, the fighting spirit in his eyes was unclear whether it was directed at Huo Yuhao or at the rice bowl in front of him. He shoveled rice into his mouth, wishing he could just dump it all down his throat.

"What are you talking about... It sounds like you're repaying kindness with enmity."

Jing Ziyan sighed softly, still unable to understand the bizarre logic of these people: "Besides—you bastards outside! Stop eating! What's the point of just a couple of bites? You two get some too!"

(End of this chapter)